Movies by Lists - Best Unconventional Christmas Movies (74 [74]) 
| Title | Year | Director | Genre | Rating | Runtime | Added |
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| 3 GodfathersThree outlaws on the run risk their freedom and their lives to return a newborn to civilization. | 1948 | John Ford (*) | Drama, Western | 7.1 (9.3K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| 2046Several women enter a science fiction author's life over the course of a few years, after the author has lost the woman he considers his one true love. | 2004 | Kar-Wai Wong | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi | 7.4 (56.2K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| Aguirre The Wrath Of God [Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes]In the 16th century, the ruthless and insane Don Lope de Aguirre leads a Spanish expedition in search of El Dorado. | 1972 | Werner Herzog (*) | Action, Adventure, Biography, Drama, History | 7.9 (55.7K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Anna and the ApocalypseA zombie apocalypse threatens the sleepy town of Little Haven - at Christmas - forcing Anna and her friends to fight, slash and sing their way to survival, facing the undead in a desperate race to reach their loved ones. But they soo | 2017 | John McPhail | Comedy, Horror, Musical | 6.1 (12.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Apartment, TheA Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but complications and a romance of his own ensue. | 1960 | Billy Wilder (*) | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 8.3 (175.7K votes) | 125 | 20211228 |
| Await Further InstructionsA family's Christmas takes a strange turn when they awake to find themselves trapped inside and begin receiving mysterious instructions through the television. | 2018 | Johnny Kevorkian | Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi | 4.9 (8.3K votes) | 91 | 20211228 |
| Bad SantaA miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid. | 2003 | Terry Zwigoff | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.0 (142.2K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Beware My LovelyA psychopath on the run takes a job as a handyman at the house of a lonely war widow. | 1952 | Harry Horner | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 6.7 (1.9K votes) | 77 | 20211228 |
| BorderlineOn the U.S.-Mexican border, border cop Jeb Maynard is hunting for a human smuggler responsible for Jeb's partner's murder. | 1980 | Jerrold Freedman | Action, Drama | 6.0 (2K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| C.R.A.Z.Y.A young French Canadian, one of five boys in a conservative family in the 1960s and 1970s, struggles to reconcile his emerging identity with his father's values. | 2005 | Jean-Marc Vallée | Comedy, Drama | 7.9 (32.5K votes) | 129 | 20211228 |
| CalvaireMarc, a traveling entertainer, is on his way home for Christmas when his van breaks down in the middle of a jerkwater town with some strange inhabitants. | 2004 | Fabrice du Welz | Horror | 6.2 (12.4K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| CarolAn aspiring photographer develops an intimate relationship with an older woman in 1950s New York. | 2015 | Todd Haynes (*) | Drama, Romance | 7.2 (126.5K votes) | 118 | 20220415 |
| Christmas AgainA heartbroken Christmas-tree salesman returns to New York City hoping to put his past behind him. Living in a trailer and working the night shift, he begins to spiral downwards until the saving of a mysterious woman and some colorful | 2014 | Charles Poekel | Drama, Romance | 6.6 (1.1K votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Christmas Horror Story, AInterwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evi | 2015 | Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 5.8 (10.5K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Christmas Story, AIn the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift. | 1983 | Bob Clark | Comedy, Family | 7.9 (145.6K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Christmas Tale, A [Un conte de Noel]The troubled Vuillard family is no stranger to illness, grief, and banishment, but when their matriarch requires a bone-marrow transplant, the estranged clan reunites just in time for Christmas. | 2008 | Arnaud Desplechin | Comedy, Drama | 7.0 (7.1K votes) | 150 | 20220414 |
| Conjuring 2, TheEd and Lorraine Warren travel to North London to help a single mother raising four children alone in a house plagued by a supernatural spirit. | 2016 | James Wan | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 7.3 (259.9K votes) | 134 | 20220423 |
