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Christmas films for every mood

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• Christmas action filmsExplosions, chases and at least one person in a Santa hat. Yippee-ki-yay.
• Christmas horrorSlay bells ring. For when the tinsel needs a bit of terror.
• Christmas films for little onesGentle, cheerful and safe for small people (and the grown-ups who end up watching too).
• Animated Christmas filmsHand-drawn, stop-motion and computer-made. Some of the best Christmas films ever are cartoons.
• Christmas romcomsSnowed-in strangers, fake fiancés and a kiss under the mistletoe in the final ten minutes.
• Cosy made-for-TV Christmas filmsSmall towns, big jumpers, a bakery under threat. Pure comfort, and there are hundreds of them.
• Classic Christmas filmsThe ones your grandparents watched, and still the ones to beat.
• Nineties Christmas nostalgiaBurglars, toy shortages and Macaulay Culkin. The decade that gave us half the Christmas canon.
• Christmas films under 90 minutesFor school nights, short attention spans and anyone who needs to be asleep before midnight.
• New Christmas films for 1970The freshest Christmas films, from the last year or so. Get rating, so we know which ones are worth it.