Holiday Films & Programmes
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1. The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)
91 min | Family
When a heartbroken boy loses the precious wooden treasure that links him to his dead father, his worried mother convinces a carver to create a replacement.
Director: Bill Clark | Stars: Tom Berenger, Sarah Wildor, Thomas Briggs, Joely Richardson
Votes: 1,249
2. Last Christmas (2019)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Working as an elf in a year-round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn--that seems too good to be true.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Madison Ingoldsby, Emma Thompson, Boris Isakovic, Lucy Miller
Votes: 90,514 | Gross: $35.15M
3. Buttons, A New Musical Film (I) (2018)
PG | 115 min | Drama, Family, Fantasy
Follow the heartwarming journey of two orphan girls whose only wish is to find a home for Christmas. With a little help from their guardian angels (Dick Van Dyke and Dame Angela Lansbury), they discover miracles can happen when you believe.
Director: Tim Janis | Stars: Alivia Clark, Kate Winslet, Robert Redford, Dick Van Dyke
Votes: 684 | Gross: $0.15M
4. My Dad's Christmas Date (2020)
91 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A 16-year-old tries to play matchmaker for her widowed father during Christmastime.
Director: Mick Davis | Stars: Jeremy Piven, Olivia-Mai Barrett, Hadar Cats, Joely Richardson
Votes: 2,084
5. Father Christmas Is Back (2021)
PG-13 | 105 min | Comedy
Centers around four sisters who have re-united for the Christmas holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. Misunderstandings uncover the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years ago.
Directors: Mick Davis, Philippe Martinez | Stars: Elizabeth Hurley, John Cleese, Kelsey Grammer, Nathalie Cox
Votes: 7,483
6. Lost at Christmas (I) (2020)
100 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Two down-on-their-luck strangers come together to try and get home for Christmas.
Director: Ryan Hendrick | Stars: Natalie Clark, Kenny Boyle, Sylvester McCoy, Clare Grogan
Votes: 737
7. Elves (2021)
24 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror
A Christmas vacation turns into a nightmare for a teenager and her family when they discover an ancient menace that stalks their island getaway.
Stars: Adam McArthur, Ann Eleonora Jørgensen, Peder Thomas Pedersen, Vivelill Søgaard Holm
Votes: 5,061
8. The Tractate Middoth (2013 TV Movie)
35 min | Mystery, Thriller
On his deathbed vicar Rant makes a secret confession to his niece Mary Simpson. Some twenty years later young librarian William Garrett is asked by elderly John Eldred to locate a book ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Gatiss | Stars: Louise Jameson, John Castle, Eleanor Bron, David Ryall
Votes: 649
9. The Dead Room (2018 TV Movie)
30 min | Horror
Long-running radio horror series and its veteran presenter Aubrey Judd discovers that all is not quiet in the eerie radio studio and that elements of his own past are not as dead and buried as he perhaps hoped.
Director: Mark Gatiss | Stars: Simon Callow, Anjli Mohindra, Susan Penhaligon, Joshua Oakes-Rogers
Votes: 494
10. That Day We Sang (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 89 min | Musical
Musical set in 1969, with flashbacks to 1929. A middle-aged couple find love after meeting on a TV programme about a choir they both sang in as children.
Director: Victoria Wood | Stars: Michael Ball, Imelda Staunton, Christopher Jordan, Conleth Hill
Votes: 438
11. Candles in the Dark (1993 TV Movie)
R | 88 min | Drama
Candles in the Dark is the story of a girl who comes to visit her father's homeland, the Soviet Republic of Estonia. After she arrives, she finds that her father is part of the dissident ... See full summary »
Director: Maximilian Schell | Stars: Alyssa Milano, Chad Lowe, Günther Maria Halmer, Natalya Andreychenko
Votes: 149
12. The Christmas Stallion (1992 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 95 min | Drama
Sixteen year old Gwen Davies adores the horses she and her grandfather have raised on the beautiful Welsh Mountains. However, when her grandfather dies her uncle must either sell the farm ... See full summary »
Director: Peter Edwards | Stars: Daniel J. Travanti, Lynette Davies, Siân MacLean, Patrick Loomer
Votes: 120
13. Martin's Close (2019 TV Movie)
30 min | Horror
John Martin is on trial for his life. Facing him, the infamous 'hanging judge', George Jeffreys. But this is not a cut-and-dried murder case, because the innocent young girl Martin is accused of killing has been seen after her death.
