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Christmas Crackers
Festive film favourites to take you through the holiday season.
A selection of Christmas-themed cinematic treats, ranging from the obvious (Scrooge) to others less regularly recognised as traditional Yuletide fare (Carol).
Carol Carol
Drama 2015 119 mins Director: Todd Haynes
Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara illuminate Todd Haynes’ intoxicating adaptation of Patricia Highsmith’s beloved novel.
Comfort and Joy Comfort and Joy
Comedy 1984 104 mins Director: Bill Forsyth
Director Bill Forsyth followed the enormously successful Local Hero with this bittersweet comedy about a radio DJ who becomes embroiled in a turf war between rival ice cream vendors.
Scrooge Scrooge
Fantasy 1951 87 mins Director: Brian Desmond Hurst
Alastair Sim’s best known performance, as Dickens’ notorious curmudgeon Ebenezer Scrooge.
Dead of Night Dead of Night
Horror 1945 99 mins Director: Alberto Cavalcanti, Charles Crichton, Basil Dearden and Robert Hamer
A group of guests assembled at a country house swap uncanny and supernatural stories in this classic Ealing chiller from 1945.
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Drama 2011 8 mins Director: Douglas Hart
Our parents always told us 'never talk to strangers'. But, surely, we all have to phone home sometimes? Award-winning short film starring Peter Mullan.
Anthony Anthony
Comedy 2013 15 mins Director: J. van Tulleken
Tim Key stars stars as a surly and self-centred Santa in this pitch-black Christmas comedy.
Great Expectations Great Expectations
Period drama 1947 118 mins Director: David Lean
The first of David Lean’s two Dickens adaptations is one of the finest British literary interpretations and one of the most acclaimed of all British films.
Film: Gremlins
Gremlins Gremlins
Comedy 1984 106 mins Director: Joe Dante
One Christmas, Billy and his cute friend Gizmo try to save themselves and their whole town when diabolical creatures take over.
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