Holiday Movies

Has the time for community, love, family, and friendship that Christmas is supposed to represent been forsaken for shopping?

There is a scene where Annie Hall takes Alvy home to meet her parents at Christmas.

In this erotic romantic thriller, things come to a head on New Year's Eve.

In this erotic romantic thriller, things come to a head on New Year's Eve.

It begins and ends at Christmas/New Year's with scenes that are oddly charming and delightful.

A portrait of Noel Coward's England begins on New Year's Eve 1899 and ends on New Year's Day 1933.

A portrait of Noel Coward's England begins on New Year's Eve 1899 and ends on New Year's Day 1933.

One of the most haunting memories of a concentration camp survivor is of a German officer who celebrates Christmas by having Polish partisans rounded up and killed.

The all-surrounding, all-intrusive nature of electronic surveillance by the government (not thought possible when the film was released, but perhaps too realistic now) is unwittingly discovered by an innocent Christmas shopper.

Its Happy Christmas scene has been called one of the sexiest scenes ever in a PG-rated movie.

The quest for the occasionally invisible Demiguise leads to a department store that is all decked out for Christmas, complete with a Santa Claus

You'll know it's Christmas when the decorations change in the mall and "Winter Wonderland" is piped out on the PA.

An all-girls school troublemaker goes on a rage when she doesn't get what she wants for Christmas.

Is the opening scene with the undercover cop in a Santa suit chasing down a drug dealer even more memorable than the car chase scenes?

This Charlie Chaplin classic is full of ice and snow and features 2 holidays: Thanksgiving and Christmas.

Hogwarts at Yuletide is magical and provides a reminder to those spending the holidays with family that not everyone has a family to go home to. Some of the sequels have Yuletide scenes as well.

The film where the song "White Christmas" first appeared.

This film, about the home front during WWII, features a Christmas scene where members of the family pull Christmas crackers, wear crowns, and listen to the King on the radio.

Opens with a snowy Christmas scene, and the Christmas wish sentiment never seems to depart.

Just like the 1933 version, it opens on Christmas and keeps the sentiment going.

Included solely for the Jingle Bell Rock dance routine.

Skip to Judy Garland singing "Have Youself a Merry Little Christmas' if you need to cheer yourself or a friend.

The miracle, involving a young pregnant woman who can't remember the name of the soldier she thinks she married, is revealed at Christmas.

Here for its momentous illicit Christmas party.

Uses Yuletide in the Swiss alps as one of its backdrops. In a set with other James Bond films.

Key scenes in this film about an obese, illiterate, black Harlem teen and her dysfunctional family are set at Christmas.

This film about an extended family of radio listeners features 2 holidays: the Halloween that Orson Welles interrupted and a film-ending New Year's Eve.

The brief New Year's Eve scene includes Rosemary complaining of pain and eating raw meat.

This WWII era film about family life on the home-front ends with a stirring Christmas Eve scene that is almost guaranteed to put you in the holiday spirit.

What else could better resolve a divided family's strife than cancer and Christmas.

"There are no other guests."

It is over dinner on New Year's Eve that the inventor first reveals his machine to a small group of friends.