Tragedy
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    Romeo and Juliet

    Theda Bara couldn't have gotten any farther away from her vamp roles than the part of Juliet in this...

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    Richard III (1995)

    An ambitious noble murders his way to England's throne in this adaptation of Shakespeare's play, set...

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    A View From the Bridge (1962)

    A working-class Italian-American family is thrust into a conflict when two young men, illegal...

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    Men of Respect (1991)

    A New York mobster (John Turturro) kills his syndicate boss, inspired by his wife (Katherine...

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    The Republic of Love

    Divorced three times, a disc jockey (Bruce Greenwood) falls for a curator (Emilia Fox) who has a...

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    Straight Out of Brooklyn (1991)

    A ghetto teen (Lawrence Gilliard Jr.) takes part in an ill-fated robbery to help his parents (George...

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    Love Is the Drug (2006)

    A love triangle among recent high school graduates proves deadly.

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    The Field (1990)

    A tormented Irish patriarch and an American businessman struggle for possession of a plot of land in...

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    Hamlet (1990)

    based on the Shakespeare play about a man who returns home to his kingdom to find his mom married to...

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    Omkara (2006)

    The film is Vishal Bharadwaj's adaption of the Shakespeare masterpiece "Othello".

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    Tis Pity She's a Whore (1971)

    Annabella marries Soranzo, when she is pregnant by her brother Giovanni. Destiny, and jealousies...

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    Ju Dou (1991)

    The bride (Gong Li) and the nephew (Li Baotian) of an old village dyer (Li Wei) become spiteful...

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    The Brothers Karamazov (1968)

    Three brothers, one spiritual and living at a monastary, one a gambler, and one an intellectual,...

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    Othello (1955)

    Shakespeare's Iago (Micheal MacLiammoir) tells the jealous Moor of Venice (Orson Welles) that his...

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    The Fire Within (1966)

    An alcoholic French intellectual (Maurice Ronet) sets a date to die, then shoots himself.

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    Romeo and Juliet

    In Shakespeare's classic play, the Montagues and Capulets, two families of Renaissance Italy, have...

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    Guyana: Cult of the Damned (1980)

    "Names have been changed to protect the innocent" in this infamous fictionalization of the tragic...

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    O (2001)

    Jealous of his popularity, a teenager (Josh Hartnett) at a private school hatches a scheme to ruin...

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    Distant (2004)

    Mahmut is a relatively successful commercial photographer who has been struggling to come to terms...

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    Li Hsiao-Lung Ch'uan-Ch'i (1978)

    The martial artist is seen in clips and recalled by Steve McQueen, James Coburn and others who knew...

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    Opera Jawa (2008)

    A Javanese opera inspired by an episode in the Sanskrit epic Ramayana. Here, village potters Setio...

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    The World of Suzie Wong (1960)

    An older American artist (William Holden) falls in love with his bar-girl model (Nancy Kwan) in Hong...

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    Veronika Voss

    Voss is the second instalment in Fassbinder's history of Germany. Morphine addicted move queen...

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    Oedipus the King (1968)

    British adaptation of the Sophocles play.

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    Belly (1998)

    Two young friends (Nas, DMX) involved in organized crime and drug dealing find that their priorities...

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    Juha (1999)

    A farmer's wife is seduced into running away from her stolid older husband by a city slicker, who...

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    The Swimmer (1968)

    Based on John Cheever's story about a middle-aged man's reflections on life while traversing...

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    The Taste of Others (2001)

    A provincial businessman (Jean-Pierre Bacri) and his wife encounter the hoi polloi during a night at...

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    Hamlet (1964)

    The highly successful 1964 Richard Burton Broadway production of "Hamlet", deliberately staged in...

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    Edipo Alcalde

    Set in strife-ridden, 20th-century Colombia, a modern-day interpretation of Sophocles' tragedies...