Your Heart Will Be Broken
A bullied Russian schoolgirl enters a risky fake-dating pact with her tormentor, only to find protection and affection entangled with control.
Ember's analysis
- Pacing
- Brisk
- Intensity
- Strong
- Complexity
- Easy to follow
- Violence
- Mild
- emotionally heightened
- wistful
- tense
- teen movie night
- romance movie night
What sets it apart
May contain story progression spoilers
Polina and Bars agree that he will pretend to be her boyfriend as part of their protective arrangement.
Bars offers to protect Polina from bullying while requiring her to do everything he says.
The central conflict begins with Polina's arrival at a new school and her exposure to bullying and its social power structures.
Polina's deal with the school's main bully gradually develops into a romantic bond during their pretend relationship.
Films like Your Heart Will Be Broken, and why
The DUFF
teen romance centered on bullying, social hierarchy, and a staged relationship that develops into genuine feelings
To All the Boys I've Loved Before
young-adult romance using a fake-dating arrangement, school popularity politics, and opposites-attract chemistry
After
emotionally heightened high-school romance shaped by a troubled male lead, protective behavior, and difficult social dynamics
My Fault
teen romantic drama involving an initially hostile relationship, school conflict, and an emotionally volatile couple
Movie Details
- Director
- Mikhail Vaynberg
- Release Date
- 2026-03-26
- Runtime
- 134 min
- Rating
- 7.1 / 10 (124)
Cast
- Daniel Vegas
- Veronika Zhuravleva
- Ivan Trushin
- Maksim Saprykin
- Alya Mayer
- Evgeniya Loza
- Pavel Kuzmin
- Alexandra Tikhonova
- Margarita Dyachenkova
- Anton Solomatin
Common questions
- What is Your Heart Will Be Broken about?
- A bullied Russian schoolgirl enters a risky fake-dating pact with her tormentor, only to find protection and affection entangled with control.
- What is Your Heart Will Be Broken like to watch?
- Ember's analysis rates the pacing of Your Heart Will Be Broken as brisk, its intensity as strong and its storytelling as easy to follow.
- Is Your Heart Will Be Broken violent?
- Only mildly. Ember rates the violence in Your Heart Will Be Broken as mild.
- Which films are like Your Heart Will Be Broken?
- Films with a similar feel include The DUFF, To All the Boys I've Loved Before, After, and My Fault.
- How long is Your Heart Will Be Broken?
- Your Heart Will Be Broken runs 134 minutes.
