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Crew: William Shakespeare

Forbidden Planet (1956)

20 June 20025 March 2025

Rating: ★★★★½

Alien Artefacts/Monster from the Subconscious

Director: Fred McLeod Wilcox
Actors: Leslie Nielsen, Walter Pidgeon, Anne Francis, Warren Stevens, …
Category: Science Fiction

Hamlet (1996)

14 August 200417 June 2020

Rating: ★★★★

Shakespeare Adaptation/Ghosts and Madness

Director: Kenneth Branagh
Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet, Richard Briers, …
Category: Fantasy

Hamlet (2000)

17 June 200028 May 2021

Rating: ★★★

Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Michael Almereyda
Actors: Ethan Hawke, Julia Stiles, Kyle MacLachlan, Bill Murray, …
Category: Fantasy

Hamlet (2011)

19 October 201128 May 2021

Rating: ★★

Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Bruce Ramsay
Actors: Bruce Ramsay, Lara Gilchrist, Peter Wingfield, Gillian Barber, …
Category: Fantasy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

15 May 199922 October 2020

Rating: ★★★

Shakespeare Adaptation/Fairy Enchantments

Director: Michael Hoffman
Actors: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Calista Flockhart, …
Category: Fantasy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2005)

19 April 20078 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Ed Fraiman
Actors: Bill Paterson, Imelda Staunton, Lennie James, Dean Lennox Kelly, …
Category: Fantasy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2014)

22 June 201516 October 2019

Rating: ★★★★

Shakespeare Adaptation/Fairy Enchantments

Director: Julie Taymor
Actors: David Harewood, Kathryn Hunter, Lily Englert, Jake Horowitz, …
Category: Fantasy

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2016)

1 August 20178 January 2025

Rating: ★★½

Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: David Kerr
Actors: Matt Lucas, Nonso Anozie, Prisca Bakare, Matthew Tennyson, …
Category: Fantasy

Prospero’s Books (1991)

3 August 200010 June 2024

Rating: ★★

Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Peter Greenaway
Actors: John Gielgud, Isabelle Pasco, Mark Rylance
Category: Fantasy

#ShakespearesShitstorm (2020)

21 October 202421 October 2024

Rating: ★★★

Bad Taste Shakespeare Parody/Troma Film

Director: Lloyd Kaufman
Actors: Lloyd Kaufman, Kate McGarrigle, Erin Miller, Abraham Sparrow, …
Category: Horror

The Tempest (1979)

5 July 200422 March 2023

Rating: ★★★★

Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Derek Jarman
Actors: Heathcote Williams, Toyah Willcox, Karl Johnson, Richard Warwick, …
Category: Fantasy

Tempest (1982)

1 July 20004 August 2020

Rating: ★★★

Modernised Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Paul Mazursky
Actors: John Cassavetes, Susan Sarandon, Molly Ringwald, Gena Rowlands, …
Category: Fantasy

The Tempest (1998)

22 March 202310 June 2024

Rating: ★★½

Shakespeare Adaptation Updated to the US Civil War

Director: Jack Bender
Actors: Peter Fonda, Katherine Heigl, John Glover, Harold Perrineau Jr, …
Category: Fantasy

The Tempest (2010)

10 July 20119 April 2025

Rating: ★★★½

Shakespeare Adaptation

Director: Julie Taymor
Actors: Helen Mirren, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand, Alfred Molina, …
Category: Fantasy

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Theme Essays

  • Films About Atlantis
  • Werewolf Films
  • Virtual Reality
  • Imprisonment Thrillers
  • Films Depicting NASA and the Space Program
  • Human Bloodsports and Death Games
  • Animals Attack Films
  • Films About Plague and Pandemic
  • Disaster Movies
  • Steampunk Films
  • Documentaries
  • Films About Halloween
  • Films About Prophecy
  • Magicians and Sorcerers
  • Secret Societies
  • Real-Life People in Fiction
  • Techno-Thrillers
  • Twins in Fantastic Cinema
  • Asylums
  • Possession Films
  • Films About Imaginary and Magical Lands
  • Religion in Fantastic Cinema
  • Romantic Comedies
  • Film Noir
  • Spy Films
  • Jekyll and Hyde Films
  • Films That Make Dubious Claims to Being True Stories
  • Coming of Age Stories in Fantastic Cinema
  • Films About Cryogenics and Suspended Animation
  • Alternate History Films
  • Disturbed Psychology as Portrayed on Film
  • Law Enforcement in Fantastic Cinema
  • Weird Westerns
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