Director: Mark Gatiss | Stars: Peter Capaldi, Elliot Levey, Wilf Scolding, Sara Crowe
Votes: 463
14. The Mezzotint (2021 TV Movie)
29 min | Horror
A museum curator receives a very disturbing engraving that changes each time he and his colleagues look at it.
Director: Mark Gatiss | Stars: Rory Kinnear, Robert Bathurst, Frances Barber, John Hopkins
Votes: 878
15. The Stalls of Barchester (1971 TV Movie)
45 min | Horror
While cataloging the library of Barchester Cathedral, a scholar finds a diary detailing the events surrounding the mysterious death of an Archdeacon some 50 years earlier. The first of the BBC's famed 'A Ghost Story for Christmas'.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Robert Hardy, Clive Swift, Thelma Barlow, Will Leighton
Votes: 914
16. The Treasure of Abbot Thomas (1974 TV Movie)
37 min | Horror, Mystery
The Reverend Justin Somerton, a scholar of Medieval history, and his protégé Lord Peter Dattering are visiting an Abbey library. Studying a stained glass window they uncover clues leading to a treasure hidden by a disgraced Abbot.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Sheila Dunn, Anne Blake, Frank Mills, Virginia Balfour
Votes: 719
17. Lost Hearts (1973 TV Movie)
35 min | Horror, Mystery
A young orphan, Stephen, is sent to go and live with his strange, much older cousin at his remote country house. Once there, Stephen experiences terrible dreams in which he sees a young girl and boy who are missing their hearts.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Simon Gipps-Kent, Joseph O'Conor, James Mellor, Susan Richards
Votes: 964
18. The Signalman (1976 TV Movie)
38 min | Drama, Horror
A lonely Signalman is visited by a stranger.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Denholm Elliott, Bernard Lloyd, Reginald Jessup, Carina Wyeth
Votes: 1,756
19. A Warning to the Curious (1972 TV Movie)
50 min | Drama, Horror, Mystery
An archaeologist goes treasure hunting along the English coast in search of a lost, fabled crown that supposedly helps protect Great Britain against invasion, but uncovers something much more sinister.
Director: Lawrence Gordon Clark | Stars: Peter Vaughan, Clive Swift, Julian Herington, John Kearney
Votes: 1,643
20. Silent Night (I) (2021)
Not Rated | 92 min | Comedy, Drama
Nell, Simon, and their 3 sons are ready to welcome friends and family for what promises to be a perfect Christmas gathering. Perfect except for one thing: everyone is going to die.
Director: Camille Griffin | Stars: Keira Knightley, Matthew Goode, Roman Griffin Davis, Annabelle Wallis
Votes: 20,027
21. Trick or Treat (I) (2019)
TV-MA | 84 min | Thriller
Greg Kielty's life is turned upside down when his estranged brother Dan turns up, claiming to have drunkenly run someone over. But has Dan just murdered a gangster's son? Or maybe there's an even more sinister explanation.
Director: Edward Boase | Stars: Frances Barber, Jessamine-Bliss Bell, Richard Carter, Brady Dowad
Votes: 739
22. A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
PG | 106 min | Adventure, Drama, Family
In this origin story of Father Christmas, an ordinary boy--with a loyal pet mouse and a reindeer at his side--sets out on an extraordinary adventure to find his father, who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of Elfhelm.
