Romeo and Juliet (1916); released the same week as, and in direct competition with, the Noble and Bushman adaptation; directed by
J. Gordon Edwards (USA)
Romeo and Juliet (1924); the balcony scene filmed at a performance from the
Regent Theatre, London;
John Gielgud's film debut; director unknown (UK)
Romeo and Juliet (1936); most expensive Shakespearean adaptation made up to that time; directed by
George Cukor (USA)
Scenes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (1937); first TV adaptation; directed by
Royston Morley (UK)
Romeo.Juliet (1990); a motion picture conceived and performed to acclaim as a film-in-concert to the score of
Sergei Prokofiev's
Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev), which captures Shakespeare's timeless tale through the mesmerizing movements of feral cats with voiceovers by an all-star cast of British theater talent reciting extracts from the play; directed by
Armondo Acosta (Belgium/UK).
Romeo & Juliet (1994); five-part TV serialisation; directed by
Alan Horrox (UK)
Romeo + Juliet (1996); modernisation of the story, which retains Shakespeare's language but sets the play in "Verona Beach" in
California; directed by Australian
Baz Luhrmann (USA)
Romeo och Julia (1996); made-for-TV movie; directed by
Alexander Öberg (Sweden)
Romeo and Juliet (2000); straight-to-video adaptation told from the point of view of Mercutio; directed by
Colin Cox (USA)
Romeo and Juliet in Harlem (2015 film), directed by Aleta Chapelle - "The first Shakespeare feature film adaptation of "Romeo and Juliet" with a complete cast of color that stays true to the language and storyline."[1]
Romeo and Juliet (2016 West End London play) (2016); filmed version, for live broadcast to cinemas, of 7 July 2016 stage performance from the
Garrick Theatre, directed by
Rob Ashford and
Kenneth Branagh (UK)
Romeo & Juliet (2021) is a production of the
National Theatre of Great Britain which was filmed in an empty theatre over seventeen days during the
Covid-19 global pandemic, directed by Simon Godwin.[2][3]
The Comedy of Romeo and Juliet (2021); filmed version of a stage performance, available for free on YouTube, recorded in July 2021 and released digitally December 7th, 2021, adapted and directed by Anthony Tresca.
Doubling for Romeo (1921); a man falls asleep whilst reading Romeo and Juliet and dreams about people from his life morphing into characters from the play; directed by
Clarence G. Badger (USA)
The Hollywood Revue of 1929; features two versions of the balcony scene, one a serious recitation of Shakespeare, the other a parody using contemporary slang; directed by
Charles Reisner (USA)
Romeo and Juliet (1933); animated short; directed by
Frank Moser (USA)
Romeo in Rhythm (1940); animated short; directed by
Rudolf Ising (USA)
Shuhaddaa el gharam (1942); set in contemporary
Egypt; released in the USA as Victims of Love and in the UK as Romeo and Juliet; directed by
Kamal Selim (Egypt)
Romeo y Julieta (1943); recasts the play as a
farce; directed by
Miguel M. Delgado (Mexico)
Les amants de Vérone (1949); during the shooting of a major new film version of the play, the lives of two actors begin to mirror the plot; directed by
André Cayatte (France)
Tong lin niao (1950); set in modern
Tibet; not released until 1955; directed by
Doe Ching (China)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953); the son of a small-time fisherman falls in love with the daughter of the man trying to put his father out of business; directed by
Robert D. Webb (USA)
Giulietta and Romeo (1955); TV comedy adaptation for Conrad Nagel Theatre; relocates the story to a modern Italian village; directed by
John Mantley (USA)
Romeo i Julija (1958); animated short which relocates the story to a
prehistoricmilieu; directed by
Ivo Vrbanic (Yugoslavia)
Romeo, Julia a tma (1960); set during the
Nazi occupation of
Czechoslovakia, a young student falls in love with the Jewish girl he is hiding from the authorities; directed by
Jiří Weiss (Czechoslovakia)
Los Tarantos (1963); adaptation of
Alfredo Mañas' 1962 play, Historia de los Tarantos, inspired by Romeo and Juliet but transferring the story to the
gypsy community (in the slums) of
Barcelona in the 1960s; directed by
Francisco Rovira Beleta (Spain)
Romeo si Julieta (1968); animated short; directed by
Bob Călinescu (Romania)
Romeo of the Spirits (1976); short film depicting the day in the life of an alcoholic tramp who was once a celebrated Shakespearean actor; directed by
Nikolas L. Janis (UK)
Sieben Sommersprossen [
de] (1978); a 14-year-old girl and 15-year-old boy fall in love at a holiday camp, despite the best efforts of the adults to keep them apart; directed by
Herrmann Zschoche (East Germany)
Romeu e Julieta (1980); TV adaptation which modernises the story and relocates it to the town of
Ouro Preto; directed by
Paulo Afonso Grisolli (Brazil)
Vam i ne snilos... (1981); set in contemporary
Moscow, two high school students fall in love, much to the chagrin of their parents; directed by
Ilya Frez (Russia)
Romeo i Julija (1984); animated short in which the play is performed by a group of monsters; directed by
Dušan Petričić (Yugoslavia)
Narekohme gi Monteki i Kapuleti (1985); animated film about two warring families whose children fall in love; directed by
Donyo Donev (Bulgaria)
