Movies: William Shakespeare

“Double, double, toil and trouble,” indeed! Shakespeare’s punchiest tragedy gets a makeover in a way that only the prodigious Filipino multi-hyphenate Khavn De La Cruz could deliver. Unfolding in the Municipality of Marcos, Ilocos Norte and Khavn’s o...

Modernized version of Twelfth Night set in the high living, pot smoking environment of a pop group in the seventies....

The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago....

A musical melodrama and semi‐biographical portrait of Alla Pugacheva, here named Anna Streltsova, who repeatedly contemplates leaving the stage until she discovers her true style and songs. Along the way she endures a difficult marriage and divorce, ...

Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives....

Brother and sister accidentally find themselves at a modern street ballet performance. They are so fascinated by the plot that, forgetting that they are at a performance, they climb onto the stage and find themselves in a fairyland....

Inmates at a prison in Rome rehearse for a performance of Shakespeare's Julius Caesar....

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The noble patrician Gaius Marcius became famous for his military exploits and victories over the enemies of the Romans, the Volscians. However, his hatred of the plebeians and thirst for power led to Coriolanus being condemned to eternal exile from R...

The fourth and final part of a cycle of horror and barbarism. The ultimate progression of an inexorable march of evil before the restoration of peace. It's not just about the magnetic and fascinating character: it's more the painting of a bruised a...

An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one....

A unique modern retelling of Shakespeare's famous classic, updating the timeless story, while maintaining it's original themes and dialog, in a contemporary setting....

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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....

Hamlet suspects his uncle has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, but the prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance....

Production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with an all male cast....

Rock musical adaptation of William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream"....

This muscular 2017 production features the signature physical storytelling of director Shana Cooper and choreographer Erika Chong Shuch. Shakespeare's political thriller shows what happens to powerbrokers—honorable and not—when their motives and mean...

The love story of the great Roman commander Anthony and the oriental beauty Cleopatra, the tragic suicide of both, is recreated....

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....