Top 10 Best Shakespeare Movies

[@arbellechorev7900]

I'm a simple girl. I see Leonardo DiCaprio, I click.

[@mrgahoolefan3615]

DiCaprio's a dick.

[@drawdedilaurentis810]

Mrgahoolefan * we want his dick

[@arbellechorev7900]

+Drawde DiLaurentis well said👌🏻

[@brentage5000]

:) double meaning

[@vinay.snohar735]

he's not,he plays my favourite hero's character

[@MovieManOfPetersham]

*“Macbeth”* (2015) is a phenomenal film and my favourite Shakespeare adaptation. Michael Fassbender was absolutely flawless and gave one of the most perfect acting performances of the decade.

[@lordatheist2621]

That thumbnail almost gave me a heart attack

[@mimifurtek6956]

osmen whitaker ikr ♥

[@LucienSabre]

osmen whitaker It's one of the reasons I clicked on this. 😁😍

[@nerdcave6797]

Me too. I hated the Leo one. Nothing against the actor. More hate to the director

[@SaturnRingersonVI]

What do you mean???

[@dardalion3199]

I disagree. I much prefer the 1996 romeo and juliet. It was a better movie version.

[@MyChemicalDai]

Romeo and Juliet by Franco Zeffirelli will always be my favorite movie ever! The casting, the cinematography, the costumes, Nino Rota's music, everything is perfect!

[@vinay.snohar735]

this is my favourite shakespearean text

[@vinay.snohar735]

SHIVANI HERE,I'M FROM MAURITIUS

[@codyclaeys2008]

Olivia Hussey ♥️

[@maidalemu]

Ok so you put a thumbnail of Leo as Romeo but don't include him in the list? Best clickbait ever.

[@SqeeG]

@p.s But then they said the 1968 version is better as a movie. That's why it's not officially on their "list".

[@mohammedmaanu7246]

1996

[@krussell1608]

My (male) teacher would not stop going on about Keanu Reeves "glistening torso" the whole time we were studying Much Ado About Nothing.

[@pandagirl432]

Heck ya 😂

[@NativeNomad]

He was dope as a villain! Lol which is funny cause in real life, he’s a total sweet heart

[@aerinkim933]

2:36 omg its Gildory Lockhart and Professor Trelawney!!

[@victoriaxenofon3647]

And Professor McGonagall !!!!

[@inconsolabile]

They were married in real life!

[@Elizabeththegreatest]

Yep, and now they're divorced!

[@LucienSabre]

Aerin Kim And 4:40 is Ralph Fiennes/Lord Voldemort. 😁🎬

[@aerinkim933]

LucienSabre ahh potter fans every where😍😌

[@theawesomelegolover168]

I think that Romeo and Juliet (1968) should have been a bit higher on the list🙏

[@anonaccount6055]

The Awesome Lego Lover it’s the best alongside The Hollow Crown

[@pandagirl432]

Eh

[@denisefreitas6727]

Agree

[@Disneyfreak_8]

My favorite is the 2009 TV movie version of Hamlet starring David Tennant and Sir Patrick Stewart ;)

[@dafilmqueen556]

I wish to see it one day.Does anyone know where to find it?

[@timechangeseverybody3608]

What about the new Ophelia 2019 movie

[@dorjeboleskine4115]

@@timechangeseverybody3608 lol!

[@dorjeboleskine4115]

You're right and 'msMojo' is wrong. The BBC 2009 version is the best. And that's a fact!

[@NativeNomad]

HERE HERE!!

[@patriciaanndelacruz4094]

Imagine Kate and Leo appeared on different William Shakespeare stories at the same year before they made Titanic. They're so connected.

[@dress4villaiins]

omg exactly! I was thinking about this earlier! Kate in Hamlet, and Leo in Romeo + Juliet in 1996, both Shakespeare movies.

[@luciadilazzaro2285]

@@dress4villaiins but "Hamlet" is really long and GREAT, while "R+J" is normal is lenght and terrible in almost all respecta excepto the acting and the language.

