
Notes on a Scandal(2006)
A veteran high school teacher befriends a younger art teacher, who is having an affair with one of her 15-year-old students. However, her intentions with this new "friend" also go well beyond platonic friendship.


“The story of a love triangle... and the four people trapped in it!”
Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.

Dirk Bogarde
Stephen

Stanley Baker
Charley

Jacqueline Sassard
Anna

Michael York
William

Vivien Merchant
Rosalind

Delphine Seyrig
Francesca

Alexander Knox
Provost

Ann Firbank
Laura

Brian Phelan
Police Sergeant

Terence Rigby
Plain Clothed Policeman
Accident is a romance, drama film released in 1967 exploring themes of infidelity, based on novel or book, obsession, professor, seduction, oxford. Directed by Joseph Losey, it stars Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Jacqueline Sassard. Stephen is a professor at Oxford University who is caught in a rut and feels trapped by his life in both academia and marriage. One of his students, William, is engaged to the beautiful Anna, and Stephen becomes enamored of the younger woman. These three people become linked together by a horrible car crash, with flashbacks providing details into the lives of each person and their connection to the others in this brooding English drama.
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