Movies and TV shows like Romeo & Juliet 1978

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Romeo & Juliet (1978)
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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 their life whose misadventur'd piteous overthrows doth with their death bury their parents' strife.
Style: fairy tale
Plot: shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, love, tragedy, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship, male female relationship, mother son relationship

Most similar movies to Romeo & Juliet

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, serious, romantic and emotional films and TV series with plots about shakespeare, tragedy, love, male female relationship, family relations, shakespeare play and tragic love mostly in Drama, Romance and History genres. Some movies like Romeo & Juliet: King Lear (2017), Mourning Becomes Electra (1978), All's Well That Ends Well (1981), Antony & Cleopatra (1981), As You Like It (1992). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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King Lear (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 233 min.
TV show
Story: King Lear is an in-depth study of love, power and death. Through this film Shakespeare is saying, "Don't blame the gods or the heaven's for the horrors committed on earth. No. Blame hellish inhumanity on those who inhabit the ...
Plot: shakespeare, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's king lear
Place: britain
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100%
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
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100%
Mourning Becomes Electra (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 290 min.
TV show
Story: In a Greek tragedy updated to the 1860s, young New Englanders exact vengeance after the murder of their father.
Plot: american civil war, civil war, guilt, extramarital affair, adultery, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, suicide, desperation, family relations, brother sister relationship, family feud ...
Place: new england
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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 ⇓
45%
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 ⇓
44%
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, impostor, tragic love, fog, sheep, slum, graffiti, cigarette smoking, gender disguise, male female relationship, flirting, wasteland ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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 ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
42%
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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 ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
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 ⇓
40%
Romeo and Juliet (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 200 min.
TV show
Story: Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Style: captivating
Plot: teenager, tragic love, love affair, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love, teen romance, relationships, male female relationship, couple relations, love story, family relations ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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King Lear (1974)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder ...
Plot: dancing, shakespeare, treachery, court jester, lightning, storm, heir, old age, loyalty, bastard, blindness, tragedy ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
38%
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Julius Caesar (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
TV show
Story: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Plot: shakespeare, roman, ancient rome, assassination, ancient world, ancient, peplum, antiquity, ancient history, funeral, civil war, tragedy ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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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 ⇓
38%
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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 ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
38%
One Hamlet Less (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a ...
Style: psychedelic, experimental
Plot: underground, shakespeare, tragedy, shakespeare's hamlet, theater, artistic creation
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Inconstant Love (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: The hatred of Miran Aslanbey against the man guilty of the death of his parents unleashes his desire for revenge by taking him to seduce his daughter Reyyan. Reyyan falls madly in love in Miran's arms. But what will happen when he finds out the ...
Style: touching, sweet, sentimental, uplifting, romantic
Audience: chick flick
Plot: love, couple relations, love and romance, love affair, father daughter relationship, revenge, fall in love, hopes, parents and children, destiny, adaptation, youth ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Deep Love: The Story of Ayu (2004)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 25 min.
TV show
Story: Ayu has lost the meaning of life after she has been working as a prostitute. However, her cold life change when she meets Yoshiyuki whom she wants to help with his heart problems. The two love each other, but Yoshiyuki's father doesn't ...
Style: sentimental, captivating, dramatic, exciting, serious
Plot: prostitute, prostitution, tragedy, male female relationship, couple relations, love affair, relationships, couples, financial problem, problem, money problems, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
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37%
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The Good Hope (1986)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Young Barend is worried about the safety of the sailing vessel he is on. The owner is an unscrupulous and stingy man who skimps on repairs and Barend becomes aware of this. Inevitably there is drama and tragedy. The film is set in an early 20th ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, love, drowning, male female relationship, shipwreck, fishing, village, sea, storm, loss of husband, death of husband, ship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ...
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37%
A Place in the Sun (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: South Korea
TV show
Story: When an orphan raised by foster parents has a near death experience, he changes his name and disappears from his life including his girlfriend. Attempting to cope, his girlfriend begins work at the conglomerate company Yangji Group where they meet ...
Style: suspenseful, sentimental, touching, suspense
Plot: unrequited love, true love, death, love and romance, unfulfilled love, love affair, love, tragedy, lost love, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couple relations, tragic love ...
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37%
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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
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37%
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Golden Boy (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Turkey
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story: A young girl is forced to marry a rich groom. The groom is not only rich, but also allows himself to live without any restrictions or obligations. Will married life change his habits? And how will such a man be accepted by a good-hearted wife?
Style: dramatic, captivating, exciting, witty, crying
Plot: family relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, father son relationship, rich, love and romance, parents and children, male female relationship, rich father, youth, doctor, rich man, lifestyle ...
Place: istanbul turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Cinderella (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Italy
Duration: 180 min.
TV show
Story: Once upon a time in post-war Rome: 13-year old Aurora, a gifted pianist, is the daughter of Valerio, a brilliant conductor. After Aurora's mother died, Valerio hired Irene, a single mother of two girls, to run the household. To Aurora's ...
Style: fairy tale, romantic
Plot: cinderella, maid, father son relationship, father daughter relationship, money, happy ending, ballroom dancing, half sister, taxes, brother, piano, housekeeper ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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