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Theatrical & Made for TV
Christmas Movies |
Year |
Description |
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12 Men of Christmas |
2009 |
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A Boyfriend for Christmas |
2004 |
Santa plays matchmaker and
sets up a young couple for Christmas. |
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A Carol Christmas (Tori
Spelling) |
2003 |
Carol Cartman says "Bah,
humbug" to the clichés of her fellow talk-show host, Dr. Bob, and
especially to a live Christmas Eve show her producer has planned. |
|
A Chance of Snow |
1998 |
A divorced couple get snowed
in at Christmastime. |
|
A Christmas Carol (1938) |
1938 |
starring Reginald Owen as
Scrooge and Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits. |
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A Christmas Carol
|
1951 |
American title of British
film Scrooge (see below). Dickens' ghostly meditation
on Christmas. This version of the story, with Alastair Sim as Ebenezer
Scrooge, is universally regarded as the very best. |
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A Christmas Carol
|
1971 |
Oscar-winning animated
adaptation, with Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern recreating their
roles as Scrooge and Marley's Ghost. produced by Chuck Jones. |
|
A Christmas Carol (1984) |
1984 |
George C. Scott as Ebenezer
Scrooge |
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A Christmas Carol (1999) |
1999 |
Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer
Scrooge |
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Disney's A Christmas Carol |
2009 |
Walt Disney Pictures/ImageMovers
Digital performance capture film starring Jim Carrey. |
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A Christmas Carol: The
Musical |
|
Kelsey Grammer |
|
A Christmas Memory |
1966 |
Award-winning adaptation of
Truman Capote's short story. Starring Geraldine Page |
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A Christmas Memory |
1997 |
Adaptation of Truman
Capote's short story starring Patty Duke |
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A Christmas Proposal |
2008 |
When real estate tycoon Alexander Malone sets in motion a proposal to
turn the small ski town of Fillmore into a posh year-round resort he
finds himself up against local attorney Lisa Donahue who will do
whatever possible to stop the demolition of the town. |
|
A Christmas Romance |
1994 |
A banker is forced to spend
Christmas with a woman whose house he was about to repossess. |
|
A Christmas Snow |
2010 |
A woman must face the hurts
of her past while trapped with two strangers in her house for
Christmas. |
|
A Christmas Story |
1983 |
All Ralphie wants for
Christmas is a Red Ryder BB gun. |
|
A Christmas Tale (Un conte
de Noël) |
2008 |
When the matriarch of a
Family becomes in need of a transplant, the whole family is forced to
come together, emotional baggage and all, just in time for Christmas.
|
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A Christmas Too Many |
2007 |
A Hollywood legend invites
her not so normal family home for the holidays. |
|
A Christmas Visitor |
2002 |
A family decides not to
celebrate Christmas for 11 years after their son dies, but when a
stranger visits them, they realize he is the miracle their family has
been waiting for. |
|
A Christmas Wedding |
2006 |
A couple meets on Christmas.
Two years later they plan to get married on Christmas Day. |
|
A Christmas Without Snow |
1980 |
Church choir members try to
balance personal issues with practice as the holiday approaches. |
|
A Dad For Christmas |
2006 |
When a young man discovers
that his girlfriend intends to give their baby up for adoption, he
brings the baby to his grandmother for the holidays |
|
A Dennis the Menace
Christmas |
2007 |
Dennis tries to inject his
neighbor with the holiday spirit, with the help of an Angel of
Christmas Past, Present and Future. |
|
A Different Kind of
Christmas |
1996 |
A Widower starts to act like
Santa Claus and turns his house into a year-round wonderland. |
|
A Dog Named Christmas |
2009 |
The McCray family is anticipating a happy - if uneventful - Christmas
on their Kansas farm, when an unexpected visitor enters their family. |
|
A Family Thanksgiving |
2010 |
Claudia (Daphne Zuniga) is a workaholic who wants more than
anything to make partner at her law firm. To accomplish her goal, she
has put everyone and everything else on the backburner. But when a
mysterious woman (Faye Dunaway) uses a bit of magic to help
Claudia realize what she's been missing, she gets a serious dose of
reality. |
|
A Grandpa for Christmas |
2007 |
An old-time film-star, who
is estranged from his daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter, suddenly
finds himself bonding with his granddaughter when her mom is
hospitalized. |
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A Hobo's Christmas |
1987 |
A hobo decides to return
home after being away for 25 years. |
|
A Holiday to Remember |
1995 |
Carolyn is leaving the big
city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the
forest. |
|
A Home for the Holidays |
2005 |
A woman struggles to adopt
her orphaned relatives. |
|
A Lively Christmas Eve |
1962 |
An East German Christmas
comedy. On Christmas Eve, A veteran communist discovers to his horror
that his daughter is about to marry a dissident. |
|
A Mom For Christmas |
1990 |
A young girl desires to have
a mother in her life gets her wish at the department store. |
|
A Mouse, A Mystery and Me |
1987 |
A world-class
mystery-writing mouse spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partner
tracking down a missing Santa. |
|
Nanny For Christmas, A |
2010 |
|
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A Season For Miracles |
1999 |
A homeless woman and her
niece and nephew attempt to outrun the authorities during the holiday
season.- Patty Duke |
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A
Smoky Mountain Christmas
|
1986 |
A singer retreats to an
isolated mountain cabin for a quiet holiday, but finds seven orphaned
children there.
