Brief Encounter
Returning home from a shopping trip to a nearby town, bored suburban housewife Laura Jesson is thrown by happenstance into an acquaintance with virtuous doctor Alec Harvey. Their casual friendship soon develops during their weekly visits into something more emotionally fulfilling than either expected, and they must wrestle with the potential havoc their deepening relationship would have on their lives and the lives… From TMDB
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60 of 178 · most liked firstMy dad's cat Bridget travels through time and ends up in the film Brief Encounter (a painting by my dad, Mick).
unlabelledView post →The iconic Carnforth Station clock, which was made famous by the 1945 film Brief Encounter, has returned to its home on the station platform in Lancashire following an extensive restoration. It was manufactured in 1895 by Joyce & Co. of Whitchurch in Shropshire.
unlabelledView post →"The magic of that film is Celia Johnson. She was wonderful!” — David Lean BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) is streaming on Criterion Channel, HBO Max, and Pluto TV if you'd like to celebrate the 80th anniversary of its U.K. release. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →"The magic of that film is Celia Johnson. She was wonderful!” — David Lean BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) is streaming on Prime, Pluto, Max and Criterion Channel if you'd like to celebrate the 79th anniversary of its U.K. release. #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →Brief Encounter turns 80!! www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
unlabelledView post →I went to a model train exhibition yesterday, my favourite layout was this one based on Brief Encounter which was in black and white. (Such a good film!)
unlabelledView post →Tonight's movie selection is "Brief Encounter" (1945), directed by David Lean based on a one-act play by Noël Coward and starring Celia Johnson & Trevor Howard. Ordinary people and an impossible love affair...
unlabelledView post →Been watching a few British 1940s films: Brief Encounter, Black Narcissus & it's notable how good they are. They're not Brit quirky good, they are Hollywood at it's best good. Wondered what went wrong for the Brit Film industry & it was a fumbled trade war with US.
unlabelledView post →Nothing but 5 stars Brief Encounter - A beautiful, and unexpectedly great romance. Lawrence of Arabia - As epic a movie ever made. All That Jazz - An extraordinary honest movie. The Spanish Prisoner - Not for everyone but I love Mamet. #LastFourWatched #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Mid-April L4W Once Upon a Time in the West (1968) Janet Planet (2023) The Black Swan (1942) Brief Encounter (1945) #letterboxdfriday #letterboxd #lastfourwatched #filmsky
unlabelledView post →Favourite film from every decade: 20s Man with a Movie Camera 30s The Lady Vanishes 40s Brief Encounter/Double Indemnity 50s In a Lonely Place/All About Eve 60s The Apartment 70s Alien 80s Local Hero 90s Three Colours Blue 00s In the Mood for Love 10s Margaret 20s Perfect Days #FilmSky
unlabelledView post →What is your favourite black & white movie? Five faves, off the top of my head: The Apartment (Wilder) Double Indemnity (Wilder) Brief Encounter (Lean) In a Lonely Place (Ray) Rififi (Dassin)
unlabelledView post →David Lean (with scenes from his film "Brief Encounter") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →The UK gov imposing tariffs on US movies is what end UK cinema's “golden age”. UK went from Brief Encounter and Black Narcissus, which were works of art and internationally successful, to what we are now, a talent pool to prop up US cultural hegemony. Good luck with this route America.
unlabelledView post →David Lean (with scenes from his film "Brief Encounter") - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Celia Johnson and director David Lean boarding a train at Victoria Station on their way to Paris to receive an award for their film BRIEF ENCOUNTER in 1946.
unlabelledView post →David Lean being awarded the Paris Grand Prix Of Cannes Film Festival for "Brief Encounter" (with Georges Huisman and Celia Johnson) - BOTD
unlabelledView post →Flashback Review: BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945). boxd.it/89AUYX
unlabelledView post →In 1946, at the first Cannes Film Festival, #TheLostWeekend shared the Grand Prix with Brief Encounter, making it one of only four films – the others being Marty (1955), Parasite (2019) and Anora (2024) – to win both the Oscar for Best Picture and the highest prize at Cannes. #TheNoirCollective
unlabelledView post →On this day (9th July) in 1989, the Scala Cinema was showing Brief Encounter (1945) and Doctor Zhivago (1965) as a David Lean double bill.
unlabelledView post →He became a superb studio director on the the Coward-scripted romantic melodrama Brief Encounter and then the great Dickens movies Great Expectation and Oliver Twist, cleverly using complex and beautifully constructed sets.
