Top Ten Renaissance Films

Poll Results: Here are the most popular period dramas set during the Renaissance after tallying up everyone's votes.
Thanks to all who took part! (3000 votes cast in all)

Six of the top 10 dramas are based on Shakespeare - 5 of them based on his works while one is a fictional account of a doomed love affair which inspired one of his plays. Three of the dramas are based on the Tudors - 2 of King Henry VIII and the other of his daughter Elizabeth I. And the final film, sitting on top as the most-watched film from this era is a retelling of Cinderella that has a special place in our hearts ♥

#1 Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998)
Drew Barrymore and Dougray Scott
(viewed by 92% of voters)


#2 Shakespeare in Love (1998)
Gwyneth Paltrow and Joseph Fiennes
(viewed by 90% of voters)


#3 Elizabeth (1998)
Cate Blanchett, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush
(viewed by 75% of voters)(tie)


#3 Romeo and Juliet (1996)
Leo DiCaprio & Claire Danes
(viewed by 75% of voters)(tie)


#5 The Other Boleyn Girl (2007)
Natalie Portman, Scarlett Johannson, Eric Bana
(viewed by 63% of voters)


#6 Much Ado About Nothing (1993)
Kenneth Branagh, Robert Sean Leonard, Emma Thompson,
Keanu Reeves, Denzel Washington, Michael Keaton, Kate Beckinsale
(viewed by 60% of voters)


#7 The Tudors (2007-10)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Maria Doyle Kennedy, Natalie Dormer,
Sam Neill, James Frain, Henry Cavill, Jeremy Northam...
(viewed by 58% of voters)


#8 Romeo and Juliet (1968)
Leonard Whiting & Olivia Hussey
(viewed by 53% of voters)


#9 A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett,
Calista Flockhart, Christian Bale, Dominic West
(viewed by 51% of voters)


#10 Hamlet (1996)
Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Julie Christie,
Kate Winslet, Nicholas Farrell, Richard Briers
(viewed by 47% of voters)

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