For fans of Kenneth Branagh: what to watch, read & play next

Religious rivalries and threatened loyalties in 1675 England make for tense, richly costumed period drama.

A single dinner party unravels a marriage — intimate and quietly devastating in its emotional precision.

A murdered king's ghost drives his son toward revenge against a usurping uncle — Shakespeare's tragedy on screen.

An aging king abdicates to corrupt daughters and rejects the honest one — Shakespeare's study of power and folly.

A daughter awaits her father's return from captivity, only to face a devastating betrayal in medieval France.

Plague-ravaged medieval Europe, a rumoured necromancer, and a knight's fanatical quest — morally relentless historical horror.

Secrets and betrayals surround a young aristocrat's impending marriage in lushly observed French period drama.

Hamlet discovers his uncle murdered his father to seize the throne and plans revenge — Shakespeare's prince on film.

England in the 1520s: Henry VIII's drive to annul his marriage puts lives and loyalties in mortal danger.

Young Shakespeare enters a violent, intoxicating London theatre scene — raw, kinetic, and historically vivid.

Forensic medicine becomes a vehicle for grief and love — serious, tender, and emotionally exacting.

A brooding adventurer returns to Regency London with stolen diamonds and a thirst for vengeance — gothic and operatic.

A never-ending inheritance lawsuit traps a cast of lives in a suffocating legal world of inherited injustice.

Two women in a deadly game of truth and lies, racing from Istanbul to London to prevent mass casualties.

Shakespeare's history plays filmed for British television — the English crown's turbulent passage in dramatic form.

A man travels back to 1963 to stop Kennedy's assassination but finds himself torn between eras — historical and heartfelt.

An 1897 ship born of Tesla's obsession hides horror — atmospheric, ornate, and deeply unsettling.

A 1926 Scottish ancestral home holds dark hereditary secrets that threaten a returning son's sanity and life.

A quiet love story about hurt and forgiveness — intimate and emotionally honest, with five possible endings.

Two strangers on opposite sides of WWI both struggle to preserve their humanity and return to loved ones.

Agatha Christie's classic mystery reimagined in 2023 — Poirot's case brought to life with new surprises.

In the aftermath of a holy war, with oppressors vanquished and churches in ruin — a darkly comic adventure begins.

A missing actress, fragmented film footage, and a mystery solved by match-cutting through scenes — meta and absorbing.

Play Beowulf — arrogant, carnal Norse warrior — on a glory-driven quest to destroy a blood-thirsty beast.

An American actress navigates clashing egos on a Regency England film set — a world of performance and elegance.

A decades-old forced adoption and a winter body in Dublin — layered, morally serious crime fiction.

A twin's obsession with his brother's English marriage darkens into gothic dread and unbounded menace.

A woman's promise to protect her brother from a ruthless stepfather — tense, morally driven domestic thriller.

1949, eight years after a negotiated peace with Nazi Germany — England in fascist dictatorship, democracy barely alive.

A Westminster memorial interrupted by murder — classic-style detection with aristocratic leads and sharp period atmosphere.

A Verona encounter, Juliet's statue, and a love rekindled — romantic fiction steeped in Shakespearean resonance.

Two novellas of English suspense: a companion beset by cold servants and an invalid's husband hiding something.