Holiday
see all genres ›The seasonal rituals of families gathering together drive the holiday film. Moral lessons are learned. Santas (good and bad) roam free. The tendency toward holiday-inspired sentimentality pushes many filmmakers toward black comedy and satire.
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Christmas Cracker
This Academy Award®-nominated short consists of three animated segments (by three different directors) that take a playful look at Christmas: a rendition of "Jingle Bells" in which paper cut-out figures dance, a dime-store rodeo of tin toys and a story of decorating the...Watch Movie
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Christmas Evil
Harry Stadling (Brandon Maggert) is obsessed with Christmas. In fact, he wants to be the authentic Santa Claus with a real suit, sleigh and reindeer. Ever since he learned the truth about Santa, he’s tried to make Christmas a reality. Growing up a toy maker, Harry is met with naysayers and...Watch Movie
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Tuesday, After Christmas
In the days leading up to Christmas, a married man forces himself to choose between his wife and his mistress. A sharply observed, deeply felt drama from director Radu Muntean showcasing the strengths of current Romanian cinema in its beautifully calibrated performances,...Watch Movie
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Scrooge
Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol" is a Victorian morality tale of an old and bitter miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, who undergoes a profound experience of redemption over the course of one Christmas Eve. A long-thought-lost version of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol." This film was re-released in...Watch Movie
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A Little Girl Who Did Not Believe in Santa Claus
When a rich boy learns from a poor girl that she does not believe in Santa Claus because he has never visited her, the boy decides to get to the bottom of this travesty. You've never seen anything like what happens next. This 1907 Edison short directed by Edwin S. Porter...Watch Movie
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The Christmas Dream
A child slumberer's elaborate Yuletide dream features much dancing (from ballet to can-can) followed by snowy scenes, a giant tower bell being rung and seasonal festivities in an aristocratic home. Upon waking, our protagonist finds out what he's getting for Christmas: a...Watch Movie
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A Winter Straw Ride
Two groups of young women get into a pair of horse-drawn carts and go off for a straw ride through the snowy streets. As they pass by a group of children, the children throw snowballs at the riders and they and other persons begin to join in the fun. Then one of the carts tips...Watch Movie
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Santa Claus
The producers of the legendary made-in-Mexico SANTA CLAUS packed every magical, wacky holiday oddity known to man in to this wild, wonderful and strangely charming children’s classic! It’s not enough that Santa must deal with the usual suspects (the good little boys and girls; the not so good...Watch Movie
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Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Renowned as a holiday cult classic, SANTA CLAUS CONQUERS THE MARTIANS tells the story of the depressed children of Mars (one played by an eight year old Pia Zadora) who can only be brought out of their funk through the jolly cheer of Old St. Nick. So the Martian leaders travel...Watch Movie
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Lovely, Still
With the approach of Christmas causing him to feel lonely in life and love, Robert Malone (Academy Award® Winner Martin Landau) braves the wintery snow to arrive home from his job at the grocery store only to find a stranger (Academy Award® Winner Ellen Burstyn) standing in his home. What begins...Watch Movie
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I am Jesus Christ
Jesus is back on Earth at Christmas only to find it’s become less about him and more about Santa and presents. Undaunted, he takes a job as a "Store Santa" to get the true meaning of Christmas out to the kids. But the modern world is no place for an out-of-touch savior. Can...Watch Movie
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Down the Wyoming Trail
Cinema's second-most-popular singing cowboy (after Roy Rogers) was Texas-bred Tex Ritter, a homely but amiable fella who began his career as a Broadway and radio performer, ending it decades later as a successful country recording artist. In-between, he starred in a slew of...Watch Movie
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The Night Before Christmas
"A Visit from St. Nicholas," the memorable holiday poem by Clement Clarke Moore, is adapted for the screen by longtime Edison Manufacturing Company director Edwin S. Porter. "'Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house, not a creature was stirring, not even a...Watch Movie
