Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "december"

1. Pearl Harbor (2001)

PG-13 | 183 min | Action, Drama, Romance

A tale of war and romance mixed in with history. The story follows two lifelong friends and a beautiful nurse who are caught up in the horror of an infamous Sunday morning in 1941.

Director: Michael Bay | Stars: Ben Affleck, Kate Beckinsale, Josh Hartnett, William Lee Scott

Votes: 352,375 | Gross: $198.54M

2. Psycho (1960)

R | 109 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

A Phoenix secretary embezzles $40,000 from her employer's client, goes on the run and checks into a remote motel run by a young man under the domination of his mother.

Director: Alfred Hitchcock | Stars: Anthony Perkins, Janet Leigh, Vera Miles, John Gavin

Votes: 719,593 | Gross: $32.00M

3. The Outfit (2022)

R | 105 min | Crime, Drama, Mystery

An expert cutter must outwit a dangerous group of mobsters in order to survive a fateful night.

Director: Graham Moore | Stars: Mark Rylance, Zoey Deutch, John Gumley-Mason, Stephen Knox

Votes: 70,129

4. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

PG | 76 min | Animation, Family, Fantasy

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.

Director: Henry Selick | Stars: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara, William Hickey

Votes: 375,662 | Gross: $75.08M

5. Violent Night (2022)

R | 112 min | Action, Comedy, Thriller

An elite team of mercenaries breaks into a family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone hostage. However, they aren't prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint.

Director: Tommy Wirkola | Stars: David Harbour, John Leguizamo, Beverly D'Angelo, Alex Hassell

Votes: 99,354 | Gross: $50.06M

6. Christmas Vacation (1989)

PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy

The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki

Votes: 220,333 | Gross: $71.32M

7. The Box (I) (2009)

PG-13 | 115 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

With the press of a button, a wooden box bestows riches and death.

Director: Richard Kelly | Stars: Cameron Diaz, James Marsden, Frank Langella, James Rebhorn

Votes: 95,421 | Gross: $15.05M

8. Barton Fink (1991)

R | 116 min | Comedy, Drama, Thriller

A renowned New York playwright is enticed to California to write for the movies and discovers the hellish truth of Hollywood.

Directors: Joel Coen, Ethan Coen | Stars: John Turturro, John Goodman, Judy Davis, Michael Lerner

Votes: 129,090 | Gross: $6.15M

9. The Grinch (2018)

PG | 85 min | Animation, Comedy, Drama

A grumpy Grinch plots to ruin Christmas for the village of Whoville.

Directors: Yarrow Cheney, Scott Mosier | Stars: Benedict Cumberbatch, Cameron Seely, Rashida Jones, Pharrell Williams

Votes: 91,294 | Gross: $270.62M

10. Black Christmas (1974)

R | 98 min | Horror, Mystery, Thriller

During their Christmas break, a group of sorority girls are stalked by a stranger.

Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Margot Kidder, John Saxon

Votes: 48,426 | Gross: $4.05M

11. A Christmas Carol (2009)

PG | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.

Director: Robert Zemeckis | Stars: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth, Steve Valentine

Votes: 129,677 | Gross: $137.86M

12. Young Sherlock Holmes (1985)

PG-13 | 109 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

When assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.

Director: Barry Levinson | Stars: Nicholas Rowe, Alan Cox, Sophie Ward, Anthony Higgins

Votes: 23,427 | Gross: $19.74M

13. Queen of the Desert (2015)

PG-13 | 128 min | Adventure, Biography, Drama

A chronicle of Gertrude Bell's life, a traveler, writer, archaeologist, explorer, cartographer, and political attaché for the British Empire at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Nicole Kidman, James Franco, Robert Pattinson, Damian Lewis

Votes: 12,599

14. A Midnight Clear (1992)

R | 108 min | Drama, War

The Ardennes Forest, December 1944. A squad of six US infantrymen is sent to occupy a house to use as an observation post as the German Army is expected to advance through that area. However, the Germans seem oddly friendly.

Director: Keith Gordon | Stars: Peter Berg, Kevin Dillon, Arye Gross, Ethan Hawke

Votes: 9,808 | Gross: $1.53M

15. How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966 TV Movie)

Not Rated | 26 min | Animation, Comedy, Family

A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.

