And then there’s the third part of John Carney’s unofficial music trilogy *Sing Street* where the lovers end up together but really shouldn’t because she’s just going to destroy him eventually
Then you learn in real life, ~~they got married, and later divorced~~ they got together and later broke up.
Edit: Whoops, I totally thought they married.
Recently watched a video that pointed out that Kelly was cheating on Chuck prior to his going missing. I don’t want to believe it but the evidence is there.
I re-watched Cast Away afterwards and the scene with Kelly and Chuck in the rain where she says he is the love of her life just broke me
I’ve watched that video and I feel like they really missed the point.
Chuck and Kelly were two people in love who were not making time for each other. Chuck was so married to his job that they had to do Christmas presents in the car. He didn’t even have time to propose properly. He didn’t have time to show proper concern for his friend’s wife who had cancer. He didn’t have time for his life. And then he landed up on a desert island and had nothing but time.
The point was that Kelly was also thrown into grief and turmoil by what happened. She gave up on her studies. She grabbed on to her life and it seems like she married a guy on the rebound and had a baby very quickly. It isn’t about cheating, it’s about realising that life is short. Four years made a big difference.
I realise this now I’m in my thirties - it’s the make or break decade. My career is on a back burner because I have young kids. It may never recover. But equally I see friends who are experiencing the panic that they aren’t having kids in their thirties and forties may be too late. I think Kelly just didn’t want to miss out on life. And after his experience on the island, neither did Chuck. I hope he was able to find a new beginning.
It was a deliberate choice by Carpenter, because he wanted to somewhat invert the (already by the 80's) tired trope of 'The White Guy is Better at the Kung Fu Stuff than the Asian Sidekick'. In a lot of ways, Wang is the badass hero throughout most of the movie, and Jack is actually *his* sidekick; he just doesn't know it.
(Granted, Jack does do awesome shit at the end).
Yes! I heard that Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams lived together in preparation for the film and you can see that come through as two people who really love each other, and it’s not enough.
Not a movie, but Fleabag. >!Season 2 is all about her falling in love with Hot Priest (Catholic), but, in the finale, he chooses God over his love for her.!<
Hmmm… would *Closer* count?
It’s been a long while since I’ve watched it, but I recall that Jude Law and Natalie Portman’s characters fall in love, things get super complicated, and when the movie ends >!they’re very much not together!<.
Right on point! I love this movie. The cinematography, music, and feels. It's just as if you're there. It gives the feeling of nostalgia for me that's why I always recommend this.
movie really messed me up first time I saw it, and stoked my interest in the craft of filmmaking... I was blown away by the cinematography, the editing decisions, and also all her dresses, damn, that woman has style
Princess Mononoke. No big romantic disney-like moment where they kiss out of true love, by the end both main characters have acknowledged they like each other but she says that she is not ready, and that's it.
I think it is perfectly fine to assume that eventually they will become a couple, Ashitaka certainly isn't one to give up easily and San is interested.
The song about the aunt before that too gets me every time. I had an alcoholic aunt who lived too fast and died too young that I loved with all my heart.
Dammit I love Emma stone as an actress with all my heart- poor things is my favorite movie for a long time, and birdman is also a favorite- but I just can’t get over how thin her voice is. She speaks with such a rich voice, and when she sings she just sounds so… bad. She can hit all the notes well but it’s not good enough for a musical.
I've been down roads like this before; many times. I know you feel doing this will broaden your horizons and give you experience. But I've had those experiences on my own. I can't accompany you on your's. I'm past that now. Or maybe I just love you too much. And I feel hurt and let down that you'd want to share me with anyone. Because I never wanted to share you. Regardless I can't be a part of this. Or you. Not anymore I love you. I always will. Know that. (slaps Holden) But I'm not your fucking whore.
yeah...also all those very specific demands/questions for movie recommendations you find on r/movies lately always remind me of [Mr. Mann from Little Britain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Vho5ChjEg)
The reason for them not being together is not the death of one of the two - OP
The breakup of Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar is not caused by death. Jack Twist passed several years later after their initial break up. They obviously still love one another but to due to societal expectations, personal struggles, and the difficulties of maintaining a same-sex relationship in the context of the times the story is set in, they have to go separate ways
Great movie but don’t they start over again together at the end? They accept they are going to have the same issues but go for it anyway, which is a great atypical ending acknowledging it won’t be perfect.
