Romeo.Juliet is a 1990 Belgian film adaptation of William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, directed by Armando Acosta. The film features a cast of feral cats from Venice, New York City, Verona, and Ghent, voiced by British actors including John Hurt, Dame Maggie Smith, Sir Ben Kingsley, Vanessa Redgrave, and Francesca Annis. The production combines live-action footage of cats with Sergei Prokofiev’s Romeo and Juliet ballet music, performed by the London Symphony Orchestra. The film premiered out of competition at the 47th Venice International Film Festival on 6 September 1990.

Plot

'La Dame aux Chats' (The Lady of Cats) is the only human character in Romeo.Juliet. She is an eccentric Venetian bag lady who lives with her pet rat on a houseboat named Fellini. She saves the lives of Juliet (a white Turkish Angora) and her feline family by smuggling them onto a ship bound for the New World. Soon after arriving in the docks of New York, Juliet meets Romeo—a long-haired gray feral.