Movies like Titus 1999

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Titus (1999)
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Titus (1999)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.
Style: harsh, disturbing, rough, serious, captivating, psychological, dark fantasy, costume drama, visually stunning, art house ...
Audience: date night
Plot: shakespeare, ancient, ancient rome, brutality, justice, secrets, cannibalism, war, head of state, state affairs, revenge, violence spree, life is a bitch, society, rape and revenge, betrayal, rape, cannibal, medieval, nudity, knight, politics, murder, tragedy, trippy ...
Time: year 1999, ancient times, 1930s
Place: rome italy, ancient greece, europe, italy
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and captivating films with plots about murder, betrayal, rivalry, state affairs, medieval, shakespeare and sword fight mostly in Drama, History and War genres. Some movies like Titus: Richard III (1995), Macbeth (1971), Macbeth (2015), Caligula (1979), Troy (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Richard III (1995)
Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: Shakespeare's Play transplanted into a 1930s setting.
Style: talky, stylized, atmospheric, witty, political ...
Plot: politics, shakespeare, royal family, murder, betrayal, manipulation, medieval, assassination, greed, battles, royalty, corrupted ruler ...
Time: 20th century, 1930s
Place: england, london, europe
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Macbeth (1971)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord siezes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.
Style: disturbing, visual, bleak, atmospheric, spiritual ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, murder, guilt, witch, prophecy, macbeth, royalty, betrayal, witchcraft, knight, ambition ...
Time: 11th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1971, 20th century
Place: scotland, eastern europe, england, europe
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100%
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Macbeth (2015)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Feature film adaptation of Shakespeare's Scottish play about General Macbeth whose ambitious wife urges him to use wicked means in order to gain power of the throne over the sitting king, Duncan.
Style: bleak, stylized, visually stunning, dark fantasy, psychological ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, crown, witch, murder, throne, ambition, insanity, brutality, macbeth, prophecy, kingdom ...
Time: middle ages, 11th century, year 2015, medieval times
Place: scotland, europe
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75%
 5.3
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Caligula (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The perversion behind imperial Rome, the epic story of Rome's mad Emporer. All the details of his cruel, bizarre reign are revealed right here: His unholy sexual passion for his sister, his marriage to Rome's most infamous prostitute, his ...
Style: erotic, sexual, disturbing, controversial, art house ...
Audience: adult
Plot: ancient rome, ancient world, sex, brutality, incest, sexploitation, explicit sex, roman empire, nudity, sexuality, sexual perversion, sex orgy ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1979
Place: rome italy, italy, greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Troy (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Malta, UK
Duration: 163 min.
Story: In year 1250 B.C. during the late Bronze age, two emerging nations begin to clash. Paris, the Trojan prince, convinces Helen, Queen of Sparta, to leave her husband Menelaus, and sail with him back to Troy. After Menelaus finds out that his wife was ...
Style: epic, exciting, heroic, realistic, period piece ...
Audience: boys' night, date night, manly, teens, adult
Plot: sword fight, mythology, ancient, ancient history, ancient world, vengeance, battlefield, war, greek mythology, warrior, courage, betrayal ...
Time: ancient times, year 2004, 2000s, middle ages
Place: greece, ancient greece, britain, rome italy, hellas ...
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100%
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Coriolanus (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller, War
Country: UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Caius Martius, aka Coriolanus, is an arrogant and fearsome general who has built a career on protecting Rome from its enemies. Pushed by his ambitious mother to seek the position of consul, Coriolanus is at odds with the masses and unpopular with ...
Style: tense, stylized, political, intense, psychological ...
Audience: date night
Plot: shakespeare, politics, tragedy, manipulation, brutality, state affairs, leadership, rise and fall, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, tragic hero, betrayal ...
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
 5.6
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Alexander (2004)
Genre: Action, Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: USA, UK, Germany, Netherlands, France, Italy
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Alexander, the King of Macedonia, leads his legions against the giant Persian Empire. After defeating the Persians, he leads his army across the then known world, venturing farther than any westerner had ever gone, all the way to India.
Style: epic, breathtaking, period piece, serious, factual ...
Audience: date night, boys' night
Plot: ancient history, war, conquering, battles, royalty, warlord, greek, ambition, gay, ruler, knight, mythology ...
Time: ancient times, year 2004, middle ages
Place: ancient greece, greece, persia, alexandria egypt, egypt ...
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40%
Julius Caesar (1970)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: All star cast heads up this 1970 remake of the William Shakespeare classic tale of the betrayal of the the Roman senate against their emperor, the plotting and scheming that led up to the assassination of the title charecter, and all of Romes' ...
