# Anyone have some obscure Christmas movie suggestions? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 18, 2007, 11:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967 "2007-11-18T23:47:05Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![ExTank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/35a633/32.png) [@ExTank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ExTank)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 4:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/101 "2007-12-01T04:15:59Z")
[29th Street.](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101252/) And another vote for _The Ref._ ---
**Author:** ![Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/bc8723/32.png) [@Unauthorized\_Cinnamon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Unauthorized_Cinnamon)\ **Post date:** [December 1, 2007, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/102 "2007-12-01T13:59:58Z")
[QUOTE=Typo Knig] Blackadder - um I mean Rowan Atkinson - is why we watched Bernard and the Genie in the first place. Then I wanted to know what else this Lenny Henry guy has done (Non-holiday related answer: [Chef!](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0108723/) which ranks among the funniest Britcoms ever. Read the memorable quotes in IMDB if you don’t believe me.) Yup, **Mama Zappa** and her triple-husbandoid (well, triple-sized husbandoid) lurves us some Blackadder. [/QUOTE] Not related to the topic at all, but Lenny Henry reads the audio book version of Neil Gaiman’s _Anansi Boys_, and he is just freaking brilliant. It may be my favorite audio book of all time. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [December 2, 2007, 3:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/103 "2007-12-02T03:25:47Z")
Say, how obscure is [The Snowman](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Snowman)? Beautiful score, too. ---
**Author:** ![danderson400](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@danderson400](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danderson400)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/104 "2016-04-26T09:14:37Z")
> [@Siege](#): > > If you’d like something a bit sweeter and nicer, may I recommend **[A Christmas Without Snow](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0080532/)**? A friend of mine put me on to it years ago. > > Here’s the plot: a woman has moved to San Francisco after a divorce. She’s trying to put her life together and face her first Christmas in a new city and, as part of that, she joins a choir which is going to sing Handel’s _Messiah_. John Houseman plays a curmudgeon cut from the same mold as his character on _The Paper Chase_ and has some of the best lines in the movie. It’s a good movie to watch while curled up with friends and a good cup of hot chocolate. i remember watching _A Christmas Without Snow_ late one night on the ABC station in my area after the late news it must have been in 1987 or 88 because i was up and my folks were in bed i kept the voliume low just to avoid them getting mad at me ---
**Author:** ![danderson400](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bc79bd/32.png) [@danderson400](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/danderson400)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 11:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/105 "2016-04-26T11:06:01Z")
i had \* A Christmas Without Snow\* on VHS when i was little so maybe that’s where i saw it not on TV. I do remember watching it one night with my parents on Christmas eve in 86 when i was 2 years old i saw that movie in school in 91 too because the teacher had a copy and i told her i also had a copy too ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 4:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/106 "2016-04-26T16:07:38Z")
Since the original post was back in 2007, how about 2009’s _Silent Night, Zombie Night_? ---
**Author:** ![Ike\_Witt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ike_witt/32/283_2.png) [@Ike\_Witt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ike_Witt)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/107 "2016-04-26T16:57:07Z")
[A christmas horror story](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt3688406/?ref_=nm_flmg_act_12). ---
**Author:** ![FriarTed](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/friarted/32/1052_2.png) [@FriarTed](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FriarTed)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 6:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/108 "2016-04-26T18:22:37Z")
> [@danderson400](#): > > i had \* A Christmas Without Snow\* on VHS when i was little so maybe that’s where i saw it not on TV. I do remember watching it one night with my parents on Christmas eve in 86 when i was 2 years old i saw that movie in school in 91 too because the teacher had a copy and i told her i also had a copy too Without looking it up, I bet Michael Learned (Mom Walton) starred in it. ---
**Author:** ![Quartz](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quartz/32/267_2.png) [@Quartz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quartz)\ **Post date:** [April 26, 2016, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967/109 "2016-04-26T19:54:57Z")
> [@JohnGalt](#): > > Since the original post was back in 2007, how about 2009’s _Silent Night, Zombie Night_? Don’t you mean, [Christmas with the Dead](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas_with_the_Dead_(film))? Or [Suburban Zombie Christmas](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1330537/)? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anyone-have-some-obscure-christmas-movie-suggestions/426967.md?page=5)