List of Christmas films
List of Christmas films | |
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This is a list of Christmas-themed films.
Theatrical
This is a list of Christmas-themed films which received a theatrical release.
Title | Year | Description |
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A Christmas Accident | 1911 | A grumpy old man is overwhelmed when the neighbor's daughter offers him her Christmas gift. |
Santa Claus vs. Cupid | 1915 | Two men in Santa Claus suits are rivals for the love of the same woman. A desperate man becomes thief on a Christmas party. |
A Christmas Carol | 1923 | Silent adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, starring Russell Thorndike as Scrooge. |
A Bill of Divorcement | 1932 | A man returns home on Christmas Eve after spending fifteen years in an insane asylum but finds out that things have changed since he left. |
The Thin Man | 1934 | A retired detective and his wife solve a mystery during Christmas. |
Babes in Toyland | 1934 | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's adaption of Victor Herbert's operetta classic starring Laurel and Hardy, Felix Knight, Charlotte Henry and Henry Brandon. |
Scrooge | 1935 | Early film adaptation of A Christmas Carol, starring Seymour Hicks as Scrooge. |
Love Finds Andy Hardy | 1938 | A teenager accidentally becomes engaged to three different girls on Christmas. |
A Christmas Carol | 1938 | MGM's adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge. |
The Blue Bird | 1940 | The main character and her friends try to find the bluebird of happiness on Christmas Eve. |
Remember the Night | 1940 | The main character is caught shoplifting on Christmas Eve. |
Beyond Tomorrow | 1940 | The ghosts of three elderly industrialists who were killed in an airplane crash return to Earth to help reunite a young couple whom they plan to bring together. |
Meet John Doe | 1941 | A former newspaper reporter asks a man who needs money to impersonate a protester who says he will commit suicide on Christmas Eve. |
Holiday Inn | 1942 | Musicians prepare for a white Christmas at a cozy lodge. |
The Curse of the Cat People | 1944 | The main character befriends her father's dead first wife and an elderly retired stage actress during Christmas. Sequel to Cat People. |
Meet Me in St. Louis | 1944 | The Smith family prepare to move to New York after Christmas. Remade for television in 1959 and 1966. |
Christmas in Connecticut | 1945 | A food writer must entertain her boss and a returning war hero for the holidays. Remade for television in 1992. |
The Bells of St. Mary's | 1945 | A priest and a nun who have a friendly rivalry must try to save their school from being shut down on Christmas. |
It's a Wonderful Life | 1946 | A businessman is shown by his guardian angel on Christmas Eve what the world would be like if he was never born. Remade for television in 1977 and 1997. |
Miracle on 34th Street | 1947 | Macy's Santa, with help from the U.S. Postal Service, restores a little girl's faith. Remade in 1994. |
The Bishop's Wife | 1947 | An angel helps a bishop to change his life and save his marriage before Christmas. |
3 Godfathers | 1948 | At Christmastime in the Old West, three outlaws find a woman dying in childbirth, and deliver the baby to civilization in a retelling of The Three Wise Men. |
Mr. Soft Touch | 1949 | A returning war hero who is on the run from the mob learns that a gangster has taken over his nightclub and murdered his partner. |
Holiday Affair | 1949 | A fired sales clerk and a young woman fall in love. Remade for television in 1996. |
The Great Rupert | 1950 | A squirrel accidentally helps two dysfunctional families to overcome their problems during Christmas. |
The Lemon Drop Kid | 1951 | A horseracing fan has a month to pay back the money that he borrowed from a gangster just before Christmas. |
Scrooge | 1951 | Dickens' ghostly tale on Christmas, starring Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. |
White Christmas | 1954 | As in Holiday Inn, musicians bring Irving Berlin's lyrics to a New England lodge, this time in Vermont. (The story is not a remake, however.) |
The Night of the Hunter | 1955 | A religious fanatic marries a naïve widow whose children are reluctant to tell him where their father hid $10,000 that he'd stolen during Christmas. |
We're No Angels | 1955 | Three escaped prisoners hide out in the home of a kindly shopkeeper and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises. |
Pocketful of Miracles | 1961 | In 1931, a New York gangster and his girlfriend attempt to turn street beggar Apple Annie into a society lady when she learns that her daughter is about to marry into royalty. |
Scrooge | 1970 | A musical adaptation of Dickens' tale, starring Albert Finney in the title role and Alec Guinness as Jacob Marley |
A Christmas Carol | 1971 | Oscar-winning animated adaptation, with Alastair Sim and Michael Hordern recreating their roles as Scrooge and Marley's Ghost, narrated by Michael Redgrave; produced by Chuck Jones. |
Black Christmas | 1974 | Sorority sisters are terrorized by a mysterious stalker-murderer. Remade in 2006. |
Female Trouble | 1974 | A spoiled school-girl runs away from home at Christmas, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. |
A Christmas Story | 1983 | Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift. |
Mickey's Christmas Carol | 1983 | An animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story starring classic Disney characters. |
Gremlins | 1984 | A boy inadvertently breaks 3 important rules concerning his new Christmas present and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town preparing for Christmas. |
Silent Night, Deadly Night | 1984 | A traumatized young man becomes a Santa suit-clad spree killer on Christmas Eve. |
One Magic Christmas | 1985 | At Christmastime, an angel shows a young mother the true meaning of the holiday. |
Santa Claus: The Movie | 1985 | The story of where Santa Claus came from and his attempts to save Christmas after his elf gets mixed up with an evil toy tycoon. |
Less Than Zero | 1987 | College freshman returns home at Christmas time to find all his high school friends take drugs. |
Lethal Weapon | 1987 | Recently widowed undercover cop is teamed up with cop who's too old during the holidays to solve a murder. |
Ernest Saves Christmas | 1988 | Ernest P. Worrell helps an aging Santa Claus find a successor. |
Scrooged[1] | 1988 | A modern, dark-humored interpretation of Dickens' story, with Christmas spirits visiting a cynical, selfish TV exec, played by Bill Murray. |