[@stuartmcquade3407]

funny you say that because Claire Danes who played Juliet was 1st choice to play Rose in Titanic and Gwyneth Paltrow was also considered for Titanic before it went to the superior Kate Winslet.btw Kate was brilliant as Ophelia in Ken Branaghs version of Hamlet

[@cjhedberg735]

Akira Kurosawa's Throne of Blood is a fantastic version of Macbeth

[@rbishop95]

CJ Hedberg agreed

[@whenoptalks464]

what about Ran

[@ead630]

@@whenoptalks464 Ran is King Lear

[@marklikeshark]

The best

[@Serai3]

I think the best modern-language adaptation of Macbeth is "Scotland, PA". Brilliant stuff.

[@smit4459]

Three of my favorite movies are on this list: 3. "Coriolanus" (2011) 2. "Julius Caesar" (1953) 1. "Hamlet" (1996)

[@pagano60]

My favorite Shakespeare film - and I've seen a lot of them - is "Chimes at Midnight," Orson Welles's 1965 condensation of the Falstaff plays. Only Polanski's "Macbeth" and Peter Brook's "King Lear" come close (and thanks for including them). I tip my hat to Branagh's "Hamlet" for adapting the entire play, but as cinema, it doesn't strike as hard as "Chimes at Midnight," or even Olivier's 1948 version.

[@gb2096]

Thank god there still are men of culture amongst us! Chimes deserved a mention, if not the top spot 🙌🏼

[@aronistak8156]

Watch the Indian movie adaptations, they beat any others.

[@MsMockingjay07]

Where is the 1995 Othello? Not even an honourable mention? Kenneth Branaugh was phenomenal as Iago.

[@celticpoet21]

I prefer that one too. not to mention Laurence Fishburne was the first African American actor to ever play Othello in a major screen adaptation!

[@Serai3]

Even better, Laurence Fishburne was a revelation as Othello. (Ken was good because for once somebody else was in the director's chair.)

[@slippinsettle4942]

Yeah man Kenneth Branaugh as Iago was just awesome

[@freddylowe4900]

Absolutely agree. Laurence Fishburne is the best Othello I have ever seen, as well as Kenneth Branagh’s Iago (thank goodness it has a fresher direction style, as you say 😂). Two such accurate and brilliant portrayals of the male leads, as well as just a highly entertaining film in its own way.

[@slippinsettle4942]

@@freddylowe4900 definitely one of my favourite Shakespeare films

[@angeleprunenec8681]

A little surprised to find that you did not include The Taming of the shew in your top 10 ! I encourage everyone to watch this wonderful movie, also directed by Franco Zeffirelli, starring one of the greatest couple of actors, Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor, their acting is quite breathtaking !

[@iLoVEgOdOfWaR3]

In my opinion there is another movie based on Shakespeare's works that deserves to stay in the list: Othello, played by Laurence FIshburne as Othello and Kenneth Branagh as Jago. I think this is one of the most wonderful cinematographic adaptation of Othello

[@SlightlySusan]

Perhaps, Masterpiece did a modern update of Othello that was excellent. It aired on PBS.

[@NorthPhilly-zr7xc]

@@SlightlySusan yeah I like that one better with julia stiles josh Hartnett it was call ,O,

[@torontogirl98]

Damn I wanted a video on top Shakespeare adaptations or inspired by. That list needs to happen!

[@dragonrana88]

Watchmojo has one thats Top 10 movies you didn't know were from Shakespeare, or something similar

[@mr.googoopants3581]

Leonard Whiting and Olivia Hussey frighteningly looks like Zac Efron and Liza Soberano (Filipina actress). I remember watching this movie for the first time back in college and was awe with Olivia Hussey's beauty. To me, she was the probably the most beautiful women I'ver seen.

[@Ella-xn3lx]

she's angelic

[@teddcuizon3964]

too bad she smokes when she was still young and ruined her beauty

[@sml5634]

what team Montague

[@Serai3]

Yeah, and she was fourteen.

[@joeyshuny5]

She was 16 and he was 17. They were both absolutely stunning.

[@AliceNWonderland16]

Hamlet was such a good movie, the acting in it was fantastic 👌🏻

[@HarryFlowerrs]

Which Hamlet?

