King Lear (2015)

Actors: Alexander Barnett (actor), Daniel Clark (actor), Sean Coe (actor), Cezar Constantine (actor), Michael Crowley (actor), Michael Crowley (actor), Jared Doreck (actor), Vince Eisenson (actor), Philip Fletcher (actor), Peter Holdway (actor), Reed Imhoff (actor), Reed Imhoff (actor), Warren Jackson (actor), Josh Katz (actor), Craig Allen (actor),

Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

Lear: 1. Nothing can come of nothing: speak again.

Cordelia: 1. Unhappy that I am, I cannot heave My heart into my mouth: I love your majesty According to my bond; no more nor less.

Lear: 1. Mend your speech a little, Lest you may mar your fortunes.

Lear: So young, and so untender? Lear:::Cordelia: So young, my lord, and true.::Lear: Let it be so; - thy truth, then, be thy dower.

Lear: Come not between the dragon and his wrath.

Kent: 1. Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease.

Cordelia: Time shall unfold what plighted cunning hides: Who cover faults, at last shame them derides

Regan: 1. Tis the infirmity of his age: yet he hath ever but slenderly known himself.

Edmund: 1. Who, in the lusty stealth of nature, take More composition and fierce quality Than doth, within a dull, stale, tired bed, Go to the creating a whole tribe of fops Got 'tween asleep and wake?

Edmund: 1. Now, gods, stand up for bastards!

The Humbling (2014)

Actors: Derrick Arthur (actor), Dylan Baker (actor), Victor Cruz (actor), Tim Falter (actor), Ricky Paull Goldin (actor), Charles Grodin (actor), Dan Hedaya (actor), Richard Hughes (actor), Peter Francis James (actor), Richard Jordan (actor), Dennis Lauricella (actor), Adam Lubarsky (actor), Al Pacino (actor), Billy Porter (actor), Otoja Abit (actor),

Plot: An aged and addled actor has his world turned upside down after he embarks upon an affair with a lesbian, in this acidulous adaptation of the Philip Roth novel.

Keywords: based-on-novel
Genres: Drama,

Capsule (2012)

Actors: Amar Adatia (actor), Curtis Graham Ashley (actor), Daniel Braveboy (actor), David L. Butler (actor), Oli Eastop (actor), Duane Hannibal (actor), Cleveland D. Herbert (actor), Vauxhall Jermaine (actor), Denis Khoroshvko (actor), Jamie Langlands (actor), Steve Laopodis (actor), George Lascelles (actor), Mark Menelik (actor), Can Orfan (actor), Marlon Roberts (actor),

Plot: Dayton Givens is a middle-aged out of work documentary maker who decides to return to further education to study for the A level history he never got. His teacher asks him to produce a time capsule film project on every day of his life for a year. The project makes Dayton scrutinise his everyday life and the wider world with ever greater detail. He notices every element of development in a very strange year - historic events such as the uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa and the Royal Wedding but also the tightening of surveillance and monitoring in his local area in the countdown to the Olympics in East London.

Keywords: surveillance
Genres: Drama,
Taglines: He's filming a year in his life but who's filming who?

Unscripted (2009)

Actors: Roger Alborough (actor), Fred Denno (actor), Jamie Higgins (actor), Jamie Higgins (actor), Ivan Scoble (actor), Ivan Scoble (actor), Robert Sherlock (actor), Robert Sherlock (actor), Leah Burrows (actress), Alison Daly-Bell (actress), Vicki Hackett (actress), Vicki Hackett (actress), Izzy Harris (actress), Rachel Wilcock (actress), Rachel Wilcock (actress),

Genres: Drama, Short,
Taglines: Rehearsing King Lear, an actor faces his own failings. Playing a part or living it ... a father has to improvise.

