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There are plenty of yearly holidays celebrated throughout the world, and many of the biggest ones have movies attached to them. There are movies that capture the spirit of Valentine's Day, there are movies that are best watched around Easter, the horror genre is intrinsically tied to Halloween, and 2023 even graced cinema with a noteworthy Thanksgiving film, appropriately titled Thanksgiving.
✕ Remove Ads 54 'The Ref' Directed by Ted Demme A well-made comedic crime flick that just so happens to take place on Christmas Eve, The Ref is all about the clashing of some highly flawed characters, in turn allowing the audience to mostly laugh at their misery. The antagonist is a burglar who takes a family hostage, but said family members generally aren’t a whole lot better or more sympathetic, given how dysfunctional the family unit is.
52 'Joyeux Noël' Directed by Christian Carion ✕ Remove Ads A World War I film primarily in French, Joyeux Noël was based on a real-life event that happened during the war’s early stages: specifically, the end of 1914.
50 'The Santa Clause' Directed by John Pasquin It might not rank as one of the very best movies of 1994, but The Santa Clause is at least something of an iconic Christmas movie, and a reliably family-friendly one, too .
While Santa is said to give gifts to well-behaved children on Christmas, the titular Krampus is a legendary creature that punishes children who've been naughty rather than nice. At the center of Krampus is a dysfunctional family, the members of which haven't exactly found themselves in the Christmas spirit, which sets the monster after them.
Anyone afraid of movies that embrace violence, bad language, and other adult content to an arguably gratuitous extent might want to stay away from Christmas Bloody Christmas and the ridiculous slasher thrills it provides. It takes gory violence and other things not often associated with the holiday period and makes everything as extreme as possible, resulting in something that could well be a bloody good time for those in the mood for such a thing.
✕ Remove Ads Like various Christmas movies based around a family, the main character here is a father who's something of a workaholic and at risk of alienating his family. Things change for him when a literal angel enters his life and begins to make things better, though it causes a little jealousy and tension for the father, despite the help.
✕ Remove Ads This version of A Christmas Carol is also a TV movie, but overcomes budgetary limitations thanks to the warmth with which it tells its story, and the fact that Scott commits wholeheartedly to playing the protagonist at the film's center. It's one of the better Christmas Carols out there, and perhaps one of the more direct and least flashy adaptations, too, in turn capturing the essence of the original story without much by way of distractions.
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