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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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 4.9
 381
The Tempest (1998)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, modern day adaptation
Audience: family outing
Plot: shakespeare, american civil war, civil war, swamp, master and servant, supernatural, rivalry, love and romance, escapades, danger, wizards and magicians, family relations ...
Time: 19th century, 1850s
Place: mississippi, usa
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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, brother sister relationship, eavesdropping, abuse, punishment, army, tank, blood, disguise, cell phone, priest ...
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story: Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders ...
Plot: shakespeare, mistaken identity, abbey, twins, shakespeare play, costume, slapping, kicked in the butt
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Cymbeline (1982)
Genre: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 175 min.
Story: Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has ...
Style: black comedy
Plot: shakespeare, dance, wine, king, doctor, blood, infidelity, fire, prisoner, kidnapping, poison, musician ...
Place: rome italy, britain
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A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154 sonnets, creating what is arguably the greatest lyric sequence in English literature - and at the center of this masterpiece lies a mystery that has endured for centuries. What are the ...
Style: thought provoking, enigmatic, psychological, captivating, disturbing ...
Plot: shakespeare, poetry, poet, countess, writers, research, secret, puzzle, tudors, art, playwright, prostitute ...
Time: 17th century
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Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story: A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
Style: captivating, thrilling, psychological
Plot: shakespeare, royal court, intrigue, affair, life is a bitch, royal family, male female relationship, palace intrigue, relationships, problem, husband wife relationship, kingdom ...
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 5.5
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King Lear (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Bahamas, France, Switzerland
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A descendant of Shakespeare attemps to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Style: spiritual, independent film, surreal, realistic, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, post apocalypse, apocalypse, royalty, spirituality, epidemic, distopia, dancing, tragic love, mental illness, parents and children, resort ...
Time: 80s, year 1987
Place: france, europe, switzerland, chernobyl
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 6.4
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Ram & Leela (2013)
Genre: Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: India
Duration: 150 min.
Story: Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela is an adaptation of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, set in violent times.
Style: serious, touching, stylized, realistic, independent film ...
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, wooing, love affair, true love, love, marriage, death of lover, shakespeare, accidental killing, mother daughter relationship, tragedy, vengeance ...
Time: year 2013, 21st century
Place: india, asia
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Timon of Athens (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
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.
Plot: shakespeare, literary, morality, generosity, coin, tragic event, beggar, misanthrope, satire, shakespeare play
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 6.3
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King of Texas (2002)
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min.
Story: In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Steward stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.
Style: realistic, serious, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family relations, family business, favoritism among siblings, parents and children, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty, shakespeare, farm, state affairs, father daughter relationship, siblings relations ...
Place: texas, usa
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Let the Devil Wear Black (1999)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A man comes face-to-face with personal treachery after suspecting that his father may have been murdered.
Style: psychological, realistic, suspenseful, suspense, erotic ...
Plot: murder, betrayal, dishonesty, investigation, family relations, couples, dealing with death, college, parents and children, shakespeare, student, tragic love ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Place: california, los angeles, usa
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Private Romeo (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Romeo and Juliet has never been more provocative than in this contemporary all-boy staging. Writer/director Alan Brown transfers the setting from fair Verona to a high school military campus where a small group of boys from rival schools act out the ...
Style: serious, emotional, touching, realistic, sincere ...
Plot: gay, gay teenager, true love, gays and lesbians, gay love, gym, boys love, cadet, forbidden love, lgbtq, youth, gender ...
Time: 21st century
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West Side Story (2021)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 156 min.
Story: A remake of the 1961 film about two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.
Style: suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, surprise ending, visual ...
Audience: teens, date night
Plot: forbidden love, shakespeare, dance, teenager, rivals, fight, racism, love at first sight, gang war, tragic event, black, love affair ...
Time: 1950s, 2020s, year 1961, year 1957, 60s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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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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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min.
Story: The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, witty ...
Audience: date night
Plot: couple relations, love triangle, wooing, comedy of errors, live performance, battle of the sexes, dishonesty, couples, disorder, womanizer, shakespeare, escapades ...
Time: 15th century
Place: england, europe
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 5.9
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My Kingdom (2001)
Genre: Drama, Crime
Country: Italy, UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a ...
Style: serious, rough, suspenseful, tense, realistic
Plot: rivalry, family relations, betrayal, dishonesty, drug dealing, vengeance, murder, parents and children, prostitute, shakespeare, tragic love, gangster ...
Place: england, europe
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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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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
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 6.8
 132
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
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Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016)
Genre: Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: Live theatre presentation of Shakespeare's classic play about two teenagers from warring families whose love affair ends in tragedy.
Style: captivating, psychological, disturbing, suspense, period piece
Plot: shakespeare, teenager, tragic love, family disapproval, star crossed lovers, forbidden love, in love, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, teenage love, romantic relationship, love affair, love and romance ...
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 7.4
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Henry V (1979)
Genre: Biography, Drama, War
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: The life of King Henry the Fifth.
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, british aristocracy, king, dead children, historical event, battles, shakespeare play
Time: 15th century
Place: france, england
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All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min.
Story: Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. ...
Plot: shakespeare, soldier, virgin, unrequited love, love, male female relationship, shakespeare play
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Romeo Must Die (2000)
Genre: Action, Crime, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two warring gang families (one African-American, the other Chinese) maneuver for bragging rights to the Oakland, California, docks. Hang Sing and Trish O'Day uncover a trail of deceit that leaves most of the warring factions dead … or worse!
Style: intense, suspenseful, exciting, rough, action packed ...
Audience: boys' night
Plot: martial arts, gang war, gangster, kung fu, prison escape, murder, true love, revenge, hip hop, fight scenes, fight, investigation ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 20th century, 90s
Place: san francisco, hong kong, california, usa, oakland california
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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
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 7.4
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Julius Caesar (1979)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 161 min.
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Story: The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Plot: shakespeare, roman, ancient rome, assassination, ancient world, ancient, peplum, antiquity, ancient history, funeral, civil war, tragedy ...
Time: 1st century, 1st century b.c.
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 6.3
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Hamlet (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story: To be or not to be, etc.
Style: psychological, stylized, atmospheric, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot: haunted by the past, ghost, betrayal, tragic hero, tragic love, uncover truth, rivalry, vengeance, dishonesty, parents and children, shakespeare, interracial ...
Time: 90s
Place: southern usa
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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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The Angelic Conversation (1985)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 77 min.
Story: The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love, in a dreamlike landscape. Offscreen, Dame Judi Dench recites a sequence of Shakespeare sonnets, that counterpoint the action. Jarman called it, “My most ...
Style: experimental, contemplative, surreal, serious, sexual ...
Plot: lgbt, gay, shakespeare, lgbtq, underground, homoeroticism, poetry, gender, love and romance, gays and lesbians, introspection, couple relations ...
Time: 80s
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A Midsummer Night's Sex Comedy (1982)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Centred around a weekend party at the home of inventor Andrew Hobbs and his wife Adrian, attended by randy doctor Maxwell Jordan, his nurse Dulcy, renowned philosopher Dr.Leopold Sturgis and his fiancée, this is a light comedy concerning their ...
Style: sexy, sex comedy, talky, clever, humorous ...
Audience: date night, adult
Plot: summer, shakespeare, farce, infidelity, couples, older man younger woman relationship, chess, love, marriage, professor, doctor, tragic love ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s
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