Films like Othello

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   Hamlet

   Film · 1996 · also drama

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

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   A Double Life

   Film · 1947 · also drama

   A Shakespearian actor starring as Othello opposite his wife finds the character's jealous rage taking over his mind off-stage.

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   Hamlet

   Film · 1948 · also drama

   Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved t...

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   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

   Film · 1966 · also drama

   A history professor and his wife entertain a young couple who are new to the university's faculty. As the drinks flow, secrets come to light, and the middle-aged couple u...

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5. 5

   Hamlet

   Film · 1990 · also drama

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

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   Dial M for Murder

   Film · 1954 · also drama

   When her American lover visits London, a wealthy woman’s jealous husband hatches a plan to murder her and inherit her fortune.

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   Sleuth

   Film · 2007 · also drama

   Locked in a high-tech English manor, bound in a deadly duel of wits, Andrew Wyke and Milo Tindle come together as English gentlemen to discuss the matter of Wyke's wife:...

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   The Color Purple

   Film · 2023 · also drama

   A decades-spanning tale of love and resilience and of one woman's journey to independence. Celie faces many hardships in her life, but ultimately finds extraordinary stre...

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   Fences

   Film · 2016 · also drama

   In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a family.

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    Dancer in the Dark

    Film · 2000 · also drama

    Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her young son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer...

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