The Beatles in film The Beatles in film The Beatles appeared in five motion pictures, most of which were very well received. The exception was the (mostly unscripted) television film "Magical Mystery Tour" which was panned by critics and the public alike. Each of their films had the same name as their associated soundtrack album and a song on that album. The Beatles had a successful film career, beginning with A Hard Day's Night (1964), a loosely scripted comic farce, sometimes compared to the Marx Brothers in style. A black-and-white film, it focused on Beatlemania and the band's hectic touring lifestyle and was directed
The Beatles in film a Western film written by Richard Condon; "Shades of a Personality"; film versions of "The Lord of the Rings" and "The Three Musketeers" starring the group (although Richard Lester, who directed the group's first two movies, went on to direct his own version of "The Three Musketeers" in 1973), and a script by playwright Joe Orton called "Up Against It". Robert Zemeckis was planning a remake of the film "Yellow Submarine" with motion capture technology but it was cancelled in 2011. The Beatles have been the subject of a number of documentary films. Several fictional films not depicting The Beatles