Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "reference-to-shakespeare's-twelfth-night"

1. V for Vendetta (2005)

R | 132 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi

In a future British dystopian society, a shadowy freedom fighter, known only by the alias of "V", plots to overthrow the tyrannical government - with the help of a young woman.

Director: James McTeigue | Stars: Hugo Weaving, Natalie Portman, Rupert Graves, Stephen Rea

Votes: 1,179,747 | Gross: $70.51M

2. An American Tail (1986)

G | 80 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

While emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.

Director: Don Bluth | Stars: Dom DeLuise, Christopher Plummer, Erica Yohn, Nehemiah Persoff

Votes: 58,094 | Gross: $47.48M

3. Anonymous (I) (2011)

PG-13 | 130 min | Drama, Thriller

The theory that it was in fact Edward De Vere, Earl of Oxford, who penned Shakespeare's plays. Set against the backdrop of the succession of Queen Elizabeth I and the Essex rebellion against her.

Director: Roland Emmerich | Stars: Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis, Sebastian Armesto

Votes: 42,138 | Gross: $4.46M

4. Playmates (1941)

Passed | 96 min | Comedy, Music

For the sake of a lucrative radio contract, John Barrymore agrees to turn bandleader Kay Kyser into a Shakespearian actor.

Director: David Butler | Stars: Kay Kyser, John Barrymore, Lupe Velez, Ginny Simms

Votes: 355

5. A Letter to Three Wives (1949)

Passed | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

A letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands - but she does not say which one.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Jeanne Crain, Linda Darnell, Ann Sothern, Kirk Douglas

Votes: 10,804

6. Stage Beauty (2004)

R | 106 min | Drama

A female theatre dresser creates a stir and sparks a revolution in seventeenth century London theatre by playing Desdemona in Othello. But what will become of the male actor she once worked for and eventually replaced?

Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Billy Crudup, Claire Danes, Rupert Everett, Derek Hutchinson

Votes: 10,743 | Gross: $0.78M

7. Being Julia (2004)

R | 104 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Set in 1930s London, this movie involves stage actors and actresses and their experiences with love and revenge.

Director: István Szabó | Stars: Annette Bening, Michael Gambon, Maury Chaykin, Jeremy Irons

Votes: 12,932 | Gross: $7.74M

8. Fanny and Alexander (1983)

312 min | Drama

Through the eyes of ten-year-old Alexander, we witness the delights and conflicts of the Ekdahl family, a sprawling bourgeois clan in turn-of-the-twentieth-century Sweden.

Stars: Börje Ahlstedt, Ewa Fröling, Jarl Kulle, Bertil Guve

Votes: 4,675

9. After the Ball (2015)

Not Rated | 101 min | Comedy

After a young fashion designer runs afoul of her corrupt stepmother and stepsisters, she dons a disguise to help save the family business for her father.

Director: Sean Garrity | Stars: Portia Doubleday, Marc-André Grondin, Chris Noth, Lauren Holly

Votes: 3,677 | Gross: $0.16M

10. 52 Tuesdays (2013)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama

16-year-old Billie's reluctant path to independence is accelerated when her mother reveals plans to gender transition and their time together becomes limited to Tuesday afternoons.

Director: Sophie Hyde | Stars: Tilda Cobham-Hervey, Sam Althuizen, Imogen Archer, Del Herbert-Jane

Votes: 1,540

11. Stand-ins (1997)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama

A group of dysfunctional, disappointed actresses congregate in a Hollywood bar circa 1937.

Director: Harvey Keith | Stars: Katherine Morris, Costas Mandylor, Jordan Ladd, Daphne Zuniga

Votes: 198

12. Nothing Is Truer Than Truth (2018)

75 min | Documentary, Biography, History

NOTHING IS TRUER THAN TRUTH is a feature length documentary about Edward de Vere, Seventeenth Earl of Oxford, A-list party boy on the continental circuit, who spent a year and a half in ... See full summary »

Director: Cheryl Eagan-Donovan | Stars: Charles Bird, Michael Cecil, Alberto Toso Fei, Derek Jacobi

Votes: 125

13. Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles (2014)

PG-13 | 91 min | Documentary, Biography

A look at the life and work of the great theatre, radio and film artist.

