Happy endings are Brother in law Who Gave His Sister in law a Little Sex Educationnice and all, but even the most idealistic among us know they don't always last. Sometimes, the happy ending is just the start of a larger story that ends with someone weeping into a pint of ice cream alone on the couch, flipping channels in search of something to mend a broken heart, or at least distract from the pain for a bit.
In other words, sometimes what you need is not a love story but a breakup movie. We've compiled 31 of the best breakup movies to help you process your sadness, exorcise your rage, or encourage you to dust yourself back up and move the hell on.
Here are the 31 best breakup movies streaming and where to watch them.
They say it's better to have loved and lost, but try telling that to someone still smarting from a breakup. This trippy love story follows Joel (Jim Carrey) as he tries to wipe his ex (Kate Winslet) from his mind, only to wonder if some of those memories may be worth keeping after all.
How to watch: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind is streaming on Netflix and Peacock and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: Netflix A clean break may be ideal, but it isn't always an option. In Marriage Story, Charlie (Adam Driver) and Nicole (Scarlett Johansson) suffer through an ugly custody battle — and come out the other side with a new sort of relationship, one based not on sex and romance but shared parenthood.
How to watch: Marriage Story is streaming on Netflix.
High Fidelityis the breakup movie you turn to when you've just had your heart crushed, and you've got a sneaking suspicion that at least some of it might have been your fault. But if Rob (John Cusack) can learn to grow up a little, maybe you can, too.
How to watch: High Fidelity is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
This film is nothing if not a promise that it'll get better. Sure, it sucks to lose your S.O., especially when she's a famous TV star whose face is plastered all over the place. But who's to say you can't rebound with an even cooler girlfriend to love, like Forgetting Sarah Marshall's Mila Kunis?
How to watch: Forgetting Sarah Marshallis streaming on Hulu and Max and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
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Because some breakups call for something a bit more dramatic than the usual sobfest. Some breakups come at the end of a relationship so grandly shitty, you need to travel to rural Sweden for a once-in-a-lifetime festivalput on by an obscure death cult in order to reallyget your point across.
How to watch: Midsommar is streaming on Hulu and Max and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: Randee St Nicholas / 20th Century Fox / Kobal / Shutterstock Waiting to Exhalecombines the visceral satisfaction of setting a cheating ex's car on fire with the comforting reassurance of close-knit friendship, and serves as a gentle reminder that better things lie ahead after all the pain and suffering.
How to watch: Waiting to Exhaleis streaming on Disney+ and Hulu and and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
It's a sad truth that two people can like each other very much, and still not be meant to love each other. Rashida Jones and Andy Samberg play a pair of high-school sweethearts who remain best friends after seven years of marriage, but feel the need to move on from each other romantically.
How to watch: Celeste and Jesse Foreveris streaming on Disney+, Hulu, and Prime Video and available to buy or rent on Apple TV.
SEE ALSO: 10 Netflix movies that will make you cryRemember, the only reason Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz get to stay in fabulous homes and flirt with Jack Black and Jude Law in this very charming movie is because they previously broke up with two other dudes who totally sucked.
How to watch: The Holidayis available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
The Souveniris an exquisite portrait of the doomed relationship between naive Julie (Honor Swinton Byrne) and the mysterious Anthony (Tom Burke), acknowledging both how difficult it can be to disentangle from a toxic relationship, and the bruises it can leave behind.
How to watch: The Souveniris streaming on Hulu and Max and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Watching Blue Valentinewhile in the throes of heartbreak is like pressing down on a bruise — the pain is what makes it so satisfying. The film cuts between the tender start of Dean (Ryan Gosling) and Cindy's (Michelle Williams) romance and its jagged end, to tearjerking effect.
How to watch: Blue Valentineis streaming on Tubi and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video
Few of us get goodbyes to love as epically romantic as the one between Rick (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa (Ingrid Bergman). But wouldn't it be nice to imagine we did? They'll always have Paris, and we'll always have Casablancato weep over when we're at our most tragically brokenhearted.
How to watch: Casablancais streaming on Hulu and Max and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: Merrick Morton / 20th Century Fox / Regency / Kobal / Shutterstock Gone Girlis about a disappearance, not a breakup — but it does have plenty to sayabout the hazards of modern marriage. Watch how Nick (Ben Affleck) and Amy (Rosamund Pike) went from meet-cute to fairy-tale courtship to ... well, you'll see ... and you may decide you're better off single.
How to watch: Gone Girlis available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Let Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) serve as a warning against looking back at past relationships with rose-colored glasses. It's only when he starts to see Summer (Zooey Deschanel) with clearer eyes that he's able to understand what went wrong, and move on to the next stage of his life.
How to watch: (500) Days of Summer is available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Crazy, Stupid, Loveputs more than one of its characters through heartbreak, but its star-studded cast reminds you through swoonworthy smooches, grand romantic gestures, and one hilarious brawl that the rightone is worth fighting for. (Just try to ignore the outdated gender roles.)
How to watch: Crazy, Stupid, Loveis available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Anyone who's tried to remedy a broken heart with petty confrontations and ill-advised hookups will recognize themselves in Shirin (Desiree Akhavan, who also wrote and directed) and her halfhearted attempts to get her life back together after she's dumped by her girlfriend (Rebecca Henderson).
How to watch: Appropriate Behavior is streaming on Tubi and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Swingersknows that what every freshly dumped person needs is a friend who'll take you out on the town, look at you in your sorry state, and remind us that you're so money and you don't even know it. If that friend has the charisma of a young Vince Vaughn, all the better.
