If I Were You (2012)

Actors: Nathan Lomax (miscellaneous crew), Leonor Watling (actress), Daniela Saioni (actress), Sara Holmes (miscellaneous crew), Aidan Quinn (actor), Marcia Gay Harden (actress), Paolo Buonvino (composer), Guy Farley (composer), Gary Piquer (actor), Jonathan Schwartz (miscellaneous crew), Alan Latham (producer), Danielle Depeyre (miscellaneous crew), Doug Gillespie (miscellaneous crew), Beatriz Yuste (actress), Jessica Booker (actress),

Plot: Two women who meet by chance make a pact to fix their unhappy lives: they will each do what the other one says. But one of them has a secret. She knows her husband is sleeping with the younger woman. Madelyn's plan backfires when Lucy, an aspiring actress, orders her to play King Lear in a very amateur production, with Lucy playing the Fool. Madelyn's life is transformed in unexpected ways as, like Lear, she struggles with matters of mortality and betrayal, loyalty and love.

Kung Lear (1997)

Actors: Keve Hjelm (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Thomas Roos (actor), Anna Eklund (actress), Anders Andersson (actor), Kjell Tovle (actor), Gudmar Klöving (actor), Pär Milstam (actor), Carlo Schmidt (actor), Michael Meschke (actor), Maria Eggers (actress), Peter Oskarson (director), Annika Brunsten (actress), Tilde Björfors (actress), Josephine Selander (actress),

King Lear (1983)

Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Leo McKern (actor), John Hurt (actor), Colin Blakely (actor), Harry Fielder (actor), Laurence Olivier (actor), Diana Rigg (actress), Brian Cox (actor), Esmond Knight (actor), Robert Lang (actor), Robert Lindsay (actor), Geoffrey Bateman (actor), William Hobbs (miscellaneous crew), David Threlfall (actor), Jeremy Kemp (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.

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The Life of Henry the Fifth (1979)

Actors: William Shakespeare (writer), Julian Glover (actor), Brenda Bruce (actress), Alec McCowen (actor), Garrick Hagon (actor), Bryan Pringle (actor), Thorley Walters (actor), John Wilders (miscellaneous crew), Cedric Messina (producer), Alan Shallcross (miscellaneous crew), Gordon Gostelow (actor), John Abineri (actor), Robert Harris (actor), Anna Quayle (actress), Tim Wylton (actor),

King Lear (1976)

Actors: Mick Audsley (editor), William Shakespeare (writer), Steven Rumbelow (director), Steven Rumbelow (writer), Steven Rumbelow (actor), Paul Haley (actor), Cengiz Saner (actor), Stuart Cox (actor), Monica Buford (actress), Rita Rumbelow (costume designer), Mark Danvers Heron (actor), Helena Paul (actress), Chris Auvache (actor), Tim Jones (actor),

King Lear (1971)

Actors: Patrick Magee (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Cyril Cusack (actor), Mogens Skot-Hansen (producer), Paul Scofield (actor), Peter Brook (director), Peter Brook (writer), Jack MacGowran (actor), Alan Webb (actor), Ian Hogg (actor), Anne-Lise Gabold (actress), Irene Worth (actress), Søren Elung Jensen (actor), Kasper Schyberg (editor), Barry Stanton (actor),

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.

Richard of Bordeaux (1938)

Actors: Fred Groves (actor), John Abbott (actor), Charles Victor (actor), Ralph Truman (actor), John Le Mesurier (actor), Laurence Hanray (actor), Michael Barry (editor), Michael Barry (producer), Ben Webster (actor), Andrew Osborn (actor), Eric Berry (actor), Marguerite Young (actress), Gwen Ffrangcon Davies (actress), Josephine Tey (writer), Beryl Measor (actress),

Tense Moments from Great Plays (1922)

Actors: Challis Sanderson (director), Alexandre Dumas fils (writer), Edwin J. Collins (director), H.B. Parkinson (director), H.B. Parkinson (producer), Charles Dickens (writer), William Shakespeare (writer), Arthur Shirley (writer), Victor Hugo (writer), Lewis Gilbert (actor), Sybil Thorndike (actress), Sybil Thorndike (actress), Sybil Thorndike (actress), Sybil Thorndike (actress), Sybil Thorndike (actress),

King Lear (1916)

Actors: Edwin Thanhouser (producer), Ernest C. Warde (actor), William Shakespeare (writer), Philip Lonergan (writer), Ernest C. Warde (director), Hector Dion (actor), J.H. Gilmour (actor), Boyd Marshall (actor), Edwin Stanley (actor), Wayne Arey (actor), Lorraine Huling (actress), Robert Whittier (actor), Frederick Warde (actor), Charles Brook (actor), Edith Diestel (actress),