Other classics in the list include The Magnificent Seven, Brief Encounter, Chariots of Fire and The Great Escape.

BBC: Rings music is 'best ever'

The period chasteness of Brief Encounter, of course, is one of its charms.

FORBES: Sarah Polley's Little Canadian Waltz

The relationship was a brief encounter with one of my teammates.

NPR: 'Out of Bounds': Gay, Closeted and In the NFL

He'd been tricked into marriage after a brief encounter with the beautiful and soulless socialite Sylvia (Rebecca Hall), the ceaselessly disparaging virago of a wife who will haunt his life.

WSJ: Television Review: The Battlegrounds of Love and War

The goal of the advert was to restore the passion and romance to the railway, to scrub out memories of Hatfield, delays and commuting and replace them with a taste of Brief Encounter.

BBC: Ad Breakdown's review of 2005

Ravi said of his brief encounter with M.

NEWYORKER: The Story of a Suicide

Later, in one tidal wave of a night, he comes on to a woman in a bar, gets hoofed in the face by her boyfriend, swings by a gay club for a brief encounter (any port in a storm), and then rounds off the evening with a nice warm threesome.

NEWYORKER: Hot and Bothered

You discover the world and its past through the opening cinematic, through brief snatches of dialogue with NPCs (some of whom you may never encounter on your first playthrough) and in item and spell descriptions.

FORBES: The Wonderful Archeology Of 'Dark Souls' Lore