Directors: Chuck Jones, Ben Washam | Stars: Boris Karloff, June Foray, Dal McKennon

Votes: 59,102

16. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964 TV Movie)

TV-G | 47 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy

A young reindeer Rudolph lives at the North Pole. His father is one of Santa's reindeer and it is expected that Rudolph will eventually be one too. However, he has a feature which is a setback and causes him to be ostracized: his red nose.

Director: Larry Roemer | Stars: Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, Larry D. Mann, Paul Soles

Votes: 37,515

17. The Legend of Hell House (1973)

PG | 95 min | Horror

A physicist, his wife and two mediums are hired to investigate the Belasco House, where 27 guests had inexplicably died in 1927, along with most of a team of paranormal investigators that was sent in the early 1950s.

Director: John Hough | Stars: Roddy McDowall, Gayle Hunnicutt, Pamela Franklin, Clive Revill

Votes: 14,053

18. Joyeux Noel (2005)

PG-13 | 116 min | Drama, History, Music

In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.

Director: Christian Carion | Stars: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet, Natalie Dessay

Votes: 32,025 | Gross: $1.05M

19. Deck the Halls (2006)

PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family

Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.

Director: John Whitesell | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito, Kristin Chenoweth, Kristin Davis

Votes: 33,192 | Gross: $35.09M

20. People Will Talk (1951)

Approved | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

Dr. Noah Praetorius falls in love with Deborah, a student who discovers that she is pregnant by her old boyfriend.

Director: Joseph L. Mankiewicz | Stars: Cary Grant, Jeanne Crain, Finlay Currie, Hume Cronyn

Votes: 7,113

21. Those People (2015)

Not Rated | 89 min | Drama, Romance

On Manhattan's gilded Upper East Side, a young gay painter is torn between an obsession with his infamous socialite best friend and a promising new romance with an older foreign concert pianist.

Director: Joey Kuhn | Stars: Jonathan Gordon, Jason Ralph, Haaz Sleiman, Britt Lower

Votes: 6,637

22. The Disappearance of Haruhi Suzumiya (2010)

Not Rated | 162 min | Animation, Drama, Family

A week before Christmas, Kyon wakes up in a world where the SOS Brigade doesn't exist. Mikuru and Yuki don't recognize him, and Haruhi and Itsuki seem to have vanished.

Directors: Noriyuki Kitanohara, Kazuya Sakamoto, Noriko Takao, Yasuhiro Takemoto, Hiroko Utsumi, Naoko Yamada, Mitsuyoshi Yoneda, Tatsuya Ishihara | Stars: Aya Hirano, Tomokazu Sugita, Minori Chihara, Yûko Gotô

Votes: 8,028

23. Brief Interviews with Hideous Men (2009)

Not Rated | 80 min | Comedy, Drama

A graduate student (Nicholson) copes with a recent breakup by conducting interviews with various men.

Director: John Krasinski | Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Ben Shenkman, Timothy Hutton, Michael Cerveris

Votes: 3,662 | Gross: $0.03M

24. Good Neighbours (2010)

R | 99 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Victor is new to Montreal and attempts to make friends with the wheelchair-bound Spencer and the cat-loving Louise, but everybody is on edge with a serial killer terrorizing the neighborhood.

Director: Jacob Tierney | Stars: Jay Baruchel, Anne-Marie Cadieux, Diane D'Aquila, Xavier Dolan

Votes: 6,032 | Gross: $0.01M

25. Yakuza 0 (2015 Video Game)

M | Action, Crime, Drama

Kiryu and Majima, both Yakuza's who are in different cities in Japan in 1988, as the fate of the two characters become intertwined in a gritty, violent, and often touching narrative.

Directors: Kazuki Hosokawa, Toshihiro Nagoshi | Stars: Takaya Kuroda, Hidenari Ugaki, Kazuhiro Nakaya, Miyuki Sawashiro

Votes: 2,097

26. Christmas Evil (1980)

R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller

A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.

Director: Lewis Jackson | Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick

Votes: 8,579

27. 12/12/12 (2012)

R | 86 min | Horror

When baby Sebastian is born on 12/12/12 everyone around him starts to die. Pretty soon, his mother realizes that her son is the spawn of Hell.

