With the holidays so near, Bert, a store employee, agrees to be responsible for the pair so that Patsy need not spend the holidays in social services. Email. An eccentric Christmas tree farmer takes in a distressed family for the holidays. A donor is found but a blizzard threatens the heart's delivery. Set around Christmas, a group of New Yorkers struggle with their careers, love lives and the effects of the AIDS epidemic on their community. Of the two Claus brothers, Fred (Vince Vaughn) is the troublemaker and polar opposite of his saintly sibling, Nicholas (Paul Giamatti). Dallas Cowboys Cheerleaders Movie 1980 Part 2. Tom Hanks and director Robert Zemeckis ("Forrest Gump"; "Cast Away") reunite for "Polar Express," an inspiring adventure based on the beloved children's book by Chris Van Allsburg. Animated film featuring the voices of Leslie Nielsen, Fred Willard, Eric Idle and Robert Hays. Ziggy and his faithful dog Fuzz take a job as a street Santa to raise money for the poor. Mainly, because I needed a way to justify watching so many of them, but also as a way to help other people waste way less time than I have looking for a good, made-for-TV Christmas movie. Widowed mother and her young son come to believe their new neighbor may be Santa Claus. An elderly nun, who's been growing an evergreen tree for decades, forms a bond with a gardener who wants to fell it and display it at New York's Rockefeller Center for the holidays. A group of fruit and veggies try to help the Nutcracker's army get a star up on a. Follow up to. Below is my personal list of favorite Christmas tv-movies from the 1980s and 1990s before over saturation became the trend. After snarky youth Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) loses track of his father at the airport, he mistakenly gets on a plane headed for New York City -- while the rest of the McCallisters fly to Florida. An aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman over the Christmas holidays in 1950s New York. Readers, open thy eyes, thine ears, and thine hearts to a list of the best Christmas made-for-TV movies streaming on Netflix and online. A sentient toy created to tell children that "Christmas is when you get stuff" escapes from the factory he was made in and embarks on a journey to discover the holiday's true significance. A young girl tries to make a happy Christmas for herself and her family during the 1930s Great Depression. A stressed-out working couple hire a consultant to help them plan an elaborate Christmas party for the wife's boss and husband's relatives. When Lucy doesn't correct them, they take her into their home and confidence. While out of prison on parole, a man reluctantly takes a job selling Christmas trees with his old buddy in order to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano she has always wanted. A cold businesswoman threatens to close a boys foster home during the holidays, when she returns to her home town to settle her late father's estate. Online shopping for Movies & TV from a great selection of All Made-for-TV Movies, Lifetime Original Movies, Nickelodeon Original Movies & more at everyday low prices. Stewart Green (Larry the Cucumber) hops aboard the What-If Express to find out what his life would've been like had he made a game-winning catch in college. Little Clara awakes one night to find her new nutcracker doll come to life and battling against the Mouse King. Holly Hobbie and her friends help a widow and her twin boys to celebrate the Christmas holidays. Animated special. A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a 15-year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day. A biography of the renowned escape artist Harry Houdini, examining his fascination with the occult and his deathbed promise to his wife that he would speak from the beyond. NR. Playwrights Cavis Appythart (Bob the Tomato) and Millward Phelps (Larry the Cucumber) attempt to teach London to love through a musical spectacular but are threatened when they learn that a nearby church will be re-unveiling a priceless artifact during its Christmas pageant on Christmas Eve, Cavis and Millward's opening night. A series of murders occur in a small New England town on Christmas Eve, after a man inherits a family estate which was once an insane asylum. A woman makes a list of things she wants for Christmas and learns the lesson, "Be careful what you wish for.". A young girl travels to Toyland. Your #1 Christmas Movie Database - A to Z listing of all Christmas movies ever made. I just wish all of the movies had poster-pictures. A magic hat brings a snowman to life. In 1890, an English village copes with the disappearance of a supposedly miraculous candle. See more ideas about Christmas movies, Movies, Hallmark movies. Mommy issues arise when the pair are joined by Willie's horror story of a mother, Sunny Soke, who raises the bar for the gang's ambitions, while somehow lowering