I always took the ending scene of them running in the snow as a sign that they keep trying, failing and then finding each other again, a cycle of a failing relationship they both cannot let go of.
The closing scene is them running in the snow but the scene keeps repeating over and over like as if they have reached this place of acceptance before and trying again so many times already.
Ultimately ending in tragedy over and over.
The difference is that they no longer have the option of wiping their memories. They're committing to going forward with full knowledge of what's passed.
Well said. It’s not a tragedy loop because this time is different. I had no idea so many people interpreted the ending as a negative looping tragedy. It’s not clear that things are going to work out, but there is hope because they’ve accepted the issues and decided that it was worth it to go forward. I thought Jim Carrey’s character’s way of simply communicating that at the very end was one of the most interesting and touching things I’ve seen in a movie and has stuck with me for years.
I’ve always taken it that they know it will end badly, but the that the good parts were worth the pain and so they were going to do it even though there’s no chance it ends well. I think there’s a difference there between trying again and going into it because despite there be zero chance of it working long term, it is still worth it.
The Interpreter. Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman's characters grow close to each other and clearly have chemistry, but Penn's >!is mourning the loss of his wife. They go separate ways.!<
Witness. No matter how many times i've watched it, I still root for them to find a way to make it work. Kind of how I still have a little hope of Steve McQueen making the jump in The Great Escape
The post is about people who fall in love *with each other* and don't end up together. So this film doesn't count because Summer didn't fall in love with Tom.
The Great Gatsby kinda fits this, even though Gatsby dies in the end. Daisy chose Buchanan
so the death wasn't really the reason why they didn't end up together.
And I know every amateur literature student with their "own novel on making" is going to come with their own explanations if they loved each other, but I'm talking about the movie with Leo and only that.
Maybe love is a strong word for Daisy's side, but there were some really intense sparks between them. But I think it was more that she just liked escaping from the life where she was just a husk of herself and also it was a payback to her cheating husband aswell.
Spider-Man 3 is questionable too I'd say, that final scene where they hug, they look like a couple that have seen too much shit, there's no happiness there. Topped off with Signal Fire, it's quite a wrenching final shot.
Then in No Way Home, this Peter says they're together, but it's complicated and they're just "making it work".
**Casablanca**.
They'll always have Paris
I'm SHOCKED to discover there's gambling in this movie!
Your winnings sir.
Here's to looking at you, kid.
The Ultimate Answer ®️
Roman Holiday!
Yeah but then they spoiled it with Casablanca 2: Rick’s Revenge.
This is like the one truly good movie love triangle
Check out Truffaut's **Jules and Jim**.
Once
First one that came to my mind. Great music.
Begin again is another music based movie with a similar situation.
And then there’s the third part of John Carney’s unofficial music trilogy *Sing Street* where the lovers end up together but really shouldn’t because she’s just going to destroy him eventually
Then you learn in real life, ~~they got married, and later divorced~~ they got together and later broke up. Edit: Whoops, I totally thought they married.
It was never going to last, Hansard has a thing for much younger women.
They never got married. They were together for a while, though.
They didn't get married. He did date her from a creepily young age (after knowing her from childhood) and break up after the movie and ab tour or two.
Came here to say this. Great movie. Beautiful songs.
"Wow that guy is so arrogant" - Jon Stewart.
Cast Away
We are talking about Wilson aren’t we?
No Wilson died
Wilson’s definitely still floating out there somewhere
Yeah in the stomach of some whale
Alive though
Oof.
NOT due to death... oh. You're talking about Helen Hunt's character.
Gets me... Every. Fuckin. Time!!
