Shakespeare's Plays
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1. The Tempest (I) (2010)
PG-13 | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Shakespeare's epic play is translated from page to screen, with the gender of the main character, Prospero, changed from male to female.
Director: Julie Taymor | Stars: Helen Mirren, Felicity Jones, Djimon Hounsou, Russell Brand
Votes: 8,201 | Gross: $0.28M
2. The Two Gentlemen of Verona (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 137 min | Comedy
In 16th century Italy, two inseparable friends suddenly become rivals for the love of a noblewoman.
Director: Don Taylor | Stars: Frank Barrie, Tessa Peake-Jones, Hetta Charnley, Tyler Butterworth
Votes: 129
3. The Merry Wives of Windsor (1982 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 170 min | Comedy, Romance
When Sir John Falstaff decides that he wants to have a little fun he writes two letters to a pair of Windsor wives: Mistress Ford and Mistress Page. When they put their heads together and ... See full summary »
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Alan Bennett, Richard O'Callaghan, Tenniel Evans, Bryan Marshall
Votes: 167
4. The Comedy of Errors (1983 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 109 min | Comedy
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago. Unfortunately, Ephesus has just declared war on Syracuse, and will ... See full summary »
Director: James Cellan Jones | Stars: Cyril Cusack, Charles Gray, Nicolas Chagrin, Nick Burnell
Votes: 223
5. Much Ado About Nothing (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 109 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A modern retelling of Shakespeare's classic comedy about two pairs of lovers with different takes on romance and a way with words.
Director: Joss Whedon | Stars: Alexis Denisof, Amy Acker, Fran Kranz, Jillian Morgese
Votes: 17,090 | Gross: $4.33M
6. Love's Labour's Lost (2000)
PG | 93 min | Romance, Comedy, Musical
An update of the classic Shakespeare story, director Kenneth Branagh shot the film like a classic 1930s musical. It tells the story of four best friends who swear off love.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Alessandro Nivola, Alicia Silverstone, Natascha McElhone, Kenneth Branagh
Votes: 4,905 | Gross: $0.28M
7. A Midsummer Night's Dream (1999)
PG-13 | 116 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Lovers' lives are complicated by city law, feuding faerie royalty, and... love.
Director: Michael Hoffman | Stars: Kevin Kline, Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Everett, Stanley Tucci
Votes: 26,984 | Gross: $16.07M
8. The Merchant of Venice (2004)
R | 131 min | Drama, Romance
In 16th century Venice, when a merchant must default on a large loan from an abused Jewish moneylender for a friend with romantic ambitions, the bitterly vengeful creditor demands a gruesome payment instead.
Director: Michael Radford | Stars: Al Pacino, Joseph Fiennes, Lynn Collins, Jeremy Irons
Votes: 38,264 | Gross: $3.77M
9. As You Like It (2006)
PG | 127 min | Drama, Comedy, Romance
A daughter of the powerful Duke must show her courage and inventiveness to be with the man she loves.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Takuya Shimada, Brian Blessed, Richard Clifford, Bryce Dallas Howard
Votes: 3,731
10. The Taming of The Shrew (1967)
Approved | 122 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.
Director: Franco Zeffirelli | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Richard Burton, Cyril Cusack, Michael Hordern
Votes: 8,686 | Gross: $8.00M
11. Shakespeare's Globe: All's Well That Ends Well (2012)
Not Rated | 138 min | Comedy, Drama
All's Well That Ends Well centers on the tale of Helena's quest to marry the man she loves, the rather unimpressed Bertram.
Director: John Dove | Stars: Michael Bertenshaw, Sam Cox, Sam Crane, Naomi Cranston
Votes: 58
12. Twelfth Night (1996)
PG | 134 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Shakespeare's comedy of gender confusion, in which a girl disguises herself as a man to be near the count she adores, only to be pursued by the woman he loves.
Director: Trevor Nunn | Stars: Helena Bonham Carter, Richard E. Grant, Imogen Stubbs, Steven Mackintosh
Votes: 6,404 | Gross: $0.59M
13. The Winter's Tale (1981 TV Movie)
173 min | Comedy, Drama
King Leontes of Bohemia suspects his wife, Hermione, and his friend, Polixenes, of betraying him. When he forces Polixenes to flee for his life, Leontes sets in motion a chain of events ... See full summary »
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: John Welsh, David Burke, Robert Stephens, Jeremy Kemp
Votes: 161
14. Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 177 min | Drama
When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter,... See full summary »
Director: David Hugh Jones | Stars: Edward Petherbridge, John Woodvine, Edita Brychta, Mike Gwilym
Votes: 118
15. Shakespeare's Globe: The Two Noble Kinsmen (2018 TV Movie)
Comedy
Director: Ian Russell | Stars: Moyo Akandé, Jude Akuwudike, Andrew Cryer, Sue Devaney
Votes: 52
16. King John (2015)
Not Rated | 152 min | Drama
A filmed version of the Shakespeare play as put on by the Stratford Festival. The much unloved 12th century King John fought battles on several fronts including with his own barons.
Director: Barry Avrich | Stars: Tom McCamus, Patricia Collins, Andrew Lawrie, Jennifer Mogbock
Votes: 51
17.
