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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.

If you loved Scenes from a Marriage, the closest films we have are Marty (1955), The Silence (1963) 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.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Minnie and Moskowitz (1971).

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Marty
1955 · dir. Delbert Mann
🍅 96%★ 7.6drama · romancePrime Video

The same preoccupation in both: marriage

Marty, a butcher who lives in the Bronx with his mother, is unmarried at 34. Good-natured but socially awkward, he faces constant badgering from family and friends to get married but has reluctantly resigned himself to bachelorhood. He then meets Clara, an unattractive school teacher. Realising their emotional connection, Marty promises to call, but family and friends try to convince him not to.

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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: Easier on the loneliness than 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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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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God's Own Country
2017 · dir. Francis Lee
🍅 97%★ 7.6romance · drama

Both are built on the same subject: loneliness

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

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Sits closer to fantasy than Scenes from a Marriage does

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 · dramaMax

Tender drama, 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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My Blueberry Nights
2007 · dir. Wong Kar-Wai
🍅 45%★ 6.6drama · romancePrime VideoStarz

Romance built on loneliness, twice over

Elizabeth has just been through a particularly nasty breakup, and now she's ready to leave her friends and memories behind as she chases her dreams across the country. In order to support herself on her journey, Elizabeth picks up a series of waitress jobs along the way. As Elizabeth crosses paths with a series of lost souls whose yearnings are even greater than her own, their emotional turmoil ultimately helps her gain a greater understanding of her own problems...

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Certain Women
2016 · dir. Kelly Reichardt
🍅 92%★ 6.4dramaParamount+

Both keep coming back to the same thing: 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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The Passion of Anna
1969 · dir. Ingmar Bergman
🍅 100%★ 7.6drama

Drama with a pulse of stillness, in both cases

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

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A Man and a Woman
1966 · dir. Claude Lelouch
🍅 75%★ 7.5drama · romance

Both lean on romance more than on romance

A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that they have something deeply in common.

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The Woman Next Door
1981 · dir. François Truffaut
🍅 85%★ 7.2drama · romance

Tender drama in both cases

Two ex-lovers wind up living next door to each other with their respective spouses. Forbidden passions ensue.

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