| Cop, A [Un Flic]After a shaky first heist, a group of thieves plan an even more elaborate and risky second heist. | 1972 | Jean-Pierre Melville (*) | Crime, Thriller | 7.1 (9.4K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Dead Man's Letters [Pisma myortvogo cheloveka]In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son. | 1986 | Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Die Hard I - Die HardAn NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles. | 1988 | John McTiernan (*) | Action, Thriller | 8.2 (847.3K votes) | 132 | 20211228 |
| Dorm That Dripped Blood, The [Pranks]Four college students are stalked by an unknown assailant while staying on campus over the Christmas holidays to help clear out a dormitory which is to be demolished. | 1982 | Stephen Carpenter, Jeffrey Obrow | Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 5.1 (2.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Eastern PromisesA teenager who dies during childbirth leaves clues in her journal that could tie her child to a rape involving a violent Russian mob family. | 2007 | David Cronenberg (*) | Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (237.8K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Edward ScissorhandsAn artificial man, who was incompletely constructed and has scissors for hands, leads a solitary life. Then one day, a suburban lady meets him and introduces him to her world. | 1990 | Tim Burton (*) | Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 7.9 (471.5K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Family Man, TheA fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife. | 2000 | Brett Ratner | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance | 6.8 (115.4K votes) | 125 | 20231013 |
| Farewell Friend [Adieu L'Ami]After an overseas deployment, two former French Foreign Legion members plan to break into the vault of a French corporation. | 1968 | Jean Herman | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (3.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| French Connection, TheA pair of NYPD detectives in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a heroin smuggling ring based in Marseilles, but stopping them and capturing their leaders proves an elusive goal. | 1971 | William Friedkin (*) | Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.7 (118.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Gift, TheA married couple, Simon and Robyn, run into Gordo, an old classmate. Things take a turn when Gordo begins to drop in unannounced at their house and inundates them with mysterious gifts. | 2015 | Joel Edgerton | Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 7.0 (150.1K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| GoThe aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view. | 1999 | Doug Liman | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 (73.9K votes) | 102 | 20231109 |
| GoThe aftermath of a drug deal as told from three different points of view. | 1999 | Doug Liman | Comedy, Crime | 7.2 (70.6K votes) | 102 | 20211228 |
| GremlinsA young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. | 1984 | Joe Dante | Comedy, Fantasy, Horror | 7.3 (216.1K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Home For The HolidaysAfter losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family. | 1995 | Jodie Foster | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 6.6 (13.1K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| Honor Among ThievesAfter an overseas deployment, two former French Foreign Legion members plan to break into the vault of a French corporation. | 1968 | Jean Herman | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.9 (3.3K votes) | 115 | 20211228 |
| Hot Rods to Hell [52 Miles to Terror]The new owner of a motel in the California desert has a run-in with a gang of delinquent teenage hot rod drivers. | 1966 | John Brahm | Action, Drama, Thriller | 5.3 (994 votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Ice Harvest, TheA shady lawyer attempts a Christmas Eve crime, hoping to swindle the local mob out of some money. But his partner, a strip club owner, might have different plans for the cash. | 2005 | Harold Ramis (*) | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 6.2 (23.9K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| In BrugesGuilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, hitman Ray and his partner await orders from their ruthless boss in Bruges, Belgium, the last place in the world Ray wants to be. | 2008 | Martin McDonagh | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.9 (409.2K votes) | 107 | 20211228 |
| Incredible Shrinking Woman, TheA housewife grows smaller and smaller in reaction to chemicals found in cosmetics and household products. | 1981 | Joel Schumacher | Comedy, Sci-Fi | 5.5 (4.7K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| Jennifer 8John Berlin, a former Los Angeles homicide detective, investigates a multiple murder case in San Diego. The only witness is a blind girl to whom he is immediately attracted. | 1992 | Bruce Robinson | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.3 (16.6K votes) | 124 | 20211228 |
