The invention discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device. The backlight module comprises a light guide plate, a light source and a back plate, wherein a depression which extends to the outside of the backlight module relative to the light incident surface of the light guide plate is arranged on the side wall of the back plate, and the light source is arranged in the depression. As the depression is arranged in the position of the fixed light source on the backlight module disclosed by the invention, the distance from the light source to the inner edge of a rubber frame is increased through the depression, namely that an A value is increased, so that a dark band region of light among luminous sources on the light source can be effectively eliminated and a hotspot phenomenon can be avoided in a display region of the liquid crystal display device. Simultaneously, after the A value is expanded, in order to realize a narrow side frame of the liquid crystal display device, the corresponding A value can be selected from a critical value of avoiding the hotspot phenomenon to the maximum A value obtained through the depression, thus the side frame of the liquid crystal display device can become narrower, and the display region of the liquid crystal display device is enlarged.