(Dolly Parton) |
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A Town Without Christmas |
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A Very Brady Christmas |
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A Very Married Christmas |
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A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride |
2008 |
A twenty-something wedding planner (Joanna Garcia, Reba) disapproves
of her forty-something widowed mother's (Helen Shaver, The Color of
Money) whirlwind romance. |
|
Adam Sandler's Eight Crazy
Nights |
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All I Want for Christmas |
1991 |
Two kids plot to reunite
their estranged parents at Christmas. |
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All Mine to Give |
1957 |
A Scottish family comes to
Wisconsin and does well until tragedy hits as Christmas nears; stars
Cameron Mitchell, Glynis Johns & Patty McCormick. |
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All She Wants for Christmas |
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An Accidental Christmas |
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An American Christmas Carol |
1979 |
A miserable businessman, is
Scrooge, in Depression-era New England. |
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An Old Fashioned Christmas |
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An Old Fashioned
Thanksgiving |
2008 |
Inspired by a short story, Isabella Caldwell is a high-society woman
in late-1800's New York. When Isabella's estranged daughter Mary
becomes ill and is too proud to ask her mother for assistance, Mary's
daughter, Tilly, takes it upon herself to contact her grandmother and
plead for help. |
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Babes in Toyland |
1939 |
Laurel & Hardy. After getting fired for messing up an order
from Santa Claus, toymakers Stan and Ollie rescue Tom Tom and Bo Peep
from Bogeyland. |
|
Bachelor Mother |
1939 |
Salesgirl finds and begins
to care for abandoned infant; everyone thinks it is hers. Ginger
Rogers |
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Bad Santa |
2003 |
A con man poses as Santa to
rob stores on Christmas Eve. |
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Benji's
Very Own Christmas Story |
1978 |
Popular screen pooch meets
Kris Kringle while preparing for a Christmas parade in Switzerland |
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Beyond Tomorrow |
1940 |
The first half of this
fantasy film takes place on Christmas Eve as three old men befriend
two strangers, a young man and woman, who return their wallets. |
|
Blizzard |
2003 |
A young girl, whose best
friend moves away near Christmas, is told a tale by her aunt of a
young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer. |
|
Borrowed Hearts |
1997 |
A wealthy manufacturer pays
an impoverished single mother who works in his factory, and her
daughter, to pretend to be his "family" at Christmastime. |
|
Bush Christmas |
1947 |
Australian children quest
for stolen horses at Christmas time. |
|
Bush Christmas |
1983 |
Australian children quest
for stolen horses at Christmas time. |
|
Call Me Claus (Whoopi
Goldberg) |
2001 |
Santa Claus is preparing to
retire, and grooms an American businesswoman to be his replacement. |
|
Carol for Another Christmas |
1964 |
This modernization of A
Christmas Carol was produced to promote American support for the
United Nations. |
|
Chasing Christmas |
2005 |
In a world where the
holidays are run by the efficient Bureau of Yuletide Affairs, a bitter
and burned-out Ghost of Christmas Past decides to go AWOL while on a
"mission" and leave his "target" stranded in 1965. |
|
Christmas At Maxwell's |
2006 |
The Austin family faces a
bleak Christmas when Suzie, extremely ill, gathers the family to go
away and spend their last Christmas together before she dies. |
|
Christmas at Water's Edge |
2004 |
Angel teams with spoiled
college coed to organize Christmas concert at community youth center. |
|
Christmas Blessing |
2005 |
Sequel to The Christmas Shoes. Nathan Andrews has grown up and is now
a medical resident. When the young doctor loses a patient, he begins
to rethink his career and moves back home with his father. |
|
Christmas Caper |
2007 |
A Grinch-like thief retreats
to her hometown for Christmas. Can the spirit of Christmas, combined
with a stint babysitting her niece and nephew, rid her of her wicked
ways? |
|
Christmas Carol: The Movie |
2001 |
An animated film starring
the voices of Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage and Michael Gambon. |
|
Christmas Child |
2003 |
A life-sized nativity leads
a man to learn about his past. |
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Christmas Comes to Willow
Creek |
1987 |
Two truck-driving brothers
attempt to transport a load of Christmas gifts from California to an
economically strapped Alaska town. |
|
Christmas Cupid |
2010 |
Christina Milian stars as high powered Hollywood publicist, Sloane,
who finds herself haunted by the ghost of her recently departed
infamous client Caitlin, With just days away from Christmas, Caitlin
takes Sloane on a journey to meet the ghosts of her ex-boyfriends from
the past, present and future to try and guide her to true love. |
|
Christmas Do-Over (Jay Mohr,
Daphne Zuniga) |
2006 |
A man has to repeat
Christmas Day over and over until he changes his ways. |
|
Christmas Eve |
1947 |
Heiress attempts to bring
her adopted sons back home by Christmas Eve to rescue her fortune from
a scheming nephew. |
|
Christmas Every Day |
1996 |
A self-centered teenager is
forced to relive the same Christmas over again after his sister wishes
it were Christmas every day. |
|
Christmas Holiday |
1944 |
On Christmas Day, a stranded
soldier listens as a cabaret singer recounts a doomed marriage to a
killer. |
|
Christmas in Boston |
2005 |
Pen pals who have never met
decide to meet up in Boston during the Christmas holiday. |
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Christmas in Canaan (Billy
