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, realistic, disturbing, sincere and semi serious films and TV shows about / with theatre play, theater, actor, love, theatrical troupe, love and romance, actress, friendship, stage play and rehearsal plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, France 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), Cyrano (2021), The Flying Classroom (2003), Shakespeare in Love (1998), University of Laughs (2004), Hypersomnia (2016), Asakusa Kid (2021).

List of theatre play movies

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Noises Off... (1992)
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, light, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: actor's life, theater, theatre play, love and romance, disorder, showbiz, workplace situations, backstage, actor, eternal love, strong female lead, dance ...
Time: 90s, year 1992, 20th century
Place: iowa, new york, manhattan new york city
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 6.8
 5K
Rise (2018)
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: high school, high school teacher, theatre play, gay, teacher, small town, school teacher, teacher student relationship, teachers and students, school club, youth, teenage life ...
Place: pennsylvania
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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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Forever Young (2022)
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: thrilling, captivating, psychological, semi autobiographical, interesting
Plot: theatre play, couples, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, slice of life, young couple, young romance, student, male female relationship, relationships, couple relations, love affair, young lovers ...
Time: 80s, year 1986
Place: paris france, new york
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 6.4
 15K
Cyrano (2021)
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: serious, captivating, sincere, touching, costume drama ...
Plot: love, love triangle, friendship, poetry, theatre play, dwarf, wedding, lie, fencing, woman, redheaded woman, unrequited love ...
Time: future, 17th century
Place: paris france, france
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The Night Is Short, Walk on Girl (2017)
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, sweet, light, feel good, entertaining ...
Audience: teens
Plot: theatre play, binge drinking, summer, party, drinking, fall in love, love, youth, friendship, hopes, love and romance, escapades ...
Time: 2010s
Place: japan
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The Flying Classroom (2003)
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: semi serious, realistic, sentimental, humorous
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: boys' choir, boys' school, friendship, fight, mischievous children, youth, boy, theatre play, disorder, teachers and students, children, prank ...
Time: year 2003, 21st century
Place: germany, europe
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Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA, UK
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, inspirational, sweet, sexy, period piece ...
Audience: date night, girls' night, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, cross dressing, shakespeare, gender disguise, writer's life, love and romance, theater, couples, love story, lovers, playwright, passion ...
Time: 16th century, 90s, middle ages, ancient times, year 1998 ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
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University of Laughs (2004)
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
Plot: theatre play, screenwriter, storytelling, shakespeare, writers, perfection, world war two, satire, army, battle of wits, role playing, repression ...
Place: japan
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 4.8
 1K
Hypersomnia (2016)
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, unusual plot structure, bleak, contemplative ...
Plot: violence against women, violence, magic realism, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, female protagonist, theatre play, aspiring actress, lesbianism, blood, sex trafficking, sleep disorder, female nudity ...
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The Tulse Luper Suitcases, Part 2: Vaux to the Sea (2004)
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: disturbing, captivating, semi serious, psychological
Plot: male nudity, surrealism, theater, lifestyle, theatre play, stage actor, theatrical troupe, dialogue, art, male female relationship, husband wife relationship, suitcase
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 7.1
 2K
Asakusa Kid (2021)
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, disturbing, psychological, captivating
Audience: kids
Plot: teacher student relationship, popularity, theater, life, rising to stardom, theatre play, desire for fame, entertainment industry, stage actor, training, comedian, legend ...
Time: 80s, 70s, 60s, year 1965
Place: tokyo, japan
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Uncommon (2015)
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: disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, christian film
Plot: high school student, faith, christian, bible, christian propaganda, christianity, religion, rehearsal, theatre play, teenage life, religious conversion, school ...
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Star-Crossed Romance (2022)
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, satirical, captivating ...
Plot: conflict, family drama, stage play, satire, parents and children, theater, single father, bullying, single mother, theatre play, single parent, school ...
Place: denver colorado
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2000)
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: captivating, satirical, semi serious, entertaining, parody
Plot: shakespeare, theater, stage play, theatrical troupe, theatre play, satire, professor, rap, drag queen, breaking the fourth wall, shakespeare play, live audience ...
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The Three Exclamation Marks (2019)
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: entertaining, light, captivating, detective
Plot: amateur detective, theater, private investigation, investigation, friendship, theatre play, friends, amateur sleuth, riddles and clues, secret revealed, unsolved crime, uncover truth ...
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 8.8
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Sound & Fury (2009)
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: suspense, disturbing, captivating
Plot: theater, shakespeare's hamlet, love, actor, theatrical troupe, theatre group, coworker, theatre play, co worker co worker relationship, workplace, theatrical agent, employer employee relationship ...
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A Silent Agreement (2017)
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, disturbing, realistic, compassionate, psychological ...
Plot: deaf, bullying, sign language, gay, deafness, discrimination, cerebral palsy, altruism, mourning, troubled past, emotional breakdown, mistrust ...
