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1. ShakespeaRe-Told (2005)
TV-PG | 360 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A modern re-telling of four William Shakespeare stories.
Stars: Nick Malinowski, James McAvoy, Shirley Henderson, Sarah Parish
Votes: 1,473
2. National Theatre Live: Othello (2013)
198 min | Drama
The Moorish general Othello is manipulated into thinking that his new wife Desdemona has been carrying on an affair with his lieutenant Michael Cassio when in reality it is all part of the scheme of a bitter ensign named Iago.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Robin Lough | Stars: Jonathan Bailey, Sandy Batchelor, Adam Berry, David Carr
Votes: 179
3. 'As You Like It' at Shakespeare's Globe Theatre (2010 Video)
149 min | Comedy
Shakespeare's tale of young love, betrayal, cross-dressing, and redemption.
Director: Thea Sharrock | Stars: Gareth Bennett-Ryan, Michael Benz, Philip Bird, Sophie Duval
Votes: 168
4. The Hollow Crown (2012–2016)
TV-14 | 150 min | Drama, History, War
A mini-series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV: Parts 1 and 2, and Henry V.
Stars: Anton Lesser, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Georgeson, John Mackay
Votes: 7,319
5.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Macbeth
(2010)
Not Rated | 160 min | Music, Musical
Sir Patrick Stewart stars in a gripping Tony-nominated production.
Director: Rupert Goold | Stars: Patrick Stewart, Kate Fleetwood, Oliver Burch, Suzanne Burden
Votes: 1,245
6. Shakespeare's Globe: A Midsummer Night's Dream (2014)
172 min | Comedy
Mistaken identity, unrequited love, and the supernatural are combined in Shakespeare's classic set in the woods of Greece on a moonlit night.
Director: Dominic Dromgoole | Stars: Steffan Donnelly, Huss Garbiya, Tala Gouveia, Tom Lawrence
Votes: 190
7. National Theatre Live: King Lear (2018)
227 min | Drama, History
Two aging fathers - one a King, one his courtier - reject the children who truly love them. Their blindness unleashes a tornado of pitiless ambition and treachery, and their worlds crumble.
Directors: Jonathan Munby, Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Ian McKellen, Sinéad Cusack, Danny Webb, Kirsty Bushell
Votes: 400 | Gross: $0.19M
8. National Theatre Live: A View from the Bridge (2015)
115 min | Drama
In Brooklyn, longshoreman Eddie Carbone welcomes his Sicilian cousins to the land of freedom. But when one of them falls for his beautiful niece, they discover that freedom comes at a price.
Directors: Ivo van Hove, Nick Wickham | Stars: Emun Elliott, Phoebe Fox, Michael Gould, Richard Hansell
Votes: 250
9. National Theatre Live: One Man, Two Guvnors (2011 TV Movie)
179 min | Comedy, Musical
Francis Henshall becomes minder to Roscoe, a small time East End hood. Francis spots the chance of an extra meal ticket and takes a second job with one Stanley Stubber. To prevent discovery, Francis must keep his two guvnors apart.
Directors: Nicholas Hytner, Robin Lough | Stars: Suzanne Toase, Trevor Laird, Fred Ridgeway, Claire Lams
Votes: 945
10. 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
11. A Midwinter's Tale (1995)
R | 99 min | Comedy
A group of theatre actors plays "Hamlet" in a provincial village, faced with their own temptations, disappointments, and joys.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Michael Maloney, Richard Briers, Hetta Charnley, Joan Collins
Votes: 2,772 | Gross: $0.35M
12. 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: 40,067 | Gross: $4.41M
13. King Lear (2014)
210 min | Drama, History
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Directors: Sam Mendes, Robin Lough | Stars: Saif Al-Warith, Waj Ali, Nathan Ampofo, Paul Anthoney
Votes: 181
14. National Theatre Live: No Man's Land (2016 TV Movie)
170 min | Drama
Following their hit run on Broadway, Sir Ian McKellen and Sir Patrick Stewart return to the West End stage in Harold Pinter's No Man's Land, broadcast live to cinemas from Wyndham's Theatre, London.
