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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
Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

Rebound: The Legend of Earl 'The Goat' Manigault

1996★ 7.2

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...

#3
The Unforgivable

The Unforgivable

2021★ 7.4

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

A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past....

#4
Hamlet

Hamlet

1948★ 7.4

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

Winner of four Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Actor, Sir Laurence Olivier’s Hamlet continues to be the most compelling version of Shakespeare’s beloved tragedy. Ol...

#5
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...

#6
People Like Us

People Like Us

2012★ 6.8

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

After flying home to L.A. for the funeral of his estranged record-producer father, a struggling man discovers that the will stipulates that he must deliver $150,000 in cash to a 30...

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