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Top 5 Movies to Watch Before Bedtime to Instantly Fall Asleep

Top 5 Movies to Watch Before Bedtime to Instantly Fall Asleep
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You can play these five as white noise to help you fall asleep.

Sleep is a very fragile thing. It is easily disturbed and ruined away. So different people use different methods to fall asleep. Some people watch movies before going to bed. If you want to try this trick, these five films are the best.

Tropic Thunder (2008, 7.1 on IMDb)

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Available on: Paramount+, Hulu, Amazon Prime

This satirical action comedy revolves around a group of eccentric actors working on a Vietnam War movie. In a last-ditch effort to get the self-centered diva actors to perform, the director drops them in the middle of the jungle and has them follow a map to a helicopter for safety. But things go wrong, the place turns out to be the secret home of a heroin-producing gang, and the director himself dies stepping on an old mine. The poor actors have no idea that the chaos they're in is not staged.

Clue (1985, 7.2 on IMDb)

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Available on: Amazon Prime

Based on the board game of the same name, Jonathan Lynn's black comedy centers on six strangers invited to a New England mansion for dinner. To keep their identities hidden, they are given strange pseudonyms, which doesn't help when a seventh guest arrives who happens to know all their dirty secrets. The man turns out to be the owner of the house and is killed by someone during the evening. The guests begin to investigate his murder, but there are plenty of suspects, including the man's own butler.

The Emperor's New Groove (2000, 7.4 on IMDb)

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Available on: Disney+, Amazon Prime

Set in the mysterious Inca Empire, this animated comedy tells the story of the young and egocentric emperor Kuzco, who is turned into a llama by his envious and power-hungry ex-advisor Izma. Now he must return to the palace to find a way to turn back into a human, but the road is dangerous and Izma will not let him escape so easily. So Kuzco enlists the help of a commoner, a villager named Pacha, to assist him in this tricky situation.

Lost in Translation (2003, 7.7 on IMDb)

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Available on: Max, Hulu, Amazon Prime

Sofia Coppola's romantic comedy-drama stars Bill Murray as Bob Harris, an American movie star whose glory days are long gone. Faced with a midlife crisis and no career prospects, Bob travels to Tokyo, Japan to star in a whisky commercial. One night at the bar of the Park Hyatt Tokyo, where he's staying, Bob meets another American, a young woman named Charlotte, who's accompanying her photographer husband on a trip. The two characters have a lot in common and bond easily while enjoying the exotic city.

The Princess Bride (1987, 8.0 on IMDb)

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Available on: Disney+, Hulu, Amazon Prime

Adapted from William Goldman's novel of the same name, this fantasy adventure film follows a grandfather as he reads his sick grandson a bedtime story about Buttercup, a young peasant girl from the fictional kingdom of Florin. She is in love with the farmhand Westley, who leaves to make a fortune and to return and marry her. As time passes and Westley is rumored to be dead, Buttercup is forced to marry the evil Prince Humperdinck, but love doesn't die so easily.