Best Movies To Watch After A Break Up

10. P.S. I LOVE YOU (2007)

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Although it is not the movie about breaking up, it can help you to get over the break up pain, and find a new light point at your life. Instead of staying in bed and feeling sorry for yourself about the break up, get into the right frame of mind that helps you overcome the sadness you feel.

Holly and Gerry are a married couple, deeply in love, but like most couples they fight occasionally.One day Gerry dies suddenly of a brain tumor and Holly truely realises how much he means to her as well as how stupid their arguments were. She becomes deeply depressive, and doesn’t see anymore the point of her life. The only one who can help her is the person who is no longer there. Nobody knows Holly better than Gerry. So it's a good thing he planned ahead. Before he died, Gerry wrote Holly a series of letters that will guide her, not only through her grief, but in rediscovering herself. The first message arrives on Holly's 30th birthday in the form of a cake, and to her utter shock, a tape recording from Gerry, who proceeds to tell her to get out and "celebrate herself". In the weeks and months that follow, more letters from Gerry are delivered in surprising ways, each sending her on a new adventure and each signing off in the same way; P.S. I Love You. Holly's mother and best friends begin to worry that Gerry's letters are keeping Holly tied to the past, but in fact, each letter is pushing her further into a new future. With Gerry's words as her guide, Holly embarks on a journey of rediscovery in a story about marriage, friendship and how a love so strong can turn the finality of death into a new beginning for life.

9. ANNIE HALL (1977)

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Alvy Singer is a neurotic comedian who desperately wants to analyze his relationship with his former girlfriend Annie Hall. Film traces the course of their relationship from their first meeting, and serves as an interesting historical document about love in the 1970s.

After breaking up with Annie, Alvy goes on a stream of consciousness journey through his memories of their relationship, trying to find out what caused them to part ways. The beginning is romantic. Then problems arise. He is not too enthusiastic about her idea of moving in with him, and leaving her flat. He dislikes her habit of smoking weed before having sex and her lack of education. After applying to university she soon gets attracted to a professor. Alvy and Annie broke up in a fight. He tries to calm down, starts a new relationship but with no success. After a while she calls him and they start again, convinced they will make it this time. Everything looks wonderful. But soon they both reveal to their shrinks that the relationship has gone sour again. After visiting California they break up, peacefully this time. Alvy is proud about their calm transcend from relationship to friendship. He tries to date another woman but again with no success. He gets a panic attack and flies to California where Annie is in a happy relationship. She rejects him. He gets so upset that he ends up in prison. After coming back to New York he writes a play about their relationship, but with a happy ending. He meets her again later in New York with some other guy. They go for lunch as friends, remembering their good time. At the end he realises that although relationships are absurd and irrational, we still need to go through them. We need to believe they are not what they are.

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8. HE'S JUST NOT THAT INTO YOU (2009)

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If you've ever been in the situation to sit by the phone and wonder why he (or she) said he would call, but didn't, or if you can't figure out why he doesn't want to sleep with you anymore, or why your relationship just isn't going to the next level... he is just not that into you.

For ages women were able to spend hours analyzing puzzling behavior of men. This movie will show the girls are wasting their time. Men are not complicated, although they'd like you to think they are. And there are no mixed messages.

The movie tells the stories of a group of interconnected people as they navigate their various relationships from the shallow end of the dating pool through the deep, murky waters of married life, trying to read the signs of the opposite sexes and hoping to be the exceptions to the 'no-exceptions' rule. Gigi imagines every man she meets is Mr. Right; she gets reality checks from Alex, a sweet but cynical saloon keeper. Janine and Ben seem solidly married until he chats with Anna in a market checkout line; meanwhile Anna is indifferent to the pursing Connor. Neil and Beth have been together seven years; she dumps him when she realizes he really and truly isn't going to marry her. Does he love her? And Mary sells advertising while searching on line for a man. Will those in love stay in love? Will those searching figure out who is and who isn't into them? Are men all that different from women?

7. (500) DAYS OF SUMMER (2009)

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This is a story about how love can be confusing, contingent and asymmetrical, and about how love can fail. At first glance, Tom and Summer seem like the perfect pair. They both listen to the same music, love the same things, but… Tom's a hopelessly romantic greeting card writer, and Summer is a relationship cynic who wants anything but to end up like her divorced parents. Tome was sure that Summer was one for him, but it wasn't so. As Tom’s much younger and much wiser sister pointed out: "Just because she likes the same bizarro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate."

At the beginning of their story she tells that she doesn’t believe in relationships or boyfriends, but he believes he can change it. As Tom realizes loving Summer can't make her love him back, Summer learns it's possible to share a life with someone else -even if it's not Mr. Right Now. This is the breakup film for anyone who's given more than they've gotten - and picked themselves up once they realize it's possible to move on.

