Poll: Movies About Letters

Results of 160 votes:

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   Zodiac (2007)

    

   The Zodiac killer sends letters to different San Francisco newspapers, containing ciphers that must be solved.
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   You've Got Mail (1998)

    

   Joe and Kathleen fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business. (Remake of 'The Shop Around the Corner')
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   1917 (2019)

    

   On April 6, 1917, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.
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   The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

    

   Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
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   The Postman (1994)

    

   A simple Italian postman befriends a famous poet after he is hired to deliver mail to him.
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   Letters from Iwo Jima (2006)

    

   In 1945, Japanese soldiers' private letters are buried and found 60 years later by archaeologists.
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   Le Corbeau (1943)

    

   A French village doctor becomes the target of poison-pen letters sent to village leaders, accusing him of affairs and practicing abortion.
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   The Notebook (2004)

    

   As they are forced apart, Noah and Allie write letters to each other for a year, which are sadly never read.
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   Mary and Max (2009)

    

   In 1976 Melbourne, a lonely 8-year-old girl strikes up a correspondence with an unlikely pen pal: a severely obese 44-year-old New Yorker with Asperger's syndrome.
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    Only Angels Have Wings (1939)

     

    The manager of an air-freight company is compelled to risk the lives of his pilots in order to deliver mail over the Andes mountains.
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    Central Station (1998)

     

    Dora, a retired teacher, works at a Rio de Janeiro central station writing and mailing letters for customers.
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    The Lake House (2006)

     

    A lonely doctor who once occupied an unusual lakeside house begins to exchange love letters with its former resident, a frustrated architect.
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    Klaus (2019)

     

    Jasper the postman is tasked with establishing a post office on a remote island and mailing 6000 letters within a year.
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    Wicked Little Letters (2023)

     

    When people in Littlehampton--including conservative local, Edith--begin receiving letters full of hilarious profanities, the rowdy, Irish migrant, Rose, is charged with the crime.
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    The Letter (1940)

     

    The wife of a rubber plantation administrator shoots a man to death and claims it was self-defense, but a letter written in her own hand may prove her undoing.
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    P.S. I Love You (2007)

     

    A young widow discovers that her late husband has left her 10 letters intended to help ease her pain and start a new life.
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    To All the Boys I've Loved Before (2018)

     

    A teenage girl's secret love letters are exposed and wreak havoc on her love life.
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    Letter from an Unknown Woman (1948)

     

    A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember, who may hold the key to his downfall.
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    A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

     

    A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.
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    84 Charing Cross Road (1987)

     

    Based on the true story of a transatlantic business correspondence about used books, which later developed into a close, long-distance friendship that evolved over the course of two decades.
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    Loving Vincent (2017)

     

    A young man comes to the last hometown of painter Vincent van Gogh to deliver the troubled artist's final letter and ends up investigating his final days there.
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    Love, Simon (2018)

     

    Two closeted high school boys fall in love through email correspondence.
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    Can You Ever Forgive Me? (2018)

     

    The true story of an author's attempt to revitalize her writing career by forging letters from deceased authors and playwrights.
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    Beaches (1988)

     

    Two women form a turbulent, but strong friendship through letter correspondence.
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    Letters to Juliet (2010)

     

    In Verona, Sophie finds an old letter from the 1950s. She answers it and sets off to help its recipient Claire find her long lost love.
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    The Lunchbox (2013)

     

    Thanks to a mistake in the lunchbox delivery system, two complete strangers begin to correspond through notes in the lunchbox.
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    The Longest Ride (2015)

     

    A young couple spot a car crash and help rescue an elderly man from the vehicle, along with a box full of letters, which turn out to be old love letters written to his wife.
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    Dear Frankie (2004)

     

    After having responded to her son's numerous letters in the guise of his father, a woman hires a stranger to pose as his dad when meeting him.
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    A Cinderella Story (2004)

     

    Samantha exchanges emails with a mysterious person, who is actually the most popular guy at school.
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    Bright Star (2009)

     

    English poet John Keats and his dressmaking neighbor, Fanny Brawne, develop an unlikely romance through letters.
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    Dear John (2010)

     

    While John is serving in the army, he and his girlfriend Savannah correspond via letters for seven years.
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    Collateral Beauty (2016)

     

    After a great loss, Howard questions the universe by writing letters to Love, Time and Death.
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    The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society (2018)

     

    In the aftermath of World War II, a writer forms an unexpected bond with the residents of Guernsey Island after exchanging letters with a man.
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    The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)

     

    A journalist discovers secret love letters and tries to solve the mystery of a forbidden love affair from the 1960s.
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    The Six Triple Eight (2024)

     

    During World War II, 855 women joined the fight to fix the three-year backlog of undelivered mail. Faced with discrimination and a country devastated by war, they managed to sort more than 17 million …