So after reading these three I'd like to check them out

Check YouTube nigger. Or if you have a pass the popcorn account they have tons

Go Macbeth there are tons of movies and its the most entertaining IMO

>>8297575
Hamlet:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(2009_film) is modernized with respect to sets but not dialogue, or maybe
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamlet_(1996_film) which is longer and more accurate

Macbeth:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macbeth_(2015_film) is pretty OK, there's a random inserted scene in the beginning but most if the monologues are done well.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Throne_of_Blood is also pretty great, but it's an adaptation of Macbeth by a Japanese director and not actually a transcription into film. If it helps, Harold bloom called it "the most successful film version of Macbeth."

King Lear:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ran_(film) is really fucking good but (like throne of blood) it's not actually king Lear. It's a Japanese adaptation by the same guy

If you reject all these because they're movie versions and not plays, just fucking go to a theater. They play Shakespeare all the time, and you're not going to get a theatrical experience from your computer monitor anyway.

>>8297920
seconding that 2015 Macbeth, really liked it. Has a banging soundtrack and a very sweaty Michael Fassbender

>>8297575
Throne of Blood is great.

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>meant to be experienced as plays
>implying these plays were directed by Shakespeare

The stage is full plebeian. It's better to watch a movie and best to read it carefully.

Like others have said, Kurosawa is GOAT when it comes to Shakespeare adaptations but Roman Polanski's Macbeth is really awesome too. It has the harsh, crude medieval combat style you see in Dark Souls so the ending duel between MacDuff and Macbeth is perfectly captured. That scene is one of the best things on celluloid. Orson Welles's Shakespeare movies are really good too.

The Kenneth Branagh adaptations are hit or miss, most of the other British adaptations performed by so-called "Shakespearean trained actors" are insipid trash.

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check pic

The 1953 Julius Caesar with Brando was brilliant.

Here's the "Dogs of War" speech (for context, Caesar has just been murdered by Brutus, Cassius, and co; Brando plays Mark Anthony):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tY1ezMyRV9w

>>8298047
This

>>8297920
I'd recommend all of these productions except for the '96 Hamlet. Branagh plays him as brash and militaristic, not really the character you get from reading.

I watched the Hamlet with David Tennant and Patrick Stewart on the PBS website, don't know if you'll be able to watch it because of where you live, but it was good.
They also have Macbeth with Patrick Stewart, and King Lear with Ian Mckellen, but I haven't watched those yet.

The version of Macbeth with Ian McKellan on youtube is superlative.

>>8297934
They did a great job with filming everything, and the acting was out of this world.