Romeo and Juliet (films)
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William Shakespeare was an English poet and playwright, widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's national poet and the "Bard of Avon"...
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Romeo and Juliet
Romeo and Juliet is a tragedy written early in the career of playwright William Shakespeare about two young star-crossed lovers whose deaths ultimately unite their feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's most popular archetypal stories of young, teenage lovers.Romeo and Juliet belongs to a...
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- Romeo and Juliet (1900 film)Romeo and Juliet (1900 film)Roméo et Juliette was a 1900 French film adaptation of the classic and famous William Shakespeare play, Romeo and Juliet.This film version was directed by Clément Maurice, starred Emilio Cossira, and is believed to be the earliest film adaptation of the Shakespeare classic.The film was produced by...
, French title: Roméo et Juliette - Romeo and Juliet (1908 film), (UK)
- Romeo and Juliet (1908 film)Romeo and Juliet (1908 film)The first ever American film version of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet was a silent film short made in 1908 made by Vitagraph Studios. Directed by J. Stuart Blackton, it was filmed in Central Park in Manhattan, New York....
, (directed by BlacktonJ. Stuart BlacktonJames Stuart Blackton , usually known as J. Stuart Blackton, was an Anglo-American film producer of the Silent Era, the founder of Vitagraph Studios and among the first filmmakers to use the techniques of stop-motion and drawn animation...
) - Romeo and Juliet (1908 film), Italian title: Romeo e Giulietta
- Romeo and Juliet (1911 film), (directed by GarwoodWilliam GarwoodWilliam Garwood was an American stage and film actor and director of the early silent era in the 1910s....
) - Romeo and Juliet (1912 film), Italian title: Romeo e Giulietta
- Romeo and Juliet (1914 film)
- Romeo and Juliet (1916 film)Romeo and Juliet (1916 film)Romeo and Juliet is a 1916 silent drama film directed by J. Gordon Edwards and starring Theda Bara. The film shot in Fort Lee, New Jersey, where Fox many early film studios in America's first motion picture industry were based there at the beginning of the 20th century...
, (directed by Edwards) - Romeo and Juliet (1916 film), (directed by Bushman, Noble)
- Romeo and Juliet (1920 film)
- Romeo and Juliet (1924 film)
- Romeo and Juliet (1933 film)
- Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)Romeo and Juliet (1936 film)Romeo and Juliet is a 1936 American film adapted from the play by Shakespeare, directed by George Cukor from a screenplay by Talbot Jennings...
, (directed by CukorGeorge CukorGeorge Dewey Cukor was an American film director. He mainly concentrated on comedies and literary adaptations. His career flourished at RKO and later MGM, where he directed What Price Hollywood? , A Bill of Divorcement , Dinner at Eight , Little Women , David Copperfield , Romeo and Juliet and...
) - Romeo and Juliet (1942 film), Egyptian title: Shuhaddaa el gharam
- Romeo and Juliet (1943 film), Mexican title: Romeo y Julieta
- Romeo and Juliet (1947 film), (India)
- Romeo and Juliet (1947 TV), (UK)
- Romeo and Juliet (1951 film), Philippine title: Romeo at Julieta
- Romeo and Juliet (1954 film)Romeo and Juliet (1954 film)- External links :...
, UK, (directed by CastellaniRenato CastellaniRenato Castellani was an Italian film director and screenwriter.- Filmography :*The Iron Crown *Un colpo di pistola *Zazà...
) - Romeo and Juliet (1955 film)Romeo and Juliet (1955 film)Romeo and Juliet is a 1955 Soviet ballet film directed by Lev Arnshtam. It was entered into the 1955 Cannes Film Festival. -Cast:* Galina Ulanova - Juliet* Yuri Zhdanov - Romeo * I. Olenina - Juliet's nurse...
, Russian title: Romeo i Dzhulyetta - Romeo and Juliet (1964 film), Italian title: Giulietta e Romeo
- Romeo and Juliet (1965 TV)
- Romeo and Juliet (1966 film)
- Romeo and Juliet (1968 film), Romanian title: Romeo si Julieta
- Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)Romeo and Juliet (1968 film)Romeo and Juliet is a 1968 British-Italian cinematic adaptation of the William Shakespeare play of the same name.The film was directed and co-written by Franco Zeffirelli, and stars Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey. It won Academy Awards for Best Cinematography and Best Costume Design; it was also...
, UK title: William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (directed by Franco ZeffirelliFranco ZeffirelliFranco Zeffirelli KBE is an Italian director and producer of films and television. He is also a director and designer of operas and a former senator for the Italian center-right Forza Italia party....
