Hector and the Search for Happiness (2014) on Netflix

Plot summary

Clara works for a drug company and has just launched a new pill, and her boyfriend Hector is a psychiatrist whose rates have not changed in years. At a dinner celebrating the pill, a stranger's talk of wanting happiness leaves Hector doubting his own, and he loses patience with his patients. He tells Clara he has to travel and research happiness. Clara packs him a notebook and an old photograph from his sock drawer. He asks if she will still be there when he returns. Neither of them knows how long he will be gone. On the flight to China he meets Edward, a cranky businessman, who shows him Shanghai and takes him to an exclusive nightclub, where he meets Ying Li and falls for her.