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William Shakespeare's 1590s play ''
Romeo and Juliet ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'', often shortened to ''Romeo and Juliet'', is a Shakespearean tragedy, tragedy written by William Shakespeare about the romance between two young Italians from feuding families. It was among Shakespeare's ...
'' has been adapted to film and television many times. Some of these adaptations include:


Direct adaptations

* ''Romeo and Juliet, A Romantic Story of the Ancient Feud Between the Italian Houses of Montague and Capulet'' (1908); directed by J. Stuart Blackton (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1908); filmed extract from a performance at the Lyceum Theatre; director unknown (UK) * ''Romeo e Giulietta'' (1908); directed by Mario Caserini (Italy) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1911); first attempt to distil the entire narrative into a film; directed by Barry O'Neil (USA) * ''Romeo e Giulietta'' (1912); pathécolor adaptation; directed by Ugo Falena (Italy) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1916); first feature-length adaptation; directed by John W. Noble and Francis X. Bushman (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1916); released the same week as, and in direct competition with, the Noble and Bushman adaptation; directed by J. Gordon Edwards (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1924); the balcony scene filmed at a performance from the Regent Theatre, London;
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's film debut; director unknown (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1936); most expensive Shakespearean adaptation made up to that time; directed by
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(USA) * ''Scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet'' (1937); first TV adaptation; directed by Royston Morley (UK) * ''Julieta y Romeo'' (1939); directed by José María Castellví (Spain) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1947); first full length TV adaptation; directed by Michael Barry (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1947); directed by Akhtar Hussein (India) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1949); TV adaptation for ''
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''; directed by Albert McCleery (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1954); directed by
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(UK/Italy) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1954); TV adaptation for ''
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''; directed by Richard Dunlap (USA) * ''Romeo e Giulietta'' (1954); made-for-TV movie; directed by Franco Enriquez (Italy) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1955); TV adaptation for ''
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''; directed by Harold Clayton (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1957); TV adaptation for '' Producers' Showcase'', broadcast from The Old Vic; directed by Michael Benthall; directed for television by Clark Jones (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1962); five-part TV serialisation; directed by Prudence Nesbitt (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1964); directed by
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(Italy/Spain) * ''Romeo en Julia'' (1964); made-for-TV movie; directed by Jack Dixon (Netherlands) * ''Romeo und Julia'' (1964); made-for-TV movie; directed by Gerhard Klingenberg (West Germany) * ''Romeo y Julieta'' (1966); made-for-TV movie; directed by María Herminia Avellaneda (Argentina) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1966); filmed version of a stage performance from the Jerwood Vanbrugh Theatre; directed by Val Drumm and Paul Lee (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1967); TV adaptation for ''
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''; directed by Alan Cooke (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1968); hugely successful adaptation both critically and commercially; directed by Franco Zeffirelli (UK/Italy) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1969); made-for-TV production that never aired; directed by Gordon McDougall (UK) * ''Romeo y Julieta'' (1972); made-for-TV movie; directed by José Antonio Páramo (Spain) * ''Romeo to Jurietto'' (1977);
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TV adaptation for '' Manga Sekai Mukashi Banashi'' series; directed by Kyousuke Katsura (Japan) * ''Romeo e Giulietta'' (1978); TV broadcast of a stage performance from the
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; directed by Orazio Costa and
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(Italy) * ''Romeo & Juliet'' (1976);
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; full-text production of 186 minutes; directed by Joan Kemp-Welch (UK) * ''Romeo & Juliet'' (1978); TV adaptation for the ''
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''; directed by
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(UK) * ''Romeo y Julieta'' (1981); TV adaptation for ''Los especiales de ATC'' series (Argentina) * ''The Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet'' (1982); straight-to-video production played out on an Elizabethan stage in a replica of the
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; directed by William Woodman (USA) * ''Romeo en Julia'' (1989); made-for-TV movie; directed by Berend Boudewijn and Dirk Tanghe (Netherlands) * '' Romeo.Juliet'' (1990); a motion picture conceived and performed to acclaim as a film-in-concert to the score of
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Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev) ''Romeo and Juliet'' (), Op. 64, is a ballet by Sergei Prokofiev based on William Shakespeare's play ''Romeo and Juliet''. First composed in 1935, it was substantially revised for its Soviet premiere in early 1940. Prokofiev made from the ballet ...
