List of made-for-television and direct-to-video Christmas films

Christmas movies are films that use the Motif Christmas and the associated customs to content or time schedule. Shall not include films in which occur either the birth or the Christmas story only as a scene within a larger time scheme.

A special case in this case represent those films that have the biblical story of the birth of Jesus Christ on the subject. Everything else, however, are films that relate to the Christmas and its customs.

In the United States, the tradition of Christmas movies has strongly developed than in Europe, though especially in the UK for this was the film adaptation of Charles Dickens ' Christmas Carol, the longer tradition. This Christmas story is also the most frequently filmed subject. In non- English-speaking Christmas movies are rarely produced.

Seen from the ongoing popularity ago, "Life Is not it beautiful? " Can in German-speaking forth particularly the film be considered a successful Christmas movie, the box office success here is in Germany " Santa Clause - A Fine Mess " (1994 ) with more than 1, 7 million viewers the first, " the Polar Express" (2004 ) with more than 1.5 million the second and "It's a moose sprung " (2005) with 1.2 million viewers for third place.

More rarely, the term is also used for Christmas movie films that are traditionally broadcast at Christmas, without reference to have for Christmas. These include, in Germany for example, the "Sissi " films and the fairy tale " Three Nuts for Cinderella".