Top Ten Movies for the BrokenHearted

I am the type of person who finds solace in movies, music, people, and art when she is feeling sad and heartbroken.  It makes me realize that I am not the only one who has felt this because other people are using art to portray a broken heart. . Below are the top ten movies that I watch whenever I am feeling heartbroken, which has been an ongoing feeling for the past three years.

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind - He loves her, she loves him, but her complex nature makes the relationship shatter. I’ve always wondered if I would want to erase all memories of the person who I love more than life itself. Right now I want to say yes, but in the long run, I think I would be like Jim Carrey’s character and hide him in the deepest parts of my mind for as long as I could.

2. Sense and Sensibility – Marianne and Willoughby. He breaks her heart, and she almost dies from it. Can a broken heart ever be repaired? It can, but there will always be scar tissue.

3. Vanilly Sky – Two people tore apart by a psycho and never able to regain what they once had.

4. A Very Long Engagement - She hopes and hopes for her true love to return to her. In the end, he does. She would say things like, “If he is still alive, then I will get there before the car does.” I tend to do this, so I loved this movie of hopes and dreams.

5. Splendor in the Grass – Deanie does not know how to handle Bud splitting up with her. In the end, their breakup changes both of them forever.

6. In the Mood for Love - They find out their spouses are cheating with one another, and that brings them together to live in a fantasy world. In the end, reality sets in, and they say goodbye.

7. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button - Circumstances kept them apart, be it one of them was in love with someone else, immaturity, and pain. However, they found one another only to lose it again.

8. The Crow – True love never dies, not even in death

9. Bram’s Stroker Dracula - I remember watching this as a child and craving an eternal love like Mina and Dracula. Their love made it transcended time.

10. Los Amantes Del Circulo Polar - True love at its best

In the end of all this heartache,

Trois Coleurs: Blue - She loses her daughter and husband to a horrible accident. She becomes a recluse, but slowly starts finding the beauty around her. I hope that one day I can find the beauty that is surrounding me, like she did.

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7 comments!!!

  1. edythe says:

    have you seen Red (in the trois coleurs trilogy)? it is lovely.

  2. Another one is the strange case of benjamin button, a must see!

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  4. kyo@buff says:

    Last American Virgin is at the top of my list for heart break movies.

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