Joy for Christmas

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and i...

Runtime

2h 23m

Director

Terry Gilliam

Cast

Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

It's a dreary Christmas 1944 for the American POWs in Stalag 17 and the men in Barracks 4, all sergeants, have to deal with a grave problem—there seems to be a security leak.

Runtime

2h

Director

Billy Wilder

Cast

William Holden, Don Taylor, Robert Strauss

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.

Runtime

1h 33m

Director

Bob Clark

Cast

Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Peter Billingsley

In 1927 Hollywood, a silent film star falls for a chorus girl just as he and his paranoid screen partner struggle to make the difficult transition to talking pictures.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Stanley Donen, Gene Kelly

Cast

Donald O'Connor, Debbie Reynolds, Jean Hagen

A year in the life of a turn-of-the-century middle class family, leading up to the opening of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair.

Runtime

1h 54m

Director

Vincente Minnelli

Cast

Judy Garland, Margaret O'Brien, Mary Astor