Best Christmas movies

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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 2

2007 - Russia
Film - comedy

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.

Open, Santa Claus!

2007 - Russia
Telefilm - melodrama, comedy

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.

Joulutarina

2007 - Finland
Film - fantasy, drama, family

The touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.

The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey

2007 - United Kingdom
Film - family

When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver's ability, and as Christmas approaches, the three struggle to come to terms with each other, their painful memories and the process of putting their unhappiness behind them.

Fred Claus

2007 - USA
Film - fantasy, comedy, family

Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.

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.