The following is a list of Christmas films.
Categorization
Christmas films in this aticle are divided into three categories:
1. Theatrical films that are entirely, or in large part, about the Christmas holiday. Films in this category always feature important references to the holiday's symbols, such as family gatherings, trees and decorations, the Christ child, or Santa Claus.
2. Made-for-television and straight-to-video films about Christmas.
3. Films in which Christmas is more incidental to the plot. The holiday may be part of the story, but as in Meet Me in St. Louis (1944), it is not central.
Category 1 – Theatrical Christmas movies
- The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005) -- In a town where dogs are banned, a girl decides to use the 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.
- All I Want For Christmas (1991) -- Two kids plot to reunite their estranged parents at Christmas.
- Bad Santa (2003) -- A conman poses as Santa to rob stores on Christmas Eve.
- The Bishop's Wife (1947) -- An angel helps an Episcopalian bishop rearrange his priorities.
- 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.
- Christmas at Maxwell's (2006) -- The Austin family face a bleak Christmas when Suzie extremely ill and the family go away to spend their last Christmas together before she dies.
- A Christmas Carol (1938), MGM's 1938 film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story, remade countless times.
- Christmas Carol: The Movie , (2001), an animated film starring the voices of Kate Winslet, Nicolas Cage and Michael Gambon.
- A Christmas Carol (2009), Walt Disney Pictures/ImageMovers Digital performance capture film starring Jim Carrey.
- Christmas Child (2003) -- A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past.
- Christmas Eve (1947) -- Heiress attempts to bring her adopted sons back home by Christmas Eve to rescue her fortune from a scheming nephew.
- Christmas in Connecticut (1945) -- Fibbing columnist must entertain war hero for the holidays. Remade in 1992.
- A Christmas Story (1983) -- All Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder BB gun.
- 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.
- Deck the Halls (2006) -- Neighbours fight over who has the best Christmas lights.
- Eight Crazy Nights (2002) -- A half-Jewish, half-Christian man, who gave up on Christmas and Hanukkah after his parents both die around the holidays, is shown the error of his ways when he is forced into community service by refereeing a Junior Basketball team.
- Elf (2003) -- A human, raised at the North Pole, searches for his family in New York.
- Ernest Saves Christmas (1988) -- Everyman-type Ernest helps Santa.
- The Family Stone (2005) -- Uptight woman wants acceptance from eccentric clan at Christmastime.
- Four Christmases (2008) -- A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.
- Fred Claus (2007) -- Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.
- The Grinch (2000) -- Furry green creature wants to ruin the holidays.
- Holiday Inn (1942) -- Musicians prepare for a white Christmas at a cozy lodge.
- The Holly and the Ivy (1952) -- An English clergyman reunites with his grown children for Christmas.
- Homeless for the Holidays (2009) -- A man's family is in danger of losing everything right before Christmas.
- Home Alone (1990) --Kevin accidentally gets left behind during Christmas break and defends his house against robbers.
- Home Alone 2 (1992) --Kevin gets onto the wrong plane and flies to New York where he stops thieves from robbing the toy store.
- I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998) -- A college student finds it hard to get home for the holidays.
- 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'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'ai Rencontré Le Père Noël (AKA 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.
- Joyeux Noël (AKA Merry Christmas ) (2005) -- World War I trenches go silent during the "Christmas truce" of 1914.
- The Lemon Drop Kid (1951) -- When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally steers Moose Moran's girl away from a winning bet, he is forced to come up with $10,000 to repay the angry gangster. Fortunately it's Christmas, a time when people can be persuaded to part with money for the right cause.
- 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, England.
- Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983) -- Disney's animated film adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic story.
- Miracle on 34th Street (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.
- Miracle on 34th Street (1994) --
- Mixed Nuts (1994) -- Christmas at a crisis hotline center.
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992) -- Jim Henson's creations tackle Charles Dickens' festive favorite.
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) -- As usual, the Griswold family plans turn to disaster, this time at Christmas.
- Nativity! (2009) -- An improvised comedy based around a school nativity play.
- The Nativity Story (2006) -- The Biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ.
- Noel (2004) -- A series of events link five disparate strangers in New York on Christmas Eve.
- 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.
- One Magic Christmas (1985) -- At Christmas time an angel shows a young mother the true meaning of the holiday season.
- 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.
- Prancer (1989) -- Girl nurses a wounded reindeer.
- 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.
- Remember the Night (1940) -- DA falls for Christmastime shoplifter.
- 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 Claus (1959) -- Santa battles evil demon in outer space.
- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) -- Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
- Santa Claus: The Movie (1985) -- Biopic for the fat man in the red suit.
- The Santa Clause (1994) -- When Santa falls off his roof, a harried ad exec is required to assume the mantle.
- The Santa Clause 2 (2002) -- Sequel to The Santa Clause ; Santa must find a Mrs. Claus.
- The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006) -- Third film in The Santa Clause series, Santa battles Jack Frost to keep his title.
- Santa's Slay (2005) -- In this horror/comedy movie it is revealed that Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, but when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways.
- Santa with Muscles (1996) -- An evil millionaire gets amnesia and then belives that he is Santa Claus.
- Scrooge (1935) -- Early film adaptation of Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol .
- Scrooge (1951) -- Dickens' ghostly meditation on the holiday. This version of the story, with Alastair Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge, is regarded as one of the best.
- Scrooge (1970) -- A musical adaptation of Dickens' tale, starring Albert Finney as in the title role.
- Scrooged (1988) -- Modern interpretation of Dickens' story, with holiday spirits visiting a cynical TV exec. Starring Bill Murray.
- Stalking Santa (2006) -- Dr. Lloyd Darrow, a self-proclaimed "Santologist," sets out to prove the existence of Santa Claus.
- Surviving Christmas (2004) -- A young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.
- Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) -- Inhabitants of H
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