Shakespeare

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poster A Midsummer Night's Dream

A Midsummer Night's Dream

11mn - Fantasy, Comedy

An early film adaptation of the Bard's comic fantasy-- and perhaps the first screen adaptation of a Shakespeare play.

Hamlet

A free adaptation of Shakespeare′s drama. The Danish queen masquerades her daughter as a boy, and thus, the girl lives her life as 'Prince' Hamlet. Her father poisoned by a venomous snake placed by the tr…

poster Hamlet/Horatio

Hamlet/Horatio

In a modern retelling of Shakespeare's masterpiece, Horatio takes center stage as he fulfills his dying promise to Hamlet by directing the story of his beloved friend's tragic sacrifice. On an empty sound…

poster Romeo e Giulietta

Romeo e Giulietta

37mn - Drama, Romance

The 1912 Italian version of Shakespeare's Romeo & Juliet.

poster Drake of England

Drake of England

104mn - Action, Drama

Imposing Canadian-born stage actor and playwright Matherson Lang was one of the twentieth century's great Shakespearean players, and became Britain's foremost screen actor during the 1920s; in Drake of En…

poster Marc Antony and Cleopatra

Marc Antony and Cleopatra

74mn - Drama, History, Romance

Based loosely on Shakespeare's play, Plutarch's "Life of Antony", and Pietro Cossa's dramatic poem, "Cleopatra", this movie was spectacular for its time. It offers location shots made in Italy and Egypt, …

poster The Taming of the Shrew

The Taming of the Shrew

17mn - Romance, Comedy

Based on Shakespeare's play. Petruchio courts the bad-tempered Katharina, and tries to change her aggressive behavior.

Hamlet

Hamlet is a 1913 British silent drama film directed by Hay Plumb and starring Johnston Forbes-Robertson, Gertrude Elliot and Walter Ringham.

poster King Lear

King Lear

Silent adaptation of Shakespeare's King Lear

poster King Lear

King Lear

Hand-tinted Italian verison of the Shakespeare Classic King Lear.

poster Bardelys the Magnificent

Bardelys the Magnificent

90mn - Action, Drama, Romance

Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.

poster The Queen of Spades

The Queen of Spades

15mn - Horror, Drama

Based on Pushkin's short story: When his friends play faro, Germann always enjoys watching, but he never gambles himself. One day, as he is watching their game, he learns that an elderly countess staying …

poster Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

Max and Jane Want to Do Theater

Max is a stage struck youth, and because of a deep-seated desire to go on the stage, refuses to consent to a marriage his father has planned for him. The girl, whom Max has never met, is also stage struck…

Cupid

When a practicing witch is viciously humiliated by mean girls at school, she summons the dark spirit of Cupid for revenge, but this Valentine's Day nightmare brings forth not a cherub of love, but a winge…

poster Shanghaied Lovers

Shanghaied Lovers

Shanghaied on his wedding day, Harry struggles to cope with a cruel captain while fending off a sailor who seems attracted to him.

poster Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac

113mn - Adventure, Drama, History

A brilliant swordsman-poet with an enormous nose secretly loves the beautiful Roxane but believes himself too ugly to be loved, so he helps his handsome but tongue-tied friend Christian win her heart by w…

Kismet

Hajj, a rascally beggar on the periphery of the court of Baghdad, schemes to marry his daughter to royalty and to win the heart of the queen of the castle himself.

poster A Reckless Romeo

A Reckless Romeo

Roscoe flirts with a girl in the park. Later he takes his wife and mother-in-law to the movies only to see his flirtation showing on the screen.

Ivanhoe

53mn - Adventure, Drama, Romance

Wilfred of Ivanhoe (played by King Baggot), son of Sir Cedric (played by Wallace Bosco), returns to England from the Crusades in the Holy Land. As Ivanhoe, disguised, discovers that his beloved Lady Rowen…

poster Cleopatra

Cleopatra

125mn - Drama, History

The story of Cleopatra, the fabulous queen of Egypt, and the epic romances between her and the greatest men of Rome, Julius Caesar and Antony. Only a small fragment of this film survives.

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