the standards of criminal behavior. Winnie the Pooh and Christmas Too is a Christmas television special based on the Disney television series The New Adventures of Winnie the Pooh, originally broadcast on Saturday December 14, 1991, on ABC. A fired sales clerk and a young woman fall in love. The crotchety Willie T. Stokes (Billy Bob Thornton) and his partner (Tony Cox) reunite once a year for a holiday con. Directed by Dave Unwin and narrated by Matthew Rhys. Remade in, Sorority sisters are stalked and murdered on Christmas Eve in this remake of the. A couple struggle to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day. A young man who receives a strange creature called a mogwai as a pet, which then spawns other creatures who transform into small, destructive, evil monsters. A young girl helps the monsters from her storybook defeat an evil witch that has stolen their voices because they sang better at Christmas carols than she did. The Muppets join the singer for Christmas songs and sketches. This doesn't sit well with their Christmas-obsessed neighbors Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd) and Walt Scheel (M. Emmet Walsh), who are determined to win the annual "best decorated street" competition, and the Kranks soon find themselves social outcasts because of their lack of Christmas spirit. Coal miners are trapped in a mine following an explosion on Christmas Eve, 1951. Rudolph helps Father Time find Baby New Year so that the New Year can start. Carolyn is leaving the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the forest. The sequel (which is a 90s movie) also takes place at Christmas. A group of friends are terrorized by a serial killer dressed like Santa Claus. A mouse and a clockmaker try to appease a disgruntled Santa after he has received an insulting letter. A young girl is transported into a magical world of gingerbread soldiers and an army of mice. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise. An unnamed female student at a Pennsylvania university uses the campus ride share board to find a ride home to Wilmington, Delaware to celebrate Christmas with her family on Winter Break. A high-flying career woman and single mother with no time for love or Christmas is unexpectedly wooed by Santa's son and heir, Nick who must find a wife before Christmas because his father wants to retire. There are two made-for-TV movie adaptations of this Stephen King novel, one from 1979 and another from 2005. This is a list of Christmas-themed films. A widower who has traveled from Nova Scotia with his children to sell their homegrown Christmas trees in New York City meets a photographer who hasn't celebrated Christmas since the year her husband died. Adapted from the short story "Just Like the Ones We Used to Know" by. Twin sisters believe their mother would be better off with a break from them for Christmas so they decide to go visit their grandmother, and their adventures along the way. The headaches mount for St. Nick, who not only must deal with his troublemaking brother, but also an efficiency expert who has come to evaluate Santa's operation. Two kids are sent to Jurassic World theme park situated on Caribbean island Isla Nublar for Christmas vacation, while their parents are getting a divorce. A young mute boy is given a calf who aspires to become one of Santa's flying reindeer. A widowed mother struggles to prevent her candy shop from being put out of business by a hard-hearted businessman. A horseracing fan has a month to pay back the money that he borrowed from a gangster just before Christmas. Widower's young daughter asks Santa for a new mother. A squirrel accidentally helps two dysfunctional families during Christmas. This is probably the best Christmas movie made during the 80s. Cousin Eddie and his family get stranded on what they think is a deserted island for Christmas in this sequel to the 1989 theatrical film. The story of what Father Christmas does the 'other' 364 days a year. December 19, 2018 at 02:45 PM EST Advertisement. The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas. On Christmas Eve, three lifelong friends spend the night in New York City looking for the Holy Grail of Christmas parties. Rival newspaper columnists battle it out (one to save his career advancement at a major newspaper, the other to save the small community newspaper who is her employer) before finding romance. The younger sibling of the teenager who killed while dressed as Santa carries on in his brother's bloody footsteps. The films so heinous, they didn’t even make it through to theatrical distribution -back when theatrical distribution was still a thing. $5.00 $ 5. Computer animated film with Alicia Silverstone, Ed Asner and Drake Bell. A businessman is shown by his guardian angel on Christmas Eve what the world would be like if he were never born. A ruthless toy tycoon who is also secretly the son of Santa Claus travels to