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A Christmas carol
(1951)
A miser learns the true meaning of Christmas from a visit by three ghosts.
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A Christmas carol
(1996)
A group of Dickens’ friends attend a private performance of the classic story by the author himself.
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A Christmas story
(1983)
Ralphie has to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun is the perfect gift for a 1940s Christmas.
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A Christmas wish
(1950)
Rupert, a trained squirrel, unknowingly helps a family of vaudeville performers who are down on their luck at Christmastime.
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Amahl and the night visitors
(1986)
Features the Philharmonia Orchestra in Gian Carlo Menotti’s opera
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Bad Santa
(2003)
A foul-mouthed con man poses as Santa to rob department stores on Christmas Eve.
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Christmas in Connecticut
(1945)
A single journalist who lives in Manhattan has to live up to her homespun maternal image to host a heroic sailor for Christmas at “her” farm.
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Christmas unwrapped: the history of Christmas
(1997)
This History Channel documentary traces the history of Christmas from pagan festivals to modern times.
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Christmas with the Kranks
(2004)
Parents decide to skip a Christmas celebration until their adult daughter comes home to visit.
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Deck the halls
(2006)
Neighbors clash after one decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
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Ebenezer
(1997)
Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is transported to the Old West.
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Elf
(2003)
A man raised by elves at the North Pole returns to New York City to find his birth father.
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George Balanchine’s The Nutcracker
(1993)
Music by Peter Ilyitch Tschaikovsky; choreography by George Balanchine
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Holiday Inn
(1942)
Two entertainers turn a Connecticut farm into an inn open only on holidays.
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Home alone
(1990)
Eight-year-old Kevin is accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation. Evanston: Haven Middle School; Winnetka: 671 Lincoln Ave.; Hubbard Woods
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It’s a wonderful life
(1946)
George Bailey, desperate and suicidal, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he is to his town and family.
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Joyeux Noel
(2005)
On Christmas Eve in WWI, German, French and Scottish soldiers call an informal truce.
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Love, actually
(2003)
Eight London couples deal with their love lives during the frantic month before Christmas.
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Miracle at Sage Creek
(2005)
Two feuding families overcome their differences when a Christmas miracle saves the life of a boy in 1888 Wyoming.
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Miracle on 34th Street
(1947)
A department store Santa who insists his name is Kris Kringle teaches jaded New Yorkers the true meaning of Christmas.
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