Ray Cyrus) |
2009 |
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Christmas in Connecticut |
1992 |
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Christmas in Connecticut
|
1945 |
Fibbing columnist must
entertain war hero for the holidays. |
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Christmas in Paradise |
|
Two bereaved families take a holiday vacation to an exotic Caribbean
island to escape the memories of Christmas past. |
|
Christmas In The Clouds |
2001 |
Comedic misunderstandings
abound at a Native American ski resort during the holidays. |
|
Christmas in Wonderland |
2007 |
While shopping at Mall a
father and his three kids discover counterfeit money, catch the
criminals, and later make a discovery about Santa Claus. |
|
Christmas Lilies of the
Field |
1979 |
Sequel to the theatrical
film Lilies of the Field |
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Christmas on Division Street |
1991 |
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Christmas Rush |
2002 |
Suspended Chicago cop
battles hostage-taking shopping mall thieves on Christmas Eve. |
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Christmas Snow |
1986 |
A widowed mother struggles
to prevent her candy shop from being put out of business by a
hard-hearted businessman. |
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Christmas Town |
2008 |
A single mom visits her
estranged father for Christmas, and is surprised to discover his
hometown oddly resembles the North Pole. |
|
Christmas With the Kranks |
2004 |
When a suburban couple
decides to forgo Christmas festivities, preferring to take a cruise to
the Caribbean instead, their neighbors refuse to allow such
Scrooge-like behavior. |
|
Comfort & Joy
|
2003 |
Single businesswoman wakes
up married and a mother after a car accident. |
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Comfort & Joy
|
1984 |
Scottish DJ recovers from a
breakup and gets mixed up in a turf war between rival ice cream
vendors during the holiday season. |
|
Crazy for Christmas |
2005 |
A woman guides her elderly
father around town on Christmas Eve. |
|
Creepers Christmas |
2010 |
A boy saves a dragon the
week before Christmas. |
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Debbie Macomber's Mrs.
Miracle |
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Deck the Halls |
1994 |
Two orphans have to decide
which one of their two relatives they want to spend Christmas with,
their mean aunt or kind uncle. |
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Deck the Halls
|
2006 |
Two neighbors have it out
after one of them decorates his house so brightly that it can be seen
from space. (Danny Devito, Matthew Broderick) |
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Deck the Halls (TV MOVIE) |
|
Holly returns to her hometown with her eight-year old son, Ben, to
work for her father's toy business. Ben begins to believe that their
new neighbor is Santa Claus, and devises a plan to set up his mom with
Santa Claus. |
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Diva's Christmas Carol
(Vanessa Williams) |
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Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch
Stole Christmas |
2000 |
Furry green creature wants
to ruin Christmas for denizens of Whoville. |
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Ebbie |
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Elf (Will Ferrell) |
2003 |
A human, raised at the North
Pole, searches for his family in New York. |
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Eloise At Christmastime |
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Ernest Saves Christmas |
1988 |
Everyman-type Ernest Worrell
helps Santa. |
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Eve's Christmas |
2004 |
A successful career woman
gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back
in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiancé to lead a
business life in New York. |
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Fallen Angel |
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Farewell Mr. Kringle |
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Finding John Christmas
(Peter Falk) |
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Fitzwilly |
1967 |
A butler funds his
employer's charitable activities with various illicit schemes,
climaxing in an attempt to rob Gimbels department store on Christmas
Eve. |
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Four Christmases
|
2008 |
A couple struggle to visit
all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. (Vince Vaughn
Reese Witherspoon) |
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Fred Claus |
2007 |
Fred Claus, Santa's bitter
older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole. |
|
Friday After Next |
2002 |
Craig and Day-Day of the
Friday franchise start new jobs as security guards on Christmas Eve
|
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Frozen River |
2008 |
A single mother turns to
people-smuggling to provide for her family at Christmas. |
|
Funny Farm (Chevy Chase) |
1988 |
A divorcing couple attempts
to sell their farmhouse by bribing the local townspeople to create the
perfect fantasy Christmas to impress prospective buyers. |
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Gift Of The Magi |
|
With the holidays just around the corner, struggling newlyweds Jim and
Della Young are challenged to get each other the perfect gift. |
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Good Luck Charlie, It's
Christmas! |
2011 |
The Duncan family gets
separated on their way to visit Grandparents for Christmas. |
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Gotta
Catch Santa Claus |
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His and Her Christmas |
2005 |
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Hogfather |
2006 |
The Hogfather has gone
missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter
