| Die Hard (1988) | 8.2 | |
| Klaus (2019) | 8.2 | |
| Elf (2003) | 7.1 | |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966) | 8.3 | |
| The Holiday (2006) | 7.0 |
Christmas movies and TV shows – page 3
Best films
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Holly Khun, known to Chicago as “Miss Christmas,” always finds a beautiful tree for the plaza, but this year’s was damaged, and the lighting ceremony is in 10 days. Hoping for a miracle, she combs through fan mail, and finds Joey McNary of ...
Style:
feel good, light, humorous, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas romance, snow, winter, life philosophy, family values, unlikely couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tree, fall in love, adaptation ...
Place:
chicago, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Romania
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
After getting fired from her job as a maid at a ritzy New York City hotel, Allie reluctantly accepts a temp gig as the governess to a young girl who is part of a powerful family in Europe that lives in an actual castle. After arriving, Allie learns ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, touching, sweet, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, holiday, marriage proposal, prince, small town, governess, princess, castle, royalty, palace, king, queen ...
Place:
new york, europe
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Style:
atmospheric, touching, christmas classics, sentimental, christmas horror ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, miser, scrooge, holiday, charles dickens, happy ending, christmas carol, redemption, ghost, xmas, business, christmas eve ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, 1840s ...
Place:
england, europe, london, new york
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they ...
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, funny, saga, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
christmas, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, holiday, female protagonist, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, strip show, woman, single mother, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, christmas eve ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
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Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
With a duty to deliver every last letter before Christmas, the beloved quartet of post office detectives—Oliver, Shane, Rita and Norman—are working around the clock to redirect Santa’s mail just as Oliver runs into his former Sunday school ...
Style:
emotional, saga, feel good, captivating, thrilling ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, postman, hospital, christmas season, letter, holiday, heartwarming, teamwork, christmas spirit, friendship, family drama ...
Time:
2010s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Good natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property ...
Style:
touching, christmas classics, black comedy, uplifting, semi serious ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, girls' night, chick flick, adult
Plot:
christmas, holiday, african american, black, church, winter, angel, church choir, clergy, black history, black american, marriage ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Sarah Bishop and her estranged sister Beth are reunited after their father Buddy suffers a mild stroke. Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine, wants only one thing-to return home for Christmas. With sweet memories of a life ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, sweet, uplifting ...
Plot:
christmas, love, miraculous event, widower, sister sister relationship, father daughter relationship, afterlife, christmas eve, small town, heartwarming, snow, loss of loved one ...
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a photojournalist (David Cubitt) photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister ...
Style:
captivating, thrilling, christmas special, psychological, uplifting ...
Plot:
christmas, newspaper, holiday, emergency room, photographer, christmas spirit, christmas season, save the day, secret, relationships, problem, male female relationship ...
Time:
future, 2000s
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands, UK, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which ...
Style:
christmas classics, sweet, mysterious, slasher, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas season, xmas, holiday horror, christmas spirit, saving christmas, snow, storytelling, magic, immortality ...
Time:
year 1985, 20th century, 18th century, 19th century, 80s
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When a reservation mix-up at a mountain resort forces a newly-single travel writer to share a cabin with a handsome widower and his precocious daughter over the holidays, their lives are transformed by the magic of Christmas and the unexpected power ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sincere, funny, light ...
Plot:
christmas, single father, christmas season, christmas vacation, snowstorm, single parent, father daughter relationship, female writer, car breakdown, misunderstanding, party, lawyer ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A young father asks for pumpkins at the local farm stand. "In August? No." the farmer replies. The farmer ruminates on the odd request and gets involved with strangers for the first time since his son's death long ago.
Style:
emotional, serious, sincere, disturbing, sad ...
Plot:
christmas, cancer, human spirit, parents and children, family gatherings, hopes, girl, holiday, youth, xmas, life is a bitch, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
rhode island, usa
Is relevant?
87K
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
Style:
romantic, funny, light, feel good, rom com ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night, date night
Plot:
christmas, new year's eve, love, happy ending, holiday, fall in love, opposites attract, single, dating, ex boyfriend, chance meeting, romantic friendship ...
Time:
2020s, labor day, 21st century
Place:
chicago, illinois
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Northpole, the magical city where Santa and his elves live and work is in trouble. Families around the globe have gotten too busy to enjoy the season together, and Northpole depends on their holiday happiness to keep running. In the hopes of turning ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, captivating, humorous, serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, youth, parents and children, imaginary, north pole, christmas eve, save the day, single parent, escapades, snow, winter, christmas season ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Carol Christmas follows the basic plot of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, but the story has been modernized. The traditional "Scrooge" character is a talk show host named Carol.
Style:
humorous, feel good, semi serious, sweet, light ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, christmas carol, road not taken, family relations, starting over, disorder, hopes, hollywood, friends, talk show host ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
beverly hills
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31K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK, Canada, China
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
Style:
light, humorous, feel good, fairy tale, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, elf, new year, holiday, family business, fish out of water, christmas time, disorder, north pole, buddies, santa claus ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 29 min.
