Christmas adventure films

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 American stop-motion musical fantasy film directed by Henry Selick and written by Caroline Thompson. It tells the tale of Jack Skellington, King of Halloween Town, who stumbles upon Christmas Town and becomes obsessed with celebrating the holiday himself. Danny Elfman wrote the songs and score and provided the singing voice of Jack. The principal voice cast includes Chris Sarandon, Ken Page, Catherine O'Hara, Glenn Shadix, William Hickey, Paul Reubens and Ed Ivory.

The Polar Express is a 2004 American animated Christmas adventure film directed by Robert Zemeckis, who co-wrote the screenplay with William Broyles Jr., based on the 1985 children's book of the same name by Chris Van Allsburg. The film stars Tom Hanks in multiple roles, along with Daryl Sabara, Nona Gaye, Jimmy Bennett, and Eddie Deezen. The film depicts human characters using live action and motion capture computer animation, with production sequences for the latter taking place from June 2003 to May 2004. Set on Christmas Eve, it tells the story of a young boy who travels to the North Pole aboard a magical train guided by its conductor.

2009 film by Robert Zemeckis

2011 USA-UK 3D-animated film directed by Sarah Smith

1996 film directed by Brian Levant

Red One is a 2024 American Christmas action comedy film directed by Jake Kasdan and written by Chris Morgan. It stars Dwayne Johnson, Chris Evans, Lucy Liu, J. K. Simmons, Kiernan Shipka, Bonnie Hunt, Nick Kroll, Kristofer Hivju, and Wesley Kimmel. The film tells the story of Head of North Pole Security Callum Drift, who teams up with black-hat hacker Jack O'Malley to locate a kidnapped Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Principal photography for the film began in October 2022 and concluded in February 2023, with filming locations including Atlanta.

2018 film directed by Clay Kaytis

2020 musical film directed by Chris Columbus

2012 film directed by Kari Juusonen and Jørgen Lerdam

2021 film directed by Gil Kenan

2019 film directed by Ernie Barbarash

2016 film by Aleksandr Voytinskiy

2020 Russian film directed by Michael Lockshin

upcoming film directed by Ti West

2003 television film directed by Nick Marck