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Movies that feel likeOpen Your Eyes (1997)

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.

If you loved Open Your Eyes, the closest films we have are Amores Perros (2000), The Sea Inside (2004) and The Adjustment Bureau (2011). All three share Open Your Eyes' romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is The Unthinkable (2018).

🍅 87% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Alejandro Amenábarcontemplativetensecerebralromantic
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Amores Perros
2000 · dir. Alejandro G. Iñárritu
🍅 93%★ 8drama · thriller

Contemplative and tense 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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The Sea Inside
2004 · dir. Alejandro Amenábar
🍅 85%★ 7.9drama

The same hand behind both of them: Alejandro Amenábar

The difference: Trades the tension of Open Your Eyes for an angle of its own

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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The Adjustment Bureau
2011 · dir. George Nolfi
🍅 71%★ 7science fiction · thriller · romance

Both land ideas and romance at once

The difference: Sits closer to romance than Open Your Eyes does

A man glimpses the future Fate has planned for him – and chooses to fight for his own destiny. Battling the powerful Adjustment Bureau across, under and through the streets of New York, he risks his destined greatness to be with the only woman he's ever loved.

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The Unthinkable
2018 · dir. Victor Danell
🍅 77%★ 6thriller · action · science fictionRent or buy

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

Sweden faces a mysterious attack while Alex tries to reunite with his youth love, Anna.

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Colossus: The Forbin Project
1970 · dir. Joseph Sargent
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

Both lean on tension more than on thriller

The difference: Made in the 1970s, in a different era of the craft

The U.S. has handed over control of its nuclear defense system to the Colossus supercomputer designed by scientist Dr. Charles Forbin. It soon becomes clear, that the now-sentient Colossus is far more intelligent than its creator realized—with the fate of the world hanging in the balance.

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Paradise
2023 · dir. Boris Kunz
🍅 100%★ 6.3science fiction · thrillerNetflix

Cerebral science fiction in both cases

A man sees the dark side of the time-manipulating biotech company he works for when a crushing debt forces his wife to give up 40 years of her own life.

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Project Almanac
2015 · dir. Dean Israelite
🍅 38%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Romantic thriller, and it commits to that

The difference: The critics' underdog of the pair

A group of teens discover secret plans of a time machine, and construct one. However, things start to get out of control.

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Brainstorm
1983 · dir. Douglas Trumbull
🍅 57%★ 6.4science fiction · thriller

Science fiction built on tension, twice over

Two brilliant research scientists have invented a device capable of recording and playing back sensory experiences only to have devastating results when one of them records their own death.

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Primer
2004 · dir. Shane Carruth
🍅 72%★ 6.7science fiction · drama · thriller

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

A group of fledgling inventors discover a complex method to manipulate reality. At first, they successfully game the stock market with it, but the consequences of the invention start to catch up with them.

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I Am Number Four
2011 · dir. D.J. Caruso
🍅 32%★ 6.1action · thriller · science fiction

Cerebral thriller in both cases

A teenage fugitive with an incredible secret races to stay one step ahead of the mysterious forces seeking destroy him. With three dead and one on the run, the race to find the elusive Number Four begins. Outwardly normal teen John Smith never gets too comfortable in the same identity, and along with his guardian, Henri, he is constantly moving from town to town. With each passing day, John gains a stronger grasp on his extraordinary new powers, and his bond to the beings that share his fantastic fate grows stronger.

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The Andromeda Strain
1971 · dir. Robert Wise
🍅 68%★ 7.2science fiction · thriller · drama

Drama in the same key

When virtually all of the residents of Piedmont, New Mexico are found dead after the return to Earth of a space satellite, the head of the US Air Force's Project Scoop declares an emergency. A group of eminent scientists led by Dr. Jeremy Stone scrambles to a secure laboratory and tries first to isolate the life form while determining why two people from Piedmont - an old alcoholic and a six-month-old baby - survived. The scientists methodically study the alien life form, unaware that it has already mutated and presents a far greater danger in the lab, which is equipped with a nuclear self-destruct device designed to prevent the escape of dangerous biological agents.

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Timecrimes
2007 · dir. Nacho Vigalondo
🍅 90%★ 7.1science fiction · thriller

Both are built on the same subject: car accident

A man accidentally gets into a time machine and travels back in time nearly an hour. Finding himself will be the first of a series of disasters of unforeseeable consequences.

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