Theatre play movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant theatre play movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, psychological, disturbing, entertaining, feel good and thrilling films and TV shows about / with theatre play, theater, friendship, satire, theatrical troupe, love, adaptation, shakespeare, actor and stage performance 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 theatre play: Noises Off... (1992), Rise (2018), National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015), Forever Young (2022), Kaaviya Thalaivan (2014), The Play (2019), The King of Laughter (2021), Cyrano (2021), The Flying Classroom (2003), Shakespeare in Love (1998).
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
A travelling theater group has so much action going on behind-the-scenes it almost ruins the performances.
Style:
funny, humorous, feel good, witty, light ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
actor's life, nothing goes right, theater, theatre play, love and romance, disorder, showbiz, workplace situations, eternal love, actor, backstage, farce ...
Time:
90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place:
iowa, new york, miami, cleveland ohio, manhattan new york city ...
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Genre: Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
TV show
Story:
A working class high school drama department and the students come alive under a passionate teacher and family man whose dedication to the program galvanizes the entire town.
Style:
sincere, captivating, emotional, touching, inspirational ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
gay, high school, high school teacher, theatre play, teacher, small town, school teacher, school club, teachers and students, youth, teenage life, lifestyle change ...
Place:
pennsylvania
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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, atmospheric, melancholic, intense, talky ...
Plot:
live performance, theater, shakespeare, royal court, theatre play, life & death, dealing with death, royal family, storytelling, love and romance, runaway, couples ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
denmark, europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France, Italy
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
At the end of the 1980s, Stella, Victor, Adèle and Etienne are 20 years old. They take the entrance exam to the famous acting school created by Patrice Chéreau and Pierre Romans at the Théâtre des Amandiers in Nanterre. Launched at full speed ...
Style:
semi autobiographical, thrilling, psychological, captivating, interesting
Plot:
aids, drug addiction, drug overdose, theater, audition, drug addict, theatre play, young couple, young lovers, couples, slice of life, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Time:
year 1986, 80s
Place:
paris france, new york
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Genre: Drama, History, Music, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story:
The two best disciples of Sivadas Swamigal, the earnest owner of a Drama school, are by design pitted against each other by the guru himself and this create multiple calamities ending in the duo's separation. Years pass by as one finds a good ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, emotional, poignant ...
Plot:
rivalry, theatre play, jealousy, ego, artist, theater, relationship problems, second chance, blind ambition, stage actor, troubled past, music ...
Place:
india
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Czech Republic, Chile, France, South Korea
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A young Czech theater director has an ambition to adapt Eurypides' Phaedra. However, having affair with the actress, he puts his marriage at risk and the play turns to be a fiasco. Desperate, he tries to be the best possible father and husband. ...
Style:
psychological, disturbing, suspense, captivating
Plot:
adulterous husband, infidelity, theatre play, love triangle, small town, adultery, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, relationship problems, family problems, theatre director, fall in love ...
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Genre: Biography
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
In early 20th-century Naples, a theatrical parody lands beloved thespian and playwright Eduardo Scarpetta in court, facing a malicious lawsuit that could compromise his freedom of expression and the economic security of his extended ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, disturbing, parody, poignant ...
Plot:
playwright, theater, biopic, theatre play, courtroom drama, actor, stage actor, fictional biography, lifestyle, comedian, legal battle, historical figure ...
Place:
naples italy, napoli italy
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16K
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
A man ahead of his time, Cyrano de Bergerac dazzles whether with ferocious wordplay at a verbal joust or with brilliant swordplay in a duel. But, convinced that his appearance renders him unworthy of the love of a devoted friend, the luminous ...
Style:
costume drama, sincere, captivating, serious, touching ...
Plot:
love triangle, friendship, doomed romance, unrequited love, poetry, theatre play, dwarf, wedding, lie, deception, love, bakery ...
Time:
17th century, future, georgian era
Place:
paris france, france
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Japan
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A boy falls in love with his junior in a Kyoto college club, and struggles daily to be noticed by her. However, she is naïve and unsophisticated and is completely indifferent to him.
Style:
anime, light, sincere, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
theatre play, binge drinking, summer, party, drinking, fall in love, love, youth, friendship, hopes, love and romance, adaptation ...