Director: Jared Cohn | Stars: Sara Malakul Lane, Rubén Guevara, Steve Hanks, Carl Donelson

Votes: 1,692

28. Transmutators (2007)

110 min | Action, Fantasy, Sci-Fi

An ex-military colonel and his fellow survivors must stand a chance against the alien race called Balangs who conquered their entire world.

Director: Mark A. Reyes | Stars: Ramon 'Bong' Revilla Jr., Dingdong Dantes, Jennylyn Mercado, Michelle Madrigal

Votes: 376

29. Ghost Keeper (1981)

R | 89 min | Drama, Horror, Thriller

Three friends on a New Year's Eve snowmobiling excursion find themselves stranded at an abandoned lodge where the elderly female innkeeper is concealing a sinister secret.

Director: Jim Makichuk | Stars: Riva Spier, Murray Ord, Sheri McFadden, Georgie Collins

Votes: 1,277

30. Groundhog Day for a Black Man (2016 Video)

4 min | Short

When a black man lives the same day over and over again, he tries to change his behavior in order to survive a police interaction.

Director: Cynthia Kao | Stars: Matt Cordova, Celia Finkelstein, Marshall Givens, Burl Moseley

Votes: 307

31. The Assault (2010)

R | 91 min | Action, History, Thriller

Based on a true story, a SWAT team is tasked with storming a hijacked Air France plane to save its passengers.

Director: Julien Leclercq | Stars: Vincent Elbaz, Grégori Derangère, Mélanie Bernier, Philippe Bas

Votes: 4,150

32. The Book of Life (1998)

Not Rated | 63 min | Comedy, Fantasy

The end of the millenium has taken on a certain significance in modern day prophecies. What happens if Jesus Christ has second thoughts about the Apocalypse? It is December 31, 1999 and New... See full summary »

Director: Hal Hartley | Stars: Martin Donovan, PJ Harvey, Dave Simonds, Thomas Jay Ryan

Votes: 2,121

33. The Ogre of Athens (1956)

103 min | Crime, Drama

A peaceful, frightened little man is mistakenly identified as "the dragon", a notorious criminal at large. He briefly and reluctantly rules the underworld until they realize their mistake.

Director: Nikos Koundouros | Stars: Dinos Iliopoulos, Margarita Papageorgiou, Giannis Argyris, Thanasis Vengos

Votes: 2,202

34. Sophie and the Rising Sun (2016)

R | 105 min | Drama

Autumn of 1941 in Salty Creek, a fishing village in South Carolina, two interracial lovers are swept up in the tides of history.

Director: Maggie Greenwald | Stars: Julianne Nicholson, Takashi Yamaguchi, Margo Martindale, Diane Ladd

Votes: 1,475 | Gross: $0.03M

35. A Boy Ten Feet Tall (1963)

G | 118 min | Adventure

Ten year old Sammy travels 4500 miles on his own from the Suez Canal to Durban, South Africa.

Director: Alexander Mackendrick | Stars: Edward G. Robinson, Fergus McClelland, Constance Cummings, Harry H. Corbett

Votes: 650

36. Why the Nativity? (2022)

85 min | Documentary, Drama, Family

Drawing from both the Old and New Testaments, noted pastor, author, and theologian Dr. David Jeremiah provides answers to the most thought-provoking questions surrounding the most pivotal moment in human history-the birth of Jesus Christ.

Director: Paul Joiner | Stars: David Jeremiah, Rose Anaya, Logan Polson, Henry Mark

Votes: 73

37. Oi kynigoi (1977)

168 min | Drama

On New Year's Eve, a group of hunters finds the frozen body of a dead WWII partisan fighter. They spend the night debating what to do with it.

Director: Theodoros Angelopoulos | Stars: Vangelis Kazan, Eva Kotamanidou, Giorgos Danis, Mary Hronopoulou

Votes: 1,042

38. I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988 TV Movie)

96 min | Drama

The Bundy family try to have a good family Christmas, despite World War 2.

Director: Marvin J. Chomsky | Stars: Hal Holbrook, Eva Marie Saint, Nancy Travis, Peter Gallagher

Votes: 307

39. Easter (2023–2024)

Approved | Mystery

The mental illness of our sleuth, Pascha, pits him against his most formidable foe - himself.

