Topic: Stage Play

Direction Ernst Lubitsch

Cast Carole Lombard · Jack Benny · Robert Stack · Stanley Ridges

Synopsis To Be or Not to Be (1942) is a daring wartime comedy set in Nazi-occupied Warsaw. The story follows a troupe of Polish actors who use their theatrical skills to outwit the invading forces. When a daring spy mission goes...

Direction Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Cast Bette Davis · Anne Baxter · George Sanders · Celeste Holm

Synopsis All About Eve (1950) follows the story of Margo Channing, a celebrated but aging Broadway star, whose life takes an unexpected turn when she meets Eve Harrington, a seemingly innocent and devoted fan. Eve quickly ingratiates herself into Margo's inner...

Direction Charles Chaplin

Cast Charles Chaplin · Claire Bloom · Nigel Bruce · Sydney Chaplin

Synopsis Limelight (1952) is a poignant drama directed by and starring Charlie Chaplin. The film follows Calvero, a once-famous but now washed-up clown, who saves a young ballerina, Terry, from a suicide attempt. As he nurses her back to health, Calvero...

Direction Federico Fellini

Cast Anthony Quinn · Giulietta Masina · Richard Basehart · Aldo Silvani

Synopsis Gelsomina is sold by her very poor mother to Zampanò, an itinerant strongman. She follows him on the road ("la strada") and helps him during his shows. Zampanò ill-treats her. She meets "The Fool", a funambulist. She feels like going...

Direction Ingmar Bergman

Cast Liv Ullmann · Bibi Andersson · Margaretha Krook · Gunnar Björnstrand

Synopsis A nurse is put in charge of an actress who can't talk and finds that the actress's persona is melding with hers.

Direction Marcel Carné

Cast Jean-Louis Barrault · Pierre Brasseur · Pierre Renoir · Arletty

Synopsis It follows a mysterious woman (Arletty) loved by four different men (all based on historical figures): an actor, a criminal, a count, and, most poignantly, a mime (Jean-Louis Barrault), in a world teeming with hucksters and aristocrats, thieves and courtesans,...

Direction Jean-Claude Biette

Cast Sonia Saviange · Howard Vernon · Philippe Chemin · Martine Simonet

Direction Kenji Mizoguchi

Cast Shotaro Hanayagi · Kakuko Mori · Kôkichi Takada · Yôko Umemura

Synopsis Tokyo, 1885. Kikunosuke, son of the famous actor Kikugoro, is openly praised for his performance on the stage. His success is actually due to his name; only Otoku, the wet-nurse of his brother, is sincere enough to tell him the...

Direction Martin Dennis

Cast Henry Shields · Bryony Corrigan · Jonathan Sayer · Nancy Zamit

Synopsis A series of brand new, hand-crafted, half hours of theatrical catastrophe as The Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society undertake more (overly) ambitious endeavours.

Direction Gustavo Pérez Puig

Cast José María Rodero · José Bódalo · Manuel Alexandre · Sancho Gracia

Synopsis The defense and the prosecution have rested and the jury is filing into the jury room to decide if a young man is guilty or innocent of murdering his father. What begins as an open and shut case of murder...

Direction Marlén Viñayo

Cast Evelyn Chileno · Ruth H. Vega · Magdalena Henríquez · Wendy Henríquez

Direction Tricicle

Cast Joan Gràcia · Carles Sans · Paco Mir

Direction Robin Lough

Cast Benedict Cumberbatch · Ciarán Hinds · Sian Brooke · Leo Bill

Synopsis Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, finds out that his Uncle Claudius killed his father to obtain the throne, and plans his revenge.

Direction Jacques Rivette · Suzanne Schiffman

Cast Michéle Moretti · Hermine Karagheuz · Karen Puig · Pierre Baillot

Synopsis Lili (Michele Moretti) is a member of an experimental troupe preparing a radical new interpretation of Aeschylus's 'Seven Against Thebes', while Thomas (Michel Lonsdale) is in charge of a state-funded group who are rehearsing another work by the same ancient...

Direction Terry Hughes · Ian MacNaughton

Cast Graham Chapman · John Cleese · Terry Gilliam · Carol Cleveland

Synopsis A collection of skits that made the Python troup famous, performed live at the Hollywood Bowl. Included are the singing philosophers, lumberjacks, the pope, and a suspiciously-male looking seabird vendor.

Direction Benedict Andrews · Nick Wickham

Cast Gillian Anderson · Vanessa Kirby · Ben Foster · Corey Johnson

Synopsis As Blanche's fragile world crumbles, she turns to her sister Stella for solace - but her downward spiral brings her face to face with the brutal, unforgiving Stanley Kowalski.

Direction Thomas Kail

Cast Lin-Manuel Miranda · Daveed Diggs · Renee Goldsberry · Leslie Odom Jr.

Synopsis The real life of one of America's foremost founding fathers and first Secretary of the Treasury, Alexander Hamilton. Filmed live on Broadway from the Richard Rodgers Theatre with the original Broadway cast.

Direction Antonio Grunfeld

Direction Yasujirō Ozu

Cast Ganjiro Nakamura · Haruko Sugimura · Hiroshi Kawaguchi · Machiko Kyô

Synopsis Komajuro (Ganjiro Nakamura) leads a traveling acting troupe that performs cut-rate kabuki in the provinces. His mistress, Sumiko, is loyal to him, as are the other veteran actors. The troupe arrive to a town on the seaside. Komajuro goes to...

Direction Mamoru Hatakeyama

Synopsis TV Series (2016). 13 Episodes. When a certain man is released from prison, he knows exactly where he's heading first. After falling in love with a traditional comic storyteller's rendition of the story called "Shinigami," he is determined to become...