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* In ''[[Enchanted]]'', Giselle sees her true love in a dream, and builds a statue of him, being certain that he both exists and that he wouldn't find this creepy. The statue looks as much as [[Wrong Guy First|Edward]] as Robert, anyway (dark-haired guy with light eyes).
** [[Fridge Brilliance|Though he is wearing Robert's clothes]].
* Subverted in frenchFrench movie (two versions) "Fanfan la Tulipe", Fanfan believes a (fake) prediction done by fortuneteller Adeline. So, he believes he'll marry king Louis XV's younger daughter. But, he ends up disapointed after he meets her, {{spoiler|and prefers Adeline.}}
* This was Tatiana Romanova's cover story in ''[[From Russia with Love]]'', which was the reason that the only agent who could extract her was [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]].
* Parodied when Ron eats chocolates laced with a love potion in ''[[Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (film)|Harry Potter]] and the Half-Blood Prince]]''.
{{quote|'''Ron:''' I'm in love with her!
'''Harry:''' Okay! You're in love with her! But have you ever actually met her?
'''Ron:''' No...could you introduce me?! }}
* In the movie ''[[Lake House]]'', the main female character has not met the man she is writing letters to, as he is two years behind her time.
* In the 1944 [[Film (noir)Noir]] ''[[Laura]]'', the detective investigating the titular character's murder falls in love with her through his investigation, even going so far as sleeping under her portrait. {{spoiler|Subverted somewhat when he finds out that she's not really dead and the victim was actually another girl the murderer mistook for Laura. The two actually do fall in love and justice is served to the miscreant.}}
* In the French movie ''[[A Lovely Witch]]'' (''Un amour de sorcière''), [[Hot Witch]] Morgan tells to her infant son, Arthur, the story of a little witch. This witch fell in love with the portrait of a young man, and found a magic spell that would get her pregnant by him without actually requiring his presence. Then the little witch was punished with a mindwipe, and the portrait was also erased, save the eyes of the man. Later, Morgan meets and falls in love with [[Gadgeteer Genius]] Michael. Suddenly, we guess: Arthur was never seen with a father around him, and there is a portrait with only the eyes visible in Morgan's room. Eyes identical to those of Michael.
* The romance in ''[[A Matter of Life and Death]]'' starts with them meeting over an SOS call.
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And ever to thy glorious lays
The echoes of my heart are ringing. }}
* In Dennis McKiernan's ''[[Mithgar|Voyage of the Fox Rider]]'', Elf sea-captain Aravan meets Aylis, a young-looking woman of the Mage species -- and she blushes very strongly the moment she sets eyes on him. Her father, already Aravan's passenger, starts laughing something about "a silver mirror." Aylis later admits to Aravan that a spell commonly cast by newly-trained female Mages is divination to see one's destined True Love, using a silver mirror. No points for guessing whose face '''she''' saw.