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, Again
For a fifth consecutive December, a heartbroken Noel returns to New York City to work the night shift at a sidewalk Christmas tree lot. Devoid of any holiday spirit, he struggles to stay awake during the long, chilly nights in his trailer, while the daytime traffic keeps him...Watch Movie -
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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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 -
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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A Matter of Principle
Scrooge may be alive and well and living in West Virginia in the person of Flagg Purdy. He won't pay the county phone tax and he won't allow his wife and eleven children to celebrate any holiday. He rules his life, and theirs, by his "principles." But something has just...Watch Movie -
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. This 1923 version of Charles Dickens' immortal tale was also released to theatres as A CHRISTMAS...Watch Movie -
The Gift of the Magi
"One dollar and eighty-seven cents. And the next day would be Christmas." And so we begin O. Henry's best known and timeless story, which stands as a shining example of O. Henry's writing at its best. For in it we have the simplicity of concept, the irony of circumstance and...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 -
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