Subgenre Sampler
Rental > Drama > Shakespeare: 76 Films to Rent
- Hollow Crown, The: Wars of the Roses (TV Series) (2015)
- Dir. Dominic Cooke
Feat. Benedict Cumberbatch, Hugh Bonneville, Judi Dench…
- A second series of star–studded, exceptionally presented Shakespeare adaptations, with Henry VI in two parts, along with Richard III. Together…
- Macbeth (2015)
- Dir. Justin Kurzel
Feat. Michael Fassbender, Marion Cotillard, Paddy Considine…
- Michael Fassbender is the fatally ambitious Scottish general in this visceral rendition of Shakespeare's tragedy from the Australian director of…
- National Theatre: 50 Years on Stage (2015)
- A celebration of the 50th Anniversary of London's National Theatre. The theatrical gala features a veritable who's–who of British stage talent…
- Cymbeline (Anarchy) (2014)
- Dir. Michael Almereyda
Feat. Ethan Hawke, Ed Harris, Milla Jovovich…
- After their edgy version of Hamlet (2000), Ethan Hawke and director Michael Almereyda re–team for one of Shakespeare's lesser–known…
- Romeo and Juliet (2013)
- Dir. Carlo Carlei
Feat. Hailee Steinfeld, Douglas Booth, Damian Lewis…
- A richly imagined, though largely unreliable version of Shakespeare's most quoted play. Set in the authentic setting of Renaissance Verona, this only…
- Romeo and Juliet: A Love Song (2013)
- Dir. Tim van Dammen
Feat. Derya Parlak, Christopher Landon
- The Bard's most iconic play is performed with colloquial gusto in this inventive musical transposing of the tale of star–crossed lovers to an…
- Hollow Crown, The (TV Series) (2012)
- Feat. Jeremy Irons, Ben Whishaw, Tom Hiddleston…
- A star–studded, BAFTA–nominated mini–series of adaptations of Shakespeare's history plays: Richard II, Henry IV Parts One and Two,…
- Much Ado About Nothing (2012)
- Dir. Joss Whedon
Feat. Amy Acker, Alexis Denisof, Nathan Fillion…
- Thank heaven for Joss Whedon and for a tiny little project he threw together in his spare time whole he was in the editing room for THE AVENGERS.…
- Anonymous (2011)
- Dir. Roland Emmerich
Feat. Rhys Ifans, Vanessa Redgrave, David Thewlis…
- Enjoyable hokum posits that the true writer of Shakespeare's plays was in fact the Earl of Oxford. Some of Britain's finest thesps – including…
- Coriolanus (2011)
- Dir. Ralph Fiennes
Feat. Ralph Fiennes, Gerard Butler, Jessica Chastain…
- Ralph Fiennes directs this fierce adaptation of Shakespeare's second–longest play, transposing the Bard's text to modern day Rome, where…