The Christmas Pledge

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

A character study of a family on vacation. The emotional abyss and problems are behind the seemingly nice facade of an intact family as they experience guilt, love, and jealousy.

Runtime

1h 37m

Director

Stefan Krohmer, Petra Misovic

Cast

Martina Gedeck, Robert Seeliger, Svea Lohde

Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Runtime

2h 15m

Director

Richard Curtis

Cast

Hugh Grant, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson

Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.

Runtime

1h 51m

Director

François Ozon

Cast

Catherine Deneuve, Isabelle Huppert, Fanny Ardant

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.

Runtime

1h 43m

Director

Jon Turteltaub

Cast

Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher