Road to Christmas (2018), Scrooge (1970), A Christmas Carol (1984), The Man Who Invented Christmas (2017), Elf (2003), A Christmas Carol (2009), The Great Rupert (1950), The Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Christmas Spirit movies.
Storyline: A feature-length film that explores the relationship between three women. Bobbi and Samantha are estranged sisters who seek to reconnect after hearing of the loss of their mother, and Ally, a talented and peculiar character who is Bobbi's romantic partner. In an effort to find closure upon learning about their mother's sudden death, the three embark on a road trip that takes their relationship for a spin. "Stray" is a dark comedic drama that explores the beauty and possibilities of relationships between women who have renounced the expectation of having to adhere to the "norm."
Plot Keywords: romance, comedy, christmas, holiday, family, romantic, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1860, cranky old miser Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, loathes people, and defends the decrease of the surplus of poor population, runs his bank exploiting his employee Bob Cratchit and clients, giving a bitter treatment to his own nephew and acquaintances. However, on Christmas Eve, he is visited by the doomed ghost of his former partner, Jacob Marley, who tells him that three spirits would visit him that night. The first one, the spirit of Christmas Past, recalls his miserable youth when he lost his only love due to his greed, the spirit of Christmas Present shows him the poor situation of Bob's family, and how joyful life may be and the spirit of Christmas Yet To Come shows his fate. Scrooge finds that life is good, and time is too short, and suddenly you are not there anymore, changing his behavior toward Christmas, Bob, his nephew, and people in general.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: musical, christmas, adaptation, charles dickens, fantasy, song and dance, classic ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Dickens' London miser Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott) meets the ghosts of Christmases past, present and yet to come.
Plot Keywords: christmas, ghost, redemption, victorian era, supernatural, charles dickens, classic literature ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In 1843, the celebrated British novelist, Charles Dickens, is at a low point in his career with three flops behind him and his family expenses piling up at home. Determined to recover, Dickens decides to write a Christmas story and self-publish it in less than two months. As Dickens labors writing on such short notice, his estranged father and mother come to bunk with him. Still haunted by painful memories of his father ruining his childhood by his financial irresponsibility, Dickens develops a writer's block which seems to have no solution. As such, Dickens must face his personal demons epitomized through his characters, especially in his imagined conversations with Ebenezer Scrooge. Now with a looming deadline, Dickens struggles for inspiration against his frustrations and his characters' opinions in a literary challenge creating a classic tale that would define the essential soul of modern Christmas.—Kenneth Chisholm (kchishol@rogers.com)
Plot Keywords: biography, history, drama, literature, charles dickens, writer, creative process ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, fantasy, christmas, joyful, heartwarming, hilarious ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Plot Keywords: animation, fantasy, family, christmas, classic, adaptation, ghost ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A Christmas Wish is a heartwarming holiday classic about a New York family (led by Durante) who is down on their luck at Christmas time. Shortly before Christmas, they move into a ground floor apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just when it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree, Rupert acts as the family's guardian angel, not only saving Christmas, but changing their lives forever. The film is enlivened with the warmth and sweetness of an unforgettable love story between Terry Moore (of Mighty Joe Young) and Tom Drake (of Meet Me in St. Louis). Rupert the Squirrel (created using George Pal's Academy Award winning animation technique) will charm young and old alike. Jimmy Durante shines when he sings Jingle Bells and other well-loved Christmas carols in the evocative voice that made him one of America's recording legends.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, fantasy, family, christmas, music, dance, animation ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A snowbound stranger (Warren Christie) brightens the holidays for a retired police officer (Henry Winkler) and his niece (Brooke Burns).
Plot Keywords: christmas movie, romantic comedy, family film, holiday theme, love story, heartwarming, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle, Santa Claus. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all, something to believe in.
Plot Keywords: christmas movie, family, fantasy, comedy, drama, remake, new york ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This Christmas, primary school teacher Paul Maddens is charged with producing the school's nativity play. Competing against the posh rival school for the honor of best reviewed show in town, the stakes are raised when Paul idly boasts that his ex-girlfriend Jennifer, a Hollywood Producer, is coming to see his show with a view to turning it into a film. The only trouble is - they haven't spoken in years. With eccentric assistant Mr Poppy fuelling his 'little white lie', Maddens suddenly finds himself a local celebrity and at the center of quarreling parents and over-excited children desperate in their bid for fame and fortune. Maddens' only hope is to get back in touch with Jennifer and lure Hollywood to town so that everybody's Christmas wishes come true.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: comedy, family, christmas, music, school, children, joyful ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it. The commission takes their relationship to unexpected places as the young client makes greater and more difficult demands of the woodcarver's ability, and as Christmas approaches, the three struggle to come to terms with each other, their painful memories and the process of putting their unhappiness behind them.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: drama, family, christmas, heartwarming, healing, sentimental, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: After her long-time music star boyfriend Devin breaks up with her, songwriter Harmony reluctantly accepts her dad's invitation to come home to her small snowy mountain town for Christmas and finally meet his girlfriend Debbie. Since her mother passed away some years ago, she has not gone home. She's paired up with local "hero" Luke to coordinate the annual music festival. He and his guardian, nephew Weston, open her heart to something new. But, she's thrown a loop when Devin suddenly reappears suddenly towing a ring, claiming he made a big mistake. Is she in love with Devin, or is he just using her? Where does her destiny lie?
Plot Keywords: christmas, romance, music, holiday, love, small town, family ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: In a small town in Australia, five children riding their horses from school take a forbidden path and meet two strangers, who give them money and make them promise not to tell anyone about them. The two men learn about Lucy. She's a mare belonging to Mr. Thompson, a sheep farmer and the father of three of the children: Helen (the oldest), John, and six-year-old Snow (so named for the color of his hair). The other two are Michael, an English boy staying with the Thompsons, and Neza, an Australian black who is the son of one of Mr. Thompson's stock men. The two men (a third one joins them later) prove to be horse thieves, and when Lucy and her foal turn up missing the next morning, the children know it must have been them. Later, the children tell Mrs. Thompson they're going camping. But their real plan is to find the thieves and get Lucy and the foal back.—J. Spurlin
Plot Keywords: family, adventure, children, christmas, australia, countryside, horse ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: A talking dog and an orphan (Kaitlyn Maher) must save Christmas after old Saint Nick (Richard Riehle) loses his memory.
Plot Keywords: christmas, dogs, family, fantasy, adventure, comedy, children ...
Movie Details Click Here !Storyline: This loose adaptation of the classic Charles Dickens tale moves the story to New England, where stingy elderly businessman Benedict Slade (Henry Winkler) ruthlessly collects debts and makes life miserable for everyone around him. His unscrupulous behavior warrants a Christmas Eve visit from his ghostly former partner and other spirits that show him the error of his ways. Can Slade turn his life around and become a better person before it's too late?
Plot Keywords: tv movie, great depression era, redemption, modern adaptation, time travel, social commentary, christmas spirit ...
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