Many
Christmas
Christmas is an annual festival commemorating the birth of Jesus Christ, observed primarily on December 25 as a religious and cultural celebration among billions of people around the world. A feast central to the Christian liturgical year ...
stories have been
adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television; since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, their many editions are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season.
Theatrical
Christmas-themed films which received a
theatrical release An art release is the premiere of an artistic production and its presentation and marketing to the public.
Film
A film release is the authorization by the owner of a completed film to a public exhibition of the film. The exhibition may be in theat ...
.
File:It's a Wonderful Life.png, ''It's a Wonderful Life
''It's a Wonderful Life'' is a 1946 American Christmas fantasy drama film produced and directed by Frank Capra, based on the short story and booklet ''The Greatest Gift'', which Philip Van Doren Stern self-published in 1943 and is in turn loos ...
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File:Meet Me In St Louis Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien 1944.jpg, ''Meet Me in St. Louis
''Meet Me in St. Louis'' is a 1944 American Christmas film, Christmas musical film made by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Divided into a series of seasonal vignettes, starting with Summer 1903, it relates the story of a year in the life of the Smith famil ...
'', Judy Garland Margaret O'Brien 1944
File:IngridBergmanTheBellsofSaintMarysTrailerScreenshot1945.jpg, Ingrid Bergman, '' The Bells of Saint Marys'', 1945
File:The Bishop's Wife (1948 poster).jpg, ''The Bishop's Wife
''The Bishop's Wife'' (also known as ''Cary and the Bishop's Wife'') is a 1947 American romantic comedy film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven. The plot is about an angel who helps a bishop with his ...
'', 1948
''A Christmas Carol'' adaptations
''The Nutcracker'' adaptations
Christmas action films
Christmas horror films
Christmas Thriller films
Short films
Made-for-television and direct-to-video
These are films that were
made for television
A television film, alternatively known as a television movie, made-for-TV film/movie or TV film/movie, is a feature-length film that is produced and originally distributed by or to a television network, in contrast to theatrical films made for ...
(including streaming services), or for the
direct-to-video
Direct-to-video or straight-to-video refers to the release of a film, TV series, short or special to the public immediately on home video formats rather than an initial theatrical release or television premiere. This distribution strategy w ...
or direct-to-DVD market.
Family
''A Christmas Carol'' adaptations
Christmas animals
Children's
Adult/horror
TV series
Comedy
Fantasy/Superhero
Family
Children's
Drama
Romance
Adult/horror/thriller/crime
See also
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List of highest grossing Christmas films
The following is a page of the highest-grossing Christmas film, Christmas-themed films.
Highest-grossing Christmas films
Highest grossing Christmas film series and franchises
The following is a list of highest grossing Christmas film serie ...
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List of Christmas television specials
The following is a list of Christmas television specials and miniseries, as well as Christmas-themed episodes of regular television series.
Australia
Brazil
Canada Episodes
''6teen''
''The Beachcombers''
''Corner Gas''
''Degrassi''
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Christmas by medium
Christmas themes have long been an inspiration to artists and writers. A prominent aspect of Christian media, the topic first appeared in in literature and Christmas music. Filmmakers have picked up on this wealth of material, with both adaptati ...
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Santa Claus in film
Motion pictures featuring Santa Claus constitute their own subgenre of the Christmas film genre. Early films of Santa revolve around similar simple plots of Santa's Christmas Eve visit to children. In 1897, in a short film called ''Santa Cla ...
References
{{DEFAULTSORT:Christmas films, List of
Films
A film also called a movie, motion picture, moving picture, picture, photoplay or (slang) flick is a work of visual art that simulates experiences and otherwise communicates ideas, stories, perceptions, feelings, beauty, or atmospher ...
Lists of films set around holidays