Back to trending
The Broken Hearts Gallery

The Broken Hearts Gallery

Comedy · Romance · 2020

Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and comes up with a lovely, artistic way to help herself and others who have suffered heartbreak.

Movie details

The Broken Hearts Gallery

“There's an art to letting go.”

2020 Comedy · Romance 1h 49m

Critical arithmetic

One number, for now.

TMDB

7.1 / 10

Community rating

Lucy is a young gallery assistant who collects mementos from her relationships. She discovers that she must let go of her past to move forward, and comes up with a lovely, artistic way to help herself and others who have suffered heartbreak.

CriticWise case file

What this film says about your taste.

Not a recommendation score. A measure of how closely the film’s taste signals resemble yours.

The archetype split

Who fights over The Broken Hearts Gallery?

The split comes from the same five-axis model used by the test, not audience ratings or review sentiment.

Taste neighbourhood

Nearby on the taste map.

TMDB supplies the candidates. CriticWise reorders them by craft, strangeness, prestige, emotion, and pace.

Under the Tuscan Sun

Under the Tuscan Sun

Romance · 2003

Frances Mayes, a 35-year-old professor and writer from San Francisco, decides to take a tour of Tuscany following a difficult divorce. After impulsively buying a run-down villa in the Italian countryside, she begins to piece her life back together in unexpected ways.

Set It Up

Set It Up

Romance · 2018

Two overworked and underpaid assistants come up with a plan to get their bosses off their backs by setting them up with each other.

Little Italy

Little Italy

Comedy · 2018

Former childhood pals Leo and Nikki are attracted to each other as adults—but will their feuding parents' rival pizzerias put a chill on their sizzling romance?

The Purple Rose of Cairo

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Fantasy · 1985

Cecilia is a waitress in New Jersey, living a dreary life during the Great Depression. Her only escape from her mundane reality is the movie theatre. After losing her job, Cecilia goes to see 'The Purple Rose of Cairo' in hopes of raising her spirits, where she watches dashing archaeologist Tom Baxter time and again.

The Rebound

The Rebound

Romance · 2009

Upon discovering her husband's infidelity, Sandy leaves the suburbs and moves into the city. There, she befriends Aram, a guy whose wife only married him so she could get a green card. Sandy hires Aram to be her nanny, and it isn't long until Aram and Sandy find out they get along wonderfully and start to date. But is their relationship real or is it, in fact, just a rebound for both of them?

Everyone Says I Love You

Everyone Says I Love You

Comedy · 1996

A New York girl sets her father up with a beautiful woman in a shaky marriage while her half sister gets engaged.

Your Place or Mine

Your Place or Mine

Romance · 2023

When best friends and total opposites Debbie and Peter swap homes for a week, they get a peek into each other's lives that could open the door to love.

The Lonely Guy

The Lonely Guy

Comedy · 1984

A writer for a greeting card company learns the true meaning of loneliness when he comes home to find his girlfriend in bed with another man.

The Other Woman

The Other Woman

Comedy · 2014

After discovering her boyfriend is married, Carly soon meets the wife he's been cheating on. And when yet another affair is discovered, all three women team up to plot mutual revenge on the three-timing SOB.

Addicted to Love

Addicted to Love

Comedy · 1997

Good-natured astronomer Sam is devastated when the love of his life leaves him for a suave Frenchman. He therefore does what every other normal dumpee would do — go to New York and set up home in the abandoned building opposite his ex-girlfriend's apartment, wait until she decides to leave her current lover, and then win her back.

Where it lives

Watch in your region.

Cinema release signals and current streaming, rental, and purchase options for your region.

Streaming availability data supplied by JustWatch.

Names above the title

The people responsible.

Directed by

Natalie Krinsky

Written by

Natalie Krinsky

Geraldine Viswanathan

Geraldine Viswanathan

Lucy Gulliver

Dacre Montgomery

Dacre Montgomery

Nick

Utkarsh Ambudkar

Utkarsh Ambudkar

Max Vora

Molly Gordon

Molly Gordon

Amanda

Phillipa Soo

Phillipa Soo

Nadine

Arturo Castro

Arturo Castro

Marcos

Suki Waterhouse

Suki Waterhouse

Chloe

Court is in session

Put The Broken Hearts Gallery on trial.

Two incompatible taste archetypes. One film. Read the arguments, then issue a completely binding cultural ruling.

The defence The Sentimental Softie

“Sincerity is not manipulation.”

The film risks embarrassment to make emotion communal, and that openness is harder than fashionable detachment.

The prosecution The Cool Ironist

“The strings are showing.”

Every cue tells you exactly what to feel and when, leaving sentiment to do the work character should have done.