Romeo and Juliet

All-star cast glamorizes this lavish 1970 remake of the classic William Shakespeare play, which portrays the assassination of Julius Caesar on the Ides of March, and the resulting war between the faction led by the assassins and the faction led by Mark Anthony.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Stuart Burge

Cast

Charlton Heston, Jason Robards, John Gielgud

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.

Runtime

1h 57m

Director

Tony Richardson

Cast

Anthony Hopkins, Nicol Williamson, Judy Parfitt

An adaptation of the play by William Shakespeare. Prospera (a female version of Shakespeare's Prospero) is the usurped ruler of Milan who has been banished to a mysterious island with her daughter. Using her magical powers, she draws her enemies to the island to exact her revenge.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

Julie Taymor

Cast

Felicity Jones, Reeve Carney, David Strathairn

A sobering mid-life crisis fuels dissatisfaction in Philip Dimitrius, to the extent where the successful architect trades his marriage and career in for a spiritual exile on a remote Greek island where he hopes to conjure meaning into his life - trying the patience of his new girlfriend and angst-ridden teenage daughter.

Runtime

2h 20m

Director

Paul Mazursky

Cast

John Cassavetes, Gena Rowlands, Susan Sarandon

Peter Brook's take on the Shakespeare classic.

Runtime

2h 12m

Director

Peter Brook

Cast

Adrian Lester