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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Isuzu Yamada, Minoru Chiaki
Action Thriller • Action • Based-on-Shakespeare
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Tatsuya Nakadai, Akira Terao, Jinpachi Nezu
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
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Fred M. Wilcox • Starring: Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Leslie Nielsen
Action • Adventure • Based-on-Shakespeare
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Akira Kurosawa • Starring: Toshirô Mifune, Masayuki Mori, Kyoko Kagawa
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Foreign Language Film
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Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Brian Blessed
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
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Jerome Robbins, Robert Wise • Starring: Natalie Wood, Russ Tamblyn, Rita Moreno
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Drama
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Keith Baxter, Jeanne Moreau
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy
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Gil Junger • Starring: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Heath Ledger, Julia Stiles
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy • Romance
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Tom Stoppard • Starring: Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Buddy Film
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Basil Sydney, Norman Wooland
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Baz Luhrmann • Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, John Leguizamo
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Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Julie Christie, Judi Dench, Gérard Depardieu
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Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Kenneth Branagh, Emma Thompson, Robert Sean Leonard
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Orson Welles • Starring: Robert Coote, Nicholas Bruce, Orson Welles
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Harcourt Williams, Renee Asherson
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Richard Loncraine • Starring: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Jim Broadbent
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Joseph L. Mankiewicz • Starring: James Mason, John Gielgud, Marlon Brando
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Epic
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Roman Polanski • Starring: Francesca Annis, Vic Abbott, Bernard Archard
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Julie Taymor • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Angus MacFadyen, Jonathan Rhys Meyers
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Orson Welles • Starring: Orson Welles, Jeanette Nolan, Dan O'Herlihy
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Joss Whedon • Starring: Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Reed Diamond
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Steven Spielberg • Starring: Rachel Zegler, Ansel Elgort, Ariana DeBose
Based-on-20th-Century-Literature • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
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Laurence Olivier • Starring: Cedric Hardwicke, Nicholas Hannen, Laurence Olivier
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Franco Zeffirelli • Starring: Leonard Whiting, Olivia Hussey, Milo O'Shea
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Franco Zeffirelli • Starring: Mel Gibson, Alan Bates, Glenn Close
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George Sidney • Starring: Kathryn Grayson, Howard Keel, Ann Miller
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Al Pacino • Starring: Al Pacino, Harris Yulin, Penelope Allen
Based-on-Shakespeare • Biography • Documentary
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William A. Wellman • Starring: Gregory Peck, Anne Baxter, Richard Widmark
Based-on-Shakespeare • Crime • Outlaw
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Franco Zeffirelli • Starring: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack
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Michael Hoffman • Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Stanley Tucci, Christian Bale
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy • Ensemble Film
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Joel Coen • Starring: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell
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Peter Greenaway • Starring: John Gielgud, Michael Clark, Michel Blanc
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
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Oliver Parker • Starring: Irène Jacob, Kenneth Branagh, Michael Maloney
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Justin Kurzel • Starring: Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Sean Harris
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Trevor Nunn • Starring: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Nigel Hawthorne
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Michael Radford • Starring: Joseph Fiennes, Mackenzie Crook, John Sessions
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Period Film
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Ralph Fiennes • Starring: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox
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Max Reinhardt • Starring: Olivia de Havilland, James Cagney, Mickey Rooney
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George Cukor • Starring: Leslie Howard, John Barrymore, Basil Rathbone
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Gregory Doran • Starring: David Tennant, Patrick Stewart, Penny Downie
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Andrzej Bartkowiak • Starring: Anthony Anderson, Edoardo Ballerini, DMX
Action • Based-on-Shakespeare • Martial Arts
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Billy Morrissette • Starring: James LeGros, Maura Tierney, Christopher Walken
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy • Crime
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George Cukor • Starring: Ronald Colman, Signe Hasso, Edmond O'Brien
Based-on-Shakespeare • Crime • Drama
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Michael Almereyda • Starring: Julia Stiles, Liev Schreiber, Diane Venora
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Andy Fickman • Starring: Channing Tatum, Laura Ramsey, James Snyder
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy • Cross-Dressing / Gender-Bending
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Walter Pfeffer Dando, William K.L. Dickson • Starring: Herbert Beerbohm Tree, Dora Senior, F.M. Paget
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Paul Mazursky • Starring: Susan Sarandon, Raul Julia, Molly Ringwald
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Stuart Burge • Starring: Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud
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Grigori Kozintsev • Starring: Innokenti Smoktunovsky, Mikhail Nazvanov, Elza Radzina
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Percy Stow
