BeaTles & Beatlemania movies!
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1. A Hard Day's Night (1964)
G | 87 min | Comedy, Musical
Over two "typical" days in the life of The Beatles, the boys struggle to keep themselves and Sir Paul McCartney's mischievous grandfather in check while preparing for a live TV performance.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 48,068 | Gross: $13.78M
2. Help! (1965)
G | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Musical
Sir Ringo Starr finds himself the human sacrifice target of a cult, and his fellow members of The Beatles must try to protect him from it.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 21,111 | Gross: $13.08M
3. The Music of Lennon & McCartney (1965 TV Special)
55 min | Documentary, Music
The Beatles host this showcase of other musicians performing their songs.
Director: Philip Casson | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Peter Asher, Toni Baker
Votes: 71
4. The Beatles (1965–1969)
TV-G | 30 min | Animation, Comedy, Music
The musical adventures of the greatest of the Rock Bands.
Stars: The Beatles, Paul Frees, Lance Percival
Votes: 567
5. The Beatles at Shea Stadium (1966 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 48 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary film of The Beatles classic August 15, 1965 New York concert.
Director: Robert Precht | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 511
6. The Family Way (1966)
Approved | 115 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Compassionate look at the troubles of two young newlyweds, whose marriage has yet to be consummated.
Directors: John Boulting, Roy Boulting | Stars: Hayley Mills, Hywel Bennett, Avril Angers, John Comer
Votes: 1,875
7. Magical Mystery Tour (1967 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 55 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Musical
The Beatles charter a special bus for a surreal mystery tour.
Directors: George Harrison, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bernard Knowles | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 7,895
8. How I Won the War (1967)
Approved | 109 min | Comedy, War
An inept British World War II commander leads his troops through a series of misadventures in North Africa and Europe.
Director: Richard Lester | Stars: Michael Crawford, John Lennon, Roy Kinnear, Lee Montague
Votes: 2,545
9. Two Virgins (1968)
19 min | Short
Psychedelia and love images blended and interacting.
Directors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono | Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Votes: 77
10. Wonderwall (1968)
TV-MA | 92 min | Drama
Eccentric professor Oscar Collins lives completely secluded in his chaotic apartment. When model Penny Lane and her photographer boyfriend move in next to him, he becomes fascinated with ... See full summary »
Director: Joe Massot | Stars: Jack MacGowran, Jane Birkin, Irene Handl, Richard Wattis
Votes: 913
11. Yellow Submarine (1968)
G | 85 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
The Beatles agree to accompany Captain Fred in his yellow submarine and go to Pepperland to free it from the music-hating Blue Meanies.
Director: George Dunning | Stars: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, John Lennon
Votes: 28,025 | Gross: $0.99M
12. Bed Peace (1969)
61 min | Documentary
This a short documentary of John and Yoko's "Bed-in for Peace", filmed in their hotel room in Amsterdam, 1969, during their honeymoon.
Directors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono | Stars: Murray the 'K', Al Capp, Kyoko Ono Cox, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 89
13. The Magic Christian (1969)
M/PG | 92 min | Comedy
The world's richest man and his adopted hobo son set out to test the limits of human vanity and greed through a series of "money games".
Director: Joseph McGrath | Stars: Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Isabel Jeans, Caroline Blakiston
Votes: 3,829 | Gross: $0.69M
14. Apotheosis (1970)
18 min | Short
This short follows Lennon and Ono as they take a hot-air balloon ride over snow-covered countryside.
Directors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono | Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono
Votes: 127
15. Up Your Legs Forever (1971)
70 min | Drama
The film consists of continuous panning shots up a series of 367 human legs.
Directors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono | Stars: Adolfas Mekas, Jonas Mekas, Al Aronowitz, Shirley Clarke
Votes: 26
16. Let It Be (1970)
G | 81 min | Documentary, Music
The filmed account of The Beatles' attempt to recapture their old group spirit by making a back to basics album, which instead drove them further apart.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 6,575 | Gross: $1.06M
17. Ten for Two: The John Sinclair Freedom Rally (1972)
PG | 78 min | Documentary, Music
Documentary about political activist John Sinclair.
Director: Steve Gebhardt | Stars: Commander Cody and The Lost Planet Airmen, Rennie Davis, David Dellinger, Allen Ginsberg
Votes: 24
18. 200 Motels (1971)
R | 98 min | Comedy, Fantasy, Music
The great Frank Zappa's outrageous psychedelic precursor to today's music videos features "The Mothers of Invention" wreaking havoc in a typical American town. Ringo Starr narrates.