Susan endeavors to find out what has happened. |
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Holiday Affair |
1949 |
Romance blooms between a
young widow and a sales clerk at Christmastime. Remade for television
in 1996. (Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh) |
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Holiday Affair |
1996 |
Remade for television in
1996. |
|
Holiday in Handcuffs |
2007 |
A struggling artist working
as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her
parents at Christmas. |
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Holiday In Your Heart (LeAnn
Rimes) |
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Holiday Inn |
1942 |
Musicians prepare for a
white Christmas at a cozy lodge. |
|
Holiday Switch |
2007 |
It s a week before Christmas, and Paula (Nicole Eggert) is struggling
with bills, life with her blue-collar husband Gary and her two
daughters. So when Nick, her high school boyfriend, returns to town a
wealthy art gallery owner, Paula begins to wonder where she would be
if she had stayed with him and not Gary. |
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Holiday Wishes |
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Home Alone |
1990 |
A young boy named Kevin
accidentally gets left behind during Christmas break and defends his
house against robbers. |
|
Home Alone 2: Lost in New
York |
1992 |
Kevin gets onto the wrong
plane and flies to New York where he stops thieves from robbing the
toy store. |
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Home Alone 3 |
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Home Alone 4 |
2002 |
A made-for-TV sequel to
theatrical original |
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Home by Christmas |
|
Julia Bedford is a dedicated homemaker living in a modestly affluent
neighborhood with her successful husband and sixteen-year-old
daughter. When she and her husband divorce she has a hard time making
ends meet for her and her daughter to the point where they end up
homeless. Ultimately, she meets a woman who helps her gain her self
respect and a new home for the holidays. |
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Home for Christmas |
1990 |
A thief befriends a young
boy at Christmas. |
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Home for the Holidays |
1972 |
Four sisters return home to
visit their father for Christmas, only to discover that someone is
trying to kill him. |
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Home for the Holidays |
2008 |
|
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Home for the Holidays (Holly
Hunter) |
1995 |
After losing her job and
finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her
boyfriend, Claudia Larson has to face spending the holiday with her
family. She wonders if she can survive their crazy antics. |
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Homeless for the Holidays |
2009 |
A man's family is in danger
of losing everything right before Christmas. |
|
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa
Claus |
2002 |
When a young boy catches his
mom kissing Santa, he decides to be as naughty as he can until he
drives Santa back to the North Pole. |
|
If You Believe |
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I'll Be Home for Christmas |
1998 |
A college student finds it
hard to get home for Christmas. |
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I'll Be Seeing You |
1944 |
Shell-shocked war veteran
finds romance with furloughed prisoner during the holidays. |
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In the Good Old Summertime |
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In the Nick of Time |
1991 |
Santa Claus is up for
retirement after his 300 years, and he searches New York City for a
replacement.
|
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It Came Upon the Midnight
Clear |
1984 |
After suffering a fatal
heart attack, a man (Mickey Rooney) is granted a brief return to life
so that he can show is California-bred grandson his first white
Christmas in New York. |
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It Happened on 5th Avenue |
1947 |
A hobo occupies a
millionaire's posh New York mansion each year while the family winters
in Florida. The plot thickens when he gives shelter to former
servicemen and their families - and the family returns sooner than
expected; stars Victor Moore, Don DeFore. Charlie Ruggles, & Gale
Storm. |
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It Happened One Christmas |
1977 |
A businesswoman contemplates
suicide, but is shown the value of her life by a guardian angel, in
this feminist remake of It's a Wonderful Life. starring Marlo Thomas. |
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It Nearly Wasn't Christmas |
1989 |
A disillusioned Santa Claus
discovers that people really do need him and care about other people. |
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It's A Wonderful Life |
1946 |
Classic tale, climaxing at
Christmas, of a man who gets to see what his hometown would be like
had he never lived. |
|
J.T. |
1969 |
Troubled inner-city
youngster adopts a stray cat for Christmas, and must hide it from his
financially strapped mother |
|
Jack Frost (Michael Keaton,
Kelly Preston) |
1998 |
Dad gets second chance as
snowman. |
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J'ai
Rencontré Le Père Noël (Here Comes Santa Claus) |
1984 |
Young boy and girl take a
plane to Lapland to visit Santa so he will save the boy's parents who
have been kidnapped in Africa. |
|
Jingle All the Way |
1996 |
Dad, while searching for
season's hot toy, finds season's true meaning. |
|
John Grin's Christmas Carol |
1986 |
An African-American
businessman is shown the spirit of Christmas by three ghosts in this
update of A Christmas Carol. |
|
Joyeux
Noël (Merry Christmas) |
2005 |
World War I trenches go
silent during the "Christmas truce" of 1914. |
|
Just Friends |
2005 |
Chris Brander returns to New
Jersey to chase after his high school crush. |