How to watch: Swingersis available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Here's a movie for those dark days when you find yourself wondering if love even exists, or if it's just a cruel joke designed to destroy peoples' lives. Clive Owen, Julia Roberts, Jude Law, and Natalie Portman play four people who can't stop cheating on each other, with bitter results.
How to watch:Closeris streaming on Netflix and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: Tracy Bennett / MGM / Kobal / Shutterstock Reese Witherspoon's Elle Woods is a role model for anyone smarting over an unappreciative ex. Just do what she does: Work your butt off to win him back, discover exactly how awesome you are in the process, and realize you never needed him in the first place. What, like it's hard?
How to watch: Legally Blondeis available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Breakups are never fun, but it can be a consolation to remember that sometimes, they're for the best. Just ask Robbie (Adam Sandler) and Julia (Drew Barrymore), both engaged to the wrong people at the start of The Wedding Singer, and both about to find out that their true loves are each other.
How to watch: The Wedding Singer is available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
SEE ALSO: 20 best romantic comedies to fall in love with on NetflixEr, spoilers: Breakup movie king Ryan Gosling makes his third appearance on this list as Sebastian, whose passionate relationship with Mia (Emma Stone, also in Crazy, Stupid, Love) falls apart over their divergent dreams, but leaves both of them changed for the better in the end.
How to watch: La La Land is streaming on Disney+ and Hulu and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: Moviestore / Shutterstock Most of the movie is about Elio (Timothée Chalamet) and Oliver (Armie Hammer) getting together, not splitting apart, but hanging over their entire romance is the poignant knowledge that it can't last forever. Put this one on when you're reflecting back on a brief but passionate affair.
How to watch: Call Me by Your Name is streaming on Netflix and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
An exaggerated battle of the sexes between two exes (Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston) gives way to a bittersweet dramedy about damage that can't be undone, even between two people who loved each other once and might still.
How to watch: The Break-Upis streaming on Hulu and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: C Barius / DC / Warner Bros / Kobal / Shutterstock It's not easy striking out alone after an explosive breakup— but Harley Quinn (Margot Robbie) serves as a reminder that all things are possible with a can-do attitude, some rad new friends, and a really, reallygood egg sandwich.
How to watch: Birds of Prey is streaming on Hulu and Max and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Oliver (Michael Douglas) and Barbara (Kathleen Turner) duke it out for the house in this acerbically funny divorce comedy, and along the way serve up a cautionary tale about taking that understandable impulse to "win" the breakup way, way, waytoo far.
How to watch: The War of the Rosesis available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
The thing about relationships is that even once they're over, they're still a part of the history you bring to your next romance, for better or for worse. That idea becomes literal for Scott (Michael Cera), who must battle his girlfriend's seven evil exeswhile dealing with a couple exes of his own.
How to watch: Scott Pilgrim vs. The Worldis streaming on Hulu and Max and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: A Band Apart / Miramax / Kobal / Shutterstock Kill Billis for when you're in a post-breakup rage so potent, nothing but (cinematic) violence and bloodshed will do. Vol. 1is the more action-packed of the two, to help you work out that anger, while Vol. 2goes deeper into the feels — albeit still with plenty of super cool kills.
How to watch: Kill Bill, Vol. 1is available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video. Kill Bill, Vol. 2is also available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Being single can suck, but being coupled isn't always what it's cracked up to be, either. In Force Majeure, awkward fissures form in a marriage after a man makes a questionable decision in a moment of crisis. (If you hate subtitles, Downhillis the less-good English-language remake.)
How to watch: Force Majeure is streaming on Hulu and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Perhaps the only thing more gratifying than watching a shitty ex get what's coming to him is watching threeshitty exes get what's coming to them, served up with a smirk by the powerhouse trio of Goldie Hawn, Bette Midler, and Diane Keaton.
How to watch: The First Wives Club is streaming on Hulu and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Credit: Warner Bros / Kobal / Shutterstock Magic Mike XXLis only kind of a breakup movie (Mike gets dumped very early in the film), but it does do a great job of celebrating one of the upsides of a breakup: the freedom to join your bros on an epic road trip of sexual pleasure and self-discovery.
How to watch: Magic Mike XXL is available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Spike Jonze's Heris probably best saved for that post-heartbreak period of self-reflection. Joaquin Phoenix plays an about-to-be-divorced man who starts dating what is essentially a more advanced Siri (Scarlett Johansson), but finds that his new relationship has complications, too.
How to watch: Heris streaming on Hulu and available to buy or rent on Apple TV and Prime Video.
Need someone to dump your partner so you can avoid a messy confrontation? Call on Jen and Mel (co-writers/co-directors/co-leads Jackie van Beek and Madeleine Sami). For a reasonable fee, these fearless Breaker Upperers will impersonate police officers, play pregnant, or even fake your death to help you ghost an ex. Whatever the shenanigans, van Beek and Sami sparkle. Booming with wild humor and big heart, this New Zealand comedy is guaranteed to leave you cackling.*— Kristy Puchko, Entertainment Editor
How to watch: The Breaker Upperers is streaming on Netflix.
(*) indicates the blurb appeared in a previous Mashable list.
UPDATE: Dec. 11, 2024, 5:00 p.m. EST This post was originally published on Feb. 9, 2023. It has been updated to reflect the current streaming options.
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