

Before Sunrise
Can the greatest romance of your life last only one night?
An unexpected meeting on a train leads two travelers to spend an evening wandering through Vienna. As the night unfolds, they share stories and conversations about life and love, exploring new ideas while a quiet intimacy grows between them, knowing it may be their only night together.
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- Status
- Released
- Budget
- $2.5M
- Box office
- $6M
- Language
- English
- talking
- soulmates
- walking
- austria
- vienna, austria
- semi autobiographical
- playful
- cliché
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Austria, United States of America
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Release dates
United StatesUS
- PremiereSundance Film Festival19 Jan 1995
- TheatricalR27 Jan 1995
- PhysicalRVHS18 Jul 1995
- PhysicalRThe Criterion Collection (Before Trilogy)28 Feb 2017
- Digital / OTTRHBO Max1 Aug 2020
United KingdomGB
- Theatrical1520 Apr 1995
AustraliaAU
- TheatricalM18 May 1995
ArgentinaAR
- Theatrical+1313 Apr 1995
- TheatricalATPReestreno12 Feb 2026
BrazilBR
- Theatrical1227 Jul 1995
- Theatrical12Relançamento12 Jun 2026
ChileCL
- Theatrical1 Aug 1995
DenmarkDK
- TheatricalA28 Apr 1995
EstoniaEE
- PremieretARTuff Tartu Love Film Festival7 Aug 2025
FinlandFI
- TheatricalS14 Jul 1995
FranceFR
- TheatricalTP29 Mar 1995
GermanyDE
- PremiereBerlin International Film Festival14 Feb 1995
- Theatrical630 Mar 1995
GreeceGR
- TheatricalK1812 Jan 1996
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Before Sunrise was released on 27 January 1995.
Audience reviews
3- E
edward
2/19/2017
Box office $ 5.5 million This was the first time I saw a movie that had nothing close to a human antagonist, yet it kept me glued to the screen. Sure I've read a few novels of the kind but surely they weren't "oh I'm glued" stuff. Everybody at least once in their life dreams of something like this and this movie makes it believable. After watching the movie I really thought that Ethan & Julie must have dated 'caus…
- F7/10
Filipe Manuel Neto
10/6/2023
**A very simple but very human film, with very good feelings and dialogue.** Contrary to what I like to do, I saw this film after seeing its sequel, “Before Sundown”. It's a very nice story about an American tourist who is enchanted by a French student he meets on the train on the way to Vienna, and invites her to spend some time with him. The rest of the film is an intense dialogue between the two through the str…
- C7/10
CinemaSerf
7/3/2026
After about five minutes of this, I was resigned to watching a reimagining of "Brief Encounter" (1945) and started to give up. Then, it began to take an altogether different tack as we meet a young and fairly penniless American "Jesse" (Ethan Hawke) who starts chatting with "Celine" (Julie Delpy) on a train journey and there is a visually striking chemistry on display pretty much from the start as their conversation …
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