Movies like King Lear 1982

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King Lear (1982)
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King Lear (1982)
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 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: period drama
Plot: shakespeare, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's king lear

Most similar movies to King Lear

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out serious, realistic, atmospheric and independent film films with plots about shakespeare, tragedy, shakespeare play, medieval, murder, betrayal and king mostly in Drama, History and Romance genres. Some movies like King Lear: The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984), Antony & Cleopatra (1981), Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984), Richard III (1983), Macbeth (1981). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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King Lear (2017)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 233 min.
TV show
Story: King Lear is an in-depth study of love, power and death. Through this film Shakespeare is saying, "Don't blame the gods or the heaven's for the horrors committed on earth. No. Blame hellish inhumanity on those who inhabit the ...
Plot: shakespeare, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's king lear
Place: britain
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95%
The Tragedy of Coriolanus (1984)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 145 min.
Story: BBC rendition of Shakespeare's Coriolanus
Plot: shakespeare, peplum, tragedy, ancient rome, roman
Place: rome italy
⇓ similarity ⇓
62%
Antony & Cleopatra (1981)
Genre: Drama, History, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 170 min.
Story: Octavius Caesar (later renamed Augustus Caesar, son of the murdered Julius Caesar), Marc Antony, and Lepidus form the triumvirate, the three rulers of the Roman Empire. Antony, though married to Fulvia, spends his time in Egypt, living a life of ...
Plot: shakespeare, cleopatra, tragedy, ancient rome, roman
Time: 1st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Pericles, Prince of Tyre (1984)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 177 min.
Story: When Pericles discovers the dread answer to Antioch's riddle, he flees for his life straight into famine, shipwreck, love, fatherhood, and another shipwreck; he loses his wife and daughter, and doesn't find them again until the story moves ...
Plot: shakespeare, king, prince, shakespeare play
Place: ancient greece
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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Richard III (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 239 min.
Story: Richard Duke of Gloucester, youngest brother of King Edward IV, will stop at nothing to get the crown. He first convinces the ailing King that the Duke of Clarence, his elder brother, is a threat to the lives of Edward's two young sons. Edward ...
Plot: royalty, shakespeare, royal family, medieval, king of england, shakespeare play
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
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King Lear (2008)
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, mythology, royalty, bible, ancient history, myth, theater, dancing, death of king, betrayal, tragedy ...
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Macbeth (1981)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 132 min.
Story: An adaptation of Shakespeare's play.
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, murder, suicide, child murder, macbeth, shakespeare play, knife
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
One Hamlet Less (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Italy
Duration: 70 min.
Story: The "Hamlet" in this well-mounted Italian spoof is the Danish prince, not a small town or village. The movie irreverently draws on both the Shakespeare play and the 1877 story by Jules Laforgue. In the story, Hamlet (Carmelo Bene) is a ...
Style: psychedelic, experimental
Plot: underground, shakespeare, tragedy, shakespeare's hamlet, theater, artistic creation
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54%
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Henry IV Part II (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 150 min.
Story: The death of King Henry the Fourth and the coronation of King Henry the Fifth.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, royalty, medieval, king of england, shakespeare play
Place: england
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A Performance of Macbeth (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 145 min.
Story: Shakespeare's classic tragedy of ambition, witches and murder.
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, medieval, able to see the dead, live action
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Henry IV Part I (1979)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Henry Bolingbroke has now been crowned King of England, but faces a rebellion headed by the embittered Earl of Northumberland and his son (nicknamed 'Hotspur'). Henry's son Hal, the Prince of Wales, has thrown over life at court in ...
Plot: british history, king of england, shakespeare, medieval, royalty, shakespeare play
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Hamlet (2015)
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, psychological, serious, captivating, contemplative ...
Plot: vengeance, rivalry, haunted by the past, tragic hero, betrayal, dishonesty, royal family, ghost, murder, state affairs, parents and children, shakespeare ...
Time: middle ages
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48%
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Macbeth (1982)
Genre: Drama
Country: Hungary
Duration: 62 min.
Story: A Hungarian TV version of the play shot in just two takes.
Style: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, misanthropy, nihilism, pessimism, theater
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48%
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Macbeth (1983)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 148 min.
Story: Macbeth and his wife murder Duncan in order to gain his crown, but the bloodbath doesn't stop there, and things supernatural combine to bring the Macbeths down.
Style: artsy
Plot: shakespeare, medieval, peplum, witch, ambition, macbeth, scottish history, able to see the dead, filicide, murder, prophecy, king ...
Time: medieval times, 11th century
