Brief Encounter

1945, 86 mins, UK, certificate PG

Produced by Noël Coward and adapted from his one-act stage play, Brief Encounter is the classic story of illicit love; one of the greatest romantic films and one of the biggest weepies of all time.

Provincial housewife Laura Jesson and urbane doctor Alec Harvey meet in a café on a railway station and so begins a simple but unsentimental unfolding of their extra-marital affair. Through their weekly meetings both escape from their own reality of hollow marriages and routine middle-class life, but ultimately choices have to be made.