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Movies that feel like Open Your Eyes (1997)

If you loved Open Your Eyes, the closest films we have are The Sea Inside (2004), Nobody Knows (2004) and 21 Grams (2003). All three share Open Your Eyes' contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 8 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Handsome 25-year-old Cesar had it all -- a successful career, expensive cars, a swank bachelor's pad, and an endless string of beautiful and willing women -- until he is thrown into a strange psychological mystery after a car accident scars his face and lands him in prison.

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro Amenábarcontemplativetensecerebralmelancholyromantic
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The Sea Inside
2004 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%8drama

The same hand behind both of them: Alejandro Amenábar

The difference: None of the tension Open Your Eyes is built on

Ramón Sampedro is a ship mechanic and part-time poet left a quadriplegic following a diving accident. Ramón fought for 30 years for the legal right to end his own life. He develops close relationships with his long-term lawyer Julia and his friend Rosa, who tries to convince him that his life is worth living. Despite his situation, Ramón manages to inspire those around him to live life to the fullest.

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Nobody Knows
2004 · dir. Hirokazu Kore-eda
🍅 92%8drama

Contemplative where it counts, melancholy underneath

In a small Tokyo apartment, twelve-year-old Akira must care for his younger siblings after their mother leaves them and shows no sign of returning.

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21 Grams
2003 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 80%7.6drama · crime · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: car crash

The difference: Leans harder into crime than Open Your Eyes does

Paul Rivers, an ailing mathematician lovelessly married to an English émigré; Christina Peck, an upper-middle-class suburban housewife and mother of two girls; and Jack Jordan, a born-again ex-con, are brought together by a terrible accident that changes their lives.

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City of Men
2007 · dir. Paulo Morelli
🍅 74%7.2drama

Romantic drama in both cases

Best buddies Acerola and Laranjinha, about to turn 18, discover things about their missing fathers' pasts which will shatter their solid friendship, in the middle of a war between rival drug gangs from Rio's favelas.

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Amores Perros
2000 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 93%8drama · thriller

Tense and cerebral in the same breath

A fatalistic car crash in Mexico city sets off a chain of events in the lives of three people: a supermodel, a young man wanting to run off with his sister-in-law, and a homeless man.

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Places in the Heart
1984 · dir. Robert Benton
🍅 90%7.4drama

Both lean on stillness more than on thriller

In 1935 rural Texas, recently widowed Edna Spaulding struggles to survive with two small children, a farm to run, and very little money in the bank - not to mention a deadly tornado and the unwelcome presence of the Ku Klux Klan. Edna is aided by her beautician sister, Margaret; a blind boarder, Mr. Will; and a would-be thief, Moze, who decides to teach Edna how to plant and harvest cotton.

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Thief
1981 · dir. Michael Mann
🍅 80%7.4crime · thriller · drama

Tense science fiction, and it commits to that

Frank is an expert professional safecracker, specialized in high-profile diamond heists. He plans to use his ill-gotten income to retire from crime and build a nice life for himself complete with a home, wife and kids. To accelerate the process, he signs on with a top gangster for a big score.

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Lilting
2014 · dir. Hong Khaou
🍅 82%7.2drama

Drama built on melancholy, twice over

A young man of Chinese-Cambodian descent dies, leaving behind his isolated mother and his lover of four years. Though the two don't share a language, they grow close through their grief.

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The Vow
2012 · dir. Michael Sucsy
🍅 30%6.8drama · romance

One thread runs through both: car accident

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

Happy young married couple Paige and Leo are, well, happy. Then a car accident puts Paige into a life-threatening coma. Upon awakening she has lost the previous five years of memories, including those of her beloved Leo, her wedding, a confusing relationship with her parents, or the ending of her relationship with her ex-fiance. Despite these complications, Leo endeavors to win her heart again and rebuild their marriage.

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Frailty
2002 · dir. Bill Paxton
🍅 76%7.2drama · thriller · crime

Thriller with a pulse of romance, in both cases

A mysterious man arrives at the offices of an FBI agent and recounts his childhood: how his religious fanatic father received visions telling him to kill people who were in fact "demons."

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Mulholland Drive
2001 · dir. David Lynch
🍅 83%7.9thriller · drama · mystery

Both keep coming back to the same thing: loss of sense of reality

Blonde Betty Elms has only just arrived in Hollywood to become a movie star when she meets an enigmatic brunette with amnesia. Meanwhile, as the two set off to solve the second woman's identity, filmmaker Adam Kesher runs into ominous trouble while casting his latest project.

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The Quiet Girl
2022 · dir. Colm Bairéad
🍅 97%7.7drama

Science fiction built on stillness, twice over

The difference: Made in the 2020s, in a different era of the craft

A quiet, neglected girl is sent away from her dysfunctional family to live with relatives for the summer. She blossoms in their care, but in this house where there are meant to be no secrets, she discovers one.

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