[@kennedi0267]

Romeo+Juliet❤ Favorite movie of all time

[@mlayh1016]

Same, I really, really think it should have been number 1 or 2.

[@vinay.snohar735]

FAVOURITE MOVIE

[@pandagirl432]

I agree and disagree. It's so overhyped especially since shakespeare intended it to be a satire. I also think that shakespeare sports a lot more wonderful female characters in other plays like as you like it or much ado about nothing. I do agree that it is one of shakespeare's greatest tho and it has beautiful movie adaptations but none that really encapsulate it the way I believe it was meant to be written. With that being said the 1996 adaptation is one of my favorite movies ever lol

[@heathernewbold406]

I LOVE Kenneth Branagh's Henry V, so I would put that at the top of my list.

[@miraculus4204]

when i saw coriolanus i was like: voldemort grew a nose??

[@patriciaeusebio2264]

Riarda Murseli me too. 😂

[@CWazBroadwayBandGeek]

The 1968 Romeo looks like Zac Efron 😂

[@strawberryskygirl44]

YAAAASSSSS, HAMLET FROM 1996 IS A MASTERPIECE 😩👏🏽 I watched the whole movie for a school assignment, and I'm definitely gonna do it again! and the Romeo & Juliet from 1968 is just as fantastic!

[@Elizabeththegreatest]

Yeah, with a star studded cast including the late Charleton Heston, Jack Lemmon, Richard Attenbourgh , Richard briars, and Robin Williams!

[@strawberryskygirl44]

and Kenneth Branagh! 😍😩 oh, and I can't forget Brian Blessed!

[@lilacroft9308]

I love the 2015? version of Macbeth with Michael Fassbender. Totally needed to be included

[@luciadilazzaro2285]

I love it too, but HATE the fact that the costumes we're Made by Jacqueline Durand

[@aartjesmith]

bummed they didn't add David Tennant's version of Hamlet, definitely my favorite.

[@crackshipsarelife]

What about “Hamlet” from 1990 the one with Glenn Close and Helena Bonham Carter? It’s one of the best movie adaptation ever and the acting is superb

[@stuartmcquade3407]

it's good an Mel Gibson is at the top of his game but Branaghs Hamlet is simply stunning and brilliantly acted by all the cast including ,Kate Winslet,Julie Christie,Brian Blessed ,Derek Jacobi,Charlton Heston and blink and you'll miss it appearances from John Gielgud and Judi Dench .it's also true to the Bards original work with not a single line of dialogue missing .

[@LadyMorgaine1976]

With as much respect as one must have for Sir Lawrence Olivier, I absolutely loved Kenneth Brannagh's version of Henry V! I actually prefer it to the more ancient version.

[@dress4villaiins]

I really liked Hamlet 1996! Plus Isn’t it ironic that both Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet worked in a Shakespeare’s play movies in the same year? Leo in Romeo + Juliet & Kate in Hamlet.

[@kellydg471]

Laurence Olivier's Richard III is the definitive version

[@emmacrooke807]

Thank you for putting Coriolanus in the list, I love that film!

[@DanielOrme]

Something about the tone of the narration made me feel as if whoever wrote it doesn't really like Shakespeare ("forced to read it in high school" blah blah blah), but was told he's supposed to, so he's making an effort to pretend that he does. That said, it's not a bad list, but I prefer Olivier's Hamlet and Richard III over the 1990's versions. On the other hand, I prefer Branagh's Henry V over Olivier's.

[@rayancedrichaddad1197]

Amazing, Authentic and Fantastic how Shakespeare Plays can be adapted and become Epic Adaptations.

[@Serai3]

I can't believe you left out Laurence Fishburne's performance of _Othello._ Far better than Branagh's _Hamlet._ Really a beautiful adaptation. (As usual, Ken hit the notes too hard and had little subtlety with the characters. For example, check out how he completely ruined Hamlet's "nothing" joke to Ophelia. The guy has no talent with comedy at all, every joke drops like a lead balloon.)

