In keeping with “The Twelve Days of Christmas”, I’d like to offer twelve Christmas movies that you may have forgotten about.  Many of them are not strictly Christmas stories, but the holiday is important to the plot of each film.  These are primarily films adults will enjoy as something different from typical holiday fare. 
1) My first recommendation is a very adult film about adultery itself.  “The Apartment” stars Shirley Maclaine, who is smitten with married Fred McMurray, and Jack Lemmon, who on the other hand has a crush on Shirley. 
2) Next we have the wonderful “Auntie Mame” starring Rosalind Russell.  In the story, Mame loses everything in the 1929 Stock Market crash and has to work at Macy’s during Christmas.  The musical version “Mame” has the great song “We need a little Christmas now” and features Lucille Ball.
3) Third, “Santa Claus the Movie” has two of the best characters Dudley Moore and John Lithgow ever played on film.
4) “Love, Actually” offers Hugh Grant and Colin Firth in roles even more endearing than they played in “Bridget Jones".
5) Number five is the historic epic “A Lion in Winter” pitting two of the greatest actors ever as the French king Henry II and Eleanor of Aquitaine.  The library has two versions. Either is fine, but I’d go with Peter O’Toole's incredible performance.
6) Now at a half-dozen, we have “Desk Set”, a modern farce about a computer taking over for librarians—as if that could ever happen! The stars are the incomparable Spencer Tracey and Katherine Hepburn.
7) “Annie Hall”, besides being one of the all-time greats, has Christmas in Beverly Hills satire as only Woody Allen can deliver.
8) Judy Garland singing “Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas” in “Meet Me in St. Louis” creates a hometown nostalgia that will always leave you a little teary, no matter how often you’ve seen it.
9) “One Magic Christmas” is a very special film about redeeming the meaning of the holiday in the face of great adversity.  Mary Steenburgen stars.
10)  Stephen Baldwin leads the cast in “Midnight Clear”, a serious film about how kindness at Christmas can help us all.
11) “The Homecoming: A Christmas Story” is the first film in the saga of John-Boy in the “The Waltons”.  Patricia Neal and Richard Thomas give marvelous performances.
12) “Truman Capote’s A Christmas Memory” shows us how fruitcake and family friends are all that’s needed for an unforgettable holiday.  The library owns the Patty Duke version, but I think Geraldine Page’s version is definitive.  You can ask for it thru our Interlibrary Loan service.