| Title |
Year |
Description |
| Annabelle's Wish |
1997 |
A young mute boy is given a calf who aspires to become one of Santa's flying reindeer. |
| Arthur's Perfect Christmas |
2000 |
Animated special, based on the popular television and book franchise. Arthur and his friends hope to celebrate a perfect Christmas and other seasonal holidays, but discover that sometimes even if Christmas or their holiday of choice doesn't work out in the perfect manner they had planned, they can still have a wonderful holiday. |
| Babes in Toyland |
1997 |
An animated adaptation of the Herbert operetta. |
| Bah, Humduck! A Looney Tunes Christmas |
2006 |
This animated parody of A Christmas Carol casts Daffy Duck in the Scrooge-like role, with all of the other Looney Tunes characters offering support. |
| Barbie: A Perfect Christmas |
2011 |
Barbie tries to get to another country with her sisters for Christmas but get snowed in another town where they have to spend Christmas at a hotel. |
| Barbie in a Christmas Carol |
2008 |
An adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring Barbie and friends. |
| The Bears Who Saved Christmas |
1994 |
A family gets stranded in a cabin on Christmas Eve, and two teddy bears - Christopher and Holly - venture into the woods to find a Christmas tree and save Christmas. |
| The Bear Who Slept Through Christmas |
1973 |
Theodore Edward Bear (Ted E. Bear for short) is curious about Christmas, and decides to go searching for it while the other bears hibernate for winter. |
| Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas |
1997 |
When the Beast forbids the celebration of Christmas, Belle and friends show him the true meaning of the holiday in this holiday-themed sequel to the animated Disney theatrical film. |
| The Berenstain Bears' Christmas Tree |
1979 |
Papa Bear and the cubs search the woods for the most perfect Christmas tree, but run afoul of the woodland animals who live in the trees they aim to cut down. Adapted from the book series. |
| Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol |
1979 |
An animated adaptation of Dickens' classic featuring the Looney Tunes characters, with the role of Scrooge going to Yosemite Sam. |
| Buster & Chauncey's Silent Night |
1998 |
An animated story about the creation of the song "Silent Night". |
| Care Bears Nutcracker Suite |
1988 |
The Care Bears and their Cousins must help a Nutcracker save Toyland from an evil Vizier and his rat minions. |
| Casper's Haunted Christmas |
2000 |
Casper the Friendly Ghost must scare someone before Christmas Day or be banished from the mortal realm. |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas |
1965 |
A 28-minute animated special in which Charlie Brown searches for the true meaning of Christmas, by directing a Christmas play while shunning the hyper-commercialization of the holiday. |
| A Child's Christmas in Wales |
2008 |
Based on the Dylan Thomas poem. Directed by Dave Unwin and narrated by Matthew Rhys. It has Welsh and English language versions, although I assume both have the same video but different audio. Also has a couple live action sections. It is said to be broadcast on S4C under the title Nadolig Plentyn Yng Nghymru. It is a co-production between independent producers Brave New World and Cwmni Da. Alternate title is Nadolig I Blentyn Yng Nghymru. |
| A Chipmunk Christmas |
1981 |
A sick boy makes Alvin realize the true meaning of Christmas. |
| Christmas Is Here Again |
2007 |
A disabled orphan girl sets out to find Santa's stolen toy sack. |
| Christmas Sing-Along Songs! |
2010 |
Compilation of VeggieTales Christmas songs. |
| The Christmas Tree |
1991 |
Orphan children under the care of their cruel caretaker take comfort in a special pine tree. |
| The City That Forgot About Christmas |
1974 |
An old carpenter arrives in a city that has totally forgot or not learned of Christmas, but shows love to the people who start asking questions about his love for them and the wooden figures he's creating to build a nativity set for the town's square, against the wishes of the mayor. |
| A Cosmic Christmas |
1977 |
Three aliens visit Earth to learn about the true meaning of Christmas. |
| Cricket on the Hearth |
1967 |
Rankin and Bass present the story based on Charles Dicken's other famous Christmas tale, of the lucky cricket and the family he lives with, and the way life's ups and downs can have an affect on everyone. |
| The Fat Albert Christmas Special |
1977 |
Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids try to save their clubhouse from destruction by a Scrooge-like junkyard owner and help a homeless family expecting the birth of a child. |
| Father Christmas |
1991 |
The story of what Father Christmas does the 'other' 364 days a year. |
| Frosty Returns |
1992 |
Animated special. A Summer Wheeze aersol spray threatens Frosty. |
| Frosty the Snowman |
1969 |
Animated special, adapted from the famous song. A magic hat brings a snowman to life. |
| A Garfield Christmas |
1987 |
Animated special. Garfield, Jon, and Odie go to Jon's grandmother's house for Christmas, where Garfield finds a present for Grandma. |
| Gift of the Night Fury |
2011 |
The Vikings are prepared to celebrate their annual holiday when all of the sudden all the dragons disappear, now Hiccup must figure out why while also trying to make a gift for Toothless. |
| Holly Hobbie and Friends: Christmas Wishes |
2006 |
Animated special. Holly Hobbie and her friends help a widow and her twin boys to celebrate the Christmas holidays. |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas! |
1966 |
Animated musical. A mean and stingy green creature wants to ruin Christmas. |
| How the Toys Saved Christmas |
1996 |
The story follows some toys as they struggle to avoid the heartless Mr. Grimm, that plans to auction off the toys to the highest bidder, and to find their true homes. |
| Kung Fu Panda Holiday |
2010 |
Po is put in charge of hosting an holiday feast for other Kung Fu Masters, but wants to try to spend the holiday with his dad. |
| The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus |
2000 |
A human orphan raised by the Faire Folke becomes the benefactor of all human children. |
| Little Brother, Big Trouble: A Christmas Adventure |
2012 |
A sequel to Niko and the Way to the Stars. |
| The Little Brown Burro |
1978 |
