Christmas Films: Guess the Logline

A young boy is accidentally left behind when his family flies to Paris for Christmas, and he must defend his home from two bumbling burglars.

• The Santa Clause

• Home Alone

• Elf

• The Polar Express

A man inadvertently kills Santa on Christmas Eve and finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

• The Santa Clause

• Miracle on 34th Street

• Jingle All the Way

• The Grinch

A train conductor takes a boy on a magical journey to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.

• The Polar Express

• The Holiday

• Love Actually

• Arthur Christmas

A miserly old man is visited by three ghosts on Christmas Eve, who show him the error of his ways.

• The Nightmare Before Christmas

• A Christmas Carol

• Scrooged

• It's a Wonderful Life

A father vows to get his son a popular action figure for Christmas, but every store is sold out, leading to a frantic last-minute shopping spree.

• Jingle All the Way

• Deck the Halls

• The Santa Clause 2

• Christmas with the Kranks

A group of people in London navigate their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas.

• Love Actually

• The Holiday

• Four Weddings and a Funeral

• Notting Hill

Two women swap homes in different countries for the holidays, each finding romance in their new surroundings.

• The Holiday

• Love Actually

• Serendipity

• While You Were Sleeping

A lone detective must fight back against a skyscraper full of terrorists on Christmas Eve, in order to reunite with his estranged wife.

• Lethal Weapon
• The Dark Knight
• Mission: Impossible
• Die Hard

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

• Miracle on 34th Street

• It's a Wonderful Life

• The Bishop's Wife

• A Christmas Carol

A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.

• Miracle on 34th St.

• The man is an actor playing Santa.
• The man is a fraud.
• The man is a mall Santa.