Items25The creator’s order
  1. 1Jingle Bell Heist (2025)Jingle Bell Heist (2025) 5.8/10 on IMDbReleased 25 Nov 2025A posh London department store is both the Christmas attraction and the target for two workers with much less to celebrate. Their uneasy alliance gives the 2025 film a useful combination of seasonal wish fulfilment, romance and petty criminal ingenuity. Try it when you want the shop-window lights…0
  2. 2Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024)Christmas Eve in Miller's Point (2024) 5.5/10 on IMDbReleased 8 Nov 2024Four generations crowd into a Long Island family home, and the holiday's familiar rituals start to feel like something people may not be able to repeat forever. Tyler Taormina lets conversations, teenagers' excursions and brightly coloured rooms drift around one another. Choose this 2024…0
  3. 3The Holdovers (2023)The Holdovers (2023) 7.9/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Oct 2023The holiday empties a boarding school and leaves three people facing the difference between having a roof and having somewhere to belong. Snow, meals and a reluctant excursion give the season a tangible rhythm, while grief prevents the warmth from arriving on command. A fine choice for a quieter…0
  4. 4Tokyo Godfathers (2003)Tokyo Godfathers (2003) 7.8/10 on IMDbReleased 5 Dec 2003An abandoned baby on Christmas Eve sends three homeless companions through Tokyo's accidents, reunions and improbable coincidences. The season's promise of shelter and renewed connection matters because these characters are usually left outside it. Satoshi Kon's animated adventure is funny, frantic…0
  5. 5The Apartment (1960)The Apartment (1960) 8.3/10 on IMDbReleased 21 Jun 1960Office festivities and an apartment borrowed for other people's affairs give Christmas in New York a distinctly sour edge. Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine make the wish for ordinary decency more moving than a grand seasonal transformation. The story extends towards New Year's Eve, but Christmas…0
  6. 6Remember the Night (1940)Remember the Night (1940) 7.5/10 on IMDbReleased 19 Jan 1940A prosecutor's Christmas kindness towards a shoplifter becomes much harder to keep at a comfortable professional distance. Travelling home brings Barbara Stanwyck's guarded character into a family world whose hospitality has emotional consequences. Mitchell Leisen's film, written by Preston…0
  7. 7Christmas in Connecticut (1945)Christmas in Connecticut (1945) 7.3/10 on IMDbReleased 27 Jul 1945A food writer's invented domestic perfection becomes a practical disaster when her publisher expects her to host a war hero for Christmas. Barbara Stanwyck makes the effort of maintaining the fiction wonderfully entertaining. The festive meal is the pressure test, not just decoration. A lively…0
  8. 8The Shop Around the Corner (1940)The Shop Around the Corner (1940) 8.0/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Jan 1940Christmas trade makes a small Budapest shop a place of anxious employment, frayed manners and private romantic hopes. James Stewart and Margaret Sullavan's quarrelling colleagues write tender letters without recognising their correspondent across the counter. Lubitsch gives the seasonal rush an…0
  9. 9Holiday Affair (1949)Holiday Affair (1949) 7.1/10 on IMDbReleased 12 Dec 1949A Christmas shopping encounter unsettles a war widow's careful plan for herself and her son. Robert Mitchum's uncharacteristically relaxed romantic presence gives the film a different flavour from the more ceremonious holiday classics. Toys, temporary retail work and the question of who belongs at…0
  10. 10The Holly and the Ivy (1952)The Holly and the Ivy (1952) 7.2/10 on IMDbReleased 3 Dec 1952The children of a Norfolk parson return to the vicarage with things they do not feel able to tell him. Christmas togetherness becomes an uncomfortable performance when everybody assumes the others will judge their private life. Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson and Margaret Leighton make the silences…0