Time:
2010s
Place:
japan, kyoto japan
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A boy who was once a perpetual outcast finds friends in a new boarding school, united with his new peers gets involved in a heated rivalry with a group of students from a neighboring school.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, sentimental, humorous
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
boys' school, boys' choir, friendship, boy, fight, mischievous children, youth, theatre play, teachers and students, disorder, children, prank ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
europe, germany
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Young Shakespeare is forced to stage his latest comedy, "Romeo and Ethel, the Pirate's Daughter," before it's even written. When a lovely noblewoman auditions for a role, they fall into forbidden love -- and his play finds a new ...
Style:
romantic, sexy, inspirational, period piece, sweet ...
Audience:
date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot:
forbidden love, cross dressing, love and romance, shakespeare, lovers, gender disguise, couples, writer's life, tudors, literary, passionate love, monarchy ...
Time:
16th century, ancient times, middle ages, medieval times, 90s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, britain
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
When a construction worker unexpectedly joins a local theater's production of Romeo and Juliet alongside his estranged teenage daughter, the drama onstage starts to mirror his own life.
Style:
psychological, captivating, satirical, thrilling, depressing ...
Plot:
father daughter relationship, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, theater, construction worker, family relations, theatre play, relationships, male female relationship, problem, satire, family problems, relationship problems ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
In pre-war Japan, a government censor tries to make the writer for a theater troupe alter his comedic script. As they work with and against each other, the script ends up developing in unexpected ways.
Style:
captivating, psychological, thought provoking, intellectual, tension ...
Plot:
satire, theatre play, theater, screenwriter, playwright, character study, wartime, bureaucracy, literary, ethical dilemma, collaboration, performance art ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
japan, tokyo
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Genre: Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A young actress rehearsing for a play about human trafficking begins to relive terrifying scenes that may be dreams -- or an alternate reality.
Style:
scary, psychological, erotic, unusual plot structure, bleak ...
Plot:
violence against women, violence, sex trafficking, magic realism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, theatre play, aspiring actress, lesbianism, blood, sleeping, female nudity ...
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Genre: Adventure, Biography, Comedy, Drama, Romance, Thriller, War
Country: UK, Netherlands, Spain, Luxembourg, Italy, Hungary
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
The Tulse Luper Suitcases reconstructs the life of Tulse Luper, a professional writer and project-maker, caught up in a life of prisons. He was born in 1911 in Newport, South Wales and presumably last heard of in 1989. His life is reconstructed from ...
Style:
experimental, art film, semi serious, psychological, captivating ...
Plot:
theater, surrealism, lifestyle, theatre play, theatrical troupe, stage actor, memory, symbolism, archive, obsession, identity, college ...
Time:
20th century
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Genre: Biography, Drama
Country: Japan
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In 1965, Takeshi Kitano drops out of a university and enters the Asakusa France Za, which is a performance theater. He becomes an apprentice to Senzaburo Fukami, who is a legendary entertainer. Senzaburo Fukami demands that Takeshi Kitano keep the ...
Style:
thought provoking, psychological, disturbing, captivating
Audience:
kids
Plot:
popularity, life, theater, theatre play, rising to stardom, stage actor, training, entertainment industry, desire for fame, comedian, legend, university ...
Time:
70s, 80s, year 1965, 60s
Place:
tokyo, japan
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Jesus combined diverse people and assorted stories to change the world! Now, He wants to use you! When the students of Rosewood High School lose their theater, music and dance departments due to budgets cuts, they create their own. Struggling to ...
Style:
sincere, captivating, psychological, disturbing, christian film
Plot:
high school student, faith, christian, bible, christian propaganda, rehearsal, religion, christianity, theatre play, school club, high school life, religious conversion ...
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Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: South Africa
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Yvette has dreamed of performing Romeo and Juliet since starting high school. Now, in her final year, the headmaster has decided to use the school's entire arts and culture budget to fund a T20 event. In a last ditch effort to put on the play, ...
Style:
semi serious, captivating, thrilling, teen, feel good ...
Audience:
teen drama
Plot:
high school, school, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, cricket, theatre play, teenage life, teenager, theater, sports man, teenage boy, love, teenage love ...
