Want to know the best Beatles movies? How about the worst Beatles movies? Curious about Beatles box office grosses or which Beatles movie picked up the most Oscar® nominations? Need to know which Beatles movie got the best reviews from critics and audiences? Well, you have come to the right place….because we have all of that information.
The Beatles were an English rock band formed in Liverpool in 1960. The group was comprised of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, are regarded as the most influential band of all time. The Beatles made a handful of movies together and a few more individually. This page will look at all the movies that made together and apart.
This page has two tables of information. Table one ranks Beatle movies in chronological order. Table two ranks Beatles movies and ALL the other movies made by the four members. To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences, and get some award recognition.
Beatles Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.
Beatles And Alumni Movies Can Be Ranked 6 Ways In This Table
The really cool thing about this table is that it is “user-sortable”. Rank the movies any way you want.
- Sort which Beatles member was in the movie.
- Sort movies by adjusted domestic box office grosses using current movie ticket cost (in millions)
- Sort movies by yearly domestic box office rank
- Sort movies by how they were received by critics and audiences. 60% rating or higher should indicate a good movie.
- Sort by how many Oscar® nominations and how many Oscar® wins each movie received.
- Sort movies by Ultimate Movie Rankings (UMR) Score. UMR puts box office, reviews and awards into a mathematical equation and gives each movie a score.
The Beatles
George Harrison (1943 – 2001)
John Lennon (1940-1980)
Paul McCartney (1942-)
Ringo Starr (1940-)
We have also ranked 49 Top 40 songs by The Beatles if you are interested. Just click on the following link to see those songs ranked. Beatles Top 40 Songs Ranked.
Imagine I’m in love with you
It’s easy ‘cos I know
I’ve imagined I’m in love with you
many, many, many times before
I think about you night and day
I need you and it’s true
When I think about you, I can say
I’m never, never, never blue. [I’ll Get You 1963]
That is my own fave Beatles song. I never liked their movies but this new page is “Voted Up!” as I enjoyed their songs such as Ticket to Ride and Hard Day’s Night. The voice of John Lennon was my favorite one of the 4.
The Beatles’ famous mega-selling album Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band had one of the most striking and iconic covers ever at the time showing the 4 singers surrounded by superimposed images of droves of celebrities such as Monroe; Oliver Hardy; Oscar Wilde; Brando; Astaire; Tom Mix [as mentioned by Steve in a recent post to me] Karl Marx; Bob Dylan and many others.
The Beatles became such a phenomenon in the 1960s that the Queen of England honored them with MBEs [Member of the British Empire]. Historically such Royal awards had been monopolized by the upper classes and all kinds of establishment figures; the Beatles were from lower class backgrounds; and “pop” music had been treated as an inferior -even despised in some quarters – art form.
So I remember that in protest against the Beatles’ Royal awards several individuals such as retired Army offices returned their own awards to Buckingham Palace in disgust.
However the mega sales of the Beatles’ records were such that they brought massive foreign revenues into Britain whereas most of the recipients of British Royal honours tend to get their awards for their social rank and/or for the jobs they occupy regardless of how well they do those jobs– the awards “go with the territory”
Ironically therefore the working-class Beatles globally probably brought more prestige and greater revenues to the British entertainment industry than maybe for example all the “upper crust” plummy-voiced actor knights and opera divas put together. Even Elvis was unnerved by their threat as musical icon rivals.
Moreover ultimately with Al Leach ‘merely’ bubbling under its Top 10 Greatest Entertainers of the 20th Century Variety designated the Beatles as the greatest of them all above in the Top 10 even recognised 20th century entertainment monsters such as Bogie/Sinatra/Monroe/Brando and Chaplin; and the Beatles also joined those last four named in Time Magazine’s list of the 100 most influential people of all kinds in the 20th Century.
“Fools! For I also had my hour,
One far fierce hour and sweet,
When there were shouts above my ears
And palms before my feet.”
[G K Chesterton “The Donkey” about Jesus riding into Jerusalem on a donkey on Palm Sunday]
There are of course some 21st Century Greats around at the moment – take Hanks/Eastwood and Rosemary Clooney’s gorgeous nephew for example. And future Greats WILL arrive: someday to thrill and excite the ladies another Royal Dano will come. However since the 20th Century has completely gone the Beatles’ Time and Variety accolades [like the one below]have in a way a permanence that can’t be removed.
ADDITIONAL TRIVIA
ENTERTAINMENT WEEKLY: 100 Greatest Entertainers: 1950-2000
As 1999 came to a close and a new century began, these were the celebrities who stood apart from the rest, the ones who helped shape the last five decades into an era of matchless entertainment. This is Entertianment Weekly’s choice for the top 100. From Marlon Brando to the BEATLES from Julia Roberts to Jerry Seinfeld, Entertainment Weekly’s 100 Greatest Entertainers 1950-2000 celebrates the stars who defined pop culture post- World War II- just as television and rock and roll were beginning to captivate the country. These are the matinee idols, the musical geniuses, and the industry trailblazers whose artistry and talents have made them the most fascinating personalities of our time. The TOP 18.
1. THE BEATLES
2. Elvis Presley
3. Marilyn Monroe
4. Steven Spielberg
5. Madonna
6. Frank Sinatra
7. Saturday Night Fever
8. Michael Jackson
9. Lucille Ball
10. The Simpsons
11. Bob Dylan
12. Marlon Brando
13. Barbra Streisand
14. Alfred Hitchcock
15. The Rolling Stones
16. Audrey Hepburn
17. John Wayne
18. Elizabeth Taylor
I’ve seen 10 of the 35 Beatles connected movies on the chart, more than I thought.
Favorites are – A Hard Days Night, Help, Yellow Submarine, Life of Brian, Time Bandits and Caveman (guilty pleasure, made me laugh back in the 80s)
I’ve also seen – Let it Be (ages ago barely remember it), Candy, Mona Lisa and Oh What a Lovely War. Withnail & I has somehow passed me by.
Surpised to see Candy was so successful, great cast includes Brando and Richard Burton but what a strange movie, a true oddity.
Good work. Vote Up!