China Girl (1987); an Italian boy falls in love with a Chinese girl, leading to gang warfare between their respective communities; directed by
Abel Ferrara (USA)
Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1988); a long-standing blood feud between two families is complicated when the son of one falls in love the daughter of the other; directed by
Mansoor Khan (India)
Rami og Julie (1988); a
Palestinian refugee living in
Copenhagen is rescued from a gang of racist thugs by a young woman with whom he falls in love; directed by
Erik Clausen (Denmark)
Montoyas y Tarantos (1989); adaptation of
Alfredo Mañas' 1962 play, Historia de los Tarantos, inspired by Romeo and Juliet; directed by
Vicente Escrivá (Spain)
Keyamat Theke Keyamat (1993); a long-standing blood feud between two influential families is complicated when the son of one named Raj played by
Salman Shah falls in love with the daughter of the other named Reshmi played by
Mousumi; directed by
Sohanur Rahman Sohan (Bangladesh)
The Punk (1993); set in modern-day
London, a homeless young man falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy family, much to the horror of her parents; directed by
Mike Sarne (UK)
Romeo Must Die (2000); an ex-cop falls in love with the daughter of the man he believes responsible for the death of his brother; directed by
Andrzej Bartkowiak (USA)
Jiyuan qiaohe (2000); the son and daughter of two rival families in the chicken rice trade unexpectedly fall in love; directed by
CheeK (Singapore)
Alaska.de (2000); set in
East Berlin in the 1980s, a young girl living with her father falls in love with a tough street kid; directed by
Esther Gronenborn (Germany)
Barrio Wars (2002); straight-to-video modernisation of the story which relocates the events to a
Los Angelesbarrio; directed by
Paul Wynne (USA)
Bollywood Queen (2002); comedy modernisation of the story set in
London where a young Indian girl falls in love with a Scottish guitarist; directed by
Jeremy Wooding (UK)
Romeo & Julia und die neue Weltordnung (2004); short comedy in which the President of the USA's daughter falls in love with
Osama bin Laden's son; directed by
Thorsten Wettcke (Germany)
O Casamento de Romeu e Julieta (2005); comedy in which a die-hard football fan falls in love with the daughter of the chairman of his team's arch rivals; directed by
Bruno Barreto (Brazil)
Pizza My Heart (2005); made-for-TV comedy in which the son of a pizza making family in
New York City falls in love with the daughter of the family's great rival; directed by
Andy Wolk (USA)
Wellkåmm to Verona (2006); comedy in which a retired theatre director casts himself as Romeo in the hopes of having his leading lady fall in love with him; directed by
Suzanne Osten (Sweden)
56 csepp vér (film)(2006); Hungarian movie tells the story of Romeo & Juliet, but in the 50s in the hungarian revolution.
Rockin' Romeo & Juliet (2006);
musical film in which Romeo is a modern rock star wooing Juliet with his singing ability; directed by
David McGaw (USA)
Romeo and Juliet: A Monkey's Tale (2006); fictional-documentary in which two monkeys from rival cliques fall in love; directed by
Karina Holden (Australia)
Romeo & Juliet vs. The Living Dead (2009); a young girl falls in love with a zombie, much to the horror of her (living) family and friends and his (dead) family and friends; directed by
Ryan Denmark (USA)
Romeo & Julio (2009); relocates the story to a
breakdancingmilieu, and changes Juliet to a young man; directed by
Ivan Peric (Croatia)
Twilight Saga: New Moon (2009); Second book in series alludes to romeo and juliet; Directed by ((Chris Weitz)) ((US))
Gnomeo & Juliet (2011); animated film in which a gnome living in the garden of the Montague family falls in love with a gnome living in the garden of the Capulet family; directed by
Kelly Asbury (UK)
Romeo and Juliet in Yiddish (2011); in modern-day
Williamsburg, Brooklyn a young man from a
Satmar family falls in love with a young woman from a
Chabad family; directed by
Eve Annenberg (USA)
William (2012); comedy short in which William Shakespeare's mother tells him to rewrite the ending of Romeo and Juliet because it is too sad; directed by
Sam Lara (Australia)
Warm Bodies (2013); contemporary zombie comedy in which a young girl falls in love with a zombie; directed by
Jonathan Levine (USA)
Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela (2013); set in a fictional India where violence is an everyday occurrence, the son of a gun-running family falls in love with the daughter of a rival family; directed by
Sanjay Leela Bhansali (India)
Rome & Juliet (2017); webseries adaptation set in a fictional high school with rivalry between a tea shop and a coffee shop; changes all characters to female; created by the Outtakes on YouTube (USA)
Little Italy ; Dir: Donald Petrie. Starring Hayden Christensen and Emma Roberts, with Alyssa Milano, Danny Aiello and Andrea Martin. Rival pizza shop families in Toronto's Little Italy neighborhood eventually find common ground when two young (as well as two senior) members of each family fall in love. (Canada)
Bring It On: In It to Win It (2007); Dir: Steve Rash. Starring Ashley Benson and Cassandra Scerbo, with Noel Zreizaga, Jennifer Tisdale, and Michael Copon. As tension mounts between the two rival cheer squads, the Sharks and the Jets, Shark cheer captain Carson falls for fellow cheerleader Penn, not realizing he's a Jet. (USA)