Must Watch Christmas Movies & TV Shows: Drama

1. Joyeux Noel (2005)
This 2005 French film details the events of a Christmas Eve truce between the Germans,
the French, and the Scots during the winter of 1914 in this Worlmed War I story. When a
German soldier and tenor sings Silent Night in the original German in the middle of No
Man's Land, the song brings all sides together and a truce brings enemies together. But,
what are the ramifications that are spawned by this new friendship? You will have to
watch and see. Oscar nominee for Best Foreign Language Film for 2005.

2. The Christmas Shoes (2002)
This heartwarming TV movie tells the story of a young woman (Kimberly Williams) dying
of congestive heart failure who is about to leave behind a mechanic husband and a
young son who works hard to find just the right present for his mother's last Christmas.
Also, a couple (Rob Lowe, Shirley) are having marital troubles due to the husband's
overtime at work. If you are not balling your eyes out by the end of the movie, it is time
for you to get a heart transplant.

3. One Magic Christmas (1985)
A couple (Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba) is going through hard times after the town's
main source of employment lays off the husband. Wife is grumpy and feeling stressed as
the family's only source of income in a job that she hates (or at least boss that she hates),
hence, not in the Christmas spirit. Husband and kids, however, are in the Christmas spirit
and each have a dream of their own. Yet, how can they bring the Christmas spirit to
mom? Enter Gideon the Christmas Angel (Harry Dean Stanton) who, with the help of the
kids, finds a way to bring the joy of Christmas to their mom.

4. Jesus of Nazareth (1977)
This TV miniseries directed by Franco Zeffirelli and starring Robert Powell in the title role,
details the life of Jesus from birth to resurrection. The all-star cast includes Anne
Bancroft, Ernest Borgnine, James Farentino (in his Emmy nominated performance as Simon
Peter), James Earl Jones, Sir Laurence Olivier, Anthony Quinn, and Olivia Hussey (as Jesus'
mother Mary) plus a whole lot more.