Seuss’s classic Christmastime fable of the same name, was written by Seuss and directed by Looney Toons impresario Chuck Jones. This classic half-hour animated adaptation of Dr. Just a note: this isn’t a list evaluating whether or not these films are bona-fide “Christmas movies”-just an innocent roundup of some of the foundational texts at the “Christmas” + “crime” crossroads. In fact, these are the movies you probably hear about all the time. But this year, we wanted to do a quick roundup of the crime movies you can’t help but remember take place at Christmas, probably because they’re very overtly about both crime and Christmas. Those ten thrillers, and then ten more crime films, and then another ten more on top of those, and then yet another ten more on top of those, likely use their Christmastime setting as a thematic contrast for the villainy at work, or feature some holiday stuff during a scene or two for important symbolic effect. Throughout the past few years at CrimeReads, we’ve had fun assembling multiple lists of crime movies that you may have forgotten take place during Christmas, because “Christmas” is not necessarily the most salient or memorable aspect of the story, or maybe because it is the most salient or memorable part of the story, but the movie itself is obscure.
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