unlabelledView post →Brief Encounter [1945] is a Train Movie
unlabelledView post →A birthday shout-out for Celia Johnson - born on this day in 1908. There's much more to her than just BRIEF ENCOUNTER. Here she is in the great, under-seen festive film, THE HOLLY AND THE IVY (George More O'Ferrall, UK, 1952). It features another of her wonderfully nuanced performances.
unlabelledView post →Distracted by the late Tony Benn’s VHS collection while watching a documentary on Margaret Rutherford. I could make out Brief Encounter, Inherit the Wind and TWO copies of the film Evita, starring Jimmy Nail.
unlabelledView post →#FebruaryMovieChallenge #Filmsky #Movies 14. Favorite romantic movie Brief Encounter (1945) A jolly good 1940s trailer - how splendid! 😆 youtu.be/PPZyNzSrm2Y?...
unlabelledView post →#LetterboxdFriday | #LastFourWatched #Filmsky | boxd.it/2SnHf Malpertuis (1971) ★★★ Only Angels Have Wings (1939) ★★★★½ The Insider (1999) [rw] ★★★★½ Brief Encounter (1945) [rw] ★★★★½ I thought I'd seen every great Cary Grant film, but Only Angels Have Wings was still out there waiting for me. ㅤ
unlabelledView post →#BOTD 1903 Everley Gregg: English actress. Early in her career she was associated especially with the plays of Noël Coward. Began her film career in the 1930s and added television roles in her last decade. Brief Encounter (1945) Great Expectations (1946) and Alfred Hitchcock's Stage Fright (1950).
unlabelledView post →Brief Encounter Monochrome (OO Gauge)! 🎬 Step into the unique world of the 1945 film with Dawn Quest's incredible layout, created entirely in shades of grey! Seen at the London Festival of Railway Modelling. #BriefEncounter #OOGauge #modelrailway
unlabelledView post →Next year is my 50th 😱 - I'm hoping to go to Transylvania but if I can't, I'll be happy touring the every single last film location of BRIEF ENCOUNTER, so Carnforth, Beaconsfield, Ambleside and Regent's Park.
unlabelledView post →I mark the 64th birthday of one of my favourite directors Todd Haynes by sharing my 2017 celebration of his 2015 film CAROL’s brilliant reworking of BRIEF ENCOUNTER (David Lean, 1945). On Vimeo here: vimeo.com/249231488
unlabelledView post →Someone needs to write this play. Like making a O Brother, Where Art Thou? a real movie or a real Flames of Passion (from Brief Encounter), which apparently somebody did #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Seen all but one of these. Idiosyncratic list, as you'd expect from Ellroy. "Brief Encounter" is an outlier here, but it's a great film. I'd overlooked the crime roots of Band of Outsiders, mostly I remember the dance, & the way Anna Karina ran like a little girl. www.criterion.com/current/top-...
unlabelledView post →NEXT WEEK ON MOVIE NIGHT BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945)
unlabelledView post →Brief Encounter! The depiction of Laura Jesson’s internal monologue is one of the most beautiful things I have seen in cinema to date.
unlabelledView post →Favourite film for each year of the 1940s: 40 - The Shop Around The Corner 41 - Citizen Kane 42 - Casablanca 43 - The Life And Death Of Colonel Blimp 44 - Double Indemnity 45 - Brief Encounter 46 - The Best Years Of Our Lives 47 - Nightmare Alley 48 - The Red Shoes 49 - The Third Man #filmsky
unlabelledView post →#NowWatching BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945). Director: David Lean. Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard. Nominated for three Oscars, British classic of unrealized romance. #filmsky 📽🎥🎬 Criterion Collection 76
unlabelledView post →Watched Brief Encounter with my 16-year-old. His verdict: “Not bad for a black-and-white film”. 😆 Filmsky 📽
unlabelledView post →"What would you say is the greatest British film of all-time? Gimme a Top 5.” 6. Sorry. Brief Encounter Wonderland The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp Excalibur Elephant Witchfinder General
unlabelledView post →David Lean, who directed #BlitheSpirit, had some minor success after this, his third film. For example, he was nominated for writing and directing Brief Encounter, typical of the small, intimate films he was known for. #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →Not a song, and not written for a film, but used powerfully in the film Brief Encounter I give you, what for me could one of the greatest pieces of music ever written….. m.youtube.com/watch?v=rEGO...
unlabelledView post →Is Brief Encounter, complete with music by Sergei Rachmaninoff, the greatest romantic film ever made? I'd like to think so. And, to back it up, I've written a piece about it in today's Daily Express. Happy 80th birthday, Brief Encounter.
