Merry Christmas, Mr Lawrence - Excellent film set in a Japanese POW camp with David Bowie in one of his best acting roles.
Diner
Trading Places
Silent Night, Deadly Night
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Thin Man
Christ was born on Christmas, so any movie which shows the moment of Christ’s birth is set on Christmas.
I haven’t seen many of those, but I suppose Jesus of Nazareth is one of them.
Batman Returns
Why do you want thes? Are you setting a Christmas quiz ?
I saw a movie called Five Days From Home when I was a kid. George Peppard plays a guy who escapes from prison to see his son or something.
I recall a scene where he disguises himself as Santa Claus, so I’m assuming a Christmasy time-frame. I could be mistaken.
The factual part of the OP having been answered by RealityChuck and Wendell Wagner (thanks, guys – that power search tool is something I didn’t know about), I’ll move this thread to MPSIMS.
White Christmas
Meet Me in St. Louis
Home for the Holidays
The Long Kiss Goodnight - A kick ass action movie with Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson.
Babe
Brazil
Mixed Nuts
The Ice Storm took place at Thanksgiving, not Christmas.
If anyone remembers For Keeps the Molly Ringwald-pregnant-teenager movie, the screenwriter lamed out and had all the plot points take place on holidays.
Untamed Heart partly took place at Christmas.
The Last Picture Show has a scene at a Christmas dance, which includes one of Mr. Rilch’s favorite lines: “Knock off that shit, boys, this is the Crissmuss season!”
Hope and Glory had a Christmas scene.
A magnificent 10-minute documentary made during the Blitz about how the people of England were celebrating Christmas that year (1940) differently because of the war. It is called Christmas Under Fire and never fails to make me tear up like no other film, Christmas or otherwise. A must see, though I suspect impossible to find in the States.
The Many Ho’s of Santa.
Mrs. Claus and the Christmas Eve Pizza Delivery.
oh, you might not want those type of movies…
Steel Magnolias had Christmas in it.
Shanin writes:
> Home for the Holidays
That took place at Thanksgiving.