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Karroll's
Christmas |
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King of Kings (1961) |
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Like Father, Like Santa |
1998 |
A ruthless toy tycoon who is
also secretly the son of Santa Claus travels to the North Pole to put
an end to an attempted coup. |
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Lost Holiday |
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Love Actually |
2003 |
Follows the lives of eight
very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various
loosely and interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before
Christmas in London. |
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Love Finds Andy Hardy
(Mickey Rooney) |
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Make the Yuletide Gay |
2009 |
An openly gay college
student struggles with concealing his sexual orientation from his
parents when he goes home for Christmas. |
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March
of the Wooden Soldiers |
1934 |
Laurel & Hardy. After getting fired for messing up an order
from Santa Claus, toymakers Stan and Ollie rescue Tom Tom and Bo Peep
from Bogeyland. |
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Mary Christmas |
2002 |
Widower's young daughter
asks Santa for a new mother. |
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Mary Poppins |
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Meet John Doe |
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Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Judy Garland |
1944 |
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Meet The Santas |
2005 |
Sequel to Single Santa Seeks
Mrs. Claus. |
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Mickey's Christmas Carol |
1983 |
Disney's animated adaptation
of Charles Dickens' classic story. |
|
Miracle on 34th Street
(1947) |
1947 |
Macy's Santa, with help from
the U.S. Postal Service, restores a little girl's faith. Remade for
television in 1955, 1959, 1973. |
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Miracle on 34th Street
(1973) |
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Miracle on 34th Street
(1994) |
1994 |
Theatrical remake. |
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Mixed Nuts |
1994 |
Christmas at a crisis
hotline center. |
|
Moonlight and Mistletoe |
2007 |
A man runs a year-round
Santa Town. |
|
Mr. Krueger's Christmas |
1980 |
A widowed apartment janitor
daydreams to escape his lonely life. |
|
Mr. St. Nick |
2002 |
An aging Santa Claus is
ready to retire but first he must convince his son to take over his
job. |
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Mrs. Miracle |
2009 |
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MRS. SANTA CLAUS |
1996 |
Santa's wife ends up in New
York in the early 1900s near Christmastime. |
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Ms Scrooge |
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Muppets Christmas: Letters
to Santa |
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National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation |
1989 |
As usual, the Griswold
family plans turn to disaster, this time at Christmas. |
|
National Lampoon's Christmas
Vacation 2 - Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure |
2004 |
Cousin Eddie and his family
get stranded on what they think is a deserted island for Christmas. |
|
Nativity! |
2009 |
An improvised comedy based
around a school Nativity play. |
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Naughty or Nice |
2004 |
A sports radio shock jock is
changed by a Christmas season encounter with a 15-year-old fan who is
dying of cancer. |
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Noel |
2004 |
A series of events link five
disparate strangers in New York on Christmas Eve. |
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Nothing Like the Holidays |
2008 |
A Puerto Rican family,
living in the area of Humboldt Park in west Chicago, face what may be
their last Christmas together. |
|
November Christmas |
2010 |
At age 23, Vanessa returns to her hometown to share her story with a
group of children at the local library. Now a healthy young woman, she
has written a children's book entitled November Christmas, inspired by
her memories as a very sick eight-year-old. |
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O. Henry's Full House |
1952 |
Three short stories take
place at Christmas. The Cop and the Anthem, The Last Leaf & The Gift
of the Magi. Narrated onscreen by John Steinbeck; made by five famous
directors, with an all-star cast. |
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Off Season |
|
(Adam Arkin, Hume
Cronyn) |
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On Strike for Christmas |
2010 |
Joy Robertson (Daphne Zuniga), a supermom who does it all -- even
though her husband Stephen and the rest of her family don't seem to
appreciate just how hard she works, especially when it comes to
Christmas. Joy goes on strike for the holidays, quickly inspiring a
town-wide movement with hilarious consequences. |
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Once Upon a Christmas (Kathy
Ireland) |
2000 |
Santa's daughter tries to
change a family so they are no longer on the Naughty list, or else
Santa will cancel Christmas. |
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One Magic Christmas |
1985 |
At Christmas time an angel
shows a young mother the true meaning of the holiday. |
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One Special Night |
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Our First Christmas |
|
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Picking Up & Dropping Off |
2003 |
A divorced father and a
divorced mother start to meet at an Airport when picking up and
sending off their children to ex-spouses for holidays. |
|
Prancer |
1989 |
Girl nurses a wounded
reindeer. |
