Macbeth

Macbeth (1971) is Roman Polanski's adaptation of Shakespeare's tragedy you can watch online on iFILM. Made in the immediate aftermath of Sharon Tate's murder, the film strips the play down to its coldest, most violent core — no stage conventions, no softening.

11th-century Scotland. Warlord Macbeth comes home from battle to a prophecy from three witches: the throne can be his. His wife sees no reason to wait for fate to act. What follows is a precise, unsparing account of how ambition and complicity corrode two people from the inside out. John Finch plays Macbeth as a man who hesitates and then cannot stop; Francesca Annis gives Lady Macbeth a quietly terrifying calm.

The script was co-written with critic Kenneth Tynan; production financing came through Playboy Productions. At the time critics argued over the degree of on-screen bloodshed. Decades on, the film holds as one of the most direct confrontations with the play's savagery on record. Watch Macbeth (1971) online on iFILM.