Christmas Movies

A young widow is torn between a boring attorney and a romantic ne'er-do-well.

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

A recent widow meets an army major while skiing and becomes romantically involved with him despite pressures from friends and family.

The female editor of a crime magazine hires Phillip Marlowe to find the wife of her boss. The private detective soon finds himself involved in murder.

A debonair angel comes to Earth to help an Episcopalian bishop and his wife in their quest to raise money for the new church.

An insurance company investigator goes to a small town to probe into a case of supposed suicide. The natives are not very cooperative and some turn hostile, leading to suspicion of foul play.

At a big city Catholic school, Father O'Malley and Sister Benedict indulge in friendly rivalry, and succeed in extending the school through the gift of a building.

While a man was in prison, a little girl who is very close to him was told that he was traveling the world. What will happen if she discovers the truth?

A penniless drifter is recruited by an ambitious columnist to impersonate a non-existent person who said he'd be committing suicide as a protest, and a social movement begins.

An acerbic critic wreaks havoc when a hip injury forces him to move in with a Midwestern family.

Love blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday.

Three days before Christmas, newspaper reporter Barney Callahan regrets the drinking bout he went on the night before to celebrate his promotion to columnist. As Barney is lamenting not being able to get his first column in on time, his photographer, Snapper Doolan, assures Barney that he did write a column the night before while he was drunk. Barney's story details how he is the loneliest man in New York and is searching for the loneliest girl, with whom he would like to share an idyllic Christmas on an upstate farm. Barney is surprised by the response of his editor, J. B. Douglas, who thinks that the column is a winner and offers to let him use his own farm, complete with caretakers Mary and Ben Perkins, who will pose as Barney's aunt and uncle. Later that night at a "clip-joint," a nightclub in which hostesses persuade male customers to buy expensive drinks, hostess June White unhappily plies her trade while fending off the advances of the club's owner, Gus Brawley. June, who only works in the club to support her parents back home, reads Barney's column and dreams of spending an old-fashioned Christmas with him. June's roommate and co-worker Eunice warns June not to get any ideas about splitting with Brawley, as the last girl who did was killed. Brawley sends June back out on the floor, where she picks her next mark, the young and well-to-do Paul Randall. She steals Paul's wallet, and when he later complains, June witnesses Paul confront Brawley in Brawley's office. The club owner kills the youth and orders his henchman, Whitey Walker, to dispose of the body. The next morning, Whitey confides to June that he was driving all night, and June, anxious to get away, contacts Douglas about Barney's column. After Douglas chooses June, Barney meets her at the train station on the day before Christmas and they go to the farm. There they are greeted by the kindly Perkinses, and June blossoms under their care and Barney's solicitude. The next day, the couples open their presents, and after Barney goes to town to replace an ornament he has broken, June bakes a pie for him. While Barney is gone, however, Brawley arrives and orders June to return with him. Convinced that June has given the details of his organization to Barney, he tries to kill her. When frantic Barney finds her in the hospital soon after, he is disillusioned to find out that she is not the wholesome girl he believed she was. She agrees to testify against Brawley, but during the trial, changes her testimony and states that she knows nothing about Paul's murder. Barney is furious, although later she reveals that she perjured herself to get in good with Brawley so that she could discover where Whitey hid Paul's body. Following a clue provided by June, Barney and Snapper find the house in New Jersey where Whitey took the corpse and alert the police. Before the police arrive though, Brawley brings June to the house to kill her. Two elderly neighbors, Flora and Dora, help rescue June, and the police arrest Brawley. Later, with the past behind them and a bright future they can look forward to, June and Barney take the train to the farm to celebrate the new year.

Honest LA insurance detective Joe Peters becomes corrupt after falling in love with sensual gold-digger model Diane.

While recuperating from wartime back injuries at a hospital, veteran Bob Corey is visited on Christmas Eve by a beautiful stranger with an even stranger message.

