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x 10 Things I Hate about You 10 Things I Hate about You 1999   Allison Janney
10 Things I Hate About You is a 1999 American romantic comedy film. It is directed by Gil Junger and stars Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Larisa Oleynik, David Krumholtz and Larry Miller. A loose adaptation of Shakespeare's The...
  Julia Stiles
Patrick Verona Heath Ledger
  Larisa Oleynik
  Joseph Gordon-Levitt
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x A Double Life A Double Life Dec 25, 1947 Anthony John Ronald Colman
A Double Life is a 1947 film noir which tells the story of an actor whose mind becomes affected by the character he portrays. The movie starred Ronald Colman and Signe Hasso. It was directed by George Cukor and written for the screen by Ruth Gordon...
  Signe Hasso
  Edmond O'Brien
  Betsy Blair
x A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Nights Dream (1968 film) 1968   Barbara Jefford
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1968 rendition of William Shakespeare's play A Midsummer Night's Dream, directed by Peter Hall. It stars Derek Godfrey as Theseus, Barbara Jefford as Hippolyta, Diana Rigg as Helena, Helen Mirren as Hermia, Ian Holm as...
  Ian Holm
  Diana Rigg
  Helen Mirren
  Michael Jayston
x A Midsummer Night's Dream A Midsummer Night's Dream Apr 26, 1999   Rupert Everett
A Midsummer Night's Dream is a 1999 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same title. The film sets the play in the fictional Monte Athena in the late nineteenth century. The film features an ensemble cast that includes Rupert Everett...
Helena Calista Flockhart
  Kevin Kline
  Michelle Pfeiffer
  Stanley Tucci
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x A Midsummer Night's Dream Nmidnight 1935 Oct 30, 1935   Joe E. Brown
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935) is a film directed by Max Reinhardt and William Dieterle, produced by Henry Blanke and Hal Wallis, and adapted by Charles Kenyon and Mary C. McCall Jr. from the play by William Shakespeare. Many of the actors in this...
  Dick Powell
  James Cagney
  Victor Jory
  Olivia de Havilland
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x Forbidden Planet A film poster for Forbidden Planet showing Robby. See the image for additional remarks concerning this robot 1956 Dr. Edward Morbius Walter Pidgeon
Forbidden Planet is a 1956 science fiction film in CinemaScope and Metrocolor directed by Fred M. Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis and Leslie Nielsen. The characters and setting were inspired by Shakespeare's The Tempest, and the...
Altaira Morbius Anne Francis
Commander Adams Leslie Nielsen
Lt. 'Doc' Ostrow Warren Stevens
Lt. Farman Jack Kelly
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x Hamlet Hamlet 1948 Prince Hamlet Laurence Olivier
Hamlet is a 1948 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Hamlet, directed by and starring Sir Laurence Olivier. Hamlet was Olivier's second film as director, and also the second of his three Shakespeare films. It is the only one of...
Horatio Norman Wooland
King Claudius Basil Sydney
Gertrude Eileen Herlie
  John Laurie
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x Hamlet Hamlet Dec 25, 1996 Prince Hamlet Kenneth Branagh
Hamlet is a 1996 film version of William Shakespeare's classic play of the same name, adapted and directed by Kenneth Branagh, who also stars in the title role as Prince Hamlet. It is set in the 19th century, and uses Blenheim Palace for exterior...
King Claudius Derek Jacobi
Gertrude Julie Christie
Polonius Richard Briers
  Michael Maloney
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x Hamlet Hamlet Dec 19, 1990 Prince Hamlet Mel Gibson
Hamlet is a 1990 film based on the Shakespearean play of the same name. Mel Gibson has the title role as the young Prince Hamlet, Glenn Close plays his mother, Queen Gertrude, Alan Bates plays his uncle, the now King Claudius, Paul Scofield appears...
