Movies like King Lear 1970
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King Lear (1970)
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Denmark
Duration: 137 min.
Story:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and turns for support to his remaining daughters. But Goneril and Regan have no love for him and instead plot to take all his power from him. In a parallel, Lear's loyal courtier Gloucester favors his illegitimate son Edmund after being told lies about his faithful son Edgar. Madness and tragedy befall both ill-starred fathers.
Style:
independent film, sad, bleak, serious, emotional, realistic, talky
Plot:
shakespeare, curse, monarch, murder of daughter, betrayal, kingdom, murder, father daughter relationship, dysfunctional family, infidelity, sibling rivalry, political unrest, sister sister relationship, romantic rivalry, ostracism, antiquity, king, friendship, storm, death, castle, inheritance, tragedy, old man, ruler ...
Time:
middle ages, 70s, medieval times
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Most similar movies to King Lear
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, atmospheric, realistic and psychological films with plots about shakespeare, betrayal, tragedy, king, murder, family relations and unfulfillment mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like King Lear: Hamlet (1990), A Thousand Acres (1997), Hamlet (2009), Hamlet (1969), Hamlet (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
925
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Style:
serious, realistic, bleak, emotional, talky ...
Plot:
shakespeare, medieval, king, celtic, literary, dancing, betrayal, unfulfillment, aging, tragic hero, intrigue, rivalry ...
Similarity:
100%
25K
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, France, Japan, USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans revenge.
Style:
atmospheric, realistic, costume drama, compassionate, bleak ...
Plot:
shakespeare, revenge, royal family, murder, medieval, tragic hero, poisoning, state affairs, family relations, parents and children, spirit, dishonesty ...
Time:
middle ages, medieval times, 16th century
Place:
denmark, europe, england
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
Don Warrington stars as the tragic monarch in this acclaimed version of the Shakespeare play recorded at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester.
Style:
serious, suspenseful, disturbing, captivating
Plot:
live performance, king, family feud, ambition, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, dementia, sibling rivalry, betrayal, greed, dysfunctional family, inheritance ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
An ageing monarch. A kingdom divided. A child’s love rejected. As Lear’s world descends into chaos, all that he once believed is brought into question. One of the greatest works in Western literature, King Lear explores the very nature of human ...
Plot:
shakespeare, friendship, illegitimate son, sister sister relationship, death of daughter, father daughter relationship, insanity, illegitimate child, king, father daughter reunion, sibling rivalry, murder of daughter ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
A THOUSAND ACRES is a drama about an American family who meets with tragedy on their land. It is the story of a father, his daughters, and their husbands, and their passion to subdue the history of their land and its stories.
Style:
psychological, touching, talky, realistic, serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
farm, child molester, dysfunctional family, shakespeare, domineering father, jealousy, tragedy, women, incest rape, incest, sex with father, father daughter sex ...
Time:
90s, year 1997
Place:
iowa, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style:
spiritual, serious, realistic, bleak, emotional ...
Plot:
shakespeare, betrayal, knight, celtic, realism, siblings, kingdom, stage play, spirituality, family relations, rivalry, vengeance ...
Time:
middle ages, year 1971
Place:
soviet union, russia
Similarity:
40%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Japan, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
David Tennant stars in a film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's award-winning production of Shakespeare's great play. Director Gregory Doran's modern-dress production was hailed by the critics as thrilling, fast-moving and, in parts, ...
Style:
serious, stylized, emotional, atmospheric, crying ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
royal court, revenge, betrayal, murder, throne, shakespeare, shakespeare's hamlet, tragic hero, rivalry, heroes, intrigue, state affairs ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
32%
948
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 117 min.
Story:
Tony Richardson's Hamlet is based on his own stage production. Filmed entirely within the Roundhouse in London (a disused train shed), it is shot almost entirely in close up, focusing the attention on faces and language rather than action.
Style:
fairy tale, psychological, serious, tense, atmospheric ...
Plot:
shakespeare, hamlet, medieval, european, tragedy, ghost, murder, tragic love, supernatural, hidden identity, heroes, destructive relationship ...
Time:
year 1969, medieval times, middle ages
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
32%
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Genre: Drama
Country: Soviet Union
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Shakespeare's 17th century masterpiece about the "Melancholy Dane" was given one of its best screen treatments by Soviet director Grigori Kozintsev. Kozintsev's Elsinore was a real castle in Estonia, utilized metaphorically as ...
Style:
atmospheric, visually appealing, philosophical, fairy tale, black and white ...
