Stage play movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant stage play movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, suspense, dramatic, realistic and interesting films and TV shows about / with stage play, theater, revenge, adaptation, relationships, betrayal, corruption, storytelling, husband wife relationship and moral ambiguity plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as stage play: Finding Neverland (2004), Out 1 (1971), You Shall Not Sleep (2018), Drive My Car (2021), The Salesman (2016), The Humbling (2014), Deathtrap (1982), National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2010), Hamlet (2016), Stratford Festival: King John (2015).
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Finding Neverland is an amusing drama about how the story of Peter Pan and Neverland came to be. During a writing slump play writer J.M. Barrie meets the widowed Sylvia and her three children who soon become an important part of Barrie’s life and ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, period piece, heartbreaking, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, date night ...
Plot:
single parent, writers, friendship, writer's life, parents and children, death, biopic, peter pan, stage play, country house, passion, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
edwardian era, 1900s, year 2004, turn of the century, future ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe, canada
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2K
Genre: Drama, Mystery
Country: France
Duration: 776 min.
Story:
While two dueling theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash and unravel a conspiracy.
Style:
art house, experimental, inspirational, sexy, contemplative ...
Plot:
stage play, artist, secret, lack of money, secret organization, beggar, female lawyer, harmonica, professor, rehearsal, beach, looking for someone ...
Time:
70s, 60s
Place:
france, paris france, ancient greece, europe
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Spain, Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
In an abandoned psychiatric hospital, a theatre group experiments with insomnia for the preparation of a stage play. With the passage of days without sleep, they reach new thresholds of perception that expose them to the secrets of the place and the ...
Style:
suspenseful, bleak, rough, suspense, psychological ...
Plot:
insomnia, mysterious death, sleeping, mental institution, paranormal activity, abandoned building, hallucination, experiment, stage play, fire, theater, death ...
Time:
year 1975, year 1984
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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, fast paced, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
shakespeare, theater, stage play, satire, theatre play, theatrical troupe, pun, live performance, irreverent, adaptation, dark humor, rap ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
Takashi Miike directs a stage version of Zatoichi, the tale of the blind swordsman.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, art house, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
samurai, martial arts, stage play, zatoichi, fight, master warrior, blindness, swordplay, respect, feudal japan, justice, honor ...
Time:
19th century
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Genre: Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 179 min.
Story:
Yusuke Kafuku, a stage actor and director, still unable, after two years, to cope with the loss of his beloved wife, accepts to direct Uncle Vanja at a theater festival in Hiroshima. There he meets Misaki, an introverted young woman, appointed to ...
Style:
inspirational, road movie, poetic, slow cinema, art house ...
Plot:
driver, infidelity, japanese wife, stage play, snow, loss of wife, chauffeur, road trip, sex, grief, audition, asian ...
Time:
2010s, 2020s, year 2019
Place:
japan, hiroshima japan, south korea, hokkaido, tokyo ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Iran, France, Qatar, USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Forced out of their apartment due to dangerous works on a neighboring building, Emad and Rana move into a new flat in the center of Tehran. An incident linked to the previous tenant will dramatically change the young couple’s life.
Style:
suspense, cerebral, suspenseful, psychological, atmospheric ...
Plot:
revenge, hospital, rape, ptsd, teacher, trauma, twists and turns, sexualized violence, marriage, stage play, actor, dialogue ...
Time:
2010s, year 2016, 21st century
Place:
iran, persia, maghreb, tehran iran, middle east ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 119 min.
Story:
A fading actor best known for his portrayal of a popular superhero attempts to mount a comeback by appearing in a Broadway play. As opening night approaches, his attempts to become more altruistic, rebuild his career, and reconnect with friends and ...
Style:
surreal, dark comedy, psychedelic, black comedy, independent film ...
Audience:
teens, date night, adult
Plot:
midlife crisis, existentialism, satire, theater, surrealism, actor, dark humor, showbiz, father daughter relationship, mental illness, alter ego, backstage ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, ethiopia, america, los angeles ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Italy
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Following a breakdown and suicide attempt, an aging actor becomes involved with a much younger woman but soon finds that it's difficult to keep pace with her.
Style:
tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, female professor, impossible love, dark humor, psychiatrist patient relationship, veterinarian, stage play, suicide attempt, actor, aging, life turned upside down, actor's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, connecticut, new england, manhattan new york city, new york
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18K
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
A Broadway playwright puts murder in his plan to take credit for a student's script.
