Bergman's 1980 television film From the Life of the Marionettes centres on a couple named Peter and Katarina, loosely based on the supporting characters of those names in Scenes from a Marriage.[36][37][38] Bergman also wrote the first stage adaptation of Scenes from a Marriage for the Residenztheater in Munich in 1981.[39] Saraband, a quasi-sequel set decades after the original miniseries, aired on Swedish television in 2003.[40] In 2008, a theatrical adaption by Joanna Murray-Smith was performed at the Belgrade Theatre in Coventry, directed by Trevor Nunn and starring Imogen Stubbs and Iain Glen.
Knots Landing creator David Jacobs based the series on Scenes from a Marriage.[41] Shashi Deshpande informally adapted it into the screenplay for Govind Nihalani's Drishti in 1990.[42][43] In 1991, Woody Allen costarred in Paul Mazursky's Scenes from a Mall, a dark comedy about a deteriorating marriage.[44][45] Allen's similarly realist 1992 film Husbands and Wives is also influenced by Scenes from a Marriage.[46] Some critics compared Allen's Annie Hall (1977) to Scenes from a Marriage.[47][48]
In an April 2011 New York Times Opinionator article titled "Too Much Relationship Vérité", Virginia Heffernan compares An American Family to Scenes from a Marriage:
It's now the future. And the 12-hour PBS time capsule, which will make a rare reappearance next week at the Paley Center in Manhattan and on some public-TV affiliates beginning Saturday, looks more like performance art than social science. Hammy stunts for the camera alternate with Bergman-esque staging. ("Scenes from a Marriage", Bergman’s fictional TV series, also appeared in 1973, in Sweden.)[49]
In June 2013, actor Ethan Hawke and director Richard Linklater said Scenes from a Marriage was the standard by which their Before Midnight must be judged.[50] Russian director Andrey Zvyagintsev initially conceived Loveless (2017) as a remake of Scenes from a Marriage,[51] with critics also comparing Zvyagintsev's finished product to Bergman's miniseries.[52][53] Noah Baumbach's Marriage Story (2019) also contains references to Scenes from a Marriage.[54][55]
