According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer which includes a stripe-like polymer and first liquid crystal molecules having responsiveness to an electric field, a light source and a transparent film which includes second liquid crystal molecules which are not responsive to an electric field. The second liquid crystal molecules have a large inclination angle with respect to the horizontal plane of the transparent film in a first region that is separate from the light source, and have, in a second region positioned between the light source and the first region, a smaller inclination angle than the inclination angle in the first region with respect to the horizontal plane of the transparent film.