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A Christmas Story (1983) TMDB
A Christmas Story
director: Bob Clark actor: Melinda Dillon / Darren McGavin …
other title: Una storia di Natale / En Julehistorie …
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
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Bernard and the Genie (1991) NeoDB IMDb Douban
Bernard and the Genie
director: Paul Welland actor: Lenny Henry / John Gabriel …
other title: Bernie und der Weihnachtsgeist
Bernard Bottle, a mild mannered art buyer, is fired by his greedy boss, abandoned by his girlfriend and discovers a genie in an old bottle. The genie immediately embraces the modern world and helps Bernard on the side.
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Eclipse (1977) TMDB IMDb
Eclipse
director: Simon Perry actor: Tom Conti / Gay Hamilton …
A bereaved brother is troubled by memories of his twin who died at sea. Having returned to his childhood home, a Christmas celebration with his brother’s widow and her son goes horribly awry, as dark secrets and sibling rivalries return to haunt them - before the past can be laid to rest.
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Tokyo Godfathers (2003) Douban NeoDB IMDb TMDB
東京ゴッドファーザーズ
8.6 (34 ratings) director: Satoshi Kon actor: Aya Okamoto / Yoshiaki Umegaki …
other title: Padrinhos de Tóquio / 東京ゴッドファーザーズ
On Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents.
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) NeoDB Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
director: Jeremiah S. Chechik actor: Chevy Chase / Beverly D'Angelo …
other title: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Un Natale esplosivo! / Fars fede juleferie …
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
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Jingle All the Way (1996) TMDB IMDb
Jingle All the Way
director: Brian Levant actor: Arnold Schwarzenegger / Sinbad …
other title: Una promessa è una promessa / Mission: Julegave …
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
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The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996) IMDb WikiData
The Long Kiss Goodnight
director: Renny Harlin actor: Geena Davis / Samuel L. Jackson …
other title: Spy / A Profissional …
Samantha Caine is a small-town schoolteacher and mom with no memory of her life before washing up on a beach eight years ago. After a car accident and a violent home invasion trigger flashes of her past, she discovers she used to be a deadly CIA assassin. Teaming up with a wisecracking private investigator, Samantha must return to her old ways to take down the people who tried to erase her.
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Bad Santa (2003) IMDb WikiData
Bad Santa
director: Terry Zwigoff actor: Billy Bob Thornton / Tony Cox …
other title: Babbo bastardo / Bad Santa - O Anti-Pai Natal
You'd better watch out - Santa Claus Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Wille's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
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Santa Jaws (2018) NeoDB IMDb TMDB
Santa Jaws
director: Misty Talley actor: Reid Miller / Courtney Lauren Cummings …
Trying to survive the family Christmas, Cody makes a wish to be alone, which ends up backfiring when a shark manifests and kills his entire family.
July 27, 2025 watched
Just like a Hallmark movie, it's competent without being especially entertaining.

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