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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 fiancée and finds romance with a member of the local fire and rescue squad. |
Angela's Christmas | 2017 | Animation film about a little girl, who on attending Church Christmas Eve, becomes concerned the baby Jesus in the crib will be cold. |
Angela's Christmas Wish | 2020 | Animation film and sequel to the 2017 film Angela's Christmas. A little girl wishes for her family to be reunited for Christmas, including her father who is working in Australia. |
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. |
Babes in Toyland | 1986 | A young girl travels to Toyland. Starring Drew Barrymore and Keanu Reeves. |
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. |
A Boy Called Christmas | 2021 | A young Boy must journey to a magical kingdom called Elfhelm. |
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | 1983 | A church Christmas pageant touches the hearts of a family of juvenile delinquents. |
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, 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. |
Bush Christmas | 1947 | Set at Christmas. Two siblings and their friend set off to recover their father's mare that was stolen from their farm.[68] |
Call Me Claus | 2001 | Santa Claus is preparing to retire, and grooms an American businesswoman (Whoopi Goldberg) to be his replacement. |
A Castle for Christmas | 2021 | To escape a scandal, a bestselling author journeys to Scotland, where she falls in love with a castle—and faces off with the grumpy duke who owns it. |
Catch a Christmas Star | 2013 | A young girl attempts to reunite her father with his high school sweetheart, who has since become a successful pop singer. |
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 Christmas in Wales | 1987 | Based on a prose by the Welsh poet Dylan Thomas and tells of a man's memory of one Christmas from the viewpoint as a young boy. |
A Child's Christmases in Wales | 2009 | Comedic reminiscences of three 1980s Christmas, loosely adapted from the Dylan Thomas story. |
Christmas at Water's Edge | 2004 | An angel team with a spoiled college coed to organize a Christmas concert at a community youth center. |
The Christmas Blessing | 2005 | After losing a patient in surgery, medical resident Nathan Andrews takes a break from his career and returns to his small town roots. A chance encounter with an old acquaintance offers him a promise for the future, only for a tragedy to call into question everything he believes. |
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. |
The Christmas Chronicles | 2018 | A brother and sister become embroiled in an adventure after they try to catch video evidence of Santa Claus on camera. |
The Christmas Chronicles 2 | 2020 | A couple of years later, Kate Pierce and Jack Booker help Santa Claus save the North Pole. |
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 hires a consultant to help them plan an elaborate Christmas party for the wife's boss and husband's relatives. |
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 | 2010 | 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 firsthand that her unethical ways need 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 Heart | 2012 | Neighbors along a quaint street in Cleveland suspend their annual Christmas tradition of lighting luminaria, out of respect for their neighbours whose son desperately needs a heart transplant. A donor is found but a blizzard threatens the heart's delivery. |
The Christmas Hope | 2009 | A couple's marriage is strained following the death of their son. They agree to take a girl, whose mother died in a car accident, into their home over the Christmas period. |
Christmas Icetastrophe | 2014 | A small town preparing for Christmas is struck by a meteor that causes extreme, spontaneous ice.[69] |
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. It's 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 Wonderland | 2009 | Two children find a bag full of counterfeit money and Santa too. |
Christmas in the Highlands | 2019 | A New York sales manager is sent to the remote Scottish Highlands at Christmas to acquire a limited edition perfume from a dashing Earl preparing for his annual ball and falls in love instead. |
Christmas Inheritance | 2017 | Before ambitious heiress Ellen Langford can inherit her father's business, she must deliver a special Christmas card to her dad's former partner in Snow Falls. When a snowstorm strands her at the town inn, she discovers the true gift of Christmas. |
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. |
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." |
The Christmas Messenger | 1975 | An angel, present at the birth of Jesus, returns to earth each year to listen to the Christmas carols and spread the story of the nativity. |
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. |
The Christmas Note | 2015 | A reclusive workaholic, estranged from her mother for ten years, learns after her death that she has an older sibling who was given up for adoption. Though reluctant, she searches for her sibling with the help of her neighbor (a military spouse who returned home while her husband recovers overseas from a combat injury; their son wants nothing more but for his dad to be home for Christmas). |
Christmas on Division Street | 1991 | A boy moves to Philadelphia and meets a homeless old-timer who becomes his teacher and his guide. Starring Fred Savage and Hume Cronyn.[70] |
Christmas on the Square | 2020 | A woman plans to sell a small town with no regard for the people living there, until she receives a miraculous visit. |
A Christmas Prince | 2017 | Christmas comes early for an aspiring young journalist when she's sent abroad to get the scoop on a dashing prince who's poised to be king. |
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding | 2018 | A year after Amber helped Richard secure the crown, the two are set to tie the knot in a royal Christmas wedding – but their plans are jeopardized when Amber finds herself second-guessing whether or not she's cut out to be queen. |