[@NorthPhilly-zr7xc]

Facts I love that movie they actually did a modern aptation of Othello it's called ,O, it was pretty good

[@Serai3]

@@NorthPhilly-zr7xc I think _O_ is up in the Top Three modern-language adaptations, along with _King of Texas_ and _Scotland, PA._

[@NorthPhilly-zr7xc]

@@Serai3 facts julia stiles was in that one and Josh Hartnett they did good

[@Serai3]

​@@NorthPhilly-zr7xc Have you heard the director's commentary on that movie? A lot of good stuff on the actors and their motivations (Hartnett's work is quite complex and delicate), and on how the story was adapted. I think it was genius the way they incorporated modern elements like mass media, our obsession with crime and killers, and the standards for dealing with youthful offenders. They took Iago's final "f you, you'll never find out" speech, and turned it into Hugo's "I know my rights, you can't touch me!" And all of American society's racial cruelty and guilt transform Othello's dying words in a way I'd never heard before. It really is an impressive work of adaptation, not a sour note in it.

[@NorthPhilly-zr7xc]

@@Serai3 no I haven't heard the directors commentary I have to listen to it and I like the idea that it was told from a teenager's perspective rather than adults mekhi phifer did great as O

[@darthstarkiller1912]

I am one of those guys who love Shakespeare and I actually took a course in college when we looked at films based on his plays. Loved it.

[@froggojogo3289]

My favourite is Leonardo Di Caprio's Romeo and Juliet. It's just a great movie XD I started watching the other Romeo and Juliet at school but then they made us watch Leonardo Di Caprio's version instead. All the girls were excited but the boys wanted the other version back. :'D

[@shelbymccullough9825]

Joanna Blyth My class watched the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet, and almost all the boys in my class loved Juliet, and majority of the girls loved Romeo.

[@agenttheater5]

I can't decide between the two...I loved both Leonard Whiting and Leonardo DiCaprio very deeply during my high school years...

[@Serai3]

Luhrmann's _Romeo + Juliet_ is a wonderful adaptation, indeed. Unfortunately, I got completely turned off of DiCaprio as an actor when a friend of mine who did background work on that shoot told me she'd heard him complaining about the text. "Why can't we just talk normal?" he said. Wow. Could never take him seriously after that.

[@vinay.snohar735]

this version is the best.They are my favourite protagonists.

[@vinay.snohar735]

when I WAS IN FORM 2 I STUDIED THE TEXT,NOW I'M IN LOWER 6

[@redgallo4939]

Celebrating The Bard's birthday by watching this top 10 and also binge watching my Shakespeare collection thanks MsMojo!!

[@JoaquinPhoenix-s3k]

Thank you for your list of Shakespeare related films, Ms. Mojo, they are very historically significant and a great way to introduce people to Shakespeare, who haven't read the plays. And William Shakespeare and his plays have many moral and Biblical lessons that would teach people valuable life lessons.

[@neerajsharma4394]

I guess nobody can replace Mel Gibson as Hamlet, every dialogue delivery was a masterpiece.

[@aysegulbet]

Ikr , i was searching for this comment😊

[@cryptiecreep]

I'm kind of disappointed that Sir Patrick Stuart's Macbeth wasn't in this.

[@theworldaccordingtomaya]

Watching this for English Studies and Theatre Studies since we're doing The Tempest, Titus Andronicus and Twelfth Night :)

[@michaellamb2964]

Hollywood should’ve make “ The Comedy Of Errors “ that’s my favorite Shakespeare’s play

[@ErichoTTA]

I've been binge watching Shakespeare movies this month!

[@ithemba]

loved the titus andronicus movie, stumbled upon it some night many years ago on tv in the darkest hours of night and was totally entranced by its bizarre stylishness. totally appropriate adaptation of this gruesome play. loved it.

[@williammartin2593]

It is astonishing. It was directed by the incredible Julie Taymor.who has made other amazing things on stage and screen. Maybe 4 movies, all wild and good. Frida is fabulous.

[@olvialee7221]

476: I love Shakespeare. I actually got my name from 12th Night. Also in a tradition, me and my mom played Lady MacBeth in MacBeth

[@joy9585]

How isn't there even a mention of The Hollow Crown?- Richard II? While a little heavy-handed on the Richard=Jesus symbolism, I thought that movie was a fantastic adaptation.

