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1. Twin Peaks (2017)
TV-MA | 60 min | Crime, Drama, Horror
Picks up 25 years after the inhabitants of a quaint northwestern town are stunned when their homecoming queen is murdered.
Stars: Kyle MacLachlan, Sheryl Lee, Michael Horse, Chrysta Bell
Votes: 76,331
2. Lifeforce (1985)
R | 101 min | Action, Horror, Mystery
A race of space vampires arrives in London and infects the populace, beginning an apocalyptic descent into chaos.
Director: Tobe Hooper | Stars: Steve Railsback, Mathilda May, Peter Firth, Frank Finlay
Votes: 29,598 | Gross: $11.60M
3. Dark City (1998)
R | 100 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A man struggles with memories of his past, which include a wife he cannot remember and a nightmarish world no one else ever seems to wake up from.
Director: Alex Proyas | Stars: Rufus Sewell, Kiefer Sutherland, Jennifer Connelly, William Hurt
Votes: 212,905 | Gross: $14.38M
4. 1408 (2007)
PG-13 | 104 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
A man who specialises in debunking paranormal occurrences checks into the fabled room 1408 in the Dolphin Hotel. Soon after settling in, he confronts genuine terror.
Director: Mikael Håfström | Stars: John Cusack, Samuel L. Jackson, Mary McCormack, Tony Shalhoub
Votes: 295,020 | Gross: $71.99M
5. Twixt (2011)
R | 88 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
A struggling horror writer visiting a small town on a book tour gets caught up in a murder mystery involving a young girl. That night in a dream, he is approached by a mysterious young ghost named V.
Director: Francis Ford Coppola | Stars: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin
Votes: 11,761
6. Sexy Sisters (1977)
Not Rated | 85 min | Crime, Drama
Edna confines Millie, her younger sister, to her bed while she is sedated. If Edna can show Millie is insane, she will be able to claim a estate for herself. However, Millie learns Edna's malicious schemes.
Director: Jesús Franco | Stars: Pamela Stanford, Karine Gambier, Jack Taylor, Esther Moser
Votes: 796
7. Slumber Party Massacre II (1987)
R | 77 min | Comedy, Horror, Musical
Courtney Bates, the younger sister of Valerie, and her friends go to a condo for a weekend getaway, but Courtney can't get rid of the haunting feeling that a supernatural rockabilly driller killer is coming to murder them all.
Director: Deborah Brock | Stars: Crystal Bernard, Jennifer Rhodes, Kimberly McArthur, Patrick Lowe
Votes: 7,462
8. The Nines (2007)
R | 100 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
A troubled actor, a television show runner, and an acclaimed videogame designer find their lives intertwining in mysterious and unsettling ways.
Director: John August | Stars: Ryan Reynolds, Hope Davis, Melissa McCarthy, Elle Fanning
Votes: 34,650 | Gross: $0.06M
9. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.
Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong
Votes: 6,644 | Gross: $0.42M
10. Alice or The Last Escapade (1977)
93 min | Drama, Fantasy, Mystery
Alice Carol leaves her husband one rainy night, telling him that she does not love him anymore. She travels alone but when her windscreen breaks on a lonely road, she has to stop and seek ... See full summary »
Director: Claude Chabrol | Stars: Sylvia Kristel, Charles Vanel, Fernand Ledoux, François Perrot
Votes: 1,254
11. Seizure (1974)
PG | 94 min | Horror
Jonathan Frid portrays a horror novelist who has a recurring nightmare about three figures out of his book who terrorize him and his family and friends during a weekend of fun. Then the ... See full summary »
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Jonathan Frid, Martine Beswick, Joseph Sirola, Christina Pickles
Votes: 1,130
12. The Lathe of Heaven (1980 TV Movie)
105 min | Sci-Fi
In a highly controlled and overpopulated society, a man who has terrifying dreams that affect reality is assigned a psychiatrist who takes advantage of the situation.
Directors: Fred Barzyk, David R. Loxton | Stars: Bruce Davison, Peyton E. Park, Niki Flacks, Kevin Conway
Votes: 2,816
13. The Moon in the Gutter (1983)
R | 137 min | Drama
He is a revenge-obssessed stevedore whose sister was brutally raped and murdered. She is a wealthy, elusive woman. They try hard to get together... or do they?