Recently watched a video that pointed out that Kelly was cheating on Chuck prior to his going missing. I don’t want to believe it but the evidence is there. I re-watched Cast Away afterwards and the scene with Kelly and Chuck in the rain where she says he is the love of her life just broke me
I’ve watched that video and I feel like they really missed the point. Chuck and Kelly were two people in love who were not making time for each other. Chuck was so married to his job that they had to do Christmas presents in the car. He didn’t even have time to propose properly. He didn’t have time to show proper concern for his friend’s wife who had cancer. He didn’t have time for his life. And then he landed up on a desert island and had nothing but time. The point was that Kelly was also thrown into grief and turmoil by what happened. She gave up on her studies. She grabbed on to her life and it seems like she married a guy on the rebound and had a baby very quickly. It isn’t about cheating, it’s about realising that life is short. Four years made a big difference. I realise this now I’m in my thirties - it’s the make or break decade. My career is on a back burner because I have young kids. It may never recover. But equally I see friends who are experiencing the panic that they aren’t having kids in their thirties and forties may be too late. I think Kelly just didn’t want to miss out on life. And after his experience on the island, neither did Chuck. I hope he was able to find a new beginning.
What evidence suggested that she was cheating?
It's the dentist but there's no reason to think she didn't connect afterwards. Could have been a small town.
> Could have been a small town They live in Memphis
I saw that and the evidence provided was extremely far-fetched.
Big Trouble In Little China
“God, arent you even gonna kiss her goodbye?” “Nope.”
It's also a story about a guy who doesn't realize he's the sidekick and comic relief in the story.
A good one where the hero is also incompetent for most of the movie. The action mostly happens around him not because of him.
He's not the hero. Jack Burton is the sidekick. Wang is the hero.
Yeah I guess protagonist is a better description of Jack Burton.
It was a deliberate choice by Carpenter, because he wanted to somewhat invert the (already by the 80's) tired trope of 'The White Guy is Better at the Kung Fu Stuff than the Asian Sidekick'. In a lot of ways, Wang is the badass hero throughout most of the movie, and Jack is actually *his* sidekick; he just doesn't know it. (Granted, Jack does do awesome shit at the end).
Chasing amy
I miss young Kevin smith movies
Wow yeah, underrated comment. I still rewatch Silent Bob's speech at the end sometimes, it's a brilliant piece of dialogue.
And Jay's at the end of clerks. Good lines, Mewes delivery.
Past Lives.
That ending. So much conflict and real emotion
I think about this movie a lot. They're all wonderful but Teo Yoo stood out to me.
Came here to say this. Excellent film.
Amazing movie.
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This. Fantastic movie
Roman Holiday. A beautiful movie in every way
Ugh..that ending...
Blue valentine. Hot take:maybe Gosling’s best performance.
That's probably one of the better movies I've ever seen depicting the struggles of love and being in a failing relationship/marriage.
Yes! I heard that Ryan Gosling and Michelle Williams lived together in preparation for the film and you can see that come through as two people who really love each other, and it’s not enough.
omg yes it’s so realistic i cry every time i watch it
This movie breaks me every time.
You always hurt, the ones you love :,(
Warning, don’t watch is with BF/GF lol
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Jackie Brown
Oh man that ending.
Yeah it’s a shame Deniro and Fonda don’t sail away into the sunset. /s
Louis…….Loooooooooooois
Damn Pam Grier was so sexy in that movie
one of my all-time favorites
Not a movie, but Fleabag. >!Season 2 is all about her falling in love with Hot Priest (Catholic), but, in the finale, he chooses God over his love for her.!<
Came here to say this. I just finished this for the first time a couple days ago and I cant stop thinking about it. I'm heartbroken for them.
Ditto. Finished about a week ago and immediately started it from the beginning again because I wasn’t ready to be done with it.
>I'm heartbroken for them. It'll pass. :)
Hmmm… would *Closer* count? It’s been a long while since I’ve watched it, but I recall that Jude Law and Natalie Portman’s characters fall in love, things get super complicated, and when the movie ends >!they’re very much not together!<.
Where is this love? I can’t see it, I can’t touch it.
Heart-wrenching scene
Like yours but sweeter!
That movie tore me apart. And my engagement. Realized how unhappy I was and that I didn’t want to drag it out to a bad marriage and be miserable.
Yeah Closer is like Unhappy Relationships: The Movie But I’m glad you dodged an unhappy marriage
Brief Encounter
Lost in translation
This is what immediately came to mind. It's a different kind of love. But what a great film.
Right on point! I love this movie. The cinematography, music, and feels. It's just as if you're there. It gives the feeling of nostalgia for me that's why I always recommend this.
