Brief Encounter

Name: Brief Encounter
Genre: Romance, Drama
Released: 1945
Duration: 86 min
Cast: Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway, Joyce Carey, Cyril Raymond

David Lean19451h 26mRomance, Drama

Why we chose it

When this cult classic was first shown, the audience laughed at the love scenes and David Lean wanted to burn the negatives, yet decades later it hasn’t aged a day. A married woman and a married man meet by chance in a station refreshment room, and from then on they come back every Thursday.

Synopsis

Laura is waiting for her train home in a station refreshment room one Thursday afternoon when a speck of soot gets into her eye, and the doctor at the next table takes it out for her. She has a husband and he has a wife. By the following Thursday, they’re both back at the station.