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Plot Summary:
The second televised production of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" with Helen Mirren in the cast, although this time in a different role (Titania). In the 1968 production, which was released to movie theatres in Europe, but premiered in the U.S. on CBS-TV, Ms. Mirren played Hermia.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 334
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 112 min
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Romeo & Julio (2009)
Plot Summary:
Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 45
Genere: Comedy
Country: Croatia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags: parody
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Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead (2009)
Plot Summary:
When Juliet, of noble Capulet birth, falls madly in love with Romeo, a zombie, the streets of fair Verona explode in an ancient feud. As the star crossed lovers struggle to overcome the prejudice toward their unholy union, Juliet's best friend Mercutio fights to win her heart back from Romeo's rotting grasp. As this timeless tragedy unfolds into a fresh new comedy, Mercutio finds that he may have to choose between Juliet's happiness and his own life.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: independent film
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Romanoff and Juliet (1961)
Plot Summary:
Political satire has Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet story updated for the cold war era, with the children of the US and Russian ambassadors falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 516
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: heartfelt, independent film
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Laughter on the 23rd Floor (2001)
Plot Summary:
Inspired by Neil Simon's early career experience as a junior writer for Your Show of Shows, the play focuses on Sid Caesar/Jackie Gleason-like Max Prince, the star of a weekly comedy-variety show circa 1953, and his staff, including Simon's alter-ego Lucas Brickman, who maintains a running commentary on the writing, fighting, and wacky antics which take place in the writers' room.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 414
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 102 min
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The Adding Machine (1969)
Plot Summary:
An accountant whose job is about to be taken over by a computer starts to re-examine his life and his priorities.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 195
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: independent film, cult film
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1981)
Plot Summary:
The Glyndebourne Opera's 1981 production of the Benjamin Britten opera, based on Shakespeare's play.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 34
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min
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All's Well That Ends Well (1981)
Plot Summary:
Helena loves Bertram, but he's of noble birth, while she's just a doctor's daughter. But Bertram is at the court of the King of France, who is ill, and Helena has a remedy that might cure him and win her the right to marry Bertram. But does Bertram want to marry her?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 160
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 141 min
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A Midsummer Night's Dream (1982)
Plot Summary:
Theseus has defeated Hippolyta in battle, and now claims her as his bride. But before the nuptials begin, a pair of young lovers flee into the forest to be married, pursued by a pair of not-lovers. There, in the forest, live the fairies whose lives are in turmoil, due to the heated lovers' quarrels between their rulers, Oberon and Titania. Between the fairies, an ass's head, the lovers, a troupe of unsuspecting would-be actors, and a magic flower that can make people fall in love at first sight, it's a merry night of chaos and comedy until everything is put to rights.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 97
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Giuseppe Verdi: Falstaff (1982)
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IMDB Rating: 8.4
IMDB Votes: 25
Genere: Comedy, Music
Country: Austria
Duration: 136 min
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The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (2000)
Plot Summary:
Three men perform the entire 37 play canon from William Shakespeare in under two hours. A lot of quick costume changes and even more laughs.
IMDB Rating: 8.5
IMDB Votes: 804
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada, UK
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: parody
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National Theatre Live: All's Well That Ends Well (2009)
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National Theatre Live is an initiative operated by the Royal National Theatre in London, which broadcasts live via satellite, performances of their productions to movie theaters, cinemas and arts centres on the world. The second production, All's Well That Ends Well, showed at a total of around 300 screens, and today, the number of venues that show NT Live productions has grown to around 700.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 16
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration:
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The Comedy of Errors (1983)
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Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Too bad that Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will instantly put to death any Syracusean found within their borders unless a ransome's paid. Meanwhile, the son, Antipholus, and his servant, Dromio (also an identical twin), keep running into strangers who seem to know them.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 219
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min
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The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet (1969)
Plot Summary:
Romeo and Juliet love each other, but they also love everyone else in town.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 285
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: parody, sex comedy, independent film, slapstick comedy, slapstick, grindhouse
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Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)
Plot Summary:
In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the leading character observes "The play's the thing, wherein to catch the conscience of the king." In this Yugoslavian movie, a performance of Hamlet in a small village apparently catches the conscience of the whole town. The village commissar, who knows nothing of the play, insists on mounting a production of Hamlet over the objections of the village teacher, who knows the tale well. Thinking only of the prestige it will bring, the commissar plans to use local villagers in the parts. The son of a man the commissar had framed for theft gets the part of Hamlet, and the commissar plays the usurping king. During a fight scene, the boy Hamlet, manages to wrest a confession to the thefts from the town treasurer, but when he hears of his father's suicide, he promptly stabs the commissar. The commissar, bleeding, orders the post-performance dance to go on.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 315
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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Powder Room (2013)
Plot Summary:
This comedy follows Sam, as her life is turned upside down on a big night out. When reunited with her old college friends, Sam is forced to re-evaluate her life and constructs an elaborate façade in order to convince herself and her friends that she has it all. But once her dysfunctional yet devoted trio of best mates intervene, her carefully crafted charade begins to crumble amidst the shots, cigarettes, ciders and toilet transgressions. Faced with some very harsh realities, Sam must struggle to remain true to herself and reassess exactly what she wants from life.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 819
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, talky, semi serious
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Love's Labour's Lost - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2010)
Plot Summary:
When the King of Navarre and his three courtiers forswear all pleasure - particularly of the female variety - in favour of a life of study, the arrival of the Princess of France and her ladies plays havoc with their intentions. Using every kind of verbal gymnastics to poke fun, Shakespeare's most intellectual comedy is brought to hilarious life in this highly entaining production, rich in visual humour and sexual innuendo.