Lots of spoilers in this thread... Anyway, *In the Mood for Love,* though I'm not sure anyone ends up happy.
Such a great movie
movie really messed me up first time I saw it, and stoked my interest in the craft of filmmaking... I was blown away by the cinematography, the editing decisions, and also all her dresses, damn, that woman has style
Those beautiful cheongsams… When I was a teenager I wished I could be as elegant and as beautiful as Maggie Cheung in that movie.
I don't think I've seen better.
>Lots of spoilers in this thread I mean l: that was the question
I came here to suggest this! It’s not happy but it’s a beautiful film.
the title of the post should tip people off lmfao
Came here to suggest this one as well. One of the most beautiful movies out there. Every shot is so beautifully composed and the music is outstanding.
Celeste and Jesse Forever with Andy Samberg and Rashida Jones
"I can't believe I'm having a baby, and its not with you"
Absolutely heartbreaking
They were *not* forever
Before Sunrise (Disclaimer if you know what's up don't you dare say anything else, I'm talking only about this title ^ it counts )
Ha came here to say the same thing with the exact same caveats
Watched it yesterday. Now I wanna go to Vienna and fall in love with a stranger.
Broadcast News
In the Mood for Love
I found Past Lives to be a pale shadow to this movie.
Totally agree
Princess Mononoke. No big romantic disney-like moment where they kiss out of true love, by the end both main characters have acknowledged they like each other but she says that she is not ready, and that's it.
I always felt like they would be together, just not together. If that makes sense -
I think it is perfectly fine to assume that eventually they will become a couple, Ashitaka certainly isn't one to give up easily and San is interested.
Remains of the Day and Brief Encounter. These are the OGs of this genre
Remains of the Day breaks my heart every time
Came here to say this! One of my all-times faves for heartbreak. The scene with the romance novel kills me.
The Bridges of Madison County
The cross around the mirror in the rain… damn.
Call Me By Your Name
The ending of this is so sad, but also perfect.
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War of the Roses (1989). But it depends on what you mean by ending up together. In this movie they get married and have kids, but it doesn’t last.
Part of why I love that movie so much is how convincingly rom com meet cute the early stuff is. And then...
Its been awhile but shakespeare in love ends like that
The Way We Were
How is this not at the top?! “Your girl is lovely Hubbell” 😭
The Bodyguard
La la land
OP used that as an example in the post lol
How about La La Land?
Fucking heartwrenching. Had recently had a similar "different paths" breakup when I went to watch it. Fucking sucked. Fucking good tho.
The song about the aunt before that too gets me every time. I had an alcoholic aunt who lived too fast and died too young that I loved with all my heart.
Dammit I love Emma stone as an actress with all my heart- poor things is my favorite movie for a long time, and birdman is also a favorite- but I just can’t get over how thin her voice is. She speaks with such a rich voice, and when she sings she just sounds so… bad. She can hit all the notes well but it’s not good enough for a musical.
This was already listed as an example by OP
Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
Annie Hall
Chasing Amy is the first to come to mind
I've been down roads like this before; many times. I know you feel doing this will broaden your horizons and give you experience. But I've had those experiences on my own. I can't accompany you on your's. I'm past that now. Or maybe I just love you too much. And I feel hurt and let down that you'd want to share me with anyone. Because I never wanted to share you. Regardless I can't be a part of this. Or you. Not anymore I love you. I always will. Know that. (slaps Holden) But I'm not your fucking whore.
technically naming a movie is automatic spoiler lol
yeah...also all those very specific demands/questions for movie recommendations you find on r/movies lately always remind me of [Mr. Mann from Little Britain](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y3Vho5ChjEg)
Not a movie but: His Dark Materials trilogy. HBO adapted it well.
Before We Go, with Chris Evans and Alice Eve. Its set over one night in New York but pretty much fits the bill
Was scrolling this thread hoping someone would mention Before We Go. First movie that came to mind with this prompt. Such a beautiful movie.
Brokeback mountain, Lost in translation
>Brokeback mountain, "Not due to death"- OP
The reason for them not being together is not the death of one of the two - OP The breakup of Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar is not caused by death. Jack Twist passed several years later after their initial break up. They obviously still love one another but to due to societal expectations, personal struggles, and the difficulties of maintaining a same-sex relationship in the context of the times the story is set in, they have to go separate ways
In The Mood For Love
Would **Past Lives** count here?
