Movies like As You Like It 1992

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As You Like It (1992)
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As You Like It (1992)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.
Style: independent film, modern day adaptation
Plot: shakespeare, tragic love, impostor, graffiti, fog, slum, flirting, wasteland, male female relationship, sheep, cigarette smoking, gender disguise, waterfront, female director

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Most similar movies to As You Like It

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, period drama, serious and independent film films with plots about shakespeare, shakespeare play, love, love and romance, medieval, tragedy and male female relationship mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like As You Like It: Romeo & Juliet (1994), Othello (1981), Romeo & Juliet (1978), Antony & Cleopatra (1981), Romeo and Juliet (1966). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Romeo & Juliet (1994)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play, presented originally on television for schools in the UK.
Plot: shakespeare's romeo and juliet, shakespeare, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, love, father daughter relationship, family relations, male female relationship, teenager
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95%
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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 ⇓
89%
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Romeo & Juliet (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
TV show
Story: Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take ...
Style: fairy tale
Plot: shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragedy, love, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%
Antony & Cleopatra (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of ...
Plot: shakespeare, cleopatra, tragedy, ancient rome, roman
Time: 1st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
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Romeo and Juliet (1966)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 124 min.
Story: Classic ballet by Kenneth MacMillan to the music of Prokofiev.
Style: captivating, realistic, serious, stylized, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: shakespeare, couples, tragic love, true love, music, unfulfillment, love and romance, artists and showbiz, forbidden love, dancer's life, tragedy, ballet ...
Time: year 1966
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
 7.6
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King Lear (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story: King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style: period drama
Plot: shakespeare, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's king lear
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
63%
Henry IV Part I (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in ...
Plot: british history, king of england, shakespeare, medieval, royalty, shakespeare play
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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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 ⇓
59%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
A Performance of Macbeth (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, medieval, able to see the dead, live action
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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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 ⇓
58%
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 ⇓
56%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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 ⇓
52%
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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 ⇓
51%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
 6.7
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Othello (1981)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 195 min.
Story: Adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style: independent film
Plot: triumph, courage, tragedy, false accusation, maniac, racism, espionage, shakespeare's othello, deception, conspiracy, jealousy, betrayal ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
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Macbeth (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Style: artsy
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, peplum, witch, ambition, macbeth, scottish history, able to see the dead, filicide, murder, prophecy, king ...
Time: medieval times, 11th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Romeo & Juliet (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: Romeo, a hopeless romantic with emotionally-fueled impulsiveness, meets Juliet, an abused and desperate girl looking for anyway to escape. Together, destined for tragedy.
Style: disturbing, captivating, sincere, independent film
Plot: love story, in love, couple relations, tragic love, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, star crossed lovers, forbidden love, relationships, lovers apart, romantic relationship, male female relationship, love and romance ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
45%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: shakespeare, royal court, intrigue, affair, life is a bitch, royal family, male female relationship, palace intrigue, relationships, problem, husband wife relationship, kingdom ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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Othello (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: interracial relations, shakespeare, tragic love, power relations, vengeance, downfall, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, dirty cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
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 ⇓
42%
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Macbeth (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, misanthropy, nihilism, pessimism, theater
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
 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 ⇓
41%
 7.5
 657
King Lear (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story: Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, mythology, royalty, bible, ancient history, myth, theater, dancing, death of king, betrayal, tragedy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 253
Macbeth (1997)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story: In eleventh century Scotland, three witches foretell that Macbeth will become King, while Banquo will beget Kings. Macbeth accordingly has King Duncan slain, and is duly crowned in his place. But that's where his problems really begin...
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, murder, suicide, regicide, king, blood, prophecy, child murder, witch, wife, knife
Time: middle ages, 11th century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
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