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  1. East of Piccadilly (1940 Film)

    aka: Strangler, The

    Director
    Harold Huth
    Producer
    Walter C. Mycroft

    Feature film set in London’s Soho. A crime reporter and writer of thrillers captures a silk stocking murderer. George Hayes provides a cameo of an insane actor who keeps effigies of theatre critics...

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  2. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Natalya Mokritskaya; Leonid Zagalsky; Lyudmila Savelyeva

    Feature film. Black comedy, the sub-plot offering a loose adaptation of Hamlet. Tells the story of a university graduate, Valya (Chursin) who impersonates victims in crime-scene reconstructions. Valya feels...

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  3. Aasha (1957 Film)

    Director
    M.V. Raman

    Comedy/crime feature film with songs claiming inspiration from Hamlet. A landowner is accused of murder and the device of staging a play is employed whereby Kishore, disguised as an Arab, puts together a...

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  4. Maledetto, Il (2022 Film)

    Director
    Giulio Base
    Producer
    Manuela Cacciamani

    Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.

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  5. Izobrazhaya Zhertvu (2006 Film)

    aka: Playing the Victim

    Director
    Kirill Serebrennikov
    Producer
    Leonid Zagalsky; Ulyana Savelyeva; Natalya Mokritskaya

    Feature film. A black comedy made as a modern-day adaptation of Hamlet. Valya, a university graduate, makes a living impersonating victims in crime-scene reconstructions. He is also haunted by the ghost of...

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  6. To die or Not to die (2015 Television)

    Series
    Brokenwood Mysteries, The
    Director
    Murray Keane

    New Zealand crime drama. In this episode the lead actor in an amateur production of Hamlet dies on stage just at the end of the play. Detective Mike Shepherd investigates a case of cyanide poisoning. The...

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  7. Rideau Rouge, Le (1952 Film)

    aka: Crimson Curtain, The

    Director
    André Barsacq
    Producer
    Paul Cadeac

    Feature film. Murder mystery amidst a provincial stage production of Macbeth. The characters believe that the deaths, including that of the director, are a result of the curse of ‘the Scottish play’ but...

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  8. Assassino e Quello con le Scarpe Gialle (1995 Film)

    aka: Assassin Wore Yellow Shoes, The

    Director
    Filippo Ottoni
    Producer
    Fulvio Lucisano; Guido De Laurentis; Leonardo Pescarolo

    Comedy thriller set in a small theatrical company. To director Roberto the events bring back childhood memories when he witnessed a murder in the same theatre. However, Roberto’s eccentric elderly aunt has...

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  9. Gallant Sons (1940 Film)

    Director
    George B. Seitz
    Producer
    Stephani. Frederick

    Feature film. Johnny, By and Kate are schoolmates who attempt to prove the innocence of Johhny’s father. They discover the murderer is Al Posna and attempt a scheme in which Posna confesses his crime. They...

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  10. Measure for Measure (2021 Film)

    Director
    Meadow Capon

    An imaginative student production featuring gender-neutral casting in a ‘true crime’ adaptation of Shakespeare’s play, presented as a TV investigation into the crimes of Duke Vincentio, flashing back...

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