• Genre: Family
• Year: 2011
• Cast: Ted McGinley, Daniel Baldwin, Nancy Stafford
• Director: Helmut Schleppi

An attorney returns to his small home town in Alaska and quickly rocks the boat by getting an injunction against the nativity display tradition and attacking Christmas.

• Genre: Comedy
• Year: 2011
• Cast: Chandra Currelley-Young, Cassi Davis, Tamar Davis
• Director: Tyler Perry

When a family meets for Christmas at their posh Cape Cod estate, family arguments and secrets cause a stir. It takes a real down-to-earth family - like Aunt Bam and the almighty Madea - to save this holiday.

• Genre: Comedy
• Year: 2011
• Cast: John Cleese, Curtis Armstrong, John Kassir
• Director: John Putch

A Christmas elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in time to save Christmas.

• Genres: Drama, Fantasy
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Jewel Staite, Doris Roberts, Eric Johnson
• Directors: Michael Scott

No one celebrates the holidays like Emily Merkle (Doris Roberts) or Mrs. Miracle as she is known by some who is back to ensure that this Christmas is the most magical and meaningful of all. When Mrs. Miracle appears as a seasonal employee in the toy department at the financially troubled Finleys Department Store, neither the stores owners, nor the customers, have any idea of the events that are about to unfold. Just when it seemed Christmas might not come at all this year, Finleys favorite employee proves they dont call her Mrs. Miracle for nothing! Also starring Jewel Staite, Eric Johnson and Lauren Holly.

• Genres: Action, Thriller
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier
• Directors: Julien Leclercq

French thriller recounting the true story of the hijack of an Air France plane on Christmas Eve 1994.

• Genres: Comedy, Family
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Elliott Gould, Linda Gray, Lainie Kazan
• Directors: Dan Gordon

Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it's only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a downtrodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice and family.

• Genres: Thriller, Drama
• Years: 2008
• Casts: Claire van der Boom, Joel Edgerton, David Roberts
• Directors: Nash Edgerton

Lovers Ray and Carla plan to burn down her house at Christmas, to run off with her husband's drug money. Ray has a side scheme going too, taking kickbacks on the love hotel project whose construction he's managing.

• Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance, Fantasy
• Years: 2000
• Casts: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle
• Directors: Brett Ratner

A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.

• Genres: Thriller, Horror
• Years: 2006
• Casts: Mary Elizabeth Winstead, Michelle Trachtenberg, Lacey Chabert
• Directors: Glen Morgan

An escaped maniac returns to his childhood home on Christmas Eve, which is now a sorority house, and begins to murder the sorority sisters one by one.

• Genres: Action, Thriller, Crime
• Years: 1988
• Casts: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia
• Directors: John McTiernan

New York cop John McClane gives terrorists a dose of their own medicine as they hold hostages in an LA office building.

• Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Family
• Years: 1946
• Casts: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore
• Directors: Frank Capra

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

• Genres: Action, Comedy, Fantasy
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Jorma Tommila, Peeter Jakobi, Onni Tommila
• Directors: Jalmari Helander

In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 metres deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up! This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.

• Genres: Comedy, Animation, Family, Short
• Years: 2005
• Casts: Tom McGrath, Chris Miller, Christopher Knights
• Directors: Gary Trousdale

The penguins of the Central Park Zoo have an adventure in the city on Christmas Eve.

• Genres: Action, Comedy, Adventure, Family
• Years: 1996
• Casts: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman
• Directors: Brian Levant

A harried father decides to dream the impossible dream, to get that year's hot toy for his son just before Christmas Day.

• Genres: Fantasy, Animation, Family, Musical
• Years: 1993
• Casts: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
• Directors: Henry Selick

Jack Skellington, king of Halloweentown, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.

• Genres: Mystery, Fantasy, Adventure
• Years: 2010
• Casts: Daniel Radcliffe, Emma Watson, Rupert Grint
• Directors: David Yates

As Harry races against time and evil to destroy the Horcruxes, he uncovers the existence of three most powerful objects in the wizarding world: the Deathly Hallows.

• Genres: Drama, Fantasy, Animation, Family
• Years: 2009
• Casts: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
• Directors: Robert Zemeckis

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.