Some Well-Connected Movies
Much Ado About Nothing

Young lovers Hero and Claudio, soon to wed, conspire to get verbal sparring partners and confirmed singles Benedick and Beatrice to wed as well.
1993
Kenneth Branagh
director
Jurassic Park

During a preview tour, a theme park suffers a major power breakdown that allows its cloned dinosaur exhibits to run amok.
1993
Richard Attenborough
actor
Richard III

The classic Shakespearean play about a murderously scheming king staged in an alternative fascist England setting.
1995
William Shakespeare
writer
Romeo + Juliet

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.
1996
William Shakespeare
writer
Hamlet
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
1996
Kenneth Branagh
director
Richard Attenborough
actor
William Shakespeare
writer
The Magic Flute

During World War I, in an unnamed country, a soldier named Tamino is sent by the Queen of the Night to rescue her daughter Pamina from the clutches of the supposedly evil Sarastro. But all is not as it seems.
2006
Kenneth Branagh
director