Cold and Dark (2005)

Actors: David Baker (actor), Richard Bonehill (actor), Roger Clewlow (actor), Michael Culkin (actor), Jake Curran (actor), Steven Elder (actor), David Gant (actor), Luke Goss (actor), Hamish Hamilton (actor), Trevor Hitchings (actor), Kevin Howarth (actor), Mark Lanyon (actor), Matt Lucas (actor), Rhys Moosa (actor), Lewis Adler (actor),

Plot: When Detective Mortimer Shade is somehow killed in a freezer, a parasite called a grail possesses his body, revives him, but he needs blood to stay alive. His partner John Dark accepts the new situation and together they become vigilantes, judging and killing the bad guys, with Shade sucking their blood with his claw. However, Dark notes that Shade is losing the rest of his humanity and becoming a monster, being aware and afraid of the danger Shade represents to mankind and trying to stop him.

Keywords: back-from-the-dead, bad-cops, banana, bathroom, bathtub, beach, broken-ankle, cgi, cigarette-smoking, female-agent
Genres: Crime, Horror, Thriller,
Taglines: To Protect and Sever. Cold Cop, Bad Cop, It's In the Blood One Man's Journey Into Another Species.

Quotes:

John Dark: It takes forty minutes to bury a body... longer, if's it's still alive... tougher, if it's your best friend.

John Dark: When you do the job, right, because of the stress... I can see that you get off on it. I'd imagine that maybe the... you know, that nothing else got you off.::Albany: No. I get off on sex.::John Dark: Really?::Albany: I come at the drop of a head.

Superintendent Maddox: As they say in Alabama, they're making me drink monkeymilk!

Superintendent Maddox: Look in my club bag, Dark! Tell me what you see.::John Dark: Some irons, some woods... Jeez... I'm not a golfing man.::Superintendent Maddox: Some irons, some woods. They all hit the ball a little differently. Hard and heavy for the gliding long shot, soft as touch for the delicate putt. You can't play a varied course with one club, Dark! Same with a police force, it takes a range of officers. Some hit heavy, some nudge, and some knock the ball off the mother fucking course! If you're telling me that DCI Shade has on occasion taken events into his own hands to stuff shit back up the devil's anus, I call that hitting heavy when the course demands! Do I make myself absolutely clear, detective sergeant Dark?

Dr. Elgin: Ever had a tinkle in the Indos, mr. Dark? Because it's a very risky buisiness. In the Indos, there's a little fish called the candirú which can swim up a stream of urine. It does this to find it's way into your testicles, because the candirú is a parasite and every parasite has it's chosen... of occupation. Belly. Bowels. Balls. I tell you this in the hope that it will make what follows easier to accept. The candirú is from the natural world, our world. Supernatural means beyond natural. Not beyond what exists, just beyond what we know. It is supernatural only until we witness it, and you have witnessed the grail mr. Dark. Think of a grail as a spectral parasite that needs a very particular kind of host, a human corpse. Vacated by it's valid lifeforce, this fleshy vessel gives the grail all it needs. It enters after death, burroughing into the heart and reanimating the corpse. Digging itself deeper, and deeper, mutating and corrupting the heart into it's own monstrous form, and compelling it's host to seek out the blood of which they must both now live. I once had a fragment of the grail in a specimen jar, taken from the ruptured heart of a kurdistan goat farmer, but it is lost and gone forever, courtesy of British Airways.

Lardeson Dahl: [as Dark is walking away] So, the apology? [Dark stops and Dahl catches up with him] Did you hear me?::John Dark: [Turns around] I'm sorry, you see... that... ehhmm... that was a silent "fuck you". [Walks away]

Dr. Elgin: Detective Sergeant Dark. My name is Dr. Elgin from the CUUC, that's Civilian Unexplained... ehhh... something, something.

King Lear: A Critical Guide (1997)

Actors: Peter Balderstone (actor), Brian Blessed (actor), Mark Burgess (actor), Mark Denny (actor), Keith Frederick (actor), Graham McTavish (actor), Jason Riddington (actor), Iain Stuart Robertson (actor), Robert Smallwood (actor), Stanley Wells (actor), Robert Whelan (actor), Claire Laurie (actress), Caroline Lennon (actress), Hildegard Neil (actress), Phillipa Peak (actress),

Genres: Documentary, Short,

Danger Passion (1986)