Die Hard | 1988 | On Christmas Eve, New York City Police Detective Lieutenant John McClane arrives in Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife, but also had to face 12 terrorists who set declared war and take by hostages the employees of the Nakatomi Corporation. |
3615 code Père Noël[2] | 1989 | A child genius spends Christmas Eve defending himself and his grandfather from a psychotic home invader dressed like Santa Claus. |
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | 1989 | The Griswold family plans turn to disaster, this time at Christmas. Third film in the Vacation series. |
Home Alone | 1990 | An eight-year-old boy is mistakenly left behind during Christmas and has to defend his house against two burglars. |
Maniac Cop 2 | 1990 | A Christmas slasher film sequel to Maniac Cop. |
Die Hard 2 | 1990 | Again on Christmas Eve. Los Angeles Police Detective Lieutenant John McClane is waiting for his wife to land at Washington Dulles International Airport when terrorists take over the air traffic control system. He must stop the terrorists before his wife's plane and several other incoming flights that are circling the airport run out of fuel and crash. |
All I Want for Christmas | 1991 | Two kids plot to reunite their estranged parents at Christmas. |
Batman Returns | 1992 | At Christmastime, the Caped Crusader clashes with Catwoman and saves gloomy Gotham City from the foul Penguin's plot. |
The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | Jim Henson's creations tackle Charles Dickens' festive favorite. |
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York | 1992 | Kevin McCallister, now ten years old, mistakenly travels to New York City without his family on Christmas. |
The Nightmare Before Christmas | 1993 | The mascot of Halloween, Jack Skellington grows tired of having to be scary on Halloween and decides to try celebrating/hosting Christmas |
Miracle on 34th Street | 1994 | A modern remake of the classic film. |
The Santa Clause | 1994 | When Santa falls off his roof, a dad is required to take Santa's place. |
Jingle All the Way | 1996 | A dad competes with others to get the sold out hot toy for his son. |
The Preacher's Wife | 1996 | A remake of the classic film. |
How the Toys Saved Christmas | 1996 | The story follows some toys as they struggle to avoid the heartless Mr. Grimm, that plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, and to find their true homes. |
Home Alone 3 | 1997 | A resourceful boy is left home alone and has to defend his home from a band of criminals. |
I'll Be Home for Christmas | 1998 | A son in college has not been home since his mother died and his father remarried. His father offers his vintage car if he is home by a certain time for Christmas. |
Jack Frost | 1998 | A father passes away but comes back to life in the form of a snowman. |
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 2000 | A live action film of the Dr. Seuss classic. |
The Family Man | 2000 | A wealthy bachelor wakes up on Christmas to find he's been transported to an alternate reality where he's a tire salesman with a wife and kids living in a middle class suburban neighborhood. |
Serendipity | 2001 | A romantic comedy that begins on Christmas Eve circa 1991 and ends a decade later on the same day. |
Friday After Next | 2002 | Craig and Day-Day go after a fake Santa who robs their house on Christmas Eve. |
The Santa Clause 2 | 2002 | A sequel to The Santa Clause; Santa must find a Mrs. Claus. |
Elf | 2003 | A man raised as an elf in the North Pole searches for his father in New York City. |
Bad Santa | 2003 | A dark comedy about a thief disguised as Santa, who learns the meaning of Christmas. |
Love Actually | 2003 | Eight very different couples and their love lives intertwine during a hectic month before Christmas in London. |
Christmas with the Kranks | 2004 | When a suburban couple decide to forgo Christmas festivities, preferring to take a cruise to the Caribbean instead, their neighbours refuse to allow such Scrooge-like behaviour. |
The Polar Express | 2004 | A magical train takes a boy and other children up to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus. An adaptation of the beloved children's book. |
Noel | 2004 | Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle. |
Surviving Christmas | 2004 | A lonely millionaire pays a family $250,000 to spend Christmas with him by living in the home that he grew up in. |
The Family Stone | 2005 | An uptight woman meets her fiance's free-spirited family for the first time over the Christmas holidays and chaos ensues. |
The Ice Harvest | 2005 | A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. |
Joyeux Noël | 2005 | A film set around the informal Christmas truce on the Western Front during Christmas 1914. |
Black Christmas | 2006 | Sorority sisters are stalked and murdered on Christmas Eve in this remake of the 1974 thriller. |
Deck the Halls | 2006 | Rival neighbors duke it out when one of them decides to light his house up so it can be seen from outer space. |
The Nativity Story | 2006 | The Biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ. |
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause | 2006 | Santa battles Jack Frost to keep his title. |
Unaccompanied Minors | 2006 | Bored kids make up their own holidays while stuck in an airport after Christmas. |
Fred Claus | 2007 | Santa's bitter older brother is forced to move to the North Pole. |
This Christmas | 2007 | The Whitfield family comes together for their first Christmas in several years. |
What Would Jesus Buy? | 2007 | A documentary focusing on the commercialization of Christmas. |
Christmas Cottage | 2007 | The story of Thomas Kinkade. |
Four Christmases | 2008 | A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. |
Nothing like the Holidays | 2008 | A Puerto Rican family in Chicago gather for their possibly last Christmas together. |
A Christmas Carol | 2009 | An animated motion-capture adaptation of the classic story. |
Nativity! | 2009 | Mr Maddens puts on the school nativity play. |
Everybody's Fine | 2009 | Against the advice of his doctor, Frank sets out on a road trip to reconnect with his offspring for Christmas. |
Home for Christmas | 2010 | Set in the small Norwegian town of Skogli, this film looks at those who are desperately trying to (re)connect with their families. |
The Nutcracker in 3D | 2010 | Set in 1920s Vienna, this a tale of a little girl, whose godfather gives her a special doll one Christmas Eve. Live-action 3D adaptation of the ballet. |
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | 2010 | In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. A Spielberg-ian horror romp with an Christmas twist. |
Arthur Christmas | 2011 | Santa's youngest son must deliver a bicycle to an overlooked girl before Christmas morning dawns. 3-D/CGI animated film. |