Directors: Tony Palmer, Frank Zappa | Stars: Mark Volman, Howard Kaylan, Ian Underwood, Aynsley Dunbar
Votes: 2,374 | Gross: $0.05M
19. The Concert for Bangladesh (1972)
G | 103 min | Documentary, Music
The first benefit rock concert when major musicians performed to raise humanitarian relief funds for the refugees of Bangladesh of 1971 war.
Director: Saul Swimmer | Stars: George Harrison, Bob Dylan, Ravi Shankar, Ringo Starr
Votes: 1,646 | Gross: $2.05M
20. Imagine (1972 TV Movie)
70 min | Documentary, Music
A surreal, half-fiction, half real life footage of a day in the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from John's historic 'Imagine' album and Yoko's 'Fly'.
Directors: John Lennon, Yoko Ono | Stars: Fred Astaire, John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Dick Cavett
Votes: 847
21. One Hand Clapping (1974)
55 min | Documentary, Music
A rarely seen "rockumentary" made by Paul McCartney and his then band, Wings, at Abbey Road studios in London, in August 1974. The film features the band playing live and also voice overs ... See full summary »
Director: David Litchfield | Stars: Geoff Britton, Howie Casey, Geoff Emerick, Denny Laine
Votes: 58
22. Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs (1974)
109 min | Comedy, Drama
An art student is thrown out of college. Depressed, he comes up with the Party of Dynamic Erection, a near-fascist "party" that promotes male sexual dominance, and which attracts a couple of other unsavory confused characters.
Director: Stuart Cooper | Stars: John Hurt, John McEnery, David Warner, Rosalind Ayres
Votes: 275
23. Lisztomania (1975)
R | 103 min | Biography, Comedy, Music
Composer and pianist Franz Liszt (Roger Daltrey) attempts to overcome his hedonistic life-style while repeatedly being drawn back into it by the many women in his life and fellow composer Richard Wagner (Paul Nicholas).
Director: Ken Russell | Stars: Roger Daltrey, Sara Kestelman, Paul Nicholas, Ringo Starr
Votes: 3,117
24. Helter Skelter (1976)
Not Rated | 97 min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
The investigation and trial of the horrific Tate-LaBianca mass murders orchestrated by the psychotic pseudo-hippie cult leader, Charles Manson.
Stars: George DiCenzo, Steve Railsback, Nancy Wolfe, Marilyn Burns
Votes: 3,852
25. Fire in the Water (1977)
90 min | Drama
A man decides to edit a documentary on the 1960's at a remote cabin in the Scottish Highlands.
Director: Peter Whitehead | Stars: Nathalie Delon, Edouard Niermans, David Hockney, John Lennon
Votes: 33
26. The Rutles: All You Need Is Cash (1978 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 76 min | Comedy, Music
Charts the adventures of the prefab four, possibly the most famous band of all time.
Directors: Eric Idle, Gary Weis | Stars: Eric Idle, John Halsey, Ricky Fataar, Neil Innes
Votes: 6,945
27. Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (1978)
PG | 113 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A small-town band hits it big, but it must battle a nefarious plot in the music industry.
Director: Michael Schultz | Stars: Peter Frampton, Barry Gibb, Robin Gibb, Maurice Gibb
Votes: 6,982 | Gross: $20.38M
28. Birth of the Beatles (1979)
104 min | Biography, Drama, Music
An account of The Beatles during the Hamburg years, their signing with Brian Epstein and their inevitable rise during the early sixties.
Director: Richard Marquand | Stars: Stephen MacKenna, Rod Culbertson, John Altman, Ray Ashcroft
Votes: 701
29. The Long Good Friday (1980)
R | 114 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery
An up-and-coming gangster is tested by the insurgence of an unknown, very powerful threat.
Director: John Mackenzie | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Paul Freeman, Leo Dolan
Votes: 25,585
it's actually 1979
30. Rockshow (1980)
G | 102 min | Documentary, Music
In 1975 and 1976 Paul McCartney and Wings undertook the epic Wings over the World tour, the largest scale tour they would ever undertake as a band. From this tour came both the legendary "... See full summary »
Director: Jack Priestley | Stars: Paul McCartney, Linda McCartney, Denny Laine, Jimmy McCulloch
Votes: 542
31. Seaside Woman (1980)
5 min | Animation, Short, Music
Animated video to accompany the record of the same name, released under the pseudonym of Suzy and the Red Stripes, but in reality Wings' with Linda on lead vocals.
