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Melodrama. Alexandra Tranda awaits her father’s return. When the carriage comes up the drive she discovers his dead body hanging over the splashboard: he has been shot. Later her mother marries John...
Feature film. An oedipal mystery melodrama informed by Hamlet. A young man named Guan Jin (TA Chung Wa) walks into a police station, offering information about a 10-year-old murder. He says that the victim...
Independent short. "When William Shakespeare’s mother tells him to change the ending of Romeo and Juliet because it’s ‘too sad’, he begins the process of finding a new conclusion, with each new...
Feature film loosely based on Hamlet. Omeleto, the son of a rich farmer, returns home after his father’s death and is unhappy to find his mother married to his uncle. He is love with a poor black girl,...
Documentary. Michael Wood tells the story of Shakespeare’s mother, Mary Arden in a time of revolution. Born during the reign of Henry VIII, Mary Arden was the daughter of a Warwickshire farmer, but...
Film noir thriller B movie with loose connections to Hamlet. Paul (Lydon), has a recurring dream in which his father died in a car accident under mysterious circumstances and his mother (Eilers) falls in...
Feature film. Ben (Grint), the 17 year-old son of a vicar (Farrell), feels stifled by his devoutly religious mother (Linney). His meeting with Evie (Walters), a retired, unsuccessful actress given to...
Feature film. Hamlet transplanted to the ancient Tibetan kingdom of Jiabo. The prince, Lhamoklodan (Rgyal) has returned from his studies in Persia to find his father is dead and his mother has married his...
"Miranda’s Letter" uses "The Tempest" to deliver a creative response to Shakespeare’s limited exploration of the relationships between mothers and daughters. As her widowed father is too preoccupied...
US comedy short series about the adventures of a group of poor neighbourhood children. Spanky is entered into a kid’s talent contest by his pushy mother who brags about Spanky’s ability to recite...
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