In 1959, a maverick teacher returns to his alma mater and uses poetry to inspire his students to think for themselves and seize the day.
Young lovers living under an oppressive state-rule flee their home-city to change their lives, and end up changing the world. After all, love changes everything.
In this film adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream, a group of lovers, fairies, and amateur actors find themselves entangled in a magical forest where love is transformed, mischief ensues, and star-crossed lovers reunite.
Yuriko (Yuki Shibamoto) is tired of her relationship with a married man. She leaves Tokyo and goes back to her hometown of Yugafu, which is located on small island in Okinawa. The married man though follows Yuriko to the small island. In addition, the married man's wife also arrives on the island. They married couple causes all kinds of disturbances...
When a high school student gets dumped by his girlfriend, he goes into a downward spiral and decides to join the school's theater group to win her back. Along the way, he navigates through teen angst, unrequited love, and embarrassing situations.
In the small town of Midsummer, Timothy is cast as Puck in the school's production of A Midsummer Night's Dream. Inspired by the play, he discovers a secret love potion recipe hidden within the script. Timothy uses the potion to make his crush, Jonathon, fall in love with him. However, the potion's effects spread throughout the town, causing chaos as people find themselves attracted to others of the same sex. Timothy must navigate the consequences of his actions and confront his own fears of acceptance and identity.
A Midsummer Night's Rave (2002) is a modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream set in a rave. The movie revolves around a group of young people who attend the rave and get caught up in a night of wild partying, drug use, and romantic entanglements.
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.
National Theatre Live: A Midsummer Night's Dream is a filmed theater performance of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream. The story follows a group of lovers and mischievous fairies whose paths cross in a forest, leading to hilarious and sometimes chaotic misunderstandings. With its enchanting setting and lively characters, this comedy of errors explores themes of love, jealousy, and the transformative power of magic.
In this classic Shakespearean comedy, a group of young lovers and a troupe of amateur actors are manipulated by mischievous fairies in a magical forest. Mistaken identities, unrequited love, and comedic chaos ensue, all set to the backdrop of a royal wedding. Surrealism, transformation, and singing are key elements of this enchanting tale.
Four Athenians run away to the forest only to have Puck the fairy make both of the boys fall in love with the same girl. The four run through the forest pursuing each other while Puck helps his master play a trick on the fairy queen. In the end, Puck reverses the magic, and the two couples reconcile and marry.
Based on William Shakespeare's novel.
Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream".
Shakespeare’s romantic comedy is re-told in the Caribbean and brought into the 21st Century when Theseus and Hippolyta, returning Nationals, come home to Barbados to be married during Crop Over festival time. The island’s early history, folklore, culture and stunning landscape, lends itself perfectly for the mysticism, comedy and chaos that ensues, the night before the nuptual celebrations.
The world is burning up, icecaps melt, floods drown the landscape and people starve. These images are from a Shakespearean speech that dates from the seventeenth century. Climate change today has twisted the seasons beyond recognition, and the Bard's words describing a 'mazed world' are more relevant now than ever before. 'The Seasons Alter' is a vivid short film that uses Shakespearean poetry in the mouths of a modern family to illustrate the most pressing environmental challenge of our time.
In this adaptation of William Shakespeare's play, a group of young lovers and mischievous fairies cross paths in an enchanted forest, leading to a series of comedic and magical events. Love, laughter, and a touch of mischief ensue as the characters navigate through a night filled with mistaken identities, romantic rivalries, and whimsical encounters.
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy, based on a popular stage production by the Royal Shakespeare Company. A small boy dreams the play, which unfolds in a surreal landscape of umbrellas and lightbulbs.
A group of lovers, manipulated by fairies, seek love and adventure in a mystical forest.
A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy using the complete text of the play but performed by child actors.
The first puppet kinescope in the world. It is based on the famous poetic comedy by William Shakespeare. Three worlds meet in this story: the noble world of three Athens couples, a common popular world of tradesmen amateur theatre and a fairy-tale happiness of magic creatures as elves and nymphs. The film is considered the most remarkable Jiří Trnka's work and a milestone in the history of the world animation.