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.
I’m Going Home Trailer (2001)
13 May 2001
The comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken when he learns that his wife, daughter, and son-in-law have been killed in a car crash.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Stormen Trailer (1998)
07 October 1998
Set on a remote island, where the sorcerer Prospero, rightful Duke of Milan, plots to restore his daughter Miranda to her rightful place using illusion and skillful manipulation.
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.
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.
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).
Mônica e Cebolinha no Mundo de Romeu e Julieta Trailer (1979)
06 July 1979
Montéquio Cebolinha and Julieta Monicapuleto find themselves in a passionate love affair, but unfortunately, their families vehemently oppose their relationship.
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).
King Lear Trailer (1970)
10 July 1970
King Lear is a proud man who solicits praise from his three daughters in return for inheritance of the kingdom.
Twelfth Night Trailer (1998)
30 August 1998
Ah, summer! School is out, work slows down and passions heat up in the warm summer air. Theatrically speaking, it's the perfect time for a sexy comedy where no one is what, or who, they seem and life is full of romantic possibilities.
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.
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.
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'.
Strange Brew Trailer (1983)
26 August 1983
Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father.
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.