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The Tempest (2010)
 5.3
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The Tempest (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
Style: surreal, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, novela, offbeat, independent film, mindfuck, weird ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: shakespeare, sorceress, storm, spirit, betrayal, wizards and magicians, family relations, escapades, vengeance, danger, curses spells and rituals, destiny, love and romance, isolation, imaginary, female protagonist, confusion, medieval, sorcery, island, chess, knight, women, sword, exile ...
Time: 17th century, 16th century
Keyword: challenge

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Most similar movies to The Tempest

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out stylized, serious, atmospheric and period drama films with plots about love and romance, shakespeare, love, couples, fall in love, costume and family relations mostly in Drama, Romance and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Tempest: Prospero's Books (1991), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968), A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999), Practical Magic (1998), As You Like It (2006). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Prospero's Books (1991)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min.
Story: An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
Style: experimental, surreal, psychedelic, psychotronic, non-linear ...
Plot: shakespeare, book, surrealism, magic, nudity, children, magic realism, decadence, acid trip, stage play, magician, dialogue ...
Time: 90s, year 1991, 17th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.4
 1K
The Tempest (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the ...
Style: avant garde, independent film, offbeat, atmospheric, stylized ...
Audience: chick flick
Plot: shakespeare, chess, atonement, rock, island, nudity, male nudity, parents and children, isolation, royal family, destiny, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
39%
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Practical Magic (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With ...
Style: sweet, feel good, sincere, romantic, offbeat ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night, family outing, teen drama
Plot: witch, magic, supernatural, sisters, curses spells and rituals, love, witchcraft, supernatural ability, curse, small town, halloween, female protagonist ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: seattle, usa, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
 5.8
 13K
Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are ...
Style: romantic, dramatic, touching, emotional, realistic ...
Audience: date night, teens, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: forbidden love, true love, star crossed lovers, young lovers, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, family feud, love and romance, uninhibited rivalry, parents and children, family relations ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages
Place: italy, united kingdom, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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 ⇓
33%
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 7.3
 67K
Excalibur (1981)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
Style: fairy tale, epic, serious, exciting, stylized ...
Audience: kids
Plot: knight, king arthur, sword fight, arthurian legend, medieval, mythology, good versus evil, excalibur, legends and myths, wizard, legend, sword and sorcery ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, 5th century, year 1981, 6th century
Place: england, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story: In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a ...
Style: romantic, period piece, costume drama, talky, sweet ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens
Plot: opposites attract, shakespeare, countryside, wedding, bachelor, honest, intrigue, happy ending, mistaken identity, love and romance, battle of wits, dishonesty ...
Time: 16th century, 90s, year 1993, victorian era
Place: italy, tuscany, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.5
 7K
Camelot (1967)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min.
Story: King Arthur establishes the ideals and laws of Camelot but is tragically forced to enforce these laws against his own wife.
Style: emotional, colorful, lyrical, intense, captivating ...
Audience: date night
Plot: medieval, king arthur, arthurian legend, sword and sorcery, betrayal, sword fight, heroes, broadway, jousting, intrigue, rivalry, mentor ...
Time: middle ages, medieval times, year 1967
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Style: black and white, light, entertaining, romantic, talky ...
Audience: date night, family friendly
Plot: shakespeare, love, manipulation, obsession, twists and turns, matchmaking, love affair, verbal byplay, comedy of errors, opposites attract, estate, couples ...
Time: 21st century
Place: sicily
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 131 min.
Story: In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style: sexy, period piece, talky, melancholic, stylized ...
Plot: shakespeare, renaissance, religious intolerance, women, friends, love and romance, judaism, trial, prejudice, segregation, culture clash, life is a bitch ...
Time: 16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004
Place: venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 7.7
 40K
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
 4.9
 381
The Tempest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, modern day adaptation
Audience: family outing
Plot: shakespeare, american civil war, civil war, swamp, master and servant, supernatural, rivalry, love and romance, escapades, danger, wizards and magicians, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: mississippi, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min.
Story: Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young ...
Style: romantic, sweet, colorful, period piece, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens
Plot: forbidden love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragic love, fall in love, family feud, love story, medieval, unfulfillment, true love, love, star crossed lovers ...