Plot:
betrayal, shakespeare, medieval, love, stage play, shakespeare's hamlet, royal court, knight, spirituality, moving, hamlet, realism ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
soviet union, ussr, russia, denmark
Similarity:
31%
143
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 184 min.
Story:
From its sell-out run at Manchester's Royal Exchange Theatre comes a film version of this unique and critically acclaimed production of Hamlet with BAFTA-nominee Maxine Peake in the title role. This ground-breaking stage production, directed by ...
Style:
atmospheric, serious, psychological, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot:
tragic hero, rivalry, haunted by the past, vengeance, ghost, murder, royal family, dishonesty, state affairs, betrayal, parents and children, shakespeare ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
europe, denmark
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
Style:
thought provoking, bleak, psychological, rough, independent film ...
Plot:
medieval, monarch, shakespeare, father daughter relationship, sister sister relationship, greed, betrayal, rivalry, parents and children, family relations, life & death, life philosophy ...
Place:
england
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
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Story:
Hamlet comes home from university to find his uncle married to his mother, and his father's ghost haunting the battlements and scaring the watch. Then his father's ghost directs him to seek revenge.
Style:
captivating, serious, realistic, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot:
shakespeare, ghost, rape, incest, revenge, insanity, sexual abuse, sexualized violence, betrayal, tragic love, hamlet, indecision ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story:
The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, atmospheric, clever ...
Plot:
tragedy, shakespeare, jealousy, shakespeare's othello, love, betrayal, racism, tragic love, innocent person killed, suffocation, deception, miscegenation ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
cyprus, italy, venice, europe
Similarity:
29%
260
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 178 min.
Story:
To be or not to be, etc.
Style:
psychological, atmospheric, stylized, emotional, contemplative ...
Plot:
haunted by the past, ghost, betrayal, tragic hero, tragic love, vengeance, rivalry, dishonesty, uncover truth, parents and children, shakespeare, interracial ...
Time:
90s
Place:
southern usa
Similarity:
29%
289
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
King Lear, old and tired, divides his kingdom among his daughters, giving great importance to their protestations of love for him. When Cordelia, youngest and most honest, refuses to idly flatter the old man in return for favor, he banishes her and ...
Style:
tragic ending, melancholic, bleak, allegory, period drama
Plot:
shakespeare, tragedy, betrayal, father daughter conflict, madness, power struggle, literary, deception, political intrigue, sibling rivalry, loyalty, desperation ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A monarch ordained by God to lead his people. But he is also a man of very human weakness. A man whose vanity threatens to divide the great houses of England and drag his people into a dynastic civil war that will last 100 years.
Style:
period piece, historical drama, disturbing, captivating, costume drama ...
Audience:
date night, adult
Plot:
monarchy, political intrigue, civil war, shakespeare, palace intrigue, monarch, medieval, power struggle, king, royalty, ruler, arrogance ...
Time:
14th century
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 217 min.
Story:
Benedict Cumberbatch (BBC’s Sherlock, Doctor Strange) plays the title role of Shakespeare’s great tragedy. Now seen by over 900,000 people worldwide, the original broadcast returns to international cinemas to mark National Theatre Live’s 10th ...
Style:
entertaining, atmospheric, melancholic, intense, talky ...
Plot:
live performance, theater, shakespeare, royal court, theatre play, life & death, dealing with death, royal family, storytelling, love and romance, runaway, couples ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
denmark, europe
Similarity:
27%
723
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Sir Ian McKellen gives a tour-de-force performance as Shakespeare's tragic monarch, in this special television adaptation of the Royal Shakespeare Company production of one of the playwright's most enduring and haunting works.
Plot:
shakespeare, medieval, death of king, tragedy, betrayal, theater, dancing, bible, mythology, royalty, celtic, myth ...
Similarity:
26%
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556
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story:
A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Style:
enigmatic, stylized, talky, witty, cerebral ...
Plot:
shakespeare, murder, conspiracy, friendship, father son relationship, queen, student, king, prince, tragedy, castle, brother sister relationship ...
Time:
18th century, 1930s
Place:
denmark, california, australia, london
Similarity:
26%
516
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 195 min.
Story:
Iago and a comrade-in-arms are outside the Venice home of Desdemona's father, who does not yet know that she has eloped with Othello. Iago confides to his friend -- who had hoped to marry Desdemona -- that he serves Othello to further his own ...
Style:
depressing, realistic, serious, atmospheric, emotional ...
Plot:
shakespeare, shakespeare's othello, opera, tragedy, jealousy, betrayal, racism, downfall, love and romance, couple relations, vengeance, intrigue ...
