Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "title-based-on-shakespeare"

1. North by Northwest (1959)

Approved | 136 min | Action, Adventure, Mystery

A New York City advertising executive goes on the run after being mistaken for a government agent by a group of foreign spies, and falls for a woman whose loyalties he begins to doubt.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Jessie Royce Landis

Votes: 346,500 | Gross: $13.28M

2. The Ides of March (2011)

R | 101 min | Drama, Thriller

An idealistic staffer for a new presidential candidate gets a crash course on dirty politics during his stint on the campaign trail.

Director: George Clooney | Stars: Paul Giamatti, George Clooney, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Ryan Gosling

Votes: 230,923 | Gross: $40.96M

3. Where Eagles Dare (1968)

M | 158 min | Action, Adventure, War

Allied agents stage a daring raid on a castle where the Nazis are holding American brigadier general George Carnaby prisoner, but that's not all that's really going on.

Director: Brian G. Hutton | Stars: Richard Burton, Clint Eastwood, Mary Ure, Patrick Wymark

Votes: 62,971

4. Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991)

PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

On the eve of retirement, Kirk and McCoy are charged with assassinating the Klingon High Chancellor and imprisoned. The Enterprise crew must help them escape to thwart a conspiracy aimed at sabotaging the last best hope for peace.

Director: Nicholas Meyer | Stars: William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy, DeForest Kelley, James Doohan

Votes: 80,945 | Gross: $74.89M

5. Something Wicked This Way Comes (1983)

PG | 95 min | Fantasy, Mystery, Thriller

In a small American town, a diabolical circus and its demonic proprietor prey on the townsfolk.

Director: Jack Clayton | Stars: Mary Grace Canfield, Richard Davalos, Jake Dengel, Jack Dodson

Votes: 10,631 | Gross: $8.40M

6. Upstart Crow (2016–2020)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, History

Satirical Blackadderesque sitcom about how friends, family, historical circumstances, and his arch-rival Robert Greene, who first coined the derogatory term "upstart crow", influenced William Shakespeare to write his famous plays.

Stars: David Mitchell, Gemma Whelan, Rob Rouse, Liza Tarbuck

Votes: 3,928

7. Outrageous Fortune (2005–2010)

TV-MA | 45 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama

When career criminal Wolfgang West gets put away for four years, his wife Cheryl decides it's time for her family to go straight. But can the Wests change the habits of a lifetime?

Stars: Robyn Malcolm, Antony Starr, Siobhan Marshall, Antonia Prebble

Votes: 2,400

8. Leave Her to Heaven (1945)

Passed | 110 min | Drama, Film-Noir, Romance

A writer falls in love with a young socialite and they're soon married, but her obsessive love for him threatens to be the undoing of them both as well as everyone around them.

Director: John M. Stahl | Stars: Gene Tierney, Cornel Wilde, Jeanne Crain, Vincent Price

Votes: 14,792

9. Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead (1990)

PG | 117 min | Comedy, Drama

Two minor characters from the play 'Hamlet' stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

Director: Tom Stoppard | Stars: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss, Livio Badurina

Votes: 23,871 | Gross: $0.74M

10. The Dogs of War (1980)

R | 102 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.

Director: John Irvin | Stars: Christopher Walken, Tom Berenger, Colin Blakely, Hugh Millais

Votes: 9,462

11. The Darling Buds of May (1991–1993)

TV-PG | 100 min | Comedy, Drama

The life of the Larkins, a farm family in Kent.

Stars: David Jason, Pam Ferris, Stephanie Ralph, Philip Franks

Votes: 2,475

12. Slings and Arrows (2003–2006)

TV-MA | 60 min | Comedy

In the fictional town of New Burbage, legendary theatrical madman Geoffrey Tennant returns to the New Burbage Theatre Festival, the site of his greatest triumph and most humiliating failure... See full summary »

Stars: Paul Gross, Martha Burns, Stephen Ouimette, Susan Coyne

Votes: 2,907

13. Brave New World (1998 TV Movie)

87 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

In a futuristic totalitarian utopian society, babies are created through genetic engineering, everyone has a predestined place in society and their minds are conditioned to follow the rules. A tragic outsider jeopardizes the status quo.