Directors: Sean Mathias, Robin Lough | Stars: Sean Mathias, Ian McKellen, Damien Molony, Patrick Stewart
Votes: 361
15. Macbeth (2013)
140 min | Drama
As Macbeth rides home from battle, three witches prophecise that he will soon rise in power to become King of Scotland. Aided by his wife, the pair will stop at nothing to seal their fate.
Directors: Rob Ashford, Tim Van Someren | Stars: David Annen, Andy Apollo, Elliot Balchin, Nari Blair-Mangat
Votes: 425
16. Dvenadtsataya noch (1955)
90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Based on Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night, or What You Will.
Director: Yan Frid | Stars: Klara Luchko, Alla Larionova, Vadim Medvedev, Mikhail Yanshin
Votes: 302
17. Much Ado About Nothing (II) (2012)
Not Rated | 167 min | Comedy, Drama
Much Ado About Nothing contrasts the happiness of lovers Claudio and Hero, and the cynicism of sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick, who are united in their scorn for love.
Director: Jeremy Herrin | Stars: Eve Best, Charles Edwards, Ewan Stewart, Joseph Marcell
Votes: 172
18. Royal Shakespeare Company: Richard II (2013 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 180 min | Drama
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Director: Gregory Doran | Stars: David Tennant, Elliot Barnes-Worrell, Antony Byrne, Sean Chapman
Votes: 547
19. Hamlet (2018 TV Movie)
191 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.
Directors: Robert Icke, Rhodri Huw, Ilinca Radulian | Stars: Andrew Scott, Juliet Stevenson, Jessica Brown Findlay, Luke Thompson
Votes: 517
20. Shakespeare in Love (1998)
R | 123 min | Comedy, Drama, History
The world's greatest ever playwright, William Shakespeare, is young, out of ideas and short of cash, but meets his ideal woman and is inspired to write one of his most famous plays.
Director: John Madden | Stars: Gwyneth Paltrow, Joseph Fiennes, Geoffrey Rush, Tom Wilkinson
Votes: 234,448 | Gross: $100.32M
21. Branagh Theatre Live: The Winter's Tale (2015)
180 min | Drama
A jealous King jeopardizes his family, friendships, and succession.
Directors: Rob Ashford, Kenneth Branagh, Benjamin Caron | Stars: Miranda Raison, Pierre Atri, Jaygann Ayeh, Tom Bateman
Votes: 298
22. Shakespeare Uncovered (2012– )
55 min | Documentary
Various actors discuss Shakespeare plays. Each episode is presented by one actor and, in most cases, the actor discusses one play. However, some episodes cover more than one play. For ... See full summary »
Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Ethan Hawke, Harriet Walter, Vanessa Redgrave
Votes: 274
23. Coriolanus (2011)
R | 123 min | Drama, Thriller, War
A banished hero of Rome allies with a sworn enemy to take his revenge on the city.
Director: Ralph Fiennes | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Brian Cox, Lubna Azabal
Votes: 33,529 | Gross: $0.76M
24. Richard III (I) (2016)
171 min | Drama
Almeida Theatre Live makes its debut broadcast with Richard III from the Almeida stage to cinemas in the UK and around the world, in association with Picturehouse Entertainment, produced by Illuminations Media.
Directors: Rupert Goold, Robin Lough | Stars: David Annen, Joseph Arkley, Osman Baig, Tom Canton
Votes: 164
25. National Theatre Live: The Madness of George III (2018)
210 min | Drama
With the King's mind unravelling at a dramatic pace, ambitious politicians and the scheming Prince of Wales threaten to undermine the power of the Crown, and expose the fine line between a King and a man.