A sad little burro who feels that no one wants him and he doesn't belong anywhere finds out differently when he is bought by Joseph to transport Mary to Jerusalem for the firth of Jesus. |
| Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse |
2001 |
A snowstorm leaves everyone stranded and Donald has no Christmas spirit so Minnie comes up with the idea to show old Christmas cartoons. |
| Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas |
1999 |
In this three segment film, Huey, Dewey and Louie open their gifts early, Goofy tries to prove to Max that Santa exists, and Mickey and Minnie attempt to get gifts for each other after Mickey loses his job. |
| Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol |
1962 |
An animated and musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' famous book, A Christmas Carol, with Mr. Magoo as Scrooge. |
| Niko & The Way to the Stars (known as The Flight Before Christmas in North America) |
2008 |
A young reindeer must overcome his fear of flying. |
| Nilus the Sandman: The Boy Who Dreamed Christmas |
1991 |
While dreaming, a boy is taken by the Sandman to the North Pole to visit Santa Claus, but once there he discovers that children's increasing demand for more toys has forced Santa out of work, and Santa's duties are now performed by a robotic clown and his industrialized high-tech factory. |
| Noel: A Christmas for All Generations |
1992 |
An ornament with a "happiness" that rubs off on the families he lives with. |
| Olive, the Other Reindeer |
1999 |
A dog called Olive wants to be a reindeer at Christmas time. |
| Red Boots for Christmas |
1995 |
A bitter shoemaker gets a visit from an angel shortly before Christmas. |
| Shrek the Halls |
2007 |
Animated special. An ogre prepares to celebrate Christmas with family. |
| The Snowman |
1982 |
The tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day. One night, at the stroke of twelve, the snowman comes to life and takes him on a magical adventure to the North Pole. |
| Spot's Magical Christmas |
1995 |
Spot the dog's magical Christmas adventure. |
| The Teddy Bears' Christmas |
1992 |
Sequel to The Teddy Bears' Picnic. Simon's sister Sally wants her own Teddy Bear for Christmas. |
| Toot and Puddle: I'll Be Home for Christmas |
2006 |
Animated special. Toot and Puddle are two pigs that live together in Pocket Hollow. While Toot travels to Scotland to celebrate his grandmother's centennial birthday, Puddle stays home and gets things ready for Christmas with the help of their young cousin Opal. Toot wants to get home in time for Christmas, but a fierce snowstorm threatens to derail his plans. |
| Twas the Night Before Christmas |
1974 |
A mouse and a clockmaker try to appease a disgruntled Santa after he has received an insulting letter. |
| VeggieTales: It's a Meaningful Life |
2010 |
Stewart Green (Larry the Cucumber) hops aboard the What-If Express to find out what his life would've been like had he made a game-winning catch in college. |
| VeggieTales: Saint Nicholas: A Story of Joyful Giving |
2009 |
Bob and Larry tell the true story of Saint Nicholas to a group of children on Christmas Eve. |
| Veggie Tales: The Little Drummer Boy |
2011 |
The Little Drummer Boy (Junior Asparagus) is a lonely child who finds the true meaning of Christmas when he stumbles upon the birth of Jesus. A story of hope, love and forgiveness. |
| VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas |
2002 |
Playwrights Cavis Appythart (Bob the Tomato) and Millward Phelps (Larry the Cucumber) attempt to teach London to love through a musical spectacular but are threatened when they learn that a nearby church will be re-unveiling a priceless artifact during its Christmas pageant on Christmas Eve, Cavis and Millward's opening night. |
| VeggieTales: The Toy That Saved Christmas |
1996 |
A toy comes to life, escapes from his factory, and joins his vegetable friends to spread the true meaning of Christmas everywhere. |
| A Very Merry Cricket |
1973 |
We find Harry Cat, Tucker Mouse feeling down about all the commercial selling in the Big City of New York. People have forgotten the meaning of the Holiday, so off they go to Sunnyslope, Connecticut in search of Chester the musical cricket. |
| Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too |
1991 |
Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too is a Christmas television special based on the Disney television series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, originally broadcast on Saturday December 14, 1991, on ABC. |
| The Wish that Changed Christmas |
1991 |
Based on a 1958 children's book named The Story of Holly and Ivy — A story about an orphan girl named Ivy who gets off a train at the wrong stop and ends up finding a family who adopts her and her Christmas doll, Holly. |
| Yes, Virginia |
2009 |
CGI animated version of Yes Virginia, aired on CBS and produced in association with Macy's and Make-A-Wish Foundation. |
| Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus |
1974 |
An animated account of young Virginia. |
| Ziggy's Gift |
1982 |
Ziggy and his faithful dog Fuzz take a job as a street Santa to raise money for the poor. |
| Title |
Year |
Description |
| 12 Dates of Christmas |
2011 |
A woman finds herself caught in a Christmas time loop, and tries to figure out how to break the cycle. |
| 12 Men of Christmas |
2009 |
A high-powered New York publicist moves to Montana after losing her job and fiancee, and finds romance with a member of the local fire and rescue squad. |
| An American Christmas Carol |
1979 |
In this adaptation of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, the "Scrooge" figure is a miserly businessman in Depression-era New England. |
| The Angel of Pennsylvania Avenue |
1996 |
In 1932, three children travel to Washington in the hope of convincing President Hoover to release their wrongly-convicted father from jail in time for Christmas. |
| Annie Claus is Coming to Town |
2011 |
Santa's daughter leaves the north pole and goes to Los Angeles for her pilgrimage. |
| Babes in Toyland |
1986 |
A young girl travels to Toyland. Starring Drew Barrymore. |
| Bernard and the Genie |
1991 |
Bernard is fired from his job and his girlfriend leaves him, both on Christmas Eve. The girlfriend takes all of his possessions with her, leaving behind only an old lamp. His Christmas suddenly becomes brighter when he rubs it. |
| The Best Christmas Ever |
1990 |
