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Brief Encounter is a 1945 British romantic tragedy film directed by David Lean from a screenplay by Noël Coward, based on his 1936 one-act play Still Life. Starring Celia Johnson , Trevor Howard , Stanley Holloway , and Joyce Carey , the film follows a passionate extramarital relationship in England shortly before World War II.
A married woman falls in love with a stranger at a railway station during World War II. IMDb provides cast and crew information, user and critic reviews, trivia, goofs, quotes, and more for this 1945 film directed by David Lean.
- (45K)
- Drama, Romance
- David Lean
- 1946-08-24
Brief Encounter | David Lean (1945) Buddy Salinger. 835 subscribers. 1.9K. 224K views 7 years ago.
- 86 min
- 224.4K
- Buddy Salinger
A classic romantic drama about a married woman and a doctor who fall in love at a railway station during WWII. They meet every Thursday for tea and cinema, but their affair is doomed by their marital obligations and social conventions.
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey (Trevor...
- (46)
- Celia Johnson
- David Lean
- Romance, Drama
Brief Encounter. After a chance meeting on a train platform, a married doctor (Trevor Howard) and a suburban housewife (Celia Johnson) begin a muted but passionate, and ultimately doomed, love affair.
When doctor Alec Harvey (Richard Burton) helps Anna Jesson (Sophia Loren) get something out of her eye on a train platform, neither suspects they are...
- Romance
