Remember the Night (1940)
Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.
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Scrooge (1970)
A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about an old bitter miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.
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Mon Oncle Antoine (1971)
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business.
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The Nutcracker (2010)
A girl (Elle Fanning) must save an enchanted nutcracker and its magical world from the machinations of the evil Rat King (John Turturro).
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.
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I'll Be Seeing You (1944)
A woman (Ginger Rogers) on leave from prison meets a shellshocked veteran (Joseph Cotten) on furlough, and they fall in love at Christmas.
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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.
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The Ruins of Lifta (2016)
Lifta is the only Arab village abandoned in the 1948 Arab-Israeli war that has not been completely destroyed or repopulated. Its ruins serve as a haunting backdrop for a confrontation between the two mega-narratives that underlie the Arab-Israeli conflict; the Nakba and the Holocaust.
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The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.
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Finding Babel (2015)
The subversive masterpieces of Russian-Ukrainian writer Isaac Babel challenged the reality of life under rising totalitarianism, and led to his arrest and execution in 1940. In Finding Babel, Andrei Malaev-Babel confronts complex traces of a turbulent history that echo in his grandfather's writing and in the conflicts of today's Ukraine and Russia. Babel's fiction is ...Read all
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