A Wee Sing production where a family helps an elf by traveling to the North Pole. |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever |
1983 |
A church Christmas pageant touches the hearts of a family of juvenile delinquents. |
| The Best Christmas Pageant Ever |
2010 |
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| Best Christmas Party Ever |
2014 |
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| Booky and the Secret Santa |
2007 |
A young girl tries to make a happy Christmas for herself and her family during the 1930s Great Depression. |
| Borrowed Hearts |
1997 |
A wealthy manufacturer pays an impoverished single mother who works in his factory, and her daughter, to pretend to be his "family" at Christmastime, in order to impress a visiting old-fashioned tycoon interested in buying his company. |
| A Boyfriend for Christmas |
2004 |
Santa plays matchmaker and sets up a young couple for Christmas. |
| Call Me Claus |
2001 |
Santa Claus is preparing to retire, and grooms an American businesswoman (Whoopi Goldberg) to be his replacement. |
| A Carol Christmas |
2003 |
In a modern comic retelling of A Christmas Carol, Carol Cartman says "Bah, humbug" to the clichés of her fellow talk-show host, Dr. Bob, and especially to a live Christmas Eve show her producer has planned. |
| Carol for Another Christmas |
1964 |
This modernization of A Christmas Carol was produced to promote American support for the United Nations. |
| The Case for Christmas |
2011 |
Santa Claus is sued for ruining Christmas, and a widower lawyer takes the case defending him. |
| Catch a Christmas Star |
2013 |
With the help of his two precious kids, a widower reconnects with his high school sweetheart, who just happens to be one of the biggest pop stars on the planet. |
| A Chance of Snow |
1998 |
A divorced couple get snowed in at Christmastime. |
| Chasing Christmas |
2005 |
In a world where the holidays are run by the efficient Bureau of Yuletide Affairs, a bitter and burned-out Ghost of Christmas Past decides to go AWOL while on a "mission" and leave his "target" stranded in 1965. |
| A Child's Christmases in Wales |
2009 |
Comedic reminiscences of three 1980s Christmas, loosely adapted from the Dylan Thomas story. |
| A Child's Christmas in Wales |
1987 |
Screen adaptation of the classic Dylan Thomas story. |
| Christmas Angel |
2012 |
Christmas wishes made before a long-abandoned house that start coming true lead an elementary schoolgirl to discover a reclusive woman living inside. |
| Christmas at Cartwright's |
2014 |
A single mom gets a holiday job as a department store Santa to help boost her finances, and then an angel enters her life and brings about some positive changes, including the spark of a new romance. |
| Christmas at Water's Edge |
2004 |
An angel teams with a spoiled college coed to organize a Christmas concert at a community youth center. |
| The Christmas Blessing |
2005 |
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| Christmas Bounty |
2013 |
A bounty hunter turned schoolteacher tries to keep her former profession from her fiancé while dealing with her ex-boyfriend and a revenge-minded past bounty as Christmas approaches. |
| The Christmas Box |
1995 |
Based on the bestselling book of the same name, a couple and their daughter move in with a widow and discover a box containing the answer to the first gift of Christmas. |
| Christmas Caper |
2007 |
A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown for Christmas. Can the spirit of Christmas, combined with a stint babysitting her niece and nephew, rid her of her wicked ways? |
| The Christmas Card |
2006 |
A soldier serving in Afghanistan receives a Christmas card from a Californian woman he has never met. He visits the town to find the inspiration behind the card. |
| A Christmas Carol |
1984 |
Starring George C. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve. |
| A Christmas Carol |
1999 |
A Hallmark Channel adaptation of the famous story. Starring Patrick Stewart as Ebenezer Scrooge and Richard E. Grant as Bob Cratchit. |
| A Christmas Carol |
2004 |
Kelsey Grammer is Scrooge in this musical adaptation of the Dickens classic. |
| Christmas Comes to Willow Creek |
1987 |
Two truck-driving brothers attempt to transport a load of Christmas gifts from California to an economically strapped Alaska town. |
| The Christmas Consultant |
2012 |
A stressed-out working couple hire a consultant to help them plan an elaborate Christmas party for the wife's boss and husband's relatives. |
| The Christmas Cottage |
2008 |
Tells the story of 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 Cupid |
2007 |
Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin dies and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her unethical ways needs to change and reuniting with a past jilted lover may be the answer. |
| Christmas Do-Over |
2006 |
In a remake of the plot from Groundhog Day, a man has to repeat Christmas Day over and over until he realizes how selfish he has become and has to change his ways. |
| Christmas Every Day |
1996 |
In a juvenile reworking of Groundhog Day, a self-centered teenager is forced to relive the same Christmas over and over again after his sister wishes it were Christmas every day. |
| The Christmas Gift |
1986 |
A widowed architect and his daughter visit a town where everyone believes in Santa Claus. |
| Christmas in Balsom Falls |
2014 |
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| Christmas in Boston |
2005 |
Two pen pals who have never met, decide to meet up at one of their home towns in Boston during the Christmas holiday. Only one problem though, they have both sent pictures of their better looking friends to each other. |
| Christmas in Canaan |
2009 |
In rural Cannan, Texas a clash of classmates, one a tough farm boy, the other a bright bookish black boy evokes an unlikely friendship. Its amidst the magic of Christmas the boys learn about family, hope and love despite living in the shadow of racism. Followed by the sequel Christmas Comes Home to Canaan. Both starring Billy Ray Cyrus. |
| Christmas in Connecticut |
1992 |
Remake of the 1945 theatrical film. |
| Christmas in the Smokies |
2015 |
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| Christmas in Wonderland |
2009 |
Two children find a bag full of counterfeit money and Santa too. |
| A Christmas Kiss |
2011 |