[@NativeNomad]

Yessss! Or Tom Hiddleston playing Prince Hal?? But I think it’s considered a mini series and not a feature film

[@mariaioakeim8749]

Yes!!! Hamlet number one!!! My number one favourite of Shakespeare's.... and follows Macbeth.... good job MsMojo!!!😘😘

[@monkeymouse]

I know you had to exclude "Renaissance Man" but the bivouac scene in the rain may still be the best reading of Henry's Crispian speech ever! A soldier among soldiers!

[@yona4121]

Much Ado About Nothing deserves to be higher!! Great video though

[@cheesemendez8767]

Franco Zeffirelli's R&J is unmatched

[@DeniseF]

Ian McKellen can do not wrong.his voice is 👌

[@OurShakespeare]

Great list--glad to see Titus near the top!

[@HawkinaBox]

Macbeth and Midsummer's Night Dream were my two favorite movies.

[@GeorgyKong]

Definitely pleased to see Coriolanus and Titus on this list. Titus Andronicus is definitely Shakespeare's most gruesome play.

[@teddcuizon3964]

the merchant of venice only an honorable mention?c'mon

[@dahlia58]

Right. That was a gripping version

[@GOKUBLACK-xq4is]

I watch it today at 23/1/21 exact 3:00am. It one of my favorite.

[@NativeNomad]

Agreed! That performance so exceptional! Plus it talks about racism, prejudice, and feminism. What more a more applicable play for today’s era?

[@pandagirl432]

I actually really enjoyed the 1996 adaptation of Romeo and Juliet. When I read shakespeare I hardly ever imagine the characters serious, they're over the top and I felt like that film adaptation gave us that. It was dramatic and wonderful with incredible acting

[@Crystal-kg2hm]

We had to watch the Leonardo Dicaprio version of romeo and Juliet in 8th grade English and since our class was full of uncaring assholes we made fun of things in it like at the end when Juliet found Romeo had killed himself she made this sob sound while crying and out class laughed so hard the teacher had to pause it and one of the people I knew told us we were all awful. A friend of mine gasped in shock and stated "They forgot Paris" which made my teacher laugh. The movie was absurd, especially since we read the play first, I get they were trying to make it relatable for the time which is came out but Jesus.

[@vinay.snohar735]

i like that version,count paris was their enemy,the heroine was trapped in a love triangle.

[@ameliapotter627]

I'm only here because of Leonardo DiCaprio 😍😍😍😍

[@bryancroidragon457]

10. The 1935 film is better. 9. The 1978 BBC television film is better. 8. I love it but the filmed stage production done by the Stratford Festival in 1987 was better. Also, last I checked three out of five of Kenneth Branagh's Shakespeare films were based on the comedies with "Henry V" being a history and "Hamlet" a tragedy." 7. Pales in comparison to the stage production that was filmed by the Stratford festival in 2016. Also, Shakespeare has done darker. 6. Haven't seen any screen productions so I can't comment. 5. Pales in comparison to the 1979 television film by BBC. 4. Pales in comparison to the Laurence Olivier version. 3. Only screen production of that play I've seen so I don't know a better one. 2. Pales in comparison to the adaptation of "The Hollow Crown" series. Honorable Mention 1: One screen production of that play so I don't know a better one. Honorable Mention 2: Pales in comparison to the 1981 television film by BBC featuring Anthony Hopkins. Honorable Mention 3: Pales in comparison to the 1999 film featuring Brian Blessed. 1. There is no better screen adaptation of this play.

[@jiminssi1014]

thanks for the list of new movies to watch. Much Ado about nothing was hilarious and the last movie looks just as interesting. :)

[@romylanglois5871]

Damn it miss mojo, your thumbnail got me clicking on the video faster then Usain Bolt

[@darceydoyle426]

First Lockhart, then Trelawney, then Voldemort, then McGonagall... Is there something you're not telling us, wizards?

[@stephie-jaxx3216]

W.Shakespeare is my absolute favorite

[@nancyomalley6441]

I loved "Much Ado About Nothing"

[@Gandellion]

So Anthony Hopkins has played a cannibal twice? COINCIDENCE??