Director: Oscar Grillo
Votes: 96
32. Time Bandits (1981)
PG | 110 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
A young boy accidentally joins a band of time travelling dwarves, as they jump from era to era looking for treasure to steal.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: Sean Connery, Shelley Duvall, John Cleese, Katherine Helmond
Votes: 68,324 | Gross: $42.37M
33. Caveman (1981)
PG | 91 min | Comedy, Romance
A caveman seeks revenge on a much larger competitor for the hand of a beautiful cavewoman.
Director: Carl Gottlieb | Stars: Ringo Starr, Dennis Quaid, Shelley Long, Jack Gilford
Votes: 8,603 | Gross: $15.97M
34. Back to the Egg (1979 TV Short)
30 min | Short, Music
A film comprising videos of the music from Wings' new LP of the same title.
Director: Keef | Stars: Steve Holley, Laurence Juber, Denny Laine, Linda McCartney
Votes: 27
35. Bullshot Crummond (1983)
PG | 95 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
The dashing Captain Hugh "Bullshot" Crummond (Alan Shearman) - World War I ace fighter pilot, Olympic athlete, racing driver, part-time sleuth, and all round spiffing chap - must save the ... See full summary »
Director: Dick Clement | Stars: Alan Shearman, Diz White, Ronald E. House, Frances Tomelty
Votes: 721
36. Give My Regards to Broad Street (1984)
PG | 108 min | Drama, Music
Paul McCartney's recording of his new album is complicated by the fact that the master tapes of his recordings are missing.
Director: Peter Webb | Stars: Paul McCartney, John Burgess, Bryan Brown, Philip Jackson
Votes: 1,686 | Gross: $1.39M
37. The Compleat Beatles (1982 Video)
119 min | Documentary, Music
The history of the great British rock band.
Director: Patrick Montgomery | Stars: John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr
Votes: 1,194
38. Thomas & Friends (1984–2021)
TV-Y | 11 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
This series follows the adventures of Thomas the Tank Engine and all of his engine friends on the Island of Sodor.
Stars: Michael Angelis, Keith Wickham, Michael Brandon, Kerry Shale
Votes: 6,441
39. John and Yoko: A Love Story (1985 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 147 min | Biography, Drama, Music
Details the lives of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, from before their first meeting to their rise to stardom.
Director: Sandor Stern | Stars: Mark McGann, Kim Miyori, Kenneth Price, Peter Capaldi
Votes: 238
40. Yesterday (1985)
87 min | Comedy, Drama, Music
The growing up of four teenagers is connected with the songs of the Beatles.
Director: Radoslaw Piwowarski | Stars: Piotr Siwkiewicz, Anna Kazmierczak, Andrzej Zielinski, Krzysztof Majchrzak
Votes: 248
41. Rupert and the Frog Song (1984)
13 min | Animation, Short, Family
Rupert Bear goes on a walk in the hills near his home, where he encounters a community of frogs who join together in a musical extravaganza.
Director: Geoff Dunbar | Stars: Windsor Davies, Paul McCartney, June Whitfield
Votes: 346
42. Mona Lisa (1986)
R | 104 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.
Director: Neil Jordan | Stars: Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Michael Caine, Robbie Coltrane
Votes: 18,696 | Gross: $5.79M
43. Shanghai Surprise (1986)
PG-13 | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
Shanghai, 1938: A missionary woman hires a fortune hunter to help her find 1100 lbs. opium lost, as wounded need the morphine. Adventure and romance follows.
Director: Jim Goddard | Stars: Sean Penn, Madonna, Paul Freeman, Richard Griffiths
Votes: 5,765 | Gross: $2.32M
44. Withnail & I (1987)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
In 1969, two substance-abusing, unemployed actors retreat to the countryside for a holiday that proves disastrous.
Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Paul McGann, Richard Griffiths, Ralph Brown
Votes: 47,886 | Gross: $1.54M
45. How to Get Ahead in Advertising (1989)
R | 90 min | Comedy, Fantasy
A cynical advertising exec has a block at work leading to a meltdown. He's hilariously out of control. Getting a big, talking boil on his shoulder doesn't help.
