When Angels Sleep
2018 · 94 min · Director: Gonzalo Bendala
Show plot summary (may contain spoilers)
Germán is a CEO of a life insurance company too much busy with his job to attend his personal life with his wife Sandra and his little daughter, Estela. Trying to arrive home at time to celebrate Estela's birthday party, Germán is stopped at night by two Civil Guard agents (Spanish equivalent to state troopers), who seeing German's extreme exhaustion they guide him to a motel to pass the night and that he sleeps in order to prevent an accident. At the same time, Silvia is a troubled teen who flees from her too troubled home to meet her close friend Gloria, meeting later with Mario and El Chato to spend the night all together in Mario's car. Meanwhile Germán eludes Civil Guard agents and takes the car again to get home as soon as be possible, Silvia rejects El Chato's sexual innuendos and hit him, making that she leaves the car and Gloria leaves it too, trying both to back home walking or making hitchhiking. But when in certain moment Silvia moves away from the road and she hides in a corner between trees to pee, Gloria is run over by an asleep Germán. When this one wakes up and back over his steps, he finds a badly wounded Gloria and a shocked Silvia. Looking help them he gets them into the car to go with both girls to a hospital, at the same time that Sandra tries desperately to locate a missing Germán, and Mario and El Chato are looking for the girls to revenge them by the previous discussion. But when Silvia finally reacts to the happened, she fights Germán and runaways of him in the belief that Germán tried to kill them on purpose. Fearing to lose his family and going to jail, Germán pursues Silvia to try persuade her to change the idea. All them will live a fearful night where all that can be go bad will go very bad.
Emotional fingerprint
When Angels Sleep (2018) — Movie. Top emotional signals: Anxiety 30%, Tension 25%, Fear 20%. Source: AI estimate. Shares describe emotional signal, not percentages of people. Your experience may differ. How we measure
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Why it feels this way
The strongest emotional signals are Anxiety, Tension, Fear. Genres: Drama, Adventure, Horror. AI estimate.
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Consider this title if you are looking for Anxiety, Tension and Fear. Its IMDb rating of 5.5/10 suggests a mixed audience reception; consider how well the emotional profile suits you. For these leading emotions, its Feel Score is 59/100.
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Emotional journey
- Tension
- Disturbing
- Fear
Not enough subtitle evidence
No dominant emotion
Dominant emotion: Joy
Dominant emotion: Sadness
Dominant emotion: Tension
Dominant emotion: Fear
Dominant emotion: Disturbing
Dominant emotion
| % | Approximate minute | Dominant emotion | Overall intensity | Tension | Disturbing | Fear |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2.5 % | ≈ 2′ | Joy | 48 % | 27 % | 5 % | 3 % |
| 7.5 % | ≈ 7′ | Sadness | 48 % | 36 % | 15 % | 11 % |
| 12.5 % | ≈ 12′ | Tension | 57 % | 53 % | 38 % | 31 % |
| 17.5 % | ≈ 16′ | Tension | 76 % | 73 % | 59 % | 56 % |
| 22.5 % | ≈ 21′ | Tension | 85 % | 84 % | 60 % | 70 % |
| 27.5 % | ≈ 26′ | Tension | 85 % | 84 % | 58 % | 71 % |
| 32.5 % | ≈ 31′ | Sadness | 85 % | 83 % | 61 % | 71 % |
| 37.5 % | ≈ 35′ | Tension | 84 % | 81 % | 61 % | 70 % |
| 42.5 % | ≈ 40′ | Tension | 83 % | 80 % | 61 % | 66 % |
| 47.5 % | ≈ 45′ | Tension | 83 % | 80 % | 60 % | 70 % |
| 52.5 % | ≈ 49′ | Fear | 81 % | 79 % | 51 % | 73 % |
| 57.5 % | ≈ 54′ | Tension | 80 % | 79 % | 46 % | 69 % |
| 62.5 % | ≈ 59′ | Tension | 70 % | 68 % | 43 % | 55 % |
| 67.5 % | ≈ 63′ | Sadness | 61 % | 55 % | 43 % | 40 % |
| 72.5 % | ≈ 68′ | Tension | 75 % | 69 % | 63 % | 52 % |
| 77.5 % | ≈ 73′ | Tension | 88 % | 83 % | 78 % | 70 % |
| 82.5 % | ≈ 78′ | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence |
| 87.5 % | ≈ 82′ | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence | Not enough subtitle evidence |
| 92.5 % | ≈ 87′ | Disturbing | 77 % | 53 % | 73 % | 22 % |
| 97.5 % | ≈ 92′ | Disturbing | 83 % | 47 % | 82 % | 23 % |
Oedipus
Rags to riches: The emotional tone rises from negative to positive.
Riches to rags: The emotional tone falls from positive to negative.
Man in a hole: The tone falls, then recovers.
Icarus: The tone rises, then falls.
Cinderella: The tone rises, falls, then rises again.
Oedipus: The tone falls, rises, then falls again.
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Cast
Rosa
El Chato
Mario
Estela
Sergeant of the Civil Guard
Luis
Civil Guard #1
Civil Guard #2
Civil Guard #3
Head of the Department
Motel Receptionist
112 Operator
112 Operator
Details
- Directed by
- Gonzalo Bendala
- Written by
- Gonzalo Bendala
- Type
- Movies
- Released
- 2018
- Runtime
- 94 min
- Country
- Spain
- Ratings
- Feels mostly
- Anxiety
- Data updated
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