Imagine: John Lennon (1988), The Beatles: Eight Days a Week -- The Touring Years (2016), Let It Be (1970), Yellow Submarine (1968), The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006), Nowhere Boy (2009), Danny Collins (2015), The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best John Lennon movies.
Storyline: This "biography" evolves around the nearly 240 hours of film and videotape fortuitously taken by Lennon of his life. The archive footage is transformed into a fascinating life story of one of the most complex and fascinating men of the modern music era. This effort includes a 36 song soundtrack. Includes some very personal and insightful footage, never before made available to the public.—Todd Tidyman
Plot Keywords: yoko ono, child, son, musician, fascinating, engaging, new york city ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the 1960s, the Beatles exploded on to the public scene, seemingly out of nowhere as the band's formative years of constant performing at home and in Hamburg, and Brian Epstein's grooming, finally paid off beyond their wildest dreams. Accompanying new interviews of the remaining Beatles, their associates and fans as well as archival interviews of the late ones, this film features footage of the heady concert years of 1963 to 66 when the band became a worldwide cultural phenomena topping them all. Furthermore, it also follows how the Fab Four began to change and grow while the excitement of Beatlemania began to sour their lives into an intolerable slog they needed to escape from to become more than what their fans wanted.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: paul mccartney, john lennon, ringo starr, george harrison, filmmaker, charming, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A documentary showing both how The Beatles made music together, and how they split up. Hundreds of hours of raw footage was condensed into the final product. The rooftop performance ending the film remains a rock-n-roll archetype.—Ed Chen <echen@bcm.tmc.edu>
Plot Keywords: paul mccartney, john lennon, george harrison, ringo starr, producer, yoko ono, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the music hating Blue Meanies take over Pepperland and freeze everyone within it, including the protectors, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Captain Fred (Lance Percival) and his Yellow Submarine recruit The Beatles to help save Pepperland. Along the way, they fall through the Sea of Time, Sea of Nothing, Sea of Holes, and more. They meet Jeremy Hillary Boob Ph.D. (Dick Emery) and take him with them along the adventure. When at Pepperland, The Beatles "rally the land to rebellion" and take down the Blue Meanies, the four-headed Meanie dog, and the Dreadful Flying Glove (with the songs "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "With A Little Help From My Friends", "Hey Bulldog", "All You Need is Love"). In the end, we see all four live-action Beatles singing "All Together Now".
Plot Keywords: john lennon, paul mccartney, george harrison, ringo starr, mayor, dreamy, witty ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After background about the childhood and youth of John Lennon (1940-1980) and the birth of Vietnam-War protests, the film plunges into Lennon's quest for world peace: compositions such as "Give Peace a Chance", the lie-in following his marriage to Yoko Ono, appearances at concerts, "War Is Over" posters, and plans for a series of concerts in 1972 in U.S. presidential primary states reach newly-enfranchised young voters. This plan for concerts, in particular, led a prominent Senator, the FBI's J. Edgar Hoover, and Nixon's White House to initiate a concerted and illegal effort to deport Lennon. Thirty talking heads, led by Yoko, comment on Lennon and these events.—<jhailey@hotmail.com>
Plot Keywords: musician, wife, senator, activist, inspiring, engaging, concert stage ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The story of John Lennon's childhood and teenage years from 1944 to 1960, his relationship with his aunt Mimi and his mother Julia -the two dominant women in the first part of his life-, his first meeting with Paul McCartney and George Harrison, their friendship, their love for music and the birth of The Beatles.
Plot Keywords: musician, teen boy, aunt, uncle, mother, paul mccartney, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Inspired by a true story, Al Pacino stars as aging 1970s rocker Danny Collins, who can't give up his hard-living ways. But when his manager (Christopher Plummer) uncovers a 40 year-old undelivered letter written to him by John Lennon, he decides to change course and embarks on a heartfelt journey to rediscover his family, find true love and begin a second act.
Plot Keywords: john lennon, aging musician, rocker, man, amusing, moving, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The commander of a failed 1928 Arctic airship expedition is remembering the events of the "Italia" airship flight, crash, and subsequent rescue efforts. The "ghosts" of people involved in the events appear in his memories to assist him in determining his guilt in the affair. The reminiscences are mixed with the real action: the flight of the "Italia", the air rescue operation from Kings Bay airfield, the expedition of the "Krassin" ice-breaker. A sort of human touch is added by the ever beautiful C.C. playing Malmgren's girlfriend.—E. Kocourek <e_kocourek@yahoo.com>
Plot Keywords: mick jagger, john lennon, eric clapton, yoko ono, musician, outlandish, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A pre-fame Beatles head for the seedy clubs of Hamburg in search of success. The band meet up with a group of trendy German beatniks, one of whom (Astrid Kircherr) bass guitarist Stuart Sutcliffe falls in love with. Whilst best friend John Lennon can only watch, Sutcliffe has to choose between rock 'n roll and a new life in Germany...—Douglas Baptie
Plot Keywords: john lennon, beatnik, girlfriend, guitarist, groupie, photographer, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A fictionalized account of what may have happened when John Lennon and Brian Epstein went on holiday together to Spain in 1963.
Plot Keywords: musician, manager, stewardess, airy, amusing, charming, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: On December 8th, 1980, John Lennon was shot outside of the Dakota apartment building in New York. This film follows the untold, actual story of those who were part of his attempted rescue and witnesses to the human cost of tragedy.
Plot Keywords: producer, reporter, nurse, doctor, yoko ono, brooding, emotional ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a dramatization of her life, Linda Eastman (Elizabeth Mitchell) takes a job snapping pictures for Rolling Stone Magazine, despite the objections of her straight-laced father, Lee Eastman (George Segal). As Linda rubs elbows with music royalty, she bumps into rock star Paul McCartney (Gary Bakewell), and they soon fall in love. Although not only her father but also Paul's band mates disapprove of the romance, Linda and Paul wed -- while relations between the Beatles begin to disintegrate.
Plot Keywords: photographer, paul mccartney, john lennon, mick jagger, father, jim morrison, cool ...
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