Director: Bruce Robinson | Stars: Richard E. Grant, Rachel Ward, Richard Wilson, Jacqueline Tong
Votes: 6,628 | Gross: $0.42M
46. Daumier's Law (1992)
15 min | Animation, Short, Crime
Paul McCartney's sketched short based on the works of artist Honoré Daumier. A man in a bookstore reads an allegorical story about a wrongfully convicted man, who must feed a giant called Gargantua until salvation comes.
Director: Geoff Dunbar
Votes: 17
47. Backbeat (1994)
R | 100 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A dramatization of the Hamburg, Germany phase of The Beatles' early history.
Director: Iain Softley | Stars: Stephen Dorff, Sheryl Lee, Ian Hart, Gary Bakewell
Votes: 6,578 | Gross: $2.39M
48. The Beatles Anthology (1995–1996)
TV-14 | 67 min | Documentary, Music
An autobiographical documentary of the greatest of the rock bands.
Stars: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, Ringo Starr, George Martin
Votes: 9,424
49. Tropic Island Hum (1997)
13 min | Animation, Short, Music
After he's nearly shot at by hunters, Wirral the Squirrel is rescued by balloon-riding Froggo and both fly to a tropical island, where other rescued animals take refuge.
Director: Geoff Dunbar | Stars: Linda McCartney, Paul McCartney
Votes: 49
50. Standing Stone (1997 TV Movie)
Documentary, Music
Director: Christopher Swann | Star: Paul McCartney
Votes: 20
51. The Beatles Yellow Submarine Adventure (2000)
10 min | Animation, Short, Adventure
A ride based on the film Yellow Submarine (1968), in which the viewers/passengers travel in the yellow submarine to save Pepperland from the Blue Meanies.
Director: Trey Stokes
Votes: 113
52. The Million Dollar Hotel (2000)
R | 122 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Tragi-comic, romantic whodunnit set in a run down hotel which plays host to mentally ill people too poor to afford medical insurance.
Director: Wim Wenders | Stars: Jeremy Davies, Milla Jovovich, Mel Gibson, Jimmy Smits
Votes: 22,464 | Gross: $0.05M
53. The Best of Ringo Starr & His All Starr Band So Far... (2001 Video)
Documentary, Music
Stars: Ringo Starr, Paul McCartney
Votes: 45
54. Death of a Beatle (2001 TV Movie)
88 min | Documentary
Stars: Pete Best, Harvey Goldsmith, Bob Gruen, George Harrison
Votes: 33
55. Ringo Starr and the All Starr Band 2003 (2004 TV Special)
113 min | Documentary, Music
Director: Brent Carpenter | Stars: Ringo Starr, Paul Carrack, Sheila E., Colin Hay
Votes: 37
56. Concert for George (2003 Video)
PG-13 | 146 min | Documentary, Music
George Harrison's friends, family, and bandmates unite for a tribute concert on the one-year anniversary of his death.
Director: David Leland | Stars: Joe Brown, Eric Clapton, Jools Holland, Sam Brown
Votes: 2,142 | Gross: $0.07M
57. Riding the Bullet (2004)
R | 98 min | Horror, Thriller
When a man finds out his mother is dying and tries to hitchhike his way to the hospital, he is picked up by a stranger with a deadly secret.
Director: Mick Garris | Stars: Jonathan Jackson, David Arquette, Barbara Hershey, Cliff Robertson
Votes: 10,767 | Gross: $0.10M
58. The Rutles 2: Can't Buy Me Lunch (2003 TV Movie)
PG-13 | 84 min | Comedy
Twenty-six years after the release of the original Rutles documentary, famous artists, actors, and musicians speak out on how the Rutles influenced them.
Director: Eric Idle | Stars: Eric Idle, Neil Innes, Ricky Fataar, John Halsey
Votes: 582
59.
Great Performances (1971– )
Episode:
Paul McCartney: Chaos and Creation at Abbey Road
(2006)
TV-G | 60 min | Music, Musical
Paul McCartney plays some songs off the album "Chaos & Creation in the Backyard" and some Beatles' songs in the famous Abbey Road Studio, at the same time demonstrating some recording techniques.
Director: Simon Hilton | Stars: Nigel Godrich, Paul McCartney, Joby Talbot
Votes: 53
60. The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006)
PG-13 | 99 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
A documentary on the life of John Lennon, with a focus on the time in his life when he transformed from a musician into an antiwar activist.