An ex-hood hopes to start a new life under an assumed name in a small town but his past catches up with him when an old crime-buddy asks him to help with a casino heist.

On New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult than she anticipated.

A soldier suffering from combat fatigue meets a young woman on Christmas furlough from prison and their mutual loneliness blossoms into romance.

Riding in his private car on Christmas day, railroad tycoon Hatcher prefers work to celebrating, while his son Joe prefers having a good time. In the coach car, Joe sees pretty Clarabelle Brooks and is sincerely concerned when she faints. A doctor, who is also in the car, helps to revive Clarabelle, says that she is suffering from severe hunger and, with fellow passenger Blackie Swanson, passes the hat for her. Later, Clarabelle, who is secretly working with con-men Doc and Blackie, goes to their compartment to discuss plans to set Joe up for a breach of promise suit. When the train arrives in Los Angeles, Joe continues to see Clarabelle and gets her a job as a model in a swank dress shop. Mr. Hatcher is suspicious and wants Joe to spend time working instead of wining and dining Clarabelle, but Joe is in love and continues to see her. Meanwhile, Blackie starts to get jealous because he suspects that Clarabelle is falling for Joe. When Joe proposes, Clarabelle realizes she is in love and the two elope to Palm Springs. When Blackie finds out where she has gone, he and Doc follow her and, while Joe is out of their room, she tells them that she truly loves Joe and doesn't want him to know about her past. Though Blackie is hurt, he and Doc wish her well. When Joe and Clarabelle go to Hatcher, he is sweet to Clarabelle, but he says that he is cutting them off without a penny. Though Joe is upset, Clarabelle says she doesn't mind because she loves him. After Joe sells his polo ponies to finance their honeymoon, the two change their last name to "Smith" to avoid being bothered by reporters, and move to a rundown farm in Pennsylvania. They have difficulty with the farm, though, and Joe is unable to find work elsewhere. One day, the house burns down and they are forced to move into the barn. Their landlord, Mr. Baumgarden, is so delighted that the destroyed house will enable him to collect the insurance that he gets Joe a job in his factory, working under Lawrence Ambersham. Meanwhile, in New York, Doc and Blackie see a magazine article about Pennsylvania businessmen and Doc recognizes Ambersham as a former conman named Anderson. Doc and Blackie then go to Ambersham, and threaten him with exposure unless he gives them $20,000. Ambersham agrees, but, unknown to Doc and Blackie, arranges for Joe to work late that night and take the blame for his planned robbery. While Joe is alone at the office, thieves break in and rob the safe, then kidnap Joe, but when a guard starts to shoot, Joe is dropped from the car. When the police find Joe, they think he is one of the robbers and Ambersham gives false evidence to incriminate him. Three months later, on Christmas Eve, Doc, who has been working as a sidewalk Santa Claus, stops for a drink with Blackie and runs into Yegg, one of the hold-up men. Yegg has been in the hospital the whole time and tells Blackie that he buried the robbery money in a barn back in Pennsylvania. The three men then drive to the barn, where they find a very ill Clarabelle lying alone inside the barn. Doc tells Yegg and Blackie to wait outside while he attends to Clarabelle and then helps her give birth to a baby. Later, Blackie, who still loves her, helps take her to the hospital and tells her not to worry about Joe. He then goes to Mr. Baumgarden, gives him the money and tells him that Joe is innocent. He also reveals that Joe is Hatcher's son. As Doc, Blackie and Yegg leave town, Doc wonders what the name of the town is, not knowing that it is "Bethlehem." Next Christmas, the entire Hatcher family is riding in a private train compartment and as Joe happily works, his father and Clarabelle play with the baby.

An eccentric wealthy family facing bankruptcy schemes to steal an inheritance, but an alcoholic ex-actor they take in for Christmas charity complicates their plan.

When the brother of a UAW union leader in Detroit is killed during a bombing, the union leader in question suspects that the perpetrator is a racketeer who is aiming to gain control of the UAW.