100 Shakespeare Films (BFI Screen Guide)

After the murder of her lover Caesar, Egypt's queen Cleopatra needs a new ally. She seduces his probable successor Mark Antony. This develops into real love and slowly leads to a war with the other possible successor: Octavius.

A Duke usurps his brother's land and power, banishing him and his entourage into the forest of Arden. The banished Duke's daughter, Rosalind, remains with her cousin Celia. She has fallen in love with Orlando, but he has his own tyrannical brother with whom to contend, so he joins those in the forest.

Hiding out in an industrial wasteland from the murderous wrath of a regional ruler, a woman, disguised as a boy, gives wooing lessons to the edgy lad who proclaims he loves her.

Eine Tochter des mächtigen Herzogs muss ihren Mut und Einfallsreichtum unter Beweis stellen, um mit dem Mann zusammen zu sein, den sie liebt.

The action takes place in Ephesus in ancient Asia Minor, and the story concerns the efforts of two boys from Syracuse, Antipholus and his servant Dromio, to find their long-lost twins who, for reason of plot confusion, are also named Antipholus and Dromio. Complications arise when the wives of Ephesians, Adriana and her servant Luce, mistake the two strangers for their husbands, though the couples eventually get sorted out after Adriana's sister Phyllis and the Syracusan Antipholus admit their love.

Danish silent movie-star Asta Nielsen formed her own production company to make this film, in which new elements are combined with features (and a few lines) familiar from Shakespeare's version of the legend. The most important of these changes sees Hamlet made into a female character - a princess forced to masquerade as a man by her scheming mother; from this follows Hamlet's secret passion for Horatio and rivalry with Ophelia for his love. Queen Gertrude is here presented as conspiring in her first husband's murder, and the old king's ghost does not appear - young Hamlet merely hears a voice from the tomb and (apparently) dreams of him. In addition, Hamlet now kills Claudius (in a fire) immediately upon returning from Norway with an army led by old school- friend Fortinbras, and it falls to Gertrude to engineer Hamlet's death in the fencing match as well as kill herself by accidentally drinking the poisoned wine.

After Paul has bizarre dreams about a faceless, sinister man, he suspects the man who is courting his Mother has ulterior motives.

Prinz Hamlet streitet darüber, ob er seinen Onkel töten soll oder nicht, von dem er vermutet, dass er seinen Vater, den ehemaligen König, ermordet hat.

Ein rachsüchtiger junger Mann heiratet die Tochter eines korrupten Industriellen, um Gerechtigkeit für den Selbstmord seines Vaters zu suchen.

After the death of his father, the weirdo Yvan Lesurf believes his mother Claudia Lesurf and his uncle Adrien Lesurf have poisoned him since they got married to each other. Completely disturbed and insane, the cruel Yvan decides to make a film based on Shakespeare's Hamlet to expose the wealthy Claudia and Adrien to their friends in their community. He also calls his sweetheart Lucie Ophélia in a tragedy foretold.

After the death of the King of Denmark - Hamlet's father - his brother Claudius ascends the throne, who takes his widow Gertrude as his wife. Hamlet meets the ghost of his father and learns that he was killed by Claudius.

Nach seiner Rückkehr aus dem Bürgerkrieg erfährt Johnny Hamilton, dass sein Vater von dem Banditen Santana ermordet wurde und dass seine Mutter Gertrude seinen Onkel Claude geheiratet hat.

Hamlet (Tony Meyer) suspects his uncle, King Claudius (Barry Stanton) has murdered his father to claim the throne of Denmark and the hand of Hamlet's mother, Gertrude (Dame Helen Mirren), but the Prince cannot decide whether or not he should take vengeance.

Playboy Hamlet sees the ghost of his father, a paper baron in today's Finland.

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, findet heraus, dass sein Onkel Claudius seinen Vater getötet hat, um den Thron zu erlangen, und plant Rache.

Zwei Nebenfiguren aus dem Stück "Hamlet" stolpern umher, ohne sich ihres geskripteten Lebens bewusst zu sein und ohne von diesem abweichen zu können.

Hamlet, Prinz von Dänemark, kehrt nach Hause zurück. Sein Vater wurde ermordet und seine Mutter heiratet den Mörder, seinen Onkel. In der Zwischenzeit braut sich ein Krieg zusammen.

Shakespeares bekanntestes Drama um Rache, Liebe, Eifersucht und Tod verliert auch im zeitgenössische Manhattan nicht an Brisanz.

A loose adaptation of Hamlet, "The Night Banquet" is set in an empire in chaos. The Emperor, the Empress, the Crown Prince, the Minister and the General all have their own enemies they would like to finish off at a night banquet.

When King Henry IV ascends to the throne, his heir, the Prince of Wales, is befriended by Sir John Falstaff, an old, overweight, fun-loving habitual liar. Through Falstaff's eyes we see the reign of King Henry IV and the rise of Henry V.

Zwei beste Freunde halten sich auf den Straßen Portlands als Stricher über Wasser, als sie eines Tages zu einer gemeinsamen Reise aufbrechen, in deren Verlauf sie sich selbst finden und ihre Freundschaft ins Wanken gerät.

In the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.

Mitten im Hundertjährigen Krieg beginnt der junge König Heinrich V. von England (Sir Kenneth Branagh) 1415. mit der Eroberung Frankreichs.

The growing ambition of Julius Caesar is a source of major concern to his close friend Brutus. Cassius persuades him to participate in his plot to assassinate Caesar but they have both sorely underestimated Mark Antony.

Der wachsende Ehrgeiz von Julius Caesar bereitet seinem engen Freund Brutus Sorgen. Cassius überredet ihn, sich an seinem Mordkomplott gegen Caesar zu beteiligen. Allerdings haben beide nicht die Rechnung mit Marcus Antonius gemacht.