Time: 21st century
Place: australia, sydney australia
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Do Not Leave (1989)
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, bad ending, sincere, sentimental ...
Audience: teens, teen drama
Plot: unrequited love, love and romance, music, family relations, theatre play, imaginary kingdom, time loop, perestroika, theatrical troupe, stagecoach robbery, castle, mute character ...
Place: ussr
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See How They Run (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Mystery
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In the West End of 1950s London, plans for a movie version of a smash-hit play come to an abrupt halt after a pivotal member of the crew is murdered. When world-weary Inspector Stoppard and eager rookie Constable Stalker take on the case, the two ...
Style: psychological, captivating, suspenseful, tense, meta ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: murder mystery, murder, murder investigation, investigation, whodunit, murderer, secret, film producer, sleuth, filmmaking, killings, forensics ...
Time: 1950s, year 1953
Place: london, scotland yard, west end london
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Friend of the World (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 50 min.
Story: After a catastrophic war, an eccentric general guides a filmmaker through a ravaged bunker.
Style: suspense, postmodern, independent film, black and white, dark comedy ...
Plot: body horror, military, absurdism, surrealism, parasite, post apocalypse, fight, murder, violence, filmmaker, zombie, survival horror ...
Time: 2020s, future, near future, 21st century
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 7.5
 64K
Drive My Car (2021)
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: poetic, slow cinema, art house, inspirational, relaxing ...
Plot: infidelity, driver, japanese wife, stage play, snow, loss of wife, grief, audition, asian, amor, anton chekhov, car ...
Time: 2020s, 2010s
Place: japan, hiroshima japan, tokyo
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At Theatre Tonight (1966)
Genre: Comedy
Country: France
TV show
Story: At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard ...
Style: anthology
Plot: theater, theatre play, public, vaudeville, actor, actress, filmed play, costume, play
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Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2010)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 167 min.
Story: When the King of Navarre and his three courtiers forswear all pleasure - particularly of the female variety - in favour of a life of study, the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies plays havoc with their intentions. Using every kind of ...
Style: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
Plot: shakespeare, couple relations, love and romance, love story, romantic relationship, relationships, oath, youth, new student, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, theatre play ...
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Last Summer in the Hamptons (1995)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: Filmed entirely on location in East Hampton, Long Island, "Last Summer in the Hamptons" concerns a large theatrical family spending the last weekend of their summer together at the decades-old family retreat which economic circumstances ...
Style: independent film, talky, clever, contemplative, realistic ...
Plot: dysfunctional family, death in the family, matriarchy, theatre group, theatrical troupe, actor, anton chekhov, theatre play, family home, playwright, theatre director, brother sister relationship ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, long island
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Venus in Fur (2013)
Genre: Drama
Country: France, Poland
Duration: 96 min.
Story: An enigmatic actress (Emmanuelle Seigner) may have a hidden agenda when she auditions for a part in a misogynistic writer's (Mathieu Amalric) play.
Style: erotic, stylized, sexual, psychological, sexy ...
Audience: adult
Plot: bdsm, masochism, theater, femdom, dominatrix, power relations, audition, female nudity, flirting, fetish, sadomasochism, role playing ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: europe, france, paris france
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The Awakening of Spring (2008)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Based on the 1891 play "Spring Awakening," this filmed stage drama examines the tensions and confusion of young people as their growing sexual awareness conflicts with the repressive social environment around them.
Plot: grownups, coming of age, gay, friendship, youth, lgbtq, masturbation, gay subtext, theatre play, literary, sexual awakening, suicide ...
Place: germany
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The Impostors (1998)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In an attempt to resurrect the slapstick comedy of Laurel and Hardy or The Marx Brothers, Stanley Tucci and Oliver Platt team-up as two out-of-work actors who accidentally stow away on a ship to hide from a drunken, belligerent lead actor who has ...
Style: humorous, light, absurd, feel good, witty ...
Plot: farce, eccentricity, deadpan, cruise, hidden identity, goofy hero, nothing goes right, down on your luck, artists and showbiz, satire, ship, screwball ...
Time: 1930s, year 1998, 20th century
Place: new york, usa
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The Taste of Others (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 112 min.
Story: Agnès Jaoui co-writes and directs this romantic comedy of manners set in France's rustic Provence. Unpolished and ultra-pragmatic industrialist Jean-Jacques Castella (co-scripter Jean-Pierre Bacri) reluctantly attends Racine's tragedy ...
Style: biting, meditative, sincere, touching, art house ...
Plot: infidelity, midlife crisis, bohemian life, extramarital affair, opposites attract, fish out of water, disorder, snobbism, couple relations, fall in love, adultery, artist ...
Time: 2000s, 20th century, 90s
Place: france, paris france
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National Theatre Live: Frankenstein (2011)
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: frankenstein, live performance, monster as victim, monster, stage play, scientist, obsession, theater, adaptation, rape, sexual abuse, boy strangling ...
Time: 1810s
Place: geneva switzerland, swiss alps
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