There's nothing like a good movie to help heal a broken heart (maybe accompanied by a pint of ice cream or a bottle of wine...or both). Thankfully for lovelorn viewers everywhere, doomed romances have been inspiring filmmakers since the dawn of the silver screen...but which flicks are the best to watch when you're trying to get over a breakup?
As relationship expert Spicy Mari told InStyle, good breakup movies "make us reflect and generate some self-awareness" — so to that end, the outlet rounded up 30 of the most amazing films famous for doing just that.
While the movies chosen weren't ranked in order of greatness, every beloved film on the list definitely has a deeply devoted fanbase, whether or not they were huge hits at the box office. Michel Gondry's haunting and surreal Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004), starring Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet as an ex-couple who try to erase each other from their memories, hits particularly hard for anybody recovering from a painful split, as does Celine Song's stunning — and Oscar-nominated — Past Lives (2023), starring Greta Lee and Teo Yoo as separated childhood sweethearts.
Another Oscar nominee, 2016's musical extravaganza La La Land (starring Emma Stone and Ryan Gosling) also made the cut, as well as 2008's Forgetting Sarah Marshall, starring Jason Segel as a hilariously heartbroken, down-on-his-luck composer.
2005's Brokeback Mountain, starring Jake Gyllenhaal and the late Heath Ledger, was included in the list ("I wish I knew how to quit you!"), along with 2019's devastating and critically acclaimed Marriage Story, in which Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver play a married couple having a very, very bad time.
But one movie included in the roundup that didn't bring in a huge amount of money at the box office or get nominated for an Academy Award was the sweet, sentimental 1998 romantic comedyThe Object of My Affection. Directed by Nicholas Hytner with a screenplay by Wendy Wasserstein, it stars Jennifer Aniston as a Brooklyn social worker named Nina and Paul Rudd as her gay best friend George (a few years before they shared the small screen on Friends). After Nina gets pregnant with her soon-to-be ex-boyfriend's baby, George offers to move in and help raise the child. Their relationship gets complicated when Nina develops romantic feelings for George.
Even though Nina doesn't get the man she thinks she wants, everybody involved gets a very happy ending...which is what makes this film in particular the perfect breakup flick. (Fun fact: Before Aniston and Rudd were cast, Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves were supposed to play the main roles but dropped out over a delay in production.)
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