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby | 2019 | Amber and Richard host royals from a faraway kingdom to renew a sacred truce, but when the priceless treaty disappears, peace is put in jeopardy and an ancient curse threatens their family. |
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 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. |
A Christmas Snow | 2010 | A woman must face the hurts of her past while trapped with two strangers in her house for Christmas. |
A Christmas Star | 2015 | Noelle is a young girl, born on Christmas under the Christmas Star and as a result has developed special abilities to perform miracles. She applies these gifts to a miserly developer that threatens her peace and the village's peace.[71] |
The Christmas Star | 1986 | |
A Christmas Story 2 | 2012 | Now-teenaged Ralphie Parker schemes to acquire a car for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical film. |
A Christmas Story Christmas | 2022 | The now-adult Ralphie returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, and reconciling the passing of his Old Man. |
A Christmas to Remember | 1978 | During the Great Depression, a young boy is sent to Minnesota to live with his grandparents, who are still grieving the loss of their son in World War I. |
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. |
A Christmas Visitor | 2002 | A family hasn't celebrated Christmas since their son died on Christmas Day 1991 serving in the Gulf War but end up doing so after meeting "Matthew", a hitchhiker who claimed to know their son while deployed. |
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. |
Christmas with a Capital C | 2010 | Small Alaska town erupts into conflict over the 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. |
Christmas with You | 2022 | Angelina, a pop star, escapes from her daily life to grant a young fan's wish in small-town New York, where she not only finds the inspiration to revitalize her career but also a shot at true love. |
Clarence | 1990 | Clarence Odbody tries to help a young mother who is about to commit suicide. |
Comfort and Joy | 2003 | Single businesswoman wakes up married and a mother after a car accident. |
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 Dream for Christmas | 1973 | A hardworking African American minister relocates his family to Los Angeles in the 1950s. But, when the family finally arrives, they discover that the church is in major disrepair and scheduled for demolition and they must work together to save the church.[72] |
Eloise at Christmastime | 2003 | Six-year-old Eloise has various adventures at the Plaza Hotel before the holiday, in this adaptation of Kay Thompson's book. |
An Evergreen Christmas | 2014 | Aspiring musician Evie Lee must return home to save the family's Christmas Tree farm and decide what's most important in life. |
A Fairly Odd Christmas | 2012 | A Christmas-themed live-action adaptation of Nickelodeon animated series The Fairly OddParents. |
Falling for Christmas | 2022 | A young, newly engaged heiress has a skiing accident in the days before Christmas. After she is diagnosed with amnesia, she finds herself in the care of the handsome cabin owner and his daughter. |
Father Christmas Is Back | 2021 | Four sisters who have reunited for the Christmas holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. Misunderstandings uncover the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago. |
Finding John Christmas | 2003 | A woman and a photojournalist try to track down a mysterious Christmas hero with the help of an angel. |
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. |
A Golden Christmas | 2009 | A Christmas romance film, in which a golden retriever helps to reunite old friends. |
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 loses their home at Christmas and in desperation, stays in a department store over the Christmas period. |
Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever | 2014 | The Internet sensation Grumpy Cat comes to life in her very first movie. |
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 it's in October. |
Hank Zipzer's Christmas Catastrophe | 2016 | It is Christmas and the Zipzer family are preparing for a new baby. Meanwhile, Mr. Rock's Rudolph the Red Nose Rock 'n' Roll Reindeer, is soon turned into a one-woman Christmas Carol by Miss Adolf. Mr. Joy hates Christmas and wants to cancel it altogether but Hank causes a Christmas catastrophe. His catastrophe causing leads to his friends being arrested, and a Christmas tree nearly gets plummeted into a crowd. But will everything go to plan before Hank's new baby brother is born? |
Happiest Season | 2020 | A young woman with a plan to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.[73] |
Happy Christmas | 2014 | An Irresponsible woman arrives in Chicago to live with her older brother and his wife and baby son. The quiet and relaxed environment they enjoyed before her arrival is now a thing of the past, as the younger sister invites trouble during the festive season.[74] |
His and Her Christmas | 2005 | Rival newspaper columnists battle it out (one to save his career advancement at a major newspaper, the other to save the small community newspaper who is her employer) before finding romance. |
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 Affair | 1996 | Romance blooms between a widowed mother and a fired toy salesman. A remake of the 1949 film. |
Holiday in Handcuffs | 2007 | A struggling artist working as a waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas. |
Holiday in the Wild | 2019 | After her husband ends their marriage, Kate embarks on a solo second honeymoon in Africa. There, she and Derek, a pilot, rescue a baby elephant. While nursing the elephant back to health, Kate discovers how much she loves her new surroundings. |