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas | 2011 | Stoner buddies Harold & Kumar cause a holiday fracas by inadvertently burning down Harold's father-in-law's prized Christmas tree. |
Nativity 2: Danger in the Manger | 2012 | The children of St. Bernadette's enter the National 'Song for Christmas' competition. |
Silent Night | 2012 | A murderous Santa Claus terrorizes a small town on Christmas Eve, in this loose remake of Silent Night, Deadly Night. |
Switchmas | 2012 | Ira Finkelstein wants to have his Christmas dreams come true. This film is also a Prince and the Pauper adaptation. |
Angels Sing | 2013 | A man tries to regain the holiday spirit after a tragic accident. |
The Best Man Holiday | 2013 | Sequel to the 1999 film The Best Man. |
Black Nativity | 2013 | A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives. |
The Christmas Candle | 2013 | In 1890, an English village copes with the disappearance of a supposedly miraculous candle. Based on the novel by Max Lucado. |
A Merry Friggin' Christmas | 2014 | |
Saving Christmas | 2014 | Kirk (Kirk Cameron) endeavors to "put Christ back into Christmas". |
Nativity 3: Dude, Where's My Donkey? | 2014 | The children of St. Bernadette's have to reunite their teacher with his fiancée. |
All Through the House | 2015 | A Santa-killer terrorizes a neighborhood a little girl had disappeared from 15 years prior. |
A Christmas Horror Story | 2015 | The movie is a series of interwoven stories tied together by a framework story featuring William Shatner as a radio DJ. |
Krampus | 2015 | Comedy horror film based upon the legendary Christmas demon, and alter ego of Santa Claus |
Love the Coopers | 2015 | When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday. |
The Night Before | 2015 | |
Tangerine | 2015 | |
Almost Christmas | 2016 | Also known as A Meyers Christmas |
Bad Santa 2 | 2016 | Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie teams up once again with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. |
Office Christmas Party | 2016 | When the CEO tries to close her hard-partying brother's branch, he and his Chief Technical Officer must rally their co-workers and host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save their jobs. |
A Bad Moms Christmas | 2017 | |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas | 2018 | An animated adaption of Dr. Suess' story |
Margie Claus[3] | 2019 | The story begins when Santa Claus goes missing while delivering presents on Christmas Eve. His wife, Margie Claus, must then put together an unlikely rescue team and set off from the North Pole for the first time in decades to rescue Santa and save Christmas |
Made-for-television and direct-to-video
These are films that were made for television, or for the direct-to-video or direct-to-DVD market.
Family/Adult
Title | Year | Description |
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12 Dates of Christmas | 2011 | A woman finds herself caught in a Christmas time loop, and tries to figure out how to break the cycle. |
12 Men of Christmas | 2009 | A high-powered New York publicist moves to Montana after losing her job and fiancee, and finds romance with a member of the local fire and rescue squad. |
An American Christmas Carol | 1979 | In this adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the "Scrooge" figure is a miserly businessman in Depression-era New England. |
The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue | 1996 | In 1932, three children travel to Washington in the hope of convincing President Hoover to release their wrongly-convicted father from jail in time for Christmas. |
Babes in Toyland | 1986 | A young girl travels to Toyland. Starring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves. |
Benji's Very Own Christmas Story | 1978 | Popular screen pooch meets Kris Kringle while preparing for a Christmas parade in Switzerland. |
Bernard and the Genie | 1991 | Bernard is fired from his job and his girlfriend leaves him, both on Christmas Eve. The girlfriend takes all of his possessions with her, leaving behind only an old lamp. His Christmas suddenly becomes brighter when he rubs it. |
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | 1983 | A church Christmas pageant touches the hearts of a family of juvenile delinquents. |
Booky and the Secret Santa | 2007 | A young girl tries to make a happy Christmas for herself and her family during the 1930s Great Depression. |
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, in order to impress a visiting old-fashioned tycoon interested in buying his company. |
A Boyfriend for Christmas | 2004 | Santa plays matchmaker and sets up a young couple for Christmas. |
Call Me Claus | 2001 | Santa Claus is preparing to retire, and grooms an American businesswoman (Whoopi Goldberg) to be his replacement. |
A Carol Christmas | 2003 | In a modern comic retelling of A Christmas Carol, 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. |
Carol for Another Christmas | 1964 | This modernization of A Christmas Carol was produced to promote American support for the United Nations. |
A Chance of Snow | 1998 | A divorced couple get snowed in at Christmastime. |
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. |
A Child's Christmases in Wales | 2009 | Comedic reminiscences of three 1980s Christmas, loosely adapted from the Dylan Thomas story. |
Christmas at Water's Edge | 2004 | An angel teams with a spoiled college coed to organize a Christmas concert at a community youth center. |
The Christmas Blessing | 2005 | |
The Christmas Box | 1995 | Based on the bestselling book of the same name, a couple and their daughter move in with a widow and discover a box containing the answer to the first gift of Christmas. |
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? |
The Christmas Card | 2006 | A soldier serving in Afghanistan receives a Christmas card from a Californian woman he has never met. He visits the town to find the inspiration behind the card. |
A Christmas Carol | 1984 | Starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve. |
A Christmas Carol | 1999 | A Hallmark Channel adaptation of the famous story. Starring Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer Scrooge and Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit. |
A Christmas Carol | 2004 | Kelsey Grammer is Scrooge in this musical adaptation of the Dickens classic. |
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. |
The Christmas Consultant | 2012 | A stressed-out working couple hire a consultant to help them plan an elaborate Christmas party for the wife's boss and husband's relatives. |
