Films for a breakup
Not the obvious ones (Eternal Sunshine, 500 Days). Films that sit with grief without dramatising it — quiet, accurate, occasionally funny. The films that helped someone we know.
Seven Samurai
foreign gemepicslow burn
Once Upon a Time in America
bittersweetepicslow burn
A Silent Voice: The Movie
foreign gembittersweetoutsider
The Pianist
gut punchrawslow burn
Rear Window
paranoidslow burn
Sunset Boulevard
bittersweetdreadslow burn
Once Upon a Time in the West
foreign gembittersweetepic
The Handmaiden
foreign gemmindfucksexy
Alien
body horrordreadslow burn
The Seventh Seal
foreign gemcerebraldread
Vertigo
paranoidslow burn
Full Metal Jacket
paranoidrawslow burn
Incendies
foreign gemgut punchslow burn
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
foreign gembittersweetsexy
Memories of Murder
foreign gemdreadraw
The Elephant Man
bittersweetgut punchslow burn
Requiem for a Dream
dreadgut punchraw
Lawrence of Arabia
epicslow burn
Room
gut punchoutsiderslow burn
The Deer Hunter
epicgut punchraw
Society of the Snow
foreign gemgut punchraw
Rope
cerebralparanoidslow burn
Coraline
bittersweetslow burnsurreal
Chinatown
cerebralparanoidslow burn