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 Rush | 2019 | When a widowed radio DJ is fired, he and his four spoiled children must leave their lives of luxury behind and move in with his aunt just before Christmas.[75] |
A Holiday to Remember | 1995 | Carolyn is leaving the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the forest. |
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | 1971 | TV movie, pilot for the TV series The Waltons. |
Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House | 2002 | A made-for-TV sequel to theatrical original. |
Home Alone: The Holiday Heist | 2012 | Another made-for-TV sequel. |
Home Sweet Home Alone | 2021 | A married couple try to steal back a valuable heirloom from a troublesome 10-year-old kid while his parents are away. |
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. |
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 World War II 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 circ*mstances 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. |
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | 2020 | Decades after being betrayed by his apprentice, a once joyful toy maker finds new hope when his bright young granddaughter arrives on his doorstep. |
A Kitten for Hitler | 2007 | Set during Christmas 1941 and follows a little boy, who decides that Hitler probably wouldn't be such a meanie if someone just gave him a present. He believes he can stop the World War by heading to Germany and gifting Hitler a kitten.[76] |
Last Train to Christmas | 2021 | On a Christmas Eve train home, a nightclub manager discovers he can jump back and forward in time. He takes advantage of this phenomenon, changing things in his history, sometimes for the best and sometimes for the worst.[77] |
Let It Snow | 2019 | A snowstorm hits a small midwestern town on Christmas Eve, bringing together a group of high school students. They soon find their friendships and love lives colliding, and Christmas morning, nothing will be the same. |
The Little Match Girl | 1986 | Musical version of Hans Christian Andersen's story of the same name. A poor girl is in the freezing cold selling matches to make money. Starring Roger Daltrey and Twiggy. |
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. |
Lost at Christmas | 2020 | Two strangers stranded in the Scottish Highlands on Christmas Eve team up to try and get home in time for Christmas.[78] |
Lost Christmas | 2011 | On Christmas Eve, a young boy whose life has been marred by a series of tragic events is offered a second chance to have a happy ending, by a mysterious man who appears, seemingly out of nowhere.[79] |
Love Hard | 2021 | After meeting her perfect match on a dating app, an L.A. writer learns she's been catfished when she flies 3,000 miles to surprise him for Christmas. |
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 World War I 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 | Santa must be married or Christmas will lose its spirit. |
Miracle on 34th Street | 1973 | Remake of the original film. |
A Mom for Christmas | 1990 | A young girl who desires to have a mother in her life gets her to 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 niece and a visiting chef. |
Mr. Christmas | 2004 | Joel Carter is unable to afford a bicycle for Christmas for his daughter, Carol Lee, and works to make her happy for Christmas. |
Mr. Krueger's Christmas | 1980 | A widowed apartment janitor daydreams to escape his lonely life. |
Mrs. Santa Claus | 1996 | Santa's wife ends up in New York in the early 1900s near Christmastime. |
Mrs. Miracle | 2009 | |
Call Me Mrs. Miracle | 2010 | |
Mr. St. Nick | 2002 | An aging Santa Claus is ready to retire but first, he must convince his son to take over his job. |
Must Be Santa | 1999 | Santa must pass his powers on to his chosen successor, but mistakenly passes them on to an ex-con. |
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 becomes 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. |
The New Adventures of Heidi | 1978 | Heidi joins Elizabeth and her busy widowed father for a Christmas in New York City. |
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 Noel Diary | 2022 | When a best-selling author returns home at Christmas to settle his mother's estate, he finds a diary that holds secrets to the past. |
Northpole | 2014 | A young boy and his new friend Clementine try to bring back the happiness of Christmas before it's too late. |
November Christmas | 2010 | A father tries to provide an early Christmas for his seriously ill young daughter. |
On the Twelfth Day | 1955 | Live-action musical based on the popular Christmas carol, The Twelve Days of Christmas. Starring and directed by Wendy Toye.[80] |
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. |
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 does not need to spend the holidays in social services. |
Operation Christmas Drop | 2020 | Congressional aide Erica forgoes family Christmas to travel at her boss's behest. At a beach side Air Force base, she clashes with Capt. Andrew Jantz, who knows her assignment is finding reasons to defund the facility. The film is loosely based on the real-life U.S. Air Force Operation Christmas Drop humanitarian mission. |
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. |
Patch Town | 2014 | An employee at a gloomy toy factory discovers that he is really a living doll, and goes on a search to find his "mother" (former owner who bought him). |
Prancer Returns | 2001 | Sequel to 1989 film Prancer. A young boy finds a baby reindeer, and he immediately believes that it is Prancer. Determined to get Prancer back to the North Pole in time to help pull Santa's sleigh, he charm's his more cynical family with his tireless faith and creates a magical Christmas Eve.[81] |
Prep & Landing | 2009 | An elf named Wayne is part of the Prep & Landing organization, the group of elves who prepare homes for Santa Claus's visit. After being passed over for a promotion, he begins to slacken in his duties, but he has a change in heart after this results in a child's house not being ready in time and the unprecedented decision to skip it. |
