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Movies Like American Letters

If you liked American Letters (2018), a drama movie directed by Kevin Keck, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

  1. 1Derailed

    Derailed (2005)

    ★ 6.4/10Also drama

    When two married business executives having an affair are blackmailed by a violent criminal, they are forced to turn the tables on him to save their families.

  2. 2Die My Love

    Die My Love (2025)

    ★ 6.1/10Also drama

    After inheriting a remote Montana house, Jackson moves there from New York with his partner Grace, and the couple soon welcome a child. As Jackson becomes increasingly absent and rural isolation sets in, Grace…

  3. 3Snapshots

    Snapshots (2018)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Rose spends her days fishing near the beautiful lake house she’s called home for 50 years. She’s not getting any younger and her daughter Patti worries about Rose being all alone, but the stubborn matriarch will not…

  4. 4Rebuilding

    Rebuilding (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    After wildfires take his ranch, a cowboy named Dusty winds up in a FEMA camp, finding community with others who lost homes, including his daughter and ex-wife.

  5. 5The Strange Love of Martha Ivers

    The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    Three childhood friends, Martha, Walter and Sam, share a terrible secret. Over time, the ambitious Martha and the pusillanimous Walter have married. She is a cold businesswoman; he is the district attorney: a perfect…

  6. 6Certain Women

    Certain Women (2016)

    ★ 6/10Also drama

    Three strong-willed women strive to forge their own paths amidst the wide-open plains of the American Northwest: a lawyer forced to subdue a troubled client; a wife and mother whose plans to construct her dream home…

  7. 7Train Dreams

    Train Dreams (2025)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America.

  8. 8Straw Dogs

    Straw Dogs (2011)

    ★ 5.9/10Also drama

    A young couple moves to a quaint southern town. Soon their perfect getaway turns out to become a living hell when dark secrets and lethal passions spiral out of control.

  9. 9Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black

    Tyler Perry's Divorce in the Black (2024)

    ★ 7.3/10Also drama

    Ava, a young bank professional is devastated when her husband Dallas abandons a marriage she is determined to fight for until fate intervenes, revealing Dallas' wicked deeds that have trashed their marriage, and once…

  10. 10In the Bedroom

    In the Bedroom (2001)

    ★ 6.9/10Also drama

    Summertime on the coast of Maine, "In the Bedroom" centers on the inner dynamics of a family in transition. Matt Fowler is a doctor practicing in his native Maine and is married to New York born Ruth Fowler, a music…

  11. 11The Color Purple

    The Color Purple (1985)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry. After Celie's abusive father marries her off to the equally debasing…

  12. 12Braven

    Braven (2018)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    A logger defends his family from a group of dangerous drug runners.

  13. 13The Long, Hot Summer

    The Long, Hot Summer (1958)

    ★ 7/10Also drama

    Accused barn burner and conman Ben Quick arrives in a small Mississippi town and quickly ingratiates himself with its richest family, the Varners.

  14. 14The Gift

    The Gift (2015)

    ★ 6.7/10Also drama

    Simon and Robyn are a young married couple whose life is going as planned until a chance run-in with Simon's high school acquaintance sends their world into a tailspin.

  15. 15Sleeping with the Enemy

    Sleeping with the Enemy (1991)

    ★ 6.5/10Also drama

    A young woman fakes her own death in an attempt to escape her nightmarish marriage, but discovers it is impossible to elude her controlling husband.

  16. 16Adulterers

    Adulterers (2016)

    ★ 6.2/10Also drama

    On a steamy New Orleans afternoon, Sam Deuprey decides to surprise his beautiful wife, Ashley, for their anniversary and comes home early. But Ashley is not alone in the bedroom. She and her lover, Damien are about to…

  17. 17Palmer

    Palmer (2021)

    ★ 8.1/10Also drama

    After 12 years in prison, former high school football star Eddie Palmer returns home to put his life back together—and forms an unlikely bond with Sam, an outcast boy from a troubled home. But Eddie's past threatens to…

  18. 18Dogville

    Dogville (2003)

    ★ 7.7/10Also drama

    A woman on the run from the mob is reluctantly accepted in a small Colorado community in exchange for labor, but when a search visits the town, she learns that their support has a price.

  19. 19This Boy's Life

    This Boy's Life (1993)

    ★ 7.1/10Also drama

    When a son and mother move to Seattle in hopes for a better life, the mother meets a seemingly polite man. Things go south when the man turns out to be abusive, endangering their lives. As the mother struggles to…

  20. 20Enough

    Enough (2002)

    ★ 6.6/10Also drama

    Working-class waitress Slim thought she was entering a life of domestic bliss when she married Mitch, the man of her dreams. After the arrival of their first child, her picture perfect life is shattered when she…

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