Style: epic, cult classic, suspenseful, serious, realistic ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, shakespeare, ancient, roman empire, antiquity, betrayal, assassination, medieval, ancient world, warrior, bible ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century, 1st century b.c.
Place: rome italy, italy, ancient greece, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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The Lion in Winter (1968)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story: 1183 AD: King Henry II's three sons all want to inherit the throne, but he won't commit to a choice. They and his wife variously plot to force him.
Style: suspense, political, factual, atmospheric, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, king, power struggle, political intrigue, british history, dysfunctional family, infidelity, medieval, royalty, royal family, manipulation, british royal family ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 12th century, 20th century, year 1968
Place: england, france, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hamlet (1990)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 135 min.
Story: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Style: atmospheric, realistic, compassionate, bleak, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, murder, royal family, tragic hero, poisoning, state affairs, family relations, parents and children, spirit, dishonesty, unfulfillment ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 16th century
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, Spain, Switzerland
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra, a historical drama that attempts to bring an epic visual style to the Bard's original stage play. The story concerns Marc Antony's attempts to rule Rome while maintaining a ...
Style: epic, captivating, emotional, gloomy, serious ...
Plot: ancient rome, shakespeare, cleopatra, ancient history, ancient, peplum, couples, royal family, medieval, mythology, bible, ancient egypt ...
Time: 1st century, ancient times, year 1972
Place: italy, egypt
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Hamlet (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Style: fairy tale, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, hamlet, tragedy, medieval, european, murder, tragic love, ghost, haunted by the past, royal family, parents and children, couples ...
Time: year 1969, middle ages
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
 7.5
 32K
Henry V (1989)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 137 min.
Story: Gritty adaption of William Shakespeare's play about the English King's bloody conquest of France.
Style: epic, realistic, exciting, costume drama, atmospheric ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medieval, battles, shakespeare, king, politics, royal family, war, tragedy, king of england, royalty, love and romance, military ...
Time: 15th century, middle ages, medieval times, year 1989, ancient times
Place: england, france, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
The Pentagon Papers (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: This compelling political drama is based on the true story of high-ranking Pentagon official Daniel Ellsberg, who, during the Nixon era, strove to preserve American democracy by leaking top-secret documents to the New York Times and Washington Post. ...
Style: disturbing, sincere, serious, realistic, captivating ...
Plot: whistleblower, politics, uncover truth, dishonesty, fighting the system, military, soldier, state affairs, head of state, introspection, political conspiracy, political corruption ...
Place: usa, asia, vietnam, new york
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37%
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The Last Duel (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 152 min.
Story: King Charles VI declares that Knight Jean de Carrouges settle his dispute with his squire by challenging him to a duel.
Style: historical drama, suspense, costume drama, cerebral, epic ...
Audience: date night, toddlers, chick flick, boys' night, adult
Plot: duel, medieval, rape, knight, husband wife relationship, showdown, revenge, sword duel, murder, battles, violence, jousting ...
Time: middle ages, 14th century, medieval times, 2020s
Place: france, normandy, scotland, paris france
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37%
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Anonymous (2011)
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I, and the Essex Rebellion against her, the story advances the theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford who penned Shakespeare's plays.
Style: stylized, serious, visually stunning, intense, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, conspiracy theory, medieval, politics, writers, betrayal, political intrigue, incest, intrigue, incestuous sex, poet, writer's life ...
Time: 16th century, 17th century, middle ages, year 2011, ancient times
Place: england, britain, europe, new york, wales ...
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50%
The Human Stain (2003)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story: Coleman Silk is a worldly and admired professor who loses his job after unwittingly making a racial slur. To clear his name, Silk writes a book about the events with his friend and colleague Nathan Zuckerman, who in the process discovers a dark ...
Style: emotional, erotic, sexy, melancholic, talky ...
Plot: couples, haunted by the past, loneliness, redemption, character study, justice, brutality, tennis, self destructing, writers, hidden identity, dishonesty ...
Time: 1940s, 90s, year 1944, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new england, massachusetts, new jersey, oxford university, usa
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36%
 7.7
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Hamlet (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 242 min.
Story: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Style: stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, revenge, medieval, betrayal, tragedy, vengeance, royal family, ghost, funeral, intrigue, tragic hero, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, 1800s, 16th century, 90s ...
Place: denmark, europe
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36%
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The Baby of Mâcon (1993)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: Netherlands, France, UK, Germany
Duration: 122 min.
Story: A town cursed with barren women and famine is saved by a miracle birth to an old, ugly woman: the Mother. Immediately afterwards, the old woman's Daughter (Ormond) claims to have delivered the baby herself in a virgin birth. She imprisons the ...