unlabelledView post →The Passionate Friends feels like David Lean's own riposte to Brief Encounter. It doesn't have its elegant structure but instead settles on being a more brittle proposition. It is a tougher film, one where the characters are afforded less dignity, and voices are actually raised.
unlabelledView post →Celia Johnson and director David Lean boarding a train at Victoria Station on their way to Paris to receive an award for their film BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1946).
unlabelledView post →#AlphabetChallenge #WeekFforFramed Framed original railway timetable (hence the creases). Framed for use in a local theatrical production of Still Life, which was later turned into the film of Brief Encounter.
unlabelledView post →Remembering the lovely Dame Celia Elizabeth Johnson, expressive Oscar-nominated English classic film, television, and theater actress, most celebrated and acclaimed for her fantastic role/performance as Laura Jesson in Sir David Lean's BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945). #BOTD on 12/18/1908
unlabelledView post →Lean was also incredibly talented at small spaces, like in one of my favorite films, 'Brief Encounter.' It was such an intimate film, the polar opposite of this or Zhivago. He is a director that doesn't get talked about enough. #TCMParty #LawrenceOfArabia
unlabelledView post →I've never seen #ThisHappyBreed before, but so interesting to see a movie from the 40's in color. I loved Celia Johnson in 'Brief Encounter', I think she a marvelous actor. I'm looking forward to watching this. #TCMParty
unlabelledView post →checking back in with my YouTube crush from a few months ago. the thrill has mostly gone I'm afraid. and she mentions not enjoying the movie Brief Encounter for undisclosed reasons that I am assuming are moralistic in nature. another brief encounter concludes....
unlabelledView post →Did you love the hell out of Past Lives? Have you got a Criterion subscription? If you answered "yes" to both those questions, you'd do well to check out the 1945 movie, Brief Encounter....
unlabelledView post →Is Becs watching classic cinema, a black & white film. Brief Encounter everyone #MarlowPBS
unlabelledView post →He should do a small intimate movie, his Brief Encounter, if you will. I reckon it would absolutely knock the socks off people. And after the performance-work in Oppenheimer, I think he's really ready for that kind of thing.
unlabelledView post →😍 David Tennant's very favorite film of all time: 12 Angry Men (maybe). He praises Terry Gilliam’s extraordinary imagination, talks about the subtle beauty and intelligence of BRIEF ENCOUNTER, examines what made Laurence Olivier’s Shakespearean performances so remarkable and more...
unlabelledView post →Bridge On the River Kwai? Lawrence of Arabia? Great films I love but you can keep 'em. Gimme Brief Encounter every damn day. David Lean's absolute BEST. OMG, I love this film. #TCMParty #BriefEncounter
unlabelledView post →Upcoming ‘Film by the Foot’ this month – See top-of-the-line cinema for just 10¢ per 100 feet! Friday’s at 1 pm at LF3: FANTASTIC PLANET (1973) – 2/13 BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) – 2/20 SAFETY LAST (1923) – 2/27 www.americancinematheque.com/series/film-...
unlabelledView post →Kira Muratova walked into a boardroom full of execs discussing wondering how they could make a big sequel to a David Lean movie, went to the whiteboard and wrote “Brief Encounter$”
unlabelledView post →Agree--but I thought he refused to compose film scores. Regardless, one of his classical pieces was used in a film, Brief Encounter, and it is IMO one of the reasons that film is so memorable.
unlabelledView post →Well last year around this time I ended up watching my first Celia Johnson movie (Brief Encounter) after seeing you discuss it on here, and her performance was astonishing, so I’m happy to see Hoopla has this movie and I’ll now be taking in more Celia Johnson!
unlabelledView post →Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance #Filmsky #BritishFilm www.theguardian.com/film/2025/no...
unlabelledView post →Most popular film on Letterboxd I haven't seen, per decade: 20s: Saltburn 10s: La La Land 00s: Fantastic Mr. Fox 90s: La Haine 80s: Grave of the Fireflies 70s: Mirror 60s: Persona 50s: Ikiru 40s: Brief Encounter 30s: Rules of the Game 20s: Man with a Movie Camera [Animated films & anime dinged me]
unlabelledView post →This week in Maine: a train-centered festival featuring many film screenings across the state. I'm looking forward to catching an all-time great — BRIEF ENCOUNTER (1945) — on Wednesday at the Eveningstar cinema in Brunswick, intro'd by my Bowdoin colleague! 🚆 🛤️ 🚂 www.mainetrainfest.com
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