Director: Jean-Jacques Beineix | Stars: Gérard Depardieu, Nastassja Kinski, Victoria Abril, Bertice Reading
Votes: 1,541
14. Kaili Blues (2015)
Not Rated | 113 min | Drama, Mystery
While travelling the countryside to locate his nephew, a small town doctor finds himself interacting with people from his past and future.
Director: Bi Gan | Stars: Yongzhong Chen, Feiyang Luo, Lixun Xie, Guangqian Qin
Votes: 4,378 | Gross: $0.03M
15. The I Inside (2004)
R | 90 min | Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
An amnesiac discovers himself leaping through time between 2000 and 2002 as his past returns to him.
Director: Roland Suso Richter | Stars: Ryan Phillippe, Sarah Polley, Piper Perabo, Robert Sean Leonard
Votes: 11,405
16. Night Wars (1988)
R | 88 min | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi
Two Vietnam Veterans have realistic nightmares about the war. So real are these nightmares that they start getting injured in them, and bringing things back that they had in the dream. They... See full summary »
Director: David A. Prior | Stars: Dan Haggerty, Brian Edward O'Connor, Cameron Smith, Steve Horton
Votes: 231
17. Sleepwalkers (1997–1998)
TV-14 | 60 min | Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
A high-tech team of dream researches uses experimental computer technology to enter peoples' dreams and nightmares and help them deal with their subconscious issues there.
Stars: Naomi Watts, Bruce Greenwood, Abraham Benrubi, Jeffrey D. Sams
Votes: 175
18. Snowglobe (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe.
Director: Ron Lagomarsino | Stars: Christina Milian, Erin Karpluk, Hilda Doherty, Jason Schombing
Votes: 2,786
19. Shattered Image (1998)
R | 102 min | Crime, Drama, Fantasy
Jessie, a cool assassin on a mission, dreams she is a traumatized, paranoid rape victim on her honeymoon. This Jessie dreams that she is a cool assassin on a mission.
Director: Raúl Ruiz | Stars: Anne Parillaud, William Baldwin, Lisanne Falk, Graham Greene
Votes: 746 | Gross: $0.10M
20. Home for the Weekend (I) (2012)
85 min | Drama
Marko is in his mid-thirties, has just published his first book, and has been living in Berlin since his university days - far enough away from his parents Gitte and Günter whose bourgeois ... See full summary »
Director: Hans-Christian Schmid | Stars: Lars Eidinger, Corinna Harfouch, Sebastian Zimmler, Ernst Stötzner
Votes: 1,002
21. Toonstruck (1996 Video Game)
T | Adventure, Comedy
Overworked animator Drew Blanc falls asleep and gets sucked into the world from his popular show. He must help the inhabitants stop Count Nefarious from turning their world into a twisted nightmare with his mutagen beam.
Director: Keith Arem | Stars: Christopher Lloyd, Tim Curry, Dan Castellaneta, David Ogden Stiers
Votes: 372
22. Lady Blue Shanghai (2010)
16 min | Short, Drama, Mystery
A nameless woman enters her Shanghai hotel room to find a vintage record playing and a blue Dior purse that seems to come from nowhere.
Director: David Lynch | Stars: Marion Cotillard, Clark Gong, Emily Stofle, Cheng Hong
Votes: 1,975
23. Unique Lady (2019–2021)
Action, Comedy, Fantasy
An electronics student decides to take part in a gaming contest, but finds herself stuck in a fantasy kingdom, with the inability to leave until the objective of finding love is met
Stars: Jun Gong, Jade Cheng, Yiffan Wei, Yilun Fang
Votes: 89
24. My Dream Is Yours (1988)
89 min
A unlucky in a local 7-11 releases two ghosts that screws with Yik (Joey Wang) and Tang (Jacky Cheung) putting a large sum of money when they are sleeping, but mistakenly resulting the two ... See full summary »
Director: Derek Chang | Stars: Jacky Cheung, Joey Wang, Ellen Chan, David Wu
Votes: 21
25. Lucid (I) (2006)
15 min | Short, Drama
Lucid is the story of two men, Case and Drake, who share one consciousness, connected by their dreams. When Case dreams, he dreams he is Drake, and vice-versa. When Case starts to ... See full summary »
Director: Sam Friedlander | Stars: Mark Feuerstein, Jeff Kober, Marisa Petroro, Deborah Puette
Votes: 45
26. Dust Box (2012)
72 min | Drama, Horror
A woman who is unable to bear a child enters a world in her mind where she manages to get pregnant. As time goes, so does her sanity.
