Movies Like Background music for anxiety
If you liked Background music for anxiety (2021), a movie directed by Papp Máté, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.
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Lars and the Real Girl (2007)
★ 7.2/10Extremely shy Lars finds it impossible to make friends or socialize. His brother and sister-in-law worry about him, so when he announces that he has a girlfriend he met on the Internet, they are overjoyed. But Lars'…
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45 Years (2015)
★ 6.6/10There is just one week until Kate Mercer's 45th wedding anniversary and the planning for the party is going well. But then a letter arrives for her husband. The body of his first love has been discovered, frozen and…
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What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)
★ 6.1/10Two childhood friends now in their thirties must decide whether to follow their heads or their hearts once the man decides to follow his parents' advice and enter into an arranged marriage in Pakistan.
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The Other Woman (2010)
★ 6.2/10Emilia, a law-school graduate, falls in love with her married boss, Jack. After Emilia marries Jack, her happiness turns unexpectedly to grief following the death of her infant daughter. Devastated, Emilia nonetheless…
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The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)
★ 6.6/10In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition…
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Mr. Skeffington (1944)
★ 6.8/10A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.
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Peter Ibbetson (1935)
★ 7/10When his mother dies, young Peter Ibbetson leaves Paris and his best friend, Mary, behind to live with a severe uncle in England. Years later, Peter is an architect with little time for women, until he begins a project…
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(500) Days of Summer (2009)
★ 7.3/10Tom, greeting-card writer and hopeless romantic, is caught completely off-guard when his girlfriend, Summer, suddenly dumps him. He reflects on their 500 days together to try to figure out where their love affair went…
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Four Christmases (2008)
★ 5.8/10Brad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing…
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Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)
★ 7.8/10A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.
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The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
★ 8.1/10Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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Brooklyn (2015)
★ 7.3/10In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.
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Hollywood Ending (2002)
★ 6.5/10Woody 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…
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Here (2024)
★ 6.5/10An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.
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A Place in the Sun (1951)
★ 7.3/10A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.
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Match Point (2005)
★ 7.4/10Chris, a former tennis pro, takes a job as an instructor and befriends his wealthy young student, Tom. After being introduced to his family, Chris is soon engaged to Tom's sister, Chloe. Despite the professional and…
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Persuasion (1995)
★ 7.2/10In early 19th-century England, dire financial straits reacquaint the aristocratic Anne Elliot with her wealthy ex-fiance Frederick Wentworth. The two must choose between either putting the past behind them or listening…
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You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)
★ 5.9/10Two married couples find only trouble and heartache as their complicated lives unfold. After 40 years of marriage, Alfie leaves his wife to pursue what he thinks is happiness with a call girl. His wife, Helena, reeling…
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Starman (1984)
★ 6.9/10When an alien takes the form of a young widow's husband and asks her to drive him from Wisconsin to Arizona, the government tries to stop them.
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Jersey Girl (2004)
★ 6.2/10Ollie Trinke is a young, suave music publicist who seems to have it all, with a new wife and a baby on the way. But life deals him a bum hand when he's suddenly faced with single fatherhood, a defunct career and having…