01 Celia Johnson features in this British drama about a ruthless businessman whose return to his working-class Liverpool roots forces a reckoning with his past.
Directed by Jack Gold · 1h 51m · Rated R
6 Best Celia Johnson Movies
By Vlad Zakh · February 9, 2026
Drama intensethought provoking
Celia Johnson delivered one of British cinema’s most quietly devastating performances, her restrained, deeply felt acting defining an entire style of English emotional repression on screen. Brief Encounter is that performance, with two married strangers falling into a doomed romance at a train station. This Happy Breed and In Which We Serve are other highlights, The Astonished Heart threatens a psychiatrist’s marriage with an affair, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie draws school scrutiny to an unconventional teacher, and The Reckoning brings a businessman home to Liverpool.
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02 An unconventional Edinburgh schoolteacher exerts a dangerous influence over her impressionable students.
Directed by Ronald Neame · 1h 56m · Rated PG
03 Celia Johnson is in this British drama about a psychiatrist whose affair with his wife's old friend threatens to destroy both his marriage and his career.
Directed by Antony Darnborough & Terence Fisher · 1h 25m
Where to watch
Stream: FlixFling · Rent or buy: FlixFling
Stream: FlixFling · Rent or buy: FlixFling
04 Two strangers meeting weekly at a railway station fall into a doomed, unconsummated affair.
Directed by David Lean · 1h 26m · Rated NR
Where to watch
Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, FlixFling, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
Rent: Amazon Video · Buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
Stream: FlixFling · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, FlixFling
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store
05 Celia Johnson features in this drama about an ordinary London family navigating two decades of joy and hardship between the wars.
Directed by David Lean · 1h 51m · Rated PG
Where to watch
Stream: Criterion Channel · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home
Stream: ITVX Premium
Stream: Criterion Channel · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store
06 The crew of a British warship and their families endure the hardships of the Second World War.
Directed by Noël Coward & David Lean · 1h 55m · Rated NR
Where to watch
Stream: HBO Max Amazon Channel, Criterion Channel, FlixFling, HBO Max · Rent or buy: Amazon Video, Apple TV Store, Fandango At Home, FlixFling
Stream: Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads · Rent: Amazon Video · Buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
Stream: Criterion Channel, FlixFling · Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, FlixFling
Rent or buy: Apple TV Store, Amazon Video
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