"Jealous love leads to destruction." 22 January 1988 Drama, Comedy 91 mins
A descendant of Shakespeare tries to restore his plays in a world rebuilding itself after the Chernobyl catastrophe obliterates most of human civilization.
Watch the official King Lear 1988 trailer in HD below or find more King Lear videos on Vidimovie.
Peter Sellars as William Shakespeare Junior the Fifth
Burgess Meredith as Don Learo
Julie Delpy as Virginia
Leos Carax as Edgar
Molly Ringwald as Cordelia
Jean-Luc Godard as Professor Pluggy
Woody Allen as Mr. Alien (uncredited)
Freddy Buache as Professor Quentin Kozintsev (uncredited)
Menahem Golan as Self (voice) (uncredited)
Suzanne Lanza as (uncredited)
Kate Mailer as Self (uncredited)
Norman Mailer as Self (uncredited)
Michèle Pétin as Journalist (uncredited)
Norman Mailer Writer
Jean-Luc Godard Director
Jean-Luc Godard Writer
Peter Sellars Writer
Jean-Luc Godard Editor
Sophie Maintigneux Director of Photography
Johann Sebastian Bach Music
Ludwig van Beethoven Music
Yoram Globus Producer
Menahem Golan Producer
Tom Luddy Associate Producer
William Shakespeare Theatre Play
Richard Debuisne Writer
Jean-Luc Godard's King Lear Trailer
Canada 15 September 1987
Switzerland 24 September 1990
France 03 April 2002
Italy 01 January 2013
Japan 10 August 1998
United States 11 February 2025
If you liked the King Lear trailer, you may like these ones:
02 June 1989
At an elite, old-fashioned boarding school in New England, a passionate English teacher inspires his students to rebel against convention and seize the potential of every day, courting the disdain of the stern headmaster.
03 April 2018
A family is forced to live in silence while hiding from creatures that hunt by sound.
12 December 2003
When perpetually single, aging music industry exec Harry Sanborn, and his latest trophy girlfriend, Marin, arrive at her mother's beach house in the Hamptons, they find that her mother, playwright Erica Barry, also plans to stay for the weekend.
04 November 1994
Two brothers have half of a powerful ancient Chinese talisman. An evil gang leader has the other half, and determines to get the brothers' half and have a complete medallion so he can gain absolute power.
08 September 1985
After a top-secret experiment misfires, a scientist may be the only man left alive in the world.
01 August 1971
Due to an experimental vaccine, Dr. Robert Neville is the only human survivor of an apocalyptic war waged with biological weapons.
14 October 1994
After young playwright, David Shayne obtains funding for his play from gangster Nick Valenti, Nick's girlfriend Olive miraculously lands the role of a psychiatrist—but not only is she a bimbo who could never pass for a psychiatrist—she's a dreadful actress.
01 September 1997
Oscar Wilde is a married playwright who has occasionally indulged his weakness for male suitors. After much toil, Wilde debuts 'The Importance of Being Earnest' in London, and a chat at the theatre with Lord Alfred 'Bosie' Douglas leads to a full-fledged romance.
14 September 2018
After a catastrophe destroys most of humanity, recluse Del lives in his small, empty town, content with the utopia he has methodically created for himself, until an interloper, young Grace, disrupts his solitude.
20 December 1971
Scotland, 11th century. Driven by the twisted prophecy of three witches and the ruthless ambition of his wife, warlord Macbeth, bold and brave, but also weak and hesitant, betrays his good king and his brothers in arms and sinks into the bloody mud of a path with no return, sown with crime and suspicion.
16 February 1962
A man confronts his past during an experiment that attempts to find a solution to the problems of a post-apocalyptic world caused by a world war.
07 June 2002
In a sleepy Louisiana parish, a group of lifelong friends stage a rather unorthodox intervention to help a young playwright unravel the truth about her complicated mother and let go of her painful past.
More movie trailers, teasers, and clips from King Lear:
From the tragedy written by William Shakespeare. An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt toadying daughters and rejects his loving ...
Jean-Luc Godard King Lear.
Molly Ringwald Burgess Meredith & Peter Sellars in Godard's notorious Shakespearean inquiry of 1987.
Shakespeare in the Dark presents "King Lear." 8 PM November 12 14 15. Sadler Center Commonwealth.
The film from award-winning director Alexander Barnett streaming US UK Europe ...
King Lear Trailer 2 - 2018 Shakespeare Drama starring Anthony Hopkins Emma Thompson and Tobias Menzies. Subscribe for more: ...
These some of the most viewed trailers for movies released in 1988:
01 June 1988
The "Vampire Killer" leaves his victims drained of blood, while a detective tries to catch him.
22 November 1988
Woody Harrelson stars in the story of psychiatrist Lisa DaVito and her battle to save a tortured man whose past has turned him to violence.
07 July 1988
A man wakes one day to find a zip on the front of his body. Dare he see what's inside?
21 July 1988
Its central characters are a vampire girl named Miyu and her demonic companion Larva. Miyu is the daughter of both a human and a shinma (demon) and as such she was awakened as the guardian whose destiny is to hunt down all stray shinma and send them back to the darkness.
12 October 1988
Even though a devastating murder took place during a small town's horror film festival two years earlier, townspeople want another festival.
20 August 1988
A young schoolgirl, Yuen Fong becomes caught in a tragic stranglehold of triad activity after she testifies in court over a triad beating.
14 October 1988
The image of Greater Poland in the breakthrough years 1913-1918. It tells about the fate of Polish junior high school students and their attitude towards the Prussian partitioning authorities, activity in the independence underground, and participation in the preparations for the Greater Poland Uprising.
18 July 1988
A dying woman tells her son, Barry Griffith, she had been a surrogate mother for a millionaire, and that he is a twin to that baby.
22 June 1988
Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her.
Have you watched King Lear yet? What did you think about it?
Artwork, screen shots, trailers and other imagery is © 1988 The Cannon Group, Golan-Globus Productions.