William Shakespeare's Macbeth has been screened numerous times, featuring many of the biggest names from stage, film, and television.

Performances

• Duel Scene from Macbeth (1905, United States, silent)^[1][2]
  • Billy Bitzer, cinematographer
• Macbeth (United States, 1908, silent)^[3]
  • J. Stuart Blackton, director
  • William V. Ranous as Macbeth
  • Louise Carver as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Italy, 1909, silent)^[4]
  • Mario Caserini, director
  • Dante Cappelli as Macbeth
  • Maria Caserini as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (France, 1909, silent)^[5]
  • André Calmettes, director
  • Paul Mounet as Macbeth
  • Jeanne Delvair as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1911, silent)^[6][7]
  • Will Barker, director
  • Frank Benson as Macbeth
  • Constance Benson as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Germany, 1913, silent)^[8]
  • Arthur Bourchier, director and as Macbeth
  • Violet Vanbrugh as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (France, 1915, silent)^[9][3]
  • Séverin-Mars as Macbeth
  • Georgette Leblanc as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 1916, silent, IMDB)
  • John Emerson, director
  • Herbert Beerbohm Tree as Macbeth
  • Constance Collier as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1922, silent)
  • H. B. Parkinson, director
  • Russell Thorndike as Macbeth
  • Sybil Thorndike as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Germany, 1922)^[10]
  • Heinz Schall, director
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1945)^[11]
  • Henry Cass, director
  • Wilfrid Lawson as Macbeth
  • Cathleen Nesbitt as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 1946)^[12]
  • Thomas A. Blair, director
  • David Bradley as Macbeth
  • Jain Wilimovsky as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 1948)
  • Orson Welles, director and as Macbeth
  • Jeanette Nolan as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 1951)^[12]
  • Katherine Stenholm, director
  • Bob Jones Jr. as Macbeth
  • Barbara Hudson Sowers as Lady Macbeth
• Hallmark Hall of Fame Macbeth (TV, United States, 1954, IMDB)
  • Maurice Evans as Macbeth
  • Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (France, 1959)^[13]
  • Claude Barma, director
  • Daniel Sorano as Macbeth
  • María Casares as Lady Macbeth
• Hallmark Hall of Fame Macbeth (1960, IMDB) – Emmy Award–winning remake, featuring an all-British supporting cast, and filmed on location in England and Scotland.
  • Maurice Evans as Macbeth
  • Judith Anderson as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (TV, Australia, 1960)
  • William Sterling, director
  • Kenneth Goodlet as Macbeth
  • Dinah Shearing as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (TV, Canada, 1961)^[14]
  • Paul Almond, director
  • Sean Connery as Macbeth
  • Sharon Acker as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (TV, Australia, 1965)
  • Alan Burke, director
  • Wynn Roberts as Macbeth
  • Terri Aldred as Lady Macbeth
• Play of the Month: Macbeth (United Kingdom, TV, 1970; United States, TV, 1975)
  • John Gorrie, director
  • Eric Porter as Macbeth
  • Janet Suzman as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1970)^[15] - a 5-part adaption released for ITV School's Drama series.
  • Charles Warren, director
  • Michael Jayston as Macbeth
  • Barbara Leigh-Hunt as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States and United Kingdom, 1971)
  • Roman Polanski, director
  • Jon Finch as Macbeth
  • Francesca Annis as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 1979) – film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Other Place production.
  • Philip Casson, director
  • Trevor Nunn, writer