Director: Ronny Carlsson | Stars: Mariah Kanninen, Robert Ericsson, Ronny Carlsson, Nathalie Bergenstråhle
Votes: 47
27. Progulka po eshafotu (1992)
123 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Two people in love find a hut in the woods, where they decide to overnight. The hut was on the shore of a lake and the beautiful view was only spoilt by an axe stuck in the wooden ... See full summary »
Director: Isaakas Fridbergas | Stars: Dmitriy Pevtsov, Olga Drozdova, Boris Plotnikov, S. Adoev
Votes: 113
28. Memento Mori: Dat (2022)
85 min | Drama
Wandering between reality, memories and dreams, a young dying mother tries to record farewell messages for her daughters and fights for her organ donation.
Director: Marcus Manh Cuong Vu | Stars: Nguyen Hai Yen, Lam Duy Phuong, Kim Long Thach, Huu Thanh Tung
Votes: 12
29. ¡EyL! (2023)
30 min | Animation, Short, Drama
Two men have a plan and head to a party.When they arrive at the house they find a keeper who denies them entry. An adaptation with electronic vibes of K.'s tale.A small oneiric reflection on current issues seen from a classic-modern story.
Directors: Joel Córdoba, Julia San Andrés Dávila | Stars: Josep Seguí, Sergi Busom, Juanma San Andrés
Votes: 5
30. Lyssa (2022)
3 min | Short, Drama
Nothing is right in Martin's life anymore: his wife cheats on him, his boss fires him, his colleagues don't take him seriously. Inside the head of a man in the midst of an existential crisis, dream and reality merge.
Director: Nicola Losan | Stars: Tom Josset, Nicola Losan, Olivier V. Martel, Sendy Paone
32. Kataï (2010)
31 min | Short, Thriller
Director: Claire Doyon | Stars: Joana Preiss, Constance Rousseau, Christine Boisson, Dani
Votes: 10
33. Samanta (2023)
18 min | Short, Thriller
Freddy ,victim of BPD and dream reality confusion kills his lover Samanta in a fit of anger.But he confuses whether he actually killed her or it was only a dream.He tries to confirm and reconfirm it.
Director: Rishy Nirmalan | Stars: Rajeev Sahore, Vidhya Vijayan
34. Out of Nowhere (2009)
16 min | Short, Mystery
Obsessed with a vision in his dream, a lonely man tries to discover it's meaning. His journey becomes one of self discovery, but he soon finds himself wanting to return to normality.
Director: Dan Millidge | Star: Wayne Hunt
35. Glass Reality (2012)
4 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A meditation on bodily existence through the slower decantations of language.
Director: Dane Argentieri | Stars: Dane Argentieri, Luke Borello, Marina Fini
36. Lamphead: Help Me, I Am in Hell (2018 Video)
7 min | Short, Drama, Fantasy
A woman seeks salvation from a devilish hobo.
Director: Viking Almquist | Stars: Adelin Jonasson, Neil Bhat, John La Briola
37.
American Playhouse (1980–1994)
Episode:
Overdrawn at the Memory Bank
(1983)
83 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
The mind of a computer programmer forced to take a virtual vacation is removed by a totalitarian government and accidentally trapped in the virtual reality simulation. He must find a way out before he expires.
Director: Douglas Williams | Stars: Raul Julia, Arnie Achtman, Paula Barrett, Patrick Brymer
Votes: 2,574
38.
Hammer House of Horror (1980)
Episode:
Rude Awakening
(1980)
TV-14 | 52 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A real estate broker finds himself having dreams that seem to be incredibly real. They are so real, in fact, that he begins to wonder which is the dream and which is reality.
Director: Peter Sasdy | Stars: Denholm Elliott, James Laurenson, Pat Heywood, Lucy Gutteridge
Votes: 710
39.
