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Christmas Eve (1947)
Phillip Hasting is the greedy nephew to his eccentric, but wealthy aunt Matilda Reid.
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Holiday Affair (1949)
Connie Ennis is a widow and a single mother to her young son Timmy.
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Arthur Christmas (2011)
On Christmas Eve, Santa and his massive staff of elves helm the command center of Santa’s mile-wide air vehicle, the S-1. The high-tech aircraft allows Santa to deliver his presents around the world in one night.
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Eight Crazy Nights (2002)
The film takes place in the small fiction town of Dukesberry, New Hampshire.
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The Holly and the Ivy (1952)
The three siblings of the of the Gregory family are each coming together for Christmas at their father’s home in the remote village of Wyndenham in Norfolk.
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Babes in Toyland (1961)
The film begins with an invitation from Mother Goose and her friend, Sylvester the talking goose, to the wedding of Mary Quite Contrary and Tom Piper.
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Rise of the Guardians (2012)
Jack Frost awakens from a frozen pond with amnesia. He has no recollection of how he got there.
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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation begins with the Griswold family on a quest for "The Griswold Family Christmas Tree."
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Last Christmas (2019)
The film begins with a young Katarina “Kate” Andrich singing magnificently in church while her proud parents, Ivan and Petra Andrich watch proudly from the audience with their other daughter Marta.
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Black Christmas (1974)
Black Christmas begins from the perspective of an unknown man climbing up a trellis of Pi Kappa Sigma's sorority house as the girls throw a Christmas party in the college town of Bedford.
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A Christmas Carol (1938)
In one of the first adaptations of the classic Charlies Dickens’ tale, Reginald Owen plays the story’s central character of Ebenezer Scrooge.
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A Christmas Tale (2008)
Film and Plot Synopsis The Vuillard family gathers for Christmas time just after the family matriarch, Junon, is diagnosed with leukemia. Each member of the family submits to a bone marrow test to see if they are a compatible match for Junon. The black sheep of the family, Henri, is invited to celebrate with the family for the first time in six years. When Henri reveals that he is a positive match for Junon, he kicks off a holiday of family members revealing long held secrets and grudges against each other. ‘A Christmas Tale’ Movie Summary The summary below contains spoilers. The Vuillard family is a family that seems to be in constant conflict. The iron-willed matriarch of the family is Junon (Catherine Deneuve) who has been diagnosed just before Christmas with leukemia that will eventually kill her if she does not get a bone marrow transplant. Junon is married to Abel (Jean-Paul Roussillon), an obese factory owner who is the stabilizing influence for the family. Junon and Abel have three living children and parented a fourth, Joseph, who died of leukemia at the age of six after they could not find a compatible donor for their child. Junon got …
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