What are some of your not-so-famous Christmas/Holiday movies?

[SeattleGirl]

Two of mine are:

"Silent Night", a movie based on a true story of an incident from WWII, where some American soldiers and some German soldiers ended up sharing Christmas dinner with a German woman and her son.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338434/


"A Christmas Visitor", about a family who had not celebrated Christmas since they were notified, on Christmas Eve, of their son's death in the first Gulf War.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0343531/


So, what about the rest of you? Any not-so-famous favorites?

[CBHagman]

1. Great topic! Thanks.

I enjoy quite a few movies with a holiday setting. To tell the truth, quite a few of them are very famous and/or popular, but there are some that may have slipped the notice of the large majority of American movie-goers.

Ernst Lubitsch's terrific The Shop Around the Corner is a real classic. Based on a Hungarian play, the film focuses on the employees of a Budapest gift shop. Two co-workers in particular (Jimmy Stewart and Margaret Sullvan) hate each other's guts but don't realize that they are actually lonely hearts pen pals and have been carrying on an increasingly passionate correspondence in their free time. Things get interesting from there.

I first saw TSATC at university and had no idea who Ernst Lubitsch was. The movie really stands up to repeated viewings.

And if the plot rings a bell, it should, because the story was later adapted as the films In the Good Old Summertime and You've Got Mail, as well as the stage musical She Loves Me.

Other holiday-themed films, some famous and some less so, to be enjoyed again and again:

The Man Who Came to Dinner
Christmas in Connecticut
Meet Me in St. Louis
A Christmas Carol
Scrooge
The Lion in Winter
The Ref
While You Were Sleeping

There are many more, but that's all that comes to mind right now.

Also, for the record, I have La Buche, a recent French film set during Christmas, from Netflix, and I've got to get around to watching it.

[yellowdogintexas]

2. "Christmas in the Clouds" is a wonderful holiday film, also

"Pocketful of Miracles" fabulous movie

plus the Usual Suspects Holiday Movies.