Best Christmas movies

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Yolki

2011 - Russia
Film - 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)

Ironiya sudby, ili S lyogkim parom!

1975 - USSR
Film - 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 - Russia
Film - 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.

Karnavalnaya noch

1956 - USSR
Film - 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.

Morozko

1964 - USSR
Film - 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.

Tarif Novogodniy

2008 - Russia
Film - 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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How About You...

2007 - USA
Film - 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

1985 - USA, Canada
Film - 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.

So This Is Christmas

2013 - USA
Film - drama, melodrama, comedy, family

Ashley lives in the fast lane until a handyman invades her life and she's directing a Christmas play for underprivileged kids. She runs into her ultimate soul mate. They may live happily ever after unless her step brother gets her killed.

Jack Frost

1998 - USA
Film - 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.

Die Hard

1988 - USA
Film - 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.

Curly Sue

1991 - USA
Film - 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.

Noel

2004 - USA, Canada
Film - drama

Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle.

The Holiday

2006 - USA
Film - 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.

Surviving Christmas

2004 - USA
Film - melodrama, comedy

A lonely, obnoxious young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.

Christmas with a Capital C

2011 - USA
Film - 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

2004 - USA
Film - 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.

The Santa Clause

1994 - USA
Film - fantasy, comedy, adventure, family

When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

White Christmas

1954 - USA
Film - musical, melodrama, comedy

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

Joyeux Noël

2005 - Germany, France, United Kingdom, Belgium, Romania
Film - 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.

Dinner at Fred's

1999 - USA, Canada
Film - comedy

Richard leaves his corporate office for a weekend at the country house of his fiancee, who is a daughter of his boss. On the way there he is forced to accept offer of lodging from local Fred and when he enters the house, the wacky family of Celia, her brother Dennis and their parents won't let him move on away from it. Family believes they are under the curse of the wild turkey, by which anyone who stays past midnight in the rural house is doomed to never leave.

Miracle on 34th Street

1994 - USA
Film - 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.

It's a Wonderful Life

1946 - USA
Film - drama, melodrama

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A Town Without Christmas

2001 - USA
Telefilm - 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.

Santa Who?

2000 - USA
Telefilm - fantasy, comedy, adventure, family

Santa suffers a case of amnesia on the eve of his busiest season.

The Christmas Secret

2000 - USA
Telefilm - 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.

The Christmas Card

2006 - USA
Telefilm - melodrama, family

US soldier visits the town from where an inspirational Christmas card was sent to him by a church group that mails cards out to servicemen as a goodwill effort.

Shrek

Shrek: The Halls

2007 - USA
Short cartoon - fantasy, comedy, adventure, family

This half-hour animated TV special features the Shrek characters putting their own spin on holiday traditions.

Fleischer Cartoons - Christmas Comes but Once a Year

1936 - USA
Short cartoon - children

At an orphanage, the children are sad because they received broken toys as gifts. Professor Grampy sees the children while passing by in his sled and has an idea on how to give them a merry Christmas.