Imagine: John Lennon (1988), Let It Be (1970), Still (2012), The U.S. vs. John Lennon (2006), Nowhere Boy (2009), The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus (1968), Backbeat (1994), The Killing of John Lennon (2006) ... 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: documentary, biography, music, the beatles, rock, history, interviews ...
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: music documentary, the beatles, rock music, live performance, music history, 1960s, british film ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After years of stability, the lives of octogenarian couple, Craig and Irene Morrison, are slowly beginning to change. Because of changing times and regulations, they are no longer able to make a living from their small coastal New Brunswick farm. And Irene has begun to show signs of early dementia. Against the wishes of their two offspring who still reside in the area and who would like to see more standard care provided for Irene, Craig, the son of a master shipbuilder who inherited his father's building abilities, decides to mill lumber from trees on their property and with it build a more suitable, small one story house on the property in which he and Irene can live. Beginning this project with only a design in his mind, he is encouraged by friends at least to go through the regulatory process of building permits and the like. Despite being able to complete this project to more than exacting centuries old standards, Craig ends up hitting one roadblock after another in this regulatory process, which could kibosh this project, and his want for what he sees as a comfortable life with Irene in their final years.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: drama, biography, music, documentary, the beatles, rock, musician ...
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: documentary, music, biography, history, politics, activism, the beatles ...
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: biography, music, drama, the beatles, coming of age, family, uk ...
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: music documentary, live performance, 1960s, psychedelic rock, music history, nostalgia, experimental music ...
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: music, biography, the beatles, band, rock, 1960s, romance ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A dramatization of Mark Chapman's plan to murder John Lennon.
Plot Keywords: biography, crime, drama, thriller, true story, assassination, new york ...
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: independent film, historical drama, lgbt, biographical, musician, the beatles, 1960s ...
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: biography, history, documentary, music, assassination, true story, 1980s ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This movie features Beatle John Lennon and Roy Kinnear as ill-fated enlisted men under the inept command of Lieutenant Ernest Goodbody (Michael Crawford). The story unwinds mostly in flashbacks of Lieutenant Goodbody who has lower-class beginnings and education which make him a poor officer who commands one of the worst units of the Army.—Jenny Evans <J.Evans@uts.edu.au>
Plot Keywords: war, comedy, satire, black comedy, world war ii, british film, anti-war ...
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