Directors: Leslie Libman, Larry Williams | Stars: Peter Gallagher, Leonard Nimoy, Tim Guinee, Rya Kihlstedt

Votes: 2,148

14. Mortal Thoughts (1991)

R | 103 min | Mystery, Thriller

Two detectives interrogate a hairdresser on two homicides she may or may not have been involved in.

Director: Alan Rudolph | Stars: Demi Moore, Glenne Headly, Bruce Willis, John Pankow

Votes: 9,679 | Gross: $19.02M

15. To Be or Not to Be (1983)

PG | 107 min | Comedy, Drama, War

At the onset of WW2, a Polish actor's family and the Polish Resistance help the troupe of a theatre escape Poland and the invading Nazis.

Director: Alan Johnson | Stars: Mel Brooks, Anne Bancroft, Ronny Graham, Estelle Reiner

Votes: 12,042 | Gross: $13.03M

16. Outrageous Fortune (1987)

R | 99 min | Comedy

Two women unknowingly share the same man, but when he disappears, both go out looking for him and enter his surprisingly dangerous life.

Director: Arthur Hiller | Stars: Shelley Long, Bette Midler, Peter Coyote, Robert Prosky

Votes: 8,678 | Gross: $52.86M

17. Something Wicked (2014)

R | 95 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery

As a young couple embarks upon their wedding plans, gruesome secrets from their past collide with sinister forces of the present to ensure these newlyweds do not live.

Director: Darin Scott | Stars: Shantel VanSanten, Brittany Murphy, Julian Morris, James Patrick Stuart

Votes: 1,604

18. The Evil That Men Do (1984)

R | 90 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A professional killer comes out of retirement to investigate and avenge the brutal murder of an old friend.

Director: J. Lee Thompson | Stars: Charles Bronson, Theresa Saldana, Joseph Maher, José Ferrer

Votes: 4,749 | Gross: $13.10M

19. Brave New World (1980 TV Movie)

180 min | Drama, Sci-Fi

A man who grew up in a primitive society educating himself by reading Shakespeare is allowed to join the futuristic society where his parents are from. However, he cannot adapt to their repressive ways.

Director: Burt Brinckerhoff | Stars: Julie Cobb, Bud Cort, Keir Dullea, Ron O'Neal

Votes: 1,149

20. Fresh Horses (1988)

PG-13 | 105 min | Drama, Romance

A college student from Cincinnati breaks off his engagement to his wealthy fiancée after falling in love with a girl from Kentucky. She claims to be 20, but he learns she is actually only 16 and already married.

Director: David Anspaugh | Stars: Molly Ringwald, Andrew McCarthy, Patti D'Arbanville, Ben Stiller

Votes: 2,119 | Gross: $6.64M

21. What's in a Name? (2012)

PG | 109 min | Comedy, Drama

Vincent is about to become a father. At a meeting with childhood friends he announces the name for his future son. The scandalous name ignites a discussion which surfaces unpleasant matters from the past of the group.

Directors: Alexandre de La Patellière, Matthieu Delaporte | Stars: Patrick Bruel, Valérie Benguigui, Charles Berling, Guillaume de Tonquédec

Votes: 18,331

22. Double, Double Toil and Trouble (1993 TV Movie)

TV-Y7 | 96 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family

On Halloween night, two precocious little girls try to save their parents from their nasty old capitalist aunt's greedy clutches. Magic abounds and they meet mysterious new friends along the way.

Director: Stuart Margolin | Stars: Mary-Kate Olsen, Ashley Olsen, Cloris Leachman, Phil Fondacaro

Votes: 3,886

23. Under the Greenwood Tree (2005 TV Movie)

TV-PG | 93 min | Drama, Romance

In this lighthearted romance from Victorian novelist Thomas Hardy, the beautiful new village school teacher is pursued by three suitors: a working-class man, a landowner, and the vicar.

Director: Nicholas Laughland | Stars: Keeley Hawes, James Murray, Terry Mortimer, Richard Leaf

Votes: 2,989

24. Squanto: A Warrior's Tale (1994)

PG | 102 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.

Director: Xavier Koller | Stars: Adam Beach, Mandy Patinkin, Sheldon Peters Wolfchild, Irene Bedard

Votes: 1,433 | Gross: $3.34M

25. Summer's Lease (1989– )

220 min | Drama, Mystery

While on a family holiday in Tuscany, Molly Pargeter becomes preoccupied with the disappearance of their villa's owner and his connections to the local waterboard mafia much to the chagrin of her staid husband and swinger father.

