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Christmas film only you have seen?

108 replies

MoistVonL · 10/12/2025 13:43

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?

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Mumtobabyhavoc · 13/12/2025 17:38

TellingBone · 13/12/2025 13:45

😂Nah, I've seen it but didn't mention it as it's not as good as my classic favourites

I'm glad someone else knows it! I love that one. 😃

ghostyslovesheets · 13/12/2025 17:47

Love Krampus - one of my must watch at Christmas films along with Its A Wonderful Life and High Society

one film I loved was Driving Me Crazy/Dutch - can’t watch it anywhere now sadly

Davros · 13/12/2025 18:11

I’m just watching Christmas in Connecticut and watched The Shop Around the Corner last week. One of my favourites, which is hard to find so I have it on DVD, is The Man Who Came to dinner, utterly brilliant Bette Davies film

PoodleMum23 · 13/12/2025 18:23

Christmas Everyday. Watched it back in the 90s with my dad and we both loved it. Found it on Youtube and rewatched, still love it. Stars Erik von Detten.

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popandchoc · 13/12/2025 18:26

All i want for Christmas, where a pair of kids get their parents who are divorced back together.

FrenchBunionSoup · 13/12/2025 18:33

EmiliaRuusuvuori · 12/12/2025 09:51

I really like El Camino Christmas and the ending made me cry.
We always watch A Christmas Story, it's set in the 1940's in Indiana and the main character is looking back on his childhood.

Yes! A Christmas Story! It's massively famous in America apparently but it's so obscure over here and I have never met someone else who has seen it.

It's very funny and sweet. I like the bit with the leg lamp in particular.

FluffytheGoldfish · 13/12/2025 18:56

IbizaToTheNorfolkBroads · 11/12/2025 06:44

The Flint Street Nativity

Love this so much.
"More myrrh"

BluebellsareBlue · 13/12/2025 19:24

The flint street nativity!!! I love it! No one else has heard of it or seen it

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/12/2025 19:35

BluebellsareBlue · 13/12/2025 19:24

The flint street nativity!!! I love it! No one else has heard of it or seen it

I remember this being on telly back in 1999 the year my DS was born (in the Dec) so I might've fallen asleep .
I remember Dervla being very bossy and prim in her child-role Xmas Grin

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/12/2025 19:43

Lost Christmas 2011
Eddie Izzard was the main character - I know Eddie Izzard has some detractors - but this is a sad, poignant film with a twist .

AGlessandahalf · 13/12/2025 19:44

nayals · 12/12/2025 09:33

We had a tv recording of this growing up! Was my mums absolute favorite. Had to fast forward the adverts and I think the first 5 mins were missed off. My step dad recorded Rick Stein over it in a rage one year.

Went to see this at the cinema when it came out and still one of my favourite films.

Does anyone remember a BBC film (1976) of the Snow Queen? Just found it on YouTube although no doubt it will not be as I remembered it.

TellingBone · 13/12/2025 19:45

wrong thread ignore

PennyPugwash · 13/12/2025 19:46

The bishops wife

devildeepbluesea · 13/12/2025 19:48

helly29 · 10/12/2025 22:00

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

Me!! One of our regular Christmas treats!

YesTonightJosephine · 13/12/2025 19:49

I have one ...

This film has a cult-like-status in France, a bit like 'Withnail & I' does in the UK ... if you know you know ... everyone knows the lines and will shout them at the screen!

LE PERE NOEL EST UNE ORDURE !
// FATHER CHRISTMAS IS A [ x x x x x x x ] !
Dir. Jean-Marie Poiré
Comedy / Cult Film
France, 1982

Stars the very lovely THIERRY LHERMITTE too!

Do find it and enjoy!

x

ETA - You can watch it on Amazon Prime Video, Google Play and Apple TV but do watch it in the original language (VO - Version Originale - French) with subtitles.

DPotter · 13/12/2025 20:01

Nocookiesforme · 10/12/2025 18:10

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.

Good film - needs a sequel...

DPotter · 13/12/2025 20:07

The Greatest Store in the World
Cheesy, funny and happy ending

frockandcrocs · 13/12/2025 20:13

No one ever seems to have watched Babes In Toyland, as a child I loved it- and fell in love with Keanu Reeves for the first time 🤣

Mochudubh · 13/12/2025 20:15

Trallers · 11/12/2025 16:23

The Christmas Martian

I wouldn't recommend it though, it's one of the oddest and most weirdly unsettling films I've seen! It's from 1971 and involves a martian called Poo-Flower (who's actually just a creepy man wearing a string skimask over his face) landing his spaceship in Quebec and befriending a brother and sister.

I think I saw that at the pictures, late 70s, . In the days when you got a "minor feature" before the main film. See also "The Cat from Outer Space".

Mochudubh · 13/12/2025 20:19

Mention of Krampus has reminded me of Rare Exports, an absolutely brilliant Finnish film. I've introduced so many people to it, including a Finnish colleague who'd never heard of it.

Sorry @Erin1975 didn't notice you'd already posted Rare Exports, it's great, isn't it?

GentleSheep · 13/12/2025 21:03

Mochudubh · 13/12/2025 20:19

Mention of Krampus has reminded me of Rare Exports, an absolutely brilliant Finnish film. I've introduced so many people to it, including a Finnish colleague who'd never heard of it.

Sorry @Erin1975 didn't notice you'd already posted Rare Exports, it's great, isn't it?

Edited

I've just watched Rare Exports - what a great movie! So funny too!

70isaLimitNotaTarget · 13/12/2025 21:25

League of Gents Christmas Special from December 2000
Xmas Grin

CantThinkOfAnotherUsernane · 13/12/2025 21:35

We’re currently watching Spirited with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds. Never heard of it before today, to be fair it’s not that bad although not really my thing

FurForksSake · 13/12/2025 21:36

@70isaLimitNotaTarget and I went to see the pantomime they put on at the theatre!

sunshineonmeith · 13/12/2025 21:46

@70isaLimitNotaTargetdaaaaaave😂