Best Shakespeare movies and TV shows

Curse of the Macbeths (2022)

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Release: 2022
Genre: Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: suspense, surprise ending, serious, twists and turns, controversial, surprise ending, twist ending
Audience: boys’ night
Plot: bossiness, power struggle, killer, shakespeare, shakespeare play, gun, murder, gun shot, bossy man, partners in crime, rise to power… MOVIE

The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)

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Release: 2021
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, captivating, suspense, suspenseful, disturbing
Plot: treason, ambition, rise to power, witch, murder, king, betrayal, royal family, intrigue, horse, death, wife, shakespeare, witches
Place: scotland

Story: Macbeth, the

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Romeo 3000 (2018)

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Release: 2018
Genre: Action, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Style: romantic, psychotronic, exciting, captivating, suspense, suspenseful
Plot: steampunk, romance, post apocalypse, shakespeare’s romeo and juliet, revenge, love, friendship, nuclear war, friends, science, family relations, love and romance, father daughter relationship, supernatural ability, friendship between men, tragic … MOVIE

All Is True (2018)

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Release: 2018
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 101 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, touching, based on true events
Plot: british history, father daughter relationship, playwright, historical figure, family secret, retirement, church, husband wife relationship, shakespeare, society, fictional biography, gardening, wedding… MOVIE

Sherlock Gnomes (2018)

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Release: 2018
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Mystery, Romance
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Duration: 86 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: funny, humorous, sweet, entertaining, comic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: sherlock holmes, gnome, private detective, missing person, investigation, disappearance, disguise, shakespeare, … MOVIE

Romeo & Juliet (2017)

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Release: 2017
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: sincere, captivating, disturbing
Plot: forbidden love, in love, tragic love, love story, shakespeare’s romeo and juliet, star crossed lovers, couple relations, relationships, romantic relationship, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, dysfunctional family, love affair… MOVIE

1Life (2016)

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Release: 2016
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 80 min. 🎬 TV show
Style: tense, thought provoking, captivating, suspense
Plot: technology, security, social media, hacker, betrayal, friends, life is a bitch, society, social problems, relationship problems, social relations, loneliness, julius caesar, shakespeare, current affairs, science, smartphone

Story:

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Upstart Crow (2016)

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Release: 2016
Genre: Comedy, History
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 29 min. 🎬 TV show
Style: satirical, sitcom, light, humorous, entertaining
Plot: british history, satire, family relations, husband wife relationship, writers, poet, toilet humor, shakespeare, playwright, british humour, play, period piece
Time: 16th century
Place: england

Story: Comedy

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National Theatre Live: Hamlet (2015)

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Release: 2015
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 217 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: light, atmospheric, epic, captivating, emotional, entertaining, melancholic, talky, intense
Plot: live performance, royal court, medieval, king, queen, obsession, murder, sword fight, love and romance, theater, runaway, royal family, couples, shakespeare, mother … MOVIE

Bill (2015)

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Release: 2015
Genre: Comedy, Family, History
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 94 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: parody, humorous, semi serious, light, feel good, captivating, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: assassination attempt, political intrigue, adventure, rise to the top, follow your dream, ambition, writer’s life, royal family, escapades, artists and showbiz… MOVIE

National Theatre Live: Coriolanus (2014)

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Release: 2014
Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 192 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: captivating, psychological, tense, epic, suspense, intense
Plot: betrayal, vengeance, tragedy, political intrigue, military, leadership, rivalry, ambition, rise and fall, truce, state affairs, distopia, battles, soldier, exile, general, manipulation… MOVIE

Complete Works (2014)

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Release: 2014
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA 🎬 TV show
Style: realistic, not serious, humorous, captivating
Plot: ambition, actor’s life, rivalry, artists and showbiz, hopes, passionate interest, actor, underdog, theater, shakespeare, geek, competition
Time: contemporary, 21st century
Place: italy, europe

Story: Comedy series set in the world of a collegiate Shakespeare competition.

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Romeo and Juliet (2014)

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Release: 2014
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, romantic
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, interracial relations, true love, parents and children, tragic hero, youth, romance, family relations, love and romance, fall in love, couples, tragic love, young lovers… MOVIE

Romeo & Juliet (2013)

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Release: 2013
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: romantic, dramatic, touching, emotional, realistic, sentimental, disturbing, clever, serious, captivating
Audience: teens, date night, girls’ night
Plot: forbidden love, star crossed lovers, young lovers, true love, tragic … MOVIE

The Tempest (2010)

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Release: 2010
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: atmospheric, serious, captivating, surreal, stylized, offbeat
Plot: island, sorceress, storm, spirit, betrayal, wizards and magicians, family relations, escapades, vengeance, curses spells and rituals, destiny, love and romance, isolation… MOVIE

A Waste of Shame: The Mystery of Shakespeare and His Sonnets (2005)

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Release: 2005
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 85 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: psychological, thought provoking, enigmatic, captivating, disturbing
Plot: poet, poetry, countess, shakespeare, puzzle, mystery, research, secret, prostitute, brothel, platonic, gay interest
Time: 17th century, 1600s

Story: In 1609, William Shakespeare published a collection of 154

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The Merchant of Venice (2004)

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Release: 2004
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Kingdom, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 131 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, talky, melancholic, sexy, stylized, intense, clever, sincere, thought provoking, serious
Plot: friends, love and romance, jewish, prejudice, loan, life is a bitch, social decay, friendship… MOVIE

