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Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
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Young lovers Hero and Claudio are to be married in one week. To pass the time, they conspire with Don Pedro to set a "lover's trap" for Benedick, an arroga... more |
Kenneth Branagh |
William Shakespeare |
Keanu Reeves, Kate Beckinsale, Denzel Washington, Emma Thompson, Kenneth Branagh |
Comedy, Romance |
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Romeo and Juliet (1968)
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Shakespeare's classic tale of romance and tragedy. Two families of Verona, the Montagues and the Capulets, have been feuding with each other for years. You... more |
Franco Zeffirelli |
William Shakespeare, Franco Brusati |
Michael York, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea, Pat Heywood, Robert Stephens, Leonard Whiting, John McEnery |
Drama, Romance |
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Romeo + Juliet (1996)
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Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.... more |
Baz Luhrmann |
William Shakespeare |
Paul Rudd, John Leguizamo, Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Jesse Bradford, Pete Postlethwaite, M. Emmet Walsh, Brian Dennehy, Paul Sorvino, Jamie Kennedy, Miriam Margolyes, Dash Mihok, Craig Pearce, Vondie Curtis-Hall |
Crime, Drama, Romance |
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Coriolanus (2011)
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The citizens of Rome are hungry. Coriolanus, the hero of Rome, a great soldier and a man of inflexible self-belief despises the people. His extreme views i... more |
Ralph Fiennes |
William Shakespeare, John Logan |
Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Ralph Fiennes, Vanessa Redgrave, Jessica Chastain |
Action, Drama, Thriller, War |
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10 Things I Hate About You (1999)
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Adapted from William Shakespeare's play "The Taming of the Shrew," 10 Things I Hate About You starts off with Cameron, new student at Padua High, sitting i... more |
Gil Junger |
William Shakespeare, Karen McCullah Lutz, Kirsten Smith |
Larry Miller, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Julia Stiles, Heath Ledger, Gabrielle Union, David Krumholtz, Allison Janney, Susan May Pratt, Andrew Keegan, Larisa Oleynik, Bianca Kajlich |
Comedy, Romance |
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Scotland, Pa. (2001)
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Billy Morrissette |
William Shakespeare |
Christopher Walken, Andy Dick, Amy Smart, James LeGros, Maura Tierney |
Comedy, Crime |
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Hamlet (2000)
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Michael Almereyda |
William Shakespeare |
Steve Zahn, Bill Murray, Ethan Hawke, Casey Affleck, Sam Shepard, Julia Stiles, Kyle MacLachlan, Diane Venora |
Drama, Romance, Thriller |
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My Own Private Idaho (1991)
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Surreal character study focusing on the friendship between two male hustlers, Mike and Scott, in Portland, Oregon. They live on the streets, do drugs, and ... more |
Gus Van Sant |
William Shakespeare |
Keanu Reeves, River Phoenix, Udo Kier, James Russo |
Drama, Romance |
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Richard III (1995)
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This film adaptation of Shakespeare's famous play is set into a hypothetical 1930's Europe. As sneering, leering Richard of Gloucester's ruthless machinati... more |
Richard Loncraine |
William Shakespeare, Ian McKellen |
Robert Downey Jr., Jim Broadbent, Kristin Scott Thomas, Annette Bening, Ian McKellen, Maggie Smith |
Drama, War |
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
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Lovers lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.... more |
Michael Hoffman |
William Shakespeare |
Michelle Pfeiffer, Kevin Kline, Gregory Jbara, Calista Flockhart, Sophie Marceau |
Comedy, Fantasy, Romance |
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A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002)
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A modern retelling of the Shakespeare comedy set in a rave club that resembles the enchanted forest of the original play. Set in a rave two years in the fu... more |
Gil Cates Jr. |
William Shakespeare |
Nichole Hiltz, Lauren German, Andrew Keegan |
Drama |
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Hamlet (1990)
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Franco Zeffirelli |
William Shakespeare |
Mel Gibson |
Drama |
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Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
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The King of Navarre and his three companions swear a very public oath to study together and to renounce women for three years. Their honor is immediately p... more |
Kenneth Branagh |
William Shakespeare |
Matthew Lillard, Alicia Silverstone, Timothy Spall, Kenneth Branagh, Emily Mortimer, Natascha McElhone, Alessandro Nivola, Adrian Lester |
Comedy, Musical, Romance |
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