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The Belcourt Theatre
Throughout December 2025

Holiday Classics

Holiday Classics

As temps fluctuate and the ball revolves, another holiday season is upon us. A sanitized vision of the season has long been reinforced by an entertainment industry that is eager to sell a vision of health, wealth and prosperity to a market-ready populace. You can blame the state of things, or you can blame the holidays themselves. After all, it wasn’t domestic bliss that nearly sent George Bailey off the proverbial bridge. As another year comes to a close, we tip our hat to the enduring “Christmas spirit” with one hand — and throw down a pint with the other. Behold this season’s Holiday Sock, a wooly bundle of potpourri with a healthy dose of stuffed stockings for some, and ashes and switches for others.

Past Screenings

DESK SET
Fri, Dec 12 at 5:45pm | Sun, Dec 14 at 1:00pm

DESK SET

Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy clash over the computerization of a TV network’s research department, which threatens to take the jobs of the women in this workplace — and just in time for the holidays.
FEMALE TROUBLE
Tue, Dec 16 at 9:15pm

FEMALE TROUBLE

Divine, director John Waters’ larger-than-life muse, engulfs the screen with charisma as Dawn Davenport, who progresses from a teenage nightmare hell-bent on getting cha-cha heels for Christmas to a fame monster whose egomaniacal impulses land her in the electric chair.
MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S
Wed, Dec 17 at 1:00pm

MY NIGHT AT MAUD’S

After spotting the delicate Françoise at Midnight Mass, Jean-Louis vows to make her his wife, although when he spends an unplanned night at the apartment of the bold divorcée Maud, his rigid standards are challenged in Eric Rohmer’s brilliantly accomplished centerpiece of the Six Moral Tales series.
BLACK CHRISTMAS
Wed, Dec 17 at 9:15pm

BLACK CHRISTMAS

When three sorority sisters find themselves under attack from a foul-mouthed killer, it’s up to the police chief to even the odds. BLACK CHRISTMAS is a terrifying and demented holiday tradition that gets everything right. We’d expect nothing less from the director of A CHRISTMAS STORY.
HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS
Sun, Dec 14 at 5:45pm

HUNDREDS OF BEAVERS

In the early 1800’s, Jean Kayak, a drunken applejack salesman, finds himself stranded in a surreal winter landscape with nothing but his dim wits to guide him. Against a backdrop of ruthless elements and forest creatures — all played by actors in full-sized mascot costumes — Kayak develops increasingly complex traps in order to win the hand of a mischievous lover.
BETTER OFF DEAD
Mon, Dec 15 at 8:00pm

BETTER OFF DEAD

Lane Meyer loves two things: skiing and his girlfriend Beth, who dumps him just before Christmas for the handsome and popular captain of his high school ski team. Lane’s teetering mental state and failed suicide attempts are upended by the arrival of Monique, a French exchange student.
METROPOLITAN
Fri, Dec 19 at 12:30pm

METROPOLITAN

“Manhattan. Christmas Vacation. Not so long ago.” So begins Whit Stillman’s surprise hit indie film, an ironically comic look at Manhattan’s endangered debutante scene that chronicles the rise of a group of young Park Avenue socialites who gather nightly to discuss love, honor and their impending demise.
ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE
Sun, Dec 21 at 11:40am

ON HER MAJESTY’S SECRET SERVICE

“Merry Christmas, 007.” The sixth James Bond film was released on Dec 19, 1969, and stars George Lazenby in his only role as playboy British agent James Bond, who goes undercover to pursue the villainous Ernst Stavro Blofeld (Telly Savalas), hell-bent on a holiday plan to hold the world at ransom.
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
Fri-Thu, Dec 19-25

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

An annual Belcourt tradition. Jimmy Stewart stars as George Bailey, a good man who’s spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off a bridge, he shows George what life would’ve been like had he never been born.
HARD EIGHT (35mm)
Tue, Dec 23 at 8:10pm

HARD EIGHT (35mm)

It’s Christmastime in Reno, where a world-weary gambler (Philip Baker Hall) teaches the tricks of the trade to a luckless young man (John C. Reilly). The debut feature of writer/director Paul Thomas Anderson took a year to hit theaters — by which time Anderson was in production on BOOGIE NIGHTS, further cementing Hall and Reilly as Anderson mainstays.
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
Mon-Tue, Dec 22-23 at 12:15pm

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

The Muppets' rendition of Charles Dickens' classic tale puts a unique twist on that fateful Christmas Eve, when Scrooge is visited by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future.
DIE HARD
Sat-Sun, Dec 20-21 at 8:20pm

DIE HARD

New York City detective John McClane becomes the only hope for a group of hostages, one of whom is his estranged wife, trapped in an L.A. high-rise when it’s seized by terrorists on Christmas Eve.
AMERICAN GANGSTER
Mon, Dec 22 at 8:10pm

AMERICAN GANGSTER

Armed with ruthless tactics and a strict sense of honor, crime boss Frank Lucas rules Harlem's chaotic drug underworld. When outcast cop Richie Roberts sets out to bring down Lucas’ multimillion-dollar empire, it plunges both men into a legendary confrontation in Ridley Scott’s sometimes holiday-set crime epic. Pizza and a Movie, co-presented with Slim & Husky's Pizza Beeria.
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