A Princess for Christmas | 2011 | A young woman travels to Europe to stay in a beautiful castle for the holidays at the invitation of an estranged relative, and finds herself falling for a dashing prince.[82] |
The Princess Switch | 2018 | One week before Christmas, a duch*ess switches places with an ordinary woman from Chicago, who looks exactly like her, and they each fall in love with each other's beaus. |
The Princess Switch: Switched Again | 2020 | duch*ess Margaret unexpectedly inherits the throne to Montenaro and hits a rough patch with boyfriend Kevin at the same time. It's up to her double Princess Stacy to get the star-crossed lovers back together. |
The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star | 2021 | When a priceless Christmas relic is stolen, royal look-alikes Margaret and Stacy turn to audacious doppelgänger Fiona—and her dashing ex—for help. |
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. |
The 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. |
Samantha: An American Girl Holiday | 2004 | A wealthy girl visits an orphanage during the holiday season and tries to house them. |
Santa and Pete | 1999 | Saint Nicholas and his friend Pete travel from Europe to the newly discovered America to celebrate Christmas with Dutch settlers. While helping the settlers make peace with the Native Americans Nicholas is gifted a sleigh, reindeer, leather boots, and a red hat and coat, creating the legend of Santa Clause. |
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 Jr. | 2002 | Santa's son, mistaken for the "Christmas Bandit", is held under house arrest two days before Christmas. |
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. |
Saving Christmas | 2017 | A middle school student decides to prove that Santa Claus is real. |
The Search for Santa Paws[54] | 2010 | Prequel to Santa Buddies in which Santa loses memory in New York and it's up to his new friend Paws to save him. |
A Season for Miracles | 1999 | A homeless woman and her niece and nephew attempt to outrun the authorities during the holiday season. |
Season's Greetings | 1986 | Based on the play with the same name. Eight people attend a Christmas party in hope of having a pleasant celebration. However, they encounter various problems.[83] |
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 Mouse | 1988 | The story behind the writing of the famous Christmas Carol by Franz Gruber, Silent Night. |
Silver Bells | 2005 | A widower who has traveled from Nova Scotia with his children to sell their homegrown Christmas trees in New York City meets a photographer who hasn't celebrated Christmas since the year her husband died. |
Single All the Way | 2021 | Desperate to avoid his family's judgment about being single, Peter persuades best friend Nick to pose as his boyfriend on a trip home for 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. |
A Snow Capped Christmas | 2016 | Also known as Falling For Christmas. A figure skater meets a former ice hockey player. |
Snowglobe | 2007 | A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld 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 boys' foster home during the holidays when she returns to her hometown 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. |
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. |
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 True Meaning of Christmas Specials | 2002 | Broadcast on CBC and hosted by Dave Foley, this parody of Christmas specials and many 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. |
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 reuniting a family. |
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 | Shop owner Alice Chapman is nervous about meeting her future in-laws at Christmas, especially because she is arriving ahead of her new fiancé, Will Mitchum. Alice's trip becomes more stressful when her luggage is lost and her phone is damaged, leaving her no way to find Will's family! |
When Angels Come to Town | 2004 | Max the Angel finds himself helping two different families as Christmas approaches. |
White Reindeer | 2013 | After the brutal murder of her husband, a young woman must find a way to put her life back together during the Christmas season.[84] |
Wigilia | 2014 | A Polish cleaner stranded in Glasgow for Christmas prepares her Wigilia (Christmas Eve Feast) in her empty boss's house, when an unexpected visitor arrives at the house.[85] |
Will You Merry Me? | 2008 | A Lifetime film, in which a newly engaged couple, one Christian and the other Jewish, must survive their family meeting for the first time during Christmas. |
The Winter Stallion | 1992 | A man returns to Wales and tries to save his late father's farm from developers by entering a prize stallion in a Christmas race. |
Wishin' and Hopin' | 2014 | Coming of age Lifetime comedy set in 1964 – Felix Funicello and his fifth-grade class at St. Aloysius 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. |
The Year Without a Santa Claus | 2006 | Live action remake of anmated film by NBC. Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (John Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man (Dylan Minnette) helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays. |
Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus | 1991 | Based on the true story of an editorial by Francis Pharcellus Church replying to a letter by eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon on "Is There a Santa Claus?" Her father is unemployed and cannot afford Christmas presents for his children. He tells his children that Santa does not exist, which prompts Virginia to write her letter to the New York newspaper The Sun. Starring Richard Thomas, Ed Asner, and Charles Bronson.[86] |
Your Christmas or Mine? | 2022 | Hayley and James are young and in love. After a disastrous mix-up, the young couple end up having to experience each other's family Christmas without their partner. |