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A Christmas Horror Story
( 2015 )
Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
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Bad Santa
( 2003 )
A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid.
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Anna and the Apocalypse
( 2018 )
A zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soon discover that no one is safe in this new world, and with civilization falling apart around them, the only people they can truly rely on...Read all
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Fatman
( 2020 )
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
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Saint
( 2011 )
A horror film that depicts St. Nicholas as a murderous bishop who kidnaps and murders children when there is a full moon on December 5.
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Treevenge (Short 2008)
( 2008 )
Christmas trees ripped out of their forest plan revenge against people enjoying the holidays.
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Rare Exports
( 2010 )
In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus.
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
( 1993 )
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Happy!
( 2017 )
Happy! follows Nick Sax – an intoxicated, corrupt cop-turned-hit man — who is adrift in a world of casual murder, soulless sex and betrayal. After a hit gone wrong, his inebriated life is forever changed by a tiny, relentlessly positive, imaginary blue winged horse.
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Gremlins
( 1984 )
After receiving an exotic small animal as a Christmas gift, a young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet, which unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous creatures on a small town.
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Krampus
( 2015 )
A boy who has a bad Christmas ends up accidentally summoning a festive demon to his family home.
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The Ref
( 1994 )
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
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Black Christmas
( 1974 )
During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
( 2000 )
On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.
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Blackadder's Christmas Carol
( 1988 )
After a genial spirit shows the benevolent Ebenezer Blackadder visions of his unscrupulous ancestors, he resolves to mend his generous ways.
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Rare Exports Inc. (Short 2003)
An elite trio of expert hunters venture into the woods to track and capture an especially rare and dangerous prey for the Christmas season.
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The Night Before
( 2015 )
On Christmas Eve, three lifelong friends spend the night in New York City looking for the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.
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Ugly Sweater Party
( 2018 )
An ugly sweater party turns into a bloodbath when an evil Christmas sweater possesses one of the partygoers.
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Terry Pratchett's Hogfather
( 2007 )
It's Hogswatch (equivalent to Christmas) on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened.
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The Apartment
( 1960 )
A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but office politics and his own romantic hopes complicate matters.
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A Christmas Carol
( 2019 )
A Christmas Carol is a unique and original take on the Charles Dickens' iconic ghost story and a haunting, hallucinatory, spine-tingling immersion into Scrooge's dark night of the soul.
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Merry Christmas Mr. Lawrence
( 1983 )
During WWII, a British colonel tries to bridge the cultural divides between a British POW and the Japanese camp commander in order to avoid bloodshed.
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Scrooged
( 1988 )
A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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P2
( 2007 )
A buxom businesswoman awakens to discover she's chained to a chair and held captive by a demented obsessed security guard in the parking garage of the office building where she works. Dazed and confused and swimming in dizziness the groggy vixen tries to shake off the Chloroform he clocked her with and become herself again. But when the guard suddenly unchains her he thrusts the still drugged beauty into a game of cat and mouse. Stripped of her business suit and reclad braless in a backless halter dress the stumbling executive must escape her crazy captor and parking level P2 or receive a deep whiff of Chloroform that stops her dead in her tracks and knocks the voluptuous bombshell flat on her bare back! Will the buxom beauty escape or become a slave to his chloroformed into unco
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The Ice Harvest
( 2005 )
A shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash.
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Home for the Holidays
( 1972 )
An ailing man summons his four daughters home for Christmas and asks them to kill his new wife, who he suspects is poisoning him.
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Blast of Silence
( 1962 )
A hired killer from Cleveland has a job to do on a second-string mob boss in New York, but a special girl from his past and a gun dealer with pet rats get in his way.
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Holidays
( 2016 )
'Holidays' is an anthology feature film that puts a uniquely dark and original spin on some of the most iconic and beloved holidays of all time by challenging our folklore, traditions and assumptions.
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Reindeer (Short 2011)
A lyrical and haunting portrait of reindeer herding in the twilight expanses of the Lappish wilderness.
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The Lodge
( 2020 )
A soon-to-be-stepmom is snowed in with her fiance's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations finally begin to thaw between the trio, strange and frightening events threaten to summon psychological demons from her strict religious childhood.
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The Hebrew Hammer
( 2004 )
An orthodox Jewish blaxploitation hero saves Hanukkah from the clutches of Santa Claus' evil son.
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Edward Scissorhands
( 1990 )
The solitary life of an artificial man - who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands - is upended when he is taken in by a suburban family.
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A Christmas Tale
( 2006 )
In 1985, in a coastal town, the friends Koldo, Peti, Tito, Eugenio and Moni stumble with a woman dressed like Santa Claus trapped in a hole in the woods. While the boys go to the police station to ask for help, the others find a rope to take the woman out of the hole. However, the boys find in the police station that the woman is the dangerous thief Rebeca Expósito, w...Read all
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Mixed Nuts
( 1994 )
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
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White Reindeer
( 2013 )
After an unexpected tragedy, Suzanne struggles to put her life back together during a sad, strange Christmastime in suburban Virginia.
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The White Reindeer
( 1952 )
A newlywed woman goes to the local shaman to get some help with her love life, but instead she gets turned into a white reindeer vampire.
