The invention relates to the field of display technologies, and discloses a backlight module and a liquid crystal display device. The backlight module comprises a light guide plate, an optical membrane material located on the light-emitting side of the light guide plate, and an optical orientation membrane located on the light-emitting side of the optical membrane material. The optical orientation membrane comprises an orientation layer, the orientation layer is provided with a plurality of first light blocking walls arranged in parallel, light-transmitting areas are arranged between any two adjacent first light blocking walls, and the side, facing towards the corresponding light-transmitting area, of each first light blocking wall is the light blocking face. The incidence angle of light emitted from the backlight module through the optical orientation membrane on the light-entering face of a lower polaroid is small, then, the degree of polarization of refracted ray emitted from the light-emitting face of the liquid crystal display device is reduced, and the possibility of seeing image information when observers watch the liquid crystal display device in a naked-eye mode on two sides of the liquid crystal display device in the arrangement direction of the first light blocking walls is reduced. Thus, according to the liquid crystal display device provided with the backlight module, peep prevention display can be well achieved.