Performance (1991–1998)
Episode:
Richard II
(1997)
132 min | Drama
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
Director: Deborah Warner | Stars: Fiona Shaw, Graham Crowden, Richard Bremmer, David Lyon
Votes: 105
18. Henry IV: Part 1 (2012)
Not Rated | 166 min | Drama
The first installment of what is widely acknowledged to be Shakespeare's greatest historical saga, Henry IV, Part I is an epic tale of power, treachery and war, exploring the complexity of ... See full summary »
Director: Adam Lee Hamilton | Stars: Jack Baldwin, Aimée-Lou Cameron, Ian Horgan, Saul Matlock
Votes: 22
19. Henry IV Part II (1979 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 150 min | Drama
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 ... See full summary »
Director: David Giles | Stars: Jon Finch, David Gwillim, Rob Edwards, Martin Neil
Votes: 156
20. Henry V (1989)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Votes: 31,664 | Gross: $10.16M
21. The First Part of Henry the Sixth (1983 TV Movie)
188 min | Drama, History
Following his father's early death and the loss of possessions in France, young Henry VI comes to the throne, under the protection of the Duke of Gloucester. He is unaware that there are ... See full summary »
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: John Benfield, Peter Benson, Brenda Blethyn, Antony Brown
Votes: 147
22. The Second Part of Henry the Sixth (1983 TV Movie)
203 min | Drama, History
Following his father's early death and the loss of possessions in France young Henry VI comes to the throne, under the protection of the duke of Gloucester. He is unaware that there are ... See full summary »
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: John Benfield, Peter Benson, Antony Brown, David Burke
Votes: 121
23. The Third Part of Henry the Sixth (1983 TV Movie)
211 min | Drama, History
Following his father's early death and the loss of possessions in France young Henry VI comes to the throne, under the protection of the duke of Gloucester. He is unaware that there are ... See full summary »
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: John Benfield, Peter Benson, Gerald Blackmore, Antony Brown
Votes: 115
24. Richard III (1995)
R | 110 min | Drama, Sci-Fi, War
The classic Shakespearean play about the murderously scheming 15th-century king is reimagined in an alternative setting of 1930s England as clouds of fascism gather.
Director: Richard Loncraine | Stars: Ian McKellen, Annette Bening, Christopher Bowen, Edward Jewesbury
Votes: 15,577 | Gross: $2.60M
25. Henry VIII (2020)
Drama
When England's King Henry falls for the young, beautiful Anne Boleyn, he must somehow remove his beloved Queen Katherine from his life. Church and state collide and the course of history is changed forever.
Directors: Barry Avrich, Martha Henry | Stars: Jonathan Goad, Irene Poole, Rod Beattie, Alexandra Lainfiesta
Votes: 9
26. Troilus & Cressida (1981 TV Movie)
190 min | Drama
During the Trojan War, a Trojan warrior is distraught when his lover takes up with a Greek.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: Charles Gray, Anton Lesser, Tony Steedman, Suzanne Burden
Votes: 149
27. Coriolanus (2014)
192 min | Drama, History, War
Caius Martius Coriolanus is a war hero, banished from his home, seeking to come back.
Directors: Josie Rourke, Tim Van Someren | Stars: Rochenda Sandall, Mark Stanley, Dwane Walcott, Mark Gatiss
Votes: 2,230
28. Titus Andronicus (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 168 min | Drama, Horror
Roman warrior Titus Andronicus finds himself trapped in a nightmarish cycle of vengeance, misery, and bloodshed.
Director: Jane Howell | Stars: Paul Davies Prowles, Edward Hardwicke, Walter Brown, Brian Protheroe
Votes: 193
29. Timon of Athens (1981 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 128 min | Comedy, Drama
Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Director: Jonathan Miller | Stars: John Fortune, John Bird, Tony Jay, David Kinsey
Votes: 139
30. Hamlet (1996)
PG-13 | 242 min | Drama
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Julie Christie, Derek Jacobi, Kate Winslet
Votes: 40,063 | Gross: $4.41M
31. King Lear (2018 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 115 min | Drama
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Director: Richard Eyre | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Jim Carter, Tobias Menzies, Emily Watson
Votes: 4,308
32. Antony and Cleopatra (1972)
Not Rated | 160 min | Drama, History
After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.
Director: Charlton Heston | Stars: Charlton Heston, Hildegard Neil, Eric Porter, John Castle
Votes: 1,203
33. Cymbeline (2014)
R | 98 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
A gritty story of a take-no-prisoners war between dirty cops and an outlaw biker gang. A drug kingpin is driven to desperate measures.
Director: Michael Almereyda | Stars: Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich, John Leguizamo
Votes: 4,261
34. Measure for Measure (2006)
Not Rated | 80 min | Drama
Contemporary re-working of the Shakespeare's problem play set in the British army.
Director: Bob Komar | Stars: Josephine Rogers, Daniel Roberts, Simon Phillips, Emma Agerwald
Votes: 70
35. Othello (2001 TV Movie)
100 min | Drama
Shakespeare's Othello retold in modern London; racial tension in the police force collides with jealousy and revenge. An officer suspects his new bride of infidelity.
Director: Geoffrey Sax | Stars: Eamonn Walker, Christopher Eccleston, Keeley Hawes, Richard Coyle
Votes: 667
36. Macbeth (1981 Video)
132 min | Drama
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.
Director: Arthur Allan Seidelman | Stars: Jeremy Brett, Piper Laurie, Simon MacCorkindale, Richard Alfieri
Votes: 113
37. Romeo and Juliet (1911)
16 min | Short, Drama
An ill-fated pair of teenage lovers are destroyed by the feud between their families.
Director: Barry O'Neil | Stars: George Lessey, Julia M. Taylor, Mrs. George W. Walters, David Andrada
Votes: 47
38.
The BBC Television Shakespeare (1978–1985)
Episode:
Julius Caesar
(1979)
TV-14 | 161 min
The assassination of the would be ruler of Rome at the hands of Brutus and company has tragic consequences for Brutus and the republic.
Director: Herbert Wise | Stars: Richard Pasco, Charles Gray, Keith Michell, David Collings
Votes: 258
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