1970s Christmas Movies

21 movies found (page 1/1):

Scrooge(1970)

| 1h 53min | Fantasy, Drama, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 52 votes)

A musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic ghost tale starring Albert Finney.

Directed by Ronald Neame - With Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans, Kenneth More, Laurence Naismith, David Collings, ...

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The Silent Partner(1978)

| 1h 42min | Drama, Thriller

3.6/5 (with 53 votes)

Toronto, Canada. A few days before Christmas, Miles Cullen, a bored teller working at a bank branch located in a shopping mall, accidentally learns that the place is about to be robbed when he finds a disconcerting note on one of the counters.

Directed by Daryl Duke - With Elliott Gould, Christopher Plummer, Susannah York, John Candy, Ken Pogue

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Wake in Fright(1971)

| 1h 54min | Drama, Thriller

3.7/5 (with 127 votes)

After a bad gamble, a schoolteacher is stuck in an outback town whose eccentric inhabitants are only too eager to turn him into one of their own.

Directed by Ted Kotcheff - With Gary Bond, Donald Pleasence, Chips Rafferty, Jack Thompson, Peter Whittle, John Meillon, ...

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Whoever Slew Auntie Roo?(1972)

| 1h 31min | Horror, Thriller

3.3/5 (with 27 votes)

A demented widow lures unsuspecting children into her mansion in a bizarre "Hansel and Gretel" twist.

Directed by Curtis Harrington - With Shelley Winters, Mark Lester, Chloe Franks, Ralph Richardson, Lionel Jeffries, Hugh Griffith, ...

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The Small One(1978)

| 26min | Animation, Kids & Family

3.4/5 (with 32 votes)

Ordered by his father to sell his old, small donkey, Small One, a Hebrew boy in ancient Israel takes the donkey to the Jerusalem market. Finding no buyers there, the boy is about to give up when he meets a kind man named Joseph. Joseph buys Small One and uses him to take his pregnant wife Mary to Bethlehem.

Directed by Don Bluth

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Christopher's Christmas Mission(1975)

23min | Animation, Kids & Family, TV Movie

3.9/5 (with 21 votes)

"Christopher's Christmas Mission"- A tale about a boy who steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm, while working in a post office on Christmas Eve.

Directed by Per Åhlin

An American Christmas Carol(1979)

1h 38min | Drama, Kids & Family, TV Movie, Fantasy

3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas Eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized to collect on unpaid loans. Assuming the roles of the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Future from Charles Dickens' classic story, the three apparitions force Slade to face the consequences of his skinflint ways, and he becomes a caring, generous, amiable man.

Directed by Eric Till - With Henry Winkler, Dorian Harewood, Susan Hogan, Cec Linder, R. H. Thomson, David Wayne, ...

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A Christmas Carol(1971)

| 27min | Animation, Drama, Kids & Family

3.5/5 (with 17 votes)

Ebenezer Scrooge, a skinflint visited by the spirits of Christmas past, present and future one fateful Christmas Eve. It's up to them to help the old crab see the error of his ways. And they do, to the delight of Bob Cratchit and Tiny Tim.

Directed by Richard Williams

Santa and the Three Bears(1970)

| 46min | Animation, Kids & Family, Fantasy

2.5/5 (with 6 votes)

Two bear cubs want to meet Santa despite their mother telling them that Santa does not exist. With the help of the park ranger, their wish might come true!

Directed by Tony Benedict, Barry Mahon

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Nutcracker(1973)

27min | Animation, Music

3.5/5 (with 14 votes)

A young chambermaid finds a neglected nutcracker under a Christmas tree. It comes to life, but the Nutcracker is really an enchanted prince.

Directed by Boris Stepantsev

Mame(1974)

| 2h 12min | Comedy, Music

3.1/5 (with 12 votes)

Following the death of his father, an orphan is sent to live with his free-spirited aunt.

Directed by Gene Saks - With Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, Robert Preston, Bruce Davison, Jane Connell, Joyce Van Patten, ...

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Reisen til julestjernen(1976)

1h 32min | Fantasy, Kids & Family, Adventure

3.2/5 (with 9 votes)

Once upon a time a little girl went out to find the Christmas Star.