A woman shares an impulsive elevator kiss with a handsome stranger, who turns out to be her boss's boyfriend. They start to care for each other as Christmas approaches. |
| A Christmas Kiss II |
2014 |
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| Christmas Lilies of the Field |
1979 |
Seasonal sequel to the theatrical film Lilies of the Field (1963) has its African-American protagonist returning to the chapel he had built in the Arizona desert for a group of German nuns. |
| The Christmas List |
1997 |
A woman makes a list of things she wants for Christmas and learns the lesson, "Be careful what you wish for." |
| Christmas Mail |
2010 |
A Postal worker falls for a mysterious woman who answers letters to Santa. |
| A Christmas Memory |
1966 |
Award-winning adaptation of Truman Capote's poignant, nostalgic reminiscence about his childhood best friend — a childlike elderly relative with whom he makes fruitcakes and other gifts, in Depression-era Alabama. |
| A Christmas Memory |
1997 |
A story about a friendship between a boy, Buddy, and his older cousin, Sook, during Christmas time. |
| Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A. |
1977 |
Coal miners are trapped in a mine following an explosion on Christmas Eve, 1951. |
| The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey |
2007 |
A bereaved boy and his widowed mother commission a grumpy woodcarver to carve a nativity set and thus form a relationship that enables them all to put their sadness behind them and move on. |
| Christmas on Division Street |
1991 |
A young boy befriends a homeless man, against the wishes of his mother. |
| The Christmas Ornament |
2013 |
A widow plans to give Christmas festivities a miss, as they bring back too many memories of her late husband. |
| The Christmas Parade |
2014 |
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| Christmas Present |
1985 |
A Scrooge-like banker is assigned to deliver a Christmas turkey to a destitute family in a London council estate, but loses the address and finds himself confronted by one hardship case after another. |
| A Christmas Romance |
1994 |
A bank vice president is forced to spend Christmas with a woman whose house he was about to repossess after a blizzard hits. |
| Christmas Rush |
2002 |
Suspended Chicago cop battles hostage-taking shopping mall thieves on Christmas Eve. |
The Christmas Secret
(aka Flight of the Reindeer) |
2000 |
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 Secret |
2014 |
While her life is falling apart, single mom Christine finds a magical family heirloom that leads to love and good fortune during Christmas. |
| The Christmas Shepherd |
2014 |
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| The Christmas Shoes |
2002 |
Trio of interlocking stories, adopted from the hit song of the same name. Followed by sequels The Christmas Blessing and The Christmas Hope. |
| Christmas Snow |
1986 |
A widowed mother struggles to prevent her candy shop from being put out of business by a hard-hearted businessman. |
| A Christmas Snow |
2010 |
A woman must face the hurts of her past while trapped with two strangers in her house for Christmas. |
| Christmas Spirit |
2011 |
A mystical Christmas Spirit visits a cynical boy whose mom is about to lose her job. The boy entrusts her to help his family find their holiday spirit and, along the way, learns how to revive the happiness within himself. |
| The Christmas Star |
1986 |
Two kids befriend an escaped convict who they believe is Santa Claus. |
| A Christmas Story 2 |
2012 |
Now-teenaged Ralphie Parker schemes to acquire a car for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical classic. |
| Christmas Story |
2007 |
The touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa. |
| A Christmas Too Many |
2007 |
A Hollywood legend invites her not so normal family home for the holidays. |
| A Christmas to Remember |
1978 |
A Minnesota farmer and his wife take in their city-bred teenaged grandson for Christmas during the Great Depression. |
| Christmas Town |
2008 |
A single mom visits her estranged father for Christmas, and is surprised to discover his hometown oddly resembles the North Pole. |
| The Christmas Tree |
1996 |
An elderly nun, who's been growing an evergreen tree for decades, forms a bond with a gardener who wants to fell it and display it at New York's Rockefeller Center for the holidays. |
| A Christmas Tree Miracle |
2013 |
An eccentric Christmas tree farmer takes in a distressed family for the holidays. |
| Christmas Under Wraps |
2014 |
When a doctor doesn't get the position she wanted, she ends up moving to a remote Alaskan town. She unexpectedly ends up finding love, happiness and discovers that the small town is hiding a big holiday secret. |
| A Christmas Visitor |
2002 |
A family decides not to celebrate Christmas for 11 years after their son dies, but when a stranger visits them for Christmas, they realize he is the miracle their family has been waiting for. |
| A Christmas Wedding |
2006 |
Two people who meet on Christmas Day plan to marry on Christmas Day two years later. |
| The Christmas Wish |
1998 |
A businessman tries to uncover a family secret for his grandmother after he returns to a small town to modernize his family's real-estate company. |
| A Christmas Wish |
2012 |
A single mum prays for miracle when she and her children are left penniless and homeless just before Christmas. |
| Christmas with a Capital C |
2010 |
Small Alaska town erupts into conflict over public Nativity scene. |
| Christmas with Holly |
2012 |
Traumatized by her mother's death, a 6-year-old girl stops talking but is cared for by her three uncles. The story unfolds as all of them find the importance of family. |
| A Christmas Without Snow |
1980 |
Church choir members try to balance personal issues with practice as the holiday approaches. |
| Comfort and Joy |
2003 |
Single businesswoman wakes up married and a mother after a car accident. |
| Coming Home for Christmas |
2013 |
After their parents separate, two estranged sisters who haven't been on speaking terms, reunite in hopes that having a family Christmas all together for the first time in years will bring their mom and dad close again. They plan to do it in their old family home... the only problem is someone else lives there now. |
| A Cookie Cutter Christmas |
2014 |
Two schoolteachers take their rivalry to a new level, while they scramble to win a holiday baking contest. |
