Love + Hate

Love + Hate

Romeo and Juliet in blue collar England

Directed by Dominic Savage

Produced by UK Film Council, BBC Film

200580 min5.9 / 10

A contemporary, socially grounded retelling of Romeo and Juliet set in a racially divided northern England, where romantic love collides with systemic prejudice and family hatred.

This movie is a contemporary UK vision of an age old story as epitomised by Shakespeare, but with two at odds relationships adding a layer of complication. The situation, a volatile northern English town, typically Bradford, and characters, one Islamic Pakistani family and two prejudiced English families loosely representing the Capulets and the Montagues.

Questions people ask

  • Is Love + Hate sad? Yes, very. More sad than 91% of films.

  • Does Love + Hate end with hope? Barely. Less hopeful than 80% of films.

  • Is Love + Hate scary? Yes. More frightening than 76% of films.

  • Is Love + Hate violent? Somewhat. More violent than 68% of films.

  • Is Love + Hate easy watching? Not especially. Less comforting than 61% of films.

These describe how the film comes across, measured across the whole film and compared with other well-known films. They are not a content list — nothing here was counted or checked scene by scene, so for age-suitability or specific content use a classification board or a dedicated content-warning service.

28/ 100

Cinnamon Score

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Rarity51

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Surprise17

How much more it delivers than it promises

Love20

How much audiences actually like it

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Same territory, far fewer people have seen it.

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