Movies like The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes (2007)
The best movies like The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes (2007) are Senseless (1998), Hollywood Ending (2002) and Blink (1993). If The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedBohemian Rhapsody (2018)7.9/10 from 18,225 votes
- NewestA Different Man (2024)Released 2024
Senseless (1998)
A student gets his senses enhanced by an experimental drug. But abuse is not an option.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHollywood Ending (2002)
Woody Allen stars as Val Waxman, a two-time Oscar winner turned washed-up, neurotic director in desperate need of a comeback. When it comes, Waxman finds himself backed into a corner: Work for his ex-wife Ellie or forfeit his last shot. Is Val blinded by love when he opts for the reconnect? Is love blind when it comes to Ellie's staunch support? Literally and figuratively, the proof is the picture.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBlink (1993)
Emma is an attractive girl in her 20s who has been blind for 20 years. A new type of eye operation partially restores her sight, but she is having problems: sometimes she doesn't "remember" what she's seen until later. One night she is awakened by a commotion upstairs. Peering out of her door, she sees a shadowy figure descending the stairs. Convinced that her neighbour has been murdered she approaches the police, only to find that she is unsure if it was just her new eyes playing tricks on her.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBohemian Rhapsody (2018)
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.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisAt First Sight (1999)
A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTaking Lives (2004)
Recruited to assist Montreal police in their desperate search for a serial killer who assumes the identities of his victims, FBI profiler Illeana Scott knows it's only a matter of time before the killer strikes again. Her most promising lead is a museum employee who might be the killer's only eyewitness.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisVictor Frankenstein (2015)
While searching for animal body parts at a London circus, radical scientist Victor Frankenstein meets gifted surgeon Igor Strausman. Not only does the brilliant doctor offer Strausman his friendship, but also a chance to work with him on groundbreaking research that could change the world forever. When Victor's experiments with life and death go too far, only Igor can bring him back from the brink of madness and save him from his monstrous creation.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAbsolutely Anything (2015)
Eccentric aliens give a man the power to do anything he wants to determine if Earth is worth saving.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisPaycheck (2003)
Michael Jennings is a genius who's hired – and paid handsomely – by high-tech firms to work on highly sensitive projects, after which his short-term memory is erased so he's incapable of breaching security. But at the end of a three-year job, he's told he isn't getting a paycheck and instead receives a mysterious envelope. In it are clues he must piece together to find out why he wasn't paid – and why he's now in hot water.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Eye (2008)
Violinist Sydney Wells was accidentally blinded by her sister Helen when she was five years old. She submits to a cornea transplantation, and while recovering from the operation, she realizes that she is seeing dead people.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
SnoozefestMovies like thisIn America (2003)
A family of Irish immigrants adjusts to life on the mean streets of Hell's Kitchen while also grieving the death of a child.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisExtremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011)
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger hunt to find the matching lock.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisX: The Man with the X-Ray Eyes (1963)
A doctor uses special eye drops to give himself x-ray vision, but the new power has disastrous consequences.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLiving (2022)
London, 1953. Mr. Williams, a veteran civil servant, is an important cog within the city's bureaucracy as it struggles to rebuild in the aftermath of World War II. Buried under paperwork at the office and lonely at home, his life has long felt empty and meaningless. Then a devastating medical diagnosis forces him to take stock, and to try and grasp some fulfilment before it passes permanently beyond reach.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDancer in the Dark (2000)
Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life becomes increasingly difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCandyman (1992)
The Candyman, a murderous soul with a hook for a hand, is accidentally summoned to reality by a skeptic grad student researching the monster's myth.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMirage (1965)
After a blackout in his office building, accountant David Stillwell emerges outside to find out a man he did not know either jumped or was pushed out a window to his death — and that he can't remember the past two years of his life. Enlisting the help of a rookie private eye and a reluctant old flame, Stillwell uncovers the mystery detail by unexpected detail.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Different Man (2024)
Aspiring actor Edward undergoes a radical medical procedure to drastically transform his appearance. But his new dream face quickly turns into a nightmare.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Mortuary Collection (2020)
In the phantasmagorical town of Raven's End, a misguided young girl takes refuge in a decrepit old mortuary. The eccentric undertaker chronicles the strange history of the town through a series of twisted tales, each more terrifying than the last, but the young girl's world is unhinged when she discovers that the final story... is her own.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHellraiser (2022)
A young woman struggling with addiction comes into possession of an ancient puzzle box, unaware that its purpose is to summon the Cenobites, a group of sadistic supernatural beings from another dimension.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes?
The closest matches to The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes are Senseless (1998), Hollywood Ending (2002) and Blink (1993). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes?
Start with Senseless (1998), the closest match to The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes.
What is the highest-rated movie like The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes?
Bohemian Rhapsody (2018), rated 7.9/10 by 18,225 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes?
A Different Man (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes?
Yes: Senseless (1998), Hollywood Ending (2002) and Blink (1993).
How are movies similar to The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Boy Who Sees Without Eyes, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.