William Shakespeare Movies

The King of Denmark is dead. Prince Hamlet is summoned home to Denmark to attend his father's funeral, only to discover Denmark has crowned Hamlet's...

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...

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

A tragedy of great and bloody conflicts, turbulent emotions and clashes, centred on a couple torn by passion – Macbeth and his wife, who...

Based on the play A Midsummer Night's Dream by William Shakespeare, a choreographic film by Jean-Christophe Maillot. Gorgeous dancing – and...

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

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

A Bochum Schauspielhaus production. In ancient Scotland, after a victorious war, Macbeth and Banquo return home. Macbeth’s name is celebrated...

US stage director Robert Wilson has teamed up with pop star Rufus Wainwright to bring Shakespeare’s sonnets to the stage in Berlin. Debuting on...

In the Iraqi countryside, a love story links Fitna and her cousin Hassan. The people of the village sympathize with Hassan for being a chivalrous and...

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the...

Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is thwarted by Hermia's father, who wishes to marry her...

Leontes, king of Sicily, tries to convince his friend Polyxenes, king of Bohemia, to stay longer as his guest. But only Hermione, Leontes' wife, can...

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

Recreation of a scene from Macbeth.

A French adaptation of William Shakespeare's play "Richard II", staged by Jean-Baptiste Sastre.

Brazilian adaptation of Hamlet, set in the outskirts of São Paulo City. A teenager hears through a medium the voice of his father, who accuses...

Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.

A 1933 screen test for a proposed, but never filmed, movie version of "Hamlet" in Technicolor, starring John Barrymore - this is the Ghost Scene.