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10 Best Movies Like Hamlet

If you loved Hamlet, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
Tape

Tape

2001★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Jon, a first-time filmmaker, finds himself in Lansing, Michigan to present his film at a local film festival. Vince, his high school friend who is now a volunteer fireman and small...

#2
The Presidio

The Presidio

1988★ 5.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Action. It captures a similar adrenaline-pumping atmosphere.

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a ...

#3
Hoot

Hoot

2006★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A young man moves from Montana to Florida with his family, where he's compelled to engage in a fight to protect a population of endangered owls....

#4
Love's Labour's Lost

Love's Labour's Lost

2000★ 5.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

A scholarly king and his three companions swear off the society of women for three years, only to have a diplomatic visit from a French princess and her three ladies-in-waiting thw...

#5
Macbeth

Macbeth

2010★ 6.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Renowned Shakespearean actor Patrick Stewart features as the eponymous anti-hero in this Soviet-era adaptation of one of Shakespeare's darkest and most powerful tragedies....

#6
The St. Francisville Experiment

The St. Francisville Experiment

2000★ 3.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Hamlet for fans of Horror. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Four non-actors, with no script, lock themselves in a haunted Louisiana plantation home overnight to film what takes places. The Lalaurie plantation, site of grisly murders, comes ...