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6. THE HOLIDAY (2006)

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This movie will show you one more time that if something goes wrong there must be a good side of it - something better waiting for you.

This is the story about Amanda from L.A. who realizes that the man she lives with has not be faithful and Iris from surrounding of London, who is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Amanda and Iris have never met before but they found each other at the right moment. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either wants or expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by Iris' brother Graham and Iris mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles.

5. ETERNAL SUNSHINE OF THE SPOTLESS MIND (2004)

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This amazing film is about relationship loss, and what lengths we'll go to erase past emotional trauma.

On a Valentine Day, Joel feels the impulse of going to the shore instead of working. He meets Clementine there and they have a crush on each other. Joel and Clementine do not have any idea that they loved each other in the past. Joel has just undergone a psychiatrist's experimental procedure of erasing Clementine from his memories when he found that Clementine did the same, just after their relationship ended. He was too frustrated by the idea of still being in love with a woman who doesn't remember their time together.

During the course of the movie, Joel learned that love was something that could be simply forgotten no matter how much the pain hurt him. The only way to make the pain go away was to continue living his life without Clementine by his side. Along this erasing process, Joel realizes he still loves Clementine and he doesn’t want to lose her, fighting for keeping the memories of their moments together instead.

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4. CLOSER (2004)

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After a breakup, watching people more messed up than you, with even more horrific relationships, can be incredibly soothing. This film is a perfect example of toxic relationships that intersected a little too often. It depicts four people, otherwise with very little in common, unraveling and weaving a tapestry of complex romantic interactions with each other. Jealousy, love, obsession, affection and lust all take center stage, artfully showing different facets of each character's motivations and personality, while offering the viewer different viewpoints of the same situation. This is an excellent movie for those who want to see their own past relationships in a different light.

Alice meets the Daniel and their love story is beginning. One day, while photographing at a photo studio, Daniel meets the photographer Anna. They have a passionate affair, complicating the relationship of the couples. The movie is filled with some of very smart dialogues, worth to be remembered. It is a character dissection that evaluates every word someone uses. It is a tragic film that leaves no stone unturned and no possibility forgotten. Even though you hope for the best and believe it just may all work out you always seem to know better.The last scene will make you realize walking away from a bad situation was the best thing you’ve ever done.

3. FORGETTING SARAH MARSHALL (2008)

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When Peter, got dumped by his girlfriend Sarah after a five year relationship, he wanted to get as far away as possible. He cries, he mopes, and do everything to continue normal life but not successful. When his best friend Brian suggests Hawaii as a perfect destination to escape all his problems and to get away from everything, he decides to go there. Apparently... at the same place, there is Sarah with her new boyfriend, an English rocker. The weeping and moping starts again, until Peter is rescued by Rachel, a thoughtful hotel clerk who invites him to a luau and to hang out. Although he constantly runs into Sarah and Aldous, Peter starts to come alive again. Will Sarah realize what she's lost, and what about Rachel?

By far the raunchiest and most adult-oriented pick of the group, Forgetting Sarah Marshall is one of those breakup movies that you can't stop both laughing and crying at. Filled with disturbing, honest, painful and yet hopeful scenes that follow the male lead from the moment he's broken up with, Forgetting Sarah Marshall isn't for the faint of heart (or those offended by full male nudity). Then again, neither is a nasty breakup.

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2. HIGH FIDELITY (2000)

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This movie definitely falls into the comedy category, but still offers a large dose of reflective drama as a balance. High Fidelity follows the life of 30-something Rob, who must face the undeniable facts - he's growing up. After getting dumped by his current girlfriend, he decides to review his top five worst breakups (he constantly makes top five lists, though usually about music) in order to figure out what he keeps doing wrong in his relationships. He recalls each breakup, reconnects with these former loves to find out why they dumped him, and wallows in misery from losing Laura. Rob makes fruitless attempts to win Laura back, indulges in new relationships laced with fantasy, and tries introspection.

In a hilarious homage to the music scene, Rob and the wacky, offbeat clerks that inhabit his store expound on the intricacies of life and song all the while trying to succeed in their adult relationships. Are they listening to pop music because they are miserable? Or are they miserable because they listen to pop music? This romantic comedy provides a whimsical glimpse into the male view of the affairs of the heart.

1. SLIDING DOORS (1998)

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The film follows young Helen who discovers one morning that she had been fired from her job at PR Company. Returning back home, she is trying to catch the subway train, and when she runs down we can see her life split off in two realities – what would have happened if she'd catch the train, and what if she’d miss it. An intriguing concept about fate and how simple moments have the ability to change our lives.

When one door closes, another one opens. That’s a good mantra to have after a sad end to what you thought was a good relationship. As hard as it is to believe, you have to know that you’re on a path that will eventually lead to something better. In this love story, you’ll see how even the slightest change will reroute your heart. The world around us is an amazing, mystical resource of the unknown and one split second can send your life in two completely different directions!

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