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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...
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...
Imprisoned for life in a maximum security facility, a group of inmates deploy the words of Shakespeare to reflect on their existence.
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...
Italian crime film based on Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
STAR CROSS’D is poet, writer and illustrator Laura Dockrill’s contemporary take on Romeo and Juliet. The film is set on a windswept English beach, where ‘two houses, both alike in common crime’ wage...
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...
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...
Feature film. Stylised martial arts action drama based very loosely on Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. When his brother is murdered, ex-cop Han Sing breaks out of jail to avenge his killing and gets...
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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