It's a Wonderful Life (1946), Tokyo Story (1953), Die Hard (1988), Dil Chahta Hai (2001), A Christmas Carol (1951), The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010), The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993), Groundhog Day (1993) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Holiday movies.
Storyline: Having left the Army following W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, as the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.
Plot Keywords: christmas, sheriff, business partner, bachelor, jeep, horseshoe, ballerina ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It is Christmas time and the McCallister family is preparing for a vacation in Paris, France. But the youngest in the family named Kevin got into a scuffle with his older brother Buzz and was sent to his room which is on the third floor of his house. Then, the next morning, while the rest of the family was in a rush to make it to the airport on time, they completely forgot about Kevin who now has the house all to himself. Being home alone was fun for Kevin, having a pizza all to himself, jumping on his parents' bed, and making a mess. Then, Kevin discovers about two burglars, Harry and Marv, about to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin acts quickly by wiring his own house with makeshift booby traps to stop the burglars and to bring them to justice.
Plot Keywords: christmas, home alone, burglary, boy hero, precocious child, airport, slapstick comedy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Plot Keywords: pantyhose, christmas tree, dysfunctional family, family gathering, rottweiler, family dinner, next door neighbor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this talky lighthearted slow-paced melodrama, Jerome, a cultural attache, spends his last summer holidays as a bachelor at Lake Annecy where he meets Aurora, an Italian writer and old friend. She talks him into a flirt with his landlady's teenage daughter, Laura, which he indulges in until he meets and falls for Laura's blonde half-sister Claire and develops a desire to caress her knee. Jerome eventually dares to try his luck with Claire, only to realize that, unlike with Laura, his affections this time are mostly one-sided.—Otto Oberhauser <Oberhauser@cc.univie.ac.at>
Plot Keywords: teenager, blonde girl, bikini, older man younger woman relationship, year 1970, summer, french new wave ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lovely Linda Mason has crooner Jim Hardy head over heels, but suave stepper Ted Hanover wants her for his new dance partner after femme fatale Lila Dixon gives him the brush. Jim's supper club, Holiday Inn, is the setting for the chase by Hanover and manager Danny Reed. The music's the thing.
Plot Keywords: blackface, hollywood california, gold digger, reference to george washington, fourth of july, falling from height, engagement ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Nickie Ferrante's return to New York to marry a rich heiress is well publicized as are his many antics and affairs. He meets a nightclub singer Terry McKay who is also on her way home to her longtime boyfriend. She sees him as just another playboy and he sees her as stand-offish but over several days they soon find they've fallen in love. Nickie has never really worked in his life so they agree that they will meet again in six months time atop the Empire State building. This will give them time to deal with their current relationships and for Nickie to see if he can actually earn a living. He returns to painting and is reasonably successful. On the agreed date, Nickie is waiting patiently for Terry who is racing to join him. Fate intervenes however resulting in misunderstanding and heartbreak and only fate can save their relationship.
Plot Keywords: new york city, holiday, christmas, new year's eve, boat, disability, teacher ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Plot Keywords: neo noir, black comedy, satire, nightclub, kidnapping, thief, actor ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Monsieur Hulot goes on a holiday to a seaside resort, but accidents and misunderstandings follow him where ever he goes. The peace and quiet of the hotel guests don't last very long with Hulot around, because although his intensions are good, they always turn out catastrophically.
Plot Keywords: holiday, beach, very little dialogue, seaside, hotel, vacation, swimming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.
Plot Keywords: female nudity, rape, nudity, deafness, kiss, love, accident ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In this adaptation of the Thomas Mann novel, avant-garde Composer Gustav von Aschenbach (Sir Dirk Bogarde) travels to a Venetian seaside resort in search of repose after a period of artistic and personal stress. But he finds no peace there, for he soon develops a troubling attraction to an adolescent boy, Tadzio (Björn Andrésen), on vacation with his family. The boy embodies an ideal of beauty that Aschenbach has long sought and he becomes infatuated. However, the onset of a deadly pestilence threatens them both physically and represents the corruption that compromises and threatens all ideals.
Plot Keywords: voyeur, based on novel, older man younger man relationship, male objectification, tragedy, german, beach ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This slow-paced gem is about the civilizing influence of Italy on beleaguered Londoners, both male and female, and has its own civilizing influence on the viewer. It's almost like taking a little mini-trip to Italy, a gorgeously filmed enchantment.
Plot Keywords: castle, 1920s, unhappy marriage, holiday, friendship, socialite, retreat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?—Mattias Thuresson
Plot Keywords: singing, reporter, christmas eve, uncle niece relationship, christmas day, rural setting, deception ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A married couple who have managed to remain blissfully happy into their autumn years, are surrounded over the course of the four seasons of one average year by friends, colleagues, and family who all seem to suffer some degree of unhappiness.
Plot Keywords: london england, difficulty breathing, baby, ensemble cast, mother son relationship, mother daughter relationship, father daughter relationship ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When an evil spirit known as Pitch lays down the gauntlet to take over the world, the immortal Guardians must join forces for the first time to protect the hopes, beliefs, and imaginations of children all over the world.
Plot Keywords: based on book, snowball fight, sled, snow, ice, legend, tooth ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In the Town of Derry, the local kids are disappearing one by one. In a place known as 'The Barrens', a group of seven kids are united by their horrifying and strange encounters with an evil clown and their determination to kill It.
Plot Keywords: clown, based on novel, killer clown, balloon, small town, sadism, blood ...
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