Help!

Help! (1965) is the Beatles' second feature film, a musical comedy directed by Richard Lester that you can watch online on iFILM. Where A Hard Day's Night was shot in black and white and rooted in Beatlemania chaos, this one goes full Technicolor spy-spoof — chasing John, Paul, George and Ringo across England, the Alps and the Bahamas.

The trouble starts with a ring. A religious cult devoted to the goddess Kali needs it back for a human sacrifice, and it has somehow ended up on Ringo's finger and refuses to come off. Cultists, a pair of rogue scientists and Scotland Yard all descend on the Fab Four at once, each with different but equally absurd intentions for the drummer.

Seven songs run through the madness — "Ticket to Ride," "Help!," "You've Got to Hide Your Love Away" among them — making the film feel like a live album with a plot attached. Lester directed it as a send-up of the James Bond craze then sweeping British cinema, and all four musicians played along with deadpan comic timing that still lands. Stream Help! (1965) online on iFILM.