The Christmas Cottage | 2008 | Tells the story of the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home. |
Christmas Cupid | 2007 | Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin dies and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her unethical ways needs to change and reuniting with a past jilted lover may be the answer. |
Christmas Do-Over | 2006 | In a remake of the plot from Groundhog Day, a man has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and has to change his ways. |
Christmas Every Day | 1996 | In a juvenile reworking of Groundhog Day, a self-centered teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas over and over again after his sister wishes it were Christmas every day. |
Christmas in Boston | 2005 | Two pen pals who have never met, decide to meet up at one of their home towns in Boston during the Christmas holiday. Only one problem though, they have both sent pictures of their better looking friends to each other. |
Christmas in Canaan | 2009 | In rural Cannan, Texas a clash of classmates, one a tough farm boy, the other a bright bookish black boy evokes an unlikely friendship. It's amidst the magic of Christmas the boys learn about family, hope and love despite living in the shadow of racism. Followed by the sequel Christmas Comes Home to Canaan. Both starring Billy Ray Cyrus. |
Christmas in Wonderland | 2009 | Two children find a bag full of counterfeit money and Santa too. |
A Christmas Kiss | 2011 | A woman shares an impulsive elevator kiss with a handsome stranger, who turns out to be her boss's boyfriend. They start to care for each other as Christmas approaches. |
Christmas Lilies of the Field | 1979 | Seasonal sequel to the theatrical film Lilies of the Field (1963) has its African-American protagonist returning to the chapel he had built in the Arizona desert for a group of German nuns. |
The Christmas List | 1997 | A woman makes a list of things she wants for Christmas and learns the lesson, "Be careful what you wish for." |
A Christmas Memory | 1966 | Award-winning adaptation of Truman Capote's poignant, nostalgic reminiscence about his childhood best friend — a childlike elderly relative with whom he makes fruitcakes and other gifts, in Depression-era Alabama. |
A Christmas Memory | 1997 | A story about a friendship between a boy, Buddy, and his older cousin, Sook, during Christmas time. |
Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. | 1977 | Coal miners are trapped in a mine following an explosion on Christmas Eve, 1951. |
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey | 2007 | A bereaved boy and his widowed mother commission a grumpy woodcarver to carve a nativity set and thus form a relationship that enables them all to put their sadness behind them and move on. |
The Christmas Secret (aka Flight of the Reindeer) | 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. Followed by sequels The Christmas Blessing and The Christmas Hope. |
Christmas Snow | 1986 | A widowed mother struggles to prevent her candy shop from being put out of business by a hard-hearted businessman. |
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 2 | 2012 | Now-teenaged Ralphie Parker schemes to acquire a car for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical classic. |
Christmas Town | 2008 | A single mom visits her estranged father for Christmas, and is surprised to discover his hometown oddly resembles the North Pole. |
The Christmas Tree | 1996 | An elderly nun, who's been growing an evergreen tree for decades, forms a bond with a gardener who wants to fell it and display it at New York's Rockefeller Center for the holidays. |
A Christmas Tree Miracle | 2013 | An eccentric Christmas tree farmer takes in a distressed family for the holidays. |
A Christmas Wedding | 2006 | Two people who meet on Christmas Day plan to marry on Christmas Day two years later. |
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. |
Christmas with a Capital C | 2010 | Small Alaska town erupts into conflict over public Nativity scene. |
Christmas with Holly | 2012 | Traumatized by her mother's death, a 6-year-old girl stops talking but is cared for by her three uncles. The story unfolds as all of them find the importance of family. |
A Christmas Without Snow | 1980 | Church choir members try to balance personal issues with practice as the holiday approaches. |
Comfort and Joy | 2003 | Single businesswoman wakes up married and a mother after a car accident. |
The Custom Mary | 2013 | A young Latina in East Los Angeles meets an African-American Lowrider, and struggles to reconcile her faith and blossoming love affair while becoming dangerously involved in a religious attempt to clone Jesus. |
Dear Secret Santa | 2013 | Jennifer begins getting romantic Christmas cards from an unknown admirer. |
Deck the Halls | 2005 | Widowed mother and her young son come to believe their new neighbor may be Santa Claus. |
A Dennis the Menace Christmas | 2007 | Dennis tries to inject his grinchy neighbor Mr. Wilson with the holiday spirit, with the help of an Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future. |
A Dog Named Christmas | 2009 | |
The Dog Who Saved Christmas | 2009 | |
The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation | 2010 | |
Ebbie | 1995 | Made by Lifetime Television, this retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol features Susan Lucci in the title role of Elizabeth Scrooge, a hard-driven department store owner with no compassion and no time for Christmas joy until she receives a visit from three Christmas spirits. This is Dickens turned on its ear as all the major roles in this classic tale have been converted to female characters. |
Ebenezer | 1998 | Western adaptation of A Christmas Carol has Scrooge (Jack Palance) as a corrupt land baron in the Old West. |
Eloise at Christmastime | 2003 | Six-year-old Eloise has various adventures at the Plaza Hotel prior to the holiday, in this adaptation of Kay Thompson's book. |
A Fairly Odd Christmas | 2012 | A Christmas-themed live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon's animated series The Fairly OddParents. |
Finding John Christmas | 2003 | A woman and a photojournalist try to track down a mysterious Christmas hero with the help of an angel. |
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. |
A Golden Christmas | 2009 | A Christmas romance film, in which a golden retriever helps to re-unite old friends. |
Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! | 2011 | Based on the Disney Channel Original Series Good Luck Charlie, the film follows the Duncan family, who get separated at Palm Springs on their way to visit Grandma and Grandpa Blankenhooper for Christmas. |
