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32 films tagged holiday
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2025 · Drama
Two weeks before Christmas an elderly woman collapses at home, and her husband and four grown children gather at the hospital and the house. Family arguing, in rooms, for most of it.
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2025 · Horror
A killer who hunts couples every Valentine's Day mistakes two coworkers at a work dinner for a date. Half romantic comedy, half slasher, and it keeps swapping between the two.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2023 · Comedy
Two people whose first date ended badly turn up at the same wedding in Sydney and agree to fake being a couple to get everyone off their backs. Sunny, loud, and light all the way through.
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2025 · Comedy
An American executive flies to Paris to buy a famous champagne house before Christmas, and spends her one night off with a local charmer who turns out to be the owner's son. A Christmas romance built around a deal.
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2025 · Musical
The Jonas Brothers finish a European tour wanting to get home for Christmas, and Santa Claus curses them so they cannot until they sort out their differences. Songs, cameos and a long way round.
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2025 · Comedy
A couple who have agreed to divorce spend one last Christmas at home with their two kids, and then he brings his new girlfriend along. A Christmas comedy that keeps the whole family in one house.
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2025 · Comedy
A London shop worker stealing to pay for her mother's treatment is filmed by the man who installed the store's security system, and he wants a partner for a Christmas robbery. Light, with snow on it.
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2025 · Animation
A feature-length Christmas special for the Nickelodeon cartoon series, with the whole Loud family, the McBrides and the Casagrandes celebrating together. Santa Claus and Krampus both turn up.
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2025 · Comedy
A conductor works his last run from Kyiv to Lviv on New Year's Eve, and the carriage fills with a runaway bride, a furious accountant and other passengers carrying problems. Light, and all of it on the one overnight train.
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2025 · Comedy
A year into the pandemic, a class of Spanish school leavers finally get their trip to Mallorca, and a new outbreak confines them to their hotel rooms. They throw the party anyway.
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2013 · Romance
Nine years on, Jesse and Celine are together with twin daughters and spending the last day of a summer in Greece. It is nearly all the two of them talking, in takes that run for many minutes at a time.
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2025 · Comedy
A Texas mother spends all year planning the perfect family Christmas, and her husband, three grown children and their partners take every bit of it for granted. Broad, busy holiday comedy with a big cast.
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2025 · Comedy
A former hitman now running a security firm takes the family to London for Christmas, where a job turns out to be a setup by a half-brother he did not know he had. Chases and family bickering.
Sits near the middle on every axis.
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2025 · Comedy
A single mother loses her job before Christmas and disguises herself as an old man to get hired as Santa at a ski resort, where the owner's son starts to suspect her. Light and warm, all of it over the holidays.
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2025 · Comedy
A Hollywood action star, typecast and out of work, flies to England expecting the West End and is cast as Buttons in a small-town panto of Cinderella. It is a Christmas comedy, and most of it is him stuck in a village theatre.
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2017 · Romance
A seventeen-year-old spends the summer at his family's house in northern Italy, where his father's new research assistant comes to stay for six weeks. Long hot days, and nothing happens quickly.
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2026 · Comedy
A travel writer uses a wedding in Barcelona as an excuse to call the best friend she has not spoken to in two years. It cuts between that week and the ten summers they spent on holiday together.
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2026 · Drama
After a tragedy, a mother, her daughter and a teenage boy take the family holiday in Tenerife that never happened, working through blame and forgiveness. Past and present start to overlap.
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2026 · Comedy
A rich American industrialist takes his estranged daughter to Paris and the trip comes apart over French food, an old horror film and a hotel worker who will not leave them alone. Absurd, and short.
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2014 · Drama
A Swedish family are having lunch on a ski resort terrace when an avalanche comes at them, and they spend the rest of the holiday arguing about those few seconds. Uncomfortable to watch, and mostly one hotel.
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1988 · Action
A New York cop visiting his wife's office Christmas party in a Los Angeles tower is the only one out of the room when armed men take it over. He spends the night barefoot in the building's guts.
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2019 · Animation
A spoiled postman is posted to a frozen island where the two halves of town have feuded for generations, and finds a woodsman with a cabin full of toys. Hand-drawn, funny, and made for children.
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2008 · Crime
Two Irish hitmen are sent to a picture-postcard Belgian town to lie low after a job, and one of them is bored out of his mind. They wait for a phone call.
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2021 · Drama
Three days at Christmas 1991 with Princess Diana at the royal family's country estate, weighed down by schedules, meals and being watched. It stays close to her throughout and moves slowly; more mood than story.
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2023 · Comedy
A disliked teacher at a New England boarding school is stuck minding the boy nobody collected for Christmas 1970, along with the cook who has just lost her son. Slow, snowy, and mostly the three of them.
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2021 · Drama
A university professor on a working holiday on a Greek island becomes fixated on a young mother and her daughter staying at the same beach. It cuts between now and her own years with small children.
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2023 · Comedy
The staff of a shabby theatre camp in upstate New York try to keep the place open for one more summer while putting on an original musical. Shot like a documentary, and mostly improvised jokes.
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1990 · Family
A boy left behind when his family flies to Paris for Christmas defends the house against two burglars. The last half hour is traps.
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2003 · Comedy
Nine loosely linked London stories run through the five weeks before Christmas. Some of them are funny and some of them are not meant to be.
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1993 · Animation
The pumpkin king of Halloween Town gets bored, finds Christmas Town, and decides to run it himself this year. Stop-motion, songs, seventy-six minutes.
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2022 · Drama
An eleven-year-old girl and her young dad spend a week at a cheap Turkish resort, filming each other on a camcorder by the pool. Very little is said out loud; it is small moments and long silences.
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2003 · Animation
Three homeless people in Tokyo find an abandoned baby on Christmas Eve and set out to return her. Coincidence piled on coincidence, on purpose.
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