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.

Ian McKellen
as Richard III

Annette Bening
as Queen Elizabeth

Jim Broadbent
as The Duke of Buckingham

Robert Downey Jr.
as Earl Rivers

Kristin Scott Thomas
as Lady Anne

Adrian Dunbar
as James Tyrrell

Maggie Smith
as Duchess of York

Tim McInnerny
as William Catesby

Edward Hardwicke
as Lord Stanley

Nigel Hawthorne
as The Duke of Clarence
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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 u...