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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them...
Plot: shakespeare, mistaken identity, twins, abbey, shakespeare play, costume, kicked in the butt, slapping, twin
Keyword: bbc

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out semi serious, humorous, independent film and captivating films with plots about shakespeare, shakespeare play, love and romance, fall in love, male female relationship, mistaken identity and love triangle mostly in Comedy, Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like The Comedy of Errors: A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981), All's Well That Ends Well (1981), Timon of Athens (1981), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982), The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min.
Story: The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in ...
Plot: shakespeare, mistaken identity, unhappiness, magic realism, costume
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95%
All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. ...
Plot: shakespeare, soldier, virgin, unrequited love, love, male female relationship, shakespeare play
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63%
Timon of Athens (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Plot: shakespeare, literary, morality, generosity, coin, tragic event, beggar, misanthrope, satire, shakespeare play
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60%
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Story: Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives ...
Plot: shakespeare, live performance, stage
Place: new york
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47%
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, wooing, comedy of errors, live performance, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, couples, disorder, womanizer, shakespeare, escapades ...
Time: 15th century
Place: england, europe
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45%
Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 136 min.
Plot: shakespeare, opera
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42%
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
Style: semi serious, stylized, atmospheric, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: date night
Plot: shakespeare, true love, swashbuckler, dream, magical creature, wedding, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, unrequited love, prank, battle of the sexes, unlikely couple ...
Time: 16th century
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41%
Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 167 min.
Story: When the King of Navarre and his three courtiers forswear all pleasure - particularly of the female variety - in favour of a life of study, the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies plays havoc with their intentions. Using every kind of ...
Style: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
Plot: shakespeare, couple relations, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, oath, youth, new student, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, theatre play ...
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40%
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story: Baptista, a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca, will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina, a hellish shrew, has wed. Lucentio, a student and the son of a wealthy Pisan merchant, has fallen in love with ...
Style: costume drama, clever, humorous, witty, funny ...
Audience: date night
Plot: battle of the sexes, shakespeare, opposites attract, medieval, wedding, marriage, renaissance, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, makeover, stage play, royal family ...
Time: 16th century, year 1967, 20th century
Place: persia, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
Style: heartfelt, independent film
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, cold war, un, diplomacy, politics, voice over narration, narration, shakespeare
Time: year 1961
Place: russia, ussr
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Cymbeline (1982)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has ...
Style: black comedy
Plot: shakespeare, dance, wine, king, doctor, blood, infidelity, fire, prisoner, kidnapping, poison, musician ...
Place: rome italy, britain
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39%
The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2000)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Three men perform the entire 37 play canon from William Shakespeare in under two hours. A lot of quick costume changes and even more laughs.
Style: captivating, satirical, semi serious, entertaining, parody
Plot: shakespeare, theater, stage play, theatrical troupe, theatre play, satire, professor, rap, drag queen, breaking the fourth wall, shakespeare play, live audience ...
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38%
Romeo & Julio (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
Style: parody
Plot: lgbt, underground, breakdance, narration, white trash, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, surrealism, gay, shakespeare, storyteller
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37%
The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (1969)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Romeo and Juliet love each other, but they also love everyone else in town.
Style: slapstick comedy, independent film, slapstick, grindhouse, parody ...
Audience: adult
Plot: porn, erotica, sexual humor, pun, female pubic hair, sex spoof, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, female nudity, joke, sex, shakespeare, sexploitation ...
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36%
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Plot: shakespeare, magical creature, farce, fairy, elf, opera, donkey, unrequited love, struggling actor, costume, opera live performance, switch
Place: ancient greece
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34%
As You Like It (2006)
Genre: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in ...
Style: semi serious, talky, witty, humorous, costume drama ...
Plot: exile, shakespeare, love and romance, young lovers, fall in love, dishonesty, gender bending, mistaken identity, brother brother conflict, gender, hidden identity, disorder ...
Time: victorian era, 19th century
Place: japan, asia
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33%
National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well (2009)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Story: National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centres on the world. The second production, ...
Style: semi serious, satirical, captivating
Plot: love story, love interest, forbidden love, shakespeare, in love, fall in love, satire, love and romance, male female relationship, couples, love affair, love triangle ...
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32%
Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When Juliet, of noble Capulet birth, falls madly in love with Romeo, a zombie, the streets of fair Verona explode in an ancient feud. As the star crossed lovers struggle to overcome the prejudice toward their unholy union, Juliet's best friend ...
Style: independent film
Plot: infected, zombie, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, crossover, shakespeare
Time: 80s
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, and how they are finally brought together rightly, thanks in part to the bungling work of Puck. It is completely in the language of the Bard, with Pfeiffer as the Fairy ...
Style: fairy tale, atmospheric, stylized, entertaining, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: shakespeare, magic, love story, mistaken identity, love, friendship, fairy, adaptation, farce, curses spells and rituals, fall in love, young lovers ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, year 1999, victorian era
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Richard III (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 239 min.
Story: Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward ...
Plot: royalty, shakespeare, royal family, medieval, king of england, shakespeare play
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30%
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
Story: When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves ...
Plot: shakespeare, king, prince, shakespeare play
Place: ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the leading character observes "The play's the thing, wherein to catch the conscience of the king." In this Yugoslavian movie, a performance of Hamlet in a small village apparently catches the conscience ...
Plot: hamlet, small village, shakespeare's hamlet, tragedy, shakespeare
Place: former yugoslavia
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29%
Henry IV Part II (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, royalty, medieval, king of england, shakespeare play
Place: england
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29%
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The Taming of the Shrew (2016)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 156 min.
Story: This scintillating production of Shakespeare’s boisterous comedy will stir your emotions even as it challenges you with its pointed social commentary. Is the story of Kate and Petruchio one of courtship or of conquest? The breaking down of a ...
Style: captivating, semi serious, disturbing, satirical
Plot: troubled marriage, family relations, dysfunctional marriage, family problems, relationship problems, satire, relationships, male female relationship, sister sister relationship, marriage, shakespeare, woman
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28%
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Macbeth (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, murder, suicide, child murder, macbeth, shakespeare play, knife
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27%
Love's Labour's Lost (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 162 min.
Story: A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
Style: light, entertaining, captivating
Plot: king, friends, love and romance, male female relationship, love story, relationships, romantic relationship, promise, in love, fall in love, broken promise, love affair ...
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That's Not Me (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: Australia, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Polly’s dreams of making it as an actor are shattered when her identical twin sister Amy lands the lead role in a huge TV show. Mistaken for her famous sister at every turn, Polly decides to use Amy’s celebrity for her own advantage – free ...
Style: humorous, entertaining, light, feel good
Plot: mistaken identity, fame, sibling rivalry, hollywood, rise to the top, actress, life is a bitch, twins, twin sister, clone
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27%
Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, sexual ...
Plot: baby, psychiatrist, power relations, disorder, couples, doctors and patients, fall in love, love and romance, pregnancy, mental illness, shakespeare, hypnosis ...
Time: 60s, 20th century
Place: england
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26%
The Third Part of King Henry VI (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 211 min.
Story: The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, medieval, royalty, king of england, shakespeare play
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 134 min.
Story: Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Style: period piece, stylized, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: cross dressing, shakespeare, twins, mistaken identity, comedy of errors, beach, disguise, love triangle, sea disaster, disorder, couples, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, 1890s, 1800s, victorian era
Place: cornwall, britain
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25%
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