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Plot Summary:
"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, Charles Dicken’s Ebenezer Scrooge. Too mean to join in with the festivities; he sits alone on Christmas Eve. The scene is set for a visitation by the ghost of his late business partner, Marley, now bound to earth by eternal chains and his introduction to the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. For it is they who will take him through his life to face the truth about himself….
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 561
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min
Plot tags: spiritual, christmas horror, independent film
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Scrooge & Marley (2012)
Plot Summary:
Scrooge & Marley is a modern variation on Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol. Recounted from a gay sensibility with heart, comedy & music, the magic of Dickens' timeless tale of a man's redemption comes alive from a fresh perspective.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 175
Genere: Drama, Family, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: queer cinema
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Scrooge and Marley (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ebenezer Scrooge is back in a made-for-TV film produced by Coral Ridge Ministries. The ill-tempered miser is played by skilled Christian actor Dean Jones, widely acclaimed for his acting ability in St. John in Exile and well-known for many Disney movies and Broadway shows.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 99
Genere: Musical, Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min
Plot tags: surreal
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A Christmas Winter Song (2019)
Plot Summary:
Clio befriends Fred, a homeless former jazz singer down on his luck. They form a special bond over music, and Clio, having just lost her own father, helps Fred reconnect with his own daughter, just in time for Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Last Christmas (1999)
Plot Summary:
A young boy's dream of finding his dead father comes true when his father visits him as an angel. But things turn sour when he discovers that his father was not the hero he imagined him to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags:
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A Carol for Another Christmas (1964)
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Director Joseph Mankiewicz's first work for television, the 90-minute ABC drama was publicized as having an all-star cast (which meant that names of some supporting cast members were not officially released). In Rod Serling's update of Charles Dickens, industrial tycoon Daniel Grudge has never recovered from the loss of his 22-year-old son Marley, killed in action during Christmas Eve of 1944. The embittered Grudge has only scorn for any American involvement in international affairs. But then the Ghost of Christmas Past takes him back through time to a World War I troopship. Grudge also is visited by the Ghost of Christmas Present, and the Ghost of Christmas Future gives him a tour across a desolate landscape where he sees the ruins of a once-great civilization.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, black and white, dark fantasy, historical drama, political drama
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Ebbie (1995)
Plot Summary:
In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the true spirit of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 744
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags:
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A Holiday in Harlem (2021)
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Business executive Jazmin Carter is known for two things: turning fledgling businesses into profit producers and avoiding Christmas in Harlem, the neighborhood where she grew up.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 588
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Angel in the Family (2004)
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Sarah Bishop and her estranged sister Beth are reunited after their father Buddy suffers a mild stroke. Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine, wants only one thing-to return home for Christmas. With sweet memories of a life gone by, Sarah makes an impossible wish that her mother could be there, too. By morning, it is as if a winter prayer has been answered. Bearing a message of hope, healing, and everlasting love, a miracle has arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional
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Christmas Comes Twice (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Cheryl visits the Christmas carnival in her hometown, she gets a second chance in life when she is transported to Christmas five years in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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By God's Grace (2014)
Plot Summary:
In the tradition of a classic "A Christmas Carol", this film offers many lessons on the importance of giving and the cause and effect our choices have on others.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 241
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags:
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Christmas Carol (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebeneezer Scrooge (played by Rich as W.C. Fields) hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past (played by Rich as Humphrey Bogart), Present (played by Rich as Columbo) and Future (played by Rich as Inspector Clouseau) to convince him otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, spoof, parody, one man show
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If You Believe (1999)
Plot Summary:
Bah! Humbug! Susan Stone is definitely what you'd call a modern-day scrooge. She is a young, jaded book editor who is consumed with self-doubt and has lost the passion and drive that defined her childhood persona. On the verge of losing her job and being completely on the "outs" with her family, Susan has nearly given up on happiness. Out of nowhere, a cheerful, carefree seven-year-old girl named Suzie awaits Susan back at her apartment. It turns out that little Suzie is the embodiment of Susan's inner child, she is Susan as she once was years ago. Suzie has come to help the adult Susan rediscover and recapture the love of life that she's lost.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 797
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags:
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A Christmas Carol (1982)
Plot Summary:
In this timeless Charles Dickens Story, Ebenezer Scrooge, a mean, miserly merchant, lacking in any Christmas Spirit, receives ominous warnings from the goshts of Christmas Past, Christmas Present and Christmas Future as they each take him on strange and magical journeys to show him that even the poor, the crippled and the sick are rich in love and goodwill at Christmas time - an experience that will change Scrooge forever.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 244
Genere: Animation, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Australia
Duration: 75 min
Plot tags:
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Home by Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
Julia Bedford is a homemaker who's left with next to nothing after a divorce. When Julia finds herself homeless, she begins her comeback and discovers what is really valuable in life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 917
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags:
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A Miracle Before Christmas (2022)
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With a little help from an angel, Mercedes Wright, a fast-talking popular relationship therapist with all the answers when it comes to fixing everyone else's marriage, must now use the magic of Christmas to find the secret to save her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 139
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags:
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All American Christmas Carol (2013)
Plot Summary:
A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 617
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, semi serious, captivating, horror comedy, cult film
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Ghosts of Christmas Always (2022)
Plot Summary:
Katherine is a Ghost of Christmas Present and she must help one soul, Peter, rediscover his Christmas spirit. But this year has something unusual in store.
IMDB Rating: 7.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags:
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Chasing Christmas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride through time showing up at various times in Jack's past. As they try and rectify the timeline and get back to the real present, some things are not what they used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good
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Finding John Christmas (2003)
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When a photojournalist (David Cubitt) photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger "John Christmas". After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister (Valerie Bertinelli) becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank (William Russ). With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help Max (Peter Falk), a Christmas angel.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 853
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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Ebenezer (1998)
Plot Summary:
No overview found.A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 286
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Western, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, sentimental, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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A Christmas Carol (2019)
Plot Summary:
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 173 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, sincere, serious, captivating, suspenseful, anthology, fairy tale, psychological, suspense, disturbing
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An American Christmas Carol (1979)
Plot Summary:
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, serious, emotional
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A Christmas Carol (1999)
Plot Summary:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge the error of his ways. Will Scrooge reform his ways in time to celebrate Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christmas special, gothic horror, christmas horror, sentimental, atmospheric, feel good, semi serious
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A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
Plot Summary:
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, emotional, captivating, christmas horror, uplifting, touching, semi serious
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A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
Plot Summary:
A remake of the Dicken's classic, "A Christmas Carol" featuring a very nasty pop singer who gets a reality check by three Christmas spirits.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, christmas comedy
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Scrooged (1988)
Plot Summary:
In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips (Karen Allen). But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk (Bobcat Goldthwait), on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 112000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, parody, funny, talky, atmospheric, christmas horror, witty, semi serious, feel good
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Scrooge (1970)
Plot Summary:
The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form.
IMDB Rating: 7.5
IMDB Votes: 12000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, christmas special, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, sentimental, light
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The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Plot Summary:
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 67000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, feel good, not serious, exciting, sentimental, light, slasher
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
Plot Summary:
An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 7.8
IMDB Votes: 17000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: atmospheric, touching, sentimental, christmas horror, feel good, humorous, semi serious, christmas special, fairy tale, light