Best Christmas movies
Кинофильмы отечественные
Original title: Кинофильмы отечественные --
Poor Sasha
1997 - RussiaFilm - comedy, adventure, family
Yolki
2011 - RussiaFilm - melodrama, comedy
One of the biggest Russian hits in years, this epic comedy shows how the largest country on the planet can come together on New Year's. (Russian with English subtitles)
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Yolki 2
2010 - RussiaFilm - melodrama, comedy
Film is a collection of several interlinked stories that happen on the New Year's eve.
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Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom!
1975 - USSRFilm - melodrama, comedy
A group of old friends have a tradition of going to a public bathing house on New Years eve. Incidentally, too much vodka and beer makes two of them unconscious. The problem is that one of them (Sasha) has to go to Leningrad but another one (Zhenya) goes. Zhenya wakes up at Leningrad airport. Believing that he is still in Moscow he takes a taxi and goes home. The street name, building and even apartment number, the way an apartment complex looks the same and the key coincide completely - just typical Soviet-type 'economy' architecture. Imagine the surprise of Nadya when she enters her apartment and finds a man without trousers in her bed. What's more - Nadya's fiancé also finds him there…
Ironiya sudby. Prodolzhenie
2007 - RussiaFilm - melodrama, comedy
Zhenya and Nadya go their separate ways. Nadya stuck with her bureaucrat boyfriend, married h im and had a daughter, also called Nadya. Zhenya married and had a son, Konstantin. Both later divorced. More than 30 years later, Konstantin ends up drunk in the flat where the younger Nadya finds him. He is there as part of a convoluted ruse by his father's friends to get Zhenya back into the arms of the woman with whom he shared a margical night. The waylaid son is the bait to get Zhenya back to Leningrad, now called St. Petersburg. One romance is rekindled and another between the son and daughter is struck up.
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Karnavalnaya noch
1956 - USSRFilm - comedy
A new chief of a "Culture House" is planning to hold a terribly boring New Year concert. A group of young amateur actors are doing their best to liven up the concert.
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Morozko
1964 - USSRFilm - fantasy, melodrama, comedy, family
A fairy-tale about a conceited young man and a young woman with a tyrannical step-mother, who must overcome magical trials in order to be together.
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Приходи на меня посмотреть
2000 - RussiaFilm - melodrama, comedy
Before New Year Eve the windows of vast city are glowing from within by colored Christmas lights. It seems that behind each of these windows carefully stored favorite holiday.It seems that each of them are waiting for the New Year's wish fulfillment...By the silhouette of an elderly woman at one of the windows of the old house in Moscow, neighbors in the yard probably accustomed as something unchangeable.Sophia Ivanovna ten years does not get up from her chair, all day looking out the window, glues paper figurines and listening to Dickens, who reads aloud to her, her only daughter Tanya.The only heiress, Tanya, whom Sophia Ivanovna must to pass all the family jewels, seems resigned to the position of an old maid, and her whole life consists only of the care of the sick mother.
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Tarif Novogodniy
2008 - RussiaFilm - fantasy, melodrama, comedy
Performing the traditional New Year's call on the unknown phone number Andrey didn't even suspected, that just after his return to Moscow, he had bought a magic starting pack of cellular communications operator. Getting through to the deserted in New Year's eve Alyona, Andrey almost falls in love with her, but there exists a temporal problem. Alyona is celebrating coming 2008 year and Andrey is going to meet 2009. Trying "to set a contact" with Alyona's «future variant» he comes to know the terrible truth about the events, that appended in the end of 2008. Now the main goal of Andrey and all his friends - to prevent the awful tragedy and to turn into reality the meeting of Alyona and Andrey…
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Zолушка
2012 - RussiaFilm - melodrama, comedy
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Телефильмы отечественные
Original title: Телефильмы отечественные --
New year wife
2012 - RussiaTelefilm - comedy
Maxim and Dasha meet at crazy club party... and next morning they wake up together! Our heroes decide that it was destiny and start building perfect, "right" relationship. They even submit an application to the registrar, after a bet: if after a month of living together they would still feel love, they will get married. Maxim and Dasha try so hard to become a real couple, but the life is constantly throwing up obstacles. Their exes unexpectedly decide to return them back. Our heroes have to go through many funny and sometimes dramatic situations before they realize if there is a place for love in their lives.
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Open, Santa Claus!
