“Every Time a Bell Rings an Angel Gets His Wings:” 
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
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 loosely based on the 1843 Charles Dickens novell “A Christmas Carol”.
The film stars James Stewart as George Bailey, a man who has given up his personal dreams, in order to help others in his community, and whose thoughts of suicide on Christmas Eve brings about the intervention of his guardian angel, Clarence Odbody (Henry Travers).
Clarence shows George how he has touched the lives of others and how different life would be for his wife Mary (Donna Reed). and his community of Bedford Falls if he had not been born.
After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article.
When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
Miracle on 34th Street stars Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood, and Edmund Gwenn.
The story takes place between Thanksgiving Day and Christmas Day in New York City, and focuses on the effect of a department store Santa Claus who claims to be the real Santa.
Kris Kringle is indignant to find that the man assigned to play Santa in the annual Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is intoxicated. When he complains to event director Doris Walker, she persuades Kris to take his place. He does so well that he is hired to play Santa at Macy's New York City store on 34th Street.
Miracle on 34th Street won three Academy Awards: Gwenn for Best Actor in a Supporting Role, Valentine Davies for Best Writing, Original Story, and George Seaton for Best Writing, Screenplay. The film was nominated for Best Picture.
The United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant”.
The Christmas song “Jingle Bell Rock” , performed by Bobby Helms,
is played during the film's opening credits.
Lethal Weapon stars Mel Gibson and Danny Glover alongside Gary Busey, Tom Atkins, Darlene Love, and Mitchell Ryan.
Two newly paired cops who are complete opposites must put aside their differences in order to catch a gang of drug smugglers.
Inspired by “Dirty Harry”, following the recent death of his wife, Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) narcotics Sergeant Martin Riggs, a former Special Forces soldier, has become suicidal and erratic.
Despite the protests of the police psychiatrist, the captain believes Riggs is faking his psychosis to be forcibly retired with a generous pension and partners him with veteran Homicide Sergeant Roger Murtaugh.
Riggs shares a Christmas Day meal with Murtaugh and his family.
A New York Police Department (NYPD) officer detective John McClane (Bruce Willis) tries to save his estranged wife and others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles, is played during the film's opening credits.
Die Hard starring Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, and Bonnie Bedelia is based on the 1979 novel “Nothing Lasts Forever by Roderick Thorp”.
The film produced a host of imitators; the term “Die Hard” became a shorthand for plots featuring overwhelming odds in a restricted environment.
Die Hard has been critically re-evaluated and is now considered one of the greatest action films, and is also often named one of the best Christmas films.
Scrooge is mean old miser who wants nothing to do with Christmas” ,
bitterly rejecting the company and well wishes of his fellow man. But on this Christmas Eve, Scrooge's former partner, visits Scrooge to warn him that his time is running short.
It is Christmas Eve of 1843: Ebenezer Scrooge (Sir Seymour Hicks), a cold-hearted and greedy elderly money-lender, is working in his freezing counting house along with his suffering, underpaid clerk Bob Cratchit (Donald Calthrop).
Two businessmen (Charles Carson and Hubert Harben) arrive to collect a donation for the poor, but the old man responds that prisons and workhouses are sufficient resources to deal with poor people.
Scrooge encounters the ghost of his seven-year dead partner Jacob Marley (Claude Rains - whose voice is only heard) who wears a chain he “forged in life” from his own wicked career. He tells Scrooge he will be haunted by three spirits in order to escape his fate.
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents,
his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
“A Christmas Story” is an American Christmas comedy film.
Based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's “Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters”.
Released on November 18, 1983. Filmed partly in Canada, “A Christmas Story” earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being “culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant”.
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.
“Home Alone” is an American Christmas comedy film. It stars Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, John Heard, and Catherine O'Hara.
Kevin McCallister, a boy who defends his Chicago home from burglars after his family accidentally leaves him behind on their Christmas vacation to Paris.
Warner Bros. originally intended to finance and distribute the film, but shut down production after it exceeded its assigned budget, and 20th Century Fox assumed responsibilities following secret meetings with Hughes. Columbus and Culkin were hired soon afterwards, and filming took place between February and May 1990 on location across Illinois.
“Home Alone” at the time became the highest-grossing live-action comedy, and made Culkin a child star. It was nominated for the Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy, and Best Actor in a Motion Picture - Musical or Comedy for Culkin, and for the Academy Award for Best Original Score for John Williams, and Best Original Song for “Somewhere in My Memory”.
The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, ,
whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream about.
“The Christmas Chronicles” is an American Christmas comedy film
staring Kurt Russell, Judah Lewis, Darby Camp, Lamorne Morris, Kimberly Williams-Paisley, and Oliver Hudson
The plot follows two children, Kate and Teddy, who notice Santa Claus in their home and jump into his sleigh with his reindeer; however, they accidentily cause the sleigh to crash, and the presents are lost.
As Christmas morning approaches, it is up to the children and Santa to save Christmas by correctly delivering all of the presents.