the North Pole to put an end to an attempted coup. But after befriending a small boy, a different side comes out and Willie begins to wonder if there's still some hope for him. Max the Angel finds himself helping two different families as Christmas approaches. Remake of the 1949 film. Depressed and alcoholic, his erratic behavior draws the suspicion of mall security (Bernie Mac). At the hospital, doctors report that Peter is in a coma, and a misplaced comment from Lucy causes Peter's family to assume that she is his fiancée. A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives. Jim Henson tale of toys who come to life on Christmas Eve. Starring: Vivica A. Traumatized by her mother's death, a 6-year-old girl stops talking but is cared for by her three uncles. Three brothers plan a bank robbery on Christmas. Six-year-old Eloise has various adventures at the Plaza Hotel prior to the holiday, in this adaptation of Kay Thompson's book. Meanwhile, the icicle that holds the magic of Christmas is melting away due to children's and puppies' belief in Santa and Santa Paws dying. Two couples hash out their respective marital difficulties on Christmas Eve. Five New Yorkers come together on Christmas Eve, seeking a miracle. ... Add To Cart. A second remake of the 1974 film, it follows a group of sorority sisters stalked by a cult of deranged killers on Christmas. He visits the town to find the inspiration behind the card. Home Alone: The Holiday Heist: … The first deals with Bruce Willis coming to visit his wife at her new home and new job. A father passes away but comes back to life in the form of a snowman. Aired on NBC. There, chaos follows when a newly unveiled attraction breaks free and wrecks havoc on the island[15] A TV movie that brought the first portrayal of Scrooge as a female, with, Another TV movie portraying Scrooge as an arrogant female celebrity, this time as a TV star named "Carol Cartman", played by, A workaholic businesswoman is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future in a modern update of. Featuring Brian Cox. When the Beast forbids the celebration of Christmas, Belle and friends show him the true meaning of the holiday in this holiday-themed followup to the animated, An animated adaptation of Dickens' story featuring the. While reading his usual gift wish mail Santa Claus stumbles upon an unusual letter which everyone assume to be a gift wish letter from a boy called Vekara, at the same time odd things are happening around Santa's village, and strange accidents follow Santa. 00 $6.95. In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. On Christmas Eve in 1933, the Walton family of rural Virginia awaits the return of the family patriarch who went to look for work in a distant city. Only one problem though, they have both sent pictures of their better looking friends to each other. An old man claims to be Santa and a lawyer defends him in court to stop him from being institutionalized. Lonely transit worker Lucy pulls her longtime crush, Peter, from the path of an oncoming train. The girlfriend takes all of his possessions with her, leaving behind only an old lamp. The Lockes are devastated when they learn their young son Dax has cancer. Animated special. A wealthy manufacturer pays an impoverished single mother who works in his factory, and her daughter, to pretend to be his "family" at Christmastime, in order to impress a visiting old-fashioned tycoon interested in buying his company. A woman is stalked by a deranged psychopath in a parking garage during Christmas. Jennifer begins getting romantic Christmas cards from an unknown admirer. The story of where Santa Claus came from and his attempts to save Christmas after his elf gets mixed up with an evil toy tycoon. A bereaved boy and his widowed mother commission a grumpy woodcarver to carve a nativity set and thus form a relationship that enables them all to put their sadness behind them and move on. A dog called Olive wants to be a reindeer at Christmas time. But when Kevin discovers that the Sticky Bandits (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) are on the loose, he struggles to stop them from robbing an elderly man's toy store just before Christmas. List of made-for-television and direct-to-video Christmas films, Learn how and when to remove this template message, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Nativity Rocks! But with courage, determination and faith, they give Dax one last Christmas, even if it's in October. Bernard is fired from his job and his girlfriend leaves him, both on Christmas Eve. But will everything go to plan before Hank's new baby brother is born? The Vikings are prepared to celebrate their annual holiday when all of a sudden all the dragons disappear, now Hiccup must figure out why while also trying to make a gift for Toothless. But her son, needing math tutoring, makes friends with a man from Maggie's past. The story