Movies: William Shakespeare

  • 1981
    Troilus & Cressida

    Troilus & Cressida (1981)

    Troilus & Cressida

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    The bitter Trojan War drags on - the Greeks blame Achilles' apathy for low morale, while Troy's hero Hector challenges one of the enemy to a personal duel. And after her father exchanges Cressida for a Trojan prisoner, the war becomes personal for he...

    Troilus & Cressida
  • 1965
    Othello

    Othello (1965)

    Othello

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    General Othello's marriage is destroyed when vengeful Ensign Iago convinces him that his new wife has been unfaithful....

    Othello
  • 2018
    The Two Noble Kinsmen - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

    The Two Noble Kinsmen - Live at Shakespeare's Globe (2018)

    The Two Noble Kinsmen - Live at Shakespeare's Globe

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    How long is forever? When the imprisoned Palamon and Arcite vow eternal friendship, they don’t expect that anything will come between them. But then from their cell window they see the beautiful Emilia, and their priorities take a sudden and violent ...

    The Two Noble Kinsmen - Live at Shakespeare's Globe
  • 2016
    The Taming of the Shrew

    The Taming of the Shrew (2016)

    The Taming of the Shrew

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    This scintillating production of Shakespeare’s boisterous comedy will stir your emotions even as it challenges you with its pointed social commentary. Is the story of Kate and Petruchio one of courtship or of conquest? The breaking down of a defiant ...

    The Taming of the Shrew
  • 2009
    Romeo & Julio

    Romeo & Julio (2009)

    Romeo & Julio

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    Break-dance trash musical comedy/parody based on William Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet....

    Romeo & Julio
  • 1995
    Othello

    Othello (1995)

    Othello

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    The evil Iago pretends to be friend of Othello in order to manipulate him to serve his own end in the film version of this Shakespeare classic....

    Othello
  • 1986
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (1986)

    Hamlet

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    The production of Shakespeare's Hamlet with František Němec in the title role (premiered at the Smetana Theatre in 1982) was far from enthusiastic at first. To some viewers, it seemed superficially unimpressive. On the spare stage of J. Svoboda, dire...

    Hamlet
  • 2016
    Hamlet

    Hamlet (2016)

    Hamlet

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    A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel – and the most famous question in all of drama. Just some of the reasons why Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound....

    Hamlet
  • 2015
    Verdi: Otello

    Verdi: Otello (2015)

    Verdi: Otello

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    Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. At the helm of this performance is riveting conductor Yannick Nézet-Séguin, who brings out all the...

    Verdi: Otello
  • 1995
    Henry IV

    Henry IV (1995)

    Henry IV

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    Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in favour of heavy dr...

    Henry IV
  • 1962
    Verdi Otello

    Verdi Otello (1962)

    Verdi Otello

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    Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final appearance on the opera stage. Between those landmarks she performed the role nearly 100 times all over the wo...

    Verdi Otello
  • 2006
    As You Like It

    As You Like It (2006)

    As You Like It

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    Witty, playful and utterly magical, the story is a compelling romantic adventure in which Rosalind and Orlando's celebrated courtship is played out against a backdrop of political rivalry, banishment and exile in the Forest of Arden - set in 19th-cen...

    As You Like It
  • 1979
    Henry VIII

    Henry VIII (1979)

    Henry VIII

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    Henry is a proud monarch who flies in the face of the church in seeking to divorce Queen Katherine and marry Anne Bullen. As cardinal Wolsey, the powerful Lord Chancellor of England, attempts to bend Rome to the King's wishes, the court reverbates wi...

    Henry VIII
  • 1967
    Twelfth Night

    Twelfth Night (1967)

    Twelfth Night

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    Television adaptation of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night...

    Twelfth Night
  • 2014
    Down the Rabbit Hole

    Down the Rabbit Hole (2014)

    Down the Rabbit Hole

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    A man plunges into the darkness to confront the demon on the verge of destroying his sanity. Based on Shakespeare's Hamlet and set in 1928 against the impending Wall Street Crash....

    Down the Rabbit Hole
  • 2025
    Ariel

    Ariel (2025)

    Ariel

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    An actress goes to Azores to take part in the theatrical tour of The Tempest and on her arrival she finds no one from the company, there is not even a theatre. After meeting Ariel, the actress discovers that the play has already started, the whole is...

    Ariel
  • 1973
    Richard III

    Richard III (1973)

    Richard III

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    An adaptation of the Shakespeare play: a conniving hunchback plots his rise to power to eventually become King of England....

    Richard III
  • 1997
    Richard II

    Richard II (1997)

    Richard II

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    The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king....

    Richard II
  • 2020
    Measure for Measure

    Measure for Measure (2020)

    Measure for Measure

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    An improbable love affair flares up between Karima, a modern Muslim girl, and Claudio, a local musician, in Melbourne's most notorious housing estate, where ruthless gangs rule, drug abuse spreads and racial tension grows....

    Measure for Measure
  • 2023
    King Lear

    King Lear (2023)

    King Lear

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    Caught in a carousel of memory, the head of a dysfunctional royal family grapples with power-hungry children and the threat of losing the empire he created. Real and imagined worlds coalesce, creating a political and personal horror that threatens to...

    King Lear