, which captures Shakespeare's timeless tale through the mesmerizing movements of feral cats with voiceovers by an all-star cast of British theater talent reciting extracts from the play; directed by Armondo Acosta (Belgium/UK). * "Romeo and Juliet" (1992); TV adaptation for '' Shakespeare: The Animated Tales''; directed by Yefim Gamburg (Russia/UK) * ''Romeo & Juliet'' (1993); TV broadcast of a stage production from the
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; directed by Richard Monette; directed for television by Norman Campbell (Canada) * ''Romeo & Juliet'' (1994); five-part TV serialisation; directed by Alan Horrox (UK) * ''
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'' (1996); modernisation of the story, which retains Shakespeare's language but sets the play in "Verona Beach" in
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; directed by Australian
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(USA) * ''Romeo och Julia'' (1996); made-for-TV movie; directed by Alexander Öberg (Sweden) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (2000); straight-to-video adaptation told from the point of view of Mercutio; directed by Colin Cox (USA) * ''Romeo & Juliet'' (2013); 'traditional' adaptation of the play, with text adapted by Julian Fellowes; directed by Carlo Carlei (UK/Italy/Switzerland) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (2014); filmed version of a stage performance from the Richard Rodgers Theatre, directed by Don Roy King * Romeo and Juliet in Harlem (2015 film), directed by Aleta Chapelle - "The first Shakespeare feature film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" with a complete cast of color that stays true to the language and storyline." * Romeo and Juliet (2016 West End London play) (2016); filmed version, for live broadcast to cinemas, of 7 July 2016 stage performance from the Garrick Theatre, directed by
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(UK) *Romeo & Juliet (2021) is a production of the National Theatre of Great Britain which was filmed in an empty theatre over seventeen days during the
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global pandemic, directed by Simon Godwin. *''The Comedy of Romeo and Juliet'' (2021); filmed version of a stage performance, available for free on YouTube, recorded in July 2021 and released digitally December 7th, 2021, adapted and directed by Anthony Tresca. * '' Juliet & Romeo'' (2025); a musical version of the story; directed by Timothy Scott Bogart (Italy/USA).


Other adaptations

* ''Roméo et Juliette'' (1900); Romeo sings an
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's 1867 operatic adaptation of the play; directed by Clément Maurice (France) * ''Romeo und Julia'' (1909); Juliet sings the
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's operatic adaptation; director unknown (Korea) * ''Roméo se fait bandit'' (1909); comedy short set in contemporary
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; directed by Romeo Bosetti (France) * ''Romeo and Juliet in Our Town'' (1910); comedy short set in contemporary
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; director unknown (USA) * '' Indian Romeo and Juliet'' (1912); a boy from the Huron tribe falls in love with a girl from the Mohican tribe; directed by
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(Korea) * ''Romiet and Julio'' (1915); animated short featuring stray cats; directed by
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(USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1915);
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about an amateur dramatic society's attempts to stage the play; directed by Will Kellino (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1919); animated
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of the balcony scene; directed by Anson Dyer (UK) * ''Romeo und Julia im Schnee'' (1920); comedy adaptation set in contemporary
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; directed by
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(Germany) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1920);
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directed by
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(USA) * '' Doubling for Romeo'' (1921); a man falls asleep whilst reading ''Romeo and Juliet'' and dreams about people from his life morphing into characters from the play; directed by Clarence G. Badger (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1924);
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of the balcony scene; directed by Reggie Morris and Harry Sweet (USA) * ''A Rarin' Romeo'' (1925); comedy short in which a bumbling actor causes chaos during a production of the play; directed by
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(USA) * ''Drama Deluxe'' (1927); comedy short in which an actor causes the set to collapse during a production of the play; directed by
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(USA) * ''Felix the Cat as Romeeow'' (1927); part of Pat Sullivan's ''
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'' series; directed by Otto Messmer (USA) * '' The Hollywood Revue of 1929''; features two versions of the balcony scene, one a serious recitation of Shakespeare, the other a parody using contemporary slang; directed by
