Skip to content

Movies like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare

The best movies like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare are Much Ado About Nothing (2011), Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) and Hamlet (1996). If RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare hooked you, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

Quick picks

  1. Much Ado About Nothing (2011)

    Two young lovers, Claudio and Hero, are to be married imminently but the devious scheming of a resentful Prince looks set to thwart the nuptials. Meanwhile, marriage seems inconceivable for reluctant lovers Beatrice and Benedick whose endless witty sparring threatens to keep them apart forever. Directed by Josie Rourke, Artistic Director of the Donmar Warehouse, Much Ado About Nothing is one of Shakespeare’s great plays and reminds us all of the failings and triumphs of the human condition in our never ending search for perfect love.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Absolute CinemaMovies like this
  2. Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007)

    The definitive 3½-hour documentary about the troubled creation and enduring legacy of the science fiction classic 'Blade Runner', culled from 80 interviews and hours of never-before-seen outtakes and lost footage.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  3. Hamlet (1996)

    Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  4. Lion of the Desert (1981)

    Resistance leader Omar Mukhtar opposes Italian colonization before World War II. The brutal guerrilla war against Italian General Rodolfo Graziani and the Fascist forces of Benito Mussolini highlights the struggle for Libyan independence and the harsh tactics utilised by the colonisers.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  5. Titus (1999)

    Titus Andronicus returns from the wars and sees his sons and daughters taken from him, one by one. Shakespeare's goriest and earliest tragedy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  6. The Big Red One (1980)

    A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  7. WWE WrestleMania XXIV (2008)

    WrestleMania XXIV was the twenty-fourth annual WrestleMania PPV. The event took place on March 30, 2008, at the Citrus Bowl in Orlando. The first main event was a Singles match from the SmackDown brand that featured The Undertaker challenging World Heavyweight Champion Edge for the title. The second was a Triple Threat match from the Raw brand, in which WWE Champion Randy Orton defended against challengers Triple H and John Cena. The third was a singles match featuring ECW Champion Chavo Guerrero defending against Kane. Other matches include a No DQ match with Floyd Mayweather Jr. fighting The Big Show, a Money in the Bank ladder match with Carlito, Shelton Benjamin, MVP, CM Punk, Mr. Kennedy, Jericho, and John Morrison, and a retirement match between Shawn Michaels & Ric Flair.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Absolute CinemaMovies like this
  8. Ford v Ferrari (2019)

    American car designer Carroll Shelby and the British-born driver Ken Miles work together to battle corporate interference, the laws of physics, and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford Motor Company and take on the dominating race cars of Enzo Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France in 1966.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Absolute CinemaMovies like this
  9. Hamlet (1948)

    Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Olivier is at his most inspired—both as director and as the melancholy Dane himself—as he breathes new life into the words of one of the world’s greatest dramatists.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  10. Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie (1988)

    Marcel Ophuls' riveting film details the heinous legacy of the Gestapo head dubbed "The Butcher of Lyon." Responsible for over 4,000 deaths in occupied France during World War II, Barbie would escape—with U.S. help—to South America in 1951, where he lived until a global manhunt led to his 1983 arrest and subsequent trial.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  11. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (2008)

    Born under unusual circumstances, Benjamin Button springs into being as an elderly man in a New Orleans nursing home and ages in reverse. Twelve years after his birth, he meets Daisy, a child who flits in and out of his life as she grows up to be a dancer. Though he has all sorts of unusual adventures over the course of his life, it is his relationship with Daisy, and the hope that they will come together at the right time, that drives Benjamin forward.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  12. Hamlet (2009)

    David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, very funny.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  13. Braveheart (1995)

    Enraged at the slaughter of Murron, his new bride and childhood love, Scottish warrior William Wallace slays a platoon of the local English lord's soldiers. This leads the village to revolt and, eventually, the entire country to rise up against English rule.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Absolute CinemaMovies like this
  14. Any Given Sunday (1999)

    A star quarterback gets knocked out of the game and an unknown third stringer is called in to replace him. The unknown gives a stunning performance and forces the aging coach to reevaluate his game plans and life. A new co-owner/president adds to the pressure of winning. The new owner must prove herself in a male dominated world.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  15. An Evening with Kevin Smith (2002)

    Kevin Smith interacts in Q&A sessions throughout various college stops in the USA.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  16. Thoroughly Modern Millie (1967)

    Millie Dillmount, a fearless young lady fresh from Salina, Kansas, determined to experience Life, sets out to see the world in the rip-roaring Twenties. With high spirits and wearing one of those new high hemlines, she arrives in New York to test the "modern" ideas she had been reading about back in Kansas: "I've taken the girl out of Kansas. Now I have to take Kansas out of the girl!"

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  17. The Physician (2013)

    England, 1021: Born in a miserable mining town, Robert Cole swears to become a physician and vanquish disease and death. His harsh path of many years, a quest for knowledge besieged by countless challenges and sacrifices, leads him to the remote Isfahan, in Persia, where he meets Ibn Sina, the greatest healer of his time.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Worth the HypeMovies like this
  18. Five Came Back (2017)

    The extraordinary story of how Hollywood changed World War II – and how World War II changed Hollywood, through the interwoven experiences of five legendary filmmakers who went to war to serve their country and bring the truth to the American people: John Ford, William Wyler, John Huston, Frank Capra, and George Stevens. Based on Mark Harris’ best-selling book, “Five Came Back: A Story of Hollywood and the Second World War.”

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Absolute CinemaMovies like this
  19. West Side Story (2021)

    Two youngsters from rival New York City gangs fall in love, but tensions between their respective friends build toward tragedy.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Popcorn FlickMovies like this
  20. Les Misérables: 25th Anniversary in Concert (2010)

    This concert, recorded to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the landmark musical Les Miserables, gathers the casts of the show's 2010 original production at the Queen's Theatre, the 1985 original production by the London company, and the 2010 production at the Barbican together for one performance. Together with talents like Michael Ball, Hadley Fraser, and John Owen-Jones, the performers present the play's musical numbers in a semi-theatrical style, fully costumed and with all the emotion of the musical's heyday.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers

    Absolute CinemaMovies like this

Like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare and something else?

Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.

Frequently asked questions

What are the best movies like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare?

The closest matches to RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare are Much Ado About Nothing (2011), Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) and Hamlet (1996). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare?

Start with Much Ado About Nothing (2011), the closest match to RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare.

What is the highest-rated movie like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare?

Ford v Ferrari (2019), rated 8.0/10 by 9,486 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare?

West Side Story (2021) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare?

Yes: Much Ado About Nothing (2011), Dangerous Days: Making Blade Runner (2007) and Hamlet (1996).

How are movies similar to RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside RSC Meets USA: Working Shakespeare, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

↑ ↓ to move · Enter to open · Full search page