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Prancer 2 |
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Rare Exports: A Christmas
Tale |
2010 |
Finnish fantasy film
directed by Jalmari Helander. Hunters in the Korvatunturi
mountains who discover the secret behind Santa Claus. |
|
Recipe for a Perfect Christmas |
2005 |
A struggling chef agrees to
date a food critic's mother. |
|
Red Boots for Christmas |
2004 |
A bitter shoemaker gets a
visit from an angel shortly before Christmas |
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Remember the Night |
1940 |
Brilliant DA with a future
in politics (Fred MacMurray) falls for streetwise Christmastide
shoplifter (Barbara Stanwyck). |
|
Rich Little's Christmas
Carol |
1978 |
Comedian Rich Little plays
all of the characters in A Christmas Carol. |
|
Richie
Rich's Christmas Wish |
1998 |
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Road to Christmas |
2006 |
A stranded fashion
photographer gets a lift from a widower and his daughter, setting off
a change of events that will change their lives forever. |
|
Roots: The Gift |
1988 |
|
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed
Reindeer: The Movie |
1998 |
Rudolph's own biopic showing
his journey from zero to hero. |
|
Samantha: An American Girl
Holiday |
2004 |
A wealthy girl visits an
orphanage during the holiday season, and tries to house them. |
|
Santa Baby (Jenny McCarthy) |
2006 |
A highly successful business
executive, who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus, returns
to the North Pole to take over for her dad and implement her
innovative ideas. |
|
Santa Baby 2: Christmas
Maybe |
2009 |
|
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Santa Buddies |
2009 |
Puppy Paws, the only son of
Santa Paws, does not want to follow in his father's footsteps. |
|
Santa Claus |
1959 |
Santa battles evil demon in
outer space. A Spanish-language film for which an English-dubbed
version also exists. |
|
Santa Claus - The Movie |
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Santa Claus (Jose Elias
Moreno) |
1960 |
|
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Santa Claus Conquers the
Martians |
1964 |
Martians kidnap Santa Claus
(John Call) because there is nobody on Mars to give their children
presents. |
|
Santa Claus - The Movie |
1985 |
Patch, the head elf, strikes
out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to
corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus. |
|
Santa Who? |
|
Santa suffers an attack of
amnesia shortly before Christmas. Only the innocence of a small
child can save Christmas for thousands of people around the world. |
|
Santa with Muscles |
1996 |
An evil millionaire gets
amnesia and then believes that he is Santa Claus. |
|
Santa Jr. |
2002 |
Santa's son, mistaken for
the "Christmas Bandit," is held under house arrest two days before
Christmas. |
|
Scrooge |
1935 |
Early film adaptation of
Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol starring Sir Seymour Hicks. |
|
Scrooge |
1951 |
Dickens' ghostly meditation
on Christmas. This version of the story, with Alastair Sim as Ebenezer
Scrooge, is universally regarded as the very best. See "A Christmas
Carol". |
|
Scrooge |
1970 |
A musical adaptation of
Dickens' tale, starring Albert Finney in the title role. |
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Scrooged
|
1988 |
Modern, dark-humored
interpretation of Dickens' story, with Christmas spirits visiting a
cynical, selfish TV exec, played by Bill Murray. |
|
Secret Santa |
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Silent Night |
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Silver Bells |
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Single Santa Seeks Mrs.
Claus |
2004 |
A high-flying career woman
and single mother with no time for love or Christmas is unexpectedly
wooed by Santa's son. He must find a wife before Christmas because his
father wants to retire. |
|
Snow (Tom Cavanagh) |
2004 |
Nick Snowden, heir to an
Arctic toy business, must work hard to save Christmas after someone
steals Buddy the reindeer and takes him to a California zoo. |
|
Snow 2: Brain Freeze |
2008 |
Sequel to Snow |
|
Snowglobe
(Christina Milian) |
2007 |
A young woman discovers a
Christmas-themed dream world inside a magical snow globe. |
|
Sons of Mistletoe |
2001 |
A cold businesswoman
threatens to close a boys foster home during the holidays. |
|
Special Delivery |
2000 |
A bumbling courier at an
adoption agency botches the delivery of a baby to its new parents at
Christmas. |
|
Stalking Santa |
2006 |
Dr. Lloyd Darrow, a
self-proclaimed "Santalogist," sets out to prove the existence of
Santa Claus. |
|
Stealing Christmas (Tony
Danza, Lea Thompson) |
2003 |
A criminal hides in a small
town and takes a job as a Santa. |
|
Stubby Pringle's Christmas |
1978 |
A young cowboy (Beau
Bridges) discovers that the joy of Christmas is in the giving. |
|
Surviving Christmas |
2004 |
A smug, cynical young
millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him. |
|
Susan Slept Here |
1954 |
Hollywood screenwriter hosts
teen vagrant for the Christmas holiday. |
|
Tenth Avenue Angel |
1948 |
A child of the tenements
helps an ex-con find a new life as Christmas approaches and learns
that cattle genuflect at midnight on Christmas Eve, in memory of the
birth of Jesus. |
|
The 12 Dogs of Christmas |
2005 |
A girl who uses dogs to
teach people about the true meaning of Christmas during the
Depression. |
|
The Angel of Pennsylvania
Avenue |
1996 |
Three children travel to
Washington in the hope of convincing President Hoover to release their
wrongly convicted father from jail in time for Christmas. |
|
The Bells of St. Mary's
(Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman) |
1945 |
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The Best Christmas Pageant
Ever |
1983 |
A church Christmas pageant
touches the hearts of a family of juvenile delinquents. |
|
The Best Christmas Pageant
Ever |
2010 |
|