  • Ian McKellen as Macbeth
  • Judi Dench as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1981)^[16]
  • Joan Ashworth, director
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1981)
  • Arthur Allan Seidelman, director
  • Jeremy Brett as Macbeth
  • Piper Laurie as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (TV, Hungary, 1982)
  • Béla Tarr, director
  • György Cserhalmi as Macbeth
  • Erzsébet Kútvölgyi as Lady Macbeth
• BBC Television Shakespeare Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 1983) – released in the United States as part of the Complete Dramatic Works of William Shakespeare series.
  • Jack Gold, director
  • Nicol Williamson as Macbeth
  • Jane Lapotaire as Lady Macbeth
• Shakespeare: The Animated Tales Macbeth (TV, Russia and United Kingdom, 1992)
  • Nicolai Serebryakov, director
  • Brian Cox as the voice of Macbeth
  • Zoë Wanamaker as the voice of Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Australia, 1996)^[17]
  • Thomas R. Gough, producer
  • Julia Reece, Macbeth
  • Julienne Horsman, Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1997)
  • Jeremy Freeston and Brian Blessed, directors
  • Jason Connery as Macbeth
  • Helen Baxendale as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Belarus, 1997)^[18]
  • Mikhail Ptashuk, director
  • Oleg Garbuz, Macbeth
  • Tatjana Zhdanova, Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth Horror Suite di Carmelo Bene Da William Shakespeare (TV, Italy, 1997)^[19]
  • Carmelo Bene, director
  • Carmelo Bene as Macbeth
  • Silvia Pasella as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 1998)
  • Michael Bogdanov, director
  • Sean Pertwee as Macbeth
  • Greta Scacchi as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 1998)^[3]
  • Paul Winarski, director
  • Stephen J. Lewis as Macbeth
  • Dawn Winarski as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Video, United Kingdom, 2001) – film of the Royal Shakespeare Company's Swan production.
  • Gregory Doran, director
  • Antony Sher as Macbeth
  • Harriet Walter as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 2003)^[20]
  • Bryan Enk, director
  • Peter J. Brown as Macbeth
  • Moira Stone as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Sweden, 2004)^[21]
  • Alex Scherpf and Bo Landin, directors
• Macbeth (TV, United Kingdom, 2010) – television adaptation of Royal Shakespeare Company's stage production.
  • Rupert Goold, director
  • Patrick Stewart as Macbeth
  • Kate Fleetwood as Lady Macbeth
• Wee Willie Macbeth (Canada, 2011)^[22]
  • Paul Lenart, director
• Macbeth (Paraguay, 2011)^[23]
  • Horacio Ojeda Lacognata, director and as Macbeth
  • Alicia Ávalos as Lady Macbeth
• The Soliloquy (United States, 2012)^[24]
  • Josh Murray, director and as Macbeth
  • Kate Foster as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 2013) - Shakespeare's Globe - The Globe on Screen's stage production
  • Eve Best, director
  • Joseph Milson, Macbeth
  • Samantha Spiro, Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 2015)
  • Justin Kurzel, director
  • Michael Fassbender as Macbeth
  • Marion Cotillard as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 2018)
  • Kit Monkman, director
  • Mark Rowley as Macbeth
  • Akiya Henry as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Russia, 2020)
  • Sergei Tsimbalenko, producer/director
  • Sergei Tsimbalenko as Macbeth
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (United States, 2021)
  • Joel Coen, writer/producer/director
  • Denzel Washington as Macbeth
  • Frances McDormand as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 2022)
  • Christopher Carter Sanderson, director
  • Sean Kenin as Macbeth
  • Meaghan Bloom Fluitt as Lady Macbeth

