Christmas film only you have seen?

[MoistVonL]

In our overly-extensive Christmas film collection there are a couple that no one else seems to have heard of - El Camino Christmas about a robbery in a liquor store that goes very wrong from 2017, and the 2003 animated movie Tokyo Godfathers about three homeless guys who find an abandoned newborn.

Does anyone else have a Christmas film other people never seem to have seen?

Hardware - 1990 post apocalyptic horror. Lovely if you need a change from saccharine offerings 😆

When Santa Fell to Earth. We got free cinema tickets to see it when DC were small. It was slightly odd!

Fatman with Mel Gibson playing Father Christmas. A bit like Red One with less jokes. It was good, but quite gritty.

The Shop Around the Corner (my all-time favourite), The Bishop’s Wife and Christmas in Connecticut

Silent Night from 2021 that has Keira Knightley in it.
I watched it thinking that it was a drama about family issues at Christmas - like Love Actually but with less laughing. It definitely had less laughing in it! I watched it last Christmas thinking that it would be a less saccharine Christmas treat - it is a very good film but I cried at the end and felt quite traumatised afterwards. It's excellent but should probably not be watched at Christmas or if you're feeling quite emotionally low or down - you've been warned.

Bernard and the Genie - we had it recorded on VHS. Not met anyone outside my family who watched it yet

Metropolitan directed by Whit Stillman. It’s like Jane Austen meets the New Yorker, about debutantes in Manhattan at Christmas in 1990 or thereabouts. Beautiful jazz soundtrack

The Man Who Invented Christmas. I watched it with some friends recently, none of them knew it at all but all loved it

For me its "Holiday Inn".

My father liked Bing Crosby's Christmas music, and this was the film that "white Chrstmas" was written for... We watched it a fair bit, and given the song is so popular at Christmas, I presumed it was a big film - and yet for most of my life when I mention it to people, it gets a blank reaction.

Even the more popular "white Christmas" - which was made after, as a result of the popularity of the song, has faded into quite a bit of obscurity now.

The Flint Street Nativity

I own this film. It's brilliant 😀

"A Christmas Karen". No one I ask has seen this. It's HILARIOUS. Highly recommended!

Get Santa, with Jim broadbent and Rafe Spall, really funny, have dvd and watch every year. also Spirited with Ryan Reynolds, was on one of the streaming channels a couple of years ago. Great songs. Make sure we watch every year without fail

There’s a great musical version of a Christmas Carol with Albert Finney - loved it! Also a film I saw when I was a kid about a family who gets locked in a department store over Christmas - can’t remember the name now!

Family man with nic cage lovely film that seems only me and my mum have seen

Best. Film. Ever!!!

I love it so much. It's pretty much never on any streaming channels and my bootleg dvd (because it was never officially released on dvd) is now useless given we've had no dvd players for years.

It was on streaming last year though and it literally made my Christmas. No one else in the family appreciated it's awesomeness. And, tbh, I'd completely forgotten about the slightly inappropriate parts!

They remade it recently. It's called Genie. Obvs nowhere near as good as the original.

Haha I’ve also seen a Christmas Karen. And in a less humerus note silent night. It still unsettles me thinking about it.

my offering is deck the heart. So awful it’s good. Actually no it’s just awful. We are thinking of making it an annual tradition.

humorous even. No bones involved!

@MrsKarlUrban
The Family Man is one of my favourites! I watch it every year and it's in my current watch list.

Some of the older Hallmark Christmas movies are excellent but I don't know anyone who has watched the 'classics' like Family For Christmas (Lacey Chabert) or Snow Globe Christmas (Alicia Witt).

@PickleSarnieand
@helly29- looks like it’s on Now Tv.

I love Christmas in Connecticut, @Theda13! (and the others).

It’s’ not exactly unknown but I also ❤️ The Holly and the Ivy, with Celia Johnson being all self-denying as the spinster daughter looking after her aged vicar father Ralph Richardson. Wayward prodigal daughter Margaret Leighton comes home unexpectedly but makes it clear she’s not giving up her glam job to come home permanently, and poor Celia has to tell her boyfriend she can’t marry him because she can’t leave Daddy on his own. A chorus of aged aunts supplies comic relief. It’s slightly hilarious because Richardson was only 6 years older than Johnson, playing his daughter, but strangely heartwarming all the same. Oh, and there’s a happy ending…

Always surprises me how many people haven’t seen National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. It’s mandatory

Love hard on Netflix. I love it but no one else has seen it or heard of it

Alan Cummings and Lenny Henry. We had a power cut and I never saw the end.