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10 Best Movies Like Hamlet

If you loved Hamlet, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Good Ol' Freda

Good Ol' Freda

2013★ 7.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Music. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

The story of Freda Kelly, a shy Liverpudlian teenager asked to work for a young local band hoping to make it big: The Beatles. Their loyal secretary from beginning to end, Freda te...

#2
Dick Dynamite: 1944

Dick Dynamite: 1944

2024★ 4.6

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Action. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

In the dying days of World War II, Dick Dynamite and his ragtag team of Nazi-killing commandos must stop a group of depraved German scientists from turning the population of New Yo...

#3
Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

2000★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thw...

#4
Jude

Jude

1996★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

In late 19th-century England, Jude aspires to be an academic, but is hobbled by his blue-collar background. Instead, he works as a stonemason and is trapped in an unloving marriage...

#5
Othello

Othello

1995★ 6.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic....

#6
The Birdcage

The Birdcage

1996★ 7.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A gay cabaret owner and his drag queen partner agree to put up a false heterosexual front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's conservative parents....