unfolds as all of them find the importance of family. Christmas Without Snow, A (1980) (TV) – A divorced woman moves to a new city with her child, trying to build her life again. A woman finds herself caught in a Christmas. This site uses third party cookies for analytics and advertising. A young boy is forgotten when his large family rushes to catch a plane for Paris at Christmas. Santa's youngest son must deliver a bicycle to an overlooked girl before Christmas morning dawns. Santa's wife ends up in New York in the early 1900s near Christmastime. It is a co-production between independent producers Brave New World and Cwmni Da. A comprehensive list of 50 feature films, made-for-TV movies, and specials released in the '80s that center around Christmas. A spoiled school-girl runs away from home at Christmas, gets pregnant while hitch-hiking, and ends up as a fashion model for a pair of beauticians who like to photograph women committing crimes. A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dream world inside a magical snow globe. Puppy Paws, the only son of Santa Paws, does not want to follow in his father's footsteps. So it's a selfish kind of service, I suppose. A comprehensive list of 50 feature films, made-for-TV movies, and specials released in the '80s that center around Christmas. A Puerto Rican family in Chicago gather for their possibly last Christmas together. https://www.listchallenges.com/80s-christmas-movies-and-specials Two women swap homes at Christmastime after bad breakups with their boyfriends. Loretta Swit, Sam Waterston, Eileen Heckart, Ed Grover, Bill Morey, Christopher Allport, Madelyn Rhue. An angel offers a literary agent, whose wife of ten years died just before Christmas, a chance to relive the last three days of his wife's life. Three escaped prisoners hide out in the home of a kindly shopkeeper and repay his kindness by helping him and his family out of several crises. A businessman tries to uncover a family secret for his grandmother after he returns to a small town to modernize his family's real-estate company. Vintageruminance: “ Jenny Agutter With Michael York Spring Pink Desserts: Strawberry Torte & Other Sweet Bruce Willis Net Worth 2018/2019 Dazzling Divas: Jaclyn Smith It's '80s Remake Week At The Movies! Con-woman Trish and her niece/ward Patsy are caught trying to steal from a department store right before Christmas. An animated adaptation of Charles Dickens' story starring Disney characters. College freshman returns home at Christmas time to find all his high school friends take drugs. Have I got a Christmas for you. A Santa-killer terrorizes a neighborhood where a little girl had disappeared from 15 years prior. Her niece becomes a ballerina herself and is invited to play Clara; the theater director is her aunt's former boyfriend who was to play the Prince in her aunt's performance. However, family ties show signs of strain when various secrets come to light, especially concerning Marine Claude's (Columbus Short) true military status, Quentin's (Idris Elba) debts and teenage Baby's (Chris Brown) secret plans to become a singer. The Internet sensation Grumpy Cat comes to life in her very first movie. She joins an unnamed male student, who is driving home to Wilmington as well. Followed by the sequel. Nine intertwined stories examine the complexities of the one emotion that connects us all: love. Four sisters return home to visit their father for Christmas, only to discover that someone is trying to kill him. Animated special. Church choir members try to balance personal issues with practice as the holiday approaches. And to justify it, he tells the history of Santa Claus. Aspiring musician Evie Lee must return home to save the family's Christmas Tree farm and decide what's most important in life. Fueled by cheap whiskey, greed and hatred, Willie Soke (Billy Bob Thornton) teams up with his angry little sidekick, Marcus, to knock off a Chicago charity on Christmas Eve. Temporarily out of stock. Disney Princess A Christmas Of Enchantment DVD 2005 Price $6.99 . Directed by Lee Phillips. A successful advertising executive, on a cross-country trip to attend a client's wedding, is stranded in Christmas Valley, Ohio, a town in love with Christmas. When Santa falls off his roof, a dad is required to take Santa's place. The Christmas Shoes 2002. The story begins when Santa Claus goes missing while delivering presents on Christmas Eve. John McClane returns this time to battle Terrorists who have seized control of an airport on Christmas Eve a year after the first film. Since the 1950's, made for TV movies have grabbed headlines and made impressions on the nation's popular culture. The Nutcracker is a 1967 Polish film directed by Halina Bielińska and based on E.T.A. It is Christmas and the Zipzer family are preparing for a new baby. A Christmas-themed live-action adaptation of. A serial killer butchers men dressed as Santa Claus. To