Movies: William Shakespeare

Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III....

This is the Hungarian version of the French musical Roméo et Juliette: de la Haine à l'Amour based on William Shakespeare's play Romeo and Juliet, with music and lyrics by Gérard Presgurvic....

When the Duke of Vienna takes a mysterious leave of absence and leaves the strict Angelo in charge, things couldn't be worse for Claudio, who is sentenced to death for premarital sex. His sister, Isabella (a nun-in-training), however, is a very persu...

Famed Italian director Romeo Castellucci re-envisions his groundbreaking 1997 production Giulio Cesare (Julius Caesar) as a series of “fragments” rearranged and positioned against each other—a clash between the ethereal and the obscure, the power of ...

A short film based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet....

In the early seventeenth century William Shakespeare, Ben Jonson and Michael Drayton meet in a Southwark tavern and begin discussing the other customers who remind them of characters from Shakespeare's plays....

A magical island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery!...

An excerpt of the Shakespeare play presented in the Kinetophone sound system, in which the sound was provided by synchronized Edison cylinders....

A modern version of Shakespeare's 'Macbeth'....

Separated by a shipwreck when they were babies, two sets of identical twins get mixed up in each other's lives over the course of a day. With no knowledge that the others exist, what follows is a rollicking afternoon of love misdirected, love misunde...

Sicilian king Leontes jealously accuses his wife Hermione of infidelity with his best friend, and while imprisoned, she delivers a child. Sent away, the child is raised by Bohemian shepherds. The Winter's Tale was the first of six Shakespeare adaptat...

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

Fusing Shakespeare‘s tragedy with the Verdi opera, Schroeter's Macbeth is a fascinating television experiment shot entirely in a studio with several electronic cameras. As Schroeter would recall, "I arranged the Verdi music for a quartet of violin, a...

The events of the comedy take place in the country of Illyria, which for the English of Shakespeare's time was fabulous. The young Countess Olivia is loved by Orsino, Duke of Illyria. But the Countess is in mourning for her brother and refuses to rec...

A compelling study of personal ambition versus the good of the state....

Chinnathambi, the only son of estate owner Sundaram Pillai, falls in love with Kalyani, the daughter of a poor clerk, but their romance faces obstacles....

A tragedy of great and bloody conflicts, turbulent emotions and clashes, centred on a couple torn by passion – Macbeth and his wife, who persuades him to seize the throne. Macbeth murders the king, but must fight for power against the king's descenda...

A modern day take on the classic bard tale - with Silver as a movie producer....

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth....

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