2007 - RussiaTelefilm - melodrama, comedy
Кинофильмы зарубежные
Original title: Кинофильмы зарубежные --
Christmas Angel
Original title: Christmas Angel 2012 - USAFilm - family
Christmas wishes made before a long-abandoned house that start coming true lead an elementary schoolgirl to discover a reclusive woman living inside.
How About You...
Original title: How About You... 2007 - USAFilm - drama, comedy
HOW ABOUT YOU tells the story of Ellie, a young woman left in charge of the residential home run by her older sister, over the Christmas period. Whilst most of the residents have left to spend the festive period with their families, four residents, known as 'the hardcore' remain. Their behavior is so terrible that the home faces closure as potential new residents are put off by their appalling antics.
One Magic Christmas
Original title: One Magic Christmas 1985 - USA, CanadaFilm - fantasy, family, music
An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about.
Jack Frost
Original title: Jack Frost 1998 - USAFilm - drama, comedy
A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
K9 Adventures: A Christmas Tale
Original title: K9 Adventures: A Christmas Tale 2012 - USAFilm - family
Luke Perry stars in this heartwarming "tail." Kassie, her friends and her dog, Scoot, organize a holiday fundraiser, but must protect the cash from some crooks in order to save Christmas.
Die Hard
Original title: Die Hard 1988 - USAFilm - thriller
John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.
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Curly Sue
Original title: Curly Sue 1991 - USAFilm - drama, melodrama, comedy, family
A homeless man and his young companion who survive by conning people meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.
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The Shop Around the Corner
Original title: The Shop Around the Corner 1940 - USAFilm - drama, melodrama
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand each other, without realizing that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
Scrooged
Original title: Scrooged 1988 - USAFilm - fantasy, drama, melodrama, comedy
A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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Noel
Original title: Noel 2004 - USA, CanadaFilm - drama
Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle.
Home Alone
Original title: Home Alone 1990 - USAFilm - comedy, family
An eight-year-old trouble-maker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.
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The Holiday
Original title: The Holiday 2006 - USAFilm - melodrama, comedy
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
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Surviving Christmas
Original title: Surviving Christmas 2004 - USAFilm - melodrama, comedy
A lonely, obnoxious young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.
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Jingle All the Way
Original title: Jingle All the Way 1996 - USAFilm - comedy, family
A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas, however, every store is sold out of them, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.
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The Family Stone
Original title: The Family Stone 2005 - USAFilm - melodrama, comedy
An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
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Love Actually
Original title: Love Actually 2003 - United KingdomFilm - melodrama, comedy
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.
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The Christmas Hope
Original title: The Christmas Hope 2009 - USAFilm - drama
When lives intertwine during Christmas, hope is the only unifying gift. After suffering a personal tragedy, a social worker throws herself into finding homes for children in need.
The Christmas Candle
Original title: The Christmas Candle 2013 - United Kingdom, USAFilm - drama
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end. When David Richmond (Hans Matheson), a progressive young minister, arrives in Gladbury, the villagers discover a new formula for miracles: good deeds and acts of kindness. While David's quest to modernize Gladbury sets him at odds with the old world candlemaker, he finds an unlikely ally in the lovely skeptic, Emily Barstow (Samantha Barks). Now, the fiery candlemaker must fight to preserve the legacy of the Christmas Candle. But when the candle goes missing, the miraculous and human collide in the most astonishing Christmas the village of Gladbury has ever seen.
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Original title: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 1989 - USAFilm - comedy, family
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The Muppet Christmas Carol
Original title: The Muppet Christmas Carol 1993 - USAFilm - musical, fantasy, drama, comedy, family
The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.
Christmas Cottage
Original title: Christmas Cottage 2008 - USA, CanadaFilm - drama, biography
A look at the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade's painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.
Christmas with a Capital C
Original title: Christmas with a Capital C 2011 - USAFilm - drama, comedy, family
An attorney returns to his small home town in Alaska and quickly rocks the boat by getting an injunction against the nativity display tradition and attacking Christmas.
Christmas with the Kranks
Original title: Christmas with the Kranks 2004 - USAFilm - comedy, family
With their daughter away, the Kranks decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holiday at the last minute.
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The Santa Clause 2
Original title: The Santa Clause 2 2001 - USAFilm - fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus.
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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
Original title: The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause 2006 - USAFilm - fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
Santa, aka Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy, and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.
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Joyeux Noël
Original title: Joyeux Noël 2005 - Germany, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, RomaniaFilm - drama, melodrama, military, history, music
In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Miracle on 34th Street
Original title: Miracle on 34th Street 1994 - USAFilm - fantasy, family
When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.
