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Before TV movies and streaming, Christmas belonged to the big screen — and it still delivers the biggest titles of all. Every theatrical Christmas film in our catalog, by year.
The worst kids in town hijack the church Christmas pageant. It becomes the best one.
Santa has been kidnapped. The Rock is on the case.
A Christmas Carol told from the ghosts' side of the haunting.
Santa is real, he's burned out, and mercenaries just took the wrong house hostage.
A sorority fights back: the 2019 Blumhouse reimagining.
Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Grinch in Illumination's bright, musical retelling of the Seuss classic.
Charles Dickens has six weeks to write A Christmas Carol — and his characters won't behave.
The first Christmas without Mom. Dad, the house, and five grown children try anyway.
A family loses the Christmas spirit, and something with horns comes instead.
Madea goes to the country for Christmas. The country was not consulted.
College friends reunite for Christmas — and Mia has something to tell them.
Langston runs from Baltimore to Harlem — and into his family's faith and music.
Santa's clumsy youngest son has one night to deliver one forgotten bike.
Jim Carrey plays Scrooge — and all three ghosts — in Zemeckis's dark motion-capture Carol.
Both sets of parents are divorced. That's four Christmases in one day.
Santa's older brother is a repo man with a grudge and a deadline.
The Whitfields come home: five siblings, their secrets, and Ma'Dere's rules.
A little girl asks Santa for one thing: a man who will pay her mother a compliment.
A quiet street, a new neighbor, and enough lights to be seen from space.
Given weeks to live, Georgia Byrd finally spends her savings on the life she wanted.
Two heartbroken women swap homes for Christmas — Los Angeles for a Surrey cottage.
She's meeting his family for Christmas. It goes badly. Then it goes somewhere real.
They tried to skip Christmas. The neighborhood declared war.
All aboard — the definitive Santa's-workshop train ride.
The worst mall Santa in America plans his annual heist — then a kid happens.
Raised by elves, Buddy comes to New York to find his dad — who is on the naughty list.
Nine London love stories, five weeks before Christmas.
A ghetto Santa steals the rent money on Christmas Eve — Craig and Day-Day have one day to get it back.
Santa has to find a Mrs. Claus by Christmas Eve — or stop being Santa.
A Wall Street Scrooge gets shown the road not taken — with minivans.
Jim Carrey inside Rick Baker's Oscar-winning Grinch suit. Enough said.
Two dads. One Turbo Man doll. Total retail war.
Denzel is an angel. Whitney is the gospel choir. The church is saved — the marriage needs work.
She saved his life, got mistaken for his fiancée, and fell for his brother.
Winona Ryder leads the beloved 1994 March sisters — the Little Women a generation grew up with.
The beloved remake, with Richard Attenborough's twinkle turned all the way up.
Tim Allen kills Santa (accidentally) and legally becomes him.
The Pumpkin King discovers Christmas — and nearly ruins it, beautifully.
Gotham at Christmas: a Penguin, a Cat, and a Batman between them.
Michael Caine plays it completely straight — opposite felt — and it's perfect.
Kevin takes New York: the Plaza, a toy store, and two escaped burglars.
An unfinished artificial man, a snowy suburb, and the inventor who died too soon.
Eight years old, home alone, and the house is a fortress.
Clark Griswold just wants a good old-fashioned family Christmas. The house has other ideas.
A little girl, an injured reindeer, and a town that needs to believe.
A New York cop, an LA skyscraper, twelve terrorists, one Christmas Eve.
Santa needs a successor. Ernest is available. Heaven help us all.
Bill Murray is a TV executive Scrooge, and his ghosts fight dirty.
Two mismatched cops, one Christmas in Los Angeles.
A weary mother, a Christmas angel, and a letter to the North Pole.
George C. Scott's Scrooge: the most commanding of the straight adaptations.
Never feed them after midnight — the Christmas gift that ate Kingston Falls.
The killer-Santa film that parents picketed out of theaters in 1984.
All Ralphie wants is a Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
Scrooge McDuck was literally born for this role.
A commodities broker and a con man swap lives on a bet — over Christmas.
A boy must sell his beloved old donkey — and finds the one buyer who matters.
The 1974 original: a sorority house, obscene phone calls, and the birth of the slasher.
Santa takes a year off — and the Miser brothers steal the show.
Fred Astaire, a mailman, and the whole origin story of Santa Claus.
Dickens as a big, brassy London musical, with Albert Finney dancing on Scrooge's grave.
A silk hat, a magician who wants it back, and a race to the North Pole.
Chuck Jones, Boris Karloff, and three sizes too small.
Charlie Brown just wants to know what Christmas is all about.
The longest-running Christmas special in television history.
Disney's first live-action musical: Toyland, a villain, and a wedding to save.
Two song-and-dance men, two sisters, one Vermont inn, and a general who needs saving.
Bob Hope as a racetrack tout who owes the mob by Christmas Eve.
Alastair Sim's Scrooge remains the performance every other Scrooge is measured against.
Alastair Sim is Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 adaptation critics call the finest ever filmed.
An angel arrives to help a bishop — and falls for the bishop's life.
A drifter moves into a millionaire's empty mansion for the winter — then invites guests.
A department-store Santa insists he is the real thing — and a courtroom has to decide.
The most beloved Christmas film ever made.
America's perfect homemaker is a fraud — and Christmas dinner is at her fake farm.
The film that gave Christmas 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.'
The film that gave the world 'White Christmas.'
A shoplifter, a prosecutor, and a Christmas road trip home to Indiana.
Two shop clerks who can't stand each other are secretly pen pals in love.
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