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10 Best Movies Like RSC Live: King Lear

If you loved RSC Live: King Lear, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
King Lear

King Lear

2018★ 6.1

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

An aging King invites disaster, when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters, and rejects his loving and honest one....

#2
Come from Away

Come from Away

2021★ 7.6

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

Filmed live on Broadway, the Tony Award-winning musical tells the remarkable true story of 38 flights grounded in a small Canadian town on September 11, 2001. As the locals host th...

#3
National Theatre Live: Hamlet

National Theatre Live: Hamlet

2015★ 7.5

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

As a country arms itself for war, a family tears itself apart. Forced to avenge his father's death but paralyzed by the task ahead, Hamlet rages against the impossibility of his pr...

#4
National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

National Theatre Live: Frankenstein

2011★ 7.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to RSC Live: King Lear for fans of Drama. It captures a similar spine-chilling atmosphere.

Childlike in his innocence but grotesque in form, Frankenstein’s bewildered creature is cast out into a hostile universe by his horror-struck maker. Meeting with cruelty wherever h...

#5
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.1

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

A dramatization of the life of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault (Don Cheadle), with a lot of factual based occurrences. A reformed junkie returns from prison to clean up his act and devot...

#6
Mickybo and Me

Mickybo and Me

2005★ 7.0

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

The film tells the story of two boys who become friends at the start of the Troubles in 1970. The boys share an obsession with Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, with the conseque...

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