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Plot Summary:
Immortalised as one of the most scintillating and uplifting Christmas songs, 'Carol of the Bells' adapted from a popular and loved Ukrainian folk melody, came to represent the spirit of brotherhood and unity all over the world. The peaceful and neighbourly existence of three families, Polish, Ukrainian and Jewish, sharing a large house, musical evenings and merriment in the city of Stanislaviv in the years preceding and post war, is shattered. First in the Soviet occupation and the persecution of the Polish family, then, by the Nazi occupation of Ukraine, and the decimation of the Jewish family. Sacrificing their lives the Ukrainian family manage to save their neighbours' children and their own daughter. Death and loss come to these families, but the healing power and joy , and a promise that the Future Will Not be Cancelled which "Carol of the Bells' evokes will be everlasting.
IMDB Rating: 8.0
IMDB Votes: 817
Genere: Drama, History
Country: Poland, Ukraine
Duration: 122 min
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A Vineyard Christmas (2023)
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Heather Rivera, host of Tannin TV’s popular show: Read Between the Vines, is determined to create the perfect Christmas episode by featuring a unique winery from her hometown in Michigan the specialists in Ice Wine. The only thing standing in her way? Rudy Knobloch, the attractive, stubborn owner of the winery.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 64
Genere: Romance
Country: Canada
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The Art of Christmas (2022)
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After her latest gallery exhibition literally goes up in flames, struggling artist Liv James accepts a teaching job at a local elementary school to make ends meet. Through this reluctant career move, she discovers her true self, a new sense of purpose, and a surprising romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 292
Genere: Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
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Santa Bootcamp (2022)
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Hired by shopping mall magnate Ed Mancini to host a Christmas gala for his biggest investors, Emily heads to Santa Bootcamp - to find the perfect Santa and the inspiration she'll need to make the evening a success.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Christmas Carole (2022)
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Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human being. In fact, it's made her worse. The truth is that Carole is a monumentally mean person. Positively Scrooge-like. And, just like Ebeneezer, she doesn't love Christmas at all. But this Christmas Eve, Carole's past, present and future are about to collide. Will some rather familiar Christmas spirits help her discover the true spirit of Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 66 min
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The Case of the Christmas Diamond (2022)
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Blue-collar Andy finds herself accused of theft when a multimillion-dollar gem suddenly goes missing from her rich friend's estate. With the help of a famous mystery writer, Andy must find the real culprit amid the litany of wealthy guests.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 243
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Mistletoe Time Machine (2022)
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Three friends become estranged following a disastrous holiday talent show performance and, a decade later, are sent back in time to relive their senior year of high school thanks to Santa’s magic spell.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 73
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Designing Christmas (2022)
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Follows Stella, who has worked for the past six years with Pablo as co-hosts of a house renovation show, but as they work together more closely than ever before, she gets complicated and unexplored feelings that may jeopardize everything.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 275
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
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Mistletoe Mixup (2021)
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Holly is a young workaholic with no time for romance, or the holidays. She ends up meeting two great guys on the same day, but unbeknownst to her, they turn out to be brothers. While on a holiday ski trip, a sibling rivalry ensues for her affection. Will she find true love this Christmas, or spend another holiday alone?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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The Disney Holiday Singalong (2020)
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Returning for a third iteration, “The Disney Holiday Singalong” features more music and magic just in time for the holidays. The one-hour festive musical event includes star-studded performances, animated on-screen lyrics, more favorite Disney melodies and classic holiday songs.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 208
Genere: Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
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Baking Spirits Bright (2021)
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Mira Varma takes pride in her family's business of making fruitcakes, despite the decline in its popularity of once being America's most-gifted holiday confection. When Mira's parents decide to hire Brady Phillips and his high-powered marketing company to boost sales for the holidays, Mira must fight to hold on to the heart of the company she loves so much.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 278
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
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A Brush with Christmas (2022)
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Charlotte captures the local art scene also helping mother run the family restaurant. Charlotte throws out her painting, to the Christmas art festival. Wyatt seeing her discarded work tries to find the mysterious artist who stole his heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 963
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
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Crown Prince of Christmas (2022)
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Madison, an aspiring musician, jokingly tells her overbearing family that she is dating the prince of a small European nation. The joke goes too far as her friend and co-worker Sebastian is roped into impersonating the prince while visiting her family in New Jersey. Little does Madison know that Sebastian happens to be hiding a royal secret.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 356
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Christmas in Rockwell (2022)
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A famous Hollywood actress returns to her hometown where she is enlisted to participate in a Christmas play which threatens her small peaceful village with the chaos of Hollywood.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 82
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
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I'm Glad It's Christmas (2022)
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An aspiring Broadway singer is convinced to participate in a small-scale production for her local Christmas celebration. Along the way, she finds hope and unexpected mentorship towards her dream career. But will her professional success come at the cost of her chance at love?.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 890
