9. Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Tom Hansen, 500 Days of Summer (2009)

Tom (Joseph Gordon-Levitt) isn’t the quintessential hipster that you might see if you spend about, say, 10 seconds in Brooklyn, but that doesn’t make him any less of one. He’s just more subtle about it.

See, Tom grew up listening to hipster music, so as an adult he's left with this exaggerated, romanticized view on love. He subscribes to the belief that he will never be truly happy unless he finds someone to love as fiercely as Morrissey did when he wrote the lyrics “to die by your side is such a heavenly way to die.” So deep!

When he meets Summer (Zooey Deschanel) and she is able to identify that very Smiths song he’s listening to on his (of course) old-school headphones, it’s, in his eyes, love at first sight. Tom believes that just because Summer is a hot girl who shares his pretentious tastes in music, films, books, and art in a city like Los Angeles—with its endless amount of bottle blondes who think that Flo Rida is quality music—she’s his soulmate. As a normal, healthy relationship seems sub-standard to him, he expects a grand love story to follow, and feels betrayed when it doesn’t.

The audience is then subjected to about an hour of Tom remembering the good and the bad of his relationship with Summer before he finally realizes, at end of the film, that shared interests aren’t enough to build a foundation upon. Then, just when you think he’s made a breakthrough, Tom meets a girl named Autumn (Minka Kelly) who shares his love of architecture, and you can almost see the hearts appear behind his kind, sensitive eyes. Thankfully, the film ends before he gets the chance to ask her if they can compare record collections.