Place:
south africa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, Finland, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Jeanine, an earnest theatre director, has been given the task of remounting her former mentor’s most famous work, the opera Salome. Haunted by dark and disturbing memories from her past, she allows her repressed trauma to color the present as she ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, dark, intense ...
Plot:
trauma, opera, theater, female protagonist, theatre director, repression, theatre group, theatrical producer, problem, stage actress, theatre play, character study ...
Place:
toronto ontario canada
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story:
The story of Margo Channing. Legend. True star of the theatre. The spotlight is hers, always has been. But now there’s Eve. Her biggest fan. Young, beautiful Eve. The golden girl, the girl next door. But you know all about Eve…don’t you…?
Style:
captivating, exciting, dramatic, serious, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
theater, actress, broadway, aspiring actress, life, fame, manipulation, backstage, deception, rivalry, ambition, ward ...
Time:
1950s, 1930s, 1920s
Is relevant?
28K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Divine G, imprisoned at Sing Sing for a crime he didn't commit, finds purpose by acting in a theatre group with other incarcerated men.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, inspirational, f word
Plot:
prison, theater, african american, jail cell, jailed, prison life, theatre play, falsely accused, problem, false accusation of murder, accused of murder, prison sentence ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
TV show
Story:
Kurogo Kurusu, is a high school student with an almost annoying love of kabuki. The only problem for him is that his school doesn’t have a club for it. He decides to take matters into his own hands and create a kabuki club.
Style:
anime, feel good, captivating, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
school club, theater, kabuki, high school, theatre play, teenager, adolescence, dream, teenage life, satire, follow your dream, theatrical troupe ...
Place:
japan
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Genre: Animation
Country: Canada
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
Scorned by monster girls and unable to get a hook up for the New Years Eve monster dance, Vlad accepts Dr. Shcherbatova's "invite" to participate in the James A. Meredith middle school talk show production "BOYS TALK GIRLS". ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, exciting, humorous, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, teen drama
Plot:
new year's eve, monster, holiday, young man, dancing, celebration, theatre play, guy, theater, music and dance, friendship, coming of age ...
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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: 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: Adventure, Family
Country: Germany
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Friends Franzi, Marieave and Kim planned to spend the summer rehearsing for a Peter Pan play, but when strange things start to happen at the theatre they take on the role of investigators.
Style:
light, captivating, entertaining, detective
Plot:
amateur detective, theater, private investigation, investigation, theatre play, friends, unsolved crime, theatrical troupe, group of friends, sleuth, secret revealed, friendship ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Brazil
TV show
Story:
The lives of a Shakespearian theatre group and their personal struggles to organize the production of 'Hamlet'.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, suspense, art house, realistic ...
Plot:
theater, shakespeare's hamlet, love, actor, shakespeare, theatrical troupe, theatre group, coworker, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, theatre play, employer employee relationship ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Australia
Duration: 134 min.
Story:
Reuben, a sensitive writer, grapples with a speech impediment as his boyfriend, Derek, a profoundly deaf Human Rights activist, provides strategies to restore his confidence and communication skills. When Reuben approaches an over-the-hill film ...
Style:
intellectual, realistic, psychological, disturbing, compassionate ...
Plot:
deaf, sign language, bullying, gay, deafness, discrimination, troubled past, cerebral palsy, mourning, altruism, mistrust, sociopath ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
sydney australia, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
A fairytale about the Princess, the Musician, the Chancellor and a blue rose which forces everyone to tell the truth.
Style:
fairy tale, romantic, touching, sentimental, bad ending ...
Audience:
teens, teen drama
Plot:
unrequited love, perestroika, prince, princess, magical object, fictional kingdom, royal family, love and romance, music, theatre play, imaginary kingdom, family relations ...
Place:
ussr
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Japan
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
One of the best parts about being in a group of friends is that you usually have a couple of guardian angels watching over you. So, when Shinobu has to both write a script as well as make costumes for a play for the school festival, it doesn't ...
Style:
anime, feel good, semi serious, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
slice of life, high school life, friendship, school, schoolgirl, friends, teenager, teenage protagonist, past, teenage life, relationships, adolescence ...
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