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
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Destined at Christmas (2022)
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Kim and Theo meet in the midst of Black Friday shopping madness but there's a definite spark between them. When a power outage causes some panic at a store, the couple gets separated. With Christmas coming, there should be plenty of distractions but neither Kim nor Theo can forget the other. Both yearn to find each other but how with so little information to go on?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Our Christmas Journey (2021)
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As a single mom and her teenaged son with autism come to a crossroad during Christmas, she must learn to let go so he can flourish as she finds her own heart healing in unexpected ways.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 472
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Christmas in Harmony (2021)
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Harmony is tricked into auditioning for the Holiday Chorus — directed by an ex-boyfriend. By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonizing in the key of love.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 735
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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A Christmas Winter Song (2019)
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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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A Big Fat Family Christmas (2022)
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Liv is a photojournalist eager to make it on her own. To get a dream assignment – shooting the Chang family’s annual holiday party for a cover story – she doesn’t reveal that they are in fact, her family. When she finds herself growing close to Henry, the coworker covering the story with her, she wants to confide in him but doesn’t want to jeopardize her big break.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 787
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
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Reindeer Games Homecoming (2022)
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When her father dies, MacKenzie keeps his tradition of the town's fundraising "The Reindeer Games" alive, but when high school crush Chase shows up and plays against her, the spark between them is undeniable.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Merry Swissmas (2022)
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Alex is an ambitious architect who is looking forward to celebrating Christmas at her mother’s beautiful Swiss Inn, until she finds out that her former best friend Beth who married Alex’s ex-boyfriend Jesse will also be there. Could a new romance with the Inn’s handsome manager and single-father Liam be the key to show Alex the magic of Christmas and open her up to forgiveness this holiday season?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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A Tale of Two Christmases (2022)
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Thanks to some Christmas magic, Emma gets to experience two different Christmases – one where she stays in the city and celebrates with a new crush and his friends, and one where she returns home for all the traditions with her family…and Drew, a longtime friend who may have feelings for her. Emma’s double holiday ultimately helps her discover what will truly make her happy in life as well as in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 758
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Country: USA
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Shelby is about to quit her job as a rocket engineer when her daughter becomes convinced that her Scrooge-like boss, Evan, is the Christmas Prince from a story Shelby invented years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Our Italian Christmas Memories (2022)
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The Colucci siblings, in an effort to jog the memory of their grandfather who is struggling with dementia, set out to recreate their late grandmother’s legendary pasta sauce.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
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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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Salted Christmas (2017)
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"Faith Filled Christmas" (formerly Salted Christmas), produced by Manifest Pictures, is a faith-based, comedy film centering around one family and their desire to replicate the example of Jesus as they celebrate the Christmas season. The entire film takes place on one Saturday in December prior to Christmas. The tagline of the film is "One family. One day. One purpose." The two main characters, Simon and Emily Fairway (both Caucasians), reside on the independent living side of a retirement community. On this particular Saturday, the retirement community administrator must be out for the entire day at business meetings. She delegates responsibility to her newly hired assistant. A friend of Simon's named Byron, a stir crazy resident, decides that this is his chance to stage an Olympic-style games for the residents of the community. Simon, who is supposed to accompany his wife to visit their children for the day, begs off of going with his wife and stays behind to stage the games in the.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 38
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: christian film
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The Christmas Wife (1988)
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The Christmas Wife is a made-for-cable television drama based on a story by Helen Norris. An aging and recent widower, not wanting to spend his first Christmas alone, responds to an ad in the newspaper which reads: "You are not alone. We make social arrangements of all kinds." When he visits the Social Arranger, he makes it very clear his only interest is in "social company" and is subsequently introduced to a woman who agrees to spend the holiday with him. The woman bids him to not ask any questions about her personal life, which harbors a secret that threatens their developing friendship, and could ultimately change both their lives.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 410
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 73 min
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Twas the Night Before Christmas (2022)
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A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true authorship of the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nick” is debated.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 806
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Long Lost Christmas (2022)
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Hayley is an interior designer who plans to surprise her recently widowed mother Patricia with the perfect holiday present: the extended family she knows her mom yearns for.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 955
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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The Gift of Peace (2022)
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Artist Traci is a once-devout Christian who has stopped believing in God after her husband tragically died despite her prayers. As her second Christmas without him approaches, she tries going to a support group for inspiration and comfort.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 761
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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