Brief Encounter (PG)

★★★★★ Co-adapted by Noël Coward from his own one-act play Still Life, this is one of the finest films ever made in Britain.  Radio Times.

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Perhaps the most romantic British film ever made, Brief Encounter is the 1945 gem from David Lynch and Noël Coward which tells the story of strangers Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) and Dr. Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) whose lives are changed forever when they meet in a railway café in 1940's England.

Laura lives a content but predictable life with her husband Fred (Cyril Raymond) and their children, but her life is suddenly turned upside when a chance meeting with a mysterious Doctor leads her to question everything she knows.

The film remains so adored to this day that Carnforth Station in Lancashire, where it was filmed, is home to a popular museum and period cafe.

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★★★★★ One of cinema's classic love stories. ~ The Times.

★★★★★ The loveliest period piece imaginable. ~ The Independent.

★★★★★ An irresistible romance with glorious old world values. ~ Little White Lies.

★★★★★ If you can stomach the suspicious intimation that the lower classes have no emotional life and the excruciatingly affected portrayal of the English middle classes, you'll have, at the very least, a lump in your throat. Less cynical souls will weep buckets. ~ BBC.

★★★★★ It's a passionate romance, as exciting in its way as something by Hitchcock. It is Noel Coward's masterpiece. ~ The Guardian.

★★★★ A beautifully monochrome rendering of a love that cannot be. ~ Empire.