[@olemomo8434]

Clara I-M My thoughts:-D

[@WrenFaithBridger]

Me, too!

[@jimangela4589]

I would have substituted Olivier's, Richard III and Branagh's, Henry V.

[@13Bayleef13]

You read my mind! I was literally thinking about a top 10 like this yesterday

[@bethanyr7351]

My favorite play is Twelfth Night (Or What You Will)

[@latoyajoslyn8116]

I thought Mel Gibson's version of HAMLET was great too.

[@nancyomalley6012]

Yeah, where was that version???

[@latoyajoslyn8116]

it was 1990 version also starring Glenn Close as his mother

[@NYChica23]

+Latoya Joslyn That's what I'm wondering too. Besides Mel Gibson making a great Hamlet, I preferred Helena Bonham Carter's Ophelia to the one Kate Winslet played in the Branagh version.

[@TheProfessorWhat-t2y]

Gabriela Mallo I actually thought it was terrible. Not only Gibson, whose idea of incertainty is to stare with his mouth open and delivering his lines in the most monotonous way possible; not only Bonham Carter, great actress but too sure and self-confident to play a fragile, neurotic, repressed female part like Ophelia. The way Zeffirelli adapted the script was an absolute butchery of Shakespeare's work, and it lacked of any imagination whatsoever. Definitely a bad, bad adaptation, maybe the worst ever.

[@Elizabeththegreatest]

I'm with you, Sir John! I love Branagh's version of Hamlet, 4 hour length and all!

[@deniseeulert2503]

When E&J came out in 1968 we were reading it in my ninth grade English class. The teacher wanted to take us to the theater to see it but some parents objected because of the wedding night scene. So we all went on our own, it was so beautiful. But I think that the two versions of Henry V are tied for best Shakespeare on film.

[@collateraldamage8324]

WTF BRANAGH'S MUCH ADO ABOUT NOTHING SHOULD BE NO.1!!

[@Moonwalkeer77]

Three best shakespeare movies: Maqbool (Macbeth) Omkara ( Othello) Haidar ( Hamlet) Indian films made by Vishal bhardwaaj

[@mayajoe4398]

You forgot Joss Whedons adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing

[@loulie1997]

That was quite possibly the worst Shakespearian adaptation ever put to screen.... No I take it back. It WAS the worst

[@klarissamiller4466]

Really? It was amazing and incredibly creative. I played Hero in Much Ado About Nothing and we leaned very heavily on that adaptation even though out adaptation was taken place in the 1940's,

[@loulie1997]

No one in that film knew what they were doing with the material. Every single line was a monotonous dead panned delivery. I don't think they even knew what they were saying. The new setting and lack of color did not add to the story telling, and the leads were like fresh off the set of a Disney Channel show. I'm sure your production was lovely, but you might have been better off drawing inspiration from Kate Beckinsale

[@mayajoe4398]

Ivy Hoss he took a different approach on the classic clever play. I like the black and white adaptation it delivers a wow factor. All the lines were original unlike other Shakespeare movies. And actually the leads are fresh off Buffy the Vampire Slayer

[@Serai3]

+Ivy Hoss Wow, you are so wrong. Whedon's version was much wittier and more adult than Branagh's. Ken's version, for all that it was very pretty, tended to be ham-handed and clunky. There were a few really lovely moments, like Beatrice's quiet little scene with Don Pedro, but a lot of it was eye-rollingly obvious. The handling of Don John's character revealed a really simplistic view of character development, for example. I've just never been as impressed with Ken as most people (or indeed, he himself) seem to be.

[@LucienSabre]

Of course Anthony Hopkins is up to to the task of playing leading role in a Shakespearean movie, he has done the same on the theatrical stage (and in other Bard-based movies) for most of his career! 😂😇😍

[@nbenefiel]

Senior year in high school, I saw Zeferelli’s Romeo and Juliet 16 times during Christmas break.

[@datris2973]

Romeo and Juliet was my personal favorite

[@imogencory9591]

My favourite Shakespeare play is Macbeth.

