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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.

  1. 1Lars and the Real Girl

    Lars and the Real Girl (2007)

    ★ 7.2/10

    Extremely 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'…

  2. 245 Years

    45 Years (2015)

    ★ 6.6/10

    There 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…

  3. 3What's Love Got to Do with It?

    What's Love Got to Do with It? (2023)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Two 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.

  4. 4The Other Woman

    The Other Woman (2010)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Emilia, 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…

  5. 5The Sleeping Dictionary

    The Sleeping Dictionary (2003)

    ★ 6.6/10

    In 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…

  6. 6Mr. Skeffington

    Mr. Skeffington (1944)

    ★ 6.8/10

    A beautiful but vain woman who rejects the love of her older husband must face the loss of her youth and beauty.

  7. 7Peter Ibbetson

    Peter Ibbetson (1935)

    ★ 7/10

    When 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…

  8. 8(500) Days of Summer

    (500) Days of Summer (2009)

    ★ 7.3/10

    Tom, 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…

  9. 9Four Christmases

    Four Christmases (2008)

    ★ 5.8/10

    Brad 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…

  10. 10Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans

    Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927)

    ★ 7.8/10

    A married farmer falls under the spell of a slatternly woman from the city, who tries to convince him to drown his wife.

  11. 11The Shop Around the Corner

    The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

    ★ 8.1/10

    Two 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.

  12. 12Brooklyn

    Brooklyn (2015)

    ★ 7.3/10

    In 1950s Ireland and New York, young Eilis Lacey has to choose between two men and two countries.

  13. 13Hollywood Ending

    Hollywood Ending (2002)

    ★ 6.5/10

    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…

  14. 14Here

    Here (2024)

    ★ 6.5/10

    An 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.

  15. 15A Place in the Sun

    A Place in the Sun (1951)

    ★ 7.3/10

    A young social climber wins the heart of a beautiful heiress but his former girlfriend's pregnancy stands in the way of his ambition.

  16. 16Match Point

    Match Point (2005)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Chris, 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…

  17. 17Persuasion

    Persuasion (1995)

    ★ 7.2/10

    In 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…

  18. 18You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger

    You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger (2010)

    ★ 5.9/10

    Two 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…

  19. 19Starman

    Starman (1984)

    ★ 6.9/10

    When 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.

  20. 20Jersey Girl

    Jersey Girl (2004)

    ★ 6.2/10

    Ollie 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…

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