History Film / LadyMacbeth

* MurderTheHypothenuse: [[spoiler: Katherine ends up murdering her own husband to cover her affair with Sebastian]].

* ADateWithRosiePalms: Alexander makes Katherine strip, then face the wall while he masturbates. Oddly enough, though this indicates he finds her attractive ''somehow'', they never actually have sex.

The film stars Creator/FlorencePugh as Katherine Lester, Creator/CosmoJarvis as Sebastian, Paul Hilton as Alexander Lester, Creator/NaomiAckie as Anna and Christopher Fairbank as Boris Lester.

* MakeItLookLikeAnAccident: Katherine tries to invoke some version of this with her murders--no one questions her about her father-in-law's death, her husband is assumed to have met with foul play during his travels home, and she offers no explanation for [[spoiler: Teddy's death, even as the coroner and constable grill her, saying there are clear signs of the child having been suffocated]].

The film stars Creator/FlorencePugh as Katherine Lester, Cosmo Jarvis as Sebastian, Paul Hilton as Alexander Lester, Creator/NaomiAckie as Anna and Christopher Fairbank as Boris Lester.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The film generally doesn't gloss over classism and racism of the time period. In the case of Teddy however, no one reacts at all to the fact that his mother was black. Though it's not impossible, the reaction would far more likely be negative, with his existence considered a scandal that had to be hushed up, rather than having his white father Alexander's family openly care for him.

* MixedAncestry: Teddy has this, as he's Alexander's son with a black woman. Unusually, despite the racist time period, there's no adverse reaction from anyone.

* WouldntHurtAChild: Sebastian, at first anyway. [[spoiler: Katherine, on the other hand...]]

The film stars Creator/FlorencePugh as Katherine Lester, Cosmo Jarvis as Sebastian, Paul Hilton as Alexander Lester, Naomi Ackie as Anna and Christopher Fairbank as Boris Lester.

* BitchSlap: Katherine receives these, whether it's from his husband or other men.

** Katherine clearly knows that their racial and social differences are why SHE will be believed rather than Sebastian and Alice when she blames everything on them.
** More subtly, it's probably also why Alexander couldn't marry Teddy's mother and only provides for him from afar.

* YourCheatingHeart: Katherine begins a torrid love affair with a stablehand by the name of Sebastian.

''Lady Macbeth'' (2017) is a British drama film directed by William Oldroyd and written by Alice Birch, based on the short story ''Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District'' by Nikolai Leskov.

** More subtly, it's probably also why Alexander couldn't marry Teddy's mother and only provide for him from afar.

* PeepingTom: At one point Anna spies on Katherine having sex with Sebastian in her room by peering through the keyhole.

* PoliticallyCorrectHistory: The film generally doesn't gloss over classism and racism of the time period. In the case of Teddy, no one reacts at all to the fact that his mother was black. Though it's not impossible, the reaction would far more likely be negative, with his existence considered a scandal that had to be hushed up, rather than having his father's family openly care for him.

* DarkActionGirl: A dark version with Katherine. [[spoiler: She ends up poisoning her father-in-law, bludgeoning her husband to death and smothering her ward with a pillow.]]
* ADateWithRosiePalms: Alexander makes Katherine strip, then face the wall while he masturbates.

* MixedAncestry: Teddy, Alexander's son with a black woman. Unusually, despite the time period, there's no adverse reaction from anyone.
* MsFanservice: Katherine is shown naked from [[ToplessnessFromTheBack the back]] and [[{{Sideboob}} side]] multiple times while, in some cases having sex with Sebastian.

* AssholeVictim: Given what pricks they were, one can sympathize with Katherine and even cheer her on when she kills her father-in-law and husband.

* DownerEnding: [[spoiler: Katherine's father in law, husband and ward are dead by her hand, her maid and her lover are falsely accused of her deeds and will most likely hang. Katherine sends her servants away and remains alone with her unborn child.]]

* KarmaHoudini: [[spoiler: Katherine kills three people (including an innocent child) and a horse. Not only she avoids a punishment, two more people might get executed being accused of her deeds.]]

* SurprisePregnancy: [[spoiler: A catalyst for Katherine's murder of Teddy. After discovering that she is pregnant with Sebastian's child, she tries to tell him, but he's angry at being forced to sleep in the stable because of Teddy's presence and sends her away. This begins a series of events which ends up with Katherine smothering Teddy with a [[VorpalPillow pillow]].]]

* WouldHurtAChild: [[spoiler: Katherine.]]
* WouldntHurtAChild: Sebastian. [[spoiler: Katherine, on the other hand...]]