Style:
psychological, dark comedy, witty, semi serious, cerebral ...
Plot:
murder, closeted homosexual, writers, perfect crime, gay lead character, gay relationship, murder mystery, scared to death, manuscript, sociopathy, sociopath, stage play ...
Time:
year 1982, 80s, 20th century, 18th century
Place:
new york state, long island, new york, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died. As the evening progresses, the two attempt to ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, thought provoking, romantic drama
Plot:
live performance, stage play, ex couple relations, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, relationship problems, ex boyfriend, relationships, life is a bitch, couple relations, ideology, intrigue, tragic love ...
Place:
united kingdom
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
Reason and judgement prove no match for the tsunami of mutual passion engulfing Mark Antony, one of the three joint rulers of the Roman republic, and Cleopatra, the seductive queen of Egypt. Surrendering everything to their desires, they open the ...
Style:
historical drama, semi serious, satirical, captivating, tragic ending ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
royalty, ancient rome, stage play, love, passion, cleopatra, male female relationship, love and romance, couple relations, love story, relationships, love affair ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
shakespeare, revenge, moral dilemma, prince, intrigue, stage play, shakespeare's hamlet, tragedy, hamlet, palace intrigue, murder, political intrigue ...
Place:
denmark, london
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel – and the most famous question in all of drama. Just some of the reasons why Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
tragedy, hamlet, shakespeare, stage play, revenge, royal palace, life is a bitch, shakespeare's hamlet, family relations, male female relationship, relationship problems, royal family ...
Place:
denmark
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 152 min.
Story:
When the King of France (Peter Hutt) demands that John (Tom McCamus) relinquish his crown in favor of his nephew, the young Prince Arthur, war is the inevitable result. Excommunication, attempted atrocity, rebellion and assassination all contribute ...
Style:
historical drama, captivating, exciting, stylized, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shakespeare, royal family, bastard, stage play, power struggle, political intrigue, king of england, royal palace, royal court, baron, king, kingdom ...
Time:
12th century
Place:
england, france
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Croatia
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Six men, one woman (and her brother) come together with one goal - to make the play. It would be probably another common story that this theater group is composed of anti-heroes who float lost in time and space, in a town where it seems that the sun ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, captivating, light, funny ...
Plot:
theater, showbiz, cowboy, stage play, culture clash, small town, homecoming, society, rivalry, rules and policies, artists and showbiz, social relations ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
croatia
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: UK
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever he goes, the friendless Creature, increasingly desperate and ...
Style:
gothic
Plot:
live performance, frankenstein, scientist, monster as victim, monster, stage play, obsession, ethics, man with no name, theater, adaptation, rape ...
Time:
1810s
Place:
swiss alps, geneva switzerland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Two delusional geriatrics reveal curious pasts, share a love of tuna and welcome a surprise guest in this filming of the popular Broadway comedy show.
Style:
light, entertaining, humorous, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, broadway, stage play, live performance, silly humor, humour, surrealism, theater, showbiz, irreverent, deadpan, mature ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Felix Ungar has just broken up with his wife. Despondent, he goes to kill himself but is saved by his friend Oscar Madison. With nowhere else to go, Felix is urged by Oscar to move in with him, at least for a while. The only problem is that Felix is ...
Style:
funny, atmospheric, hilarious, feel good, clever ...
Audience:
kids, date night
Plot:
friendship between men, friendship, buddies, roommate, argument, group of friends, depression, roommate roommate relationship, friends who live together, bromance, divorce, breakup ...
Time:
60s, year 1968, 20th century
Place:
new york, usa, tokyo, seattle
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
The movie is centered around the Salem Massachusetts witch trials of 1692. The movie is based on the play "The Crucible" by Arthur Miller. He also wrote the screen play adaptation.
Style:
talky, suspense, costume drama, gothic, period piece ...
Plot:
witch hunt, witch, salem witch trial, curse, courtroom drama, colonial america, politics, spell, twists and turns, vengeance, court, manipulation ...
Time:
17th century, 90s, 50s, 1950s
Place:
massachusetts, salem massachusetts, usa, north america, new england ...
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Genre: Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
To make the 100th anniversary of her hometown's Victorian festival a success, Cassie invites action movie star and former high school classmate Jake to play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.
Style:
emotional, light, entertaining, romantic, captivating
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, stage play, personal assistant, female protagonist, romantic relationship, love story, relationships, love and romance, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, teenage love ...