Stars: Susan Fleetwood, John Gielgud, Michael Pennington, Rosemary Leach

Votes: 404

26. Night Ambush (1957)

Unrated | 93 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Led by British officers, partisans on Crete plan to kidnap the island's German commander and smuggle him to Cairo, Egypt to embarrass the occupiers.

Directors: Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Marius Goring, David Oxley, Dimitri Andreas

Votes: 1,980

27. Fortune and Men's Eyes (1971)

R | 102 min | Drama

The young, naive Smitty is sent to prison for six months; Cathy, his girlfriend, watches as he disappears behind the bars and barbed wire. He's assigned a cell with Queenie, a balls-out ... See full summary »

Directors: Harvey Hart, Jules Schwerin | Stars: Wendell Burton, Michael Greer, Zooey Hall, Danny Freedman

Votes: 568 | Gross: $0.18M

28. Were the World Mine (2008)

Not Rated | 95 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy

A bullied and demoralized gay student at an all-boys school uses a magical flower derived from Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream' to turn many in his community gay, including a comely rugby player for himself.

Director: Tom Gustafson | Stars: Tanner Cohen, Wendy Robie, Judy McLane, Zelda Williams

Votes: 5,893 | Gross: $0.12M

29. The Rest is Silence (2007)

114 min | Comedy, Drama

In 1911-12, the Romanian movie director Grigore Brezianu and the financial tycoon Leon Popescu made together the 2 hours long movie "Romania's Independence" - an as faithful as possible ... See full summary »

Director: Nae Caranfil | Stars: Marius Florea Vizante, Ovidiu Niculescu, Mirela Zeta, Sandu Mihai Gruia

Votes: 2,932

30. The Winter of Our Discontent (1983 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 105 min | Drama

This story tells those self-denials of an honest man what necessary to reach his object of life.

Director: Waris Hussein | Stars: Donald Sutherland, Teri Garr, Tuesday Weld, Michael V. Gazzo

Votes: 162

31. Purr-Chance to Dream (1967)

G | 6 min | Animation, Short, Adventure

Tom has a nightmare of being pounded by a giant dog. Jerry lures Tom into a series of encounters with the miniature vicious bulldog introduced in The Cat's Me-Ouch (1965). Tom finally decides the nightmare wasn't so bad after all.

Directors: Ben Washam, Chuck Jones, Maurice Noble | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 398

32. Beautiful Devils (2017)

119 min | Drama

A modern retelling of Shakespeare's Othello set within the music scene of East London. Oz and Ivan are lifelong friends and music producers. When Oz gets offered a lucrative recording ... See full summary »

Director: James Marquand | Stars: Iain Glen, Rachel Hurd-Wood, Greg Wise, Steven Waddington

Votes: 182

33. False as Water (1985)

102 min | Drama, Thriller

John and Carl have a small publishing company. One day John meets the poet Clara who recently made her debut, and Clara's fiancé Stig. John and Clara fall in love with each other, and she ... See full summary »

Director: Hans Alfredson | Stars: Malin Ek, Sverre Anker Ousdal, Marie Göranzon, Stellan Skarsgård

Votes: 775

34. Full Fathom Five (1990)

PG | 82 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Adapted from the best-selling novel. Navy Captain Peter Mackenzie is sent on his toughest assignment when the Soviet nuclear submarine Kirov is stolen and the weapons are aimed at the United States.

Director: Carl Franklin | Stars: Michael Moriarty, Maria Rangel, Todd Field, Michael Cavanaugh

Votes: 163 | Gross: $0.31M

35. All Our Yesterdays (1960–1989)

Documentary

Series looking back at events in the same week 25 years earlier.

Stars: Bernard Braden, James Cameron, Kathryn Davies, Brian Inglis

Votes: 37

36. To Die... To Sleep... Perchance to Dream (1976)

97 min | Drama

An old empty mansion. The ghost of a man who lived there returns to recall the crucial moments of a lifetime. Faced with the proximity of death, the experiences of his past come to the ... See full summary »

Director: Manuel Mur Oti | Stars: Rafael Arcos, Israel Morales, Ernesto Martín, María Rubio

Votes: 96

37. Scent-imental Romeo (1951)

Approved | 6 min | Animation, Short, Comedy

A hungry cat disguises herself as a skunk to get in on feeding time at the zoo, but amorous Pepe thinks she's the real thing and pours on his Maurice Chevalier impression to win her over.