TV show
Story:
Tired of the constant comments on her relationship status, perpetually single Johanne starts a 24-day hunt for a boyfriend to bring home for Christmas.
Style:
light, entertaining, melancholic, feel good, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, 30 year old, family relations, love, new year's eve, christmas time, couples, fall in love, couple relations, dialogue, holiday, older woman younger man sex ...
Time:
future
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge ...
Style:
christmas special, christmas classics, christmas horror, gothic horror, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, scrooge, miser, redemption, regret, ghost, charles dickens, christmas carol, clerk, benefactor, transformation, holiday ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, future, 1800s
Place:
turkey, london
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but ...
Style:
sincere, humorous, captivating, touching
Plot:
christmas, husband wife relationship, stranded, mayor, old man, abandoned mine, interracial friendship, father son relationship, party, intergenerational friendship, contest, holiday ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Norway
TV show
Story:
There is much happening in Svingen in December, both usual christmas preparations and more unusual activities, often initiated by a childish dad. Norwegian christmas calendar.
Style:
captivating, thrilling, psychological, entertaining
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, friendship, children, snow, village, winter, christmas season, mischievous children, countryside, child, christmas spirit, friends ...
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Drake Hunter, the president of Hunter Marketing, has the perfect plan to boost sales for his father's toy company over the holiday season--hire department store Santas to promote his father's merchandise. When the real Santa Claus turns ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, entertaining, light, sentimental
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, christmas present, little girl, homeless shelter, marketing, santa claus, social worker, xmas, christmas time, store, gift ...
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Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 26 min.
Story:
A young boy makes a snowman one Christmas Eve, which comes to life at midnight and takes the boy on a magical adventure to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus.
Style:
sweet, sad, christmas classics, heartbreaking, lighthearted ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot:
christmas, imaginary kingdom, holiday, northern lights, xmas, winter, snow, christmas spirit, cold, bittersweet, new year's eve, ice ...
Time:
year 1982, 1900s, 20th century
Place:
antarctic, england, brighton
Is relevant?
59K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself ...
Style:
entertaining, feel good, thought provoking, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, lost love, christmas season, charles dickens, ghost, boss, greed, loneliness, evil man, misanthrope ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
new york
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Based on a true story, The Christmas Choir is the inspiring account of how one man can make a remarkable difference simply by giving of himself. Workaholic accountant Peter Andrews (Jason Gedrick) has overlooked Christmas, friends and even his ...
Style:
emotional, touching, realistic, serious
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, lifestyle, womanizer, redemption, family gatherings, performer's life, hopes, society, youth, against the rules, couples, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride ...
Style:
humorous, sentimental, semi serious, feel good, christmas classics
Plot:
christmas, ghost, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, supernatural, sent to the past, christmas carol, mission, xmas, holiday, scrooge, christmas eve ...
Time:
60s, 2000s, 70s
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Maggie and Sam are crashing Christmas. When he proposes they team up against his sister's perfect Christmas, neither of them are prepared for the blended family challenges that lie ahead.
Style:
emotional, christmas comedy, romantic comedy, feel good, uplifting ...
Plot:
christmas, blended family, family tradition, helicopter pilot, brother sister relationship, christmas eve, mother daughter relationship, ex husband ex wife relationship, christmas romance, skating, asking someone out on a date, holiday romance ...
Time:
2020s
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Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
When an awkward date on Christmas Eve leads a couple into a strange theater, they're treated to a bizarre and frightening collection of Christmas stories, featuring a wide ensemble of characters doing their best to avoid the horrors of the ...
Style:
anthology, christmas horror, psychological, tense, suspense ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday horror, theater, demon, creature, van, ghost, dating, xmas, danger, violence, death ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
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Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: Finland, Denmark, Germany, Ireland, USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A young reindeer who suffers from vertigo learns to overcome his fear, takes flying lessons from a clumsy flying squirrel and heads to the North pole to save a troubled Santa and his fleet of flying reindeer.
Style:
exciting, light, feel good, christmas special, sincere ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, friends, xmas, destiny, society, winter, wolf pack, christmas season, christmas eve, new year, monster ...
Time:
year 2008
Place:
europe
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Style:
funny, christmas classics, slapstick, humorous, christmas comedy ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, farce, christmas eve, new year, xmas, suicide, transvestite, veterinarian, lgbtq, bike, christmas spirit ...
Time:
90s, year 1994
Place:
california, seattle, italy, usa, europe ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Anne helps her father close the family's toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.
Style:
romantic, sweet, sincere, christian film
Plot:
christmas, holiday, father daughter relationship, christmas time, homecoming, love and romance, business, small town life, christmas season, christmas spirit, christmas eve, christmas romance ...
Place:
new york
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Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 25 min.
Story:
A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in ...
Style:
christmas classics, sweet, christmas special, crying, anime ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, holiday, snowman, xmas, magic, friendship, christmas season, snow, good versus evil, winter, school, traffic cop ...
Time:
60s, 80s
Place:
antarctic
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