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(USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1933); animated short; directed by Frank Moser (USA) * '' Shakespearean Spinach'' (1940); animated short which sees
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(USA) * ''Romeo in Rhythm'' (1940); animated short; directed by Rudolf Ising (USA) * ''Shuhaddaa el gharam'' (1942); set in contemporary
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; released in the USA as ''Victims of Love'' and in the UK as ''Romeo and Juliet''; directed by Kamal Selim (Egypt) * ''Romeo y Julieta'' (1943); recasts the play as a
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; directed by Miguel M. Delgado (Mexico) * '' Les amants de Vérone'' (1949); during the shooting of a major new film version of the play, the lives of two actors begin to mirror the plot; directed by André Cayatte (France) * ''Tong lin niao'' (1950); set in modern
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; not released until 1955; directed by Doe Ching (China) * ''
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'' (1953); the son of a small-time fisherman falls in love with the daughter of the man trying to put his father out of business; directed by Robert D. Webb (USA) * ''Romeo i Dzhulyetta'' (1955); film adaptation of the
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's 1935 ballet adaptation of the play; directed by Lev Arnshtam (Russia) * ''Giulietta and Romeo'' (1955); TV comedy adaptation for '' Conrad Nagel Theatre''; relocates the story to a modern Italian village; directed by John Mantley (USA) * ''The Same Sky'' (1956); TV adaptation for '' Armchair Theatre''; modernisation in which the daughter of an
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family; directed by Dennis Vance (UK) * ''Romeo i Julija'' (1958); animated short which relocates the story to a
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''milieu''; directed by Ivo Vrbanic (Yugoslavia) * ''Romeo, Julia a tma'' (1960); set during the
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, a young student falls in love with the Jewish girl he is hiding from the authorities; directed by Jiří Weiss (Czechoslovakia) * ''Romanoff and Juliet'' (1961); political
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''milieu''; directed by
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(USA) * ''West Side Story'' (1961); musical set in 1950s
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(USA) * '' Los Tarantos'' (1963); adaptation of Alfredo Mañas' 1962 play, ''Historia de los Tarantos'', inspired by ''Romeo and Juliet'' but transferring the story to the
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in the 1960s; directed by
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(Spain) * ''Romeo and Juliet: A Ballet After William Shakespeare'' (1965); TV broadcast of a stage production of John Cranko's ballet to
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's score, from the Place des Arts; directed by Norman Campbell (Canada) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1966); filmic adaptation of
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production of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet to
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's score; directed by
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, featuring Margot Fonteyn as Juliet and Rudolph Nureyev as Romeo (UK) * ''Kako su se voleli Romeo i Julija?'' (1966); set in contemporary
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, the son of a wealthy family falls in love with the daughter of a family from the slums; directed by Jovan Zivanovic (Yugoslavia) * ''Romeo si Julieta'' (1968); animated short; directed by Bob Călinescu (Romania) * ''Romeo of the Spirits'' (1976); short film depicting the day in the life of an alcoholic tramp who was once a celebrated Shakespearean actor; directed by Nikolas L. Janis (UK) * ''The Bolshoi Ballet: Romeo and Juliet'' (1976); TV broadcast of the
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performing
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's ballet adaptation; directed by John Vernon (UK) * ' (1978); a 14-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy fall in love at a holiday camp, despite the best efforts of the adults to keep them apart; directed by Herrmann Zschoche (East Germany) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1978); made-for-TV production of
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's ballet adaptation; directed by Merrill Brockway (USA) * '' Maro Charitra'' (1978); set in contemporary
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-speaking neighbour; directed by K. Balachander (India) * '' Mônica e Cebolinha: No Mundo de Romeu e Julieta'' (1978); theatrical version of the play featuring the characters from ''
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''; directed by José Amâncio (Brazil) * '' Runaway Robots! Romeo-0 and Julie-8'' (1979); animated short telling the story of two robots from rival robot manufacturing companies who fall in love; directed by Clive A. Smith (Canada) * ''Romeu e Julieta'' (1980); TV adaptation which modernises the story and relocates it to the town of
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; directed by Paulo Afonso Grisolli (Brazil) * ''Vam i ne snilos...'' (1981); set in contemporary
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, two high school students fall in love, much to the chagrin of their parents; directed by
