Animation, Documentary
Two unemployed friends have a fresh idea: they want to stage Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' in Grand Theft Auto. But even in a virtual world, reality intrudes in a wild and trippy film shot entirely inside the ultra-violent video game.
MOVIE COMMENTS
SIMILAR MOVIES
Last Days in a Lonely Place
Play the Devil: Making Richard III
The Lion King
Shenmue: The Movie
Enter Hamlet
Dancing Plague
This Is Hamlet
Stranded
Late Night Caller
Discovering Hamlet
Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
To Be or Not to Be: Klingons and Shakespeare
Tales From Strangerville
Stolen Life
The Hobart Shakespeareans
Khtobtogone
The Witching Hour
War of the Servers
Cinderella the Cat
SIMILAR MOVIES
Last Days in a Lonely Place
IMDB 6.5 | May , 2007
The virtual landscapes of a video game are transformed into an existential tale of solemn beauty.Play the Devil: Making Richard III
IMDB 0 | May , 2016
Sir Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine talking about making the film.The Lion King
IMDB 8.3 | Jun , 1994
Young lion prince Simba, eager to one day become king of the Pride Lands, grows up under the watchful eye of his father Mufasa; all the while his villainous uncle Scar conspires to take the throne for himself. Amid betrayal and tragedy, Simba must confront his past and find his rightful place in the Circle of Life.Shenmue: The Movie
IMDB 5.5 | Jan , 2001
Ryo Hazuki finds himself seeing his father Iwao die at the hands of a mysterious Chinese man named Lan Di, who also steals an item Iwao had called the "Dragon Mirror". Ryo makes it his mission to get revenge on Lan Di, but first he has to find out how to find him, with the warhouse docks & the Mad Angels gang being his best leads.Enter Hamlet
IMDB 3.5 | Jan , 1965
Enter Hamlet is a collage of images in cartoon form of a word put in balloon in each jump-cut scene as that word is said by the narrator Maurice Evans during his “To be or not to be…” soliloquy recording.Dancing Plague
IMDB 0 | Mar , 2026
Dancing Plague, a GTA V mod, flips the script. Holding H key forces male NPCs to dance uncontrollably, revealing the game's biased animations where female characters (often sex workers) have the flashiest moves. This disrupts the game's gender roles, making masculinity both playful and challenged. Interestingly, female characters ignore the male dance frenzy. This is a humorous critique of the game's gender politics. The mod's soundtrack, by Azu Tiwaline, blends electronic music with trance traditions, deepening the critique and adding an immersive ritualistic feel.This Is Hamlet
IMDB 0 | Aug , 2010
A mockumentary examination of Shakespeare's greatest tragedy using "breaking news" style interviews and commentary.Stranded
IMDB 7.8 | May , 2008
Stranded is a short horror survival machinima created by Alvin Soprano, made using The Sims 2: Castaway. After a shipwreck, a Sim regains consciousness on a remote tropical island with no memory of how he got there. He begins to gather supplies, search for shelter, and attempt to send signals for help. But as time passes, eerie signs begin to emerge — strange carvings in the rocks, whispers in the jungle, and footsteps that don't belong to him. As his grip on reality begins to slip, the Sim must face the possibility that the island isn’t uninhabited — and that something is watching him.Late Night Caller
IMDB 9 | Oct , 2007
Late Night Caller is a slasher horror machinima centered around a quiet neighborhood where a series of disturbing phone calls escalate into a night of terror. A group of teenagers begin receiving cryptic, threatening messages from an unknown caller — who seems to be watching their every move. When one of them turns up dead, the tension explodes into violence, and what begins as a prank spirals into a full-blown killing spree. As the body count rises, secrets unravel, and the surviving characters must figure out who the killer is — before the next call comes through.Discovering Hamlet
IMDB 7 | Nov , 2011
Journey into "Hamlet"-the play and the man-through the experiences of some of the major actors and directors who have brought Shakespeare's great tragedy to life. Christopher Plummer, David Tennant, John Nettles, John Simm, Sir Trevor Nunn, Franco Zeffirelli, Philip Saville, and others explore the enduring appeal of the Prince of Denmark more than 400 years after his stage debut.Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - The Introduction
IMDB 9.7 | Nov , 2004
Tension builds as threats are carried out, stakes are raised and communication breaks down. In Los Santos a drive-by shooting in Grove Street Family's territory ignites a series of events in the days leading up to the start of the game.The Lion King II: Simba's Pride
IMDB 6.9 | Oct , 1998
The circle of life continues for Simba, now fully grown and in his rightful place as the king of Pride Rock. Simba and Nala have given birth to a daughter, Kiara who's as rebellious as her father was. But Kiara drives her parents to distraction when she catches the eye of Kovu, the son of the evil lioness, Zira. Will Kovu steal Kiara's heart?To Be or Not to Be: Klingons and Shakespeare
IMDB 0 | May , 2009
The story behind the translation and performance of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" in Klingon.Tales From Strangerville
IMDB 10 | Sep , 2020
"TALES FROM STRANGERVILLE" is a 2020 machinima created in The Sims 4 and directed by Alvin Soprano and Harley Coleman. Serving as a sequel to the creator's first machinima, "SOMETHING STRANGE IN STRANGETOWN" (2007), the film continues the story of an unnamed protagonist who was abducted by a mysterious light. Now named Lavinia, she is dropped into the technologically advanced desert town of StrangerVille with no memory of what transpired. The film follows Lavinia as she teams up with George Cahill and Erwin Pries to investigate the source of a mysterious, disembodied voice only she can hear. Their search for answers leads them to a classified government lab at the heart of the town’s strange occurrences, where they must confront the truth behind the town’s bizarre infection and Lavinia’s own past.Stolen Life
IMDB 0 | May , 2007
After an AI robot on an asteroid mining facility disappears under mysterious circumstances the company sends an investigator.The Hobart Shakespeareans
IMDB 4 | Sep , 2005
Rafe Esquith, 1992 American Teacher of the Year and National Medal of Arts recipient, teaches 5th-grade children whose parents don't speak English at a school in a dangerous, poor, drug-infested 100% Latino/Asian neighborhood in Los Angeles.Khtobtogone
IMDB 0 | Oct , 2021
Khtobtogone begins as a love story between protagonist Zine and the girl of his dreams, Bulma. But in introspective narration, Zine reflects more broadly on masculinity and coming of age in Marseille’s Maghrebi community.The Witching Hour
IMDB 10 | Jun , 2020
O, a creator who has become lost within his own creation. As Death arrives at 3:33 am—the witching hour—to claim him, O is forced to confront the flaws in his work and his own mistakes. Through a series of flashbacks, the film reveals O's influence on the world he built, using various characters from different eras to maintain his followers' worship. The narrative explores themes of creation, legacy, and the consequences of a creator’s flawed intervention in their own work, ultimately suggesting that his removal is the only way for the game (a metaphor for life) to be truly fixed.War of the Servers
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2007
When strange beings called Mingebags invade the servers of the popular game Garry's Mod, one player must try to survive while searching for his friends amid the chaos and war.Cinderella the Cat
IMDB 7 | Sep , 2017
Cenerentola struggles to escape the shadow and evil schemes of her stepmother and six stepsisters who all live aboard the Megaride, a ship stuck in the port of a decaying future Naples.