25 Movies to Watch Post Breakup Blues
Nisha NaikMar 07, 2020
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We’ve come up with a list of our 25 favorite breakup movies: some funny, some inspiration, and some downright enlightening. We promise they’ll help, even if they’re just a soothing soundtrack for you to recover in. We probably don’t have to tell you this, but going through a breakup is pretty much one of the worst experiences you can have in life. Even if you’re the one initiating the split and aren’t the one getting dumped, it’s still pretty rough — either way, moving on from a relationship isn’t easy. That’s where movies to watch after a breakup come in.
1.Marriage Story
Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Noah Baumbach directs this incisive and compassionate look at a marriage coming apart and a family staying together.
2. Call me by Your Name
In 1980s Italy, romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.
3. 500 Days of Summer
An offbeat romantic comedy about a woman who doesn't believe true love exists, and the young man who falls for her.
4. Bridesmaids
Competition between the maid of honor and a bridesmaid, over who is the bride's best friend, threatens to upend the life of an out-of-work pastry chef.
5. How To Be Single
A group of young adults navigate love and relationships in New York City.
6. My Best Friend's Wedding
When a woman's long-time friend reveals he's engaged, she realizes she loves him herself and sets out to get him, with only days before the wedding.
7. Legally Blonde
Elle Woods, a fashionable sorority queen is dumped by her boyfriend. She decides to follow him to law school, while she is there she figures out that there is more to her than just looks.
8. Blue Valentine
The relationship of a contemporary married couple, charting their evolution over a span of years by cross-cutting between time periods.
9. Crazy, Stupid, Love
A middle-aged husband's life changes dramatically when his wife asks him for a divorce. He seeks to rediscover his manhood with the help of a newfound friend, Jacob, learning to pick up girls at bars.
10. The Holiday
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
11. Eat Pray Love
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on a round-the-world journey to "find herself".
12. The Break-Up
In a bid to keep their luxurious condo from their significant other, a couple's break-up proceeds to get uglier and nastier by the moment.
13. Bridget Jones's Diary
A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.
14. He's Just Not that Into You
This Baltimore-set movie of interconnecting story arcs deals with the challenges of reading or misreading human behavior.
15. Forgetting Sarah Marshall
Devastated Peter takes a Hawaiian vacation in order to deal with the recent break-up with his TV star girlfriend, Sarah. Little does he know, Sarah's traveling to the same resort as her ex - and she's bringing along her new boyfriend.
16. The First Wives Club
Reunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.
17. Celeste and Jesse Forever
A divorcing couple tries to maintain their friendship while they both pursue other people.
18. Sliding Doors
A London woman's love life and career both hinge, unknown to her, on whether or not she catches a train. We see it both ways, in parallel.
19. Eternal Sunshine Of The Spotless Mind
When their relationship turns sour, a couple undergoes a medical procedure to have each other erased from their memories.
20. Mamma Mia
The story of a bride-to-be trying to find her real father told using hit songs by the popular 1970s group
21. Under the Tuscan Sun
A writer impulsively buys a villa in Tuscany in order to change her life.
22. La La Land
While navigating their careers in Los Angeles, a pianist and an actress fall in love while attempting to reconcile their aspirations for the future.
23. Begin Again
A chance encounter between a disgraced music-business executive and a young singer-songwriter, new to Manhattan, turns into a promising collaboration between the two talents.
24. Annie Hall
Neurotic New York comedian Alvy Singer falls in love with the ditzy Annie Hall.
25. Sex and the City
A New York City writer on sex and love is finally getting married to her Mr. Big. But her three best girlfriends must console her after one of them inadvertently leads Mr. Big to jilt her.