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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.

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#1
Hungry Hearts

Hungry Hearts

2015★ 6.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The relationship of a couple who meet by chance in New York City is put to the test when they encounter a life or death circumstance....

#2
Here

Here

2024★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

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 cou...

#3
A Question of Faith

A Question of Faith

2017★ 7.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs...

#4
Knock on Any Door

Knock on Any Door

1949★ 6.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

An attorney defends a hoodlum of murder, using the oppressiveness of the slums to appeal to the court....

#5
Albatross

Albatross

2011★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Beth, a bookish teenager, befriends Emilia, an aspiring novelist who has just arrived in town. Emilia soon begins an affair with Beth's father that threatens to have devastating co...

#6
The Browning Version

The Browning Version

1951★ 7.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Background for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Andrew Crocker-Harris has been forced from his position as the classics master at an English public school due to poor health. As he winds up his final term, he discovers not only ...

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