Amazing Stories (1985–1987)
Episode:
What If...?
(1986)
Not Rated | 21 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Ignored by his self-absorbed, social-climbing parents, 5-year-old Jonah Kelley wanders his lonely, sterile house and then the outside world, searching for someone who will see him, while things and people disappear in his wake.
Director: Joan Darling | Stars: Jake Hart, Clare Kirkconnell, Tom McConnell, Ric Cane
Votes: 200
40.
Sailor Moon (1992–1997)
Episode:
Usagi vs. Rei? A Nightmare in Dreamland
(1992)
TV-Y7-FV | 24 min | Animation, Action, Adventure
The girls investigate a new amusement park, where people have allegedly disappeared.
Directors: Kunihiko Ikuhara, Jun'ichi Satô | Stars: Kotono Mitsuishi, Keiko Han, Aya Hisakawa, Michie Tomizawa
Votes: 145
41.
Monsters (1988–1990)
Episode:
The Maker
(1991)
TV-14 | 21 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
In an abandoned hotel, Mack meets a happy drunk called Freddy who can create anything he wants out of thin air - even food and money, but it all ends up having some critical flaw to it. And if Freddy stops drinking? His nightmares return.
Director: William Wesley | Stars: Eddie Bracken, Philip Anglim, Carla Herd
Votes: 70
42.
Perversions of Science (1997)
Episode:
Dream of Doom
(1997)
TV-MA | 25 min | Action, Comedy, Drama
Arthur Bristol is a college professor who is stuck in a series of dreams that he can't wake up from. Or is he?
Director: Walter Hill | Stars: Keith Carradine, Lolita Davidovich, Gretchen Palmer, Adam Arkin
Votes: 99
43.
The Twilight Zone (1959–1964)
Episode:
Shadow Play
(1961)
TV-PG | 25 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Adam Grant is trapped in a recurring nightmare, in which he is sentenced to death by execution. He tries to convince the people around him that they are imaginary and that they will cease to exist if the execution is carried out.
Director: John Brahm | Stars: Dennis Weaver, Harry Townes, Wright King, William Edmonson
Votes: 3,018
44.
Werewolf (1987–1988)
Episode:
Nightmare at the Braine Hotel
(1987)
60 min | Horror, Thriller
In a run down hotel in a town where a slasher has killed 7 people, Eric checks in after inquiring about Skorzeny. He meets several people staying at the hotel, including a man in black who reveals that he is also werewolf born in 1468.
Director: David Hemmings | Stars: John J. York, Lance LeGault, Richard Lynch, Ellen Crawford
Votes: 29
45.
Weird Anime Excel Saga (1999–2001)
Episode:
The Koshi Rikdo Assassination Plot
(1999)
TV-14 | 24 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama
Excel becomes an agent of the secret ideological organization of ACROSS, whose plan is to conquer the corrupt world (or at least F City) and remake it in its own image. Lord Ilpalazzo, ... See full summary »
Directors: Akihiko Nishiyama, Shin'ichi Watanabe | Stars: Jessica Calvello, Takehito Koyasu, Kotono Mitsuishi, Shin'ichi Watanabe
Votes: 28
46.
Krecek v nocní kosili (1988–1989)
Episode:
Sehnat nocní kosili
(1988)
Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Ondrej Regazzo, Jirí Racek, Július Satinský, Marek Brodský
Votes: 6
47.
Krecek v nocní kosili (1988–1989)
Episode:
Ukradený vynález
(1988)
Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Ondrej Regazzo, Jirí Racek, Július Satinský, Marek Brodský
Votes: 6
48.
Krecek v nocní kosili (1988–1989)
Episode:
V pasti
(1988)
Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Ondrej Regazzo, Jirí Racek, Július Satinský, Marek Brodský
49.
Krecek v nocní kosili (1988–1989)
Episode:
Velká akce zacíná
(1988)
Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Ondrej Regazzo, Jirí Racek, Július Satinský, Marek Brodský
Votes: 6
50.
Krecek v nocní kosili (1988–1989)
Episode:
Vlastovko let!
(1989)
Comedy, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
Director: Václav Vorlícek | Stars: Ondrej Regazzo, Jirí Racek, Július Satinský, Marek Brodský