Stars: Lnq, Reginald VelJohnson, Olkens Graham, Brock Vickers

40. Chasing Holden (2003)

R | 104 min | Crime, Drama

A troubled young man (Qualls) goes on a journey to meet an author whom he feels has a strong hold on his life.

Director: Malcolm Clarke | Stars: DJ Qualls, Rachel Blanchard, Colin Fox, Sean Kanan

Votes: 485

41. Miss December (2011)

Not Rated | 99 min | Comedy, Horror, Romance

Chosen by the man himself, the Kevin Smith Movie Club presents Miss December. Fear strikes Philadelphia when a serial killer begins to monthly stalk and butcher one female victim to add to his calender.

Director: Derek Lindeman | Stars: Corbin Bernsen, Gilbert Gottfried, Brian O'Halloran, Al Snow

Votes: 244

42. Silent Night (2012 TV Movie)

95 min | Biography, Drama, Music

The inspiring story behind the Christmas carol 'Silent Night'.

Director: Christian Vuissa | Stars: Carsten Clemens, Markus von Lingen, Janina Elkin, Alexander E. Fennon

Votes: 241

43. Captive Hearts (1987)

PG | 97 min | Drama, Romance, War

December 1944. As their bomber is shot down during a mission over Japan, Sergeant McManus and Robert, a young lieutenant, have no other choice but make a parachute jump. They are captured ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Almond | Stars: Pat Morita, Chris Makepeace, Mari Sato, Michael Sarrazin

Votes: 232 | Gross: $3.00M

44. Waiting for Dublin (2007)

83 min | Romance

On New Year's Eve 1944, American pilot Mike Clarke inadvertently bets Al Capone's nephew $10,000.00 that he can shoot down five enemy aircraft. Later, forced to land near a remote village ... See full summary »

Director: Roger Tucker | Stars: Des Braiden, Joe Cassidy, Guido De Craene, Jenne Decleir

Votes: 210

45. The Funny Side of Christmas (1982 TV Movie)

80 min | Comedy

Skits from: The Fall and Rise of Reginald Perrin; The Les Dawson Show; Yes Minister; Only Fools and Horses; Three of a Kind; Last of the Summer Wine; Sorry!; Butterflies; Smith and Jones; Open All Hours.

Stars: Frank Muir, Ronnie Barker, Lynda Baron, John Barron

Votes: 11

46. Another Year (2014)

107 min | Drama, Romance

Young married couple in today's Moscow: He's an unemployed guy who gets some money by giving rides to strangers at nights. She's a young graphic designer who just got her first job. The ... See full summary »

Director: Oksana Bychkova | Stars: Nadya Lumpova, Aleksey Filimonov, Natalya Tereshkova, Aleksandr Alyabev

Votes: 434

47. ECW December to Dismember (2006 TV Special)

TV-14 | 210 min | Sport

ECW World Champion the Big Show defends his gold in the first ever Extreme Elimination Chamber match against 5 other competitors, And two great tag teams meet for the first time ever when The Hardys take on MNM and much more.

Director: Kevin Dunn | Stars: Doug Basham, Adam Birch, Barbie Blank, Phil Brooks

Votes: 274

48. Hector Malot: The Last Day of the Year (2018)

24 min | Short, Drama

New Year's eve dawns in a moon-kissed car, and Sofia has a dream that she tells no one: while walking on a desert, she gets to know that she is sick. She pretends she does not care. Has she lost her heart?

Director: Jacqueline Lentzou | Stars: Sofia Kokkali, Katerina Zisoudi, Nikos Zeginoglou, Nikos Panagiotopoulos

Votes: 235

49. Gryphon (1990 TV Movie)

55 min | Family

When Rickey and his friends put a snake in the desk of the new substitute teacher, to their surprise, she lovingly picks it up and puts it around her neck. Soon her strange stories of the ... See full summary »

Director: Mark Cullingham | Stars: Alexis Cruz, Nico Hughes, Edward O'Connor, Virgilio Martí

Votes: 59

50. A Million (2009)

114 min | Thriller

Eight young people try to survive a deadly game show for the million-dollar prize.

Director: Min-ho Cho | Stars: Jae-ho Baek, Lee Cheon-hee, Seo-wu Choi, Shin Dong-mi

Votes: 517