Time: year 1968, 1900s
Place: italy, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.1
 484
Othello (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story: Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ...
Style: depressing, serious, realistic, rough, emotional ...
Plot: shakespeare, shakespeare's othello, opera, jealousy, tragedy, betrayal, racism, unfulfillment, rivalry, downfall, love and romance, intrigue ...
Time: 16th century
Place: venice, italy, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 6.4
 3K
The Tempest (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, humorous, entertaining, vintage ...
Audience: date night
Plot: shakespeare, island, midlife crisis, mind power, mediterranean, dancing, magic, psychokinesis, brain, psychic power, tragic love, architect ...
Time: year 1982, 80s
Place: greece, new york, europe, usa, athens greece ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 6.8
 10K
Othello (1995)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min.
Story: The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
Style: melancholic, atmospheric, tense, costume drama, cynical ...
Plot: shakespeare, interracial relations, black man white woman relationship, jealousy, murder, racism, tragedy, medieval, tragic love, revenge, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time: 16th century, medieval times, middle ages
Place: venice, italy, europe, mediterranean sea
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 5.4
 2K
Rough Magic (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A sleazy politician sends an agent (Russell Crowe) after his ex-fiancee (Bridget Fonda), who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.
Style: surreal, touching, humorous, melancholic, intense ...
Plot: magic, supernatural, love and romance, rivalry, on the run, justice, chases and races, good versus evil, realism, disorder, destiny, magician ...
Time: 50s, 1900s, 1950s
Place: mexico, latin america
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.7
 243K
Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Australia
Duration: 120 min.
Story: In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. ...
Style: romantic, stylized, visual, sexy, visually stunning ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, date night, girls' night, kids ...
Plot: love story, forbidden love, tragic love, shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, teen romance, true love, young lovers, star crossed lovers, young love, suicide, secret marriage ...
Time: 90s, year 1996, 1900s, y2k, 20th century
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
What Dreams May Come (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min.
Story: Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the ...
Style: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, tear jerker ...
Audience: family friendly, teens, chick flick, teen drama
Plot: afterlife, heaven and hell, life & death, life philosophy, heaven, redemption, reincarnation, spirituality, love, hell, metaphysics, life after death ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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 6.7
 24K
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 ⇓
23%
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min.
Story: Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
Style: touching, philosophical, dramatic, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, teens, girls' night, adult
Plot: destiny, true love, life & death, life philosophy, aging, existentialism, love and romance, fictional biography, melancholy, puzzle, tragic love, old age ...
Time: 50s, 20th century, 1940s, year 2008, 1950s ...
Place: new orleans, cambodia, usa, pearl harbor, france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Tears for Sale (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Story of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the ...
Style: captivating, light, humorous, enigmatic, surreal ...
Plot: village, siblings relations, obsessive quest, escapades, sex scene, drinking, rivalry, looking for love, drinking alcohol, danger, moving, kidnapping ...
Place: eastern europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story: England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover ...
Style: semi serious, realistic, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: wedding, lovers reunited, bride and groom, unrequited love, under the surface, love and romance, introspection, family problems, parents and children, love triangle, ex lover, marriage ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1932
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 6.1
 57K
Winter's Tale (2014)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
Style: romantic, stylized, fairy tale, captivating, emotional ...
Audience: date night, teens, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: angel, power of love, fall in love, love and romance, true love, supernatural ability, love story, imaginary, magic, supernatural, good versus evil, cancer ...
Time: year 2014, 19th century, year 1916
Place: grand central station manhattan new york city, new york, america, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
 5.5
 80K
Beastly (2011)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic, touching, sweet, modern fairy tale ...
Audience: teens, chick flick, girls' night, teen fantasy, date night ...
Plot: love, love story, love and romance, teen romance, high school, unlikely couple, teenage love, true love, fall in love, youth, beast, teenager ...
Time: year 2011, 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
 4.9
 137
Yellow Day (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yellow Day chronicles a young man's life-changing and inspirational journey through the mysterious Yellow Day. To many, the Yellow Day is simply a fun day celebrating outreach at a kid's camp, but to some, God bestows visions and miracles, ...
Style: stylized, feel good, surreal, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: teenage life, looking for love, youth, love and romance, escapades, camp, christian, imaginary, journey, girl, young
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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