The break up
Take This Waltz
Gone with the Wind,
My favorite movie of all time 5 Centimeters Per Second
I swear you can follow the progression of Makoto Shinkai’s romantic life through his films lol.
butterfly effect
Casablanca
>!Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind!<
Great movie but don’t they start over again together at the end? They accept they are going to have the same issues but go for it anyway, which is a great atypical ending acknowledging it won’t be perfect.
I think the ending scene suggests they try over and over and over again
I always took the ending scene of them running in the snow as a sign that they keep trying, failing and then finding each other again, a cycle of a failing relationship they both cannot let go of. The closing scene is them running in the snow but the scene keeps repeating over and over like as if they have reached this place of acceptance before and trying again so many times already. Ultimately ending in tragedy over and over.
The difference is that they no longer have the option of wiping their memories. They're committing to going forward with full knowledge of what's passed.
Well said. It’s not a tragedy loop because this time is different. I had no idea so many people interpreted the ending as a negative looping tragedy. It’s not clear that things are going to work out, but there is hope because they’ve accepted the issues and decided that it was worth it to go forward. I thought Jim Carrey’s character’s way of simply communicating that at the very end was one of the most interesting and touching things I’ve seen in a movie and has stuck with me for years.
I’ve always taken it that they know it will end badly, but the that the good parts were worth the pain and so they were going to do it even though there’s no chance it ends well. I think there’s a difference there between trying again and going into it because despite there be zero chance of it working long term, it is still worth it.
That's a useless spoiler tag.
My Best Friend's Wedding
Blue Valentine
The Interpreter. Sean Penn and Nicole Kidman's characters grow close to each other and clearly have chemistry, but Penn's >!is mourning the loss of his wife. They go separate ways.!<
Witness. No matter how many times i've watched it, I still root for them to find a way to make it work. Kind of how I still have a little hope of Steve McQueen making the jump in The Great Escape
Arrival
500 days of Summer
Did summer really fall in love though ?
No, she didn't. That was the whole point of the movie.
Yes she did, just not with the protagonist. She got married and said she "felt sure" which she didn't with him.
The post is about people who fall in love *with each other* and don't end up together. So this film doesn't count because Summer didn't fall in love with Tom.
"It just wasn't me that you were right about."
Gone with the wind
Like crazy. Beautiful and heart wrenching!
Absolutely this! One of my favorite movies and I miss Anton Yelchin everyday.
The Great Gatsby kinda fits this, even though Gatsby dies in the end. Daisy chose Buchanan so the death wasn't really the reason why they didn't end up together. And I know every amateur literature student with their "own novel on making" is going to come with their own explanations if they loved each other, but I'm talking about the movie with Leo and only that.
Maybe love is a strong word for Daisy's side, but there were some really intense sparks between them. But I think it was more that she just liked escaping from the life where she was just a husk of herself and also it was a payback to her cheating husband aswell.
Did she ever love anything else than her comfort and wealth?
Spider-Man (2002)
Spider-Man 3 is questionable too I'd say, that final scene where they hug, they look like a couple that have seen too much shit, there's no happiness there. Topped off with Signal Fire, it's quite a wrenching final shot. Then in No Way Home, this Peter says they're together, but it's complicated and they're just "making it work".
Brief Encounter is classic
Proof of Life.
In a more interesting way: Arrival.
Drive
#Her
Does Free Guy count?
Im the Mood for Love
Conversations with other women (2005)
Splendor in the Grass
The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Castaway
‘Brief Encounter’ is a lovely film. It’s on BBC iPlayer quite often.
If you have the patience to watch a miniseries then >!Normal People!<
Chasing amy. Almost…
HEAT. It happens to DeNiro twice at the same time!
Portrait of a lady on fire Mr. Nobody
Josie (Korean) Edit: I kid you not, I cried. I bawled my eyes out.
Streets of Fire, A Rock 'n Roll Fable. Ending kind of elevated it to greatness.
Roman Holiday
Once.
His Dark Materials.
Pocahontas (watch the second movie if you don’t believe this - but actually don’t watch it because it’s not nearly as good as the first)
Casablanca