10 Great Music Film Biopics You Have To See

When it comes to telling a story about The Beatles and its members, there is a wealth of narrative possibilities filmmakers can choose from. Nowhere Boy (2009) decides to take the most intriguing and in the end the most compelling route, with a plot focused on a young John Lennon (Aaron Taylor-Johnson) and his relationships with his aunt (Kristin Scott Thomas), his estranged mother (Anne-Marie Duff) and a young Paul McCartney (Thomas Sangster).

As Lennon reconnects with his mother, Julia, despite his Aunt Mimi's protests, his love for music begins to increase at a fast pace, prompting the young troublemaker to dream about forming his own band.

Despite presenting itself as a biopic of Lennon and his and McCartney's eventual formation of The Beatles, Nowhere Boy is at its heart a deeply affecting coming-of-age drama about a young man trying to find his way in life as his family life threatens to implode around him. It's respectful of its subjects (as all good biopics should be) and offers up some seriously underrated performances from Taylor-Johnson and Sangster.

Perfectly capturing the world from which the biggest band of all time came from and painting a startling portrait of what John Lennon was - and could have been - Nowhere Boy is a must-watch for any lover of The Beatles, music or film.