Place:
ohio
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Denver’s preeminent sportscaster, competitive single-mother Piper, is called to her son’s school for a bullying incident, she dreads her time wasted. But when she meets the victim’s equally-stubborn single father, Erik, the principal ...
Style:
romantic comedy, psychological, thrilling, captivating, romantic drama ...
Plot:
conflict, stage play, family drama, theatre play, school, single parent, bullying, parents and children, theater, single mother, satire, single father ...
Place:
denver colorado
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Genre: Action, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Country: Japan
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Kasane Fuchi (Kyoko Yoshine) is the daughter of a beautiful, legendary actress. Kasane has excellent acting skills as well, but she is not attractive. She has a hard time due to her unattractiveness. Kasane has a lipstick left behind by her late ...
Style:
psychological, suspenseful, disturbing, serious, atmospheric ...
Plot:
body swapping, mother and daughter, body transformation, photograph, stage play, japanese girl, drinking alcohol, daughter, agent, aunt niece relationship, mother, rehearsal ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Award-winning British comic geniuses Mischief, creators of the Broadway and London smash 'The Play That Goes Wrong’, present the hit BBC comedy The Goes Wrong Show, where a fictional amateur group attempt to put on a series of terrible TV ...
Style:
parody, feel good, funny, humorous, sitcom ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
satire, plan gone wrong, awkward situation, stage play, failed attempt, mishap, falling down, farce, theater, life, topical humor, misdirection ...
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Sweden
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Parikka, the actor once called the Funniest Man in Finland, and his troupe are about to be executed for the atrocities committed during the Civil War in Finland. Jaeger Lieutenant Nyborg, an admirer of Parikka, suspects a definite miscarriage of ...
Style:
exciting, suspenseful, thought provoking, scary, tense ...
Plot:
island prison, finnish civil war, humour, prisoner, firing squad, theater, joke, rehearsal, theatre group, escape attempt, disguise, pow ...
Time:
1910s, year 1918
Place:
germany, finland
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Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: Finland, Estonia
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
The life of a heroine. The life and work of Hella Wuolijoki. A poet, spy and millionaire, she turned into an internationally acclaimed businesswoman, politician and playwright, who collaborated with Europe's leading writers such as Bertolt ...
Style:
captivating, factual, psychological, tense
Plot:
playwright, power, writers, women in society, prisoner, politics, world war two, stage play, business, interrogation, jail, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
1940s, year 1936, year 1929, year 1941, year 1942 ...
Place:
finland, soviet union, helsinki finland, stockholm sweden, ussr
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Some teenagers are ambitiously setting up a famous Jon Fosse-play. They hire a well known actor to be their mentor, unaware that he's going through a life crisis. Their new mentor chooses Vegard, promising footballer and local douchebag, to ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, romantic, humorous
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, teen drama
Plot:
teenage girl, fall in love, theatre group, actor, friendship, teenage protagonist, stage play, ambition, teenage boy, coming of age, personal growth, school bully ...
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Romance
Country: UK, Germany, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Half-way through his 12-year prison sentence for an incompetent armed robbery, Jimmy Hands gets a lucky break: he's transferred to a prison from which he can probably escape. He convinces the governor to stage a musical in an old chapel next to ...
Style:
intense, semi serious, feel good, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
prison, prison escape, buddies, moral ambiguity, prison life, confined, fall in love, cons and scams, social worker, friendship, stage play, jail ...
Time:
year 2001, 70s, 21st century
Place:
england
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Luxembourg, Italy
Duration: 131 min.
Story:
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Style:
sexy, period piece, costume drama, visually stunning, talky ...
Plot:
shakespeare, renaissance, love and romance, religious intolerance, tudors, women, gay subtext, friends, judaism, culture clash, trial, prejudice ...
Time:
16th century, middle ages, ancient times, year 2004, medieval times ...
Place:
venice, italy, israel, middle east, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Musical, Thriller
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story:
The infamous story of Benjamin Barker, a.k.a Sweeney Todd, who sets up a barber shop down in London which is the basis for a sinister partnership with his fellow tenant, Mrs. Lovett. Based on the hit Broadway musical.
Style:
gothic, atmospheric, gothic horror, visually appealing, period piece ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
serial killer, blood, barbershop, goth, dark humor, social injustice, judge, cannibalism, loss of loved one, presumed dead, murder, insanity ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, year 2007, 2000s, edwardian era ...
Place:
london, england, britain, europe
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