IMDB Rating: 7.7
IMDB Votes: 69
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 167 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Love's Labour's Lost (2017)
Plot Summary:
A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thwart their intentions.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 43
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 162 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Three on a Spree (1961)
Plot Summary:
A young man will inherit a huge fortune--8 million pounds--but to qualify, he must spend a million pounds in just two months. Easy to do? That's what you think!.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: humorous, realistic, semi serious
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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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Mary Had a Little... (1961)
Plot Summary:
A theatrical impresario tries to win a bet with a psychiatrist over the production of a perfect baby.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 76
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, independent film, sexy
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The Clandestine Marriage (1998)
Plot Summary:
A period film, set around an English country house whose owners want to arrange a marriage of convenience between their elder daughter and an aristocratic heir of a hard-up noble family.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 393
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: costume drama, independent film, humorous, realistic, witty, stylized, semi serious, period piece, period drama
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King Lear (1982)
Plot Summary:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min
Plot tags: period drama
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Cymbeline (1982)
Plot Summary:
Cymbeline, the King of Britain, is angry that his daughter Imogen has chosen a poor (but worthy) man for her husband. So he banishes Posthumus, who goes to fight for Rome. Imogen (dressed as a boy) goes in search of her husband, who meanwhile has boasted to his pal Iachimo that Imogen would never betray him. And Iachimo's determined to prove him wrong.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 197
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 175 min
Plot tags: black comedy
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Timon of Athens (1981)
Plot Summary:
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 137
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min
Plot tags:
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The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984)
Plot Summary:
BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 145 min
Plot tags:
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The Merry Wives of Windsor (2011)
Plot Summary:
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both. But the women are up to the old lecher’s tricks and turn the tables on him with a series of humiliating assignations, midnight terrors and a very damp, extremely smelly laundry basket. Gutsy, colloquial and bustling with vivid characters, The Merry Wives of Windsor is a brilliantly constructed farce and the only comedy Shakespeare set in his native land. It is also the ancestor of English bourgeois comedy and gave birth to a tradition that reaches down to the modern TV sitcom. The production made merry with the relationship between the life of middle-class Elizabethan England and the late medieval period in which the play is set.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 135 min
Plot tags: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic, witty, semi serious
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The Taming of the Shrew (2016)
Plot Summary:
This scintillating production of Shakespeare’s boisterous comedy will stir your emotions even as it challenges you with its pointed social commentary. Is the story of Kate and Petruchio one of courtship or of conquest? The breaking down of a defiant spirit or a breakthrough that liberates a heart deprived of love? You decide – but either way, this is an experience not to be missed!.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 61
Genere: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 156 min
Plot tags: captivating, satirical, disturbing, semi serious
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A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
Plot Summary:
Out of work actor Joe volunteers to help try and save his sister's local church for the community by putting on a Christmas production of Hamlet, somewhat against the advice of his agent Margaretta. As the cast he assembles are still available even at Christmas and are prepared to do it on a 'profit sharing' basis (that is, they may not get paid anything) he cannot expect - and does not get - the cream of the cream. But although they all bring their own problems and foibles along, something bigger starts to emerge in the perhaps aptly named village of Hope.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: black and white, clever, witty, talky, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, independent film, light
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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