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7.5

♡ 2

Robin Lough Director

Clarence Smith as Claudius

Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet

Natalie Simpson as Ophelia

Cyril Nri as Polonius

Hamlet has the world at his feet. Young, wealthy and living a hedonistic life studying abroad. Then word reaches him that his father is dead. Returning home he finds his world is utterly changed, his certainties smashed and his home a foreign land. Struggling to understand his place in a new world order he faces a stark choice. Submit, or rage against the injustice of his new reality. Simon Godwin directs Paapa Essiedu as Hamlet in Shakespeare's searing tragedy. As relevant today as when it was written, Hamlet confronts each of us with the mirror of our own mortality in an imperfect world. Hamlet played in the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon until throughout summer 2016.

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

1990

7.3

♡ 14

60%

87%

Tom Stoppard Director

Joanna Miles as Gertrude

Tim Roth as Guildenstern

Iain Glen as Hamlet

Gary Oldman as Rosencrantz

Two minor characters from the play "Hamlet" stumble around unaware of their scripted lives and unable to deviate from them.

Hamlet

2000

shakespeare in modern dress

5.9

♡ 16

59%

Thriller

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Michael Almereyda Director

Ethan Hawke as Hamlet

Bill Clinton as Himself

Julia Stiles as Ophelia

Steve Zahn as Rosencrantz

Modern day adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder in New York City.

Hamlet in the Golden Vale

2018

6.5

♡ 14

Drama

Dan Hasse Director

Pat Dwyer as Claudius / The Ghost / Player King

Beth Ann Hopkins as Gertrude / Player Queen

Taylor Myers as Hamlet

Constantine Malahias as Rosencrantz / Guildenstern / Marcellus / Gravedigger / Player

A company of actors arrive at a castle deep in the Irish countryside and set into motion the story of Shakespeare's Hamlet. The lives of the actors and their characters intertwine as Prince Hamlet confronts the ghost of his father and seeks revenge on the treacherous Claudius, his uncle and newly appointed king. Hamlet's pursuit of vengeance scorches the lives of everyone inside the castle walls and lays bare the many contradictions and ambiguities of human existence. At the play's end, seven days have passed and the actors emerge, leaving the castle and characters behind.

Shakespeare: The Legacy

2016

7.2

♡ 4

Lyndy Saville Director

Simon Russell Beale as Falstaff

Bruce Ramsay as Hamlet

Leonard Whiting as Romeo

John Nettles as Self - Presenter

This film explores the era, life and work of William Shakespeare, including his famous lost years and the ways in which his legacy endures today.

Judy's Dead

6.2

Dave Rodkey Director

Jaron Frand as Hamlet

Charles Clifton as Night Janitor

Tom Atkins as Roy

Emily Bassett as Young Molly

John and Molly return home to attend a funeral for their mother, Judy, after being estranged from their parents for more than a decade. Confrontations with their domineering father bring up past conflicts, and John and Molly struggle to come to terms with the death of a parent they never really knew. As the audience experiences the past from Judy's perspective, John and Molly learn there is more that connects them to their parents than they ever could have realized.

A Diary for Timothy

1945

7.0

♡ 4

56%

Humphrey Jennings Director

John Gielgud as Hamlet

Jennifer as Herself - 5 year-old girl

Elvin Jenkins as Himself - Tim's father

Michael Redgrave as Narrator

A narrator recounts the state of Great Britain near the end of WWII via a visual diary for the titular baby boy born in September 1944.

Hamlet

1996

7.7

♡ 42

95%

Kenneth Branagh Director

Rowena King as Attendant to Gertrude

Rufus Sewell as Fortinbras

Kenneth Branagh as Hamlet

Kate Winslet as Ophelia

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

Shepherd's Delight

1984

6.7

♡ 2

John Smith Director

Jenni Morley as Comfort user

Roger Ollerhead as Drinker

Nick Houghton as FBI agent

David Parsons as Hamlet

Many of my films involve humour, but unlike the earlier work Shepherd’s Delight attempts to confront the problem of humour head-on, referring directly (since a large part of the film is composed of jokes and their analysis) to the viewer’s perception of the film itself. The film is largely concerned with how context determines the reading of information. Since the film’s statements oscillate between the deadly serious (concentrating particularly on an examination of the more sinister aspects of humour) and the totally bogus, with no clearly defined points of changeover, the context is often ambiguous. Hopefully, this strategy undermines both the authority of the ‘serious’ statements and any predictable effect of the ‘jokes’. John Smith, 1984

Hamlet

2018

8.5

♡ 2

Rhodri Huw Director

David Rintoul as Ghost / Player King

Andrew Scott as Hamlet

Maanuv Thiara as Marcellus

Peter Wight as Polonius

Hamlet captures the Almeida Theatre's 2017 acclaimed production of William Shakespeare's great play, recorded as-live in its West End transfer on the stage of London's Harold Pinter Theatre. Robert Icke's innovative modern-dress production, featuring Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Angus Wright and Jessica Brown Findlay, has been widely acclaimed as a dazzlingly intelligent, forcefully contemporary staging. The Evening Standard hailed Andrew Scott's 'career-defining performance... he makes the most famous speeches feel fresh and unpredictable.'

Hamlet

1990

6.7

♡ 43

76%

59%

Franco Zeffirelli Director

Glenn Close as Gertrude

Mel Gibson as Hamlet

Helena Bonham Carter as Ophelia

Vernon Dobtcheff as Reynaldo

Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.

Hamlet

2024

5.5

♡ 5

Sean Mathias Director

Jenny Seagrove as Gertrude

Francesca Annis as Ghost

Ian McKellen as Hamlet

Missy Malek as Osric / Player Prologue / Sleeping Youth

A tale of revenge that has stood the test of time, Shakespeare’s classic tragedy is reimagined for the modern day as a gripping psychological thriller! Transcending the confines of the stage, the film utilises nearly every room of the Theatre Royal Windsor to transform it into the immortal Elsinore Castle, from basement dungeon to roof-top battlement.

Grand Theft Hamlet

2024

shakespeare in modern dress

6.9

♡ 6

94%

Sam Crane Director

Pinny Grylls as Filmmaker

Lizzie Wofford as Gertrude

Sam Crane as Hamlet

Tilly Steele as Ophelia

Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.

Hamlet

2009

8.0

♡ 20

100%

91%