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• The Bells of St. Mary's

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  Father O'Malley (Bing Crosby) and Sister Benedict (Ingrid Bergman) must work together to save a struggling Catholic school.

• The Bishop's Wife

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  When a very important bishop overburdened by worldly cares starts to take his wife for granted, an angel tries to intervene, not expecting he would start to fall for the bishop's wife. Starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven.

• Black Nativity

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  A holiday musical that follows teenaged Langston as he journeys to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives. Unwilling to live by their imposing rules, a frustrated Langston is determined to return home to his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Christmas Candle

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  Deep in the heart of the English countryside lays the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every twenty-five years an angel visits the village candle maker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights the Christmas Candle will receive a…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• A Christmas Story

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  "You'll shoot your eye out!" is not what Ralphie wants to hear when he asks for the best Christmas present in the world--a Red Rider BB gun. A funny, heartwarming movie.

• Elf

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  Raised at the North Pole with Santa and the elves, Buddy (Will Ferrell) has been sent out into the world to find his real family, spreading Christmas cheer wherever he goes.

• Fiddler on the Roof

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  Tevye is a poor milkman in czarist Russia, where he provides for three unmarried daughters and a sharp-tongued wife. Faced with mounting financial strain and growing anti-Semitism, Tevye strives to maintain balance despite the precarious nature of…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• George Balanchine's The Nutcracker

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  Considered one of the best filmed versions of The Nutcracker, this story told in dance of a little girl's Christmas dream is timeless. Stars a young Macaulay Culkin as the Nutcracker Prince.

• The Homecoming

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  Set on a Depression Christmas Eve in 1933, this heart-tugging story centers around the Waltons, a rural family, as they prepare to celebrate Christmas together. This movie came before the television series and has some different cast members,…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• It's a Wonderful Life

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  George Bailey, good-natured guy on the verge of ruin, learns the answer to his question of what would have happened if he had never been born. Oh, and an angel named Clarence gets his due, too.

• Little Women

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  Based on Louisa May Alcott's classic, this is a warm family film set during the Civil War period. Starring Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, Gabriel Byrne, Kirsten Dunst, and Claire Danes.

• A Madea Christmas

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  Madea gets coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas, but the biggest surprise is what they'll find when they arrive. As the small, rural town prepares for its annual Christmas Carnival, new secrets…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Meet Me in St. Louis

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  The Smith family unhappily contemplates a move from St. Louis to New York in 1904, just when the World's Fair is coming to their hometown. A wartime (released in 1944) musical with a lot of heart, it's the source for the Christmas song, "Have…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• Miracle on 34th Street

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  This early version of the story of what happens when Santa is hired to play himself at Macy's--and has to prove his identity in court--is considered by many to be the best of the lot. Starring a very young Natalie Wood.

• Scrooge

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  A musical retelling of Charles Dickens' Christmas story starring Albert Finney and Alec Guinness. Scrooge discovers the meaning of Christmas (and how to behave as a decent human being) through the intervention of three spirits who remind him of his…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• White Christmas

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  Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen help bring a song-and-dance show to a Vermont inn to help out an old friend during Christmas. Lots of memorable songs here, including Irving Berlin's White Christmas.