christmas films
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- 5. Will Ferrell stars in the title roll as one of santas helpers who leaves his Lapland home and loves everything christmas.
- 9. A skeptical little girl meets the real Chris Cringle working as a toy store santa and he asks her for her Christmas wishes, whilst the competing toy store tries to discredit him. America asks…Do you believe in Santa Claus?
- 10. Decking the halls and other traditions are all colossal failures for the Griswold family in the comedy classic.
- 13. The puppet adaptation of the Dickens Christmas classic.
- 14. George C. Scott plays Scrooge in this classic made-for-TV version of the Charles Dickens holiday tale.
- 17. This comedy satisfies two sets of audiences: kids (Ralphie gets his BB gun) and parents (it does exactly what they warned him it would).
- 18. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire celebrate a year's worth of holidays, against a steady flow of Irving Berlin tunes.
- 19. Tim Allen deconstructs Saint Nick -- and reconstructs his waistline -- as a hapless Santa in training.
- 20. Whether or not you have your own guardian angel hovering, the lesson here is that it's not money that makes you rich.
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- 1. This sixties stop-motion-animation movie about santas favourite sleigh puller is impossibly cute, right down to Sam the Snowman.
- 2. A war hero has Christmas dinner with the Martha Stewart-esque Barbara Stanwyck in this holiday farce.
- 3. It's rather hard to say who's the real star of this funny live-action version: is it Jim Carrey or Dr. Seuss?
- 4. Boris Karloff's dulcet baritone lends sinister charm to everyone's favorite Who hater in this short, sweet Christmas special.
- 6. Tim Burton and Henry Selicks enchanting tale has all the familiar bones of a holiday classic.
- 7. Full of expletives and sexual innuendos, this one about the opposite of what we expect Mr Claus to be like.
- 8. Bill Murray stars as the ultimate crank Frank Cross in this 1988 film.
- 11. Snoopy’s best pal sets out to find the true meaning of Christmas in this animated anti-commercialism classic.
- 12. In this one a boy gets left behind when the family go away for Christmas and takes on the burglars.
- 15. Christmas: The follow-up to Holiday Inn is once again full of Irving Berlin tunes, with Bing Crosby providing the vocals. What's not to love?
- 16. This holiday staple based on the man made out of snow features one of the most memorably catchy Christmassy theme songs ever.