Directors: Adam Penford, Matt Woodward | Stars: Nadia Albina, Nicholas Bishop, Mark Gatiss, Debra Gillett
Votes: 322
26. National Theatre Live: Man and Superman (2015)
220 min | Comedy, Drama
Based on Nietzsche's theory of the Superman, this reinvention of Shaw's witty, provocative classic tells of Ann Whitefield's relentless pursuit of dedicated bachelor Jack Tanner.
Director: Simon Godwin | Stars: Ralph Fiennes, Indira Varma, Corey Johnson, Elliot Barnes-Worrell
Votes: 198
27. The Importance of Being Earnest (2002)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
In 1890s London, two friends use the same pseudonym ("Ernest") for their on-the-sly activities. Hilarity ensues.
Director: Oliver Parker | Stars: Rupert Everett, Colin Firth, Frances O'Connor, Reese Witherspoon
Votes: 24,749 | Gross: $8.38M
28. Lady Macbeth (2016)
R | 89 min | Drama, Romance
In 19th-century rural England, a young bride who has been sold into marriage discovers an unstoppable desire within herself as she enters into an affair with a worker on her estate.
Director: William Oldroyd | Stars: Florence Pugh, Cosmo Jarvis, Paul Hilton, Naomi Ackie
Votes: 27,310 | Gross: $1.13M
29. Wolf Hall (2015)
TV-14 | 60 min | Biography, Drama, History
After the downfall of Cardinal Wolsey, his secretary, Thomas Cromwell, finds himself amongst the treachery and intrigue of King Henry VIII's court and soon becomes a close advisor to the King, a role fraught with danger.
Stars: Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, Claire Foy, Thomas Brodie-Sangster
Votes: 13,102
30. Skylight (2014)
135 min | Drama
On a bitterly cold London evening, schoolteacher Kyra Hollis receives an unexpected visit from her former lover, Tom Sergeant, a successful and charismatic restaurateur whose wife has recently died.
Directors: Stephen Daldry, Robin Lough | Stars: Carey Mulligan, Bill Nighy, Matthew Beard, Michael Bott
Votes: 605
31. National Theatre Live: Medea (2014)
99 min | Drama
Medea, a woman stricken with grief after learning that her ex-husband has decided to remarry is faced with impossible choices in this exhilarating and breathtaking adaptation of Medea.
Directors: Carrie Cracknell, Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Helen McCrory, Danny Sapani, Michaela Coel, Martin Turner
Votes: 206
32. Amadeus (1984)
R | 160 min | Biography, Drama, Music
The life, success and troubles of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, as told by Antonio Salieri, the contemporaneous composer who was deeply jealous of Mozart's talent and claimed to have murdered him.
Director: Milos Forman | Stars: F. Murray Abraham, Tom Hulce, Elizabeth Berridge, Roy Dotrice
Votes: 428,408 | Gross: $51.97M
33. Branagh Theatre Live: Romeo and Juliet (2016)
165 min | Romance
Two teenagers fall in love, but their feuding families and fate itself cause the relationship to end in tragedy.
Directors: Rob Ashford, Kenneth Branagh, Benjamin Caron | Stars: Richard Madden, Lily James, Derek Jacobi, Marisa Berenson
Votes: 429
34. All About Eve (2019)
148 min | Drama
Eve shows up in the dressing room of Broadway mega-star Margo Channing and tells Margo and her friends a melancholy life story. Margo takes Eve under her wing, only to have Eve use her and connive against her.
Directors: Ivo van Hove, Nick Wickham | Stars: Lily James, Gillian Anderson, Monica Dolan, Julian Ovenden
Votes: 562
35. National Theatre Live: A Streetcar Named Desire (2014)
180 min | Drama
As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.
