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Neither of these is the better film. They are just at opposite ends.
38 films tagged heartbreak
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2007 · Romance
On a hot day in 1935 at an English country house, a thirteen-year-old girl tells a lie about her older sister. It then follows the people that lie touched, across years and into the war.
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2025 · Drama
A film director in Hong Kong, stuck with her script and arguing with her girlfriend, looks back on the women she loved at seventeen and at twenty-two. Three relationships, told in turn.
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2004 · Romance
Nine years after one night in Vienna, a writer on a book tour runs into her again in a Paris bookshop, and they have the afternoon before his flight. One long walk and one long conversation.
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2025 · Musical
A young woman abandoned at the courthouse on her wedding day stops writing and shuts herself in, until a hot-tempered musician finds her notebook and asks her to work with him. Long, loud and built around its songs.
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2025 · Romance
Four years after their break-up, Nick and Noah are both in the wedding party at their best friends' wedding in Ibiza and cannot leave each other alone. The last part of a trilogy, and it takes the first two as read.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Drama
A hot-headed student leader falls for the researcher who chose him as her PhD subject, and she does not feel the same. Years later he is a fighter pilot and she is the psychologist assessing him.
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2025 · Comedy
A folk musician takes a suitcase of cash to play a private show on a remote Welsh island, where his host turns out to be the whole audience. Then his old singing partner arrives.
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2013 · Romance
A French teenager drifting through school meets an older art student with blue hair, and her whole life reorganises around her. It runs three hours and stays very close to her face.
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2010 · Romance
A married couple with a small daughter come apart over one day and one night, cut against the weeks when they first met. Two people talking, mostly, jumping between the two times.
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2025 · Comedy
Two exes share weekly custody of their dog, and when he turns out to be depressed one of them takes him to a hotel in Florida and the other secretly follows. Light, small and mostly the two of them.
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2025 · Drama
Seven years after an accident split them up, two former lovers meet again and are pulled back into what happened. It stays close to the pair of them and what has gone unsaid.
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2005 · Romance
Two young ranch hands spend a summer minding sheep on a Wyoming mountain in 1963, and carry what happens there quietly through the next twenty years of jobs and marriages. Slow, mostly quiet, and covering a long stretch of time.
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2017 · Romance
A seventeen-year-old spends the summer at his family's house in northern Italy, where his father's new research assistant comes to stay for six weeks. Long hot days, and nothing happens quickly.
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2026 · Drama
A pop star three days from a comeback show drives to the English countryside to ask the designer she once cut out of her life to make her a dress. Mostly two people in a barn, working and arguing.
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2026 · Comedy
An American schoolteacher is left at the altar in Italy and goes on the prepaid honeymoon anyway, alone. He falls in with two married couples and a cafe owner in Rome; gentle, chatty, and shot all over the city.
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2026 · Comedy
A stiff English chef nursing a broken heart is talked into a holiday in Gran Canaria by a friend, and falls for her father. A Spanish romantic comedy with the awkwardness built into the setup.
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2026 · Comedy
After losing her boyfriend and her job in the same stretch, a woman goes back to her Texas hometown and runs into everyone she used to know. Warm and chatty, with old friends and old flames.
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2004 · Romance
After a bad breakup a shy man learns his girlfriend has had him wiped from her memory, and books the same procedure for himself. Most of it happens inside his head over one night, with the rooms coming apart around him.
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2013 · Science fiction
A lonely man in a near-future Los Angeles, who writes other people's love letters for a living, installs an operating system that talks back. Quiet and warm-looking, and largely one man talking to a voice.
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2000 · Romance
Two neighbours in 1960s Hong Kong work out that their husband and wife are seeing each other, and start spending evenings together. Slow and quiet, mostly small talk in corridors and stairwells, in Cantonese.
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2019 · Romance
A painter is sent to a remote island to paint a reluctant bride's wedding portrait without her sitting for it, so she has to watch her closely and work from memory. Almost no men appear.
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2019 · Drama
A theatre director and the actor married to him are separating, and what starts as a decent, agreed split turns into lawyers on two coasts. Mostly conversations, and a few of them are very long.
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2019 · Horror
A grieving American woman tags along with her boyfriend and his friends to a midsummer festival at a remote Swedish commune where the sun barely sets. Long, very bright, and it takes its time.
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2016 · Thriller
A Los Angeles gallery owner is sent the manuscript of a novel by her ex-husband, and the film cuts between her reading it and the story on the page. Two stories at once, and the one in the book is nasty.
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1994 · Romance
Two Hong Kong policemen, both recently left by someone, drift through the same late-night food stall in two separate stories. Loose, fast-cut, and more about routine than plot.
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2004 · Comedy
Two old friends spend a week driving round California wine country before one of them gets married, one talking about wine and the other chasing women. Mostly conversation, and it wanders.
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2013 · Action
The life of Ip Man, the martial arts teacher who later taught Bruce Lee, told through the men he fought and the woman he could not have. The fights are slowed down and shot in the rain.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2021 · Comedy
A woman in Oslo coming up on thirty keeps changing what she wants to be and who she wants to be with, told in twelve chapters. Funny and sad in the same scene, moving at the speed of a conversation.
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2007 · Animation
Three linked stories about a boy and a girl who were close as children and keep being moved to different parts of Japan. Slow and quiet, and mostly about distance.
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1942 · Romance
An American running a nightclub in wartime Morocco has the papers that could get two people out of the country, and one of them is the woman who left him in Paris. Almost all of it happens in the bar.
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1988 · Drama
A film director remembers the Sicilian village where he grew up in a projection booth, taught by the man who ran the cinema. Warm, long and openly sentimental.
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2018 · Drama
A pianist and a singer meet in a postwar Polish folk ensemble and spend fifteen years crossing borders towards and away from each other. Short, black and white, and it skips years at a time.
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2009 · Comedy
A man who writes greeting cards for a living falls hard for the new girl at the office, and the film jumps around their year and a half out of order. Chatty, quick, and told from his side.
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2003 · Comedy
Nine loosely linked London stories run through the five weeks before Christmas. Some of them are funny and some of them are not meant to be.
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2001 · Animation
A documentary crew interviews a retired film star, and the interview keeps falling into her own films with the interviewers inside them. Cuts between eras without warning.
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2001 · Musical
A poor writer in 1899 Paris falls for the star of a nightclub who is promised to a duke. Cut very fast, and the songs are all borrowed from the last fifty years.
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2023 · Comedy
Two people freshly out of bad relationships meet at a gallery in Peckham and spend the day walking around south London. Bright, short and very funny.
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2004 · Romance
An old man reads a love story to a woman in a nursing home, about a summer in 1940s North Carolina between a mill worker and an heiress. Openly designed to make you cry.
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