Actors: Saïd Amadis (actor), Dominique Andrieux (actor), Michel Beaune (actor), Michel Carliez (actor), Etienne Chicot (actor), Michel Dadoun (actor), Etienne Draber (actor), Daniel Duval (actor), Jean-Louis Foulquier (actor), Pierre Frag (actor), David Gerson (actor), Bernard Rosselli (actor), Dine Souli (actor), Gilda Albertoni (actress), Marilyne Canto (actress),

Genres: ,

King Lear (1983)

Actors: Colin Blakely (actor), John Cording (actor), Brian Cox (actor), Paul Curran (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Ronald Forfar (actor), John Hurt (actor), Jeremy Kemp (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Leo McKern (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Edward Petherbridge (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor),

Plot: Lear is an aging King who wants to retire by abdicating to his three daughters. However, in an act of petty ego stroking, he asks them who among them loves him most. While two daughters eagerly toady to him, his one loving daughter, Cordelia, refuses play along with this foolish charade. In a rage, Lear exiles her along with his one loyal aide who dares to stick up for her. This foolish move works to Lear's sorrow as his two remaining daughters cruelly and gradually strip him of his status and possessions until he is rendered an insane hermit attended only by his fool. All the while, the illegitimate son of another lord is plotting his own ambitions while contributing to this tragic tale of ego and familial cruelty.

Keywords: abandonment, ambition, banishment, based-on-play, betrayal, blindness, brother-murders-brother, character-name-in-title, craziness, cruelty
Genres: Drama,

Quotes:

King Lear: You do me wrong to take me out of the grave. Thou art a soul in bliss.

Gloucester: As flies to wanton boys are we to the gods. They kill us for their sport.

King Lear: Ay, every inch a king.

King Lear: How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child!

Kent: Fellow, I know thee.::Oswald: What dost thou know me for?::Kent: A knave, a rascal, an eater of broken meats; a base, proud, shallow, beggarly, three-suited, hundred-pound, filthy worsted-stocking knave; a lily-livered, action-taking, whoreson, glass-gazing, super-serviceable, finical rogue; one-trunk-inheriting slave; one that wouldst be a bawd in way of good service, and art nothing but the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mongrel bitch; one whom I will beat into clamorous whining if thou deny'st the least syllable of thy addition.

King Lear: I know you do not love me, For your sisters have, as I remember, done me wrong. You have some cause; they have not.::Cordelia: No cause, no cause.

Edmund: Now gods, stand up for bastards.

Korol Lir (1971)

Actors: Donatas Banionis (actor), Juozas Budraitis (actor), Oleg Dal (actor), Roman Gromadskiy (actor), Jüri Järvet (actor), Nikolay Kuzmin (actor), Ants Lauter (actor), Ignat Leirer (actor), Leonhard Merzin (actor), Aleksey Petrenko (actor), Karlis Sebris (actor), Konstantin Tyagunov (actor), Emmanuil Vitorgan (actor), Aleksandr Vokach (actor), Regimantas Adomaitis (actor),

Plot: 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.

Keywords: based-on-play, character-name-in-title, foreign-language-adaptation, shakespeare's-king-lear, tragedy
Genres: Drama,

King Lear (1971)

Actors: Cyril Cusack (actor), Tom Fleming (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Robert Langdon Lloyd (actor), Jack MacGowran (actor), Patrick Magee (actor), Paul Scofield (actor), Barry Stanton (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Susan Engel (actress), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Michael Birkett (producer), Sam Lomberg (producer),

Plot: The Shakespeare tragedy that gave us the expression "How sharper than a serpent's tooth it is to have a thankless child." King Lear has not one but two ungrateful children, and it's especially galling because he turned over his entire kingdom to them. Paul Scofeld is an ancient, imposing shell of a Lear tormented by his too-long life as well as by daughters he calls "untatural hags." At one point, the king looks his eldest daughter, Goneril (Ireme Worth), straight in the eye and declares, "Thou art a boil, a plague-sore, of embossed carbuncle in my corrupted blood." These are the troubles not even the best-trained family counselor could ever hope to resolve.

Keywords: banishment, based-on-play, battle, betrayal, blindness, brother, castle, character-name-in-title, court-jester, curse
Genres: Drama,