Shakespeare films, the best

Shakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.

In Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.

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.

After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.

King Lear divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia refuses to idly flatter the old man, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters.

A war-hardened general, egged on by his ambitious wife, works to fulfill a prophecy that he would become lord of Spider's Web Castle.

An actor decides to put together a theater company, in order to realize his dream. An audition takes place, the actors are selected, the rehearsals begin. Soon, stage and reality start to merge for the young actors. The only one who is still living in a dream, is the director and protagonist of the play.

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.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

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.

Brutish, fortune-hunting scoundrel Petruchio tames his wealthy, shrewish wife, Katharina.

A ruthlessly ambitious Scottish lord seizes the throne with the help of his scheming wife and a trio of witches.

A group of theatre actors plays "Hamlet" in a provincial village, faced with their own temptations, disappointments, and joys.

Modern-day New York City adaptation of Shakespeare's immortal story about Hamlet's plight to avenge his father's murder.

After the murder of her lover Julius 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.

Two couples and a troupe of actors have an encounter with some mischievous fairies in the forest.

Inmates at a high-security prison in Rome prepare for a public performance of Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar."

A tale of the wicked deformed King and his conquests, both on the battlefield and in the boudoir.