| Coopers' Christmas |
2010 |
A family gets a video camera for Christmas and tapes how dysfunctional the family is. |
| Crazy for Christmas |
2005 |
A female limousine driver takes an eccentric elderly rich man around town on Christmas Eve, and it turns out he's her long lost biological father, that she didn't know she had. |
| The Custom Mary |
2013 |
A young Latina in East Los Angeles meets an African-American Lowrider, and struggles to reconcile her faith and blossoming love affair while becoming dangerously involved in a religious attempt to clone Jesus. |
| A Dad for Christmas |
2006 |
When a young man discovers that his girlfriend intends to give their baby up for adoption, he brings the baby to his grandmother for the holidays. |
| Dear Santa |
2011 |
A spoiled 24-year-old woman decides fate has spoken when she discovers a little girl's letter to Santa asking for a new wife for her widowed father for Christmas. |
| Dear Secret Santa |
2013 |
Jennifer begins getting romantic Christmas cards from an unknown admirer. |
| Deck the Halls |
2005 |
Widowed mother and her young son come to believe their new neighbor may be Santa Claus. |
| A Dennis the Menace Christmas |
2007 |
Dennis tries to inject his grinchy neighbor Mr. Wilson with the holiday spirit, with the help of an Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future. |
| A Different Kind of Christmas |
1996 |
A father who many years ago gave up his job to be Santa Claus for other people moves to the town where his grown-up daughter and grandson live and turns his house into a year-round wonderland. Unfortunately his daughter has never forgiven him for not being there for her while growing up and is now the city attorney who has been given the job of making sure her father's all-year Christmas World is shut down. |
| A Diva's Christmas Carol |
2000 |
A TV movie that premiered on VH1, now on Lifetime, portraying Vanessa Williams in the Scrooge role as "Ebony" Scrooge, one third of a late-1980s pop trio called "Desire" and now an egotistical, arrogant, grouchy solo diva. |
| Ebbie |
1995 |
Made by Lifetime Television, this retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol features Susan Lucci in the title role of Elizabeth Scrooge, a hard-driven department store owner with no compassion and no time for Christmas joy until she receives a visit from three Christmas spirits. This is Dickens turned on its ear as all the major roles in this classic tale have been converted to female characters. |
| Ebenezer |
1998 |
Western adaptation of A Christmas Carol has Scrooge (Jack Palance) as a corrupt land baron in the Old West. |
| Eloise at Christmastime |
2003 |
Six-year-old Eloise has various adventures at the Plaza Hotel prior to the holiday, in this adaptation of Kay Thompson's book. |
| Eve's Christmas |
2004 |
A wealthy and successful career woman gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiance to lead a business life in New York. |
| A Fairly Odd Christmas |
2012 |
A Christmas-themed live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon's animated series The Fairly OddParents. |
| A Fairytale Christmas |
2013 |
With her California hometown in the rear-view mirror, Belle heads north on business to facilitate the estate sale of a mansion. While the job is a dream, the client isn't. But as the two spend more time together, his icy demeanor begins to melt. As they get closer, Belle's long-time suitor arrives, sending mixed signals and adding chaos to the holiday. |
| FalconCast Christmas Special |
2014 |
Caillou Pettis and Nicholas Favel discover the Christmas spirit by buying gifts, and more. |
| The Family Holiday |
2007 |
A conman must show the executor of his uncle's will that he has changed his lifestyle, in order to receive his uncle's fortune. |
| Feeders 2: Slay Bells |
1998 |
Aliens invade Earth over the Christmas holidays, and it's up to Santa Claus and his elves to save the world. Sequel to the 1996 theatrical film Feeders. |
| Finding Christmas |
2013 |
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| Finding John Christmas |
2003 |
A woman and a photojournalist try to track down a mysterious Christmas hero with the help of an angel. |
| Finding Mrs. Claus |
2012 |
Mrs. Claus goes to Las Vegas to help a single mother and her daughter, while Santa tries to find her and bring her home. |
| Fir Crazy |
2013 |
A stingy store CEO tries to end Christmas tree lot tradition which is beside his store. |
| The Fourth Wise Man |
1985 |
The story of Artaban, the fourth Magi, who spends his life looking for Jesus his King. |
| The Gathering |
1977 |
A dying man attempts to reconcile with the family he had abandoned years earlier, by having them come to visit for Christmas. |
| The Gathering, Part II |
1979 |
The Thornton clan reunites once more at Christmas, as the now-widowed mother is romanced by a businessman. |
| The Gift of Love |
1978 |
An orphaned heiress in 1900s New York falls in love with a poor but honest immigrant in this moving adaptation of O. Henry's timeless Christmas story, "The Gift of the Magi." Marie Osmond, Timothy Bottoms, David Wayne, June Lockhart star. |
| The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story |
1983 |
A woman reeling from business and marital failure is visited in a Christmastime dream by her deceased mother, who takes her on a journey back through her childhood. |
| Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! |
2011 |
Based on the Disney Channel Original Series Good Luck Charlie, the film follows the Duncan family, who get separated at Palm Springs on their way to visit Grandma and Grandpa Blankenhooper for Christmas. |
| A Grandpa for Christmas |
2007 |
During the Christmas season, an old-time film-star/singer/hoofer, who is estranged from his daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter, suddenly finds himself bonding with his granddaughter when her mom is hospitalized. |
| The Greatest Store in the World |
1999 |
A family lose their home at Christmas and in desperation, stay in a department store over the Christmas period. |
| The Heart of Christmas |
2011 |
The Lockes are devastated when they learn their young son Dax has cancer. But with courage, determination and faith, they give Dax one last Christmas, even if its in October. |
| Help for the Holidays |
2012 |
