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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
Plot:
magical creature, elf, fairy, unrequited love, opera, struggling actor, donkey, farce, opera live performance, switch
Place:
ancient greece
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, semi serious, feel good and light films with plots about opera, love, dancing, farce, live performance, love and romance and culture clash mostly in Comedy, Romance and Music genres. Some movies like A Midsummer Night's Dream: Othello (1992), Falstaff (1982), Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff (1982), All's Well That Ends Well (1981), Le Comte Ory (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story:
The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gala Performance in honour of Sir Georg Solti's 80th birthday.. 27 October 1992. BBC 2 Television live relay.
Plot:
dancing, tragedy, opera, shakespeare's othello, opera live performance
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95%
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
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93%
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
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92%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 136 min.
Plot:
opera
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77%
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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, humorous, atmospheric, stylized, entertaining ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
magic, shakespeare, love story, mistaken identity, love, friendship, fairy, adaptation, farce, curses spells and rituals, fall in love, young lovers ...
Time:
19th century, 1930s, 18th century, victorian era
Place:
england
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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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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72%
Genre: Comedy, Music
Country: UK
Story:
Glyndebourne's intimate opera house provides the perfect setting for Rossini's third French opera, a sparkling medieval comedy of lust and chastity.
Plot:
opera, impostor, countess, recluse, pilgrim, man disguised as a woman, seduction, opera live performance, wine cellar
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68%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance, Music
Country: Germany
Duration: 159 min.
Story:
Handel's Alcina. Anonymous libretto, adapted from the libretto of Riccardo Broschi's "L'isola d'Alcina",
based on Ludovico Ariosto's "Orlando furioso" (uncredited)
Plot:
female nudity, opera, live performance, cross dressing, opera live performance, undressing
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62%
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Genre: Music, Comedy
Country: France
Duration: 190 min.
Story:
"William Christie and Les Arts Florissants propel this exuberant production of Jean-Philippe Rameau's second opera to great heights. Andrei Serban's extravagant, highly baroque staging presents the four exotic love stories vibrantly. ...
Plot:
opera, ballet, native american, live performance, opera live performance, french opera, omnibus
Place:
paris france, india
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54%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Sweden
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
The Queen of the Night enlists a handsome prince named Tamino to rescue her beautiful kidnapped daughter, Princess Pamina, in this screen adaptation of the beloved Mozart opera. Aided by the lovelorn bird hunter Papageno and a magical flute that ...
Style:
art house, stylized, sexy, allegory, affectionate ...
Plot:
opera, music, bittersweet, rebellion, melancholy, brutality, british, assassination, mentor, secrets, surrealism, greed ...
Time:
18th century, 70s, year 1975
Place:
england, tokyo, vienna
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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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 ...
Plot:
shakespeare
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41%
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Cinderella is helped to the ball by her fairy godmother.
Style:
fairy tale
Plot:
cinderella, ballet, stepdaughter, prince, fairy, fairy godmother, orchestra, pumpkin, transformation, love at first sight, half sister, stepmother stepdaughter relationship ...
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37%
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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37%
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Experience Claudio Monteverdi's three-act opera in the environment it was meant to be seen with this release of a filmed performance captured live during a 2000 production staged at the Festival d'Aix-en-Provence in France. Mireille ...
Style:
baroque
Plot:
opera, coronation, live performance, music festival, torment, menage a trois, god, italian opera, opera live performance
Place:
provence
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37%
Genre: Comedy, Romance, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 167 min.
Story:
Gioacchino Rossini's sparkling version of the Cinderella story comes live from the Salzburg Festival with Ann Murray and Francisco Araiza as Cinderella and the Prince. Director Michael Hampe envisions La Cenerentola less as a fairy tale and ...
Plot:
cinderella, opera, royalty, love, prince, disguise, masquerade, live performance, royal romance, live audience
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
The Prince, Don Ramiro (who has changed places with his valet, Dandini), meets Cenerentola and they are instantly attracted to each other. When the Philosopher, Alidoro, later takes Cenerentola (dressed in magnificent clothing) to the palace, ...
Plot:
cinderella, opera, masquerade, royalty, royal romance, disguise, singer, prince, love, singing, song
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36%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
A struggling female soprano finds work playing a male female impersonator, but it complicates her personal life.
