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Brief Encounter
MEANRANK
84/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #181
- IMDb #376
- Google retired #548
- Rotten Tomatoes #267
- Metacritic #298
- Letterboxd #106
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #415
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #465
- Metacritic Critics #138
- Metacritic Audience #1284
- Criticker #102
- Kinopoisk #771
- AlloCiné #296
- Trakt #720
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Criticker on 74, highest is Rotten Tomatoes critics on 95.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →A married woman and a married doctor meet by chance in a railway station and begin a polite, restrained friendship. Their casual meetings slowly develop into a deep, romantic love affair. They are torn between their passion for each other and their sense of duty to their families and societal expectations.
Details
- Directors
- David Lean, Farhan Rana Rajpoot
- Writer
- Noël Coward
- Based on
- a work by Noël Coward
- Studio
- Cineguild, J. Arthur Rank Organisation
- Released
- 24 November 1945
- Country
- United Kingdom
- Language
- English, French
- Runtime
- 86 min
- Rated
- NR
- Budget
- $1.2M
- Awards
- 2 wins, 3 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (23) →
Awards & nominations
See all 5 →1 major award won · 2 wins from 5 nominations across 3 ceremonies
| Cannes Film Festival 1945 | Grand Prix du Festival International du Film | Winner | |
| Academy Awards 1945 | Best Director | David Lean | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1945 | Best Actress | Celia Johnson | Nominee |
| Academy Awards 1945 | Best Screenplay | Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame | Nominee |
| New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1945 | Best Actress | Celia Johnson | Winner |
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5 awards — Brief Encounter
×| Grand Prix du Festival International du Film | Winner |
| Best Actress | Celia Johnson | Nominee |
| Best Director | David Lean | Nominee |
| Best Screenplay | Anthony Havelock-Allan, David Lean, and Ronald Neame | Nominee |
| Best Actress | Celia Johnson | Winner |