7 Movies Where The Beatles Music Was The Major Selling Point

The only film on this list to actually use original Beatles recordings instead of covers. I Wanna Hold Your Hand has no score, the only music coming from records, television shows and performances appearing on screen.

I Wanna Hold Your Hand is a comedy about four teens desperately trying to get to The Ed Sullivan show for The Beatles' debut performance. It makes a decent attempt at capturing the excitement of Beatlemania.

Released in 1978, there was of course no way to include the actual band themselves. In her review for the New York Times, Jane Maslin would write, “The gimmick [of the film] is that you never actually see The Beatles; the genius of the film is that you never miss them.”

I Wanna Hold Your Hand was the directorial debut of Robert Zemeckis. To secure him the job producer Steven Spielberg had to promise executives at Warner Brothers he would step in if Zemeckis was doing a bad job. That proved unnecessary but sadly the film failed to recoup its modest budget.