Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Apr 15, 2026

10 Best Movies Like Letters

If you loved Letters, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
My Friend Ivan Lapshin

My Friend Ivan Lapshin

1985★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Letters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russian provincial town in the middle of the 1930s Stalin's Great Purge. Ivan Lapshin, the head of the local police, does what he has to do. And he does it well....

#2
Return

Return

2011★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Letters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes....

#3
Officers

Officers

1971★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Letters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Two friends are army officers, and the turbulent times throw them from the Civil War in the early 20s to the Soviet conflict in Finland, from China to the Urals....

#4
Cardboard Boxer

Cardboard Boxer

2016★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Letters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Gentle and broken, a homeless man fights others on video for money but soon finds comfort in an unlikely friend and the lost diary of a young girl....

#5
Mission «Sky»

Mission «Sky»

2021★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Letters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In the center of the story are three main characters - Lieutenant Colonel Soshnikov, Captain Muravyov and Major Zakharov. Three ages, three different characters, three different de...

#6
Burnt by the Sun

Burnt by the Sun

1994★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Letters for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Russia, 1936: revolutionary hero Colonel Kotov is spending an idyllic summer in his dacha with his young wife and six-year-old daughter Nadia and other assorted family and friends....

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