Sara VanCamp is a busy mom with no Christmas spirit. Christine, an elf from Santa's village who wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the North Pole, comes to the real world to help the VanCamp family rediscover Christmas spirit. |
| His and Her Christmas |
2005 |
Rival newspaper columnists battle it out before finding romance. |
| Hitched for the Holidays |
2012 |
An attractive pair agrees to be each other's supposed significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families at bay. |
| A Hobo's Christmas |
1987 |
A hobo decides to return home after being away for 25 years. |
| Hogfather |
2006 |
It's Hogswatch on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened. |
| Holiday in Handcuffs |
2007 |
A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas. |
| A Holiday Romance |
1999 |
A hard school administrator comes to town to close down the school and falls for the charming school music teacher. |
| Holiday Switch |
2007 |
Just before Christmas, a woman gets the chance to see what her life might have been like if she'd married her now-wealthy former boyfriend. |
| A Holiday to Remember |
1995 |
Carolyn is leaving the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the forest. |
| Home Alone 4 |
2002 |
A made-for-TV sequel to theatrical original. |
| Home Alone 5 |
2012 |
Another made-for-TV sequel. |
Home & Alone for Christmas
(aka 3 Day Test) |
2012 |
The father of a dysfunctional family locks them all in the house over the Christmas holidays. |
| The Homecoming: A Christmas Story |
1971 |
On Christmas Eve in 1933, the Walton family of rural Virginia awaits the return of the father, who went to look for work in a distant city. This film led to the series The Waltons. |
| Home for Christmas |
1990 |
A thief befriends a young boy at Christmas. |
| Home for the Holidays |
1972 |
Four sisters return home to visit their father for Christmas, only to discover that someone is trying to kill him. |
| A Home for the Holidays |
2005 |
A woman struggles to adopt her orphaned relatives. |
| Home for the Holidays |
2008 |
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| The House Without a Christmas Tree |
1972 |
A widower, still grieving from his wife's death, refuses to allow a Christmas tree in the home, to the dismay of his young daughter. |
| If You Believe |
1999 |
A Scrooge-like book editor is visited by her inner child, who tries to help rekindle her sense of joy during the holidays. |
| I'll Be Home for Christmas |
1988 |
A Massachusetts family holds down the WW2 home front during Christmas of 1944. |
| In the Nick of Time |
1991 |
An aging Santa Claus struggles to prepare his cynical would-be successor to take over the job in time for Christmas. |
| I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus |
2002 |
When a young boy catches his mom kissing Santa, he decides to be as naughty as he can until he drives Santa back to the North Pole. |
| It Came Upon the Midnight Clear |
1984 |
After suffering a fatal heart attack, a man (Mickey Rooney) is granted a brief return to life so that he can show his California-bred grandson (Scott Grimes) his first white Christmas in New York. |
| It Happened One Christmas |
1977 |
A young businesswoman, despondent over the circumstances of her life, contemplates suicide, but is shown the value of her life by a guardian angel, in this feminist remake of It's a Wonderful Life starring the then recently liberated Marlo Thomas. |
| It Nearly Wasn't Christmas |
1989 |
A disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selflessness of a little girl looking to reunite her parents for Christmas (and the help of his bumbling chief elf, Philpot (Bruce Vilanch)), Santa and the child travel across America and Santa discovers that people really do need him and care about other people. |
| It's Christmas, Carol! |
2012 |
A workaholic businesswoman is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in a modern update of A Christmas Carol. |
| Journey to the Christmas Star |
2012 |
Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas star. |
| John Grin's Christmas Carol |
1986 |
A miserly African-American businessman is shown the spirit of Christmas by three ghosts in this update of A Christmas Carol. |
| Karroll's Christmas |
2004 |
A modern "Christmas Carol" adaptation in which the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future mistakenly visit the neighbor of the man they were supposed to teach to love Christmas. |
| Kristin's Christmas Past |
2013 |
Given the opportunity to visit her estranged family on Christmas Eve 1996, Kristin Cartwright hopes to change her past in order to improve her current life in 2013. |
| Let It Snow |
2013 |
An executive examines her company's new property and prepares a presentation to transform the rustic lodge into a new hot spot. |
| Like Father, Like Santa |
1998 |
A ruthless toy tycoon who is also secretly the son of Santa Claus travels to the North Pole to put an end to an attempted coup. |
| Lucky Christmas |
2011 |
An unlucky single-mother discovers her winning lottery ticket is in the glove compartment of her recently stolen car. She hopes her luck will change when she meets a new man in the run up to Christmas, but is he all he seems? |
| Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas |
2011 |
A girl stumbles upon the mystery of a long forgotten Christmas while visiting her school's forbidden attic. |
| The Man in the Santa Claus Suit |
1979 |
The lives of three different men are transformed by a magical Santa Claus costume rented to them by a mysterious shopkeeper. |
| The Man Who Saved Christmas |
2002 |
Fact-based drama of toy inventor A.C. Gilbert, a pacifist toymaker who is forced by the U.S. government to turn his factory into a munitions plant during WWI, and is asked to convince consumers to buy bonds instead of toys. |
| Mary Christmas |
2002 |
Widower's young daughter asks Santa for a new mother. |
| Meet the Santas |
2005 |
Sequel to Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus. |
| Miracle on 34th Street |
1973 |
Remake of the classic tale. |
| Mistletoe Over Manhatten |
2011 |
After sensing her husband is losing his Christmas spirit, Mrs. Claus travels to a place where she knows the spirit of Christmas still exists: New York City. |
| A Mom for Christmas |
1990 |
A young girl desires to have a mother in her life gets her wish at the department store. |
| The Monster's Christmas |
1981 |
