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Plot Summary:
An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 8000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: surreal, atmospheric, serious, captivating, stylized, mindfuck, novela, offbeat, independent film, weird
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Tears for Sale (2008)
Plot Summary:
Story of two sisters that grew up in a small Serbian village in the beginning of the 1930s. The village is torn up by wars and years long blood oath. There are no men left in the village. Our heroines, Ognjenka and Mala Boginja decide to go to the city, kidnap men and return life to their village. The lights of the metropolis dazzle them and there starts this little amusing and sentimental adventure.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, History, Romance
Country: Serbia
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: captivating, light, enigmatic, humorous, surreal, atmospheric, gothic, serious, realistic, suspenseful
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The Tempest (1998)
Plot Summary:
An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 380
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, serious, stylized, modern day adaptation
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The Tempest (1979)
Plot Summary:
Prospero, a potent magician, lives on a desolate isle with his virginal daughter, Miranda. He's in exile, banished from his duchy by his usurping brother and the King of Naples. Providence brings these enemies near; aided by his vassal the spirit Ariel, Prospero conjures a tempest to wreck the Italian ship. The king's son, thinking all others lost, becomes Prospero's prisoner, falling in love with Miranda and she with him. Prospero's brother and the king wander the island, as do a drunken cook and sailor, who conspire with Caliban, Prospero's beastly slave, to murder Prospero. Prospero wants reason to triumph, Ariel wants his freedom, Miranda a husband; the sailors want to dance.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: avant garde, independent film, atmospheric, offbeat, serious, experimental, surreal, stylized, sexual, sexy
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The Tempest (1982)
Plot Summary:
A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious, entertaining, psychological, light, thought provoking, clever, intellectual, enigmatic
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1968)
Plot Summary:
Peter Hall's Royal Shakespeare Company production is one of the best versions of this oft-attempted but seldom achieved vision.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, feel good, humorous, stylized, semi serious, independent film
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As You Like It (2006)
Plot Summary:
Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-century Japan.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Drama, Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 127 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, witty, talky, costume drama, sex comedy, visual, visually stunning, offbeat, period drama
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Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
Plot Summary:
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min
Plot tags: black and white, light, entertaining, romantic, atmospheric, talky, feel good, touching, semi serious, witty
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The Merchant of Venice (2004)
Plot Summary:
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 38000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Luxembourg, USA
Duration: 131 min
Plot tags: sexy, period piece, talky, melancholic, stylized, tense, romantic, political, costume drama, visually stunning
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Othello (1981)
Plot Summary:
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ends. Venice needs Othello to protect its commercial interests in Cyprus where the Turkish fleet is headed. Desdemona insists on going to Cyprus, too. In Cyprus, Iago plots to convince Othello that Desdemona has betrayed him with Cassio. A lot more than political ambition seems to be motivating Iago.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 480
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min
Plot tags: depressing, atmospheric, rough, serious, emotional, realistic
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Rough Magic (1995)
Plot Summary:
A sleazy politician sends an agent (Russell Crowe) after his ex-fiancee (Bridget Fonda), who fled to Mexico with incriminating film of him.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA, France
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags: surreal, touching, humorous, melancholic, intense, semi serious, romantic, neo noir, independent film, atmospheric
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Prospero's Books (1991)
Plot Summary:
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, Netherlands, France, Italy, Japan
Duration: 124 min
Plot tags: experimental, surreal, psychedelic, epic, art house, non-linear, psychotronic, postmodern, cult classic, atmospheric
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The Taming of the Shrew (1967)
Plot Summary:
Baptista, a rich Paduan merchant, announces that his fair young daughter, Bianca, will remain unwed until her older sister, Katharina, a hellish shrew, has wed. Lucentio, a student and the son of a wealthy Pisan merchant, has fallen in love with Bianca. He poses as a tutor of music and poetry to gain entrance to the Baptista household and to be near Bianca. Meanwhile, Petruchio, a fortune-hunting scoundrel from Verona, arrives in Padua, hoping to capture a wealthy wife. Hortensio, another suitor of Bianca, directs Petruchio's attention to Katharina. When Hortensio warns him about Katharina's scolding tongue and fiery temper, Petruchio is challenged and resolves to capture her love. Hortensio and another suitor of Bianca, Gremio, agree to cover Petruchio's costs as he pursues Katharina.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 9000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 122 min
Plot tags: costume drama, clever, humorous, witty, funny, retro, artsy, cult classic, feel good, realistic
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Twelfth Night or What You Will (1996)
Plot Summary:
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 6000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Ireland, UK
Duration: 134 min
Plot tags: period piece, stylized, light, feel good, humorous, witty, colorful, cult classic, independent film, realistic
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Plot Summary:
Shakespeare's comedy about two couples in love with the wrong partners, and how they are finally brought together rightly, thanks in part to the bungling work of Puck. It is completely in the language of the Bard, with Pfeiffer as the Fairy Queen and Kline as the one turned into her evening's lover with donkey ears.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 27000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, USA
Duration: 116 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, atmospheric, stylized, entertaining, humorous, costume drama, visual, visually stunning, mystical, artsy
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Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Plot Summary:
In this Shakespearean farce, Hero and her groom-to-be, Claudio, team up with Claudio's commanding officer, Don Pedro, the week before their wedding to hatch a matchmaking scheme. Their targets are sharp-witted duo Benedick and Beatrice -- a tough task indeed, considering their corresponding distaste for love and each other. Meanwhile, meddling Don John plots to ruin the wedding.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 51000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 111 min
Plot tags: romantic, period piece, costume drama, sweet, melancholic, talky, romantic comedy, feel good, humorous, touching
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Cheerful Weather for the Wedding (2012)
Plot Summary:
