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Richard III

Name: Richard III
Genre: Drama, War
Released: 1995-12-29
Duration: 104 min
Rating: 6.783

★ 6,8 /10 (196 Votes)

1995 EN 104 min

Overview

Having helped his brother King Edward IV take the throne of England, the jealous hunchback Richard, Duke of Gloucester, plots to seize power for himself. Masterfully deceiving and plotting against nearly everyone in the royal court, including his eventual wife, Lady Anne, and his brother George, Duke of Clarence, Richard orchestrates a bloody rise to power before finding all his gains jeopardized by those he betrayed.

Stream

Release date

29/12/1995

Votes

196

Popularity

3.6

I can smile, and murder while I smile

Genres

Drama War

Status

Released

Language

Runtime

104 min

Revenue

$2,748,518

Ian McKellen

Richard III

Annette Bening

Queen Elizabeth

Jim Broadbent

The Duke of Buckingham

Robert Downey Jr.

Earl Rivers

Kristin Scott Thomas

Lady Anne

Adrian Dunbar

James Tyrrell

Maggie Smith

Duchess of York

Tim McInnerny

William Catesby

Edward Hardwicke

Lord Stanley

Nigel Hawthorne

The Duke of Clarence

Jim Carter

Lord Hastings

Dominic West

The Earl of Richmond

John Wood

King Edward IV

Roger Hammond

Archbishop Thomas

Bill Paterson

Sir Richard Ratcliffe

Donald Sumpter

Brackenbury

Michael Elphick

2nd Murderer

Kate Steavenson-Payne

Princess Elizabeth

James Dreyfus

1st Subaltern

No photo

David Antrobus

2nd Subaltern

Christopher Bowen

Prince Edward

Edward Jewesbury

King Henry

No photo

Matthew Groom

Young Prince

No photo

Ryan Gilmore

George Stanley

Marco Williamson

Prince of Wales

Tres Hanley

Air Hostess (Earl River's lover)

Andy Rashleigh

Gaolor in the Tower

Denis Lill

Lord Mayor

Bruce Purchase

City Gentleman

No photo

Madeleine Mora

Dream Angel

Stacey Kent

Ballroom Singer

Derek Lyons

Ballroom Dancer (uncredited)

Original Soundtrack

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Co-writers Ian McKellen and Richard Loncraine (who also directs) set their Richard III in 1930s Britain, and make the infamous hunchback a fascist warmonger plotting to usurp the throne. Today's English monarchy is, at best, nominal, but even way back in the 1930s there wasn't much to be gained by usurping it. Then again, the film takes place in an alternate reality where the War of the Roses occurs 450 years after the true historical conflict did. I don’t mind so much that royalty has endured those four centuries and a half; what does bother me is that language has not evolved in the inter…

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