A young girl helps the monsters from her storybook defeat an evil witch that has stolen their voices because they sang better at Christmas carols than she did. |
| Moonlight and Mistletoe |
2007 |
A man runs a year-round Santa Town. |
| The Most Wonderful Time of the Year |
2008 |
A Retired policeman attempts to kindle romance between his daughter and a visiting chef. |
| A Mouse, A Mystery and Me |
1987 |
A world-class mystery-writing mouse spends Christmas Eve with his sleuthing partner tracking down a missing Santa. |
| Mr. Krueger's Christmas |
1980 |
A widowed apartment janitor daydreams to escape his lonely life. |
| Mrs. Miracle |
2009 |
A widower gets a babysitter for his twin sons in the form of a woman called Mrs. Miracle, who quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend... and matchmaker! |
| Mrs Miracle 2: Miracle in Manhattan aka Call Me Mrs. Miracle |
2010 |
Sequel to Mrs. Miracle. |
| Mrs. Santa Claus |
1996 |
Santa's wife ends up in New York in the early 1900s near Christmastime. |
| Mr. St. Nick |
2002 |
An aging Santa Claus is ready to retire but first he must convince his son to take over his job. |
| Ms. Scrooge |
1997 |
A different twist on Charles Dickens classic starring Cicely Tyson. |
| Must Be Santa |
1999 |
Santa must pass his powers on to his chosen successor, but mistakenly passes them on to an ex con. |
| My Santa |
2013[1] |
The son of Santa Claus woos a single mom while masquerading as an ordinary man and working as a mall Santa. |
| National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure |
2003 |
Cousin Eddie and his family get stranded on what they think is a deserted island for Christmas in this sequel to the 1989 theatrical film. Aired on NBC. |
| The National Tree |
2009 |
A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree. He and his father end up driving the Tree throughout the country and the tree become a national icon. |
| The Nativity |
1978 |
Biblical account of the birth of Jesus Christ. |
| Naughty or Nice |
2004 |
A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a 15-year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day. |
| Naughty or Nice |
2012 |
A woman finds herself in the possession of Santa's "Naughty or Nice book" and uses it for her own advantage. |
| The Night Before the Night Before Christmas |
2010 |
A Hallmark Channel Original Movie about Angela and Wayne Fox who are workaholic parents. |
| The Night They Saved Christmas |
1984 |
An oil company dynamites in the North Pole in search of an oil field, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus. |
| The Nine Lives of Christmas |
2014 |
After a stray cat adopts Zachary, he meets Marilee and realizes the single life is not as fulfilling as he thought it was. |
| Northpole |
2014 |
A young boy and his new friend Clementine try to bring back the happiness of Christmas before its too late. |
| November Christmas |
2010 |
A father tries to provide an early Christmas for his seriously-ill young daughter. |
| Once Upon a Christmas |
2000 |
Santa's daughter tries to change a family so they are no longer on the Naughty list, or else Santa will cancel Christmas. |
| One Christmas |
1994 |
A young man is sent to visit his estranged father for Christmas in 1930 in New Orleans. |
| One Special Night |
1999 |
Strangers get struck in a cottage during a snowstorm and realize they are drawn together. Starring Julie Andrews and James Garner. |
| One Starry Christmas |
2014 |
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| On the 2nd Day of Christmas |
1997 |
Con-woman Trish and her niece/ward Patsy are caught trying to steal from a department store right before Christmas. With the holidays so near, Bert, a store employee, agrees to be responsible for the pair so that Patsy need not spend the holidays in social services. |
| Pete's Christmas |
2013 |
A 14-year-old middle child discovers that his family's awful Christmas keeps repeating itself, Groundhog Day style. |
| Picking Up & Dropping Off |
2003 |
A divorced father and a divorced mother start to meet at Denver International Airport when picking up and sending off their children to ex-spouses for holidays. |
| Prancer Returns |
2001 |
The sequel to the 1989 Christmas film Prancer. A young boy finds a young reindeer, and cares for it during the Christmas season. |
| A Princess for Christmas |
2011 |
At the invitation of an estranged relative, a young woman travels with her niece and nephew to a castle in Europe for Christmas where she unwittingly falls for a dashing prince. |
| Recipe for a Perfect Christmas |
2005 |
A struggling chef agrees to date a food critic's mother. |
| Rich Little's Christmas Carol |
1979 |
Comedian Rich Little plays all of the characters, using his unique skills as an impressionist to apparently fill the cast with some of Hollywood's best-known stars. |
| Richie Rich's Christmas Wish |
1998 |
After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas Richie Rich, the richest kid in the world, wishes he'd never been born. |
| Road to Christmas |
2006 |
A high powered fashion photographer finds herself stranded in middle America on her way to her wedding in Aspen, Colorado. She gets a lift from a widower and his daughter, setting off a change of events that will change their lives forever. |
| Roots: The Gift |
1988 |
Kunta Kinte and Fiddler, from Roots, accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that the son of the owner helps slaves escape. |
| A Royal Christmas |
2014 |
Prince Leopold, heir to the throne of Cordinia, wishes to marry his young love Emily Taylor, a humble seamstress from Philadelphia. But Leopold's mother, Queen Isadora has other plans for her son. |
| Samantha: An American Girl Holiday |
2004 |
A wealthy girl visits an orphanage during the holiday season, and tries to house them. |
| Santa Baby |
2006 |
Mary Class (Jenny McCarthy) is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she left behind to take over for her dad and implement her innovative ideas for running Christmas. |
| Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe |
2009 |
Santa needs his daughter, Mary Class' help again. |
| Santa Claus Conquers the Martians |
1964 |
The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.[2] |
| Santa, Jr. |
2002 |
Santa's son, mistaken for the "Christmas Bandit", is held under house arrest two days before Christmas. |
| The Santa Suit |
2010 |
