Movies like Backlighting
If Backlighting's mix of blindness and impaired vision and mexican stayed with you, start here. Each film below was picked from what Backlighting's fans love most, with the reason it belongs on this list.
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City Lights
1931 · Directed by Charlie Chaplin · 87 min8.2
Why you'll like itShares: blindness and impaired vision
A tramp falls in love with a beautiful blind flower girl. His on-and-off friendship with a wealthy man allows him to be the girl's benefactor and suitor.
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Dancer in the Dark
2000 · Directed by Lars von Trier · 140 min7.8
Why you'll like itShares: blindness and impaired vision
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.
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Ray
2004 · Directed by Taylor Hackford · 152 min7.5
Why you'll like itShares: blindness and impaired vision
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano…
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See No Evil, Hear No Evil
1989 · Directed by Arthur Hiller · 102 min6.8
Why you'll like itShares: blindness and impaired vision
A murder takes place in the shop of David Lyons, a deaf man who fails to hear the gunshot being fired. Outside, blind man Wally Karue hears the shot, but cannot see the perpetrator.
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Blindness
2008 · Directed by Fernando Meirelles · 121 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: blindness and impaired vision
When a sudden plague of blindness devastates a city, a small group of the afflicted band together to triumphantly overcome the horrific conditions of their imposed quarantine.
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Hollywood Ending
2002 · Directed by Woody Allen · 112 min6.5
Why you'll like itShares: blindness and impaired vision
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…