Watch The Best Festive Movies This December 2024 | CinemaWorld

December is a time for celebrations as we reminisce about the time passed and usher in the new year. 2024 has been a year of unravelling and discovery as our team at CinemaWorld sought to find the best stories for you. In the curation of our ever-growing library of films, your voice certainly matters! With a collection of witty romantic-comedies, heartwarming dramas, gritty crime-thrillers and so much more, there is always something for everyone.

This festive month, the CinemaWorld channel will be showing a nightly special – Timeless Favourites and New Discoveries. From 24 - 31 Dec, every day at 7PM and 9PM, look forward to exciting back-to-back entertainment, filled with action-packed thrillers and heartwarming dramas! For this special showing, relive all your favourites of 2024 and rediscover cinematic gems with CinemaWorld’s recommendations for the new year!

Timeless Favourites:

Manta Manta: Legacy (2023)

(Action-Adventure/Comedy)

Germany

German blockbuster Manta Manta: Legacy is the electrifying sequel to the 1991 megahit Manta, Manta, which stars renowned German actor Til Schweiger who made his debut as a film actor in the first movie. The glory of Bertie’s (Til Schweiger) early racing days has long passed, now he runs a failing car repair shop and go-kart track. With the threat of his business shutting down, Bertie conceives a risky plan: win the first prize at the upcoming 90’s nostalgia race to save his dying career. With only one month to transform his beat-up OPEL MANTA into a racing machine once again, the race against the clock begins. When his ex-wife Uschi (Tina Ruland) and their now adult son Daniel (Tim Oliver Schultz) reappear in his life, Bertie knows his month of chaos is just beginning. 

Catch Manta Manta: Legacy at 7PM, 25 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

Dangerous Gentlemen (2023)

(Comedy/Crime & Thriller)

Poland

Polish Box Office Hit Dangerous Gentlemen follows four brilliant and iconic figures of the bohemian scene in 1914 Poland, on a mountain retreat. After a night of intoxicated partying, poet Tadeusz Boy-Żeleński, artist Stanisław Witkiewicz, writer Joseph Conrad, and anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski, wake up to an unfamiliar man dead on their couch and the police at their doorstep.

The night of decadence soon spirals into crime-ridden chaos as the four protagonists try to absolve themselves of suspicion. To do so, they must first solve the baffling case where they come to find themselves entangled with artists, gangsters and politicians. 

Get lost in the intoxicating and quirky world of Dangerous Gentlemen, where crime lies thinly veiled below the surface of all the glamour.

Catch Dangerous Gentlemen at 7PM, 27 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

The Cuban (2019)

(Drama)

Canada

With its beautiful score and powerful story, The Cuban is an unsurprising favourite of CinemaWorld’s audiences. In the film, pre-med student Mina (Ana Golja, Degrassi) lands her first job in a nursing home and meets an elderly Cuban jazz musician named Luis (Oscar winner Louis Gossett Jr.).

Luis’s dementia masks his once creative and bigger-than-life character. But as the two spend more time together, Mina realises there is one thing that gives Luis moments of joy and lucidity – music! Immersing in uplifting jazz melodies and dance, the two form an unlikely bond through their shared love for music that changes both their lives forever.

The Cuban also features Oscar nominee Shohreh Aghdashloo, Giacomo Gianniotti (Grey’s Anatomy), and Lauren Holly (Dumb and Dumber). 

Catch The Cuban at 7PM, 28 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

Sleepless Night (2011)

(Action-Thriller)

France/Belgium/Luxembourg

One reckless decision leads to a frantic night of crime and chaos. This high octane action film has been an all-time favourite on CinemaWorld with all you’d want in an action thriller – drugs, kidnapping and teeth-gritting cop-chases that will leave you gripping onto the edge of your seat.

Vincent (Tomer Sisley), a cop with connections to the criminal underworld, finds his double life exposed when he and his partner are caught stealing cocaine from a dangerous drug dealer. In retaliation, the mob kidnaps his son, demanding for their drugs to be returned. But as soon as Vincent meets them at their headquarters on the outskirts of Paris, he is caught in a long night of crime and madness, with both his son’s and his life at stake.

