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10 Best Movies Like National Theatre Live: Macbeth

If you loved National Theatre Live: Macbeth, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Young & Beautiful

Young & Beautiful

2013★ 6.5

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Theatre Live: Macbeth for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

Isabelle, a 17-year-old student, loses her virginity during a quick holiday romance. When she returns home, she begins a secret life as a prostitute for a year....

#2
Titanic

Titanic

1997★ 7.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Theatre Live: Macbeth for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

101-year-old Rose DeWitt Bukater tells the story of her life aboard the Titanic, 84 years later. A young Rose boards the ship with her mother and fiancé. Meanwhile, Jack Dawson and...

#3
Shutter Island

Shutter Island

2010★ 8.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Theatre Live: Macbeth for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by tro...

#4
The Breakfast Club

The Breakfast Club

1985★ 7.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Theatre Live: Macbeth for fans of Drama. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Five high school students from different walks of life endure a Saturday detention under a power-hungry principal. The disparate group includes rebel John, princess Claire, outcast...

#5
Back to the Future

Back to the Future

1985★ 8.3

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Theatre Live: Macbeth for fans of Adventure. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Eighties teenager Marty McFly is accidentally sent back in time to 1955, inadvertently disrupting his parents' first meeting and attracting his mother's romantic interest. Marty mu...

#6
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to National Theatre Live: Macbeth for fans of Drama. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....