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The Best Christmas Movies

The Nightmare before Christmas (1993)
Henry Selick · 3 critic votes
Streaming on fuboTV, Disney Plus
Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as Christmas approaches, Jack's rag-doll girlfriend, Sally, tries to foil his misguided plans.
Die Hard (1988)
John McTiernan · 7 critic votes
Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
High above the city of L.A. a team of terrorists has seized a building, taken hostages, and declared war. One man has manages to escape... An off-duty cop hiding somewhere inside. He's alone, tired... and the only chance anyone has got.
Eyes Wide Shut (1999)
Stanley Kubrick · 15 critic votes
Streaming on HBO Max
After Dr. Bill Harford's wife, Alice, admits to having sexual fantasies about a man she met, Bill becomes obsessed with having a sexual encounter. He discovers an underground sexual group and attends one of their meetings -- and quickly discovers that he is in over his head.
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Frank Capra · 29 critic votes
Free on The Roku Channel · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Hoopla, Amazon Prime Video with Ads
George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.
Batman Returns (1992)
Tim Burton · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Cinemax Amazon Channel, HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
The monstrous Penguin, who dwells in the sewers beneath Gotham, joins up with corrupt mayoral candidate Max Shreck to topple the Batman once and for all. But when Shreck's timid assistant Selina Kyle finds out, and Shreck tries to kill her, she's transformed into the sexy Catwoman. She teams up with the Penguin and Shreck to destroy Batman, but sparks fly unexpectedly when she confronts the caped crusader.
The Apartment (1960)
Billy Wilder · 49 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, YouTube Free · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, YouTube TV
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
Carol (2015)
Todd Haynes · 10 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Amazon Prime Video Free with Ads, Amazon MX Player · Streaming on Amazon Prime Video, Kanopy, Hoopla
In 1950s New York, a department-store clerk who dreams of a better life falls for an older, married woman.
Gremlins (1984)
Joe Dante · 1 critic vote
Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
Trading Places (1983)
John Landis · 2 critic votes
Free on YouTube Free · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, YouTube TV
A snobbish investor and a wily street con-artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires.
A Christmas Tale (2008)
Arnaud Desplechin · 2 critic votes
Streaming on Sundance Now, Kanopy, AMC+ Amazon Channel
When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Fanny and Alexander (1982)
Ingmar Bergman · 35 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Shout! Factory TV, Plex · Streaming on HBO Max Amazon Channel, HBO Max
As children in the loving Ekdahl family, Fanny and Alexander enjoy a happy life with their parents, who run a theater company. After their father dies unexpectedly, however, the siblings end up in a joyless home when their mother, Emilie, marries a stern bishop. The bleak situation gradually grows worse as the bishop becomes more controlling, but dedicated relatives make a valiant attempt to aid Emilie, Fanny and Alexander.
The Thin Man (1934)
W. S. Van Dyke, Lesley Selander · 1 critic vote
Streaming on Kanopy, TCM
A husband and wife detective team takes on the search for a missing inventor and almost get killed for their efforts.
Brazil (1985)
Terry Gilliam · 9 critic votes
Free on YouTube Free
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Remember the Night (1940)
Mitchell Leisen · 1 critic vote
Unexpected love blossoms when an assistant district attorney agrees to take a recidivist shoplifter home so she doesn't have to spend Christmas alone in jail.
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
Vincente Minnelli · 13 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV, Plex Channel, Philo · Streaming on Kanopy
A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.
The Shop around the Corner (1940)
Ernst Lubitsch · 12 critic votes
Free on Philo
Two employees at a gift shop can barely stand one another, without realising that they are falling in love through the post as each other's anonymous pen pal.
The Dead (1987)
John Huston · 3 critic votes
Free on Tubi TV · Streaming on Kanopy, Hoopla, Lionsgate+ Amazon Channel
After a convivial holiday dinner party, things begin to unravel when a husband and wife address some prickly issues concerning their marriage.
All That Heaven Allows (1955)
Douglas Sirk · 21 critic votes
Two different social classes collide when Cary Scott, a wealthy upper-class widow, falls in love with her much younger and down-to-earth gardener, prompting disapproval and criticism from her children and country club friends.
Holiday (1938)
George Cukor · 1 critic vote
Free on The Roku Channel, YouTube Free
Johnny Case, a freethinking financier, has finally found the girl of his dreams — Julia Seton, the spoiled daughter of a socially prominent millionaire — and she's agreed to marry him. But when Johnny plans a holiday for the two to enjoy life while they are still young, his fiancée has other plans & that is for Johnny to work in her father's bank!

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