William Shakespeare Movie Trailers
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The Merry Wives of Windsor Trailer (2011)
27 June 2011
The fat knight Sir John Falstaff imagines that Mistress Ford and Mistress Page are both taken with him and so, attracted as much by their husbands’ money as their personal charms, he decides to woo them both.
All's Well That Ends Well Trailer (1978)
01 October 1978
Video recording of a 1978 New York Shakespeare Festival performance. Directed for stage by Wilford Leach and videotaped by Jaime Caro.
The Metropolitan Opera: Falstaff Trailer (2023)
01 April 2023
Baritone Michael Volle stars as the caddish knight Falstaff, gleefully tormented by a trio of clever women who deliver his comeuppance, in Verdi’s glorious Shakespearean comedy.
Anyone but You Trailer (2023)
21 December 2023
After an amazing first date, Bea and Ben’s fiery attraction turns ice cold — until they find themselves unexpectedly reunited at a destination wedding in Australia.
10 Things I Hate About You Trailer (1999)
30 March 1999
On the first day at his new school, Cameron instantly falls for Bianca, the gorgeous girl of his dreams.
King Lear Trailer (1974)
24 September 1974
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow.
The Winter's Tale (The Royal Ballet) Trailer (2014)
10 April 2014
The story follows the destruction of a marriage through consuming jealousy, the abandonment of a child and a seemingly hopeless love.
The Comedy of Errors Trailer (1983)
24 December 1983
Aegeon of Syracuse has come to Ephesus to seek his son, who went in search of his missing twin and mother months ago.
Muntra fruarna i Windsor Trailer (1998)
01 April 1998
A light hearted adaptation of Shakespeare's play about middle class life in Elizabethan England.
Richard II Trailer (1997)
01 January 1997
The incompetent Richard II is deposed by Henry Bolingbroke and undergoes a crisis of identity once he is no longer king.
Glyndebourne: Hamlet Trailer (2018)
29 June 2018
Brett Dean's multi-award-winning opera received its world premiere at Glyndebourne Festival 2017. The world premiere recording of Brett Deans new opera based on Shakespeares best-known tragedy: To be, or not to be.
Twelfth Night Trailer (2018)
05 January 2018
A version of William Shakespeare's classic play set in Southern California.
She's the Man Trailer (2006)
17 March 2006
Viola Hastings is in a real jam. Complications threaten her scheme to pose as her twin brother, Sebastian, and take his place at a new boarding school.
Johnny Hamlet Trailer (1968)
22 March 1968
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and who asks him to avenge him.
Das Liebesverbot Trailer (2016)
19 February 2016
This Wagner opera is rarely performed because of the scandals that engulfed the Magdeburg Theatre when it was performed in 1836 under the title The Novice of Palermo, and became known as a cursed opera from which the composer had to distance himself.
Trettondagsafton Trailer (1999)
05 January 1999
Production of Shakespeare's Twelfth Night with an all male cast.
The Comedy of Errors - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Trailer (2015)
25 June 2015
Basing his plot on a farce by Plautus, Shakespeare caps the mayhem of his Roman original to build up a hectic tale of violent cross-purposes, furious slapstick and social nightmare.
Richard II - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Trailer (2015)
20 August 2015
Ruling by divine right, but himself ruled by caprice, King Richard exiles Henry Bolingbroke and seizes his father’s vast estates.
RSC Live: The Comedy of Errors Trailer (2009)
23 November 2009
One of Shakespeare’s early comedies, The Comedy of Errors is a fast-paced farce exploring mistaken identities and relations lost and found.
Henry IV, Part 1 - Live at Shakespeare's Globe Trailer (2012)
27 May 2012
Prince Hal, son of King Henry IV, seems to be squandering his life away with the fat knight Sir John Falstaff and the whores, boozers and petty rogues of Eastcheap.
Souli Trailer (2004)
06 November 2004
Somewhere on the African continent in a small fishing village cut off from the rest of the world, the lives of five people are caught in a web of violence and passion.
CBeebies Presents: As You Like It at Shakespeare's Globe Trailer (2023)
07 April 2023
A host of CBeebies stars perform a unique adaptation of As You Like It on the world’s most famous stage.
All's Well That Ends Well Trailer (1968)
06 March 1968
An adaptation directed by Claude Whatham for the BBC's Theatre 625 slot. Essentially a recording of John Barton's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company production starring Catherine Lacey (the Countess), Ian Richardson (Bertram), Lynn Farleigh (Helen), Clive Swift (Parolles) and Sebastian Shaw (the King), it was broadcast on 3 June 1968.
Twelfth Night Trailer (2018)
25 October 2018
Charming full text, modern, location based screen adaptation of William Shakespeare's play Twelfth Night.
King Lear Trailer (2023)
13 April 2023
Caught in a carousel of memory, the head of a dysfunctional royal family grapples with power-hungry children and the threat of losing the empire he created.
Hamlet Trailer (2000)
10 December 2000
A revised version of the Shakespeare play set in turn-of-the-20th-century America, where a prince seeks revenge against his father's killer.
Hommelette for Hamlet, operetta inqualificabile (da J. Laforgue) Trailer (1990)
25 November 1990
A TV movie variation on Shakespeare's Hamlet. The movie is a part of Carmelo Bene's multi-medial project on Hamlet, also including the theatrical movie "Un Amleto di meno", a stage drama and the experimental video "Amleto di Carmelo Bene (Da Shakespeare a Laforgue).
Helligtrekongersaften Trailer (1981)
16 August 1981
Disguised as a man, Viola (Kirsten Olesen) is stranded in the wonderland of Illyria where she awakens the love of the beautiful Olivia (Susse Wold).
