Topic: Christmas

Direction Billy Wilder

Cast Jack Lemmon · Shirley MacLaine · Fred MacMurray · Ray Walston

Synopsis In The Apartment (1960), a lonely office worker named C.C. Baxter lends his apartment to company executives for their extramarital affairs, hoping to climb the corporate ladder. His life takes a turn when he develops feelings for Fran, an elevator...

Direction Rick Hancox

Cast Amanda Hancox · Scot Denton · Bill Hancox · Mary Hancox

Synopsis "Here is the quintessential Hancox 'personal documentary,' a film in which both the production and role of traditional documentary and autobiographical filmmaking are thrown into question. Using his camera to record a visit out east by train to spend Christmas...

Direction Frank Capra

Cast James Stewart · Donna Reed · Lionel Barrymore · Thomas Mitchell

Synopsis A good but slightly ineffectual man tries to off himself after an error that really wasnt his fault. In Christmas carol fashion, his crusty-but-lovable guardian angel shows up to give him a tour of the world without his presence, and...

Direction Luis García Berlanga

Cast Cassen · José Luis López Vázquez · Elvira Quintilla · Amelia de la Torre

Synopsis In a small spanish town, a group of old ladies decide to celebrate Christmas Eve with a "Sit a poor man at your table" dinner: each wealthy household of the town will have a homeless person dining with them that...

Direction Carl Tibbetts

Cast Jon Hamm · Rafe Spall · Rasmus Hardiker · Oona Chaplin

Synopsis Matt Trent (Jon Hamm) and Joe Potter (Rafe Spall) are stationed at a small, remote outpost in the middle of a snowy wilderness. On Christmas Day, Matt is preparing Christmas dinner, while "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Everyday" plays...

Direction Henry Selick

Synopsis The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) follows Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, who grows tired of the same annual routine. After stumbling upon Christmas Town, he becomes enchanted by the holiday's joy and decides to take over Christmas....

Direction Peter Farrelly

Cast Viggo Mortensen · Mahershala Ali · Iqbal Theba · Linda Cardellini

Synopsis A working-class Italian-American bouncer becomes the driver of an African-American classical pianist on a tour of venues through the 1960s American South. When Tony Lip (Mortensen), a bouncer from an Italian-American neighborhood in the Bronx, is hired to drive Dr....

Direction David Silverman

Synopsis The family is forced to spend all of their savings to get Bart's new tattooo removed, and with no money for Christmas, Homer is forced to become a store Santa.

Direction Sergio Pablos

Synopsis In Klaus (2019), a spoiled postman named Jesper is sent to a remote, frozen island as punishment for his laziness. Tasked with establishing a postal service, he finds the townsfolk divided by a long-standing feud. Jesper befriends a reclusive toymaker...

Direction Toby Haynes

Cast Matt Smith · Michael Gambon · Katherine Jenkins · Karen Gillan

Synopsis A space liner, with a large number of passengers aboard, is in difficulties while flying through the atmosphere of an unknown planet. Amy and Rory have been spending some time on board in the honeymoon suite and they quickly appear...

Direction Jamie Payne

Cast Matt Smith · Jenna Coleman · Orla Brady · Sheila Reid

Synopsis Orbiting a quiet backwater planet, the massed forces of the universe’s deadliest species gather, drawn to a mysterious message that echoes out to the stars. And amongst them – the Doctor. Rescuing Clara from a family Christmas dinner, the Time...

Direction Satoshi Kon · Shôgo Furuya

Synopsis Christmas in Tokyo, Japan. Three homeless friends: a young girl, a transvestite, and a middle-aged bum. While foraging through some trash, they find an abandoned newborn. Hana, the transvestite with delusions of being a mother, convinces the others to keep...

Direction Rachel Talalay

Cast Peter Capaldi · David Bradley · Mark Gatiss · Pearl Mackie

Synopsis Two Doctors stranded in a forbidding snowscape, refusing to face regeneration. And a British army captain seemingly destined to die in the First World War, but taken from the trenches to play his part in the Doctor’s story. This is...

Direction John Huston

Cast Anjelica Huston · Donal McCann · Helena Carroll · Cathleen Delany

Synopsis The Dead (1987) is a poignant adaptation of James Joyce's short story, set during a festive Dublin gathering in 1904. The film follows Gabriel Conroy and his wife, Gretta, as they attend a lively Christmas party hosted by Gabriel's aunts....

Direction Alexander Payne

Cast Paul Giamatti · Dominic Sessa · Da'Vine Joy Randolph · Carrie Preston

Synopsis The Holdovers (2023) follows a cantankerous professor at a prestigious New England boarding school who is reluctantly tasked with supervising a handful of students unable to go home for the winter break. As the days pass, the small group forms...

Direction Allen Baron

Cast Allen Baron · Molly McCarthy · Larry Tucker · Peter H. Clune

Synopsis Having been 'away' for some time professional killer Frankie Bono returns to New York to do another job: assassinate some mid-level mobster. Although intending to avoid unnecessary 'contact' while carefully stalking his victim Bono is recognized by an old fellow...

Direction Richard Boden

Cast Rowan Atkinson · Tony Robinson · Miranda Richardson · Stephen Fry

Synopsis Pleasant Ebenezer Blackadder is turned into a cruel and witty miser after seeing visions of his ancestors and descendants.

Direction John McTiernan

Cast Bruce Willis · Bonnie Bedelia · Alan Rickman · Alexander Godunov

Synopsis In Die Hard (1988), NYPD officer John McClane visits Los Angeles to reconcile with his estranged wife during her company's Christmas party at a high-rise office building. The festive gathering takes a deadly turn when a group of terrorists, led...

Direction Álex de la Iglesia

Cast Álex Angulo · Santiago Segura · Armando de Razza · María Grazia Cucinotta

Synopsis A priest thinks he knows when the antichrist will be born in the earth: on Christmas day, 1995, in Madrid, Spain.

Direction Douglas Mackinnon

Cast Peter Capaldi · Alex Kingston · Greg Davies · Matt Lucas

Synopsis It’s Christmas Day on a remote human colony and the Doctor is hiding from Christmas Carols and Comedy Antlers. But when a crashed spaceship calls upon the Doctor for help, he finds himself recruited into River Song’s squad and hurled...