9 BEAUTIFUL FILMS THAT YOU NEED TO WATCH AT DIFFERENT STAGES OF LOVE IN YOUR LIFE

IJAAZAT, directed by Gulzar

When you need to find the strength to confront an old lover with grace, or to remind yourself that the time you spent with another person may have come to an end, but it lingers forever in the form of things, memories and scratches on the heart.

PATERSON, directed by Jim Jarmusch

When you find yourself thinking about your partner even in your own time, your heart filled with the desire to give them so much love that you write poems about them in your head not to express your feelings to them (you do that enough already), but just to yourself.

FALLEN ANGELS, directed by Wong Kar-wai

When you fall in love with someone who doesn't love you back. When you need to hear that you aren't alone, and many others like you are possibly experiencing the same misery in love.

ON THE BEACH AT NIGHT ALONE, directed by Hong Sang-soo

When you feel lonely in love. When the person you love makes you feel deserted, especially at a time when you need them the most.

ANTOINE AND COLETTE, directed by Francois Truffaut

When you need to remind yourself that sometimes even the most intense of connections are better realised as friendships rather than romance. When you need the courage to accept a heartbreak.

MOONLIGHT, directed by Barry Jenkins

When you find love when you were least expecting it. When you find love in a friend, in the only person you trust the most in the world. And when you find the kind of love that you know could never be replaced.

PUNCH DRUNK LOVE, directed by Paul Thomas Anderson

When you finally find the kind of love that fills your life with joy. The kind of love that makes you feel strong at your most vulnerable, confident at your most insecure, loved at your most lonely and safe at your most fearful.

SUMMER WITH MONIKA, directed by Ingmar Bergman

When you have a passionate affair with someone whom you feel absolutely consumed with, and you find yourself letting them create turbulence in your life. When romance is marked by bruises from the past, & the bruises need healing before you let that romance bloom. (yeah that was probably a little too specific)

BEFORE MIDNIGHT, directed by Richard Linklater

When the love begins to feel increasingly difficult, and you need to remind yourself that love is not about a dreamy 'happily ever after' but it's a choice - whether or not you want to make an effort for this one particular person every time doing that feels like the most difficult thing in the world.