Directed by Ola Solum - With Hanne Krogh, Knut Risan, Alf Nordvang, Bente Børsum, Ingrid Larsen, Bjarne Andersen, ...

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Christmas Lilies of the Field(1979)

1h 40min | Drama, TV Movie

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

In this belated sequel to 'Lilies of the Field' (1963), jack-of-all-trades Homer Smith revisits the chapel in the Arizona desert that he helped build for five German nuns under the supervision of Mother Maria, and he reluctantly helps them out of a pinch once more.

Directed by Ralph Nelson - With Billy Dee Williams, Maria Schell

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The New Adventures of Heidi(1978)

| 1h 38min | Music, Kids & Family, Comedy, Drama, TV Movie

2.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.

Directed by Ralph Senensky - With Katy Kurtzman

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The Man in the Santa Claus Suit(1979)

1h 44min | Drama, TV Movie

3.5/5 (with 2 votes)

The mysterious owner of a costume shop rents a Santa Claus suit to three very different men: a math teacher trying to get the nerve to propose, a homeless restaurateur trying to hide from the mob, and a harried political speech writer visiting with his estranged wife and son. Their lives are inexorably changed by their experience of playing Santa Claus.

Directed by Corey Allen - With Fred Astaire

A Cosmic Christmas(1977)

26min | Animation, Science Fiction, Kids & Family, TV Movie

2.9/5 (with 2 votes)

Three aliens from an unknown planet, who bear a strong resemblance to the Biblical Magi, visit earth to know the true meaning of Christmas. Peter, a young boy, and Lucy, his goose, are the first to encounter them. Unable to find the true meaning of Christmas in town, Peter takes them to his family's house in the woods. While Peter's grandmother tells the aliens about her memories of Christmas, Marvin, one of the town's bullies, steals Lucy. In the chase to rescue Lucy, Marvin falls through the ice in a lake. Peter attempts to rescue him but falls into the lake as well. The townsfolk, who were out searching for the aliens, attempt to save the boys but their human chain isn't long enough to reach them. The three aliens, who had sworn not to interfere with events on earth, decide to help in order to learn the meaning of Christmas.

Directed by Clive A. Smith - With Martin Lavut

Miracle on 34th Street(1973)

1h 40min | Drama, Kids & Family, Fantasy, TV Movie

3.4/5 (with 6 votes)

A department store Santa tries to convince a little girl who doesn't believe in Santa Claus that he is Santa Claus, and winds up going on trial to prove who he is.

Directed by Fielder Cook - With Jane Alexander

Young Pioneers' Christmas(1976)

1h 30min | Western, TV Movie

2.8/5 (with 2 votes)

A young couple and their neighbours celebrate Christmas in 1874 on the Dakota prairie. Despite tragedy and an ongoing battle with the Railway company, Christmas is a homespun and overly sentimental affair.

Directed by Michael O'Herlihy - With Linda Purl

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny(1972)

| 1h 36min | Fantasy, Kids & Family

1.2/5 (with 7 votes)

Santa Claus finds his sleigh stuck in the sand on a Florida beach only days before Christmas Eve.

Directed by Barry Mahon

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Christmas Miracle in Caufield, U.S.A.(1977)

1h 37min | Drama, TV Movie

3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

Based on the true story of coal miners who became trapped underground in a cave-in on Christmas Eve, 1951.

Directed by Jud Taylor - With Kurt Russell, Melissa Gilbert

Escort Girls(1975)

1h 42min | Drama

1.8/5 (with 1 vote)

It s Christmas Eve in London, 1974 - and seven lonely people are on the town, looking to grab that elusive slice of enjoyment. So who better to contact than an escort agency- providing high-class ladies and gentlemen for anyone willing to pay the right price. But even in the saucy seventies, things weren t that easy- and our intrepid pleasure seekers have to face everything from inadequacy, rejection and catharsis to racism, violence and grand theft. Just goes to show how lonely a place the throbbing metropolis can be, especially during the holiday season...

Directed by Donovan Winter