SHAKESPEARE MOVIES
The Merchant of Venice (USA 2004, Michael Radford)
As You Like It (UK 2006, Kenneth Branagh)
A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1935, Max Reinhardt)
- a classic
A Midsummer Night's Dream (USA, 1999, Michael Hoffman
Get Over It (USA 2001, Tommy O'Haver) - A Midsummer Night's Dream as a teen comedy
Were The World Mine (USA 2008, Tom Gustafson) - A Midsummer Night's Dream as a gay musical
A Midsummer Night's Dream (1959, Jiří Trnka) - animated movie
Much Ado About Nothing (UK, 1993, Kenneth Branagh)
The Taming of the Shrew (USA, 1967, Franco Zeffirelli)
Kiss Me, Kate (USA 1953, George Sidney) - a musical version of the Shrew
10 Things I Hate About You (USA 1999, Gil Junger) - The Taming of the Shrew as a teen comedy
Tempest (USA, 1982, Paul Mazursky)
Prospero's Books (UK, 1991, Peter Greenaway) - Also a version of The Tempest
Forbidden Planet (USA, 1956, Fred M. Wilcox) - The Tempest as science fiction
Resan till Melonia (Ruotsi, 1989, Per Åhlin) - The Tempest as animation, kind of
Twelfth Night (UK, 1996, Trevor Nunn)
She's the Man (US, 2006, Andy Fickman) - Twelfth Night as a teen comedy
Hamlet (UK, 1948, Laurence Olivier)
Hamlet (USA, 1990, Franco Zeffirelli) - with Mel Gibson as Hamlet
Hamlet (UK, 1996, Kenneth Branagh) - a wintery Hamlet, 4 hours long but very watchable
Hamlet (USA, 2000, Michael Almereyda) - Hamlet in New York, with Ethan Hawke
The Bad Sleep Well / Warui yatsu hodo yoku nemuru (Japan, 1960, Akira Kurosawa) - also a kind
of Hamlet
Hamlet in the Business World, (Finland, 1987, Aki Kaurismäki)
Yè Yàn / The Banquet, (China, 2006, Feng Xiaogang) - Hamlet in China of the 10th century
Ran (Japan, 1985, Akira Kurosawa) - King Lear in Japan, lots of blood and war
A Thousand Acres (USA, 1997, Jocelyn Moorhouse) - King Lear in Iowa
Macbeth (USA, 1948, Orson Welles)
Macbeth (Australia, 2006, Geoffrey Wright) - Macbeth in a drug gang
Kumonosu-jō /Throne of Blood (Japan, 1957, Akira Kurosawa) - Macbeth in Japan
Maqbool (India, 2004, Vishal Bharadwaj) - Macbeth in Mumbai
Othello (USA, 1952, Orson Welles)
Othello (USA, 1995, Oliver Parker) - Kenneth Branagh as the bad guy Iago
O (USA, 2001, Tim Blake Nelson) - teen tragedy of Othello
Romeo+Juliet (USA, 1996, Baz Luhrmann) - with Leonardo DiCaprio ja Claire Danes
West Side Story (USA, 1961, Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins) - Romeo & Juliet as a musical
Titus (USA, 1999, Julie Taymor) - Titus Andronicus with Anthony Hopkins
My Own Private Idaho (USA, 1991, Gus van Sant) - Henrik IV, kind of, with Keanu Reeves ja
River Phoenix
The Black Adder (TV, UK, 1983, Richard Curtis & Rowan Atkinson) - a parody of many
Shakespeare's plays
Richard III (UK, 1995, Richard Loncraine) - sijoittuu kuvitteelliseen 1930-luvun Englantiin
Looking for Richard (USA, 1996, Al Pacino) - osaksi dokumentaarinen