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Scrooge

Scrooge

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Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 8.1

Ebenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman; until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior h...

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The Night of the Hunter

The Night of the Hunter

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Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 8

In the Deep South, a serial-killing preacher hunts two young children who know the whereabouts of a stash of money.

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White Christmas

White Christmas

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Two talented song-and-dance men team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. In time they befriend and become romantically involved with the beautiful Haynes sisters who c...

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We're No Angels

We're No Angels

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Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1955 IMDB Rating: 7.4

Three convicts escape from prison on Devil's Island just before Christmas and arrive at a nearby French colonial town. They go to the store of the Ducotels, the only store that gives supplies on credi...

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The Holly and the Ivy

The Holly and the Ivy

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1952 IMDB Rating: 7.3

An English clergyman's neglect of his grown children, in his zeal to tend to his parishioners, comes to the surface at a Christmas family gathering.

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The Lemon Drop Kid

The Lemon Drop Kid

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1951 IMDB Rating: 7

When the Lemon Drop Kid accidentally cheats gangster Moose Moran out of his track winnings, the Kid promises to repay Moose the money by Christmas. Creating a fake charity for "Apple Annie" Nellie Thu...

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Susan Slept Here

Susan Slept Here

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Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1954 IMDB Rating: 6.4

On Christmas Eve, suffering from a case of writer's block, screenwriter Mark Christopher and his gofer Virgil get an unexpected visit from Sergeant Maizel. Knowing Christopher is working on a juvenile...

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The Great Rupert

The Great Rupert

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Film Age rating: 3 Year: 1950 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Shortly before Christmas, a family moves into an apartment where Rupert the squirrel lives in the attic rafters. Just as it seems that the holiday will come and go without so much as a Christmas tree,...

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Bundle of Joy

Bundle of Joy

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Film Age rating: 2 Year: 1956 IMDB Rating: 6

Kitschy musical remake of "Bachelor Mother". Debbie Reynolds plays an over-eager clerk in a large department store and Eddie Fisher plays the boss' son. After getting fired from her job, she finds an...

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Holy Water

Holy Water

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Film Age rating: 16 Year: 2009 IMDB Rating: 5.9

The village of Kilcoulins Leap was once a thriving spa town, and was home to a famous Holy Well, but now offers little by way of employment for its people, and its decline seems inexorable. When local...

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