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Measure For Measure (2006)
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Measure For Measure (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Contempoary re-working of the Shakespeare's problem play set in the british army.
Plot: shakespeare, tragic love, tank, army, soldier, priest, lust, brother sister relationship, smoking, blood, cell phone, punishment, disguise, public humiliation, abuse, eavesdropping, drinking, drinking alcohol, shower, blindfold, spit, nightstick, public telephone

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, atmospheric, independent film and realistic films with plots about shakespeare, murder, medieval, shakespeare play, king, royalty and tragedy mostly in Drama and Romance genres. Some movies like Measure For Measure: Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984), Macbeth (1997), A Performance of Macbeth (1979), King Lear (1982), Henry IV Part II (1979). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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
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95%
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Macbeth (1997)
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...
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, murder, suicide, regicide, king, blood, prophecy, child murder, witch, wife, knife
Time: middle ages, 11th century
Place: scotland
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91%
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 ⇓
89%
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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 ⇓
85%
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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
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83%
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
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78%
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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
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76%
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Ophelia (1963)
Genre: Drama
Country: France
Duration: 105 min.
Story: A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
Style: modern day adaptation
Plot: shakespeare, shooting, heart attack, cemetery, cigarette smoking, countryside, death of father, filmmaker, french countryside, funeral, forest, bird ...
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70%
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Macbeth (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, misanthropy, nihilism, pessimism, theater
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61%
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Macbeth (1983)
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.
Style: artsy
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, peplum, witch, ambition, macbeth, scottish history, able to see the dead, filicide, murder, prophecy, king ...
Time: medieval times, 11th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
61%
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Macbeth (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, murder, suicide, child murder, macbeth, shakespeare play, knife
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
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Hamlet (1969)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Style: fairy tale, tense, serious, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot: shakespeare, hamlet, tragedy, medieval, european, murder, tragic love, ghost, haunted by the past, royal family, parents and children, couples ...
Time: year 1969, middle ages
Place: denmark, europe
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59%
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Othello (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, clever, atmospheric ...
Plot: tragedy, shakespeare, jealousy, shakespeare's othello, love, betrayal, racism, tragic love, circus, opera, dancing, interracial relations ...
Time: 16th century
Place: cyprus, italy, venice, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
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, hamlet, indecision, vengeance ...
Time: middle ages
Place: denmark
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57%
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 ...
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55%
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King Lear (2008)
Genre: Drama
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: shakespeare, medieval, mythology, royalty, bible, ancient history, myth, theater, dancing, death of king, betrayal, tragedy ...
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54%
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Plot: shakespeare, murder, incest, fratricide, dysfunctional family, duel, skull, insanity, haunted by the past, castle, brother sister relationship, tragedy ...
Place: denmark
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52%
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Othello (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style: serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot: interracial relations, shakespeare, tragic love, power relations, vengeance, downfall, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, dirty cop ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, england, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Measure for Measure (2019)
Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
Duration: 107 min.
Story: An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows.
Plot: shakespeare, law, fornication, pregnant woman, fall in love, death penalty, saving a life, extreme violence, panic attack, forbidden love, crime boss, execution ...
Place: vienna, australia
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50%
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
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49%
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Forgiven (2007)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 75 min.
Story: Suburban housewife Liz discovers that husband Stephen is abusing their daughter. She confronts him and reports him to the authorities, but also decides to try to help him recover from what must be "a sickness". Stephen is tried and ...
Plot: incest, abuse, sexual abuse, therapy, bare butt, nudity, shower
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48%
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Hamlet (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
Story: From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by ...
Style: atmospheric, psychological, serious, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, haunted by the past, tragic hero, betrayal, dishonesty, royal family, ghost, murder, state affairs, parents and children, shakespeare ...
Time: middle ages
Place: denmark, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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MacBeth (1961)
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, macbeth, 007, medieval, taunting, regicide, husband wife relationship, murder, manhood, male protagonist, costume, scottish accent
Time: 11th century
Place: scotland
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
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The Baltic Love (1994)
Genre: Drama
Country: Estonia, Finland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Lost love and politics: three episodes from three Baltic nations. In Estonia a political prisoner leaves the jail, only to discover that his best friend had stolen his girl. In Latvia a Russian soldier has a Latvian girlfriend. Her Latvian friends ...
Plot: stripper, tragic love, catholic priest, prisoner, cultural conflict, female nudity, skinny dipping, political prisoner, celibacy, priest, coward, prison ...
Place: lithuania, estonia, latvia
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A Midsummer Night's Rave is a modern rave take on Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream released in 2002
Style: independent film, realistic, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, teens
Plot: rave, clubbing, party, shakespeare, dj, tragic love, club, drug use, profanity, sexual content, stoner, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: los angeles, usa
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44%
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Hamlet (1996)
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, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, revenge, medieval, betrayal, tragedy, vengeance, royal family, ghost, funeral, intrigue, tragic hero, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, 1800s, 16th century, 90s ...
Place: denmark, europe
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43%
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King Lear (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min.
Story: An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Style: serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, talky ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, king, literary, dancing, betrayal, state affairs, intrigue, rivalry, unfulfillment, downfall, dishonesty ...
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43%
National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
Style: captivating, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: king, shakespeare, revenge, tragic hero, prophecy, femme fatale, betrayal, rise and fall, medieval, throne, assassination, state affairs ...
Time: middle ages
Place: scotland, united kingdom
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39%
Royal Shakespeare Company - Richard II (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Style: captivating, disturbing
Audience: date night
Plot: medieval, ruler, royalty, king, palace intrigue, power struggle, kingdom, power, political intrigue, monarchy, intrigue, civil war ...
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38%
National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)
Genre: Drama
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: entertaining, melancholic, intense, captivating, emotional ...
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, theater, live performance, theatre play, royal court, life & death, obsession, runaway, mother son relationship, sword fight, queen ...
Time: middle ages
Place: europe, denmark
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38%
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