19. As You Like It

• • MPAA
  • PG

• Brian Blessed
• Richard Clifford

Rosalind grew up in the court of Duke Frederick, the younger brother of her father. When she falls in love with a young man named Orlando, the Duke banishes her, and threatens to kill her if she gets...Read more near the court again, but it seems that what's happening is a scheme by Rosalind.

17. The Tempest

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Felicity Jones
• Jude Akuwudike

A gender-flipped take on Shakespear's famous play, which sees Prospera sent out to sea with her 4-year-old daughter after being usurped by her brother. But an accident leaves the two stranded on a...Read more remote island, where Prospera must figure a way to survive with her child.

16. Hamlet

• Anthony Hopkins
• Anjelica Huston

The Shakespearean play about the prince of Denmark, Hamlet, who goes on a downward spiral after he starts to suspect that his late father was murdered by his own uncle, who goes on to marry Hamlet's...Read more mother, leaving Hamlet to plot revenge.

15. Love's Labour's Lost

• • MPAA
  • PG

• Alessandro Nivola
• Alicia Silverstone

When the King of Navarre and his three best friends make a pact to remain celibate for three years, their honor is put to the test by the arrival of the Princess of France with her three beautiful...Read more companions.

14. King Lear

• • MPAA
  • Unrated

• Paul Scofield
• Irene Worth

A story of old age, love, and betrayal, following King Lear, who divides his kingdom between his three daughters based on which of them loves him best. When Cordelia refuses to sweet-talk him like her...Read more sisters, he banishes her, only to learn that a thankless child is worse than a serpent's tooth.

13. Chimes at Midnight

• Orson Welles
• Jeanne Moreau

The story follows King Henry IV's accession to the throne of the Kingdom of France, through the eyes of Sir John Falstaff, a friend of his heir, the Prince of Wales.

12. Othello

• • MPAA
  • R

• Laurence Fishburne
• Irene Jacob

A Shakespearean tragedy that follows the downfall of the Moorish General Othello after a nefarious plot by his jealous aid makes him suspect the fidelity of his wife Desdemona. Convinced that she is...Read more having an affair with his Lieutenant Cassio, Othello is driven to extreme measures for revenge.

11. The Merchant of Venice

• • MPAA
  • R

• Al Pacino
• Jeremy Irons

When Antonio takes a loan from the moneylender Shylock to help his friend woo his beloved, he is left unable to pay off the loan and forced to default. But Shylock harbors a deep resentment towards...Read more Antonio and all Christians, and his demand for payment is a pound of Antonio's flesh.

10. A Midsummer Night's Dream

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Kevin Kline
• Michelle Pfeiffer

Fleeing a forced marriage, Hermia and her lover Lysander escape into the woods, pursued by Hermia's intended Demetrius. Unbeknownst to them, the faerie royals and their court are in the forest, and...Read more one of the faeries runs amok with a flower that makes people fall for the first thing they see.

9. Henry V

• • MPAA
  • PG-13

• Derek Jacobi
• Kenneth Branagh

With King Henry V of England determined to repay the insult he was dealt by seizing control of France, he has to contend with the low spirits of his army as their confrontation with the much larger...Read more French army looms closer. Henry has to battle his own demons to rally his men for the coming battle.