32 movies to watch after a breakup
ꦑWh💝en love stops feeling rosy, mend your broken heart with these movies

Since the start of the movie industry, the most popular stories have been love stories. Because there's no greater fantasy than falling in love with just the ri𒊎ght person. But what's one to do when love has completely fallen apart? What movies can one watch when they're in the throes of a breakup? Thankfully, there's over 30 movies that are perfect for the (sad) occasion.
While everyone deals with breakups in their own ways with their own movie rituals - Jess from the show New Girl, for example, liked to cry endlessly to Dirty Dancing - some movies are undisputed in how they heal broken hearts without useless platitudes like "love conquers all." Sometimes, love needs ✨to take a hike.
If you're still feeling raw from the end of a relationship, or even just a situationship (which you knew was going to end badly, right?), here are 32 movies to watch now that you're sad and single again. Cheer up! Or don't. These movies will get you feeling feelings no matter what you're looking for.
32. Chasing Amy (1997)
Breakups are a time of self-reflection, meditation, and realization. Few movies capture the sad and hilarious ordeal of finding clarity like Chasing Amy. Kevin Smith's third feature film is perhaps his most mature, in its tale of a comic book artist (Ben Affleck) who falls for breathtaking Alyssa (Joey Lauren Adams). See, Affleck's Holden believes he and Alyssa would be great together, if she weren't a lesbian. With writer/director Smith at the top of his ga🐟me, Chasing Amy is a blaring siren warning against letting our infatuations color our perce𓆉ptions.
31. About Time (2013)
For hopeless romantics who still want to believe in the impossible, there's About Time. Domhnall Gleeson plays a young man in London who inherits his family's power to travel in time. That power comes in handy wh𒊎en he meets and falls in love with enchanting American expat Mary 🎉(Rachel McAdams). While About Time demands a little too much suspension of disbelief, it's an uplifting little rom-com that can reinstill a sense of hope. We can't rewind time, but we can always try again.
30. Celeste and Jesse Forever (2012)
Can a divorced couple stay best friends? That's the question grilled by the funny and sincere Celeste and Jesse Forever from director Lee Toland Kreiꦅger. The movie stars Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg as a former couple who married early but remain close friends after their divorce – their chemistry deemed awkward by everyone around them. But when Samberg's Jesse starts a family, Jones' Celeste starts to wonder if she might have regrets. Intelligent and mature, Celeste and Jesse Forever forgo Hollywood happy endings for something more meaningful and real.
29. Notting Hill (1999)
When dealing with breakups, maybe the last thing anyone needs is a sweep-off-your-feet love story. But Julia Roberts 👍and Hugh Grant are irresistible in Notting Hill, one of the best rom-coms to come out at the turn of the century. Roberts plays Hollywood movie starꦇ Anna Scott who wanders into a humble bookstore (travel books only) owned by its lonely curator Will (Grant). Amid sparks, the two try to date while dealing with Anna's superstar life. Notting Hill feels like a dream - a love story that only happens in the movies. For some broken hearts, there's nothing better.
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23. Past Lives (2023)
If you find yourself still asking yourself "What if?" after getting dumped, watch Celine Song’s acclaimed romantic drama Past Lives to splash cold water on your face. Released in 2023 to critical acclaim, Past Lives stars Greta Lee and Teo Yoon as childhood friends who, over the course of some 20 or so yearಌs, weave in and out of each other’s lives. The movie is a heartbreaking but moving examination into the romantic possibilities that have long passed us by, but might still think about from tim🍸e to time. In the apocalyptic landscape that is modern dating, Past Lives invites us to think about the other paths we weren't foolish enough to try.
16. Scott Pilgrim vs. The World (2010)
We'll admit: Scott Pilgrim is not the greatest cinematic role model when it comes to relationships. He's a coward! And he kind of sucks! But if there's one key throughline in the movie, it's Scott Pilgrim's revelation that true love isn't the cheat code to winning the game of life, but having self-respect. Edgar Wright's madcap movie a𝐆daptation of Bryan Lee O'Malley's popular graphic novels, released to buzzy acclaim in the summer of 2010, is more than a star-studded love letter to millennial pop culture, indie music, and video games. It's also a remarkably smart movie that satirizes how everyone comes with personal histories and dealing with them can never be set to "easy mode."