THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1951)

 

Alastair Sim stars as miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this quality retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit him, revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of 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.

The Spirits are played by Michael Dolan (Past), Francis De Wolff (Present) and Czeslaw Konarski (Future)

The other key characters and portrayed by Michael Hordern (Marley), Eleanor Summerfield (Flora), Mervyn Johns and Hermione Baddeley (The Cratchit’s), Glyn Dearman (Tiny Tim), Roddy Hughes and Hattie Jacques (The Fezziwig’s), Brian Worth (Fred) and Carol Marsh (Fan).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE NIGHT THEY SAVED CHRISTMAS

An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil and they needed to blast through the bedrock at the first site and the shocks were so strong that they rocked Santa’s village.

Santa (Art Carney) realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home so he enlists the aid of Claudia Baldwin (Jaclyn Smith), whose husband Michael (Paul Le Mat) works for the company, so that she and her children can convince her husband that the first site is where the oil that they are searching for is.

Along the way, Santa explains all his secrets about delivering presents all around the world.

June Lockhart stars as Mrs. Claus, Paul Williams as Ed the Elf and Mason Adams is the suborn old boss Sumner Murdock in this Christmas movie that is so bad its good. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ONE CHRISTMAS EVE

 

Recently divorced mom Nell Blakemore (Anne Heche) attempts to make the first Christmas “without dad” perfect for her two kids' Alden (Griffin Kane) and Emma (Ali Skovbye).

But a series of mishaps threaten that desire in a funny, charming, warm hearted movie about a group of diverse people who form a family on a crazy “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” style Christmas Eve where everything that can go wrong, does.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1966)

 

“The Christmas Tree” is A Children's Film Foundation Christmas-themed short film, in which a trio of kids Gary (William Burleigh), Jane (Kate Nicholls) and Sam (Anthony Honour) decide to embark on an epic odyssey to transport a large Christmas tree some 30 miles to a children's hospital in London and get into a variety of scrapes along the way.

It is filmed in black and white which adds to the atmosphere and is well photographed, there is plenty of humour to keep things moving along and the cast includes Brian Blessed and Geoffrey Whitehead as policemen. All in all a very enjoyable little film.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ANGEL (2011)

 

Fifteen year old Eddie's mother (Janet Dibley) falls very ill after a serious car accident so Eddie (Joseph Phillips) and his brother Stewart (Angus Harrison) end up having to take care of themselves and one night when they have run out of food and the electricity has gone off, Eddie dreams that his mother asks him to find an angel's halo so that she can be saved.

Neither Brenda Blethyn as the Headmistress, Celia Imrie as the Librarian, Timothy Spall as Mr. Lambert or Mel Smith as Eddies Uncle Richard help him in his endeavour so will Eddie be able to save his mother in time for Christmas?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS (2015)

 

Emotionally frigid, workaholic attorney Kate Jordan (Jen Lilley) reluctantly accepts an end-of-the-year assignment to get a reputedly haunted inn and has three weeks to get it appraised and sold by year's end.

When she gets there the uncooperative manager claims a spirit who lives there will not approve, but with Kate's possible promotion resting on accomplishing this task, she checks in and as a result she meets Daniel (Thomas Beaudoin) the resident ghost who she thinks looks suspiciously solid for a ghost.

Then he explains that for the past ninety-five years, he inexplicably returns to life each December during the twelve days of Christmas.

Kate has only one logical recourse left open to her for their mutual benefit, and that is to break the curse that binds him to the Inn, but she starts falling for the man who is almost a century her senior which was very much not in her plans, but then it is Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BORROWED HEARTS

 

Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) is a hard-working single mother, who is saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoey (Sarah Rosen Fruitman).

Whereas Sam Field (Eric McCormack) is a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo (Hector Elizondo).

Sam owns the company that Kathleen works for, and as her boss, manages to convince her to help him out by posing as his wife, for a price, which she thought would help her to buy the house.

But Del Campo is more than he seems, and it just might be Zoey who's making the real deal to get a new home for herself, her mother, and Sam.