A Grandpa for Christmas | 2007 | During the Christmas season, an old-time film-star/singer/hoofer, who is estranged from his daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter, suddenly finds himself bonding with his granddaughter when her mom is hospitalized. |
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. |
Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever | 2014 | The Internet sensation Grumpy Cat comes to life in her very first movie. |
The Heart of Christmas | 2011 | The Lockes are devastated when they learn their young son Dax has cancer. But with courage, determination and faith, they give Dax one last Christmas, even if it's in October. |
Hank Zipzer and the Christmas Catastrophe | 2016 | It is Christmas and the Zipzer family are preparing for a new baby. Meanwhile, Mr Rock's Rudolph the Red Nose Rock 'n' Roll Reindeer, is soon turned into a one-woman Christmas Carol by Miss Adolf. Mr Joy hates Christmas and wants to cancel it altogether but Hank causes a Christmas catastrophe. His catastrophe causing leads to his friends being arrested, and a Christmas tree nearly gets plummeted into a crowd. But will everything go to plan before Hank's new baby brother is born? |
His and Her Christmas | 2005 | Rival newspaper columnists battle it out before finding romance. |
A Hobo's Christmas | 1987 | A hobo decides to return home after being away for 25 years. |
Hogfather | 2006 | It's Hogswatch on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened. |
Holiday Affair | 1996 | Romance blooms between a widowed mother and a fired toy salesman. Remake of the 1949 film. |
Holiday in Handcuffs | 2007 | A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas. |
A Holiday Romance | 1999 | A hard school administrator comes to town to close down the school and falls for the charming school music teacher. |
A Holiday to Remember | 1995 | Carolyn is leaving the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the forest. |
Home Alone 4 | 2002 | A made-for-TV sequel to theatrical original. |
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist | 2012 | Another made-for-TV sequel. |
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | 1971 | On Christmas Eve in 1933, the Walton family of rural Virginia awaits the return of the father, who went to look for work in a distant city. This film led to the series The Waltons. |
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. |
The House Without a Christmas Tree | 1972 | A widower, still grieving from his wife's death, refuses to allow a Christmas tree in the home, to the dismay of his young daughter. |
If You Believe | 1999 | A Scrooge-like book editor is visited by her inner child, who tries to help rekindle her sense of joy during the holidays. |
I'll Be Home for Christmas | 1988 | A Massachusetts family holds down the World War II home front during Christmas of 1944. |
In the Nick of Time | 1991 | An aging Santa Claus struggles to prepare his cynical would-be successor to take over the job in time for 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. |
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 his California-bred grandson (Scott Grimes) his first white Christmas in New York. |
It Happened One Christmas | 1977 | A young businesswoman, despondent over the circumstances of her life, 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 the then recently liberated Marlo Thomas. |
It's Christmas, Carol! | 2012 | A workaholic businesswoman is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in a modern update of A Christmas Carol. |
Karroll's Christmas | 2004 | A modern "Christmas Carol" adaptation in which the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future mistakenly visit the neighbor of the man they were supposed to teach to love Christmas. |
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. |
The Man in the Santa Claus Suit | 1979 | The lives of three different men are transformed by a magical Santa Claus costume rented to them by a mysterious shopkeeper. |
The Man Who Saved Christmas | 2002 | Fact-based drama of toy inventor A.C. Gilbert, a pacifist toymaker who is forced by the U.S. government to turn his factory into a munitions plant during World War I, and is asked to convince consumers to buy bonds instead of toys. |
Mary Christmas | 2002 | Widower's young daughter asks Santa for a new mother. |
Miracle on 34th Street | 1973 | Remake of the classic tale. |
A Mom for Christmas | 1990 | A young girl desires to have a mother in her life gets her wish at the department store. |
The Monster's Christmas | 1981 | A young girl helps the monsters from her storybook defeat an evil witch that has stolen their voices because they sang better at Christmas carols than she did. |
Moonlight and Mistletoe | 2007 | A man runs a year-round Santa Town. |
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year | 2008 | A Retired policeman attempts to kindle romance between his niece and a visiting chef. |
Mr. Krueger's Christmas | 1980 | A widowed apartment janitor daydreams to escape his lonely life. |
Mrs. Santa Claus | 1996 | Santa's wife ends up in New York in the early 1900s near Christmastime. |
Mr. St. Nick | 2002 | An aging Santa Claus is ready to retire but first he must convince his son to take over his job. |
Must Be Santa | 1999 | Santa must pass his powers on to his chosen successor, but mistakenly passes them on to an ex con. |
My Santa | 2013[4] | The son of Santa Claus woos a single mom while masquerading as an ordinary man and working as a mall Santa. |
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure | 2003 | Cousin Eddie and his family get stranded on what they think is a deserted island for Christmas in this sequel to the 1989 theatrical film. Aired on NBC. |
The National Tree | 2009 | A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree. He and his father end up driving the Tree throughout the country and the tree become a national icon. |
The Nativity | 1978 | Biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ. |
Naughty or Nice | 2004 | A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a 15-year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day. |
Naughty or Nice | 2012 | A woman finds herself in the possession of Santa's "Naughty or Nice book" and uses it for her own advantage. |
The Night Before the Night Before Christmas | 2010 | A Hallmark Channel Original Movie about Angela and Wayne Fox who are workaholic parents. |
The Night They Saved Christmas | 1984 | An oil company dynamites in the North Pole in search of an oil field, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus. |
Northpole | 2014 | A young boy and his new friend Clementine try to bring back the happiness of Christmas before it's too late. |
