All the world’s a stage, and these movies are the best.

Here are 32 movies based on the plays of William Shakespeare.

Despite turning 25 years old, 10 Things I Hate About You is still the King of Modern Shakespeare adaptations.

Denzel Washington and Frances McDormand in a Joel Coen-directed Shakespeare adaptation? Sign us up immediately.

And it's a musical!

While you might now know him best as the fantastical filmmaker behind works like Thor and beloved actor in works like Dunkirk, Kenneth Branagh got his screen start adapting one of our most beloved writers' works for the screen: William Shakespeare. Yeah, ever heard of him? Branagh has directed and starred in wonderful film versions of Shakespeare's Henry V, Hamlet, Much Ado About Nothing, and many more. When speaking to our own Steve Weintraub about his upcoming Disney+ film Artemis Fowl, Branagh hinted that future Shakespeare films are never far from his mind: and that they might be animated. […

Sir Patrick Stewart has one of those voices where, even if he read the phone book (which is what people used to use before cell phones), it would be captivating. Factor in his nostalgia-friendly pop culture characters, wonderful cadence, and classical training, and it's no surprise to find his acting and his mere presence so reassuring. So in these trying times, Stewart's return to his roots with Shakespeare has come as a welcome balm indeed. Stewart, who began his long career with award-winning performances through the Royal Shakespeare Company before heading for the final frontier and …

Shakespeare's works are part of the classic literary canon and have been adapted into movies many times, to varying levels of cinematic success.

A Haunting In Cawdor from 2015 tries to make a horror movie out of William Shakespeare's Macbeth but it fails to raise many scares.

Luckily, there are a few filmmakers who have been able to capture what makes Shakespeare's plays so special, and we're listing 10 of them here!

From director Kenneth Branagh and screenwriter Ben Elton, All Is True explores the last three years in the life of William Shakespeare (also played by Branagh), as he leaves London after a fire destroys the Globe Theatre and returns to his family in Stratford-upon-Avon. Once he’s back home, he tries to connect with his wife Anne (Judi Dench) and daughters Judith (Kathryn Wilder) and Susanna (Lydia Wilson), who are not particularly pleased that he’s back, especially with as haunted as he still is over the death of his son Hamnet, when he was only 11. At …

And you thought Green Book was a surprise. This year's Best Picture winner should hold Shakespeare's ale, because in 1999 an artsy piece of erudite fan fiction about the Bard's young career took down none other than Steven Spielberg himself. Here's the dirty little secret: it should have. Shakespeare in Love is a better film than Saving Private Ryan. Considering how that’s a minority opinion (which I’ll defend in a bit), many people believe that Shakespeare producer and Miramax honcho Harvey Weinstein essentially bought the 1998 Academy Award for Best Picture. With a rumored $…