Romeo + Juliet Trailer (1996)
01 November 1996
In this contemporary take on William Shakespeare's classic tragedy, the Montagues and Capulets have moved their ongoing feud to the sweltering suburb of Verona Beach, where Romeo and Juliet fall in love and secretly wed.
Beware of Eve Trailer (1962)
12 May 1962
Her grandfather swore not to marry her younger sister until she got married, according to the doctor (Hassan) who was transferred to work in the countryside, and get an argument between them, escalating events.
Macbeth Trailer (2009)
01 January 2009
Adaptation of Shakespeare's play presented for the Folger Shakespeare Library, and directed by Aaron Posner and Teller.
Warm Bodies Trailer (2013)
31 January 2013
After a zombie becomes involved with the girlfriend of one of his victims, their romance sets in motion a sequence of events that might transform the entire lifeless world.
Stratford Festival: Romeo and Juliet Trailer (1993)
15 June 1993
Stratford Festival's production of Romeo and Juliet 1993. Megan Porter Follows (Anne of Green Gables) and Antoni Cimolino (Stratford Festival Artistic Director) star in one of the most famous love stories of all time.
RSC Live: All's Well That Ends Well Trailer (2023)
03 July 2023
Low-born Helena is convinced that she and the high-born Bertram are meant to be. Bertram does not, so he runs off to fight in the Italian wars with his "#bff" Parolles, where he meets Diana.
Verdi Otello Trailer (1962)
01 February 1962
Desdemona in Verdi's Otello was a career role for soprano Renata Tebaldi, from her first operatic performance outside of Italy to her final appearance on the opera stage.
Titus Andronicus Trailer (1985)
25 April 1985
Having subdued the Goths, warrior Titus Andronicus returns to Rome to bury his sons, with Gothic Queen Tamora and her retinue as captives.
Romeo and Juliet Trailer (1968)
02 April 1968
Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet fall in love against the wishes of their feuding families. Driven by their passion, the young lovers defy their destiny and elope, only to suffer the ultimate tragedy.
Tragic Weddings Trailer (1946)
30 May 1946
Jalisco, 19th century. Diego, a wealthy landowner, secretly marries Amparo, defying her father Juan Manuel, who fiercely opposes the union.
Falstaff (Hamburg State Opera) Trailer (2020)
01 January 2020
A staging of Verdi's opera '"Falstaff" by Calixto Bieito. Recorded at the Hamburg State Opera.
Romeo and Juliet Trailer (1984)
15 July 1984
Ballet performance by The Royal Ballet, recorded at Covent Garden, London, United Kingdom, July 1984.
RSC Live: As You Like It Trailer (2010)
01 January 2010
As You Like It, Shakespeare's famous pastoral comedy of love and disguise, is reimagined here with darker, more sombre undertones.
Sen noci... Trailer (1986)
01 September 1986
The film recording of the ballet performance of the State Theatre in Brno was expensively realized in a theatrically stylized set built in the Barrandov studios.
Verdi: Otello Trailer (2015)
16 October 2015
Tony Award winner Bartlett Sher’s bold new production probes the psychological underpinnings of Verdi’s dynamic setting of Shakespeare’s great tragedy.
CBeebies Presents: The Tempest Trailer (2018)
30 March 2018
A magical island, a stormy shipwreck and a royal mystery!
Romeo.Juliet Trailer (1990)
01 January 1990
The tale centers on an eccentric bag lady who rescues the stray cats of Venice and puts them on a boat to set sail for the new world.
Mac Beth Trailer (2022)
16 May 2022
On an autumn afternoon, in an empty lot outside the city, seven girls meet up to do a play. School uniform tartan transforms in this American urban wasteland.
O Jogo da Vida e da Morte Trailer (1972)
13 July 1972
Brazilian adaptation of Hamlet, set in the outskirts of São Paulo City. A teenager hears through a medium the voice of his father, who accuses his brother of murdering him.
King Lear Trailer (2012)
01 November 2012
Captured live at the Almeida Theatre in November 2012. An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
To Be Trailer (2012)
11 January 2012
Ten actors, one day, one city, and the greatest monologue of all. Some voices speak across the ages.
RSC Live: As You Like It Trailer (2019)
17 April 2019
Live from Stratford-upon-Avon. The Royal Shakespeare Company presents As You Like It.
The Tempest Trailer (1982)
24 September 1982
Exiled Prospero lives on a desolate island with his daughter, Miranda. When Prospero's usurping brother sails by the island, Prospero conjures a storm that wrecks the ship and changes all of their lives.
As You Like It Trailer (2010)
27 June 2010
A short BravoFACT adaptation of the 2010 Stratford Shakespeare Festival play 'As You Like It'.
Ran Trailer (1985)
01 June 1985
Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
Richard III, a Shakespearian Tragedy Trailer (1908)
28 September 1908
Vitagraph production of Shakespeare's Richard III.
Romeo and Juliet, the worst forfeit of all time Trailer (2019)
31 January 2019
After losing at YouTube Warriors, Cyprien and Squeezie (the two biggest French YouTubers) must publicly act the famous tragedy.
Cymbeline Trailer (2014)
03 September 2014
War erupts between dirty cops and outlaw bikers as a drug kingpin tries to protect his empire.
The Tragedy of Macbeth Trailer (2021)
05 December 2021
Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland.
Romeo and Juliet Trailer (2021)
27 February 2021
Two young lovers, offspring of the feuding Montague and Capulet families, value feelings above the past, pitting love and forgiveness against hatred and revenge.