Gertrude Glenn Close
Ophelia Helena Bonham Carter
Ghost of Hamlet's father Paul Scofield
King Claudius Alan Bates
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x Hamlet Hamlet May 12, 2000 Prince Hamlet Ethan Hawke
Hamlet, also referred to as Hamlet 2000, is an American film by Michael Almereyda, released in 2000, set in contemporary New York City, and based on the Shakespeare's play of the same name. Ethan Hawke plays Hamlet as a film student, Julia Stiles co...
King Claudius Kyle MacLachlan
Gertrude Diane Venora
Polonius Bill Murray
Laertes Liev Schreiber
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x Hamlet Hamlet 1964 Prince Hamlet Innokenty Smoktunovsky
Hamlet (Russian: Гамлет) is a 1964 film adaptation in Russian of Shakespeare's play of the same title, based on a translation by Boris Pasternak. It was directed by Grigori Kozintsev, and stars Innokenty Smoktunovsky as Prince Hamlet. Grigori...
King Claudius Mikhail Nazvanov
Gertrude Elze Radzinya
Ophelia Anastasiya Vertinskaya
Guildenstern Vadim Medvedev
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x Hamlet Hamlet Sep 1969   Marianne Faithfull
Hamlet is a 1969 British film adaptation of the play of the same title by Shakespeare, starring Nicol Williamson as Prince Hamlet. It was directed by Tony Richardson and based on his own stage production at the The Roundhouse theatre in London. The...
  Anthony Hopkins
  Judy Parfitt
Prince Hamlet Nicol Williamson
x Hamlet Asta Nielsen as Hamlet 1920 Prince Hamlet Asta Nielsen
Hamlet is a 1920 film adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name starring Danish silent film actor Asta Nielsen. In this interpretation, inspired by Dr. Edward P. Vining's book The Mystery of Hamlet, Hamlet is born female and...
x Hamlet   1990 Prince Hamlet Kevin Kline
This is a Great Performances presentation of Joseph Papp's 1990 New York Shakespeare Festival production of the play Hamlet.
Ophelia Diane Venora
King Claudius Brian Murray
Horatio Peter Francis James
Ghost of Hamlet's father Robert Murch
x Hamlet at Elsinore   1964 King Claudius Robert Shaw
Hamlet, a.k.a. Hamlet at Elsinore, is a 1964 made-for-television film version of Shakespeare's play. Presented in the UK on the BBC, and in the U.S. on NET in 1965, it won wide acclaim both for its performances and for being filmed entirely at...
Prince Hamlet Christopher Plummer
Horatio Michael Caine
x Henry V Henry V Nov 8, 1989 Henry V Kenneth Branagh
Henry V is a 1989 film directed by Kenneth Branagh based upon the Shakespeare play about the famous English King. Branagh stars in the title role with Derek Jacobi as the Chorus (a narrator). Brian Blessed, Ian Holm, Christian Bale, Paul Scofield,...
  Derek Jacobi
  Simon Shepherd
  James Larkin
  Emma Thompson
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x Julius Caesar /wikipedia/images/en_id/6717381 1953 Portia Deborah Kerr
Two films have been made of Shakespeare's play Julius Caesar:
Calpurnia Greer Garson
Casca Edmond O'Brien
Julius Caesar Louis Calhern
Cassius John Gielgud
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x Julius Caesar   1950 Mark Antony Charlton Heston
Julius Caesar (1950) is a film adaptation of the Shakespeare play Julius Caesar. It was produced and directed by David Bradley using actors from the Chicago area. Charlton Heston, who had known Bradley since his youth, and who was establishing...
Julius Caesar Harold Tasker
Brutus David Bradley
x Julius Caesar Julius Caesar 1970 Brutus Jason Robards
Julius Caesar is a 1970 independent film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, directed by Stuart Burge from a screenplay by Robert Furnival. The film stars Charlton Heston (as Mark Antony) and Jason Robards (as Brutus, along with John Gielgud ...
