Movies like Hamlet 1964
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Hamlet (1964)
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Original name: Hamlet from the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Style:
light, atmospheric, sexy, enigmatic, breathtaking, melancholic, dramatic, affectionate, witty, harsh ...
Plot:
shakespeare, murder, love, catastrophe, gangsters, twists and turns, obsession, betrayal, gunfight, adultery, fantasy world, corruption, runaway, segregation, childhood, murder mystery, fighting the system, mentor, manipulation, first contact, life & death, greed, secrets, british, broadway ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s
Place:
london, california, denmark, australia
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, melancholic, talky and serious films with plots about storytelling, catastrophe, dialogue, runaway, adaptation, mentor and culture clash mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Hamlet: The Glass Menagerie (1987), The Taming of the Shrew (1967), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (1995), Othello (1995), Dadetown (1995). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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, atmospheric, captivating, serious, sexy ...
Plot:
shakespeare, revenge, betrayal, tragedy, vengeance, medieval, royal family, ghost, funeral, intrigue, love and romance, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, middle ages, 18th century
Place:
europe, denmark, england
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95%
23K
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, melancholic, compassionate, bleak ...
Plot:
shakespeare, medieval, murder, royal family, poisoning, tragic hero, family relations, state affairs, parents and children, spirit, dishonesty, unfulfillment ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
denmark, england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A son longs to escape from his stifling home, where his genteel mother worries about the future prospects of his lame, shy sister.
Style:
psychological, touching, melancholic, sentimental, serious ...
Plot:
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Time:
1930s, 20th century, future, 1920s, 70s
Place:
tennessee, usa, california
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66%
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:
clever, humorous, witty, sexy, talky ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
battle of the sexes, opposites attract, shakespeare, farce, wedding, marriage, renaissance, mentor, prejudice, culture clash, redemption, police investigation ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s, 20th century, 16th century
Place:
london, new york, europe, italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.
Style:
meditative, intense, psychological, cynical, serious ...
Plot:
murder, revenge, shakespeare, ghost, tragedy, betrayal, vengeance, corporation, tragic hero, haunted by the past, poisoning, intrigue ...
Time:
year 2000, 90s, 20th century
Place:
new york, europe, usa, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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Genre: Drama
Country: France, Italy, Germany
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Nelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her senior, after he offers to clear her bills for her. While she types his memoirs the two develop a close friendship, but Arnaud becomes jealous when Nelly ...
Style:
sexy, breathtaking, witty, talky, cerebral ...
Plot:
love triangle, death, fighting the system, culture clash, love, love story, crime gone awry, corruption, destiny, french, greed, character study ...
Time:
1920s, 90s
Place:
france, paris france, california, tokyo, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
214
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Interviews in the Michael Moore/"Roger and Me" tradition examine life in small-town America, class conflicts and the collapse of an upstate New York community, Dadetown, when the town's once-prosperous factory, reduced to the ...
Style:
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Plot:
small town, tragedy, nude, death sentence, paranoia, brutality, farce, mentor, guilt, twists and turns, life & death, corporate america ...
Time:
90s
Place:
canada, texas, cuba
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Style:
captivating, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot:
shakespeare, ghost, rape, incest, revenge, insanity, sexual abuse, betrayal, tragic love, indecision, losing-it hero, dishonesty ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
Traces over three generations an immigrant family's trials, tribulations, tragedies, and triumphs. Maria and Jose, the first generation, come to Los Angeles, meet, marry, face deportation all in the 1930's. They establish their family in ...
Style:
touching, sexy, entertaining, clever, emotional ...
Plot:
family relations, immigrants, father son relationship, prison, nude, marriage, death of wife, family bonds, dysfunctional family, prejudice, adaptation, beautiful scenery ...
Time:
1920s, 50s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Denmark, Sweden, Finland, South Africa, Norway, USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why not stage a play. However the choice of King Lear ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
90s
Place:
africa, new jersey, australia, namibia
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
592
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, Italy, USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story:
Having previously staged Verdi's 1887 opera Otello at the Met and La Scala, filmmaker Franco Zeffirelli committed his production to film in 1986. Starring as the fatally jealous Moor of Venice is Placido Domingo, who had also headlined ...
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Time:
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Place:
paris france, italy, europe, venice
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
10K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
At a summer house in Vermont, neighbor Howard falls in love with Lane, who's in a relationship with Peter, who's falling for Stephanie, who's married with children.
Style:
talky, emotional, serious, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa, vermont
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
england, france, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Gilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gilbert has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous, but his wife decides to fight for her family.
Style:
sentimental, serious, realistic, emotional, melancholic ...
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
As the seasons change in a Connecticut town, two men of different age and backgrounds who work together outdoors for the local park system, share thoughts and feelings that gradually deepen into a relationship approaching father and son. Paul is ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
A free-spirited artist (Elizabeth Taylor), who lives near California's Big Sur, meets the administrator (Richard Burton) of the parochial school that her young son attends and lures the cleric away from his wife (Eva Marie Saint).
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sentimental, sexy, intense, visually appealing, feel good ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
60s, 70s
Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In 1935, 99-year-old former slave Shadrach asks to be buried on the soil where he was born to slavery, and that land is owned by the large Dabney family, consisting of Vernon, Trixie and their seven children, and to bury a black man on that land is ...
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Plot:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
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30%
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Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Country: USA
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Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Style:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
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Time:
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Place:
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
To be or not to be, etc.
Style:
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Plot:
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28%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
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Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
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