Director: Chuck Workman | Stars: Orson Welles, Simon Callow, Christopher Welles, Joanne Hill Styles

Votes: 974 | Gross: $0.02M

14. Food of Love (1997)

105 min | Comedy, Romance

A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.

Director: Stephen Poliakoff | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Nathalie Baye, Joe McGann, Juliet Aubrey

Votes: 103

15. Much Ado About Something (2001)

70 min | Documentary, Mystery

Did Christopher Marlowe write the works of Shakespeare?

Director: Michael Rubbo | Stars: Michael Rubbo, Bill Browning, Jonathan Bate, John Michell

Votes: 84

16. 21st Century Bard: The Making of Twelfth Night (2003– )

30 min | Documentary

Documentary series looking at the creative, financial and technological aspects involved in making a contemporary film version of William Shakespeare's Twelfth Night.

Stars: Michael Maloney, Parminder Nagra, Ben Hughes

17. The Immortal Gentleman (1935)

61 min | Drama

William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a tavern in Southwark. Shakespeare points out people who remind him of scenes from his plays. A wistful woman reminds him of ... See full summary »

Director: Widgey R. Newman | Stars: Basil Gill, Rosalinde Fuller, Laidman Browne, Roy Byford

Votes: 21

18. Boomtown (2002–2003)
Episode: The Big Picture (2003)

TV-MA | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The disappearance of a failed actress leads the officers, including a guilt ridden Tom, to look into the part of a has-been director who was the last person to see her alive.

Director: Frederick King Keller | Stars: Donnie Wahlberg, Neal McDonough, Mykelti Williamson, Gary Basaraba

Votes: 47

19. Coupling (2000–2004)
Episode: My Dinner in Hell (2001)

TV-PG | 29 min | Comedy, Romance

Susan's sexually frank parents are coming to dinner, and Steve's worried. Seeing a nature TV show with Susan that talks about the need for the male of the species to continue to "enjoy" ... See full summary »

Director: Martin Dennis | Stars: Jack Davenport, Gina Bellman, Sarah Alexander, Kate Isitt

Votes: 582

20. Thomas and Sarah (1979)
Episode: Putting on the Ritz (1979)

50 min | Drama

Hoping to pull profitable con, Thomas and Sarah impersonate an inventor and a French countess but get taken in by another pair of con artists.

Director: Marek Kanievska | Stars: Pauline Collins, John Alderton, Sheila Gish, Norman Bird

Votes: 9

21. Annika (2021– )
Episode: Episode #1.6 (2021)

TV-14 | 46 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

A young woman murdered on the Glasgow docks hits the team hard when Michael's brother is named as the next of kin. Michael is taken off the case while his brother is investigated.

Director: Fiona Walton | Stars: Nicola Walker, Jamie Sives, Katie Leung, Ukweli Roach

Votes: 541

22. The Dean Martin Show (1965–1974)
Episode: Episode #6.23 (1971)

TV-PG | 60 min | Comedy, Music

Add a Plot

Director: Greg Garrison | Stars: Dean Martin, The Dingaling Sisters, Zero Mostel, Fred Smoot

23. Criminal Minds (2005– )
Episode: Amelia Porter (2014)

TV-14 | 42 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

The BAU is called to Salt Lake City, Utah to investigate a suspicious triple-homicide. Throughout the course of their investigation, they eventually discover that a fugitive killer could ... See full summary »

Director: Alrick Riley | Stars: Joe Mantegna, Shemar Moore, Matthew Gray Gubler, A.J. Cook

Votes: 2,008

24. Little Big Shots (2016–2020)
Episode: Tugging on the Harp Strings (2017)

TV-G | Family, Reality-TV

Calleigh, the Kung Fu artist; Daria, the harpist/singer; Jackson, the Shakespeare expert; Jaiden, the baton dancer; Sasha, the comic artist; and Xiongfei, the Chinese Latin dancer, all join host Steve Harvey.

Director: Russell Norman | Stars: Steve Harvey, Calleigh, Daria, Jackson Drew