Backbeat (1994)

"Backbeat" is the 1994 drama chronicling The Beatles' raw, formative days in Hamburg's club scene. It centers on the fraught bond between Stuart Sutcliffe and John Lennon amid smoky bars and rock and roll ambition. Sheryl Lee plays photographer Astrid Kirchherr, giving the film its emotional anchor. Lynn Lowton and Finola Geraghty fill out the supporting cast in this gritty pre-fame portrait. The archive carries one scene clip from the film. It's a brief nude scene that offers a genuinely unguarded glimpse beneath all that leather-jacket swagger.