Julius Caesar John Gielgud
  Richard Johnson
  Robert Vaughn
Mark Antony Charlton Heston
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x King of Texas   2002   Marcia Gay Harden
King of Texas is a 2002 made-for-TV film directed by Uli Edel and starring Patrick Stewart. The film takes the plot of William Shakespeare's King Lear and places it in the Republic of Texas during the 19th century. Stewart stars as John Lear, a...
  Patrick Stewart
  David Alan Grier
  Liam Waite
  Roy Scheider
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x Macbeth Macbeth Oct 13, 1971 Macbeth Jon Finch
Macbeth is a 1971 film directed by Roman Polanski, based on William Shakespeare's The Tragedy of Macbeth, about the Scots Lord who becomes King of Scotland through deceit, treachery, and murder. It features Jon Finch as Macbeth and Francesca Annis...
  Francesca Annis
  Martin Shaw
x Macbeth Macbeth Oct 1, 1948 Macbeth Orson Welles
Macbeth is a 1948 American film adaptation by Orson Welles of William Shakespeare's tragedy Macbeth. In 1947, Orson Welles began promoting the notion of bringing a Shakespeare drama to the motion picture screen. He initially attempted to pique...
Lady Macbeth Jeannette Nolan
Macduff Dan O'Helihy
Malcolm III of Scotland Roddy McDowall
Duncan I of Scotland Erskine Sanford
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x Macbeth Macbeth Sep 21, 2006   Victoria Hill
Macbeth (also known as M) is an Australian 2006 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Macbeth. It was directed by Geoffrey Wright and features an ensemble cast including Sam Worthington, Victoria Hill and Lachy Hulme. Macbeth was filmed in...
  Lachy Hulme
Macbeth Sam Worthington
  Matt Doran
  Bob Franklin
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x Maqbool Maqbool DVD Cover Jan 30, 2004   Tabu
Maqbool (Hindi: मक़बूल, Urdu: مقبُول), a 2004 Indian film directed by Vishal Bharadwaj and starring Pankaj Kapoor, Irfan Khan, Tabu and Masumeh Makhija is an adaptation of the play Macbeth by Shakespeare. The film had its North American premiere at...
  Pankaj Kapur
  Om Puri
  Naseeruddin Shah
  Pankaj Kapoor
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x Men of Respect Damico 1991 Mike Battaglia John Turturro
Men of Respect is a 1990 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Macbeth starring John Turturro as Mike Battaglia, a mafia hitman who climbs his way to the top by killing his own boss. Directed by William C. Reilly, this is actually not the...
x O O Aug 31, 2001   Mekhi Phifer
O is a 2001 drama film, and a loose modern adaption of William Shakespeare's Othello. The film's intended release date coincided with the Columbine High School massacre, so the film was shelved. It was finally released later in 2001. It was directed...
  Josh Hartnett
  Julia Stiles
  Andrew Keegan
  Martin Sheen
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x Omkara Omkara Jul 28, 2006   Ajay Devgan
Omkara (Hindi: ओमकारा, Urdu: امکارا) is a 2006 Hindi film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Othello directed by Vishal Bharadwaj. It starred Ajay Devgan, Saif Ali Khan and Kareena Kapoor in lead roles, supported by Vivek Oberoi, Naseeruddin Shah and...
  Vivek Oberoi
  Saif Ali Khan
  Kareena Kapoor
  Konkona Sen Sharma
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x Othello Othello 1965 Othello Laurence Olivier
Othello is a 1965 film based on the Shakespeare play Othello; starring Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Frank Finlay, and Joyce Redman. It was simply a filmed version of a performance by the actors for the National Theatre, staged by John Dexter,...
  Maggie Smith
  Frank Finlay
  Joyce Redman
x Othello Othello 1952   Orson Welles
Othello is a 1952 drama film based on the Shakespearean play, made by Mercury Productions Inc. and Les Films Marceau and distributed by United Artists (1955). It was directed and produced by Orson Welles, who also played the title role (in blackface...
