William Shakespeare Movies

An adaptation of Shakespeare's classic is set in the Mississippi bayous during the Civil War.

A girl advocate foils a Jewish usurer's claim for a pound of a debtor's flesh.(IMDb)

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...

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...

Based on characters from Shakespeare's play: When Juliet's father refuses to let Romeo see her, Romeo resorts to extreme measures.

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

Based, in part, on Shakespeare's The Merry Wives of Windsor, Falstaff is Verdi's last work for the stage - and only his second comic opera. And yet...

An Edwardian take on the Shakespeare play starring Laurence Olivier.

A short film based on William Shakespeare's Hamlet.

An impressively tactile, if slightly over-ambitious, adaptation of King Lear from Vitagraph Studios.

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...

44 B.C.E., Rome dominates the known world. The conquerer of a civil war, Julius Caesar is named dictator for life. Neglecting omens, Caesar pays no...

A TV film version of Shakespeare's drama.

Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the...

Trapped in the web of ethnic strife in the brutal underbelly of Karachi, Gardaab is a tale of two lovers' journey, as they struggle to break away...

In eleventh century Scotland, three witches foretell that Macbeth will become King, while Banquo will beget Kings. Macbeth accordingly has King...

Who have you allowed into your home during the pandemic? In Shakespeare’s Love’s Labor’s Lost, a group of young men is determined...

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

A chef and his restaurant-hostess wife resort to murder to take ownership of a high-class Glaswegian restaurant.