 | The Apartment
Buy used from: $4.17 Brilliant comedy-drama of lonely singles negotiating the maze of their own ambitions at Christmas.
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 | A Midnight Clear
Buy used from: $19.96 This WWII drama is by turns frightening, deeply affecting, and devastating.
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 | Fanny and Alexander (Special Edition Five-Disc Set) - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $50.99 / Used from: $36.00 Skip the theatrical version and go straight to Part 1 of the extended mini-series--it's a 90 minute Christmas movie.
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 | Little Women (Collector's Series)
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $2.70 Christmases mark the changing realities of the March family during the Civil War. Perfect cast and direction.
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 | Joyeux Noel (Widescreen)
Buy new: $7.49 / Used from: $5.25 Like A MIDNIGHT CLEAR, set in the trenches of WWII, but with a very different focus.
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 | My Night at Maud's
Buy used from: $47.00 The "night" of the title is December 25th, in Rohmer's finest film. Get it in the Criterion Six Moral Tales, if you can afford it.
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 | The Lion in Winter
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $3.99 The mother of all dysfunctional family Christmas movies.
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 | The Decalogue (Special Edition Complete Set)
Buy new: $79.95 / Used from: $45.38 Decalogue Three has Ewa tricking Janusz, her ex-lover, into staying out all night with her on Christmas Eve.
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 | Eastern Promises (Widescreen Edition)
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $1.36 The unraveling of a mystery (at times jarringly violent) of the paternity of an infant abandoned on December 20, this story unfolds over the holidays and ends on New Years Eve.
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 | Mon Oncle Antoine - Criterion Collection
Buy new: $35.49 / Used from: $12.95 A realistic coming-of-age dramedy set in Quebec's asbestos country. Breathe deep the holiday spirit!
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 | The Dead
Buy used from: $45.99 [Region 2] Set sometime between January 1st and 6th, 1904 (still "Christmastime" in Ireland), John Huston's final film peels away the layers of nostalgia to find a core of inconsolable pining that trumps all else.
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 | La Buche
Buy used from: $7.74 Wonderful, darkly-comic examination of one family's interaction during the holidays.
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 | The Thin Man (Keepcase)
Buy new: $17.49 / Used from: $3.28 Classic screwball comedy/mystery played against the backdrop of the Holiday Season.
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 | 2046
Buy new: $11.99 / Used from: $3.98 In this complex film from Hong Kong, past, present and future loop in and out, with Christmas Eve a day of recurring importance.
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 | The Fabulous Baker Boys
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.96 Time line starts just before Christmas, ends Act 2 on New Year's, and carries on a few weeks into January. Lovely, deliberately-paced romantic comedy-drama with a poignant open ending. Movie hasn't aged a bit.
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 | The Nightmare Before Christmas (2-Disc Collector's Edition + Digital Copy)
Buy new: $15.49 / Used from: $14.00 Every weirdo's favorite Christmas movie.
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 | What Would Jesus Buy?
Buy new: $22.49 / Used from: $6.00 Once you get past the off-putting persona of "Rev. Billy," this documentary on consumerism reflects the true meaning of Christmas every bit as meaningfully as Dickens' Christmas Carol.
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 | In Bruges
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.49 Black comedy about hit men on the lam, forced to spend Christmas in the most boring city in Europe.
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 | Serendipity
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $2.84 Boy meets girl while shopping for Christmas; instead of getting together, they agree to leave their next meeting to chance. Will it happen?
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 | Trading Places (Special Collector's Edition)
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.30 You remember the story, but did you also remember it happens at Christmas?
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 | The Silent Partner
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $4.57 Delightfully off-kilter heist movie, with pivotal role for Santa.
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![Le Pere Noel est une ordure [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/51FBB7294YL._SL75_.jpg) | Le Pere Noel est une ordure [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
[Region 2] ...or, "Santa Claus is a Douchebag." Manic comedy about workers at a crisis hotline, and the loonies they encounter on Christmas Eve.
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![Bachelor Mother [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]](http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/517lfZa362L._SL75_.jpg) | Bachelor Mother [ NON-USA FORMAT, PAL, Reg.2 Import - France ]
Buy used from: $30.99 [Region 2, also available on VHS] Ginger Rogers, a department store temp for the Holiday rush, finds a baby on her doorstep. A fine screwball comedy.
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 | Black Christmas (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $7.79 Scary entry in the Christmas Horror genre. Some will find this relentlessly obscene, others will treasure it as Grade-A grindhouse-era schlock. From the director of A CHRISTMAS STORY (!).
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 | The Ref
Buy new: $8.99 / Used from: $1.99 Burglar winds up as marriage counsellor following a break-in on Christmas Eve.
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 | Entrapment (Special Edition)
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $0.88 Action-packed caper flick set in the 15 days leading up to the turn of the millenium. All the gimmicks you could ever want for Christmas.
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 | Moonstruck
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.21 It's the Christmas season in Brooklyn, and love is in the air--and betrayal, bitterness, infidelity and forgiveness. Decent-to-good romantic comedy.
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 | Pride and Glory
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $1.53 Brutal drama shows family of cops tugging in different directions during a corruption investigation. This virtual catalogue of cliches is elevated by the fine cast and the family dynamics are heightened by the Christmas setting.
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 | Dead End
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $4.89 Campy effort to channel David Lynch in a dysfunctional family Christmas horror movie.
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