Movies like Romeo + Juliet

Key Features:: Shakespearean adaptation, Tragedy, Forbidden love, Family conflict, Star-crossed lovers, Romance, Modern setting, Visual spectacle, Violence-moderate, Suicide, Family conflict, Fate, Youth, Loss
Tone:: stylized, dramatic, poetic
Target Audience:: Romantics, Shakespeare enthusiasts, Drama lovers
Emotional Arc:: Infatuation → Passion → Despair

Romeo + Juliet

1996-11-01

In director Baz Luhrmann's contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed. Though the film is visually modern, the bard's dialogue remains.

Genres

Drama, Romance

Cast

Leonardo DiCaprio, Claire Danes, Jesse Bradford, Vondie Curtis-Hall, Brian Dennehy, John Leguizamo, Miriam Margolyes, Harold Perrineau, Christina Pickles, Pete Postlethwaite

Crew

Baz Luhrmann, Craig Pearce, Baz Luhrmann

Rating

★6.784(5193 votes)