15 Movies Like Eyes Wide Open

Loved Eyes Wide Open? Based on its unique Cinema DNA—including its pacing, themes, and emotional tone—we've curated the ultimate list of what you should watch next.

Her
#1

Her

In the not so distant future, Theodore, a lonely writer, purchases a newly developed operating system designed to meet the user's every need. To Theodore's surprise, a romantic relationship develops between him and his operating system. This unconventional love story blends science fiction and romance in a sweet tale that explores the nature of love and the ways that technology isolates and connects us all.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

A Perfect Ending
#2

A Perfect Ending

This intimate drama follows Rebecca, a woman who has kept her sexuality a secret from her friends but chooses to reveal it to a stranger. While Rebecca's revelations may not yield the results she expects, a perfect ending is still in reach.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Life in a Year
#3

Life in a Year

A 17 year old finds out that his girlfriend is dying, so he sets out to give her an entire life, in the last year she has left.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Love at First Sight
#4

Love at First Sight

Hadley and Oliver begin falling in love on a flight from New York to London, but when they lose each other at customs, can they defy all odds to reunite?

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Synecdoche, New York
#5

Synecdoche, New York

A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Elegy
#6

Elegy

Cultural critic David Kepesh finds his life -- which he indicates is a state of "emancipated manhood" -- thrown into tragic disarray by Consuela Castillo, a well-mannered student who awakens a sense of sexual possessiveness in her teacher.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Yes
#7

Yes

In the days following October 7, Y., a jazz musician, and his wife Yasmin, a dancer, resolve to say yes to everything. Y. and Yasmin sell their bodies and souls to the highest bidder, surrendering themselves and their art to Israel’s social, political and military elite. Soon, Y. is entrusted with a mission of the utmost importance: to compose the music for a rousing, ruthless new national anthem.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Eyes Wide Open.

Hot Bubblegum
#8

Hot Bubblegum

Further adventures of Bobby, Benji, and Huey in their pursuit of sex in the 50's. While preparing for their final exams, they try to work out if it's better to be going steady with one girl, and if changing girlfriends all the time leads to too many complications. This leads to frustrations with girls who wont go all the way, and problems with girls will go all the way with anyone!

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Eyes Wide Open.

The Way We Were
#9

The Way We Were

Opposites attract when, during their college days, Katie Morosky, a politically active Jew, meets Hubbell Gardiner, a feckless WASP. Years later, in the wake of World War II, they meet once again and, despite their obvious differences, attempt to make their love for each other work.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Urban Tale
#10

Urban Tale

A boy and a girl wake up in bed one morning, naked. The children's mother died a few weeks earlier. Before she died she asked her children to find their birth father who left them when they were still babies. Their quest in search of their father leads them to hospitals, nursing homes and holding cells. In the course of the quest the brother and sister meet people who provide them - like in parallel quantum universes - a glance into what their future lives may hold for them.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Eyes Wide Open.

Not Easily Broken
#11

Not Easily Broken

A car accident and shifting affections test the bond between a married couple.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Supernova
#12

Supernova

Sam and Tusker, partners of 20 years, are traveling across England in their old RV visiting friends, family and places from their past. Since Tusker was diagnosed with early-onset dementia two years ago, their time together is the most important thing they have. As the trip progresses, however, their ideas for the future clash, secrets come out, and their love for each other is tested as never before. Ultimately, they must confront the question of what it means to love one another in the face of Tusker’s illness.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Waltz with Bashir
#13

Waltz with Bashir

An Israeli film director interviews fellow veterans of the 1982 invasion of Lebanon to reconstruct his own memories of his term of service in that conflict.

💡Why it's a match: A fantastic follow-up watch to Eyes Wide Open.

Eleanor the Great
#14

Eleanor the Great

94-year-old Eleanor Morgenstein tries to rebuild her life after the death of her best friend. As a result, she moves back to New York City after living in Florida for decades.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.

Blind
#15

Blind

A novelist is blinded in a car crash that killed his wife and several years later rediscovers his passion for life and writing when he embarks on an affair with the neglected wife of an indicted businessman.

💡Why it's a match: A highly-rated genre match based on the viewing habits of people who liked Eyes Wide Open.