Directors: Benedict Andrews, Nick Wickham | Stars: Gillian Anderson, Clare Burt, Lachele Carl, Branwell Donaghey
Votes: 1,133
36. The Tempest (II) (2014)
169 min | Comedy, Drama
Prospero, Duke of Milan, usurped and exiled by his own brother, holds sway over an enchanted island. He is comforted by his daughter Miranda and served by his spirit Ariel and his deformed ... See full summary »
Directors: Jeremy Herrin, Ian Russell | Stars: Roger Allam, Jason Baughan, Jessie Buckley, Sam Cox
Votes: 343
37. National Theatre Live: Les Liaisons Dangereuses (2016)
210 min | Romance
Marquise de Merteuil, former lover of Vicomte de Valmont, incites him to corrupt the innocent Cecile de Volanges before her wedding night, but Valmont has targeted the peerlessly virtuous and beautiful Madame de Tourvel.
Directors: Josie Rourke, Tony Grech-Smith | Stars: Janet McTeer, Morfydd Clark, Adjoa Andoh, Dominic West
Votes: 125
38. 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: 26,986 | Gross: $16.07M
39. National Theatre Live: Hangmen (2016)
180 min | Comedy, Drama
Local hangman Harry is unaware of the recent abolition of hanging in Great Britain, and everyone, including his old assistant Syd, and the peculiar Mooney, are just dying to hear Harry's reaction to the news.
Directors: Matthew Dunster, Ross MacGibbon | Stars: Josef Davies, James Dryden, Johnny Flynn, Tony Hirst
Votes: 196
40. The Audience (2013)
173 min | Biography, Drama
For sixty years, Elizabeth II has met each of her twelve Prime Ministers in a weekly audience at Buckingham Palace, a meeting like no other in British public life, it is private.
Directors: Stephen Daldry, Robin Lough | Stars: Helen Mirren, Paul Ritter, Edward Fox, Richard McCabe
Votes: 516
41. National Theatre Live: The Deep Blue Sea (2016)
160 min | Drama
When Hester Collyer is found by her neighbours in the aftermath of a failed suicide attempt, the story of her tempestuous affair with a former RAF pilot and the breakdown of her marriage to a High Court judge begins to emerge.
Directors: Carrie Cracknell, Matthew Amos | Stars: Marion Bailey, Hubert Burton, Yolanda Kettle, Helen McCrory
Votes: 331
42. Present Laughter (2019)
Not Rated | 180 min | Comedy
As he prepares to embark on an overseas tour, star actor Garry Essendine's colourful life is in danger of spiralling out of control, as he becomes engulfed by an escalating identity crisis.
Director: Matthew Warchus | Stars: Nicole Agada, Kitty Archer, Enzo Cilenti, Joshua Hill
Votes: 363
43. The Tragedy of Macbeth (2021)
R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
A Scottish lord becomes convinced by a trio of witches that he will become the next King of Scotland, and his ambitious wife supports him in his plans of seizing power.
Director: Joel Coen | Stars: Denzel Washington, Frances McDormand, Alex Hassell, Bertie Carvel
Votes: 39,746
44. Becoming Traviata (2012)
Not Rated | 120 min | Documentary, Musical
Natalie Dessay prepares to take on the role of Violetta in this documentary about the staging of Verdi's masterwork at the Aix-en-Provence Festival in France.
Director: Philippe Béziat | Stars: Natalie Dessay, Jean-François Sivadier, Louis Langrée, Charles Castronovo
Votes: 119 | Gross: $0.06M
45. National Theatre Live: The Crucible (2023)
180 min | Drama, History
In the good Christian town of Salem in 1692 a group of girls create a religious and legal fervour when they start accusing women of witchcraft after getting caught dancing in the forest.
Director: Lyndsey Turner | Stars: Brendan Cowell, Erin Doherty, Eileen Walsh, Karl Johnson
Votes: 99
46. The Lehman Trilogy (2019)
223 min | Drama
The story of Lehman Brothers, from their beginnings as cotton brokers before the Civil War to the company's involvement in the financial crisis of 2008.
Directors: Sam Mendes, Matthew Amos | Stars: Simon Russell Beale, Adam Godley, Ben Miles, Alice Bounsall
Votes: 391
47. 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: 31,676 | Gross: $10.16M
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