Style: disturbing, avant garde, surreal, serious, rough ...
Plot: baby, virginity, bishop, religion, church, surrealism, dismemberment, death, hypocrisy, breast feeding, seduction, brutality ...
Time: 17th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Fall of the Roman Empire (1964)
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: USA
Duration: 188 min.
Story: Drawn from the same events that later inspired Gladiator, the film charts the power-hungry greed and father-son betrayal that led to Rome's collapse at the bloody hands of the Barbarians.
Style: epic, captivating, exciting, stylized, serious ...
Plot: roman empire, ancient history, ancient rome, barbarian, battles, tragic hero, sword fight, ancient world, peplum, ancient, betrayal, politics ...
Time: ancient times
Place: rome italy, ancient greece, greece, europe, italy
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35%
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Hamlet (2009)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, ...
Style: serious, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, crying ...
Audience: date night
Plot: royal court, revenge, betrayal, murder, shakespeare, rivalry, tragic hero, shakespeare's hamlet, intrigue, heroes, state affairs, royal family ...
Time: middle ages
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
The Silence of the Lambs (1991)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: FBI trainee, Clarice Starling ventures into a maximum-security asylum to pick the diseased brain of Hannibal Lecter, a psychiatrist turned homicidal cannibal. Starling needs clues to help her capture a serial killer. But her Faustian relationship ...
Style: suspenseful, psychological, suspense, scary, psychological thriller ...
Audience: chick flick, date night, adult
Plot: serial killer, psychopath, investigation, murder, psychology, cannibalism, kidnapping, maniac, twists and turns, murder investigation, cannibal, mind game ...
Time: year 1991, 20th century, 90s
Place: pittsburgh, baltimore, madagascar, persia, maryland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
 5.9
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Hamlet (2000)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
Style: meditative, intense, cynical, psychological, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, murder, revenge, tragedy, vengeance, betrayal, ghost, intrigue, tragic hero, haunted by the past, corporation, poisoning ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2000
Place: new york, denmark, europe, usa, england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story: Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot: shakespeare, ghost, rape, incest, revenge, insanity, sexual abuse, betrayal, tragic love, hamlet, indecision, vengeance ...
Time: middle ages
Place: denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: UK, Germany
Duration: 123 min.
Story: Young Scottish doctor, Nicholas Garrigan decides it's time for an adventure after he finishes his formal education, so he decides to try his luck in Uganda, and arrives during the downfall of President Obote. General Idi Amin comes to power and ...
Style: political, factual, suspense, harsh, psychological ...
Plot: dictatorship, dictator, doctor, politics, polygamy, genocide, atrocity, corruption, biopic, medical, attempted murder, against humanity ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, year 2006
Place: africa, uganda, scotland, united kingdom, south africa
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Plot: shakespeare, peplum, tragedy, ancient rome, roman
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
Augustus: The First Emperor (2003)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance, War
Country: Italy, Germany, France, Spain, Austria
Duration: 200 min.
Story: Caesar Augustus tells of how he became the emperor to his reluctant daughter, Julia following the death of her husband Agrippa.
Style: epic, realistic, serious, stylized, exciting ...
Plot: ancient history, ancient rome, roman empire, roman emperor, emperor, politics, ancient, betrayal, assassination, leadership, ambition, tragic hero ...
Time: ancient times, 1st century b.c., 1st century
Place: alexandria egypt, rome italy, europe, greece, italy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Style: black and white, cerebral, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful ...
Audience: adult
Plot: shakespeare, murder, treason, medieval, rise to power, king, intrigue, betrayal, royal family, macbeth, knight, life & death ...
Time: middle ages, future
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 6.3
 86K
Centurion (2010)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: UK, France, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Britain, A.D. 117. Quintus Dias, the sole survivor of a Pictish raid on a Roman frontier fort, marches north with General Virilus' legendary Ninth Legion, under orders to wipe the Picts from the face of the Earth and destroy their leader, ...
Style: brutal, intense, epic, stylized, factual ...
Audience: boys' night, manly
Plot: roman empire, ancient rome, roman, ancient history, roman soldier, legion, medieval, survival, sword fight, soldier, betrayal, fight ...
Time: year 2010, middle ages, ancient times
Place: rome italy, britain, scotland, england, greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 7.0
 2K
Othello (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, clever, atmospheric ...
Plot: tragedy, shakespeare, jealousy, shakespeare's othello, love, betrayal, racism, tragic love, circus, opera, dancing, interracial relations ...
Time: 16th century
Place: cyprus, italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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