Movies like Ophelia 1963
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Ophelia (1963)
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Original name: Ophélia
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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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out emotional, atmospheric, experimental and serious films with plots about shakespeare, tragedy, murder, royalty, king of england, theater and king mostly in Drama, History and Comedy genres. Some movies like Ophelia: A Performance of Macbeth (1979), Richard III (1983), King Lear (1982), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984), Henry IV Part II (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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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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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
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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
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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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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:
experimental
Plot:
tragedy, shakespeare's hamlet, theater, artistic creation
⇓ similarity ⇓
65%
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
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62%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.
Plot:
shakespeare, misanthropy, pessimism, nihilism, theater, hungarian
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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
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Plot:
shakespeare, murder, child murder, suicide, shakespeare play, knife
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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.
Plot:
shakespeare, medieval, ambition, witch, able to see the dead, filicide, tyrant, witchcraft, murder, prophecy, king
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53%
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
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51%
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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51%
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
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50%
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Miss Julie has power over Jean because she's an aristocrat but he has power over her because he's a man. On Midsummer Eve this power battle turns to love which is consummated. But as each one battles for power, Jean convinces Miss Julie ...
Plot:
cultural conflict, actress
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, France
Duration: 132 min.
Story:
Film adaptation by Straub and Huillot of Hölderlin's 1798 tragedy on the symbolic death of Empedoclus, the legislator in Ancient Greece.
Plot:
communism, utopia, filmed play
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
This is a very theatrical version, full of sound & fury, histrionics and big arm movements. Cynical audiences might not buy into it, but if you were to go back to the early 1600s this is probably the way you'd see it. The plot of ...
Plot:
shakespeare, taunting, regicide, male protagonist, murder, husband wife relationship, manhood, scottish accent
Time:
11th century
Place:
scotland
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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...
Plot:
shakespeare, suicide, murder, regicide, king, witch, prophecy, child murder, knife, blood
Time:
middle ages
Place:
scotland
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 233 min.
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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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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 ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Pilar is a Spanish widow who has raised her three daughters in France. In love with Fernand, the manager of the building in which she lives, she organizes a lunch in her home with the intention of introducing him to the rest of the family. The ...
Plot:
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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 ...
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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.
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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:
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Country: UK
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Story:
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Country: UK
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to international cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th ...
Style:
emotional, melancholic, intense, talky, atmospheric ...
Plot:
theater, shakespeare, medieval, live performance, theatre play, royal court, queen, mother son relationship, adaptation, king, culture clash, couples ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe, denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: West Germany, Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on a popular 1931 play, the film tells the fate of a naive young woman named Marianne, who breaks off her reluctant engagement with Oskar the butcher after falling in love with a fop named Alfred who, however, has no serious interest in ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Fantasy is a favourite theme for directors, since it enables them to give vent to diabolical situations with unlimited licence. This film is of this category. It is the story of a jealous and protective mother who allows her son only home-made dolls ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The sexual rivalries over a new, potentially great rock'n'roll singer between a nightclub owner and a local gangster cause unrest and eventually lead to murder.
Plot:
sex crime, rivalry, singer, nightclub, rock music, gay interest, gangsters
Time:
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Place:
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29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, ...
Style:
serious, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, realistic ...
Audience:
date night
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Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
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