Director: Gil Kenan | Stars: Maggie Smith, Isabella O'Sullivan, Joel Fry, Eden Lawrence
Votes: 27,264
23. Wind Chill (2007)
R | 91 min | Adventure, Drama, Horror
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
Director: Gregory Jacobs | Stars: Emily Blunt, Ashton Holmes, Martin Donovan, Ned Bellamy
Votes: 24,989 | Gross: $0.02M
24. My Christmas Family Tree (2021 TV Movie)
TV-G | 84 min | Drama, Romance
When Vanessa receives the results from her Family Tree DNA test, she discovers a family she didn't know existed and travels to their home for Christmas.
Director: Jason Bourque | Stars: Aimee Teegarden, Andrew W. Walker, James Tupper, Kendall Cross
Votes: 2,508
25. Gift of the Magi (2010 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 85 min | Drama, Romance
Newlywed true lovers Jim and Della Young can barely afford moving into to their new apartment, especially when the second-hand car breaks down. They agree not to buy Chrismas presents that ... See full summary »
Director: Lisa Mulcahy | Stars: Marla Sokoloff, Mark Webber, Michelle Beamish, Glynis Casson
Votes: 550
26. Survivor (I) (2015)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Crime, Thriller
A Foreign Service Officer in London tries to prevent a terrorist attack set to hit New York City, but is forced to go on the run when she is framed for crimes she did not commit.
Director: James McTeigue | Stars: Milla Jovovich, Pierce Brosnan, Dylan McDermott, Paddy Wallace
Votes: 35,782
27. The Cabin (2011 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
Director: Brian Trenchard-Smith | Stars: Lea Thompson, Steven Brand, Bel Powley, Alice Felgate
Votes: 381
28. Paper Angels (2014 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Drama
An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town, where their lives become entwined with that of another family in trouble.
Director: David Winning | Stars: Matthew Settle, Rustin Gresiuk, Josie Bissett, Farryn VanHumbeck
Votes: 744
29. Last Train to Christmas (2021)
110 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Tony Towers is a local celebrity, a successful nightclub manager and he is engaged to a younger woman, Sue. Things get a little strange when he embarks upon the 3:17 to Nottingham for a Christmas family reunion.
Director: Julian Kemp | Stars: Michael Sheen, Cary Elwes, Nathalie Emmanuel, Katherine Kelly
Votes: 3,312
30. Christmas on the Farm (2021 TV Movie)
86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A romantic comedy about a New York socialite who fakes her identity to get her book published and has to rush back to her deceased mother's farm when the publisher and her son come to visit their 'Australian' author.
Director: Christopher Weekes | Stars: Poppy Montgomery, Darren McMullen, Hugh Sheridan, Nicholas Brown
Votes: 1,001
31. Boxing Day (2021)
109 min | Comedy, Romance
Melvin, a British author in America, goes home to London for Christmas with his fiancée Lisa. She meets his eccentric family and their relationship is tested as she discovers his old world.
Director: Aml Ameen | Stars: Aml Ameen, Aja Naomi King, Leigh-Anne Pinnock, Tamara Lawrance
Votes: 1,424
32. The Return of the Yuletide Kid (2019)
70 min | Comedy
Anthony Richards - you know, the Anthony Richards, the actor - is depressed. He's 24, his agent has just dropped him and the post-Christmas pantomime he was relying on for money has just ... See full summary »
Director: Anthony Richards | Stars: Craig Roberts, Alex Karpovsky, Erin Richards, Catrin Stewart
Votes: 46
33. The Nativity (2010)
120 min | Drama
Explores the troubled times of turn of the millennium Judea, bringing legend to vibrant life, but rooting the action in a world we can all recognise & understand.
Stars: Andrew Buchan, Peter Capaldi, Al Weaver, Jack Shepherd
Votes: 369
34. The Christmas Ball (2020 TV Movie)
87 min | Drama, Romance
Clare visits her Aunt Bridget in England for the holidays and meets Liam, a handsome historian who is determined to promote Aunt Bridget's manor as a historical landmark.
Director: Amy Barrett | Stars: Deirdre Mullins, Nick Hendrix, Caroline Langrishe, Richard Lintern
Votes: 425
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