Movies: William Shakespeare

A French musical by Gérard Presgurvic, created in 2001 at the Palais des Congrès in Paris and inspired by William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. The musical was released at the same time as three other creations (Da Vinci, Les Ailes de la lumière, L...

Tensions between two racial gangs in 1957 New York reach a boiling point when two star-crossed lovers meet by chance at a community dance. And a rumble is brewing between the Jets and Sharks that will end in tragedy....

Neumeier's dance version of the Shakespeare play about the trials and tribulations of love has lost none of its freshness over three decades after its premiere. With his selection of music, which ranges from Mendelssohn Bartholdy to György Ligeti to ...

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy....

The film uses both music and dance forms alongside Shakespeare's sublime poetry to explore and express key themes centered on the nature of Love itself - its anguish, its glorious manifestations, its endless paradoxes, its transcendent essence. The f...

Cross-dressing, hijinks and bittersweet hilarity as Emma Rice directs Shakespeare’s timeless, soulful and irrepressible comedy. Synopsis Twins Sebastian and Viola are shipwrecked on the coast of Illyria, separated and believing each other to be dea...

Based on the play by William Shakespeare....

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy....

Tells the story of two warriors, Mahfuz and Mahadi who survived when their ship was attacked by pirates. They are both stranded on a beach and later meet a fortune teller. The fortune teller told them that Mahfuz would be a powerful man in the state....

From the dungeons of the SARA Production crew comes Bad Apple, a story of power, family, and fruit. Stacy Cavendish slips on a banana peel one day, leading her to discover an age old rivalry that only she can solve. No one is safe from being chewed u...

A portrait of village life in South Thailand, home of retired Malay-Muslim members of the communist party of neighboring Malaysia. Recollections of the decades-long guerrilla war are interspersed with a Thai radio soap opera....

Satirical silent movie based on the play Macbeth written in 1916 by Peter Pan creator and playwright J. M. Barrie as a parody of the American entertainment industry. The film was made by the newly created British Actors Film Company in response to ne...

Stratford Festival's production of Romeo and Juliet 1993. Megan Porter Follows (Anne of Green Gables) and Antoni Cimolino (Stratford Festival Artistic Director) star in one of the most famous love stories of all time. The tale unfolds as the familie...

After being framed by his brother Edmund, Edgar must flee from his father Gloucester's wrath, leading him to conceal himself to escape his capture....

Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth murders his king and takes the throne for himself....

Shakespeare's Hamlet is rendered in exquisitely expressive pen drawings....

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The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet....

In the Iraqi countryside, a love story links Fitna and her cousin Hassan. The people of the village sympathize with Hassan for being a chivalrous and kind person, but Hassan's stepmother seeks to sabotage the relationship and tries to separate them....

This version concentrates on the contest between Petruchio and Katerina, as it should. The Biance subplot is used only to set up the Shrew story. When the subplot is resolved, its intrusion comes almost as a surprise, but I suppose the director felt ...