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Movies that feel like Scenes from a Marriage (1974)

If you loved Scenes from a Marriage, the closest films we have are The Silence (1963), Minnie and Moskowitz (1971) and Summer with Monika (1953). All three share Scenes from a Marriage's contemplative and romantic feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 10 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on HBO Max, Amazon Prime Video and Paramount Plus Premium and others, checked against today's data.

Johan and Marianne are married and seem to have it all. Their happiness, however, is a façade for a troubled relationship, which becomes even rockier when Johan admits that he's having an affair. Before long, the spouses separate and move towards finalizing their divorce, but they make attempts at reconciling. Even as they pursue other relationships, Johan and Marianne realize that they have a significant bond, but also many issues that hinder that connection.

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The Silence
1963 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 85%7.7drama · romance

Ingmar Bergman directing both, with the same fingerprints on each

The difference: Missing the loneliness of Scenes from a Marriage

Traveling through an unnamed European country on the brink of war, sickly, intellectual Ester, her sister Anna and Anna's young son, Johan, check into a near-empty hotel. A basic inability to communicate among the three seems only to worsen during their stay. Anna provokes her sister by enjoying a dalliance with a local man, while the boy, left to himself, has a series of enigmatic encounters that heighten the growing air of isolation.

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Minnie and Moskowitz
1971 · dir. John Cassavetes
🍅 82%7.2romance · drama · comedy

One thread runs through both: loneliness

The difference: Leans harder into comedy than Scenes from a Marriage does

Depressed and jaded after being dumped by her married boyfriend, aging beauty Minnie Moore wonders if she'll ever find love. After shaggy-haired parking lot attendant Seymour Moskowitz comes to her defense from an angry and rebuffed blind date, he falls hopelessly in love with her despite their myriad differences. Minnie reluctantly agrees to a date with Moskowitz, and, slowly but surely, an unlikely romance blossoms between the two.

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Summer with Monika
1953 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%7.5drama · romance

Both are Ingmar Bergman's work, and they rhyme

The difference: 21 years apart, and the 1950s show

One summer day, two teens begin a reckless affair and abandon their families to be with one another.

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The Passion of Anna
1969 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%7.6drama

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

A recently divorced man and an emotionally devastated widow begin a love affair.

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Together
2000 · dir. Lukas Moodysson
🍅 90%7.4drama · comedy · romance

Both keep coming back to the same thing: loneliness

The difference: Made in the 2000s, in a different era of the craft

Elisabeth leaves her abusive and drunken husband Rolf, and goes to live with her brother, Göran. The year is 1975 and Göran lives in a commune called Together. Living in this leftist commune Elisabeth learns that the world can be viewed from different perspectives.

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Certain Women
2016 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 92%6.4drama

Common ground: love affair

Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home reveal fissures in her marriage; and a lonely ranch hand who forms an ambiguous bond with a young law student.

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God's Own Country
2017 · dir. Francis Lee
🍅 97%7.6romance · drama

Tender and lonely in the same breath

A young farmer in rural Yorkshire numbs his daily frustrations with binge drinking and casual sex, until the arrival of a Romanian migrant worker.

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The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
1947 · dir. Joseph L. Mankiewicz
🍅 100%7.8romance · fantasy · drama

Both lean on stillness more than on drama

In 1900, young widow Lucy Muir learns that her seaside cottage is haunted and forms a unique relationship with the ghost.

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Ali: Fear Eats the Soul
1974 · dir. Rainer Werner Fassbinder
🍅 100%8romance · drama

Romantic romance, and it commits to that

Emmi Kurowski, a cleaning lady, is lonely in her old age. Her husband died years ago, and her grown children offer little companionship. One night she goes to a bar frequented by Arab immigrants and strikes up a friendship with middle-aged mechanic Ali. Their relationship soon develops into something more, and Emmi's family and neighbors criticize their spontaneous marriage. Soon Emmi and Ali are forced to confront their own insecurities about their future.

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Castaway on the Moon
2009 · dir. Lee Hae-jun
8drama · comedy · romance

Tender drama in both cases

Mr. Kim is jobless, lost in debt and has been dumped by his girlfriend. He decides to end it all by jumping into the Han River – only to find himself washed up on a small, mid-river island. He soon abandons thoughts of suicide or rescue and begins a new life as a castaway. His antics catch the attention of a young woman whose apartment overlooks the river. Her discovery changes both their lives.

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Hour of the Wolf
1968 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 92%7.5drama · horror

Romance built on loneliness, twice over

While vacationing on a remote German island with his younger pregnant wife, an artist has an emotional breakdown while confronting his repressed desires.

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Smiles of a Summer Night
1955 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%7.7comedy · romance

Romance with a pulse of romance, in both cases

Early in the 20th century, middle-aged lawyer Fredrik Egerman and his young wife, Anne, have still not consummated their marriage, while Fredrik's son finds himself increasingly attracted to his new stepmother. To make matters worse, Fredrik's old flame Desiree makes a public bet that she can seduce him at a romantic weekend retreat where four couples convene, swapping partners and pairing off in unexpected ways.

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