Celebrity Watchlists
Find out which of the Christmas classics the stars are watching — and where to find them for yourself
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1946
Fantasy
Drama
U
Frank Capra's classic fantasy drama, starring James Stewart, Donna Reed and Lionel Barrymore. George Bailey is a small-town businessman who believes he has been a failure. Contemplating suicide, George meets his guardian angel and discovers what life in his home town of Bedford Falls would have been like had he never lived.
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2003
Comedy
Fantasy
PG
Seasonal comedy fantasy starring Will Ferrell and James Caan. Raised by Santa's helpers at the North Pole, human infant Buddy matures into a strapping adult and outgrows his cramped surroundings. His resultant determination to find his real father, Walter, sends Buddy on an exciting trip to New York.
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1982
Children's
Animation
PG
Raymond Briggs' festive favourite, a wordless animated fantasy telling the story of a small boy whose snowman magically comes to life and whisks him off on the journey of a lifetime to the North Pole. Howard Blake's score includes the award-winning song Walking in the Air, which was taken to number five in the charts by a young Aled Jones, but is here sung by Peter Auty
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Wallace & Gromit: The Wrong Trousers
1993
Animation
Comedy
U
Nick Park's Oscar-winning animation featuring the bumbling inventor and his faithful dog, whose lives are turned upside down after foolishly offering board and lodgings to villainous penguin Feathers McGraw. With the voice of Peter Sallis
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Blackadder | Blackadder's Christmas Carol
1988
Comedy
Sitcom
It is Christmas Eve 1850, and the kindly Ebenezer Blackadder spends the festive season being taken advantage of by his relatives, his neighbours and even Queen Victoria. When he is visited by the Spirit of Christmas, he gains an insight into the dastardly deeds of his ancestors, and starts to wonder if he would be better off following in their footsteps. Comic reversal of the classic Dickens tale, starring Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Stephen Fry, Hugh Laurie, Robbie Coltrane and Miranda Richardson
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2003
Comedy
Romance
15
Ensemble romantic comedy featuring Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley and Bill Nighy. In London, during the weeks leading up to Christmas, people from various walks of life - among them adult film performers, a washed-up rock star and the British Prime Minister - suffer the emotional highs and lows of being in love.
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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
1992
Comedy
Family
PG
Sequel to the hit comedy, starring Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci and Daniel Stern. After becoming separated from his family en route to a Christmas holiday in Florida, Kevin McCallister finds himself alone in New York, where he's destined to meet two old enemies.
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1948
Drama
Romance
PG
Classic dance drama starring Anton Walbrook, Moira Shearer and Marius Goring. Ballet impresario Boris Lermontov enlists promising dancer Victoria Page and young composer Julian Craster in his company. But when the couple fall in love, Lermontov decides that romance will not interfere with their careers.
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1940
Mystery
Romance
PG
Classic romantic thriller, based on Daphne du Maurier's novel, starring Laurence Olivier and Joan Fontaine. Wealthy Maxim de Winter returns from Monte Carlo to his family estate in Cornwall, accompanied by his young bride. But the new Mrs de Winter soon finds herself overwhelmed by reminders of her husband's beautiful first wife, Rebecca, who died in mysterious circumstances.
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2005
Sci-fi
Adventure
PG
Sci-fi drama about the adventures of an eccentric extraterrestrial Time Lord and his time-travelling companions as they battle injustice across the universe, travelling via his Tardis.
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2004
Animation
Family
PG
Seasonal animated fantasy featuring Tom Hanks. On Christmas Eve, a young boy lies in bed pondering if Santa Claus really exists. Startled by a thunderous sound, he goes outside to discover a magical train destined for the North Pole. As he cautiously climbs on board, he begins an amazing journey that changes his view of the festive season for ever.
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1983
Comedy
Family
PG
Comedy starring Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin and Peter Billingsley Suburban America in the 1940s: nine-year-old Ralphie is coping with life, classmates, bullies, teachers and parents, but his mind is really set on a major Christmas present.
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1969
Comedy
PG
Comedy starring Sidney James, Kenneth Williams and Joan Sims. When Sid Boggle and Bernie Lugg decide to take their girlfriends on a holiday to Paradise Camp, they think they're off to a nudist colony - but they couldn't be more wrong.
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2007
Romance
Sitcom
15
Sitcom about an Essex boy, Gavin Shipman (Mathew Horne), who falls in love with a Welsh girl, Stacey West (Joanna Page), and follows the key milestones in their lives.
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1992
Comedy
Family
U
Comedy fantasy. The inimitable puppets are joined by Michael Caine for their own special interpretation of the classic Dickens Christmas tale, in which miserly Scrooge is visited by ghosts to help him mend his selfish ways.
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1968
Adventure
Family
U
Musical fantasy starring Dick Van Dyke. An inventor restores a clapped-out racing car with the help of his eccentric father and two children. They christen it Chitty Chitty Bang Bang and, much to their surprise, the vehicle turns out to have magical powers.
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