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Charles Kent, J. Stuart Blackton • Starring: Walter Ackerman, Charles Chapman, Gladys Hulette
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Fantasy
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Rowland V. Lee • Starring: Basil Rathbone, Vincent Price, Boris Karloff
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Historical Film
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Michael Elliot • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Diana Rigg, Leo McKern
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Made-for-Television
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Lloyd Kaufman • Starring: Jane Jensen, Will Keenan, Debbie Rochon
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Gerolamo Lo Savio • Starring: Ermete Novelli, Francesca Bertini, Olga Giannini Novelli
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Tony Richardson • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Judy Parfitt, Mark Dignam
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Renato Castellani • Starring: Laurence Harvey, Susan Shentall, Flora Robson
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Costume Romance
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Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Kenneth Branagh
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Comedy Drama
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Stuart Burge • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Maggie Smith, Joyce Redman
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Grigori Kozintsev, Iosif Shapiro • Starring: Jüri Järvet , Elza Radzina, Galina Volchek
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Basil Dearden • Starring: Patrick McGoohan, Keith Michell, Richard Attenborough
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Musical Drama
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Julie Taymor • Starring: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Alfred Molina
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Paul Czinner • Starring: Laurence Olivier, Sophie Stewart, Elisabeth Bergner
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy • Comedy of Errors
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Tim Blake Nelson • Starring: Mekhi Phifer, Josh Hartnett, Julia Stiles
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Melodrama
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André Calmettes, James Keane • Starring: Robert Gemp, Frederick Warde, Albert Gardner
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Sam Taylor • Starring: Mary Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Edwin Maxwell
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Jean-Luc Godard • Starring: Woody Allen, Peter Sellars, Leos Carax
Avant-garde / Experimental • Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama
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Kenneth Branagh • Starring: Bryce Dallas Howard, Romola Garai, David Oyelowo
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy Drama • Comedy of Errors
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Peter Hall • Starring: Derek Godfrey, Barbara Jefford, Helen Mirren
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Philip Casson • Starring: Ian McKellen, Judi Dench, Ian McDiarmid
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Jocelyn Moorhouse • Starring: Michelle Pfeiffer, Jason Robards, Jennifer Jason Leigh
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Family Drama
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Derek Jarman • Starring: Peter Bull, Heathcote Williams, David Meyer
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Adrian Noble • Starring: Lindsay Duncan, Alex Jennings, Desmond Barrit
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Charlton Heston • Starring: Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter
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Peter Brook • Starring: Paul Scofield, Irene Worth, Cyril Cusack
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Kelly Asbury • Starring: James McAvoy, Emily Blunt, Michael Caine
Action Comedy • Adventure Comedy • Adventure
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Rupert Goold • Starring: Ben Whishaw, Rory Kinnear, Clémence Poésy
Based-on-a-True-Story • Based-on-Shakespeare • Biopic
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Rupert Gould • Starring: Patrick Stewart, Scott Handy, Michael Feast
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Franz Peter Wirth • Starring: Maximilian Schell, Hans Caninenberg, Wanda Rotha
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Kevin Kline • Starring: Kevin Kline, Dana Ivey, Brian Murray
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Svend Gade, Heinz Schall • Starring: Asta Nielsen, Paul Conradi, Mathilde Brandt
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Ernest C. Warde • Starring: Frederick Warde, Lorraine Huling, Wayne Arey
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Wancang Bu • Starring: Lingyu Ruan, Cho-cho Lam, Cilong Wang
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A. Edward Sutherland • Starring: Allan Jones, Irene Hervey, Martha Raye
Based-on-Shakespeare • Comedy • Musical
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Ernst Lubitsch • Starring: Lotte Neumann, Gustav von Wangenheim, Julius Falkenstein
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Jirí Trnka • Starring: Rudolf Pellar, Joss Ackland, Ann Bell
Animation • Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre
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Basil Coleman • Starring: Helen Mirren, Angharad Rees, Richard Pasco
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Paul Almond • Starring: Sean Connery, Zoe Caldwell, William Needles
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Lucius Henderson • Starring: Florence La Badie, James Cruze, William Garwood
Based-on-Shakespeare • Drama • Romance
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Eugene Mullin • Starring: Julia Swayne Gordon, Charles Kent, Florence Turner
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Jonathan Miller • Starring: John Cleese, Sarah Badel, Anthony Pedley
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Jack Gold • Starring: Warren Mitchell, Gemma Jones, John Franklyn-Robbins
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Alvin Rakoff • Starring: Patrick Ryecart, Rebecca Saire, Alan Rickman
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Jonathan Miller • Starring: Anthony Hopkins, Bob Hoskins, Penelope Wilton
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Rodney Bennett • Starring: Derek Jacobi, Claire Bloom, Patrick Stewart
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Franco Zeffirelli • Starring: Justino Diaz, Petra Malakova, Massimo Foschi
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Desmond Davis • Starring: Kenneth Colley, Kate Nelligan, Tim Pigott-Smith
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David Giles • Starring: Derek Jacobi, John Gielgud, Jon Finch
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Gulzar • Starring: Sanjeev Kumar, Moushumi Chatterjee, Deven Verma
Based-on-Shakespeare • Bollywood • Comedy
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Kirk Browning • Starring: Ian McKellen
Based-on-Shakespeare • Based-on-Theatre • Documentary
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