Holiday Classics

Guilt-stricken after a job gone wrong, two hitmen (Colin Farrell and Brendan Gleeson) await orders in Bruges from their ruthless boss (Ralph Fiennes) in writer/director Martin McDonagh’s jetblack Christmas-set crime comedy.

It’s Christmas and a prominent inventor’s gone missing. Enter Nick and Nora Charles, the iconic hard-drinking husband and wife detective team, who match each other highball for highball and clue for clue in this booziest of holiday classics (well… aside from WAKE IN FRIGHT).

When a rogue priest discovers the exact date The Antichrist will be born, he enlists a Death Metal record store clerk and a cheesy TV psychic to prevent the Apocalypse by summoning Satan himself.

Released a year before HOME ALONE, this unheralded French gem shares essentially the same plot — only filled with more style, bloodshed and Rambo references — and substitutes a homicidal Santa for the more famous film’s Wet Bandits.

Frank W. Abagnale Jr. (Leonardo DiCaprio) is a cunning con man; a deft forger who has passed as a doctor, lawyer and pilot — and his work attracts the attention of an FBI agent (Tom Hanks) who makes it his mission to put Frank behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.

A small-time crook stumbles into an audition while on the run from the police, lands the part, and is partnered up with a hard-boiled detective to research the role in this darkly hilarious parody of film noir tropes from Christmas action auteur Shane Black.

It’s Christmas time in Gotham and Batman (Michael Keaton) battles three new villains plotting to take over the city, including corrupt businessman Max Shreck (Christopher Walken), the hideous Penguin (Danny DeVito) and the mysterious Catwoman (Michelle Pfeiffer).

Ease on down the road with Diana Ross, Richard Pryor, Lena Horne and the rest in this not-necessarily-holiday but popular-during-the-holidays adaptation of Broadway production of The Wizard of Oz.

Filled with unforgettable characters, irresistible hits, and stunning set pieces, Norman Jewison's adaptation of the hit Broadway musical follows Tevye the milkman as he musically deals with poverty, the prejudice of non-Jews, and the romantic entanglements of his five daughters.

A Manhattan insurance clerk tries to rise in his company by letting its executives use his apartment for trysts, but the plan backfires when he unwittingly falls for the top executive's current girlfriend, an elevator operator in the office building.