Barny is a young widow, she is also a militant communist and atheist who one day enters a church, and randomly picks a priest to taunt. Leon Morin is a Catholic priest: he is also young, handsome and unconventional in his religious approach. The two begin a platonic relationship, but soon Barny's admiration for Morin turns to desire and he becomes the object of her romantic obsession... find out more...

Sarah is a passionate woman trapped in a lifeless marriage, into her life wanders Maurice, a young novelist, and together they enter a fevered and sexually dominant affair that is to last five years until Sarah abruptly walks out of his life. A chance encounter with Sarah's husband a few years later rekindles Maurice's obsession and so begins his desperate search for a meaning as to why she left him. The End Of The Affair is a beautiful and powerful tale borne not so much of love as obsession an find out more...

Sierra Leone 1942; Trevor Howard gives perhaps his best performance as the humane deputy police commissioner in debt to a local trader and being blackmailed for having an affair outside his failed marriage. In the book, riddled with guilt, he kills himself, one of the deepest sins of his Catholic faith, but in the film his death is accidental. Nevertheless this tale of torment is an atmospheric and noteworthy adaptation of one of Greene's works and a superbly acted depictation of religious and m find out more...