Marriage Story's intimacy and honesty about love ending — but without the big theatrical scenes. Dissolution told in silences.

Amour
2012Haneke's most human film — two elderly people, and what devotion actually means

A Separation
2011A marriage, a secret, and a moral avalanche — Iranian cinema at its peak

45 Years
2015A week before a golden anniversary — one secret rewrites forty-five years

The Remains of the Day
1993Love repressed until it's too late — exquisitely painful Merchant Ivory

Never Let Me Go
2010Three people, a life predetermined, and love that can't change the ending
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