Director: Chuck Jones | Star: Mel Blanc

Votes: 447

38. Sex o no sex (1974)

94 min | Comedy

Paco, bored office worker, is a sexually repressed young man, of strict moral and serious convictions. Paco is annoyed by couples who kiss in parks and women with short skirts. Angélica, ... See full summary »

Director: Julio Diamante | Stars: Carmen Sevilla, José Sacristán, Antonio Ferrandis, José Vivó

Votes: 54

39. Walking Shadow (2001 TV Movie)

96 min | Mystery

As a favor to his longtime lover Dr. Susan Silverman, Spenser agrees to investigate the stalking of a theater company director, pro bono. But before he can get started, an actor is killed ... See full summary »

Director: Po-Chih Leong | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Ernie Hudson, Marcia Gay Harden, Eric Roberts

Votes: 125

40. Very Like a Whale (1980 TV Movie)

86 min | Drama

A rich industrialist reaches the heights of success but finds himself increasingly isolated from everyone around him.

Director: Alan Bridges | Stars: Alan Bates, Gemma Jones, Ann Bell, Anna Cropper

Votes: 20

41. All Our Yesterdays (2015)

13 min | Short, Drama, Horror

Strange occurrences plague a grieving woman.

Director: Jacob Strunk | Stars: Ethel Mayville, Austin O'Brien, Holly Rokes

42. Byla ne byla (1986)

64 min | Drama, Music

A teenage boy gets into trouble flirting with a pretty teacher, then redeems himself defending a girl attacked by goons in a park. He falls for another teacher's daughter, a dancer, and meets the hot teacher under different circumstances.

Director: Valeri Fedosov | Stars: Grigoriy Kataev, Tina Laptev, Aleksey Zharkov, Valentina Telichkina

Votes: 11

43. Slings & Arrows (1996)

107 min

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Director: Geoffrey Sharp | Stars: Joe Cappelletti, Teresa Caroselli, William Gebhardt, Darryl Gibson

Votes: 15

44. Some Sweet Oblivious Antidote (2018)

15 min | Short, Comedy, Drama

It takes a full-on Shakespearean quote-off to cure a young girl of her verbal addiction to verse.

Director: Christiana Ebohon-Green | Stars: Lenny Henry, Wunmi Mosaku, Fatima Koroma, Colin Salmon

Votes: 11

45. To Be or Not to Be (1998)

94 min | Drama

Anik a young girl is in desperate need to heart implement. She with the help of her doctor goes to a hospital where a young guy Amir is in a coma. On his wedding night he had an accident ... See full summary »

Director: Kianoush Ayari | Stars: Asal Badeei, Farhad Sharifi, Hossein Ilbeygi, Noor-Ali Lotfi

Votes: 291

46. Much Ado About Nothing (1940)

Approved | 7 min | Animation, Short, Family

Little Cute Chickie Duck loves little lucky Dinky Duck but they have a quarrel, which leads their parents to have a quarrel, which leads to a big-duck brawl...careful, there...which leads ... See full summary »

Director: Connie Rasinski

Votes: 46

47. All My Sins Remembered (2003)

Drama

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Director: Jeffrey Pierce | Stars: Andrew Michael Lou, Kirstin Pierce, Will Rolland

48. The Rub (2018)

62 min | Drama

The Rub is a psychedelic retelling of Shakespeare's play from within the mind of the protagonist. The film was created with hand painted and rotted 35 mm and 16 mm celluloid strips, to create a new vision of the brooding Dane's experience.

Directors: Péter Lichter, Bori Máté | Star: Szabolcs Hajdu

Votes: 29

49. The Seven Ages of Man (1975)

30 min | Drama

Anthology series of plays whose authors were all male Australians.

Stars: Kate Ferguson, Jacki Weaver, Mark Lee, John Waters

50. By Any Other Name (II) (2018)

12 min | Short, Musical

A whimsical take on an old man's life with Alzheimer's Disease, and how his daughter copes with his demise , by singing a musical theatre song!

Director: Lisa Bluthal | Stars: Caitlin Berry, John Bluthal, Lisa Bluthal, Lilly Boyd