November Christmas | 2010 | A father tries to provide an early Christmas for his seriously-ill young daughter. |
Once Upon a Christmas | 2000 | Santa's daughter tries to change a family so they are no longer on the Naughty list, or else Santa will cancel Christmas. |
One Christmas | 1994 | A young man is sent to visit his estranged father for Christmas in 1930 in New Orleans. |
One Special Night | 1999 | Strangers get struck in a cottage during a snowstorm and realize they are drawn together. Starring Julie Andrews and James Garner. |
On the 2nd Day of Christmas | 1997 | Con-woman Trish and her niece/ward Patsy are caught trying to steal from a department store right before Christmas. With the holidays so near, Bert, a store employee, agrees to be responsible for the pair so that Patsy need not spend the holidays in social services. |
Picking Up & Dropping Off | 2003 | A divorced father and a divorced mother start to meet at Denver International Airport when picking up and sending off their children to ex-spouses for holidays. |
Rich Little's Christmas Carol | 1979 | Comedian Rich Little plays all of the characters, using his unique skills as an impressionist to apparently fill the cast with some of Hollywood's best-known stars. |
Richie Rich's Christmas Wish | 1998 | After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas Richie Rich, the richest kid in the world, wishes he'd never been born. |
Road to Christmas | 2006 | A high powered fashion photographer finds herself stranded in middle America on her way to her wedding in Aspen, Colorado. She 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 | Kunta Kinte and Fiddler, from Roots, accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that the son of the owner helps slaves escape. |
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday | 2004 | A wealthy girl visits an orphanage during the holiday season, and tries to house them. |
Santa Baby | 2006 | Mary Class (Jenny McCarthy) is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she left behind to take over for her dad and implement her innovative ideas for running Christmas. |
Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe | 2009 | Santa needs his daughter, Mary Class' help again. |
Santa Buddies | 2009 | Puppy Paws, the only son of Santa Paws, does not want to follow in his father's footsteps. He then hi-tails it to Fernfield, Washington to be a normal puppy, just like Budderball (who is on Santa's naughty list for eating the Thanksgiving Turkey). Meanwhile, the icicle that holds the magic of Christmas is melting away due to children's and puppies' belief in Santa and Santa Paws dying. It is up to Puppy Paws and the Buddies to rediscover their belief in Christmas and save the holiday. |
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians | 1964 | The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.[5] |
Santa, Jr. | 2002 | Santa's son, mistaken for the "Christmas Bandit", is held under house arrest two days before Christmas. |
Santa Who? | 2000 | Santa Claus suffers an attack of amnesia after falling out of his sleigh. Only the innocence of a small child can save Christmas for thousands of people around the world. |
The Search for Santa Paws[1] | 2010 | Sequel to Santa Buddies in which Santa loses memory in New York and it's up to his new friend Paws to save him. |
A Season for Miracles | 1999 | A homeless woman and her niece and nephew attempt to outrun the authorities during the holiday season. |
Silent Night | 2002 | Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. |
Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! | 1989 | Horror sequel. |
Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation | 1990 | Horror sequel. |
Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker | 1991 | Horror sequel. |
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 and heir, Nick who must find a wife before Christmas because his father wants to retire. |
A Smoky Mountain Christmas | 1986 | A singer retreats to an isolated mountain cabin for a quiet holiday, but finds seven orphaned children there. |
Snow | 2004 | With only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden, heir to a certain 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 2004's Snow. |
Snowglobe | 2007 | A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dream world inside a magical snow globe. |
Snow Wonder | 2005 | Adapted from the short story "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" by Connie Willis. |
The Sons of Mistletoe | 2001 | A cold businesswoman threatens to close a boys foster home during the holidays, when she returns to her home town to settle her late father's estate. |
Special Delivery | 2000 | A bumbling courier at a private adoption agency botches the delivery of a baby to its new parents in time for Christmas, when he misplaces their baby en route. |
Stealing Christmas | 2003 | A criminal hides in a small town and takes a job as a Santa. |
Three Days | 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 | Three gangsters are hired as hitmen during the Christmas season. |
To Grandmother's House We Go | 1992 | Twin sisters believe their mother would be better off with a break from them for Christmas so they decide to go visit their grandmother, and their adventures along the way. |
A Town Without Christmas | 2001 | A child of divorcing parents writes a suicidal letter to Santa, prompting a community search. Followed by Finding John Christmas and When Angels Come to Town. |
Trading Christmas | 2013 | A widowed Washington mother and a Boston novelist decide to swap houses for Christmas. |
The True Meaning of Christmas Specials | 2002 | Broadcast on CBC and hosted by Dave Foley, this parody of Christmas specials and many classic Christmas stories follows David and friends as he seeks to learn the meaning of Christmas Specials, beyond selling knickknacks for $49.99. |
'Twas the Night | 2001 | A mischievous 14-year-old boy and his irresponsible uncle almost ruin Christmas when they decide to take Santa's new high-tech sleigh for a joyride. |
Twice Upon a Christmas | 2001 | Santa's daughter has lost her memory, and her new family is determined to help her get it back. |
The Ultimate Christmas Present | 2000 | A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus to make it snow on Christmas Day, but the machine breaks, and causes an out-of-control snowstorm. |
Undercover Christmas | 2003 | An FBI agent visits his parents for the holidays, with the waitress he's protecting posing as his girlfriend. |
Unlikely Angel | 1996 | A singer must work with St Peter to earn her wings at Christmas by re-uniting a family. |
