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Love Letters (1945)
7.1/10on IMDb
Released
(1945) Alan writes to Victoria during the war on behalf of another soldier. The letters make the reader fall for a voice whose real owner she doesn’t know. Jennifer Jones and Joseph Cotten give this fairly dark melodrama the feeling of a second chance fighting its way through a mystery.
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Love Letters (1983)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
(1983) A young woman discovers private correspondence after her mother’s death. Learning what the letters meant makes her look at her own relationship differently. Take this for a sadder, more adult story about discovering that someone you knew had a life you never saw.
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Love Letters (1999)
6.8/10on IMDb
Released
In Stanley Donen’s 1999 adaptation of A. R. Gurney’s play, Andy and Melissa begin writing to each other in childhood. Decades of notes and letters carry them through other relationships and turn missed chances into a love story that unfolds one exchange at a time.
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Secret Admirer (1985)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
An anonymous letter starts making the rounds and several people come away with different ideas about who sent it. The younger characters have to sort out their feelings while the adults make their own bad guesses. This is for a farcical evening with the sentimental payoff of a letter finally getting where it belongs.
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Daddy Long Legs (1955)
6.7/10on IMDb
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A benefactor pays for Julie’s education under an arrangement that has her write letters to someone whose name she doesn’t know. Waiting for a reply and wondering how much he knows about her pull against the showier dance numbers. This version stars Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire.
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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)
6.1/10on IMDb
Released
One of Lara Jean’s old love letters brings John Ambrose back into her life just as her relationship with Peter is beginning. The emotional question is whether the person she once wrote about still has a place in her life. Watch the first film before this one.
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Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)
7.8/10on IMDb
Released
A pianist planning to leave town receives a long letter from a woman he barely remembers. The film follows what she remembers instead, which makes their encounters mean something very different. Choose it for one-sided love and aching hindsight rather than a promise of reunion.
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My Sassy Girl (2001)
7.9/10on IMDb
Released
A young couple gives letters they write to each other a deadline and buries them together. The much louder comedy leading up to that decision gives way to a film about what people hope will change while they’re apart. Choose the Korean original for a romance that can pivot from a joke to a long wait.
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A Letter From Mars (2003)
5.8/10on IMDb
Released
When they’re young, Seung-jae writes to So-hee as if he were her absent father, sending letters from Mars. He becomes the village postman while she makes a life in the city. Pick it for a romance where the same written fiction feels different once both people have grown up.
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The Love Letter (2021)
Released
(2021) Jonas spends much of a day in a café writing to an old lover after she turns him away. As the letter grows, other people come and go and his version of their history starts to look less settled. This French film offers a wryer take on what writing to someone can do when the relationship is over.
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Persuasion (1995)
7.6/10on IMDb
Released
Anne and Wentworth were separated years before they meet again, and propriety keeps most of what they think out of conversation. A letter gives him a chance to speak plainly. Amanda Root and Ciarán Hinds make the quieter moments before it echo the patience of The Notebook.
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Pride & Prejudice (2005)
7.8/10on IMDb
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Darcy puts his explanations on paper after a conversation with Elizabeth goes badly. She has to decide what to believe about him without the person in front of her to argue with. Choose this for the moment a private letter starts changing a romance that once seemed impossible.
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The Half of It (2020)
6.9/10on IMDb
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Ellie agrees to write to Aster for someone else and ends up saying things she can’t say in her own name. Like the Cyrano adaptations, the film asks whose voice the reader is falling for. It is also a funny, tender account of the friendship that makes the arrangement possible.
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Last Letter (2020)
6.9/10on IMDb
Released
(2020) At a reunion Yuri is mistaken for her sister Misaki and begins writing to the man her sister once loved. Shunji Iwai uses the correspondence to ask what family members know about each other’s first loves. Choose the Japanese film with Takako Matsu for the stillness of the letters and memories.
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Last Letter (2018)
6.5/10on IMDb
Released
(2018) Shunji Iwai first made this version in China. Letters begin after a woman is mistaken for her older sister at a reunion, and the correspondence makes it hard to keep old regrets from reaching the younger generation. This version stars Zhou Xun and offers another setting for the same setup.
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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)
6.4/10on IMDb
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Florentino courts Fermina with letters while her father tries to keep them apart. Their youthful correspondence sets up a story that keeps returning to the gap between what someone promises in writing and the life the other person goes on to live. Pick it for a lush, decades-long melodrama.
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White Valentine (1999)
5.9/10on IMDb
Released
Jung-min once wrote to a young soldier while pretending to be a teacher. Years later, one of his letters to a woman he lost arrives by pigeon. Choose this quiet Korean romance for the way it lets a youthful deception and a grown-up grief overlap.
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