When it came out in 2019, Noah Baumbach’s Marriage Story joined a long line of movies about divorce that made separation—or, at least, the fallout from falling out of love—their focus. As divorce rates rose in the 1970s and 1980s, the global film industry reacted in kind, trading simpering visions of domesticity for lively portraits of familial distress. All of the above movies about divorce help to round out our list of the most moving, carefully observed, and darkly funny films about separation ever made. Read on for the rest of our picks. Over the 90 days that it takes for their split to be finalised, both Warriners become involved with other people, but by the film’s end, the pair must face up to the “awful truth” about their feelings for one another.