Unfinished

• Macbeth (United Kingdom, 1956–59)
  • Laurence Olivier, director and as Macbeth
  • Vivien Leigh as Lady Macbeth

Adaptations

• When Macbeth Came To Snakeville (United States, 1914, silent)^[25]
  • Roy Clements, director
  • Harry Todd, as Macbeth
  • Evelyn Selbie, as Lady Macbeth
• The Real Thing at Last (United Kingdom, 1916, silent)^[26]
  • L.C. MacBean, director
  • Edmund Gwenn as Rupert K. Thunder (Macbeth)
  • Nelson Keys as Lady Macbeth
• Jwala (India, 1938)^[27]
  • Vinayek, director
  • Chandramohan, Angar (Macbeth)
  • Ratnaprabha, Mangala (Lady Macbeth)
• Marmayogi (India, 1951)^[28]
  • K. Ramnoth, director
• Crimson Curtain (France, 1952)^[29]
  • André Barsacq, director
  • Pierre Brasseur as Ludovic Arn (Macbeth)
  • Monelle Valentin as Aurélia Nobli (Lady Macbeth)
• Marmayogi (India, 1964)
  • B. A. Subba Rao, director

• Joe MacBeth (United Kingdom, 1955) is a film noir resetting of the story as a gang war in Chicago
  • Ken Hughes, director
  • Paul Douglas as Joe MacBeth
  • Ruth Roman as Lily Macbeth
• Throne of Blood (a.k.a. Cobweb Castle or Kumonosu-jo) (Japan, 1957) is an adaptation of the Macbeth story to a Japanese setting.
  • Akira Kurosawa, director
  • Toshirō Mifune as Washizu Taketoki
  • Isuzu Yamada as Washizu Asaji
• Teenage Gang Debs (United States, 1966), setting the theme around a teenage girl who joins a street gang.
  • Sande N. Johnsen, director
  • Diane Conti as Terry (the Lady Macbeth character)
• The first series of The Black Adder (TV, United Kingdom, 1983), written by Richard Curtis and Rowan Atkinson, is a parody of Shakespeare's plays, particularly Macbeth, Richard III and Henry V.
• Men of Respect (United States, 1991) is a retelling of the Macbeth story as a Mafia power struggle in New York City, in modern English, but closely tracking the original plot.
  • William Reilly, director
  • John Turturro as Mike Battaglia
  • Katherine Borowitz as Ruthie Battaglia
• Scenes from Macbeth (Canada, 1992)^[30]
  • Chris Philpott, director
• In The Flesh (Hungary and United States, 1997) - Pornographic adaption of the play.^[3]
  • Antonio Passolini and Stuart Canterbury, directors
  • Mike Horner as Lord Macbeth
  • Kylie Ireland as Lady Macbeth
• Star Wars: Macbeth (United States, 1997)^[3]
  • Bien Conception and Donald Fitz-Roy, directors
• Macbeth On The Estate (United Kingdom, 1997)^[3]
  • Penny Woolcock, director
  • James Frain as Macbeth
  • Susan Vidler as Lady Macbeth
• The Scottish Tale (United States, 1997), romantic-comedy adaption of the play.^[3]
  • Mack Polhelmus, director
  • Josiah Polhemus as Mack
  • Ann Boehkle as Beth
• Naked Frailties (Canada, 1998)^[3]
  • Larry Reese, director
• Macbeth in Manhattan (United States, 1999)^[3]
  • Greg Lombardo. director
  • Nick Gregory as William (Macbeth)
  • Gloria Reuben as Claudia (Lady Macbeth)
• Borough of Kings (United States, 2000)^[3]
  • Elyse Lewin, director
• Rave Macbeth (Canada and Germany, 2001)^[3]
  • Klaus Knoesel. director
  • Michael Rosenbaum as Marcus (Macbeth)
  • Nicki Aycox as Lidia (Lady Macbeth)
• Macbeth: The Comedy (United States, 2001)^[3]
  • Allison L. LiCalsi, director
  • Erika Burke as Macbeth
  • Juliet Furness as Lady Macbeth
• Scotland, PA (United States, 2001) is set in and around a fast food restaurant in the 1970s.
  • William Morrissette, writer/director
  • Maura Tierney as Pat McBeth
  • James LeGros as Joe "Mac" McBeth
  • Christopher Walken as Lieutenant McDuff
  • Kevin Corrigan as Anthony "Banko" Banconi
  • Andy Dick, Timothy "Speed" Levitch, and Amy Smart as the three Bohemians
• Makibefo (Madagascar, 2001)^[31]
  • Alexander Abela, director
  • Martin Zia as Makibefo (based on Macbeth)
  • Neoliny Dety as Valy Makibefo (Lady Macbeth)
• Mad Dawg: Running Wild In The Streets (United States, 2001)^[3]
  • Greg Salman, director
  • Lamic Blake as Mac
  • Lunden De’Leon as Lady Mac
• Yellamma (India, 2001)^[3]
  • Mohan Koda, director