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The Junky's Christmas (Short 1994)
Burroughs takes down a book and reads us the story of Danny the Carwiper, who spends Christmas Day trying to score a fix, but finds the Christmas spirit instead.
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Two Men in Manhattan
( 1959 )
A French UN delegate has disappeared into thin air, sending reporter Moreau and hard drinking photographer Delmas on an assignment to find him. Their only lead is a picture of three women.
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Deathouse
( 1972 )
A man inherits a mansion which once was a mental home. He visits the place and begins to investigate some crimes that happened in old times, scaring the people living in the region.
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Die Hard
( 1988 )
A New York City cop, John McClane, tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas Eve party at the Nakatomi Plaza Skyscraper in Los Angeles, California.
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Dead End
( 2003 )
Christmas Eve. On his way to his in-laws with his family, Frank Harrington decides to try a shortcut, for the first time in 20 years. It turns out to be the biggest mistake of his life.
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Troublemakers
( 1994 )
Two brothers who hate each other are going to spend Christmas with their mother. She tries to get them together.
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Less Than Zero
( 1987 )
A college freshman returns to L.A. for the holidays at his ex-girlfriend's request, but discovers that his former best friend has an out-of-control drug habit.
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Go
( 1999 )
The aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view.
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Eyes Wide Shut
( 1999 )
A Manhattan doctor embarks on a bizarre, night-long odyssey after his wife's admission of unfulfilled longing.
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Tangerine
( 2015 )
A hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart.
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Wind Chill
( 2007 )
Two college students share a ride home for the holidays, but when they break down on a deserted stretch of road, they are preyed upon by the ghosts of people who have died there.
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Lady in the Lake
( 1947 )
The female editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.
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30 Days of Night
( 2007 )
After an Alaskan town is plunged into darkness for a month, it is attacked by a bloodthirsty gang of vampires.
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Last Stop on the Night Train
( 1976 )
A pair of psychotic hoodlums and an equally demented nymphomaniac woman terrorize two young girls on a train trip from Germany to Italy.
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D.O.A.
( 1988 )
A college professor's day: his top student allegedly commits suicide, his wife presents him with divorce papers and he overnights in a freshman girl's dorm. The next day: more murders around him. Will he find the killer in time?
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L.A. Confidential
( 1997 )
As corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice.
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8 Women
( 2002 )
A man is murdered in an isolated chalet, and the eight female residents are all suspects; their secrets are revealed as they try to determine who is guilty.
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Deathcember
( 2020 )
A collection of 24 films that take a look at the dark side of the festive season. 24 international directors with the most diverse ideas and styles; linked by short animated segments that deal with the Advent calendar itself.
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The Children
( 2008 )
A relaxing Christmas vacation turns into a terrifying fight for survival as the children begin to turn on their parents.
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Jack Frost
( 1998 )
A father who can't keep his promises is killed in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
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The Family Man
( 2000 )
Offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, a fast-lane investment broker, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and a wife.
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Batman Returns
( 1992 )
While Batman deals with a deformed man calling himself the Penguin wreaking havoc across Gotham with the help of a cruel businessman, a female employee of the latter becomes the Catwoman with her own vendetta.
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Satan
( 2006 )
A group of youngsters go out to a disco on Christmas Eve and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of pure insanity.
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Stalag 17
( 1953 )
After two American prisoners are killed by the guards in the act of escaping from a German P.O.W. camp in World War II, the barracks black marketeer, J.J. Sefton, is suspected of being an informer.
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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?
( 1972 )
A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.
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Goodbye, 20th Century
( 2007 )
In the year 2019, after global destruction and descent into savagery, the immortal Kuzman discovers his destiny. As he enters the whirling circles of time, he discovers the blasphemy of our century, and how it is to close its circle.
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The Melancholy Fantastic
( 2011 )
A strange and gripping holiday tale of grief, love, and the horrors of loneliness.
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#Dupe#
( 2016 )
A tale of sadness , grief, and the despair of loneliness
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Deadly Games
( 2019 )
On Christmas Eve, a resourceful young boy has to defend himself and his grandfather from a killer dressed as Santa Claus.
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Metropolitan
( 1990 )
A group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up.
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The Day of the Beast
( 1998 )
Bent on committing as many sins as possible to avert the birth of the beast, a Catholic priest teams up with a Black Metal aficionado and an Italian connoisseur of the occult. Now, he must become an unrelenting sinner. Is there still hope?
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Greetings from Krampus
( 2018 )
In German folklore, during the Christmas season, Krampus is a horned beast who punishes children who have misbehaved, in contrast with Saint Nicholas, who rewards good children with gifts. The documentary points out why the fur covered beast Krampus is fascinating to young people and gives a glimpse of the Krampus runs that combine male masquerade, initiation rites, mating behavior, ritual beatings and long standing tradition. (Awarded with four international prizes)
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Calvaire
( 2005 )
Marc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants.
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Santa Claus
( 1959 )
With Merlin's aid, Santa Claus must defeat the evil machinations of the devil Pitch to ruin Christmas.
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Violent Night
( 2022 )
When a group of mercenaries attack the estate of a wealthy family, Santa Claus must step in to save the day (and Christmas).
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Silent Night
( 2023 )
A grieving father enacts his long-awaited revenge against a ruthless gang on Christmas Eve.
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The Baltimorons
( 2025 )
A newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.
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