save her fortune from a designing nephew, Matilda Reid must locate her three long-lost adopted sons in time for a Christmas Eve reunion. Muppets from both the Muppet Show and Sesame Street are featured, as are Fraggles. A bachelor screenwriter finds himself playing host to a teenage delinquent over the holidays. A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas. Set in the small Norwegian town of Skogli, this film looks at those who are desperately trying to (re)connect with their families. An oil company dynamites in the North Pole in search of an oil field, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus. When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe. Seventies & Eighties Made-For-TV Movies - G GAMES YOUR MOTHER NEVER TAUGHT YOU 1982 100 min. An animated adaptation of the Herbert operetta. An English country vicar hosts his estranged adult children for Christmas. Ernest helps Santa Claus as he searches for his successor. Posing as a mall Santa and his elf, they rip off shopping outlets on Christmas Eve. Devout Catholic Jean-Louis falls in love with a fellow parishioner but encounters temptation at a Christmas dinner hosted by the seductive Maud. A lonely millionaire pays a family $250,000 to spend Christmas with him by living in the home that he grew up in. The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition. Two pen pals who have never met, decide to meet up at one of their home towns in Boston during the Christmas holiday. In a world where the holidays are run by the efficient Bureau of Yuletide Affairs, a bitter and burned-out Ghost of Christmas Past decides to go AWOL while on a "mission" and leave his "target" stranded in 1965. A dog with telepathic powers is hunted down by the CIA near Christmas time. And I have many of the direct-to-video Christmas movies listed here too. A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown for Christmas. Sequel to Santa Buddies in which Santa loses memory in New York and it's up to his new friend Paws to save him. Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way. Popular screen pooch meets Kris Kringle while preparing for a Christmas parade in Switzerland. The children of St. Bernadette's have to reunite their teacher with his fiancée. Now-teenaged Ralphie Parker schemes to acquire a car for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical film. A soldier serving in Afghanistan receives a Christmas card from a Californian woman he has never met. A family hasn't celebrated Christmas since their son died on Christmas Day 1991 serving in the. Animated musical. A made-for-TV sequel to theatrical original. A depressed young woman who works in a Christmas supplies store keeps bumping into the same young man. Two people who meet on Christmas Day plan to marry on Christmas Day two years later. He spends the next six weeks bringing Ebenezer Scrooge, Tiny Tim and other characters to life in "A Christmas Carol.". A traumatized veteran and a woman on a break from serving her prison sentence meet and fall in love during Christmas in this post-war drama. Now that we're officially in the thick of the holiday season, you need to know what the best made for TV 2017 Christmas movies are. Fact-based drama of toy inventor A.C. Gilbert, a pacifist toymaker who is forced by the U.S. government to turn his factory into a munitions plant during World War I, and is asked to convince consumers to buy bonds instead of toys. What it's really like to write made-for-TV Hallmark Christmas movies. A snowstorm leaves everyone stranded and Donald has no Christmas spirit so Minnie comes up with the idea to show old Christmas cartoons. His father offers his vintage car if he is home by a certain time for Christmas. Mr Maddens puts on the school nativity play. A middle school student decides to prove that Santa Claus is real. The Muppets version of Charles Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol'. See more ideas about Christmas movies, Movies, Holiday movie. A high powered fashion photographer finds herself stranded in middle America on her way to her wedding in Aspen, Colorado. The tale of a boy who builds a snowman one winter's day. A bumbling courier at a private adoption agency botches the delivery of a baby to its new parents in time for Christmas, when he misplaces their baby en route. We are working hard to be back in stock. Santa Claus suffers an attack of amnesia after falling out of his sleigh. A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays. When a family visits Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, they leave their dog at home alone. A Spielberg-ian horror romp with an Christmas twist. Includes a rare cameo appearance by Jim Henson himself. A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus to make it snow on Christmas Day, but the machine breaks, and causes an out-of-control snowstorm. 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