Directors: David Leaf, John Scheinfeld | Stars: John Lennon, Yoko Ono, Stew Albert, Tariq Ali
Votes: 5,688 | Gross: $1.10M
actually not a great movie. just a bunch of hangers on
61. Desperately Seeking Paul McCartney (2008)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
In 1965, Ruth Anson was a teenage reporter for ABC TV news, covering the 'teen-beat.' One of her first interviews was with the Beatles, where she asked a young Paul McCartney if he had any ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Cushman | Stars: Ruth Anson, Bob Billman, Shay Burbridge, Cliff Cordova
Votes: 17
62. Paul McCartney: Good Evening New York City (2009 TV Special)
Not Rated | 154 min | Documentary, Music
A televised special featuring tracks from Paul McCartney's historic three-night musical christening of New York's Citi Field, witnessed by 120,000-plus attendees.
Directors: Shawn P. Farrell, Paul McCartney | Stars: Alec Baldwin, Billy Joel, Paul McCartney
Votes: 177
63. The Beatles on Record (2009 TV Movie)
58 min | Documentary, Music
A collection of interviews and footage of the band detailing how their sound progressed and how their albums were made.
Director: Bob Smeaton | Stars: The Beatles, John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison
Votes: 132
64. Nowhere Boy (2009)
R | 98 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A chronicle of John Lennon's first years, focused mainly in his adolescence and his relationship with his stern aunt Mimi, who raised him, and his absentee mother Julia, who re-entered his life at a crucial moment in his young life.
Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson | Stars: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Kristin Scott Thomas, Anne-Marie Duff, David Threlfall
Votes: 38,860 | Gross: $1.45M
65. Let Him Be (2009)
Not Rated | 82 min | Drama
Let Him Be is a fascinating film about two undergrad film students Tim Bennett & Kathleen Joyce who discover a long thought to be dead rock icon living in a remote part of Canada. It all ... See full summary »
Director: Peter McNamee | Stars: Kathleen Munroe, Sean Clement, Mark Staycer, Graham Wignall
Votes: 86
66. Lennon Naked (2010 TV Movie)
TV-MA | 82 min | Biography, Drama, Music
A profile of John Lennon in the late 1960s as the Beatles are set to fall apart.
Director: Edmund Coulthard | Stars: Christopher Eccleston, Christopher Fairbank, Allan Corduner, Andrew Scott
Votes: 1,147
67. Paul McCartney Really Is Dead: The Last Testament of George Harrison (2010 Video)
Not Rated | 95 min | Documentary, Fantasy
The truth about the urban legend is finally revealed by George Harrison in newly discovered secret audio tapes: Paul McCartney was killed in a car crash in 1966 and replaced with a double!
Director: Joel Gilbert | Stars: Paul McCartney, George Harrison, John Lennon, Ringo Starr
Votes: 768
68. The Love We Make (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
In the aftermath of the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center, Paul McCartney travels through the streets of New York and organizes a benefit concert.
Directors: Bradley Kaplan, Albert Maysles | Stars: Rusty Anderson, Backstreet Boys, Jon Bon Jovi, David Bowie
Votes: 278
69. George Harrison: Living in the Material World (2011)
Not Rated | 208 min | Documentary, Biography, Music
Filmmaker Martin Scorsese examines the life of musician George Harrison, weaving together interviews, concert footage, home movies and photographs.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: George Harrison, Harry Harrison, Peter Harrison, Paul McCartney
Votes: 12,625
70. Beatles Stories (2011)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary, Music
A big fan of The Beatles growing up in the 60s, Seth Swirsky noticed that whenever he heard someone relating a story about themselves and The Beatles, he was "all ears". So, starting in ... See full summary »
Director: Seth Swirsky | Stars: Seth Swirsky, Nancy Lee Andrews, The Beatles, Jack Benny
Votes: 209
71.
Arena (1975– )
Episode:
Magical Mystery Tour Revisited: The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour - Part 1
(2012)
55 min | Documentary
Arena presents the greatest Beatles story never told - the making of Magical Mystery Tour - full of fabulous Beatles archive material never shown before anywhere in the world.
Director: Francis Hanly | Stars: The Beatles, Jeni Crowley, Peter Fonda, Paul Fox
Votes: 48
72.
Classic Albums (1997– )
Episode:
John Lennon: Plastic Ono Band
(2008)
Not Rated | 50 min | Documentary, Music
Examines in detail the creation of John Lennon's first solo album and the effect it had on music, and the people who created it.
Director: Matthew Longfellow | Stars: Arthur Janov, Richard Lush, Yoko Ono, Billy Preston
Votes: 126
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