The Nutcracker
Original title: The Nutcracker 2010 - USAFilm - fantasy, thriller, family
On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie (Cohen) falls asleep after a party at her home and dreams herself (or does she?) into a fantastic world where toys become larger than life. Her beloved Nutcracker (Culkin) comes to life and defends her from the Mouse King, then is turned into a Prince after Marie saves his life.
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Elf
Original title: Elf 2003 - USAFilm - fantasy, melodrama, comedy, family
After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.
It's a Wonderful Life
Original title: It's a Wonderful Life 1946 - USAFilm - drama, melodrama
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Телефильмы зарубежные
Original title: Телефильмы зарубежные --
A Boyfriend for Christmas
Original title: A Boyfriend for Christmas 2004 - Germany, USATelefilm - melodrama, comedy
On Christmas Day, Santa brings two lonely people together. But can love overcome deception?
A Town Without Christmas
Original title: A Town Without Christmas 2001 - USATelefilm - drama, family
In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race begins to find him before he harms himself.
Crown for Christmas
Original title: Crown for Christmas 2015 - USATelefilm - melodrama, comedy
After getting fired from her job as a maid at a ritzy New York hotel, Allie reluctantly accepts a temp gig as the governess to a young girl who is part of a powerful family in Europe that lives in an actual castle.
Mrs. Miracle
Original title: Mrs. Miracle 2009 - USATelefilm - melodrama, comedy
Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. "Mrs. Miracle" mysteriously appears and quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend... and matchmaker.
A Nanny for Christmas
Original title: A Nanny for Christmas 2010 - USATelefilm - comedy
Ally is a smart young career woman who needs a new job. Samantha is a busy Beverly Hills advertising executive/mom whose too-well-mannered kids need some fun in their lives. And Danny Donner is the tough-guy owner of a chocolate company who wants a major ad campaign immediately. Could these three lives intertwining lead to the Christmas that changes everyone's worlds forever?
Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus
Original title: Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus 2004 - USA, GermanyTelefilm - melodrama, comedy
Nick's plan to let fate bring his wife to him must be altered because he must replace his father as Santa Claus on December 26. Ernst, the right-hand man to several generations of Santas, generates a list of potential mates. Nick dutifully sets off to meet them, but fate may have a candidate after all.
The Christmas Secret
Original title: The Christmas Secret 2000 - USATelefilm - fantasy, drama, family
In this magical story, a scientist sets out to prove that reindeer can fly and along the way discovers the true meaning of faith, family and Christmas.
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Borrowed Hearts
Original title: Borrowed Hearts 1997 - USATelefilm - fantasy, drama, melodrama
Kathleen's a hard-working single mother, who's saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoe. Sam's a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo. Sam owns the company that Kathleen works for, and as her boss, manages to convince her to help him out. But Del Campo is more than he seems, and it just might be Zoe who's making the real deal to get a new home for herself, her mother, and Sam.
Мультфильмы
Original title: Мультфильмы --
Prep and Landing
Original title: Prep and Landing 2009 - USACartoon - fantasy, family, music
Wayne gets a new rookie partner, Lanny, after his previous partner got the promotion he wanted. Lanny has to remind Wayne of the Spirit of Christmas and the importance of being an elf in Santa's Prep and Landing elite unit.
A Christmas Tree
1959 - USSRShort cartoon - children
Santa Claus lends his sparkling sleigh-like Star Shooter to let a child in order to deliver a Christmas tree to his father in Antarctica.
Padal proshlogodniy sneg
1983 - USSRShort cartoon - fantasy, comedy, family
Surreal misadventures of a lazy drunkard with speech impediment trying to get a New Year tree on a short notice. Loosely based on folk fairy tales.
Snowman-postman
1955 - USSRShort cartoon - children
Kak ezhik i medvezhonok vstrechali noviy god
1975 - USSRShort cartoon - children
In the New Year's Eve one of the friends discovers his gift of reincarnation.
Prep and Landing Naughty vs Nice
Original title: Prep and Landing Naughty vs Nice 2011 - USAShort cartoon - fantasy, comedy, adventure, family
Lanny and Wayne race to recover classified North Pole technology.
Santa's Suprise
Original title: Santa's Suprise 1947 - USAShort cartoon - children
Five children from around the world follow Santa home on Christmas Eve, and decide to give him some extra help around the workshop.
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Original title: Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer 1944 - USAShort cartoon - children