A breakup is the termination of a usually intimate relationship by any means other than death.

Break Up may also refer to:

Film

• Break Up (1965 film), also known as The Man with the Balloons, an Italian film directed by Marco Ferreri
• Ceremony of Disbanding, a 1967 Japanese yakuza film also known as The Breakup
• Break Up (1978 film), starring Tony Musante and Ornella Muti
• Break Up (1998 film), starring Bridget Fonda, Kiefer Sutherland, and Steven Weber
• The Break-Up, a 2006 film starring Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston
• The BreakUp, a 2021 American short film directed by Julie Deffet and Nick von Gremp

Television

• Break Up (TV program), starring Bernadette Peters and Carl Ballantine
• "The Break Up" (Glee), a television episode
• "The Break-Up" (Recess), a television episode

Music

• Break Up (album), by Pete Yorn and Scarlett Johansson
• Break Up, an EP by the Smoking Popes
• "Break Up" (song), by Mario
• "Break Up", a 1965 single by Del Shannon
• "Break Up", a 1972 song by The Nashville Teens
• Break Up, a 2022 song by girl group Citizen Queen (2022)
• "Break Up", a 2009 song by Lil Wayne
• "Break Ups", a 2012 song by Reks from Straight, No Chaser
• "Break Up", a 2022 song by Twocolors & Pascal Letoublon

Other

• Breakup, a synonym to "mud season", the time of year when ice and snow melt
• In aviation and spaceflight, a complete destruction or fragmentation of a moving vehicle as a result of mechanical malfunction, aerodynamic stress or other

See also

• Breaking Up (disambiguation)
• Ship breaking, the scrapping of old ships