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Nontraditional Holiday Films

A lot of us have movies that for some reason we watch every holiday season but these movies aren’t your traditional holiday films.  The following list will help you pick something that will give you a small dose of holiday spirit without going overboard.  All of these films have some component that happens during the holidays.  Some are warm and fuzzy; some include mutant creatures that try to destroy the world... Pick whatever you are in the mood for!

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• 84 Charing Cross Road (1986)
  
• About a boy (2002)
  
• Adam Sandler's Eight crazy nights (2002)
  
• An affair to remember (1957)
  
• The apartment (1960)
  
• Auntie Mame (1958)
  
• La buche (1999)
  
• Desk set (1957)
  
• Die hard (1988)
  
• Edward Scissorhands (1990)
  
• The family Stone (2006)
  
• First blood (1982)
  
• The Glenn Miller story (1953)
  
• Gremlins (1984)
  
• The holiday (2006)
  
• Home alone (1990)
  
• Home for the holidays (1985)
  
• The ice harvest (2005)
  
• Lady and the tramp (1955)
  
• Less than zero (1987)
  
• Lethal weapon (1987)
  
• The lion in winter (2003)
  
• The lion in winter (1968)
  
• Little women (1933)
  
• Little women (1949)
  
• Little women (1994)
  
• Love actually (2003)
  
• The man who came to dinner (2000)
  
• Meet John Doe (1941)
  
• Meet me in St. Louis (1944)
  
• Millions (2004)
  
• Mixed nuts (1994)
  
• My mother's castle (1991)
  
• Planes, trains and automobiles (1987)
  
• Radio days (1987)
  
• Rocky IV (1985)
  
• The shop around the corner (1940)
  
• Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
  
• The thin man (1934)
  
• Trading places (1983)
  
• Unaccompanied minors (2006)
  
• When Harry met Sally (1989)
  
• While you were sleeping (1995)
  

This list was contributed by Appleton Public Library Reference and Information Services Staff

Many Little Women

"Christmas won't be Christmas without any presents," grumbled Jo, lying on the rug."

1933 June Allyson	1949 Katharine Hepburn	1994 Winona Ryder

An Affair to Remake

	Love Affair 1939 Chalres Boyer Irene Dunne
	An Affair to Remember 1957 Carry Grant Deborah Kerr
	Sleepless in Seattle 1993 Tom Hanks Meg Ryan
	Love Affair 1994 Warren Beatty Annette Bening

A Royal Holiday

"HA! What shall we hang... the holly, or each other?"

	The Lion in Winter 1968 Katherine Hepburn Peter O'Toole
	The Lion in Winter 2003 Glenn Close Patrick Stewart