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The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant, Loretta Young) |
1947 |
An angel helps an
Episcopalian bishop rearrange his priorities; stars Cary Grant, David
Niven & Loretta Young. |
|
The Cheaters |
1945 |
Alcoholic actor helps family
con waitress out of inheritance. Set at Christmas, the spirit of the
holiday overcomes the family with guilt. |
|
The Christmas Box |
1995 |
A couple and their daughter
move in with a widow and discover a box containing the answer to the
first gift of Christmas |
|
The Christmas Card |
2006 |
A soldier serving in
Afghanistan receives a Christmas card from a woman he has never met. |
|
The Christmas Choir |
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The Christmas Gift (John
Denver) |
1986 |
A widowed architect and his
daughter visit a town where everyone believes in Santa Claus. |
|
The
Christmas Hope |
2009 |
When lives collide during Christmas time, hope offers the ultimate
gift of healing. After suffering a family tragedy, social worker Patty
Addison throws herself into finding homes for children in need. |
|
The Christmas List |
1997 |
A woman makes a list of
things she wants for Christmas and learns an important lesson. |
|
The Christmas Secret |
2000 |
A scientist sets out to
prove that reindeer can fly, and along the way discovers the true
meaning of faith, family and Christmas. |
|
The Christmas Shoes |
2002 |
Trio of interlocking
stories, adopted from the hit song of the same name. |
|
The Christmas Star |
1986 |
Two kids befriend an escaped
convict who they believe is Santa Claus |
|
The Christmas That Almost
Wasn't |
1966 |
Attorney tries to stop miser
from evicting Santa Claus and confiscating his toys. |
|
The Christmas Wish |
1998 |
A businessman tries to
uncover a family secret for his grandmother after he returns to a
small town to modernize his family's real-estate company. |
|
The
Disappearance of Haruhi
Suzumiya |
2010 |
Haruhi
and her friends are going to celebrate Christmas, but the next
morning, Kyon finds out that all of his friends either don't know him
or don't attend at the North High School. |
|
The Dog Who Saved Christmas |
2009 |
The Bannister family’s new addition, Zeus (voiced by Mario Lopez) a
former K-9 police hero, appears to be less than the dependable guard
dog the family needs. However, when two burglars (led by Dean Cain)
set out to break into the Bannister’s home while they’re away for
Christmas, Zeus seizes the chance to be a hero, proving every dog –
even this one – has his day. |
|
The Dog Who Saved Christmas
Vacation |
2010 |
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|
The Family Holiday |
2007 |
A conman must show the
executor of his uncle's will that he has changed his lifestyle, in
order to receive his uncle's fortune. |
|
The Family Man |
2000 |
A fast-lane investment
broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives during
Christmas. |
|
The Family Stone |
2005 |
An uptight businesswoman
accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's
annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water. |
|
The Gathering |
1977 |
A dying man attempts to
reconcile with the family he had abandoned years earlier, by having
them come to visit for Christmas. |
|
The Gift of Love: A
Christmas Story |
1983 |
A woman reeling from
business and marital failure is visited in a Christmastime dream by
her deceased mother, who takes her on a journey back through her
childhood. |
|
The Great Rupert (A
Christmas Wish) |
1950 |
Trained squirrel passes
money along to needy family just before Christmas. |
|
The Greatest Store in the
World |
1999 |
A family lose their home at
Christmas and in desperation, stay in a department store over the
Christmas period. |
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The Greatest Story Ever Told
(1965) |
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The Holiday |
2006 |
Two women swap homes for the
holidays and meet up with their dream men. |
|
The Holly and the Ivy |
1952 |
An English clergyman
reunites with his grown children for Christmas. |
|
The Homecoming: A Christmas
Story |
1971 |
On Christmas Eve in 1933,
the Walton family awaits the return of the father, who had gone to
look for work in a distant city. This film served as a pilot for the
series. |
|
The House Without a
Christmas Tree |
1972 |
A widower refuses to allow a
Christmas tree in the home, to the dismay of his young daughter. |
|
The Ice Harvest |
2005 |
A seemingly perfect crime on
Christmas Eve spirals out of control. |
|
The King of Kings (1927) |
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The Lemon Drop Kid |
1951 |
When the Lemon Drop Kid
accidentally steers Moose Moran's girl away from a winning bet at the
racetrack, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry
gangster. Fortunately it is Christmas, a time when people can be
persuaded to part with money for the right cause. |
|
The Magic Christmas Tree |
1964 |
Witch's ring gives young boy
titular tree, which comes to life and grants him three wishes. |
|
The Man from Majorca |
1984 |
Stockholm police uncover
political corruption while investigating a bank robbery. Film takes
place during Christmas season. |
|
The Man in the Santa Claus
Suit |
1979 |
The lives of three different
men are transformed by a magical Santa Claus costume rented them by a
mysterious shopkeeper. |
|
The Man Who Came to Dinner |
1942 |
Hobbled, self-centered New
York wit makes Christmas unbearable for the family whose Ohio home he
has commandeered. |
|
The Man Who Saved Christmas |
2002 |
Fact-based drama of toy
inventor A.C. Gilbert, a toymaker who is forced by the U.S. government
to turn his factory into a munitions plant during WWI. |
|
The Monster's Christmas |
1981 |
A girl helps the monsters
from her storybook defeat an evil witch that has stolen their voices. |
|
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year |
2008 |
A disenchanted single mom (Brooke Burns) warily welcomes a stranger
into her home after her visiting uncle (Henry Winkler) befriends him
on an airplane.