Style:
witty, sexy, touching, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
gay, cross dressing, nightclub, music, gender disguise, farce, dancing, gender bending, jazz, lgbtq, homosexual, private detective ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century, year 1934
Place:
paris france, chicago illinois, france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Music
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
From the world famous Arena of Verona, an international cast perform one of Puccini's best loved operas. The cruel Princess Turandot, ruler of China, will only wed a prince who can answer correctly her three riddles. Those who fail are ...
Plot:
dancing, italian opera, massacre, queen, quiz, live performance, opera, sacrifice, opera live performance
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35%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Stanley is infatuated with Margaret, the statuesque waitress who works with him. He meets George Spiggott AKA the devil and sells his soul for 7 wishes, which Stanley uses to try and make Margaret his own first as an intellectual, then as a rock ...
Style:
witty, funny, surreal, humorous, sexy ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
satire, devil, deal with the devil, wish come true, fall in love, british, fantasy world, love and romance, hopes, transformation, god, religion ...
Time:
60s
Place:
london, europe, england
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35%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK, China, Japan, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A struggling musician realizes he's the only person on Earth who can remember The Beatles.
Style:
feel good, romantic, disturbing, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
the beatles, rock star, moral dilemma, music, alternate dimension, alternate reality, alternate timeline, plagiarism, musician, male female friendship, fame, pop singer ...
Time:
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Place:
england, liverpool, los angeles, moscow russia
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Australia
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
A spiritualist medium holds a seance for a writer suffering from writers block but accidentally summons the spirit of his deceased first wife which leads to an increasingly complex love triangle with his current wife of five years.
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, romantic, captivating ...
Plot:
comedy of manners, love, supernatural, ghost, afterlife, interwar period, true love, power of love, loss of loved one, writer's life, writers, love story ...
Time:
20th century, future, year 1937
Place:
england
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32%
Genre: Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: Russia, France
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
This version of "The Nutcracker" gives the classic ballet a tragic spin, with Masha (instead of Clara) now the unloved, unappreciated daughter of the Town Council President. At a Christmas party, Masha is given a seemingly alive Nutcracker ...
Plot:
opera, cookbook, dancing, toys, drunkenness, death, live performance, bakery, christmas party, toy soldier, tragic event, ballet ...
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32%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
The directorial debut of Dustin Hoffman, Quartet is a high-drama comedy about temperamental divas and old grudges, passion and pride, romance and Rigoletto. At a home for retired musicians, the annual concert to celebrate Verdi's birthday is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, sincere, humorous, feel good ...
Plot:
elderly, opera, aging, retirement home, retired, reconciliation, musician, friendship, music, old age, human spirit, retirement home life ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
england, paris france
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France
Duration: 204 min.
Story:
"Inspired by a fable by La Fontaine, [composer Jean-Philippe] Rameau produced perhaps his most brilliant music for his penultimate great work, blending reality and the surreal on several levels." — from the DVD back cover
Style:
baroque
Plot:
opera, nude, subway, dancing, breakdance, live performance, balloon, angel, rap, horse, opera live performance, stage performance
Place:
paris france, versailles
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Harry is a barely functional human. He meets an old friend who is having marital problems as Harry is about to leap off of a bridge. His friend decides that Harry is the man to take his wife away from him so that Milt can be with his girlfriend. ...
Plot:
waterfall, skyscraper, city, chaos, water, marriage, suicidal thoughts, disorder, fitness, farce, male female relationship, bridge ...
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, West Germany, France
Duration: 149 min.
Story:
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself.
Plot:
opera, tragedy, curse, live performance, italian opera
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29%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
'The Canterville Ghost' is one of the most popular choice for making a film in Oscar Wilde's works, and the original short story deserves the popularity. It is a witty spoof about a ghost and the 'haunted' mansion where a ...
Plot:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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28%
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
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Story:
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Style:
fairy tale, romantic, feel good, light, touching ...
Audience:
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Plot:
love and romance, fall in love, self discovery, true love, love, looking for love, unlikely friendships, loneliness, magical, love affair, love story, fantasy world ...
Time:
19th century, 21st century
Place:
canada, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Unsuccessful singing bullfighter Juan arrives in Barcelona to try his luck in a big town. He finally persuades a devious local impresario to book him, but only on the condition that Juan first manages to spend an evening with Olimpia, a "shrewd ...
Style:
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Audience:
date night
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goofy hero, gender, artists and showbiz, buddies, partners, love and romance, nothing goes right, disorder, couples, friends, farce, mistaken identity ...
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28%
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