) - The Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and JulietThe Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and JulietThe Secret Sex Lives of Romeo and Juliet is a 1969 sexploitation film written by Jim Schumacher based very loosely on the play Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare. Produced by Harry Novak and directed by Bethel Buckalew...
(1969 film) - Romeo and Juliet (1974 DVD), English title: The Bolshoi BalletBolshoi BalletThe Bolshoi Ballet is an internationally renowned classical ballet company, based at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow, Russia. Founded in 1776, the Bolshoi is among the world's oldest ballet companies, however it only achieved worldwide acclaim by the early 20th century, when Moscow became the...
in Sergei ProkofievSergei ProkofievSergei Sergeyevich Prokofiev was a Russian composer, pianist and conductor who mastered numerous musical genres and is regarded as one of the major composers of the 20th century...
's Romeo & Juliet (Russian/US) - Romeo and Juliet (1976 film), UK, (directed by Kemp-Welch)
- Romeo & Juliet (1978 TV)BBC Television ShakespeareThe BBC Television Shakespeare was a set of television adaptations of the plays of William Shakespeare, produced by the BBC between 1978 and 1985.-Origins:...
, English title: The Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet - Romeo and Juliet (1982 TV), Italian title: Romeo e Giulietta
- Romeo and Juliet (1982 film), UK title: The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet
- Romeo and Juliet (1984 film), Yugoslavian title: Romeo i Julija
- Romeo and Juliet (1990 film), Belgian title: Romeo-Juliet, (directed by Acosta)
- Romeo and Juliet (1992 DVD), French title: Roméo et Juliette by the Lyon Opera Ballet
- Romeo and Juliet (1992 TV)Shakespeare: the Animated Talesthumb|right|[[Banquo]] and [[Fleance]] from the "Macbeth" episode. Shakespeare: The Animated Tales comprised two six-part television series, first broadcast in 1992 and 1994...
, BBC2, animated - Romeo & Juliet (1993 TV)
- Romeo & Juliet (1994 TV)
- Romeo and Juliet (1995 TV)
- Romeo and Juliet (1996 film), English title: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet (directed by LuhrmannBaz LuhrmannMark Anthony "Baz" Luhrmann is an Australian film director, screenwriter, and producer best known for The Red Curtain Trilogy, which includes his films Strictly Ballroom, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet and Moulin Rouge!...
) - Tromeo and JulietTromeo and JulietTromeo and Juliet is a 1996 independent transgressive comedy film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet from Troma Entertainment...
(1996), a parody version of the story - Romeo and Juliet (2000 DVD), (directed by Cox)
- Romeo and Juliet (2000 DVD), Italian title: Romeo e Giulietta
- Romeo and Juliet (2002 DVD), French title: Roméo et Juliette
- Butterfly LoversButterfly LoversThe Butterfly Lovers is a Chinese legend of a tragic love story of a pair of lovers, Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai , whose names form the title of the story...
, 2006: An animaterf film based on a Chinese legend equivalent to Romeo and Juliet. - Romeo and Juliet (2006 film)Romeo and Juliet (2006 film)Roméo et Juliette is a 2006 Canadian film made in Quebec, directed by Yves Desgagnés. It stars Thomas Lalonde as Roméo, Charlotte Aubin as Juliette, and Jeanne Moreau as Laurence. The movie has altered and modernized the Shakespeare play except for the last line....
, French Canadian title: Roméo et Juliette (directed by Desgagnés) - Romeo and Juliet, 2007: TV drama set in modern Japan.
- Romeo X JulietRomeo x Julietis a TV anime series, loosely based on William Shakespeare's classical play, Romeo and Juliet, along with numerous references and characters from other Shakespearean plays. Though the anime borrows mostly from Shakespeare's story, the manga adaptation differs extensively from the original...
A TV Anime series, broadcast in 2007, that is based on the Shakespeare story, but with plot twists, more characters, and mythical creatures. - Romeo and Juliet (2010 TV), Philippine title: Romeo and Juliet (directed by Jose Javier ReyesJosé Javier ReyesJose Javier Reyes is a Filipino writer, director, miscellaneous crew and actor. He has won awards at the Gawad Urian, Metro Manila Film Festival and Filipino Star Awards for Movies for his films, which include Pahiram Ng Isang Umaga, Batang PX and Kasal, kasali, kasalo.-References:...
) - Gnomeo and JulietGnomeo and JulietGnomeo & Juliet is a 2011 computer-animated family comedy film based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet. The film is directed by Kelly Asbury, and the two main characters are voiced by James McAvoy and Emily Blunt. The film was released on , 2011.-Plot:Mrs. Montague and Mr. Capulet are...
(2011 film), animated family comedy - Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish (2011 film), (directed by Eve Annenberg)