Catch Sleepless Night at 7PM, 31 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

New Discoveries:

Wonderfully Beautiful (2022)

(Comedy/Romance)

Germany

Am I beautiful enough? That’s a question many girls and women are taught to ask themselves, especially in a time where the media has enabled greater scrutiny and critique of female bodies. German Box Office Success Wonderfully Beautiful follows five vastly different women in their struggle to conform to traditional beauty ideals and gender roles.

There is Frauke (Martina Gedeck), who is nearing 60 and feels undesirable in her ageing body. Her daughter Julie (Emilia Schüle) is looking for her breakthrough as a model and believes the only way to do so is to mould her body to fit the impossible industry standards. Julie’s sister-in-law Sonja (Karoline Herfurth), who has just gone through two pregnancies, struggles to come to terms with the changes in her body. Sonja’s best friend Vicky (Nora Tschirner) is also convinced that in a patriarchal society, relationships between men and women can never be equal, much to the frustration of her colleague and suitor Franz (Maximilian Brückner).

Through the women’s unique experiences, Wonderfully Beautiful weaves an uplifting story about each character’s search for love and acceptance within themselves.

Catch the 2022 German Box Office Hit Wonderfully Beautiful at 9PM, 25 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

Murder Party (2022)

(Comedy/Thriller)

France

If you’re a big fan of Agatha Christie’s murder-mysteries, then Murder Party is just the movie for you.

Jeanne Chardon-Spitzer (featuring popular French actress Alice Pol), a brilliant architect, is appointed to restore the Daguerres' sumptuous manor house, a strange family that owns a board game empire. She is invited to the family’s absurd “murder party” when all of a sudden, the festivities come to a halt after the body of the patriarch, César, is found dead and one of them is the killer.

Trapped in the house with the suspicious Daguerres’ family, Jeanne finds herself caught up in a real-life investigation to unmask the killer.

The French comedy-thriller also stars acclaimed French actors Zabou Breitman, Pablo Pauly and Gustave Kervern.

Catch Murder Party at 9PM, 27 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

Life Feels Good (2013)

(Drama)

Poland

Premiering this December on CinemaWorld, critically acclaimed drama Life Feels Good chronicles the inspirational true story of Mateusz, starring Dawid Ogrodnik (Best Actor, Eagle, Polish Film Awards 2014), a man suffering from cerebral palsy, who in his early childhood was misdiagnosed with a severe intellectual disability and isolated from the world.

A sensitive and intelligent man who desires to live his life freely, Mateusz, who is now 30 in the film, is determined to prove that he is capable of living normally amongst others.

Catch Life Feels Good at 9PM, 28 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

Victoria Must Go (2024)

(Comedy/Family)

Norway

A hilarious family-comedy for the December holidays, Victoria Must Go follows two mischievous siblings who are up to no good. When Hedvig and Henrik get a new stepmother, Victoria, her never-ending rules make the once happy home a living hell. Desperate, the two devise a crazy plan to get rid of her – hire a hitman and kill her.

Full of imagination and silly antics, the siblings must find their hitman fast, before Victoria and their father get wedded.

Catch 2024 Norwegian Box Office Hit Victoria Must Go at 9PM, 29 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

Europa (2021)

(Action-Thriller)

Iraq/Italy/Kuwait

An Official Selection for the Directors’ Fortnight, Cannes 2021, Europa follows the harrowing three-day journey of a young Iraqi man, Kamal, as he attempts to cross the Turkish-Bulgarian border on foot into Europe.

Out in the vast forest, Kamal’s life is constantly threatened by watchful Bulgarian border police and lurking fascist gangs on the hunt for escaping immigrants. In this true--story inspired action-thriller, Director Haider Rashid tells a difficult yet necessary story about the plight of immigrants seeking asylum in Europe and can’t return home – it is a story that demands to be heard.

Catch Europa at 9PM, 31 Dec, on CinemaWorld.

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