  Micheál MacLiammóir
  Suzanne Cloutier
  Robert Coote
  Suzanne Cloutier
x Othello Othello Dec 15, 1995   Laurence Fishburne
Othello is a 1995 film based on William Shakespeare's tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Oliver Parker and stars Laurence Fishburne as Othello, Irène Jacob as Desdemona, and Kenneth Branagh as Iago. This is the first cinematic reproduction...
  Irène Jacob
Iago Kenneth Branagh
  Nathaniel Parker
  Michael Maloney
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x Prospero's Books Prospero's Books Nov 15, 1991   John Gielgud
Prospero's Books (1991), written and directed by Peter Greenaway, is a cinematic adaptation of The Tempest, by William Shakespeare. John Gielgud is Prospero, the protagonist who provides the off-screen narration and the voices to the other story...
  Michael Clark
  Michel Blanc
  Erland Josephson
  Isabelle Pasco
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x Ran Ran 1985   Tatsuya Nakadai
Ran (乱, "chaos" or "revolt") is a 1985 film written and directed by Japanese filmmaker Akira Kurosawa. It is a jidaigeki (Japanese period drama) depicting the fall of Hidetora Ichimonji (Tatsuya Nakadai), an aging Sengoku-era warlord who decides to...
  Mieko Harada
  Akira Terao
x Richard Burton's Hamlet   Sep 23, 1964 Prince Hamlet Richard Burton
Richard Burton’s Hamlet is a 1964 filmed record of the Broadway production of William Shakespeare's tragedy that played from April 9 through August 8 of that year at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. It is a literal filmed record of the stage production in...
Polonius Hume Cronyn
Gertrude Eileen Herlie
The Gravediggers George Rose
Guildenstern William Redfield
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x Richard III Richard III Dec 29, 1995   Ian McKellen
Richard III is a 1995 film adaptation of William Shakespeare's play of the same name, starring Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent, Robert Downey Jr., Nigel Hawthorne, Kristin Scott Thomas, Dame Maggie Smith, John Wood and Dominic West. The...
  Annette Bening
  Jim Broadbent
  Robert Downey Jr.
  Nigel Hawthorne
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x Richard III Richard III Apr 16, 1955   Cedric Hardwicke
Richard III is a 1955 British film adaptation of William Shakespeare's historical play Richard III, including elements of Henry VI, Part 3. It was directed and produced by Laurence Olivier, who also played the lead role. The cast includes many noted...
  John Gielgud
  Laurence Olivier
  Paul Huson
  Andy Shine
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x Romeo + Juliet Romeo + Juliet Nov 1, 1996 Romeo Montague Leonardo DiCaprio
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet is a 1996 American/Australian film adaptation of William Shakespeare's romantic tragedy of the same name. It was directed by Australian Baz Luhrmann and stars Leonardo DiCaprio and Claire Danes in the eponymous...
  Claire Danes
  Pete Postlethwaite
  Miriam Margolyes
  Dash Mihok
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x Romeo and Juliet Romeo and Juliet Oct 8, 1968   Leonard Whiting
Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play Romeo and Juliet. The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume...
  Olivia Hussey
  John McEnery
  Michael York
  Milo O'Shea
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x Romeo and Juliet   1908 Juliet Capulet Florence Lawrence
The first ever American film version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was a silent film short made in 1908 made by Vitagraph Studios. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, it was filmed in Central Park in Manhattan, New York. The film starred...