• Sangrador (Venezuela, 2003) is an adaptation set in the 1900s Andean Venezuelan mountains
  • Leonardo Henríquez, director
  • Daniel Alvarado, as Max (the Macbeth character)
  • Karina Gómez, as Mileidi (the Lady Macbeth character)
• Maqbool (India, 2004) is a Macbeth adaptation set in the Mumbai underworld.
  • Vishal Bhardwaj, director
  • Irfan Khan as Mian Maqbool (the Macbeth character)
  • Tabu as Nimmi (the Lady Macbeth character)
• ShakespeaRe-Told Macbeth (United Kingdom, TV, 2005) is a modern adaptation by Peter Moffat, set in a Glasgow restaurant.
  • James McAvoy as Joe Macbeth
  • Keeley Hawes as Ella (the Lady Macbeth character)
  • Richard Armitage as Peter Macduff
• Macbeth 3000: This Time, It’s Personal (Canada, 2005)^[32]
  • Geoff Warren Meech, director
  • Bill Stepee as Macbeth
  • Kate Hortop as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (Australia, 2006) – film set against the backdrop of a violent gang war in Melbourne, Australia.
  • Geoffrey Wright, director
  • Sam Worthington as Macbeth
  • Victoria Hill as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 2006)^[33]
  • Michael T. Starks. director
  • Clyde Sacks as Macbeth
  • Karilyn T. Starks as Lady Macbeth
• Mickey B (United Kingdom, 2006)^[34]
• The Banquet (China, 2006), Chinese adaption (that also borrows elements of Hamlet) set during the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period.^[35]
  • Feng Xiaogang, director
• Max & Beth (United Kingdom, 2008)^[36]
• Macbeth’s Disciple (United Kingdom, 2008)^[37]
  • Jasmin Tempest, director
  • Roger Barclay as Macbeth
• Macbeth (United States, 2009), apocalyptic adaption.^[38]
  • Brandon Arnold, director
  • Hans Totterer as Macbeth
  • Chrissy Ellison as Lady Macbeth
• Macbeth No More (United Kingdom, 2010)^[39]
  • Suri Krishnamma, director
• Bill Shakespeare in Hollywood (United States, 2011)
  • Jocelyn Ranne, director and as Lady Macbeth
• Shakespeare Must Die (Thailand, 2012)^[40]
  • Ing Kanjanavanit, director
• Macbett (The Caribbean Macbeth) (United States, 2012)^[41]
  • Aleta Chappelle, director
  • Terrence Howard as Macbett (Macbeth)
  • Sanaa Lathan as Lady Macbett (Lady Macbeth)
• The Tragedy of Macbeth (United States, 2012), CGI adaption of Macbeth with a sci-fi setting.^[42]
  • Don Gallagher, director
• Macbeth Unhinged (United States, 2016). A revised version of the film was released in 2022, titled Curse of the Macbeths.
  • Angus MacFadyen, director and as Macbeth
  • Taylor Roberts as Lady Macbeth
• Veeram (India, 2016) is a Malayalam language adaptation set in 13th century India.^[43]
• Il maledetto (Italy, 2017), Italian gangster adaption of Macbeth.^[44]
  • Giulio Base, director
  • Nicola Nocella as Michele (Macbeth)
  • Ileana D'Ambra as Leda (Lady Macbeth)
• Joji (India, 2021) is a Malayalam language crime drama based on Macbeth.^[45]
• Mandaar (India, 2021) is an Indian Bengali language crime thriller adaptation set in a fishing village in West Bengal, released as a web series and is available on Hoichoi.
• Mayaa (India, 2023)^[46]
  • Raajhorshee De, director

Theatrical performances within films

Another way in which filmmakers use Shakespearean texts is to feature characters who are actors performing those texts, within a wider non-Shakespearean story. In Opera, the 1987 Italian giallo horror film written and directed by Dario Argento and starring Cristina Marsillach, Urbano Barberini, and Ian Charleson; young opera singer Betty (Marsillach) is reluctantly thrust into the lead role in Verdi's Macbeth. During her first performance, a murder takes place in one of the opera boxes. Mysterious murders continue throughout the film as Betty is stalked and those around her meet their unfortunate end. During the final performance of the opera, the killer is revealed, and Betty must confront her past in a terrifying climax.

In Thane of East County, a 2015 American black and white film, actors in a production of Macbeth mirror the actions of the characters they portray.