A Very Brady Christmas | 1988 | The entire Brady family manages to overcome personal obstacles to spend a happy holiday together. Follow up to The Brady Bunch and The Brady Brides. |
When Angels Come to Town | 2004 | Max the Angel finds himself helping two different families as Christmas approaches. |
Will You Merry Me? | 2008 | A Lifetime film, in which a newly engaged couple, one Christian and the other Jewish, must survive their families meeting for the first time during Christmas. |
The Winter Stallion | 1992 | A man returns to Wales and tries to save his late father's farm from developers by entering a prize stallion in a Christmas race. |
Wishin' and Hopin' | 2014 | Coming of age Lifetime comedy set in 1964 - Felix Funicello and his fifth-grade class at St. Aloyius Gonzaga Parochial School have a momentous fall semester after a substitute teacher and a new student from Russia arrive. Competition ensues for key roles in the school's Christmas pageant. |
Children's
Title | Year | Description |
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Annabelle's Wish | 1997 | A young mute boy is given a calf who aspires to become one of Santa's flying reindeer. |
An All Dogs Christmas Carol | 1998 | An animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol. |
Arthur's Perfect Christmas | 2000 | Animated special, based on the popular television and book franchise. Arthur and his friends hope to celebrate a perfect Christmas and other seasonal holidays, but discover that sometimes even if Christmas or their holiday of choice doesn't work out in the perfect manner they had planned, they can still have a wonderful holiday. |
Babes in Toyland | 1997 | An animated adaptation of the Herbert operetta. |
Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas | 2006 | This animated parody of A Christmas Carol casts Daffy Duck in the Scrooge-like role, with all of the other Looney Tunes characters offering support. |
Barbie: A Perfect Christmas | 2011 | Barbie tries to get to another country with her sisters for Christmas but get snowed in another town where they have to spend Christmas at a hotel. |
Barbie in a Christmas Carol | 2008 | An adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring Barbie and friends. |
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas | 1997 | When the Beast forbids the celebration of Christmas, Belle and friends show him the true meaning of the holiday in this holiday-themed followup to the animated Disney theatrical film. |
Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol | 1979 | An animated adaptation of Dickens' classic featuring the Looney Tunes characters, with the role of Scrooge going to Yosemite Sam. |
Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night | 1998 | An animated story about the creation of the song "Silent Night". |
Care Bears Nutcracker Suite | 1988 | The Care Bears and their Cousins must help a Nutcracker save Toyland from an evil Vizier and his rat minions. |
Casper's Haunted Christmas[1] | 2000 | Casper the Friendly Ghost must scare someone before Christmas Day or be banished from the mortal realm. |
A Charlie Brown Christmas | 1965 | A 28-minute animated special in which Charlie Brown searches for the true meaning of Christmas, by directing a Christmas play while shunning the hyper-commercialization of the holiday. |
A Child's Christmas in Wales | 2008 | Based on the Dylan Thomas poem. Directed by Dave Unwin and narrated by Matthew Rhys. It has Welsh and English language versions, although I assume both have the same video but different audio. Also has a couple live action sections. It is said to be broadcast on S4C under the title Nadolig Plentyn Yng Nghymru. It is a co-production between independent producers Brave New World and Cwmni Da. Alternate title is Nadolig I Blentyn Yng Nghymru. |
A Chipmunk Christmas | 1981 | A sick boy makes Alvin realize the true meaning of Christmas. |
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street | 1978 | |
Christmas Is Here Again | 2007 | A disabled orphan girl sets out to find Santa's stolen toy sack. |
The Christmas Toy | 1986 | Jim Henson tale of toys who come to life on Christmas Eve. |
A Cosmic Christmas | 1977 | Three aliens visit Earth to learn about the true meaning of Christmas. |
Elf: Buddy's Musical Christmas | 2014 | A stop motion retelling of the 2003 film Elf. |
Elmo Saves Christmas | 1996 | |
Elmo's Christmas Countdown | 2007 | |
Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas | 1977 | Jim Henson's telling of the true meaning of Christmas based around a struggling mother and son who each sacrifice an item of great importance in order to give the other the perfect gift for Christmas. |
Father Christmas | 1991 | The story of what Father Christmas does the 'other' 364 days a year. |
The First Christmas: The Story of the First Christmas Snow | 1975 | Stop Motion special. |
Frosty Returns | 1992 | Animated special. A Summer Wheeze aerosol spray threatens Frosty. |
Frosty the Snowman | 1969 | Animated special, adapted from the famous song. A magic hat brings a snowman to life. |
A Garfield Christmas | 1987 | Animated special. Garfield, Jon, and Odie go to Jon's grandmother's house for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma. |
Gift of the Night Fury | 2011 | The Vikings are prepared to celebrate their annual holiday when all of the sudden all the dragons disappear, now Hiccup must figure out why while also trying to make a gift for Toothless. |
Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes | 2006 | Animated special. Holly Hobbie and her friends help a widow and her twin boys to celebrate the Christmas holidays. |
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! | 1966 | Animated musical. A mean and stingy green creature wants to ruin Christmas. |
How the Toys Saved Christmas | 1996 | The story follows some toys as they struggle to avoid the heartless Mr. Grimm, that plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, and to find their true homes. |
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie | 2002 | Kermit is shown what life would be like for the rest of the Muppets without him, in this spoof of It's a Wonderful Life. |
Jack Frost | 1979 | Stop Motion A Groundhog named Pete tells the story of how Jack Frost wanted to become human so he can fall in love. |
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together | 1979 | The Muppets join the singer for Christmas songs and sketches. |
Kung Fu Panda Holiday[1] | 2010 | Po is put in charge of hosting an holiday feast for other Kung Fu Masters, but wants to try to spend the holiday with his dad. |
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | 1985 | Stop Motion Rankin/Bass Special.
