Romeo and Juliet – Romeo and Juliet (1996)

Romeo and Juliet: the most timeless romantic tragedy of all time, penned by the man who coined the term ‘star-crossed lovers’. We’ve chosen Baz Luhrman’s version of the classic Shakespearean play for this list, which transplanted the story onto a post-modern Verona Beach where swords are merely a brand of gun and bored youths are easily spurred toward violence. Romeo (Leonardo DiCaprio) is aloof toward the goings-on of his Montague cousins at war with the Capulet family, but after he realises that Juliet (Claire Danes) is a Capulet at the end of one very wild party, the enmity between the two clans becomes the root of his angst. Romeo is, of course, exiled, and it looks like Juliet will be forced into an arranged marriage with the bland Paris (Paul Rudd). It ends, as Romeo and Juliet must, when Romeo hears a tragic piece of misinformation and brings his suicide wish to what was meant to be Juliet’s temporary tomb…

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