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's operatic adaptation from the
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; directed by Yves-André Hubert (France) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1983); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's ballet adaptation by the
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; directed by James E. Jones; directed for television by Norman Campbell (Canada) * ''Romeo and Juliet on Ice'' (1983); TV adaptation with the story told through
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; directed by Robert Iscove (USA) * ''Romeo e Giulietta'' (1983); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's ballet adaptation from the
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(Italy/UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1984); TV broadcast of a stage production of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet to
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's score, from the
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; directed by Colin Nears (UK) * ''Romeo i Julija'' (1984); animated short in which the play is performed by a group of monsters; directed by
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(Yugoslavia) * ''Narekohme gi Monteki i Kapuleti'' (1985); animated film about two warring families whose children fall in love; directed by Donyo Donev (Bulgaria) * '' China Girl'' (1987); an Italian boy falls in love with a Chinese girl, leading to gang warfare between their respective communities; directed by Abel Ferrara (USA) * ''
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'' (1988); a long-standing blood feud between two families is complicated when the son of one falls in love the daughter of the other; directed by Mansoor Khan (India) * ''Rami og Julie'' (1988); a
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refugee living in
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is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman with whom he falls in love; directed by Erik Clausen (Denmark) * ''Montoyas y Tarantos'' (1989); adaptation of Alfredo Mañas' 1962 play, ''Historia de los Tarantos'', inspired by ''Romeo and Juliet''; directed by Vicente Escrivá (Spain) * '' Romuald et Juliette'' (1989); a white businessman falls in love with his black housekeeper; directed by
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(France) * ''Torn Apart'' (1990); during the
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, an Israeli Jews, Israeli Jew falls in love with a
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woman; directed by Jack Fisher (director), Jack Fisher (USA/Israel) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1990); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's operatic adaptation from the Creighton Orpheum Theater; directed by Leon Major; directed for television by Michael Farrell (director), Michael Farrell (USA) * ''Godfather (1991 film), Godfather'' (1991); loosely adapts the tale of a young couple, from warring families, falling in love; directed by Siddique-Lal (India) * ''Romeo & Julia'' (1992); low budget straight-to-video comedy adaptation; directed by Kevin Kaufman (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet'' (1992); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's ballet adaptation, performed by the Northern Ballet, Northern Ballet Theatre; directed by Kriss Rusmanis (UK) * ''Keyamat Theke Keyamat'' (1993); a long-standing blood feud between two influential families is complicated when the son of one named Raj played by Salman Shah (actor), Salman Shah falls in love with the daughter of the other named Reshmi played by Mousumi; directed by Sohanur Rahman Sohan (Bangladesh) * ''The Punk'' (1993); set in modern-day London, a homeless young man falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy family, much to the horror of her parents; directed by Mike Sarne (UK) * ''Roméo et Juliette'' (1995); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's operatic adaptation from the
Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. The ROH is the main home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orch ...
; directed by Brian Large (UK) * ''Tromeo and Juliet'' (1996); Cinema of Transgression, transgressive comedy adaptation in which Romeo and Juliet discover they are brother and sister; directed by Lloyd Kaufman and James Gunn (filmmaker), James Gunn (USA) * ''Love Is All There Is'' (1996); comedy modernisation set in The Bronx, where the children of two rival restaurateurs fall in love; directed by Joseph Bologna and Renée Taylor (USA) * ''Ronnie & Julia'' (1997); made-for-TV comedy in which the children of two rival politicians fall in love; directed by Philip Spink (USA) * ''Shakespeare in Love'' (1998); the (fictitious) story behind the composition of ''Romeo and Juliet''; directed by John Madden (director), John Madden (UK/USA) * ''The Lion King II: Simba's Pride'' (1998); animated film which tells the story of a young female lion who befriends a young male from a banished tribe; directed by Darrell Rooney and Rob LaDuca (USA) * ''Solomon & Gaenor'' (1999); in a Welsh mining village in 1911, a young Jews, Jewish man falls in love with a
