cinemadiso's - Ultimate Christmas Time List

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Based on the children's book of the same name by the best selling Dr Seuss, narrated by boris Karloff and animated by cartoon legend, Chuck Jones, this is an award-winning classic.

The Grinch is the crankiest, grumpiest, meanest creature since Mr Scrooge! He lives in a cave on the side of a mountain, over looking the town of who-ville. Christmas is fast approaching and the noisy holiday preparations and infernal singing of the happy town-folk annoy the Grinch no end. He decides this merriment must stop! However his cunning plan to wipe out Christmas in Who-ville by stealing all the presents, backfires and the miserable old Grinch actually discovers that "Maybe Christmas doesn't come from a store...

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Buddy (Will Ferrell) is different from all of Santa's other elves. For one thing, he's "a cotton-headed ninny muggins" when it comes to making toys. For another, he's 6'3".

And the real clincher: he's human! So one special December, Buddy sets off on a holiday adventure to New York City in quest of his real dad. How Buddy finds his father (James Caan) and the meaning of Christmas is a joyous, jaunty, sweet-as-a-candy-cane gift for everyone who loves bright contemporary comedy - and timeless all-family classics.

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Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) has become the man of the house, overnight! Accidentally left behind when his family rushes off on a Christmas vacation, Kevin gets busy decorating the house for the holidays. But he's not decking the halls with tinsel and holly.

Two bumbling burglars are trying to break in, and Kevin's rigging a bewildering battery of booby traps to welcome them!

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George Bailey (James Stewart) has spent his entire life in the small town of Bedford Falls.

Despite his yearning to see the world, George has always sacrificed his personal ambitions for the sake of his family and the local community, settling down to marry his childhood sweetheart, Mary (Donna Reed), and raise a family. However, when a huge amount of money goes missing from the savings and loans company he panics and finds himself preparing to commit suicide. However, he is shown the error of this idea by Clarence (Henry Travers), an angel who has been sent to Earth in order to earn his wings. To this end, Clarence shows George just how badly Bedford Falls and its residents would have turned out had he never been born.

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This holiday season Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) vows his clan will enjoy 'the most fun-filled family Christmas ever'. Before you can sing 'Fa-la-la-la-lah', he decks the halls with howls of folly in there perennial favourite National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Seeing is believing.

There are 25,000 lights on the roof. An exploding turkey on the dining room table. A SWAT team taking siege outside. A festive supporting cast (including Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Juliette Lewis, William Hickey and more). And a John Hughes script full of wit, heart and sheer goofiness. Yule love it!

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Rudolph is a reindeer who is ridiculed because of his bright red nose. He runs away to the North Pole, where he is befriended by Slyly the Fox (voiced by Eric Idle) and Leonard the polar bear (Bob Newhart).

However, when young doe Zoey is kidnapped by evil ice queen Stormella (Whoopi Goldberg), Rudolph teams up with Santa (John Goodman) to come to her rescue.

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In this new holiday 'miracle', based on the famous 1947 film classic, a little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus.

Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all something to believe in.

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The Christmas spirit isn't served up with more heartfelt warmth or observant hilarity than it is beloved adaptation of Jean Shepherd's holiday story. In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle.

But when gruff dad (Darren McGavin) and doting mom (Melinda Dillon) regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale, hint-dropping, Santa-begging campaign. He also endures all kinds of childhood calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.

Do you remember when... Karen placed a top hat on Frosty's head, and he magically came to life on Christmas Eve? Share the magic of this Original Christmas Classic told and sung by Jimmy Durante! Also featuring Frosty Returns.

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Rooftop clatter leads to merry adventure after Santa falls down on the job, and Scott Calvin's son Charlie (Eric Lloyd) convinces dad to try on the red suit.

Eight reindeer pilot the pair to the North Pole, where they soon discover that by donning the famous suit, dad must now accept all of Santa's duties! Over the next year, a surprised, not-so-jolly Scott (Tim Allen) grows a Santa-sized tummy and beard, causing friends, family and business associates to wonder if he's lost his marbles. All except Charlie, who thinks his dad is perfectly suited for his new job.

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Two talented song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up after the war to become one of the hottest acts in show business. One winter, they join forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen) and trek to Vermont for a white Christmas.

Of course, there's the requisite fun with the ladies, but the real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. And the result is the stuff dreams are made of.

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Christmas elicits nothing more than "Bah, Humbug!" from Ebenezer Scrooge (George C. Scott), a miser whose sole pursuit of financial success has left him a bitter and lonely old man.

But a Christmas Eve visit from the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future ultimately teaches him to open his heart to the spirit of Christmas and to the joys of friends and family.

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Bing Crosby plays Jim Hardy, a song and dance man who leaves showbiz to open a Connecticut Inn. Fred Astaire plays Ted Hanover, Hardy's former partner and rival in love.

And, of course there are girls (Marjorie Reynolds and Virginia Dale), an agent (Walter Abel) and plenty of lavish song and dance routines with spectacular production numbers.

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This is the season for love, laughter, and one of the most cherished stories of all time! Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the hilarious Muppets in this merry, magical version of Charles Dickens' classic tale.

Academy Award winner Michael Caine gives a performance that's anything but "Bah humbug" as greedy, penny-pinching Ebeneezer Scrooge. One fateful Christmas Eve, Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future. Together with kind, humble Bob Cratchit (Kermit the Frog) and his family, the Spirits open Scrooge's eyes - and his heart - to the true meaning of Christmas.

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High-spirited high jinks on Christmas Eve put Frank Cross (Bill Murray) in a ghostly time warp in this hilarious take-off of Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol".

Cross, who has made the meteoric rise from the depths of the mailroom to TV network president, is mean, nasty, uncaring, unforgiving and has a sadistic sense of humour - perfect qualities for a modern-day Scrooge. Before the night is over, he'll be visited by a maniacal New York cab driver from the past, a present-day fairy who's into pratfalls and, finally, a ghoulish, seven-foot headless messenger from the future...