Christmas Films
A selection of festive titles.
Tickets for these screenings (except IMAX screenings) are only £9.
BFI Southbank screenings
The Shop Around the Corner
A classic Ernst Lubitsch comedy that ranks as one of the greatest festive films.
Meet Me in St. Louis
Garland mesmerises and the songs delight in this beautiful Technicolor musical.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Frank Capra’s perennial festive favourite stars James Stewart as a desperate man offered salvation by an impish guardian angel.
The Bishop’s Wife
An angel tries to help a bishop find the right spiritual path as Christmas approaches.
The Apartment
Billy Wilder’s Oscar-winning comedy features Jack Lemmon as an office worker lending his apartment to adulterous superiors in order to get ahead.
IMAX screenings
The Polar Express 20th Anniversary screening (3D)
Tom Hanks is the train guard on this groundbreaking animated festive favourite.
Ghiblioteque presents: Tokyo Godfathers + intro
Anime at its very best, with a Christmas theme and adventure that thrills.
Die Hard
Hijackers have taken over LA’s towering Nakatomi skyrise, but they didn’t bank on the presence of Bruce Willis’s John McClane, in this action masterpiece.
The Wizard of Oz
Kansas goes bye-bye when a storm hits Dorothy’s rural home, sending her to a fabulous, coloured world of witches and wizards.
The Red Shoes
One of Powell and Pressburger’s masterpieces is a celebration of art, dance, music and the power of cinema to move and inspire.
The Green Knight
David Lowery transports us to a Medieval world with this striking adaptation of the epic poem.
See our ’Small Christmas Presence’ Big Screen Classics in December.
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