Movies
The Midnight Sky
A lone scientist in the Arctic races to contact a crew of astronauts returning home to a mysterious global catastrophe.
Freak Show
The story of teenager Billy Bloom who, despite attending an ultra conservative high school, makes the decision to run for homecoming queen.
Searching
After David Kim's 16-year-old daughter goes missing, a local investigation is opened and a detective is assigned to the case. But 37 hours later and without a single lead, David decides to search the one place no one has looked yet, where all secrets are kept today: his daughter's laptop.
Bohemian Rhapsody
Singer Freddie Mercury, guitarist Brian May, drummer Roger Taylor and bass guitarist John Deacon take the music world by storm when they form the rock 'n' roll band Queen in 1970. Hit songs become instant classics. When Mercury's increasingly wild lifestyle starts to spiral out of control, Queen soon faces its greatest challenge yet – finding a way to keep the band together amid the success and excess.
Touched with Fire
Carla and Marco are manic-depressive poets whose art is fueled by their emotional extremes. When they go off their meds, they end up in the same psychiatric hospital. As the chemistry between them stirs up their emotions, it intensifies their mania. Despite doctors' and parents' attempts to separate them, they pursue their beautiful but destructive romance which swings them from fantastical manic highs to suicidal depressive lows, until they have to choose between sanity and love.
Cake
After having visions of a member of her support group who killed herself, a woman who also suffers with chronic pain seeks out the widower of the suicide.
Second Act
Maya, a 40-year-old woman struggling with frustrations from unfulfilled dreams. Until that is, she gets the chance to prove to Madison Avenue that street smarts are as valuable as book smarts, and that it is never too late for a second act.
Traffic
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the war becomes personal when he discovers his well-educated daughter is abusing cocaine within their comfortable suburban home. In Mexico, a flawed, but noble policeman agrees to testify against a powerful general in league with a cartel, and in San Diego, a drug kingpin's sheltered trophy wife must learn her husband's ruthless business after he is arrested, endangering her luxurious lifestyle.
How to Make Money Selling Drugs
Ten easy steps show you how to make money from drugs, featuring a series of interviews with drug dealers, prison employees, and lobbyists arguing for tougher drug laws.
Every Mind Matters - short film
Every Mind Matters helps people to take simple steps to look after their mental health, improve their mental wellbeing and support others.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
Must-watch #EveryMindMatters short film — narrated by members of the royal family — focusing not only on awareness but on creating an actionable plan towards better mental health
Won't You Be My Neighbor?
Fred Rogers used puppets and play to explore complex social issues: race, disability, equality and tragedy, helping form the American concept of childhood. He spoke directly to children and they responded enthusiastically. Yet today, his impact is unclear. Have we lived up to Fred's ideal of good neighbors?
Where'd You Go, Bernadette
When architect-turned-recluse Bernadette Fox goes missing prior to a family trip to Antarctica, her 15-year-old daughter Bee goes on a quest with Bernadette's husband to find her.
Rear Window
A wheelchair-bound photographer spies on his neighbors from his apartment window and becomes convinced one of them has committed murder.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
One of my sleep “hacks,” which I began doing not long ago, is to stop sleeping in gym clothes in favor of proper pajamas. It lets your mind and body know it’s bedtime. And pajamas have rarely looked as glamorous as they do in Rear Window, when the incredibly beautiful Grace Kelly tells the incredibly handsome James Stewart (who’s wearing pajamas most of the movie, as he convalesces): “I’m going to stay with you tonight.” To figure out the mystery outside his window, naturally. When Stewart replies, “I won’t be able to give you any pajamas,” Kelly opens her Mark Cross overnight case and takes out a gorgeous-looking peach silk nightgown, with matching slippers. “I trade you: my feminine intuition for a bed for the night,” she says. “I’ll go along with that,” he answers. We never do find out how well they slept.
The Matrix
Set in the 22nd century, The Matrix tells the story of a computer hacker who joins a group of underground insurgents fighting the vast and powerful computers who now rule the earth.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
It’s not literally about sleep, but when I came to my own epiphany about sleep, it changed everything. I might as well have swallowed the red pill in The Matrix. When Morpheus first describes being trapped in the Matrix to Neo, it’s as if he’s talking about the all-too-familiar condition of perpetual sleep deprivation: it’s “a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch—a prison for your mind.” I’m glad I finally took the red pill—and there’s no going back now.
The Godfather
Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
One sleeping don’t: don’t refuse to cast Johnny Fontane in your movie when asked to by Vito Corleone. In what might be the worst wake-up scenario in film history, producer Jack Woltz regains consciousness only to realize he’s been joined in bed by the severed head of one of his prize horses. The scene is even more jarring because of the beautiful dawn light and soft sounds of crickets as the camera takes us inside Woltz’s mansion. It’s a reminder there are worse things to wake up to than a jarring iPhone alarm.
Groundhog Day
A narcissistic TV weatherman, along with his attractive-but-distant producer, and his mawkish cameraman, is sent to report on Groundhog Day in the small town of Punxsutawney, where he finds himself repeating the same day over and over.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
I love the running series of scenes of the alarm clock hitting six A.M. in Groundhog Day (as “I Got You Babe” begins to play). What’s great is Bill Murray’s escalating reaction: throwing it off the table and finally smashing it to bits. We’ve all been there with alarm clocks. But we can’t smash them now—even though, for the sake of our sleep, we probably should—because for most of us they’re also our phones.
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
After high school slacker Ferris Bueller successfully fakes an illness in order to skip school for the day, he goes on a series of adventures throughout Chicago with his girlfriend Sloane and best friend Cameron, all the while trying to outwit his wily school principal and fed-up sister.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
At the beginning of Ferris Bueller’s Day Off, Ferris tries to get his friend Cameron, who is sick in bed, to come over. Cameron refuses, but after they hang up, he sings this little song to himself in bed, like a chant or a mantra: “When Cameron was in Egypt’s land … let my Cameron go.” Having a morning ritual, before we grab our phones and start our day, is a great habit. (I do a few minutes of breathing.) And it works for Cameron: he rallies, and winds up helping Ferris Bueller have a legendary day off.
Home Alone
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ready to defend his territory. By planting booby traps galore, adorably mischievous Kevin stands his ground as his frantic mother attempts to race home before Christmas Day.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
In Home Alone, a power outage causes the McCallister parents to oversleep and nearly miss their flight to Paris. Their panic upon waking up—“We slept in!” they say to each other in unison—is familiar to all of us. And, as we all know, the ensuing chaos causes Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) to be left … home alone. On the one hand, yes, we all need to catch flights. On the other, it’s nice to be freed from the tyranny of alarm clocks every so often, even if it’s accidental!
The Holiday
Two women, one from the United States and one from the United Kingdom, swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
There’s a great scene in The Holiday in which Kate Winslet’s character arrives in L.A. from London. Jet-lagged and in need of sleep, she presses a button by this beautiful plush bed and, to her delight, sees all the (blackout) shades in the bedroom come slowly down. The look of relief and joy on her face made me wish I had the same shade setup at home.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Holly Golightly is an eccentric New York City playgirl determined to marry a Brazilian millionaire. But when young writer Paul Varjak moves into her apartment building, her past threatens to get in their way.
Arianna Huffington
Entrepreneur, Editor
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
I love this scene in Breakfast at Tiffany’s when Holly Golightly is awakened by a phone call. She’s spent the night partying, which is a “don’t” for healthy sleep, but I do love her fabulous eye mask—a great tool for blocking out light. Would that we could all look as great as Audrey Hepburn does in one.