Time:
16th century
Place:
venice, italy, turkey
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
The film spans three days in the life of Agnes and Tobias, an upper middle class couple who share their comfortable suburban Connecticut home with her acerbic alcoholic sister Claire. It is matriarch Agnes who helps the quartet maintain a delicate ...
Style:
independent film, tense, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot:
friendship, alcohol abuse, dysfunctional family, introspection, guest, family relations, best friend, family secret, family home, existential crisis, father daughter conflict, infidelity ...
Time:
70s
Place:
connecticut, usa, new england
Similarity:
25%
689
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
With freshly rechristened characters and brand-new dialogue, this British TV production of Othello is a "rethinking" of Shakespeare's play, albeit still retaining the original's power and potency. The story is set in the London ...
Style:
serious, suspenseful, rough, realistic, tense ...
Plot:
interracial relations, shakespeare, tragic love, power relations, vengeance, downfall, murder, betrayal, life is a bitch, couple relations, infidelity, dirty cop ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
europe, london, england
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 210 min.
Story:
A 2010 broadcast of Hamlet returns to cinemas as part of the NT's 50th anniversary celebrations. Following his celebrated performances at the National Theatre in Burnt by the Sun, The Revenger's Tragedy, Philistines and The Man of Mode, ...
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, intense ...
Plot:
shakespeare, revenge, moral dilemma, prince, intrigue, stage play, shakespeare's hamlet, tragedy, hamlet, palace intrigue, murder, political intrigue ...
Place:
denmark, london
Similarity:
24%
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
Performing from within the walls of a deconsecrated Manchester church, Kenneth Branagh takes the lead role in this ambitious production of William Shakespeare's tragic tale of ambition and treachery.
Style:
suspense, psychological, captivating, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot:
king, shakespeare, tragic hero, revenge, rise to power, assassination, femme fatale, medieval, ambition, prophecy, state affairs, throne ...
Time:
middle ages
Place:
scotland, united kingdom
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Blanche Dubois goes to visit her pregnant sister and husband Stanley in New Orleans. Stanley doesn't like her, and starts pushing her for information on some property he know was left to the sisters. He discovers she has mortgaged the place and ...
Style:
disturbing, serious, psychological, touching, emotional ...
Plot:
sister sister relationship, abusive husband, family relations, family problems, love and romance, obsession, unfulfillment, redemption, infidelity, couples, rape, human nature ...
Time:
50s
Place:
new orleans, mississippi, usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 151 min.
Story:
Film version of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 2012 production of Shakespeare's fast-moving thriller. A vivid story about a struggle for democracy, Julius Caesar is also a love story between two men united by an explosive act of political ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, thrilling, political thriller, intense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shakespeare, antiquity, roman, political violence, political intrigue, betrayal, power struggle, conspiracy, assassination, ambition, empire, julius caesar ...
Time:
1st century
Place:
rome italy
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 120 min.
TV show
Story:
When England's aging King Lear renounces his throne to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, treachery, madness and murder soon follow. After banishing Cordelia, his most loyal daughter, Lear is betrayed and cast out by her elder ...
Plot:
dancing, shakespeare, treachery, court jester, suicide attempt, lightning, old age, sister sister relationship, tragedy, duel, fool, death of daughter ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 166 min.
Story:
A ghostly visitor with a shocking secret, a daughter devastated by loss, a deadly duel – and the most famous question in all of drama. Just some of the reasons why Shakespeare’s iconic tragedy will hold you spellbound.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, dark ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
tragedy, hamlet, shakespeare, stage play, revenge, royal palace, life is a bitch, shakespeare's hamlet, family relations, male female relationship, relationship problems, royal family ...
Place:
denmark
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 180 min.
Story:
A jealous king jeopardizes his family, friendships and succession.
Style:
psychological, thrilling, captivating, dramatic, bleak ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
shakespeare, royal court, palace intrigue, jealousy, problem, male female relationship, relationships, royal family, intrigue, king, husband wife relationship, life is a bitch ...
Place:
sicily
Similarity:
23%
263
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 129 min.
Story:
In eleventh century Scotland, three witches foretell that Macbeth will become King, while Banquo will beget Kings. Macbeth accordingly has King Duncan slain, and is duly crowned in his place. But that's where his problems really begin...
Style:
dark, bleak, sinister, atmospheric, intense ...
Plot:
shakespeare, macbeth, regicide, prophecy, witch, ambition, adaptation, witchcraft, supernatural, tragedy, power struggle, tragic hero ...
Time:
middle ages, 11th century
Place:
scotland, scottish highlands
Similarity:
23%
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