10 Movies Where Love was Expressed Through Letters

Have you ever gotten a love letter? Maybe a love email? Or even just a letter or email? In these movies, there are exchanges of love through the written word where the characters learn about one another a different kind of correspondence other than talking.

You've Got Mail

In this remake, instead of letters, they write emails. But that's technically still a letter! But these two are rival bookstore owners, where Tom Hanks is trying to make Meg Ryan sell her little ma and pa shop so he has no competition. They soon begin writing to each via computer, as they fall in love with their unknown computer friend. They start to meet with one another face-to-face unknowingly that they are corresponding with one another online and they begin to fall in love with each other. It's a cute story where two people fall in love twice with each other.

The Notebook

During a summer away two teenagers find love with one another that is passionately intense. They are forced apart and we watch as they write letters to one another. However, those letters never find each other even though they write to each for a year. After many years a part, they finally find each other again and they meet only to discover that they both wrote to each other and never lost faith in one another.

The Lake House

Unfortunately, this movie just left Netflix. With a powerful cast of Keanu Reeves and Sandra Bullock, we watch as both live in a beautiful lake house years apart but find that the mailbox can transfer letters between the past and the future. Through these letters they get to know one another and try to meet in where they both know who each other is. The timeline confuses me, but when you think about it, it totally makes sense. Also who doesn't love a good Reeves and Bullock combination.

Letters to Juliet

I recently just watched this movie and it is such a sweet movie about love. When visiting Italy with her fiance, a girl finds the wall in Verona where people write to juliet about love. Whether it be love troubles, heartache, stupid husbands, or wanting to be loved a group of women write back to them who try and ease their worries and give advice. The girl finds an old letter that has never been read and she takes it into her own hands and writes back to see where the love adventure will take them.

The Young Victoria

My favorite romanticized love story between Queen Victoria and her German cousin Albert. Between letters of the Queen and the prince they find that they fall in love with one another, with the Queen asking for Albert's hand in marriage. I would say about 1/3 of the movie is involved with letter correspondence, but the movie is elegant and so are the words written among the historical figures.

P.S. I Love You

Gerry is dying. He knows that his wife will not take it well (whose would?), so he prepares letters for her to read after he's gone. On her 30th birthday, she receives her first letter. These letters are an extension of him for her to move on with her life and try to be happy. It is such a beautiful sentiment and one that I will treasure becasue I think this idea is perfectly splendid. If it were to happen to me, I would do this for my husband.

Dear John

Honestly, this is my least favorite on the list because the book just irked me and I couldn't even finish it. So when the movie came out, I could only handle the trailer before feeling icky. Saying that though this movie does involve letter writing. When a soldier falls in love with a college student, a strong romance begins. When the soldier is deployed, a correspondence only through letters is what keeps them close for 7 years, with only a few rare in-person meetings. While writing, life still happens to both and we see where life takes them.

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Society

This is one I have yet to see, but I have only heard good things about it and it's on Netflix so bonus! But it's about a London writer who starts exchanging letters with a gentlemen during WW2 from the Guernsey literary and potato peel society based in an island, predominately occupied by German forces. She decides to travel there and to meet the person she started her pen pal relationship with and the society.

Collateral Beauty

This is probably an exception on the list, but the main character still writes letters. He experienced a great loss in his life and it is leaving him with questions only Time, Death, and Love can answer. So he writes letters to the things we can only feel. His friends are concerned for his wellbeing and want their friend back who used to exude so much life. The only people who can help him are Time, Death, and Love.

The Love Letter (1998)

This is an older one and one I haven't seen because it was a TV movie, but watching the trailer it looked like a beautiful love story that reminded me of Somewhere In Time. Which you should watch, but maybe I'll leave that for another article list. A man in the 20th century converses with a woman from the 19th century through an antique desk that lets them leave letters for one another in time.