• DIRECTED by the great David Lean (Lawrence of Arabia) and based upon the play Still Life by Noel Coward, Brief Encounter is one of the genuine romantic classics of British cinema.

Bored with the security of married life, Laura Jesson (Celia Johnson) visits town once a week to shop and catch a film matinee.

On one such excursion, she accidentally meets Dr Alec Harvey (Trevor Howard) in a rail station waiting room.

Enjoying one another’s company, they soon become dismayed to find their innocent and casual relationship develop into love.

Capturing the imagination of an entire generation, Howard and Johnson give two touchingly underplayed performances as the ill-fated, would-be lovers and director David Lean offers one of his finest ever films.

See the 1945 classic all over again at Southampton’s Harbour Lights Picturehouse on Sunday lunchtime.

  • As time passes and life support systems dwindle, Lee battles to maintain his sanity – and simply stay alive.

His world is a claustrophobic and lonely existence, until he makes a strange discovery aboard the ship.

Love (2011) is the next offering from Southampton’s independent film society The Phoenix, at Union Films, at the University of Southampton, on Wednesday.