#20. Bad Santa (2003)
Directed By: Terry Zwigoff
Written By: Glenn Ficarra & John Requa
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham, John Ritter, Cloris Leachman
IMDB Rating: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 73%
It is the height of the festive holiday season and merry shoppers have begun their yearly pilgrimages to their local malls. Among the drove is a pair of con men, on a decadent road trip as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo's motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter a precocious 8-year old that teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.
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#19. White Christmas (1954)
Directed By: Michael Curtiz
Written By: Norman Krasna, Norman Panama & Melvin Frank (written for the screen by)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger
IMDB Rating: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87%
After leaving the Army after W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, is the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.
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#18. Babes in Toyland (1934)
Directed By: Gus Meins, Charley Rogers
Written By: Frank Butler & Nick Grinde (screen play), Anna Alice Chapin libretto (uncredited)
Starring: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Virginia Karns, Charlotte Henry, Felix Knight, Florence Roberts, Henry Brandon
IMDB Rating: 7.2
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 100%
Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try to borrow money from their employer, the toymaker, to pay off the mortgage on Mother Peep's shoe and keep it and Little Bo Peep from the clutches of the evil Barnaby. When that fails, they trick Barnaby into marrying Stanley Dum instead of Bo Peep. Enraged, Barnaby unleashes the bogeymen from their caverns to destroy Toyland.
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#17. The Bells of St. Mary's (1945)
Directed By: Leo McCarey
Written By: Dudley Nichols (screenplay), Leo McCarey (story)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman, Henry Travers, William Gargan, Ruth Donnelly, Joan Carroll, Martha Sleeper
IMDB Rating: 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 76%
Father Chuck O'Malley is assigned as the pastor of an inner-city Catholic school and has to work with the dedicated, but stubborn, principal Sister Mary Benedict. O'Malley and Sister Mary Benedict quarrel frequently and he feels the school should be closed and the children sent to a nearby school with modern facilities but all of the sisters believe that God will provide for them. Specifically, they put their hopes on Horace P. Bogardus, a businessman who has built a modern building right next door to the school and who they hope will donate his new edifice to them.
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#16. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
Directed By: Peter Godfrey
Written By: Lionel Houser and Adele Comandini (screenplay), Aileen Hamilton (story)
Starring: Barbara Stanwyck, Dennis Morgan, Sydney Greenstreet, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall
IMDB Rating: 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 77%
Journalist Elizabeth Lane is one of the country's most famous food writers. In her columns, she describes herself as a hard working farm woman, taking care of her children and being an excellent cook. But this is all lies. In reality she is an umarried New Yorker who can't even boil an egg. The recipes come from her good friend Felix. The owner of the magazine she works for has decided that a heroic sailor will spend his Christmas on *her* farm. Miss Lane knows that her career is over if the truth comes out, but what can she do?
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#15. Christmas Vacation (1989)
Directed By: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Written By: John Hughes
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, John Randolph, Diane Ladd, E.G. Marshall, Doris Roberts, Randy Quaid
IMDB Rating: 7.3
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 83%
Clark Wilhelm Griswold had some disastrous vacations at both Wallyworld and in Europe. Now he wants to compensate for this by having a special "Griswold Family Christmas", and after months of careful planning he invites both of his parents, both of his wife, Ellen's parents even his uncle Louis and his senile aunt Bethany. However, what Clark does not realize that his no-manner cousin-in law Eddie was coming over in his new trailer. Clark even prepares his house for Christmas with over 20,000 lights and a tree that does not even fit in the living room. As Christmas eve comes, Clark will soon realize that a series of unfortunate events will start to unravel for him, as the Christmas Turkey would burst and have no meet, his aunt's cat would chew on the lights and his uncle Louis will burn up his tree, and he will even soon discover that his boss have cut the Christmas bonus to give him a month in the jelly club, can Clark keep it together and understand the true meaning of Christmas?
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#14. A Christmas Carol (1938)
Directed By: Edwin L. Marin
Written By: Charles Dickens (story), Hugo Butler (screenplay)
Starring: Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Terence (Terry) Kilburn, Leo G. Carroll, Lynne Carver, Ann Rutherford
IMDB Rating: 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 59%
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner, Jacob Marley. The deceased partner was in his lifetime as mean and miserly as Scrooge is now and he warns him to change his ways or face the consequences in the afterlife. Scrooge dismisses the apparition but the first of the three ghosts, the Ghost of Christmas Past, visits as promised. Scrooge sees those events in his past life, both happy and sad, that forged his character. The second spirit, the Ghost of Christmas Present, shows him how many currently celebrate Christmas. The Ghost of Christmas yet to Come shows him how he will be remembered once he is gone. To his delight, the spirits complete their visits in one night giving him the opportunity to mend his ways.
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#13. Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Directed By: Henry Selick
Written By: Tim Burton (story and characters), Michael McDowell (adaptation), Caroline Thompson (screenplay)
Starring: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey, Ken Page, Ed Ivory, Paul (Pee-wee Herman) Reubens, Glenn Shadix
IMDB Rating: 8.0
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 89%
Jack Skellington is the King of Halloween, but is about to discover something news. Jack becomes bored and tired with the same routine every year, and takes a walk into the woods, in which he discovered a door leading to Christmas time. Christmas time is amazing to Jack, but he doesn't fully understand the concept. Now, he want to bring Christmas to everyone, and is planning to take over the job from Santa. Problem is, the real world isn't used to Jack's lifestyle, and it's not going to go to plan for Jack at all.
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#12. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Directed By: Brian Henson
Written By: Charles Dickens (novel), Jerry Juhl (screenplay)
Starring: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz
IMDB Rating: 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 80%
Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie and the entire cast of the Muppet universe come together to re-tell Charles Dicken's immortal classic "A Christmas Carol" This was the first time the Muppets appeared on screen since Jim Henson's death in 1990. Michael Caine gives a magnificent performance as Ebenezer Scrooge in a world full of muppet comedy and almost scary performances from the "Ghosts of Christmas past, present, and yet to come"
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#11. Holiday Inn (1942)
Directed By: Mark Sandrich
Written By: Irving Berlin (idea), Elmer Rice (adaptation), Claude Binyon (screenplay), Ben Holmes, Bert Lawrence, Zion Myers, Francis Swann -contributing writer (uncredited)
Starring: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale, Walter Abel
IMDB Rating: 7.4
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 87%
Jim Hardy and Ted Hanover have been vaudeville partners for many years but when Ted announces that he and Jim's girlfriend, dancer Lila Dixon, are going to set off on their own, Jim decides the time has come to retire. He buys himself a farmhouse in New England and settles into the country life but soon realizes that he has an opportunity to do something special. He decides to open his inn to the public, but only on major holidays. Things are going well for him until his old partner Ted shows up and sets his sights on Jim's new friend, Linda Mason. The film introduced the song White Christmas.
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