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King Lear (1983)
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, literary, dancing, betrayal, state affairs, intrigue, rivalry, unfulfillment, downfall, dishonesty ...
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Timon of Athens (1981)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Timon loves to give parties and objects to friends, but when he cannot pay his creditors, his "friends" refuse to help him, and he becomes a misanthropic hermit.
Plot: shakespeare, literary, morality, generosity, coin, tragic event, beggar, misanthrope, satire, shakespeare play
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Hamlet (1964)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 191 min.
Story: A stage production of Hamlet filmed at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre in New York.
Plot: shakespeare, murder, incest, fratricide, dysfunctional family, duel, skull, insanity, haunted by the past, castle, brother sister relationship, tragedy ...
Place: denmark
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44%
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Othello (1992)
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 147 min.
Story: The complete version of Verdi's Otello performed by Placido Domingo and Kiri Te Kanawa, at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. Gala Performance in honour of Sir Georg Solti's 80th birthday.. 27 October 1992. BBC 2 Television live relay.
Plot: opera, dancing, tragedy, shakespeare's othello, opera live performance
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Acting Hamlet in the Village of Mrdusa Donja (1974)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Yugoslavia
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In Shakespeare's Hamlet, the leading character observes "The play's the thing, wherein to catch the conscience of the king." In this Yugoslavian movie, a performance of Hamlet in a small village apparently catches the conscience ...
Plot: hamlet, small village, shakespeare's hamlet, tragedy, shakespeare
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Othello (1965)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK
Duration: 165 min.
Story: The 1965 version of the Shakespeare play.
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, clever, atmospheric ...
Plot: tragedy, shakespeare, jealousy, shakespeare's othello, love, betrayal, racism, tragic love, circus, opera, dancing, interracial relations ...
Time: 16th century
Place: cyprus, italy, venice, europe
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National Theatre Live: Macbeth (2013)
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: captivating, suspense, psychological, atmospheric, tense ...
Plot: king, shakespeare, revenge, tragic hero, prophecy, femme fatale, betrayal, rise and fall, medieval, throne, assassination, state affairs ...
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Hamlet (2009)
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, emotional, atmospheric, stylized, crying ...
Audience: date night
Plot: royal court, revenge, betrayal, murder, shakespeare, rivalry, tragic hero, shakespeare's hamlet, intrigue, heroes, state affairs, royal family ...
Time: middle ages
Place: europe, denmark
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Macbeth (1997)
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: independent film
Plot: shakespeare, macbeth, murder, suicide, regicide, king, blood, prophecy, child murder, witch, wife, knife
Time: middle ages, 11th century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Romeo & Juliet (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 168 min.
TV show
Story: Two households, both alike in dignity, in fair Verona where we lay our scene, from ancient grudge break to new mutiny where civil blood makes civil hands unclean. From forth the fatal loins of these two foes a pair of star-cross'd lovers take ...
Style: fairy tale
Plot: shakespeare, shakespeare's romeo and juliet, tragedy, love, father daughter relationship, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, male female relationship
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Third Part of King Henry VI (1983)
Genre: Drama, History
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 211 min.
Story: The life of King Henry the Sixth, in three parts.
Plot: shakespeare, british history, medieval, royalty, king of england, shakespeare play
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38%
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (1980)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 210 min.
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, realistic, serious, gloomy, atmospheric
Plot: shakespeare, ghost, rape, incest, revenge, insanity, sexual abuse, betrayal, tragic love, hamlet, indecision, vengeance ...
Time: middle ages
Place: denmark
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36%
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Hamlet (1996)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 242 min.
Story: Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
Style: stylized, costume drama, atmospheric, captivating, serious ...
Plot: shakespeare, revenge, medieval, betrayal, tragedy, vengeance, royal family, ghost, funeral, intrigue, tragic hero, rivalry ...
Time: 19th century, year 1996, 1800s, 16th century, 90s ...
Place: denmark, europe
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King Lear (1970)
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 ...
Style: sad, independent film, talky, serious, realistic ...
Plot: shakespeare, knight, murder of daughter, curse, kingdom, betrayal, antiquity, dancing, bad father, mental disorder, sister sister relationship, grief ...
Time: middle ages, 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%
National Theatre Live: King Lear (2011)
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, death of daughter, friendship, sibling rivalry, murder of daughter, illegitimate son, illegitimate child, death, king, tragedy, father daughter reunion, father daughter relationship ...
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35%
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King Lear (2018)
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: shakespeare, medieval, greed, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, betrayal, rivalry, family relations, parents and children, life philosophy, life & death, revenge ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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