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girl; directed by Paul Morrison (director), Paul Morrison (UK) * ''Romeo Must Die'' (2000); an ex-cop falls in love with the daughter of the man he believes responsible for the death of his brother; directed by Andrzej Bartkowiak (USA) * Chicken Rice War, ''Jiyuan qiaohe'' (2000); the son and daughter of two rival families in the chicken rice trade unexpectedly fall in love; directed by Chee Kong Cheah (CheeK), CheeK (Singapore) * ''Alaska.de'' (2000); set in East Berlin in the 1980s, a young girl living with her father falls in love with a tough street kid; directed by Esther Gronenborn (Germany) * ''Romeo e Giulietta'' (2000); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's ballet adaptation from La Scala; directed by Tina Protasoni (Italy) * ''Brooklyn Babylon'' (2001); modernisation of the story set during the Crown Heights riot; directed by Marc Levin (USA) * ''Roméo & Juliette, de la haine à l'amour'' (2002); TV version of :fr:Gérard Presgurvic, Gérard Presgurvic's 2001 Roméo et Juliette, de la Haine à l'Amour, musical adaptation of the play; directed by :fr:Redha, Redha and :fr:Gilles Amado, Gilles Amado (France) * ''Amar te duele'' (2002); contemporary Mexican retelling of the story; directed by Fernando Sariñana (Mexico) * ''Barrio Wars'' (2002); straight-to-video modernisation of the story which relocates the events to a Los Angeles barrio; directed by Paul Wynne (USA) * ''Bollywood Queen'' (2002); comedy modernisation of the story set in London where a young Indian girl falls in love with a Scottish guitarist; directed by Jeremy Wooding (UK) * ''Roméo et Juliette'' (2002); heavily truncated made-for-TV production of
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's operatic adaptation; directed by Barbara Willis Sweete (France/UK/USA) * ''Didi, o Cupido Trapalhão'' (2003); a modernized version that follows the story of a clumsy angel who is given the mission of uniting a couple called Romeo and Juliet and the film also makes reference to the couple's poisoning at the end of the story; directed by Paulo Aragão and Alexandre Boury (Brazil) * ''Romeo & Julia und die neue Weltordnung'' (2004); short comedy in which the President of the USA's daughter falls in love with Osama bin Laden's son; directed by Thorsten Wettcke (Germany) * ''O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta'' (2005); comedy in which a die-hard football fan falls in love with the daughter of the chairman of his team's arch rivals; directed by Bruno Barreto (Brazil) * ''Roméo et Juliette'' (2005); TV broadcast of Hector Berlioz's 1839 Roméo et Juliette (Berlioz), choral symphony adaptation of the play from the Royal Albert Hall; directed by Charlotte Gazzard (UK) * Pizza My Heart (film), ''Pizza My Heart'' (2005); made-for-TV comedy in which the son of a pizza making family in
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falls in love with the daughter of the family's great rival; directed by Andy Wolk (USA) * ''West Bank Story'' (2005); comedy short spoof of ''West Side Story''; directed by Ari Sandel (2005) * ''Wellkåmm to Verona'' (2006); comedy in which a retired theatre director casts himself as Romeo in the hopes of having his leading lady fall in love with him; directed by :sv:Suzanne Osten, Suzanne Osten (Sweden) * ''56 csepp vér (film)''(2006); Hungarian movie tells the story of Romeo & Juliet, but in the 50s in the hungarian revolution. * Romeo and Juliet (2006 film), ''Roméo et Juiette'' (2006); modernisation set in contemporary Quebec; directed by :fr:Yves Desgagnés, Yves Desgagnés (Canada) * ''Romeo & Juliet: Sealed with a Kiss'' (2006); animated adaptation which sets the story underwater and features two young seals falling in love; directed by Phil Nibbelink (USA) * ''Rockin' Romeo & Juliet'' (2006); musical film in which Romeo is a modern rock star wooing Juliet with his singing ability; directed by David McGaw (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet: A Monkey's Tale'' (2006); fictional-documentary in which two monkeys from rival cliques fall in love; directed by Karina Holden (Australia) * ''Guca!'' (2006); at the annual Guča Trumpet Festival, a Serbs, Serb girl falls in love with a Romani people, Romani boy; directed by Dusan Milic (Serbia) * :es:Romeo y Julieta (telenovela), ''Romeo y Julieta'' (2007); TV series in the style of a soap opera; created by Ana Franco and Marcelo Nacci (Argentina) * Saints & Sinners (2007 TV series), ''Saints & Sinners'' (2007); telenovela set in modern-day Miami Beach, Florida, Miami Beach, where the son of a powerful local family falls in love with the daughter of a rival family; created by Ted Koland (USA) * ''Romeo × Juliet'' (2007);
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television mini-series set in the future city of Neo Verona; created by Reiko Yoshida (Japan) * ''Gounod's Roméo et Juliette'' (2007); live screening of a stage production of
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's operatic adaptation from the Metropolitan Opera; directed by Guy Joosten; directed for television by Gary Halvorson (USA) * ''Romeo and Juliet with the Royal Ballet'' (2007); TV broadcast of a stage production of Kenneth MacMillan's ballet to
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's score, from the
Royal Opera House The Royal Opera House (ROH) is a theatre in Covent Garden, central London. The building is often referred to as simply Covent Garden, after a previous use of the site. The ROH is the main home of The Royal Opera, The Royal Ballet, and the Orch ...
