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Helen Mirren starred as Rosalind in the 1978 BBC videotaped version of As You Like It, directed by Basil Coleman.

In 1992, Christine Edzard made another film adaptation of the play. It features James Fox, Cyril Cusack, Andrew Tiernan, Griff Rhys Jones, and Ewen Bremner. The action is transposed to a modern and bleak urban world.

A film version of As You Like It, set in 19th-century Japan, was released in 2006, directed by Kenneth Branagh. It stars Bryce Dallas Howard, David Oyelowo, Romola Garai, Alfred Molina, Kevin Kline, and Brian Blessed. Although it was actually made for cinemas, it was released to theatres only in Europe, and had its U.S. premiere on HBO in 2007. Although it was not a made-for-television film, Kevin Kline won a Screen Actors Guild award for Best Performance by a Male Actor in a Television Movie or Miniseries for his performance as Jaques.

Through donations from her indiegogo campaign that made up an estimated $16,000, Marika Sonja Cotter (now Sonja Kelly) was able to release her 2012 indie film LOVE: As You Like It, backed by the indie film company: Distant Thunder Films. Cotter had decided to create the film after graduating from University of Southern California and was inspired having had seen a film adaptation of Hamlet from Kenneth Branagh. LOVE: As You Like It is set in modern San Francisco with the cityscape in place of a forest and color-blind casting. The choice of color-blind casting had interested a reviewer as they had mentioned how at the time, interracial couples would have been condemned at Shakespeare's time. Her film gained two awards at the International Indie Gathering Film Festival and Convention: one for second place as Best Romantic Comedy and the other for Best Supporting Actor. Kristina Michelle had reported about the film in an episode titled "The Indie Gathering Special" from her show "The Reel Show with Kristina Michelle".