Movies: William Shakespeare

This hard-edged postmodern production of Giuseppe Verdi's haunting masterpiece brings the story of Shakespeare's bloody tragedy to vivid life, characterized by spine-tingling atmospherics and a triumphant debut by American baritone Thomas Hampson in ...

The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts....

A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession....

Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night....

The Angelic Conversation is a lyrical, haunting film about a young man’s search for love in a dreamlike landscape. Its tone is set by the juxtaposition of slow moving homo-erotic images and opaque landscapes through which two men take a journey into...

Multicultural version of the Shakespearean tale Twelth Night, Made in modern day society featuring Anglo-Indian cast....

Plácido Domingo, who just celebrated his 50th stage anniversary in Vienna - incredibly - continues to conquer the central baritone roles of Giuseppe Verdi. In this performance from LA Opera, it is the abysmal title part of the Macbeth, one of the mos...

Charming full text, modern, location based screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night....

Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down....

The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey, the King's first minister and the country's most conspicuous symbol of Catholic power. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally,...

The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine....

The extended version of the Romeo & Juliet play performance as seen in Kamen Rider Gotchard's 31st episode, and presented like it was shot in-universe....

The scene opens in Lady Macbeth's chamber. The room is dark, lit but sparsely by the flicker of candles, their flames casting long shadows upon the walls. Lady Macbeth sits alone, her gaze fierce and fixed, the wine goblet by her side half-drained. T...

A film adaptation of Shakespeare's comedy using the complete text of the play but performed by child actors....

The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth....

A modern boardroom take on Julius Caesar....

Viola and Sebastian are lookalike twins, separated by a shipwreck. Viola lands in Illyria, where she disguises herself like her brother and goes into the service of the Duke Orsino. Orsino sends her to help him woo the Lady Olivia, who doesn't want t...

A young man returns to Kashmir after his father's disappearance to confront his uncle - the man he suspects to have a role in his father's fate....

A live performance of the tragedy "Titus Andronicus" by William Shakespeare. Set in Roman times, the play deals with the bloody revenge of Roman general Titus Andronicus for the atrocities committed against his family by Tamora, the captive queen ...

A war hero and the lure of ambition and descent into hell. An adaptation of Macbeth....