| Joyeux NoelIn 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. | 2005 | Christian Carion | Drama, History, Music, Romance, War | 7.7 (29.4K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| JudA Vietnam vet returns to Los Angeles at Christmas time, finds out it's not how he thought it was going to be. | 1971 | Gunther Collins | Crime, Drama | 6.2 (32 votes) | 80 | 20211228 |
| Kiss Kiss Bang BangAfter being mistaken for an actor, a New York thief is sent to Hollywood to train under a private eye for a potential movie role, but the duo are thrown together with a struggling actress into a murder mystery. | 2005 | Shane Black | Comedy, Crime, Mystery, Thriller | 7.5 (223.5K votes) | 103 | 20211228 |
| L.A. ConfidentialAs corruption grows in 1950s Los Angeles, three policemen - one strait-laced, one brutal, and one sleazy - investigate a series of murders with their own brand of justice. | 1997 | Curtis Hanson (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.2 (563.7K votes) | 138 | 20211228 |
| Last NightA group of very different individuals with different ideas of how to face the end come together as the world is expected to end in six hours at the turn of the century. | 1998 | Don McKellar | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.2 (9.6K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Letters From A Dead Man [pisma_myortvogo_cheloveka]In the aftermath of nuclear holocaust, a group of intellectuals crave to find hope in the pale and colorless new world. Among them, a history teacher tries to contact via letters his missing son. | 1986 | Konstantin Lopushanskiy | Drama, Sci-Fi | 7.6 (3.1K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Lodge, TheA soon-to-be stepmom is snowed in with her fiancé's two children at a remote holiday village. Just as relations begin to thaw between the trio, some strange and frightening events take place. | 2019 | Severin Fiala, Veronika Franz | Drama, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.1 (41.3K votes) | 108 | 20211228 |
| Long Kiss Goodnight, TheSamantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past. | 1996 | Renny Harlin | Action, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 6.8 (78.2K votes) | 121 | 20211228 |
| Man Who Fell to Earth, TheAn alien must pose as a human to save his dying planet, but a woman and greed of other men create complications. | 1976 | Nicolas Roeg (*) | Drama, Sci-Fi | 6.7 (25.7K votes) | 139 | 20211228 |
| MetropolitanA group of young upper-class Manhattanites are blithely passing through the gala debutante season, when an unusual outsider joins them and stirs them up. | 1990 | Whit Stillman | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.3 (11.1K votes) | 98 | 20211228 |
| Midnight Clear, AThe 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. | 1992 | Keith Gordon | Drama, War | 7.1 (9.1K votes) | 108 | 20220723 |
| Miracles Still HappenA seventeen-year-old schoolgirl is the sole survivor of a plane crash in the Peruvian Amazon. | 1974 | Giuseppe Maria Scotese | Adventure, Drama | 6.0 (260 votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Nightmare Before Christmas, TheJack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion. | 1993 | Henry Selick | Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical | 8.0 (323.4K votes) | 76 | 20211228 |
| PerformanceA violent gangster seeks refuge from the mob in the Bohemian home of a former rock star. | 1970 | Donald Cammell, Nicolas Roeg | Crime, Drama | 6.9 (10.2K votes) | 105 | 20211228 |
| Poseidon Adventure, TheNine people explore a cruise ship at sea in a manner that turns their whole lives upside down. | 1972 | Ronald Neame | Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller | 7.1 (43.9K votes) | 117 | 20211228 |
| PrisonersWhen Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts. | 2013 | Denis Villeneuve (*) | Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller | 8.1 (675K votes) | 153 | 20220414 |
| Proposition, TheA lawman apprehends a notorious outlaw and gives him nine days to kill his older brother, or else they'll execute his younger brother. | 2005 | John Hillcoat | Crime, Drama, Western | 7.3 (54.5K votes) | 104 | 20231207 |
| Quiet Is the Night [Wsród nocnej ciszy]A psychological detective story about a police hunt for the murderer of young boys during the Christmas season. The police commissioner ends up tracing the clues to his own home, where he has an adolescent son with whom he has diffic | 1978 | Tadeusz Chmielewski | Crime, Drama, Mystery | 7.2 (198 votes) | 128 | 20211228 |
