84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

The purest book lover's movie ever made, and almost nothing happens in it. Anne Bancroft plays Helene Hanff, a New York writer who orders secondhand books by post from a London shop, and Anthony Hopkins is Frank Doel, the bookseller who answers her letters across two decades. The pleasure is in the correspondence itself: her impatient wit, his courteous reserve, and the parcels of old editions crossing the Atlantic. Anyone who has ever fallen a little in love with a bookstore will recognize the feeling. Judi Dench is quietly excellent as Frank's wife.