|
|
The Mrs. Clause (aka The
Christmas Clause) |
2008 |
|
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The Muppet Christmas Carol |
1992 |
Jim Henson's creations
tackle Charles Dickens' festive favorite. |
|
The Muppets - Santa's
Letters |
|
|
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The National Tree |
|
|
|
The Nativity Story |
2006 |
The Biblical account of the
birth of Jesus Christ. |
|
The Night Before the Night
Before Christmas |
|
|
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The Night They Saved
Christmas |
1984 |
An oil company dynamites in
the North Pole, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus. |
|
The Nightmare Before
Christmas |
1993 |
Inhabitants of Halloween
Land do a number on Christmas. |
|
The Note |
|
|
|
The Perfect Holiday |
2007 |
A young girl turns to a
department store Santa in the hopes that he will help find a new
husband for her divorced mother. |
|
The Planet of Junior Brown
(Junior's Groove) |
1997 |
A young piano prodigy with a
controlling mother retreats into a fantasy world and reaches out to a
better life around Christmas time. |
|
The Polar Express |
2004 |
A magical train takes a boy
and other children who stop believing in Santa Claus up north to meet
the man himself. |
|
The Preacher's Wife |
1996 |
Remake of The Bishop's Wife
with an all African-American cast. |
|
The Road to Christmas |
|
|
|
The Santa Clause (Tim Allen) |
1994 |
When Santa falls off his
roof, a harried ad exec is required to assume the mantle. |
|
The Santa Clause 2: The Mrs
Clause |
2002 |
Sequel to The Santa Clause;
Santa must find a Mrs. Claus. |
|
The Santa Clause 3 - The
Escape Clause |
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|
|
The Santa Incident |
|
|
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The Santa Suit |
|
|
|
The Search For Santa Paws |
2010 |
A musical production that tells the story of how Santa and a young dog
named Paws became best friends, and together forever changed the lives
of a houseful of New York City orphans and a host of other New
Yorkers. |
|
The Shop Around the Corner |
1940 |
Bickering store clerks pine
for pen pals as Christmas approaches.(Margaret Sullavan, James
Stewart) |
|
The Three Gifts |
|
During the holidays, a couple (Dean Cain and Jean
Louisa Kelly) offer a temporary home to three orphaned boys well known
for their bad behavior. |
|
The Three Kings |
1987 |
Mental-hospital patients
escape from a Christmas pageant and go search for baby Jesus while in
costume as the Magi. |
|
The Town Christmas Forgot |
|
|
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The Twelve Days of Christmas
Eve |
2004 |
A dying man has 12 days (12
chances) to achieve the "perfect" Christmas. |
|
The Ultimate Christmas
Present |
2000 |
A girl steals a weather
machine from Santa Claus to make it snow on Christmas Day. |
|
The Ultimate Gift |
|
|
|
The Year Without a Santa
Claus (MOVIE) |
|
|
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This Christmas |
2007 |
The Whitfield family comes
together for their first Christmas in several years. |
|
Thomas Kinkade's Christmas
Cottage |
2008 |
A look at the inspiration
behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage. The artist was
motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in
danger of losing their family home. |
|
Three Days (Kristin Davis) |
2001 |
An angel offers a literary
agent, whose wife of ten years died just before Christmas, a chance to
relive the last three days of his wife's life. |
|
Three Wise Guys |
2005 |
|
|
Timepiece |
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|
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Together Again for the First
Time |
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Trading Places |
1983 |
A rich man and a poor man
switch classes as part of a social experiment through the holiday
season. |
|
Trapped in Paradise
|
1994 |
Kindly town's hospitality
melts Christmas burglars' hearts. (Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz,
Dana Carvey) |
|
'Twas the Night Before
Christmas |
1914 |
A boy gets a ride in Santa's
sleigh. |
|
Twice Upon a Christmas
(Kathy Ireland) |
2001 |
Santa's daughter has lost
her memory, and her new family is determined to help her get it back. |
|
Unaccompanied Minors (Wilmer
Valderrama) |
2006 |
Bored kids make up their own
holidays whilst stuck in an airport after Christmas. |
|
Under the Mistletoe |
|
|
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Undercover Christmas |
|
|
|
Unlikely Angel |
1996 |
A singer must work with St
Peter to earn her wings at Christmas by re-uniting a family. |
|
Visit to Santa (1963) Short
Film |
|
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We're No Angels |
1955 |
A trio of escaped convicts
(Humphrey Bogart, Peter Ustinov & Aldo Ray) and their pet snake,
Adolph, help a shopkeeper and his wife avoid financial ruin while
steering their daughter toward true love on Christmas Eve. |
|
What I Did For Love |
|
|
|
What Would Jesus Buy? |
2007 |
Documentary about the
commercialization of Christmas. |
|
When Angels Come to Town
(Peter Falk) |
|
|
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While You Were Sleeping |
1995 |
After a lonely transit
worker saves a man on Christmas Day, she spends the holidays with his
family and pretends to be his fiancee while he lies in a coma. |
|
White Christmas |
1954 |
As in Holiday Inn, musicians
bring Irving Berlin's lyrics to Vermont lodge. (The story is not a
remake, however.) |
|
Will You Merry Me? |
2008 |
A newly engaged couple, one
Christian and the other Jewish, must survive their families meeting
for the first time during Christmas. |
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate
Factory (1971) |
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