10 Best Movies Like Background
If you loved Background, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

You Will Meet a Tall Dark Stranger
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
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 ...

Father of the Bride
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family....

Numb
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
Hudson Milbank is a successful Hollywood screenwriter who suddenly and strangely finds himself without any emotional feelings. He tries doctor after doctor and shrink after shrink,...

The Giant Mechanical Man
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
An offbeat romantic comedy about a silver-painted street performer and the soft spoken zoo worker who falls for him....

Jack Goes Boating
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
A limo driver's blind date sparks a tale of love, betrayal, friendship and grace—centered on two working-class New York City couples....

Sidewalks of New York
Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Comedy & Drama & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.
The film follows the marital and dating lives of three men and three women who unknowingly form a tangled web of relationships. Interspersing "man on the street" interviews with sc...