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1945 version. One of Keira Knightly's favourite films
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Brief Encounter
on DVD
(1945)
Starring: Marjorie Mars, Trevor Howard, Celia Johnson
Director: David Lean
Certificate: 
A respectable, happily married doctor (Trevor Howard) comes to the aid of an equally upstanding housewife (Celia Johnson) when a passing train blows cinder into her eye. Thus begins a tentative romance, conducted in the tearooms and railway cafe of a small English town. David Lean's classic study ..read more »
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1974 version so probably shitter that the 1945 one.
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Brief Encounter
(1974)
Starring: Ann Firbank, Jack Hedley, Sophia Loren
Director: Alan Bridges
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Adaptation of the classic play by Noel Coward and a remake of David Lean's 1945 film. Anna Jesson (Sophia Loren) travels on the same train every day into the city, where she sees her volunteer work as a break from her husband and children. When she strikes up a casual friendship with fellow ..read more »
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Knightlye's suggestion again
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Carnal Knowledge
on DVD
(1971)
Starring: Cynthia O'Neal, Rita Moreno, Carol Kane
Director: Mike Nichols
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Maybe you're not supposed to like it with someone you love. With a script by satirist and cartoonist Jules Feiffer, Mike Nichols's Carnal Knowledge (1971) ruthlessly exposed the damage wrought by pre-1960s sexual mores. From their post-World War II college years at Amherst through the Vietnam era, ..read more »
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Knightlye's suggestion again

One of Matt Damon's favourite films
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The Conversation
on DVD
(1974)
Starring: Gene Hackman, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams
Director: Francis Ford Coppola
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Made between The Godfather (1972) and The Godfather Part II (1974), and in part an homage to Michelangelo Antonioni's art-movie classic Blow-Up (1966), The Conversation was a return to small-scale art films for Francis Ford Coppola. Sound surveillance expert Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is hired to ..read more »
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One of Matt Damon's favourite films

One of Matt Damon's favourite films

One of James McAvoy's favourite films
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My Name Is Joe
on DVD
(1998)
Starring: Gary Lewis, Louise Goodall, Anne Marie Kennedy
Director: Ken Loach
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Another hard-hitting drama from Ken Loach. Recovering alcoholic Joe Kavanagh (Peter Mullan) is out of work, but spends his time coaching the local football team. When he goes to pick up team member Liam (David McKay), he meets social worker Sarah Downie (Louise Goodall). Although they clash at ..read more »
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One of Casey Affleck's favourite films

One of Casey Affleck's favourite films
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The Good, The Bad And The Ugly
on DVD
(1966)
Starring: Clint Eastwood, Eli Wallach, Lee Van Cleef
Director: Sergio Leone
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In the last and the best installment of his so-called Dollars trilogy of Sergio Leone-directed spaghetti westerns, Clint Eastwood reprised the role of a taciturn, enigmatic loner. Here he searches for a cache of stolen gold against rivals the Bad (Lee Van Cleef), a ruthless bounty hunter, and the ..read more »
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