A powerful dynasty, headed by a charismatic, manipulative father, falls when he decides to hand over his criminal empire to his three corrupt and power-hungry daughters. Kath runs a brothel down by the docks, Tracy owns a soccer team and Jo, a former junkie -- and prostitute -- rejects her inheritance, pitting sisters Kath and Tracy against each other.
Richard Harris, Jimi Mistry, Lorraine Pilkington, Lynn Redgrave, Tom Bell, Emma Catherwood, Aidan Gillen, Louise Lombard, Paul McGann, Colin Salmon, Oscar James, Seamus O'Neill

To avoid galactic war, the treatment of a frozen planet and its people must be decided.
2025

An experienced airline pilot, Estelle leads a perfect life between long-haul flights with her loving, protective husband Guillaume. One day, by chance, in an airport corridor, she crosses paths with Ana, a photographer with whom she had a passionate affair twenty years earlier. Little does Estelle know that this reunion will send her into a nightmarish spiral, turning her life upside down and irrational.
2023

An irascible Shakespeare scholar with early onset dementia communicates with her caretaker daughter using the only language available to her, the text of King Lear, as the two struggle with aging, love, and their own balance of power.
2023

Due to the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, tens of thousands of Ukrainians, fleeing the war, found refuge in Uzhhorod in western Ukraine. The local director decides to attract non-professional actors -displaced people - in bringing his dream into life - to stage the King Lear play. The theatrical performance helps them find themselves and their purpose in a new world where there is war, and the director finds an answer to the eternal question of what love is and why this world should not perish.
2023

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
2018

A modern take on William Shakespeare's King Lear.
2017

The Stratford Festival’s critically acclaimed performance of King Lear. An aging monarch resolves to divide his kingdom among his three daughters, with consequences he little expects. His reason shattered in the storm of violent emotion that ensues, with his very life hanging in the balance, Lear loses everything that has defined him as a king – and thereby discovers the essence of his own humanity.
2015

All sympathetic magic is based upon two principles: the first called the Law of Similarity says that “likes produce likes,” or that an effect resembles its cause; the second, called the law of contagion or contact says that all things having been in contact with each other continue to react upon one and another at a distance even after they have been severed or disconnected. A fearful man meets a disquiet woman. Do you believe in magic?
2010

In this re-imagining of Shakespear's King Lear, Patrick Stewart stars as John Lear, a Texas cattle baron, who, after dividing his wealth among his three daughters, is rejected by them.
2002

A blind man has an operation to regain his sight at the urging of his girlfriend and must deal with the changes to his life.
1999

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one.
1998

A tragedy by William Shakespeare about King Lear who intends to abdicate, and therefore wants to carve the kingdom up between his three daughters.
1997

There is a man, who always win a mahjong game... His name is Ryu the Caller.
1995

Based on the play by William Shakespeare.
1985

Shakespeare's King Lear is reimagined as a singular historical epic set in sixteenth-century Japan where an aging warlord divides his kingdom between his three sons.
1985

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 sisters Regan and Goneril. Meanwhile, evil brews at the Gloucester castle as Edgar falls victim to his brother's deception. As battle lines are drawn and backs are stabbed, Lear rages against a fearsome storm. Can a man undo his wrongs? Will Cordelia be saved? Or will the wheels of fate crush all in its way?
1974

Murat works as an ambulance driver at a hospital. However, the money he earns is not enough to support his family. A lawyer named Turhan offers Murat to commit a robbery together. Murat accepts because he needs the money. They carry out the robbery, but Turhan does not keep his word. After the robbery, he kills everyone and escapes with the money. Murat is seriously injured and arrested by the police. Turhan learns that Murat is still alive. He wants to prevent Murat from testifying in court. He kills Murat's wife and takes his son Erkan, raising him as his own man. Turhan will try to eliminate Murat using Erkan.
1974

1970

In this abridged television production, Lear vows revenge against his conniving daughters after they try to take swift control of his power.
1953