6 Best Love Letter Movies

By Vlad Zakh · September 12, 2026

A well-written love letter can win a heart or wreck a life. Roxanne has a witty fire chief ghostwriting letters for a tongue-tied friend, Love in the Time of Cholera has a telegraph boy’s youthful letters leading to lifelong devotion, and Secret Admirer has an anonymous letter causing escalating havoc. Valmont, To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You and The Last Letter from Your Lover round out the six.

Roxanne (1987)

TMDB ★ 6.4

A witty but self-conscious fire chief ghostwrites love letters for his tongue-tied friend to win the heart of a beautiful astronomer.

Directed by Fred Schepisi · 1h 47m · Rated PG

Where to watch

Stream: Sony Pictures Core Amazon Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

TMDB ★ 6.7

A telegraph boy's youthful love letters to a merchant's daughter set the stage for a decades-long wait.

Directed by Mike Newell · 2h 19m · Rated R

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Google Play Movies, YouTube, Fandango At Home

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Secret Admirer (1985)

TMDB ★ 6.7

An anonymous love letter left in a locker on the last day of school wreaks escalating havoc on everyone involved.

Directed by David Greenwalt · 1h 38m · Rated R

Where to watch

Stream: fuboTV, MGM+ Amazon Channel, Philo, MGM Plus Roku Premium Channel, MGM Plus · Rent: Spectrum On Demand

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Valmont (1989)

TMDB ★ 6.7

In Baroque France, a scheming nobleman's wager to seduce a virtuous married woman spirals into genuine, dangerous feeling.

Directed by Miloš Forman · 2h 17m · Rated R

Where to watch

Rent or buy: Apple TV Store

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To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)

TMDB ★ 6.8

Lara Jean's newly official romance is complicated when another recipient of her old letters turns up.

Directed by Michael Fimognari · 1h 42m · Rated PG-13

Where to watch

Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

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The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)

TMDB ★ 7.3

A young journalist becomes consumed by a series of letters that reveal an intense, secret love affair from decades ago.

Directed by Augustine Frizzell · 1h 50m

Where to watch

Stream: Netflix, Netflix Standard with Ads

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Vlad Zakh

Founder, Movieix

Founder of Movieix. He started the site because most recommendation pages felt like noise. Here, lists are sorted by who's in the film, where it's from and what mood you're in tonight.

6 Best Love Letter Movies

Roxanne (1987)

Love in the Time of Cholera (2007)

Secret Admirer (1985)

Valmont (1989)

To All the Boys: P.S. I Still Love You (2020)

The Last Letter from Your Lover (2021)

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