Nurse Louise Carver
Romeo Montague Paul Panzer
Tybalt John G. Adolfi
x Romeo and Juliet   1900 Romeo Montague Emilio Cossira
Romeo and Juliet was a 1900 French film adaptation of the classic and famous William Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet. This film version was directed by Clément Maurice, starred Emilio Cossira, and is believed to be the earliest film adaptation of...
x Romeo Must Die Romeo Must Die Mar 22, 2000   Jet Li
Romeo Must Die is a 2000 martial arts film with a Romeo and Juliet theme, directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak. It stars Jet Li, Aaliyah, Delroy Lindo, Isaiah Washington, Russell Wong, Anthony Anderson, D.B. Woodside, and DMX, and features action and...
  Aaliyah
  Anthony Anderson
  DMX
  Russell Wong
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x Romie-0 and Julie-8 Romeo-and-Juliet-toy-theatre-cut-outs Apr 1989    
Romie-0 and Julie-8 is the third animated television special made by Nelvana Limited, inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in the future, the two romantic leads in this version are androids who fall in love despite a taboo against...
x She's the Man She's the Man Mar 17, 2006   Amanda Bynes
She's the Man is a 2006 American romantic comedy film, starring Amanda Bynes and Channing Tatum. It's directed by Andy Fickman, based on William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, though it also shares substantial similarities to Just One of the Guys...
  James Kirk
  Lynda Boyd
  Channing Tatum
  Laura Ramsey
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x Taming of the Shrew   1908      
x Taming of the Shrew   1929   Mary Pickford  
  Douglas Fairbanks
x The Bad Sleep Well The Bad Sleep Well Sep 19, 1960   Toshiro Mifune
The Bad Sleep Well (悪い奴ほどよく眠る, Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru) is a 1960 film directed by the Japanese director Akira Kurosawa. It was the first film to be produced under Kurosawa's own independent production company. The film stars Toshirō Mifune as...
  Masayuki Mori
x The Merchant of Venice The Merchant of Venice 2004   Jeremy Irons
The Merchant of Venice is a 2004 film based on Shakespeare's play of the same name. It is the first full-length sound film version in English of Shakespeare's play; most other versions are videotaped productions made for television. There had been a...
  Joseph Fiennes
  Al Pacino
  Lynn Collins
  Charlie Cox
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x The Taming of the Shrew 270373 1967 Kate Elizabeth Taylor
The Taming of the Shrew is a 1967 feature film based on a play by William Shakespeare about a courtship between two strong-willed people. The film was directed by Franco Zeffirelli and stars Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton as Shakespeare's Kate...
Petruchio Richard Burton
Lucentio - Suitor of Bianca Michael York
Bianca Minola Natasha Pyne
Baptista Minola Michael Hordern
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x Tower of London Tower of London Nov 17, 1939   Basil Rathbone
Tower of London (1939) black-and-white historical film released by Universal Pictures and directed by Rowland V. Lee. It stars Basil Rathbone as the future Richard III of England, and Boris Karloff as his fictitious club-footed executioner Mord....
  Boris Karloff
  Vincent Price
x Tromeo & Juliet Tromeo & Juliet Feb 28, 1997   Jane Jensen
Tromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment. The film was directed by Lloyd Kaufman and co-directed by James Gunn, who also wrote the film's screenplay...
  Will Keenan
  Valentine Miele
  Maximillian Shaun
  Steve Gibbons
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x Twelfth Night   Mar 3, 1956 Viola Klara Luchko
Twelfth Night (Russian: Двенадцатая ночь, transliteration Dvenadtsataya noch) is a 1955 Soviet comedy film by Lenfilm based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will. Script by Yan Frid. USA release date: March 3, 1956.
Countess Olivia Alla Larionova
Sir Andrew Ague-Cheek Georgiy Vitsin
Toby Belch Mikhail Yanshin
Duke Orsino Vadim Medvedev
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x West Side Story West Side Story 1961   Natalie Wood
West Side Story is a 1961 American film directed by Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins. It is an adaptation of the Broadway musical of the same name, which itself was adapted from Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. It stars Natalie Wood, Richard...
  Richard Beymer
  Russ Tamblyn
  Rita Moreno
  George Chakiris
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