Unhappily Ever After: Films Where the Lovers Don't End Up Together

By: Danny Bailey

(not on MUBI)
In Search of Gregory
Rowdyman

• 01
  Casablanca
  Michael Curtiz
• 02
  Gone with the Wind
  Victor Fleming
• 03
  Titanic
  James Cameron
• 04
  The Unbearable Lightness of Being
  Philip Kaufman
• 05
  The Heiress
  William Wyler
• 06
  Annie Hall
  Woody Allen
• 07
  Angels in America
  Mike Nichols
• 08
  Doctor Zhivago
  David Lean
• 09
  The Go-Between
  Joseph Losey
• 10
  Butley
  Harold Pinter
• 11
  Camille Claudel
  Bruno Nuytten
• 12
  An Education
  Lone Scherfig
• 13
  Carrington
  Christopher Hampton
• 14
  The Blue Angel
  Josef von Sternberg
• 15
  Days of Wine and Roses
  Blake Edwards
• 16
  Dark Victory
  Edmund Goulding
• 17
  Harold and Maude
  Hal Ashby
• 18
  Jezebel
  William Wyler
• 19
  Sons and Lovers
  Jack Cardiff
• 20
  Imitation of Life
  John M. Stahl
• 21
  The Verdict
  Sidney Lumet
• 22
  A Star Is Born
  George Cukor
• 23
  Brief Encounter
  David Lean
• 24
  Naked
  Mike Leigh
• 25
  Cabaret
  Bob Fosse
• 26
  Bonnie and Clyde
  Arthur Penn
• 27
  Sweet November
  Robert Ellis Miller
• 28
  Shadowlands
  Richard Attenborough
• 29
  Goodbye Again
  Anatole Litvak
• 30
  Cyrano de Bergerac
  Michael Gordon
• 31
  Diary of a Chambermaid
  Luis Buñuel
• 32
  Romeo and Juliet
  Franco Zeffirelli
• 33
  The Red Shoes
  Michael Powell
• 34
  Portrait of Jennie
  William Dieterle
• 35
  Accident
  Joseph Losey
• 36
  The Age of Innocence
  Martin Scorsese
• 37
  Now, Voyager
  Irving Rapper
• 38
  Solaris
  Andrei Tarkovsky
• 39
  Shame
  Ingmar Bergman
• 40
  The Story of Adele H.
  François Truffaut
• 41
  The Picture of Dorian Gray
  Albert Lewin
• 42
  L'amour fou
  Jacques Rivette
• 43
  The Ruling Class
  Peter Medak
• 44
  Darling
  John Schlesinger
• 45
  The Man Who Fell to Earth
  Nicolas Roeg
• 46
  The Great White Hope
  Martin Ritt
• 47
  The Heart of Me
  Thaddeus O'Sullivan
• 48
  (500) Days of Summer
  Marc Webb
• 49
  A Face in the Crowd
  Elia Kazan
• 50
  A Taste of Honey
  Tony Richardson
• 51
  Nights of Cabiria
  Federico Fellini
• 52
  The Earrings of Madame de...
  Max Ophüls
• 53
  A Serious Man
  Ethan Coen
• 54
  The Killing of Sister George
  Robert Aldrich
• 55
  Gumshoe
  Stephen Frears
• 56
  Husbands and Wives
  Woody Allen
• 57
  Lilith
  Robert Rossen
• 58
  The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  Stephen Hopkins
• 59
  Girl with Green Eyes
  Desmond Davis
• 60
  Camille
  George Cukor
• 61
  Georgy Girl
  Silvio Narizzano
• 62
  Love and Death on Long Island
  Richard Kwietniowski
• 63
  Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
  Tim Burton
• 64
  The English Patient
  Anthony Minghella
• 65
  West Side Story
  Jerome Robbins
• 66
  Moulin Rouge!
  Baz Luhrmann
• 67
  Ghost World
  Terry Zwigoff
• 68
  The Purple Rose of Cairo
  Woody Allen
• 69
  Crimes and Misdemeanors
  Woody Allen
• 70
  Lord Love a Duck
  George Axelrod
• 71
  A Patch of Blue
  Guy Green
• 72
  Educating Rita
  Lewis Gilbert
• 73
  Atonement
  Joe Wright
• 74
  Deep End
  Jerzy Skolimowski
• 75
  Breaking the Waves
  Lars von Trier
• 76
  Quadrophenia
  Franc Roddam
• 77
  Damage
  Louis Malle
• 78
  Boys Don't Cry
  Kimberly Peirce
• 79
  Revolutionary Road
  Sam Mendes
• 80
  The Captain's Paradise
  Anthony Kimmins
• 81
  Quills
  Philip Kaufman
• 82
  The Long Good Friday
  John Mackenzie
• 83
  Billy Liar
  John Schlesinger
• 84
  The End of the Affair
  Neil Jordan
• 85
  Venus
  Roger Michell
• 86
  Wuthering Heights
  William Wyler
• 87
  The Dreamers
  Bernardo Bertolucci
• 88
  Jules and Jim
  François Truffaut
• 89
  Elmer Gantry
  Richard Brooks
• 90
  Bright Star
  Jane Campion
• 91
  Alfie
  Lewis Gilbert
• 92
  Barry Lyndon
  Stanley Kubrick
• 93
  Breathless
  Jean-Luc Godard
• 94
  Vertigo
  Alfred Hitchcock
• 95
  The Maltese Falcon
  John Huston