; directed by Ross MacGibbon (UK) * ''Bring It On: In It to Win It'' (2007); Dir: Steve Rash. Starring Ashley Benson and Cassandra Scerbo, with Noel Zreizaga, Jennifer Tisdale, and Michael Copon. As tension mounts between the two rival cheer squads, the Sharks and the Jets, Shark cheer captain Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn, not realizing he's a Jet. (USA) * ''uGugu no Andile'' (2008); TV mini-series set in Thokoza during the Negotiations to end apartheid in South Africa, apartheid negotiations, where a Xhosa people, Xhosa boy falls in love with a Zulu people, Zulu girl; created by Lodi Matsetela and Minky Schlesinger (South Africa) * ''Roméo et Juliette'' (2008); TV broadcast of a stage production of
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's operatic adaptation from the Felsenreitschule; directed by Bartlett Sher (Austria) * ''Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead'' (2009); a young girl falls in love with a zombie, much to the horror of her (living) family and friends and his (dead) family and friends; directed by Ryan Denmark (USA) * ''Romeo & Julio'' (2009); relocates the story to a B-boying, breakdancing ''milieu'', and changes Juliet to a young man; directed by Ivan Peric (Croatia) * ''Twilight Saga: New Moon'' (2009); Second book in series alludes to romeo and juliet; Directed by ((Chris Weitz)) ((US)) * Maro Charitra (2010 film), ''Maro Charitra'' (2010); remake of '' Maro Charitra''; directed by Ravi Yadav (India) * ''Camp Rock 2: The Final Jam'' (2010); TV film; directed by Paul Hoen (USA) * ''Gnomeo & Juliet'' (2011); animated film in which a gnome living in the garden of the Montague family falls in love with a gnome living in the garden of the Capulet family; directed by Kelly Asbury (UK) * ''Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish'' (2011); in modern-day Williamsburg, Brooklyn a young man from a Satmar (Hasidic dynasty), Satmar family falls in love with a young woman from a Chabad family; directed by Eve Annenberg (USA) * ''William'' (2012); comedy short in which William Shakespeare's mother tells him to rewrite the ending of ''Romeo and Juliet'' because it is too sad; directed by Sam Lara (Australia) * ''Warm Bodies (film), Warm Bodies'' (2013); contemporary zombie comedy in which a young girl falls in love with a zombie; directed by Jonathan Levine (USA) * ''Make Your Move 3D'' (2013); dance film loosely based on the play; directed by Duane Adler (USA) * ''Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela'' (2013); set in a fictional India where violence is an everyday occurrence, the son of a gun-running family falls in love with the daughter of a rival family; directed by Sanjay Leela Bhansali (India) *
Rome & Juliet
' (2017); webseries adaptation set in a fictional high school with rivalry between a tea shop and a coffee shop; changes all characters to female; created by the Outtakes on YouTube (USA) * ''Little Italy (2018 film), Little Italy'' (2018); Dir: Donald Petrie. Starring Hayden Christensen and Emma Roberts, with Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello and Andrea Martin. Rival pizza shop families in Toronto's Little Italy neighborhood eventually find common ground when two young (as well as two senior) members of each family fall in love. (Canada)


See also

* Romeo and Juliet (disambiguation) * List of William Shakespeare screen adaptations * Romeo and Juliet on screen, ''Romeo and Juliet'' on screen


References

{{Reflist Historical romance films Romantic drama films Films based on Romeo and Juliet,