Films and programs like King Lear

Hamlet

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.7

From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This g...

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King Lear

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 7.8

Fathom Events and BY Experience bring the Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear to cinemas for a memorable one-night event. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdo...

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The Dresser

Film Age rating: 8 Year: 2015 IMDB Rating: 6.7

One fateful night in a small English regional theatre during World War II a troupe of touring actors stage a production of Shakespeares King Lear. Bombs are falling, sirens are wailing, the curtain is...

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King Lear

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.7

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the...

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King Lear

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2008 IMDB Rating: 7.5

King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the...

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Uncle Vanya

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 2020 IMDB Rating: 7.5

An adaptation of Anton Chekhov's classic play about human frailty, in which secret loves and long-held resentments threaten to tear a family apart. The film is a recorded performance of an award-winni...

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Illuminata

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 6

It's the start of the 20th century, and Tuccio, resident playwright of a theatre repertory company offers the owners of the company his new play, "Illuminata". They reject it, saying it's not finished...

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Great Expectations

Film Age rating: 7 Year: 2013 IMDB Rating: 6.8

This stunning adaptation of Dickens' classic tale was captured live from the Vaudeville Theatre in the West End. Although Great Expectations has been adapted for film on two separate occasions, once b...

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The King Is Alive

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 2000 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Stranded in the heat of a barren African desert, eleven bus-passengers shelter in the remnants of an abandoned town. As rescue grows more remote by the day and anxiety deepens, an idea emerges: why no...

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