Movies and TvShows featuring "shakespeare" theme.

Hamlet, the Prince of Denmark, is visited by the ghost of his father who reveals that he was murdered by his uncle, Claudius. Hamlet decides to seek revenge and feigns insanity to hide his plans. As his scheme unfolds, the play explores themes of revenge, betrayal, and the nature of madness.

Othello, a Moorish general in Venetian army, falls victim to manipulation and treachery by his ensign, Iago, leading to the tragic downfall of Othello and his wife Desdemona.

Set in 16th-century Venice, Othello is a tragedy that revolves around the Moorish general Othello, his lieutenant Iago, and their tangled relationships. Iago's plot to exploit Othello's jealousy and manipulate those around him leads to a chain of tragic events.

A short drama/thriller film based on Carol Ann Duffy's poem "Education for Leisure."

The great theater director Federico Landi Porrini is looking for his Romeo and Juliet for the opera that should definitively consecrate his prestige and end his career. Vittoria stands out among the candidates, but she is excluded because of a shadow on her past. Determined to get a role in the play anyway, and with the complicity of her makeup artist friend, the young actress decides to try again under a false identity to prove all her talent. That's how she turns into Eight November, offers herself for the role of Romeo and gets the part. It does not seem so complicated for her to play someone else, both on stage and behind the scenes, even when her boyfriend is chosen to play the role of Mercutio. However, dressing as a man will allow her to discover a lot about herself, but more importantly about the people around her.

Two young people fall in love, but their opposed families hold them apart. Tragedy ensues.

In the early months of the COVID-19 pandemic, three naive stoners find themselves too bored and sad to simply sit around all night. When they realize they've run out of weed, the group embarks on a strange and perilous odyssey across Los Angeles in search for weed.

In 1970s Wales, a drama teacher named Vivienne struggles to overcome obstacles and put on a rock 'n' roll musical with her students. Along the way, she confronts issues of teenage sexuality, outsider acceptance, and personal growth.

Shakespeare’s Othello is revisited exactly as it was written, brought into the present through the power of dialect alone. Iago, Othello, and Desdemona are regrettably still among us, in contemporary events told through a great classic. Set in the early 2000s, it is a timeless story where good and evil intertwine in a maelstrom of deceit, betrayal and mad jealousy.

In this modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare's Othello, a police commissioner is manipulated by his subordinate into believing that his wife is unfaithful.

Othello, a respected general, falls victim to the manipulations of his ensign, Iago, who plants seeds of doubt and jealousy in his mind, leading to the tragic downfall of Othello and his innocent wife, Desdemona.

Mike Kellin as Lear.

Recorded from the West End, Kiss Me Kate follows a pair of divorced actors brought together to participate in a musical version of The Taming of the Shrew. Of course, the couple seem to act a great deal like the characters they play, and they must work together when mistaken identities get them mixed up with the mafia.

Branagh Theatre Live presents a captivating live performance of Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet. Set in Verona, the tragic love story unfolds as two young teenagers, Romeo and Juliet, from feuding families, fall deeply in love. Their forbidden romance leads to a series of tragic events that ultimately brings the warring families together in mourning.

A modern re-telling of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Nights Dream, this is a crazy screwball comedy of unrequited love and altered states of sexual orientation. An Existentialist Science-Fiction Sex Farce - just as the Bard intended.

In this contemporary retelling, jealousy consumes a newly appointed chief of London police as a scheming colleague plots to ruin his life and career.

Following gender affirming Facial Feminisation Surgery, a transgender woman contemplates what it means to be alive using the words of William Shakespeare's most famous speech - 'To be or not to be...'

A promotional short to hype the production of A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935).

Even without the benefit of sound, the 1922 German adaptation of Othello seems more operatic than Shakespearean. This may be due to the casting of Emil Jannings, to whom restraint and subtlety were strangers. Werner Krauss, of Cabinet of Dr. Caligari fame, is on hand as the duplicitous Iago. Appearing as the unfortunate Desdemona is Lea Von Lenkeffy, better known as Lya de Putti. Produced on an elaborate scale, Othello may not be true to the letter of Shakespeare, but is undeniably a smorgasbord of visual delights.

Two rival acting students are forced to reconcile their differences and play lovers Romeo and Juliet in their final school play, vying for a life-changing prize.