似乎永无止境的黑夜，笼罩着破败冰冷的现代化大都市，空气中弥漫着不祥的气息。约翰·默多（卢夫斯·塞维尔 Rufus Sewell 饰）在某旅馆的浴缸中醒来，对于之前发生的一切毫无印象，甚至忘记了自己的身份和姓名。神秘的电话、冰冷的尸体以及不明身份的追杀者，这一切都令他无所适从。他凭借仅有的线索开始追查自己的身份以及这一切混乱的肇因。关于这个黑暗世界离奇的一面，也在他的调查中慢慢揭开面纱…… 本片荣获1998年美国科幻恐怖电影学院最佳科幻电影奖、1998年阿姆斯特丹奇幻电影节银屏奖、1999年布鲁塞尔国际奇幻电影节佩格萨斯观众奖、1999年澳大利亚影评人协会最佳原创剧本奖。
史蒂芬国王与丽亚王后生下了小公主奥罗拉，全国人民为此向国王与王后庆贺。在公主的诞生洗礼仪式上来了三位好仙子，她们分别是花拉仙子、翡翠仙子和蓝天仙子，她们轮流给小公主美好的祝福。然而在第二位仙子的祝福过后，邪恶的黑女巫梅尔菲森特突然出现在大殿上，以为公主祝福的名义施下诅咒，让奥罗拉公主在16岁生日之时被纺车针刺死。在梅尔菲森特狂笑着离去后，大家都吓坏了。而第三位仙子还没有给公主祝福，她将死亡魔咒改为沉睡之咒，公主必须得到王子的真爱之吻才能醒来。随后，国王下令将全国的纺车全部烧毁。但让人意想不到的是，即使有三位仙女极力帮忙，却仍然摆脱不了事实的发生，奥罗拉公主因此长眠不醒。最后，与公主互生情愫的菲利普王子为爱劈荆斩棘、克服万难、打败梅尔菲森特，登上塔顶用真爱之吻破解了公主的魔咒。
南茜·汤普森是住在榆树街上的一个年轻女孩。一日，她的梦中出现了一个脸上有刀疤、手指如剃刀的怪人，从此，她夜夜受到这个恶梦的折磨。怪异的是，榆树街上所有的小孩，竟然都梦到相同的恶梦！不久后，南茜的朋友们一一死去，而且死相奇惨。她这才了解，她必须保持清醒，才有生存下去的机会。经过南茜的调查后，她发现这名梦中杀手就是榆树街上赫赫有名的中产阶级男子弗莱迪（劳勃英格朗饰），多年前，他因为骚扰孩童，而被愤怒的父母活活给烧死，事隔多年后，弗莱迪以鬼魂的身份回来了！他可以随意进入孩子们的梦中，并以极端残忍的方式杀害他们，以示报仇。如今，唯一能阻止这场恶梦的人，就只剩下南茜了。如果她失败了，那么没有人可以活得下去……
当丈夫患上梦游症，夜晚完全变了一个人，一对年轻夫妇的生活就发生了翻天覆地的变化。妻子十分担心丈夫会伤害他们的新生儿，再也无法入睡……
还在念高中的Sarah正值低潮，她逃家却发现自己没有人可以依靠，同时又被反复出现的可怕恶梦所苦。很幸运的，正好有一所大学在进行睡梦研究，Sarah不但可以安全地睡觉，还可以获得报酬，更意外的和负责研究实验的科学家Jeremy（蓝顿莱柏隆饰）成了知心好友。参加实验让Sarah的恶梦更加剧烈，梦中的影子生物似乎更加强大。随着黑暗的脚步越来越接近，Sarah在不知不觉中成了一个可怕新发现的连接管道……。
一个年轻的女人必须通过一场由睡眠瘫痪的现实现象来拯救她自己和她的朋友，从一个古老的罪恶中拯救受害者。
大卫·林奇早年的短片《字母》中，有这样一景：一个大字英文字母“A"在血泊中生出一个小“a”。之后《祖母》中有关生的意象，则是从植物中蜕化出来。林奇对生、死意念十分执着，导致他几乎每一部影片中都有生与死的场景，而且林奇对“生”的描述总是负面的:黑暗、丑陋、邪恶、地狱般的景象;对“死”则形容得光明、尽善尽美，宛若天堂一般。
安娜·帕克（凯特·法兰奇 Kate French 饰）是一个美丽的女作家，当下她正为新书做最后的冲刺，可是担任出版编辑的男友保罗·瓦格纳（史蒂文·布兰德 Steve Brand 饰）却提出了较为尖刻的修改意见。心情颇有些低落的安娜找不到灵感，创作陷入僵局。为了帮她完成工作，保罗将安娜带到一处位于沙漠中央的别墅进行创作，不过他突然有事离开，只留下安娜和一条狗。到了夜晚，安娜惊讶地发现有一个恐怖的人逡巡在别墅附近。她尝试着向保罗求助，然而无法得到有效回应。
Feature-length, live-action musical version of the classic fairy tale by Charles Perrault.
Margaret Wise Brown and Clement Hurd's bestselling children's book headlines this winning 25-minute collection of sleepytime tales from HBO. Susan Sarandon narrates the simple story of a bunny readying for bed. Other top entertainers lend their voices to the tape: Tony Bennett sings the story of "Hit the Road to Dreamland"; Lauryn Hill brings rhythm to "Hush, Little Baby"; Billy Crystal lends many voices to Mercer Mayer's "There's a Nightmare in My Closet"; and singers Natalie Cole, Aaron Neville, and Patti LeBelle sing other tales. A dandy video for the youngster, punctuated with "interviews" of real kids answering a host of bedtime questions.
Alice follows the white rabbit, falls down a deep hole and discovers a strange Wonderland at the bottom.
Footage of John Giorno sleeping for five hours.
A tale of two sisters with rare unique supernatural abilities. Three burglars break into a house to find jewels and money but leave their sanity behind.
Porky can't sleep because mice demolish his plates. A cat offers help and gets the mice out, but invites some friends so Porky still can't sleep.
When a woman is being called in the middle of the night, she finds out that it's not her husband laying next to her.
Christmas Eve, and Sniffles is determined to stay awake to see Santa. Not an easy task.
A lecturer seated at a desk promises an informative film about how to sleep; it's a sequel to and inspired by "How to stay awake," which put his audience to sleep. He plans to examine the causes of sleep, the causes of insomnia, and recent research on sleep, including a time-lapse film of a man changing positions 55 times during an 8-hour rest: why exercise, he asks, when you can sleep like a top? The film instructs one on how to get a drink of water during the night without waking completely, and other useful skills for the insomniac.
Popeye's snoring is keeping his resident mouse awake. The mouse fights back.
Thanatos is a dark psychological thriller about lucid dreaming.
THE NIGHTMARE, documentary filmmaker Adam Gray sets out on a journey to understand this terrifying phenomenon. From the foggy shores of Newfoundland to the steaming jungles of Zanzibar we will see where the Nightmare has left its mark. Hear from those who have survived the experience, and the families of those that did not. Meet the scientists, psychologists, and folklorists on the front lines of the battle for understanding how something without material form can traumatize and even kill those that encounter it. THE NIGHTMARE is a fascinating exploration of a phenomenon that suggests that the only difference between hallucination and the supernatural...is belief.