[@PVMosahari]

If you haven't watched the Bollywood adaptations Maqbool (Macbeth), Omkara (Othello) and Haider (Hamlet), you are really missing out very good cinemas. Maqbool and Haider has Irfan Khan and Shahid Kapoor at their best respectively.

[@amritsaluja5267]

Inko Apni hi movies achi lgti haa

[@cinna8474]

I'm sad we didn't mention the Tempest with Helen Mirren as Prospero(a). But i guess we were going for fairly pure adaptations

[@ambercherise2391]

Um, where is Lawrence Fishburne's Othello?

[@sheilabrennan3797]

Amber Cherise true that film was brilliant adaption. Laurencekirk Fishbourne and Kenneth Brannagh were amazing

[@miamafalda1118]

SOMEONE NEEDED TO SAY IT YES

[@worstcaseofcrabsever5510]

I've seen most of these. Much Ado about nothing should be #1 McBeth should be much higher.

[@delsongalasinao706]

Some of the films in you're list is on my collection.

[@brettjasontait]

So glad Titus made this list. It's my favourite film adaptations of Shakespeare ever. I wish Prospero's Books by Peter Greenaway got a look in though. I thought that was a much better adaptation than, say, the Midsummer Night's Dream that is on this list.

[@GOKUBLACK-xq4is]

The Merchant of Venice should have been way higher. I just watched it today 23/1/21 at exact 3:00 am. It's one of my favorite.

[@catherinepelletier8872]

YEEEEEES!!! BRANAGH'S "HAMLET" IS THE BEST!!!! 👏👏👏

[@lucygreen3587]

i really love Shakespeare works! :)

[@Mali-D1]

Gibson’s Hamlet > Branagh’s Hamlet

[@baileybieganek2446]

I love that version of Romeo and Juliet; I really wanted to watch it in class but we watched the Leo one instead. I felt like people were laughing at the film's more ludicrous aspects instead of listening to the language

[@vinay.snohar735]

ME TOO

[@bhavyajaitly]

NOOOOOOOOOOOOO! they forgot taming of the shrew 😢😒

[@emilyjoyceblanco6793]

bhavya jaitly i loved liz taylor at that movie!

[@pawandas9668]

Ikr

[@caronstout354]

Honorable mention: "Shakespeare In Love"

[@FireLilyrulez]

I remember watching the 1968 version of Romeo and Juliet because it was a year or two before the new version with Leo.

[@lucindamobley5492]

I think Romeo and Juliet and Macbeth should be higher on the list than this. I tried to watch the Leonardo DICaprio version, but I just couldn't get into it. I thought it was stupid to use Shakespearian speech in a modern day setting. The original has so much more feeling and authenticity to it. Macbeth also captured the pure feelings of despair and prophesy as well.

[@vinay.snohar735]

MISS CLAIRE DANES PLAYS THE HEROINE'S ROLE

[@Aubury]

Larry in Richard 3rd Orson Wells Chimes at midnight. Brando in Julius Caesar Come to mind

[@humanoideric]

Romeo & Juliet pre-dated almost all these films and set the stage(snort) for their aesthetic and tone. its a true classic and maintains shakespeares writing wonderfully. should easily be in top 3

[@SlightlySusan]

I somehow missed the 1999 Midsummer Night's Dream and the 1971 MacBeth. Would love to watch both if I can find them. This list is five years old. I wonder if this group turned to the subject again if the results would change. I loved the most recent MacBeth with Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand. As someone pointed out, that Denzel and Frances are older supports the story. I imagined them as a couple on the fringes of power for many years, finally grabbing their opportunity only to be destroyed.

[@PriyaSingh-zi6ee]

Amelia Bassano, the true Shakespeare

[@cleverlydevisedmyth]

"The Hollow Crown" is worth checking out too!

[@sirjedisentinel]

Even though it's not technically a movie (it's just a filming of the production that played on stage), one of my favorites is "King Lear" starring James Earl Jones

[@sterlingprophet5209]

Honorable mention to Richard Burton - Elizabeth Taylor's THE TAMING OF THE SHREW.

[@siobhanonavon1989]

Kind of disappointed they didn't include Laurence Fishburn's Othello.