Movies like A Midsummer Night's Dream 1981
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
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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 the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
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shakespeare
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Most similar movies to A Midsummer Night's Dream
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, parody, semi serious and realistic films with plots about shakespeare, tragedy, king of england, love and romance, royalty, british history and couples mostly in Comedy, Drama and History genres. Some movies like A Midsummer Night's Dream: The Comedy of Errors (1983), All's Well That Ends Well (1981), Timon of Athens (1981), A Performance of Macbeth (1979), Richard III (1983). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
Plot:
shakespeare, mistaken identity, abbey, twins, kicked in the butt
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95%
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
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78%
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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74%
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, morality, beggar, tragic event, misanthrope, generosity, satire, coin, play
⇓ similarity ⇓
69%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.
Plot:
shakespeare, able to see the dead
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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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:
shakespeare, royal family, king of england
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49%
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:
small village, shakespeare's hamlet, tragedy, shakespeare, shakespeare play
Place:
former yugoslavia
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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:
parody
Plot:
theater, shakespeare, professor, rap, female impersonator, breaking the fourth wall, live audience, stage play, shakespeare play, theatre audience, filmed play, talking to the audience ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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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 ...
Plot:
shakespeare, king, doctor, wine, musician, infidelity, fire, prisoner, poison, kidnapping, father daughter relationship, stepmother ...
Place:
rome italy, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
272
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 ...
Plot:
shakespeare, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's king lear
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Plot:
shakespeare, tragedy, ancient rome, bbc, roman
Place:
rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Duration: 139 min.
Story:
The Graham Vicks production of FALSTAFF opened the new Covent Garden Royal Opera House, and was not to everybody's taste; the garish primary colours of the costumes. The staging is effective--the complicated counterpoint of the ensembles is ...
Plot:
opera, knight, gluttony, fairy, servant, seduction, disguise, shakespeare, laundry
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 136 min.
Plot:
opera
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41%
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:
sexy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, sexual ...
Plot:
baby, psychiatrist, love and romance, power relations, disorder, couples, pregnancy, mental illness, doctors and patients, fall in love, hypnosis, shakespeare ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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, roman, ancient rome, bbc
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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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, king of england
Place:
england
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37%
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, bbc
Place:
ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
Plot:
shakespeare's hamlet, shakespeare
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36%
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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.
Plot:
shakespeare's romeo and juliet, cold war, un, diplomacy, politics
Place:
ussr, russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including ...
Plot:
drugs, television, restaurant
Time:
50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
Style:
cult film
Plot:
employment, electric chair, accountant, murder, afterlife
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34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 211 min.
Story:
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Plot:
shakespeare, british history, royalty, king of england
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34%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 203 min.
Story:
The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Plot:
shakespeare, british history, royalty, king of england
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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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, cult, underground, breakdance, white trash, garbage, surrealism, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, gay, storyteller
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32%
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, shakespeare, king of england, royalty
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
John Smith has been happily involved in a bigamous marriage for five years. He lives with Stephanie in Finsbury and Michelle in Stockwell. Fortunately, for John, he's a taxi driver which involves varying shift work! Simple? Well, when John ...
Style:
realistic, not serious, feel good, humorous, sex comedy
Plot:
couples, disorder, love and romance, love triangle, nothing goes right, dishonesty, infidelity, comedy of errors, life turned upside down, taxi driver, farce, heist ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Romeo and Juliet love each other, but they also love everyone else in town.
Style:
parody, sex comedy
Audience:
adult
Plot:
porn, erotica, sexual humor, sex spoof, farce, female nudity, joke, sex, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, sexploitation, female full frontal nudity, goofball ...
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30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous
Plot:
fortune, couples, love and romance, youth, colonel, inheritance, millionaire
Time:
60s
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Jesse is nine months pregnant and lives with her underemployed husband Hank in a dilapidated mobile home in a rusty trailer park. During an afternoon of talk, Jesse discovers that Hank has been spending time with Bonnie, their young, bovine ...
Plot:
white trash, trailer trash, pregnancy, female nudity, nudity (topless - notable), trailer park
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29%
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, atmospheric, humorous, feel good, stylized
Audience:
date night
Plot:
shakespeare, true love, dream, magical creature, wedding, forest, comedy of errors, mistaken identity, couples, disorder, unlikely couple, prank ...
Time:
16th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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