England, 1932. Today is Dolly Thatcham's wedding day, and her family is arriving at the manor house with all the cheerfulness, chaos and grievances that accompany such gatherings. Trouble soon appears in the shape of Joseph, Dolly's lover from the previous summer, who throws her feelings into turmoil. But Dolly's mother will not allow her carefully laid plans for her daughter's future to be threatened.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: feel good, realistic, semi serious, sweet, captivating, entertaining, heartbreaking, period piece, humorous, stylized
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Othello (1995)
Plot Summary:
The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 123 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, melancholic, tense, costume drama, cynical, cult classic, serious, realistic, erotic, light
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Hamlet (1996)
Plot Summary:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 40000
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 242 min
Plot tags: stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious, period piece, epic, fairy tale, sad, visually appealing
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Hamlet (1990)
Plot Summary:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 23000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, UK, France
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, realistic, compassionate, bleak, psychological, serious, disturbing, costume drama, fairy tale, stylized
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Camelot (1967)
Plot Summary:
King Arthur establishes the ideals and laws of Camelot but is tragically forced to enforce these laws against his own wife.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 7000
Genere: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 179 min
Plot tags: emotional, intense, lyrical, colorful, atmospheric, captivating, stylized, arthurian, fairy tale, costume drama
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Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Plot Summary:
Director Franco Zeffirelli's beloved version of one of the most well-known love stories in the English language. Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 34000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy
Duration: 138 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, colorful, period piece, emotional, costume drama, atmospheric, erotic, sad, romantic drama
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Romeo & Juliet (2013)
Plot Summary:
In Verona, bad blood between the Montague and Capulet families leads to much bitterness. Despite the hostility, Romeo Montague manages an invitation to a masked ball at the estate of the Capulets and meets Juliet, their daughter. The two are instantly smitten but dismayed to learn that their families are enemies. Romeo and Juliet figure out a way to pursue their romance, but Romeo is banished for his part in the slaying of Juliet's cousin, Tybalt.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: UK, Italy, Switzerland, USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, dramatic, touching, emotional, realistic, sentimental, disturbing, fairy tale, gothic, sweet
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Romeo + Juliet (1996)
Plot Summary:
In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 241000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Mexico, Australia
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: romantic, stylized, visual, sexy, emotional, period piece, visually stunning, atmospheric, tense, depressing
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Practical Magic (1998)
Plot Summary:
Sally and Gillian Owens, born into a magical family, have mostly avoided witchcraft themselves. But when Gillian's vicious boyfriend, Jimmy Angelov, dies unexpectedly, the Owens sisters give themselves a crash course in hard magic. With policeman Gary Hallet growing suspicious, the girls struggle to resurrect Angelov -- and unwittingly inject his corpse with an evil spirit that threatens to end their family line.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 92000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: sweet, feel good, sincere, romantic, offbeat, sexy, detective, melancholic, humorous, mysterious
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Brand Upon the Brain! (2006)
Plot Summary:
Together with his teenage sister and a horde of orphans, young Guy Maddin lazes away his under-stimulated youth on the mysterious island he will someday inherit. In the lighthouse orphanage in which they all live, their every move is watched over by their overbearing and tyrannical mother while their father, a scientist and inventor, works away secretively in the basement. When new adoptive parents discover mysterious head wounds on their children, teen detectives Wendy and Chance Hale - brother and sister sleuths known as the "Lightbulb Kids" - visit the island to launch an investigation. As the investigation progresses, the kids are led into the darkest regions of revelation and repression as the terrible secrets of Guy's family are revealed.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: surreal, disturbing, avant garde, experimental, psychological, atmospheric, black and white, cerebral, mind bending, psychedelic
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Winter's Tale (2014)
Plot Summary:
A burglar falls for an heiress as she dies in his arms. When he learns that he has the gift of reincarnation, he sets out to save her.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 56000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min
Plot tags: romantic, stylized, fairy tale, captivating, emotional, surreal, light, thought provoking, sweet, melancholic
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Beastly (2011)
Plot Summary:
A curse transforms a handsome and arrogant young man into everything he detests in this contemporary retelling of Beauty and the Beast. Wealthy Kyle Kingson has everything a teenager could want in life, but he still gets off on humiliating the weaker and less attractive. When Kyle invites his misfit classmate Kendra to an environmental rally at their school, she questions his motivations but reluctantly accepts. Later, Kyle blows Kendra off, prompting the spurned goth girl to cast a dark spell on the swaggering egotist.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 79000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, romantic, touching, sweet, modern fairy tale, teen, captivating, feel good, sentimental, offbeat
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Excalibur (1981)
Plot Summary:
A surreal adaptation of Sir Thomas Malory's "Le Morte d'Arthur", chronicling Arthur Pendragon's conception, his rise to the throne, the search by his Knights of the Round Table for the Holy Grail, and ultimately his death.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 66000
Genere: Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 140 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, epic, exciting, serious, stylized, scenic, dark fantasy, intense, cult classic, arthurian
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What Dreams May Come (1998)
Plot Summary:
Chris Neilson dies to find himself in a heaven more amazing than he could have ever dreamed of. There is one thing missing: his wife. After he dies, his wife, Annie killed herself and went to hell. Chris decides to risk eternity in hades for the small chance that he will be able to bring her back to heaven.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 113000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, New Zealand
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: surreal, philosophical, touching, inspirational, spiritual, emotional, tear jerker, cerebral, reflective, thought provoking
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The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)
Plot Summary:
Tells the story of Benjamin Button, a man who starts aging backwards with bizarre consequences.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 684000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 166 min
Plot tags: touching, philosophical, sentimental, dramatic, melancholic, atmospheric, cerebral, captivating, emotional, sad