King of Texas (2002)

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Release: 2002
Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 95 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: serious, realistic, psychological, disturbing
Plot: family relations, family business, parents and children, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty, favoritism among siblings, farm, state affairs, father daughter relationship, old west, siblings relations, deception, rancher, aging, shakespeare’s … MOVIE

Othello (2001)

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Release: 2001
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: rough, serious, suspenseful, tense, realistic, modern day adaptation
Plot: interracial relations, tragic love, vengeance, downfall, power relations, betrayal, murder, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, friends, racism, love and romance, … MOVIE

Hamlet (2000)

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Release: 2000
Genre: Drama, Romance, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: psychological, cynical, serious, meditative, intense, clever, atmospheric, realistic, experimental, gloomy
Plot: murder, haunted by the past, tragic hero, ghost, corporation, poisoning, betrayal, intrigue, vengeance, love and romance, rivalry… MOVIE

Love’s Labour’s Lost (2000)

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Release: 2000
Genre: Romance, Comedy, Musical
Country: United Kingdom, France, USA
Duration: 93 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: sentimental, feel good, semi serious, humorous, witty, offbeat, modern day adaptation
Audience: date night
Plot: friendship, fall in love, best friends, couple relations, romance, love and romance, couples, disorder… MOVIE

Shakespeare in Love (1998)

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Release: 1998
Genre: Comedy, Drama, History, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: stylized, romantic, sweet, inspirational, witty, clever, feel good, humorous, captivating, realistic
Audience: girls’ night, date night, chick flick
Plot: forbidden love, cross dressing, theater, writer’s life, shakespeare, lovers, … MOVIE

Hamlet (1996)

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Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Duration: 242 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: atmospheric, stylized, serious, captivating, emotional, realistic, gloomy, epic, tragic ending, dramatic
Plot: prince, murder, betrayal, royal family, funeral, shakespeare, intrigue, love and romance, rivalry, tragic hero, couples, vengeance… MOVIE

Romeo + Juliet (1996)

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Release: 1996
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 120 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: stylized, romantic, tense, suspense, atmospheric, clever, serious, emotional, realistic, parody
Audience: date night, teens, girls’ night
Plot: forbidden love, tragic love, star crossed lovers, teen romance, young lovers, romance, true … MOVIE

A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)

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Original name: In the Bleak Midwinter
Release: 1995
Genre: Comedy
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 99 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: witty, talky, clever, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, bleak, sexy, affectionate
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, actor, village, friends, village life, showbiz, unemployment, lifestyle, actor’s life, … MOVIE

Othello (1995)

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Release: 1995
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, United Kingdom
Duration: 123 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: tense, melancholic, atmospheric, serious, realistic, dramatic, sexy, witty, talky, light
Plot: black man white woman relationship, interracial relations, betrayal, tragic love, murder, racism, jealousy, vengeance, love and romance, couples, rivalry… MOVIE

Hamlet (1990)

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Release: 1990
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, United Kingdom, France
Duration: 135 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: atmospheric, bleak, realistic, psychological, serious, disturbing, melancholic, compassionate, tragic ending, dramatic
Plot: murder, poisoning, tragic hero, revenge, family relations, parents and children, royal family, state affairs, dishonesty, unfulfillment… MOVIE

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)

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Release: 1990
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: United Kingdom, USA
Duration: 117 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: witty, talky, clever, humorous, mind bending, tragicomedy, realistic, not serious, absurd, surreal
Plot: destiny, existentialism, tennis, actor, backstage, investigation, friendship, experiment, friends, death sentence, escapades, actress, debate, … MOVIE

Henry V (1989)

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Release: 1989
Genre: Biography, Drama, History, War
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 137 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: realistic, exciting, serious, rough, captivating, stylized, epic, atmospheric, dramatic, sexy
Plot: medieval, battles, war, honor, politics, king of england, royal family, shakespeare, military, mistress, love … MOVIE

Othello (1986)

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Original name: Otello
Release: 1986
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: Netherlands, Italy, USA
Duration: 118 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: stylized, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, dramatic, sexy, breathtaking, unusual plot structure, talky
Plot: opera, obsession, betrayal, forbidden love, love and romance, interracial relations, royal family, intrigue, tragic love… MOVIE

The Angelic Conversation (1985)

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Release: 1985
Genre: Drama
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 77 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: atmospheric, sexy, serious, experimental, surreal, stylized, sexual, contemplative
Plot: love and romance, couples, gays and lesbians, love affair, introspection, gender, lovers reunited, couple relations, lgbt, poetry, love, gay, homosexual, poem, gay interest… MOVIE

Romeo and Juliet (1968)

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Release: 1968
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: United Kingdom, Italy
Duration: 138 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: romantic, emotional, sweet, colourful, atmospheric, serious, captivating, realistic, sexy, talky
Audience: date night
Plot: forbidden love, tragic love, romance, family feud, young love, love and romance, fall in love, unfulfillment… MOVIE

Mary Had a Little… (1961)

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Release: 1961
Genre: Comedy
Country: United Kingdom
Duration: 83 min. 🎬 Movie
Style: sexy, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, offbeat
Plot: pregnancy, love and romance, fall in love, mental illness, couples, doctors and patients, disorder, power relations, psychiatrist, baby, hypnosis, shakespeare, wager, hypnotism
Time: 60s, 20th century… MOVIE