| Rambo First BloodA veteran Green Beret is forced by a cruel Sheriff and his deputies to flee into the mountains and wage an escalating one-man war against his pursuers. | 1982 | Ted Kotcheff | Action, Adventure, Thriller | 7.7 (242.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| Rare Exports - A Christmas TaleIn the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, 486 meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas. The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus. | 2010 | Jalmari Helander | Adventure, Fantasy, Horror | 6.7 (28.6K votes) | 84 | 20211228 |
| Ref, TheA cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve. | 1994 | Ted Demme | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 6.9 (24.6K votes) | 97 | 20211228 |
| Reindeer GamesAfter assuming his dead cell-mate's identity to get with the other man's girlfriend, an ex-convict finds himself a reluctant participant in a casino heist. | 2000 | John Frankenheimer (*) | Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 5.8 (39.5K votes) | 104 | 20211228 |
| Remember the NightLove blooms between a sympathetic attorney and the comely shoplifter he has taken home for the Christmas holiday. | 1940 | Mitchell Leisen | Comedy, Drama, Romance | 7.6 (5.7K votes) | 94 | 20211228 |
| Royal Tenenbaums, TheThe eccentric members of a dysfunctional family reluctantly gather under the same roof for various reasons. | 2001 | Wes Anderson (*) | Comedy, Drama | 7.6 (283.4K votes) | 110 | 20211228 |
| Satan [Sheitan]A group of youngsters go out to a disco on Christmas Eve and accidentally run into a shepherd who has prepared himself for a night of pure insanity. | 2006 | Kim Chapiron | Comedy, Horror, Thriller | 5.7 (9K votes) | 95 | 20211228 |
| Silent Partner , TheA timid bank teller anticipates a bank robbery and steals the money himself before the crook arrives. When the sadistic crook realizes he's been fooled, he tracks down the teller and engages him in a cat-and-mouse chase for the cash. | 1978 | Daryl Duke, Curtis Hanson | Comedy, Crime, Drama, Thriller | 7.4 (6.4K votes) | 106 | 20211228 |
| Storm WarningMarsha Mitchell, a traveling dress model, stops in a southern town to see her sister who has married a Ku Klux Klansman. Marsha sees the KKK commit a murder and helps District Attorney Burt Rainey in bringing the criminals to justice | 1951 | Stuart Heisler | Crime, Drama, Film-Noir | 7.1 (1.8K votes) | 93 | 20211228 |
| TangerineA hooker tears through Tinseltown on Christmas Eve searching for the pimp who broke her heart. | 2015 | Sean Baker | Comedy, Crime, Drama | 7.1 (30.1K votes) | 88 | 20211228 |
| These Final HoursA self-obsessed young man makes his way to the party-to-end-all-parties on the last day on Earth, but ends up saving the life of a little girl searching for her father. Their relationship ultimately leads him on the path to redemptio | 2013 | Zak Hilditch | Drama, Sci-Fi, Thriller | 6.7 (17.2K votes) | 87 | 20211228 |
| Tokyo GodfathersOn Christmas Eve, three homeless people living on the streets of Tokyo discover a newborn baby among the trash and set out to find its parents. | 2003 | Satoshi Kon | Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama | 7.8 (37.5K votes) | 92 | 20211228 |
| Tower, The [Ta-weo]A Christmas Eve party at a luxury residential building takes a horrific turn when a fire breaks out. | 2012 | Ji-hoon Kim | Action, Drama, Thriller | 6.5 (6.1K votes) | 121 | 20220414 |
| Trading PlacesA snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. | 1983 | John Landis (*) | Comedy | 7.5 (147.7K votes) | 116 | 20211228 |
| Traveler, The [Mr. Nobody]A slow, quiet Christmas Eve night at the police station turns into strange horror after a man enters claiming he wants to confess to murder. | 2010 | Michael Oblowitz | Action, Thriller | 4.1 (4.9K votes) | 96 | 20231013 |
| Tuesday, After Christmas [Marti, dupã Crãciun]Paul Hanganu loves two women. Adriana his wife and the mother of their daughter, the woman with whom he's shared the thrills of the past ten years, and Raluca the woman who has made him redefine himself. He has to leave one of them b | 2010 | Radu Muntean | Drama, Romance | 6.9 (4.6K votes) | 99 | 20211228 |
| Wake in Fright [Outback]After a bad gambling bet, a schoolteacher is marooned in a town full of crazy, drunk, violent men who threaten to make him just as crazy, drunk, and violent. | 1971 | Ted Kotcheff | Drama, Thriller | 7.6 (11.9K votes) | 109 | 20211228 |
| Warriors Way, TheA warrior-assassin is forced to hide in a small town in the American Badlands after refusing a mission. | 2010 | Sngmoo Lee | Action, Fantasy, Western | 6.3 (26.2K votes) | 100 | 20211228 |
| Wolf of Snow Hollow, TheTerror grips a small mountain town as bodies are discovered after each full moon. Losing sleep, raising a teenage daughter, and caring for his ailing father, officer Marshall struggles to remind himself there's no such thing as we... | 2020 | Jim Cummings | Comedy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller | 6.2 (23.3K votes) | 85 | 20230831 |