Macbeth, the Thane of Glamis, receives a prophecy from a trio of witches that one day he will become King of Scotland. Consumed by ambition and spurred to action by his wife, Macbeth commits a treasonous act and takes the throne for himself.

Revolving around his own powerful turn as Macbeth, Orson Welles’s thundering adaptation of Shakespeare’s play is an expressionistic fever dream. Gothic set design and dramatic compositions send the mind reeling, while raw performances and sweaty close-ups keep the stakes terrifyingly earthbound.