Evelyn
Sep 30, 2002 | IMDB 6.3
92 min Watch NowDrama
Desmond Doyle is devastated when his wife abandons their family on the day after Christmas. His unemployment, and the fact that there is no woman in the house to care for the children—Evelyn, Dermot and Maurice—make it clear to the authorities this is an untenable situation. The Catholic Church and the Irish courts decide to put the Doyle children into Church-run orphanages.
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The Poseidon Adventure
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VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
The Preacher's Wife
Home for Christmas Day
The Apartment
A Town Without Christmas
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Holiday
The Shop Around the Corner
The Man Who Invented Christmas
The Little Drummer Boy
Homecoming
Silent Night
Powder Blue
The Lion in Winter
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IMDB 6.2 | Apr , 1944
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IMDB 5.1 | Nov , 2005
A cruise ship succumbs to a terrorist act and capsizes on New Year's eve. A rag-tag group of survivors, spearheaded by a priest and a homeland security agent, must journey through the upside down vessel and attempt an escape.A Christmas Carol
IMDB 6.4 | Nov , 2004
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.Crazy for Christmas
IMDB 5.5 | Dec , 2005
A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her limo on Christmas eve and has her drive him to various ice rinks where he gives out $100 bills to the people there. The news media catches on and starts following him.Mandie and the Forgotten Christmas
IMDB 4.7 | Nov , 2011
When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood’s School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school’s new rules and the finer points of high society. As Mandie tries to stay out of hot water with Miss Heathwood and discover what the headmistress seems to have against Christmas, she stumbles upon a mystery in the school’s forbidden attic. Will Mandie ignore the warning to flee or try to get to the bottom of the strange noises beyond the boarded-up doors? Uncovering the truth may lead to telling a lie, but it might also unlock the memories of a long-forgotten Christmas.VeggieTales: The Star of Christmas
IMDB 5.1 | Oct , 2002
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IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 1996
Good-natured Reverend Henry Biggs finds that his marriage to choir mistress Julia is flagging, due to his constant absence caring for the deprived neighborhood they live in. On top of all this, his church is coming under threat from property developer Joe Hamilton. In desperation, Biggs prays to God for help – which arrives in the form of an angel named Dudley.Home for Christmas Day
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 2017
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IMDB 5.8 | Dec , 2001
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IMDB 6.9 | Nov , 1970
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IMDB 7.3 | May , 1938
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IMDB 6.8 | Oct , 2017
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IMDB 6.6 | Dec , 1968
After being kidnapped and escaping, young drummer boy Aaron searches for his camel and finds him in the Nativity of the Baby Jesus. Aaron gives Baby Jesus the only gift he has, a song on his drum.Homecoming
IMDB 5.9 | Jul , 2009
A jealous woman plots revenge after her former beau returns to their hometown with a pretty new girlfriend.Silent Night
IMDB 5.9 | Dec , 2002
Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American soldiers and then three German soldiers, she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.Powder Blue
IMDB 6.1 | May , 2009
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IMDB 7.4 | Aug , 1968
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IMDB 7 | Oct , 2005
In 1880s Australia, a lawman offers renegade Charlie Burns a difficult choice. In order to save his younger brother from the gallows, Charlie must hunt down and kill his older brother, who is wanted for rape and murder. Venturing into one of the Outback's most inhospitable regions, Charlie faces a terrible moral dilemma that can end only in violence.