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Brief Encounter at 80: why we’re still falling for David Lean’s 1945 romance

The story of hot tea and unconsummated love hails from a very different era – and was far from easy to make. Yet it remains a key influence for film-makers from Sofia Coppola to Celine Song, James Ivory to Greta Gerwig

The Guardian - UK · Nov 4, 2025

What links Brief Encounter and Shine? The Saturday quiz

From Sulphurites to eggs in space, test your knowledge with the Saturday quiz

The Guardian - UK · Sep 23, 2023

The 20 best films about doomed love – ranked!

As Past Lives, a tale of lost love and roads not taken, hits cinemas, get out the tissues as we recall some of cinema’s most heart-wrenching, tortuous romances

The Guardian - UK · Sep 7, 2023