The Great Ak calls a council of the Immortals to ask that Santa Claus be given immortality. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. |
The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus | 2000 | A human orphan raised by the Faire Folke becomes the benefactor of all human children. |
Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure | 2012 | A sequel to Niko and the Way to the Stars. |
The Little Drummer Boy | 1968 | Stop Motion special. An orphan drummer boy who hates humanity finds his life changed forever when he meets three wise men en route to Bethlehem. |
Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse | 2001 | A snowstorm leaves everyone stranded and Donald has no Christmas spirit so Minnie comes up with the idea to show old Christmas cartoons. |
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas | 1999 | In this three segment film, Huey, Dewey and Louie open their gifts early, Goofy tries to prove to Max that Santa exists, and Mickey and Minnie attempt to get gifts for each other after Mickey loses his job. |
A Miser Brothers' Christmas | 2008 | Stop Motion sequel to The Year Without a Santa Claus. After Santa is injured, Heat Miser and Snow Miser must put aside their differences and work together to save Christmas. |
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol | 1962 | An animated and musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous book, A Christmas Carol, with Mr. Magoo as Scrooge. |
The Muppet Christmas Carol | 1992 | The Muppets version of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. |
A Muppet Christmas: Letters to Santa | 2008 | After mistakenly intercepting three letters sent by children to Santa Claus, the Muppets must head for the North Pole to get them delivered before Christmas. |
A Muppet Family Christmas | 1987 | Kermit and his friends spend Christmas staging a surprise visit to Fozzie Bear's mother's farm. Muppets from both the Muppet Show and Sesame Street are featured, as are Fraggles. Includes a rare cameo appearance by Jim Henson himself. |
Nestor, The Long-Eared Christmas Donkey | 1977 | Stop Motion special. |
Niko & The Way to the Stars (known as The Flight Before Christmas in North America) | 2008 | A young reindeer must overcome his fear of flying. |
Nilus the Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas | 1991 | While dreaming, a boy is taken by the Sandman to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus, but once there he discovers that children's increasing demand for more toys has forced Santa out of work, and Santa's duties are now performed by a robotic clown and his industrialized high-tech factory. |
Olive, the Other Reindeer | 1999 | A dog called Olive wants to be a reindeer at Christmas time. |
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July | 1979 | Rudolph tries to help Frosty and his family celebrate the Fourth of July and must also thwart the plans of an evil Warlock. |
Rudolph's Shiny New Year | 1976 | Rudolph helps Father Time find Baby New Year so that the New Year can start. |
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | 1964 | Stop-motion adaptation of the popular song. Rudolph, and Hermey the Misfit Elf, overcome rejection for their differences and help Santa Claus make his Christmas Eve trip. |
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town | 1970 | Stop Motion A mail man tells the story of how a young orphan Claus is adopted by elves and tries to bring toys to sad children in a town where toys are banned. |
Shrek the Halls | 2007 | Animated special. An ogre prepares to celebrate Christmas with family. |
The Snowman | 1982 | The tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day. One night, at the stroke of twelve, the snowman comes to life and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole. |
A Special Sesame Street Christmas | 1978 | |
Toot and Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas | 2006 | Animated special. Toot and Puddle are two pigs that live together in Pocket Hollow. While Toot travels to Scotland to celebrate his grandmother's centennial birthday, Puddle stays home and gets things ready for Christmas with the help of their young cousin Opal. Toot wants to get home in time for Christmas, but a fierce snowstorm threatens to derail his plans. |
Twas the Night Before Christmas | 1974 | A mouse and a clockmaker try to appease a disgruntled Santa after he has received an insulting letter. |
VeggieTales: It's a Meaningful Life | 2010 | Stewart Green (Larry the Cucumber) hops aboard the What-If Express to find out what his life would've been like had he made a game-winning catch in college. |
VeggieTales: Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving | 2009 | Bob and Larry tell the true story of Saint Nicholas to a group of children on Christmas Eve. |
VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas | 2002 | Playwrights Cavis Appythart (Bob the Tomato) and Millward Phelps (Larry the Cucumber) attempt to teach London to love through a musical spectacular but are threatened when they learn that a nearby church will be re-unveiling a priceless artifact during its Christmas pageant on Christmas Eve, Cavis and Millward's opening night. |
VeggieTales: The Toy That Saved Christmas | 1996 | A sentient toy created to tell children that "Christmas is when you get stuff" escapes from the factory he was made in and embarks on a journey to discover the holiday's true significance. |
Will Vinton's A Claymation Christmas Celebration | 1987 | A stop motion claymation featuring the California Raisins and many Christmas songs. |
Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too | 1991 | Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too is a Christmas television special based on the Disney television series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, originally broadcast on Saturday December 14, 1991, on ABC. |
The Year Without a Santa Claus | 1974 | (Stop Motion) Santa decides to take a holiday one year. So, Mrs. Claus corrals Heat Miser and Snow Miser, along with children of the world, to show Santa that people still believe in him. |
Yes, Virginia | 2009 | CGI animated version of Yes Virginia, aired on CBS and produced in association with Macy's and Make-A-Wish Foundation. |
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus | 1974 | An animated account of young Virginia. |
Ziggy's Gift | 1982 | Ziggy and his faithful dog Fuzz take a job as a street Santa to raise money for the poor. |
See also
- List of Christmas television specials
- Christmas by medium
- Christmas music
- Lists of films
- Genre studies
References
- 1 2 3 4 Guthrie, Brinke (November 21, 2016). "17 Christmas movies you can watch on Netflix". KTGV. Retrieved December 29, 2016.
- ↑ Horowitz, Joy (15 March 1992). "Hollywood Law: Whose Idea Is It, Anyway?". nytimes.com. The New York Times. Retrieved 31 December 2016.
- ↑ D'Alessandro, Anthony (June 8, 2017). "Melissa McCarthy Christmas Comedy ‘Margie Claus’ To Deck Theaters November 2019". Deadline. Retrieved July 3, 2017.
- ↑ Pennington, Gail (September 18, 2014). "Snowed under: Christmas comes early, often on TV". St. Louis Post-Dispatch. Retrieved December 2, 2013.
- ↑ "Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)". IMDb. 14 November 1964. Retrieved 30 September 2014.
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