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Brief Encounter
Set in a café on a railway station, the love story begins when housewife - Laura Jesson meets doctor Alec Harvey. Although they are both already married, they gradually fall in love with each other. They continue to meet in the small café, although they know that their love is impossible.
24 July 1909, London, England, UK
27 December 1901, Maida Vale, London, England, UK
13 February 1899, Rowley Regis, Staffordshire, England, UK
18 December 1908, Ellerker Gate, Richmond, Surrey, England, UK
27 May 1926, Finsbury Park, London, England, UK
1 October 1890, Manor Park, London, England, UK
16 December 1899, Teddington, Middlesex, England, UK
May 2, 1900 in Bridgwater, Somerset, England, UK
26 October 1903, Bishop Stoke, England, UK
8 April 1916, Bethnal Green, London, England, UK
May 04, 2012
... still embraced as one of the most romantic films ever made, and it has earned its reputation.
February 09, 2006
Some films don't age well, and no doubt Brief Encounter had more of an emotional effect in the social climate of post-war Britain.
November 02, 2015
One of the most vivid, impassioned and painfully believable love stories ever committed to celluloid.
November 09, 2015
Romance and goodness are evoked with equal power and from these conflicting impulses, voluptuous demons spring eternal.
November 06, 2007
Cyril Raymond manages to invest the stodgy character with a lovable quality.
November 05, 2015
The leads are outstanding, but credit should also go to the forgotten Cyril Raymond, whose decent dullness as Johnson's husband makes those stolen Thursdays seem so special.
May 20, 2003
An uncommonly good little picture -- and one which is frankly designed to appeal to that group of film-goers who are provoked by the 'usual movie tripe.'
November 05, 2015
One of cinema's classic love stories.
November 06, 2007
Rarely rises above the level of the old women's magazines.
November 03, 2015
Noël Coward's Brief Encounter is, to my mind, not only the most mature work Mr Coward has yet prepared for the cinema, but one of the most emotionally honest and deeply satisfactory films that have ever been made in this country.
May 31, 2016
Brief Encounter makes an illicit love affair more than that, giving the doomed romance more of a soul than a thousand tragic romances since then.
October 09, 2012
Sheer perfection-the gold standard of tragic romances whose influence can still be seen to this day.