A greedy toy CEO, who refuses to give his staff Christmas bonuses, is magically transformed to look like Kris Krandall (a department store Santa). |
| Santa Who? |
2000 |
Santa Claus suffers an attack of amnesia after falling out of his sleigh. Only the innocence of a small child can save Christmas for thousands of people around the world. |
| A Season for Miracles |
1999 |
A homeless woman and her niece and nephew attempt to outrun the authorities during the holiday season. |
| Silent Night |
2002 |
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. |
| Silent Night, Deadly Night 3: Better Watch Out! |
1989 |
Horror sequel. |
| Silent Night, Deadly Night 4: Initiation |
1990 |
Horror sequel. |
| Silent Night, Deadly Night 5: The Toy Maker |
1991 |
Horror sequel. |
| Silent Night, Lonely Night |
1969 |
Two strangers, both unhappily married to other people, find themselves drawn into a romantic interlude over the holidays. |
| Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus |
2004 |
A high-flying career woman and single mother with no time for love or Christmas is unexpectedly wooed by Santa's son and heir, Nick who must find a wife before Christmas because his father wants to retire. |
| A Smoky Mountain Christmas |
1986 |
A singer retreats to an isolated mountain cabin for a quiet holiday, but finds seven orphaned children there. |
| Snow |
2004 |
With only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden, heir to a certain Arctic toy business, must work hard to save Christmas after someone steals Buddy the reindeer and takes him to a California zoo. |
| Snow 2: Brain Freeze |
2008 |
Sequel to 2004's Snow. |
| Snow Bride |
2013 |
Greta Kaine is always in search of juicy gossip as an LA tabloid reporter. When word gets out that the late senator's sons might be proposing marriage. |
| Snowglobe (film) |
2007 |
A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dream world inside a magical snow globe. |
| Snow Wonder |
2005 |
Adapted from the short story "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" by Connie Willis. |
| The Sons of Mistletoe |
2001 |
A cold businesswoman threatens to close a boys foster home during the holidays, when she returns to her home town to settle her late father's estate. |
| Special Delivery |
2000 |
A bumbling courier at a private adoption agency botches the delivery of a baby to its new parents in time for Christmas, when he misplaces their baby en route. |
| Stealing Christmas |
2003 |
A criminal hides in a small town and takes a job as a Santa. |
| Stubby Pringle's Christmas |
1978 |
A Hallmark Hall of Fame presentation about a young cowboy (Beau Bridges) who discovers that the joy of Christmas is in the giving, rather than the receiving. |
| Sunshine Christmas |
1977 |
A widowed Vancouver musician and his adopted daughter go to Texas to spend Christmas with his parents. |
| Three Days |
2001 |
An angel offers a literary agent, whose wife of ten years died just before Christmas, a chance to relive the last three days of his wife's life. |
| The Three Kings |
1987 |
Three mental-hospital patients escape from a Christmas pageant and go search for baby Jesus while in costume as the Magi. |
| Three Wise Guys |
2005 |
Three gangsters are hired as hitmen during the Christmas season. |
| To Grandmother's House We Go |
1992 |
Twin sisters believe their mother would be better off with a break from them for Christmas so they decide to go visit their grandmother, and their adventures along the way. |
| A Town Without Christmas |
2001 |
A child of divorcing parents writes a suicidal letter to Santa, prompting a community search. Followed by Finding John Christmas and When Angels Come to Town. |
| Trading Christmas |
2013 |
A widowed Washington mother and a Boston novelist decide to swap houses for Christmas. |
| The Tree That Saved Christmas |
2014 |
A woman travels to her Vermont hometown to save her family's Christmas tree farm from foreclosure. |
| The True Meaning of Christmas Specials |
2002 |
Broadcast on CBC and hosted by Dave Foley, this parody of Christmas specials and many classic Christmas stories follows David and friends as he seeks to learn the meaning of Christmas Specials, beyond selling knickknacks for $49.99. |
| 'Twas the Night |
2001 |
A mischievous 14-year-old boy and his irresponsible uncle almost ruin Christmas when they decide to take Santa's new high-tech sleigh for a joyride. |
| The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve |
2004 |
A dying man has 12 days (12 chances) to achieve the "perfect" Christmas. |
| Twelve Trees of Christmas |
2013 |
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| Twice Upon a Christmas |
2001 |
Santa's daughter has lost her memory, and her new family is determined to help her get it back. |
| The Ultimate Christmas Present |
2000 |
A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus to make it snow on Christmas Day, but the machine breaks, and causes an out-of-control snowstorm. |
| Undercover Christmas |
2003 |
An FBI agent visits his parents for the holidays, with the waitress he's protecting posing as his girlfriend. |
| Unlikely Angel |
1996 |
A singer must work with St Peter to earn her wings at Christmas by re-uniting a family. |
| Vendetta: A Christmas Story |
1997 |
1980s cop show spoof has two agents taking on Santa Claus. |
| A Very Brady Christmas |
1988 |
The entire Brady family manages to overcome personal obstacles to spend a happy holiday together. Follow up to The Brady Bunch and The Brady Brides. |
| A Very Merry Mix-Up |
2013 |
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| When Angels Come to Town |
2004 |
Max the Angel finds himself helping two different families as Christmas approaches. |
| Will You Merry Me? |
2008 |
A Lifetime film, in which a newly engaged couple, one Christian and the other Jewish, must survive their families meeting for the first time during Christmas. |
| Window Wonderland |
2013 |
A department store window decorator leans there is a vacancy for her dream job in the run-up to Christmas, only to find a professional rival has his eye on it too. |
| Wishin' and Hopin' |
2014 |
Coming of age Lifetime comedy set in 1964 - Felix Funicello and his fifth-grade class at St. Aloyius Gonzaga Parochial School have a momentous fall semester after a substitute teacher and a new student from Russia arrive. Competition ensues for key roles in the school's Christmas pageant. |
