Aspiring reporter Hope Jensen uncovers the remarkable secret behind a holiday phenomenon: money-filled glass jars anonymously given to people in need.
Bud Baxter is a minor clerk in a huge New York insurance company, until he discovers a quick way to climb the corporate ladder. He lends out his apartment to the executives as a place to take their mistresses. Although he often has to deal with the aftermath of their visits, one night he's left with a major problem to solve.
In a beautiful mountain village, a peculiar confectioner, Mr. Panagiotis is forced due to circumstances to hide little Fani from everyone in his house. Quickly, his two grandchildren and a friend of theirs discover the hidden Fani and thus the gang of five is formed. The four children and Mr. Panagiotis live a wonderful adventure between reality and fairy tale. But first they have to fool everyone, the daughter of Mr. Panagiotis, the village doctor and all the residents of the small society. Their obstacles are endless and after going through a thousand and two twists and trials, they will be revealed and they will have to face the consequences of their actions. Will everyone live happily ever after?
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
The street vendor Tawfiq, meets a 20-year-old pregnant girl. and he tries to help her to get rid of the fetus to spend his life with her.
Drama based on a play by Friedrich Wolf. Hete is pregnant, hoping to have a family with her fiancé Paul. When the factory where she and Paul work sacks all striking workers, she tries to find a legal abortion. But there is only the illegal option - the eponymous cyanide.
A group of colleagues begins the traditional “Secret Santa” game. That simple gesture sets off an emotional journey through Montevideo, highlighting different corners of the city while celebrating the value of gathering, friendship, and the small traditions that bring people together. The short film emphasizes that what truly matters isn’t the gift, but the chance to be together again.
Selfish businessman Jason Mudrick is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Mudrick is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a 15-year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day.
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Holly Hunter plays a lonely, single, poorly educated Texan who finds herself pregnant with no means to support a child. To avoid giving up the child, she seeks an abortion. Denied an abortion in Texas the young woman hires a novice lawyer to plead her case in the US supreme court. Eventually the law is changed, but for the character it takes longer than nine months.
A charming but ruthless criminal holds the family of a bank manager hostage as part of a cold-blooded plan to steal £90,000.
A money launderer finds himself in a bind on Christmas Eve when a case of mistaken identity leads to him spending the evening with an unpredictable runaway instead of his family.
Traumatized by her past, Christmas is not at the top of Sarah's list this time of year however waltzing through life's unexpected emergencies she is taught the Christmas Dance.
On Christmas Eve, a burglar is tasked with stealing a necklace from an old lady. Nothing is going to go as planned…
A musical version of O. Henry's famous Christmas story.
When talented interior designer Emily Barnes is hired by a foreign embassy in D.C. to decorate for their annual holiday charity ball, the newly appointed ambassador Magnus Andersson's "minimalist" approach creates a roadblock between them. As Emily's undeniable love for the holiday season begins to thaw his heart, an unexpected romance begins between the two.
Friends Ted and Andre are down on their luck with no plans for Christmas. Late one December night, they are visited by a strange guest with an unusual request for help.
A man haunted seeks inspiration for his first painting.
Mexico, 1985. Juan and Wilson, two perennial Veterinary students, perpetrate an audacious heist in the National Museum of Anthropology, running away with a loot of more than hundred invaluable pieces of Mayan art, unaware of the consequences of their outrageous act.