There are probably thousands of Christmas movies out there. But when it comes to Hanukkah-themed entertainment, there are decidedly fewer movies. As Adam Sandler once pointed out in "The Hanukkah Song" about the lack of popularity of Hanukkah music, finding the right Hanukkah movie to watch during the holiday is a difficult task.

But slowly but surely, this is beginning to change, and even Lifetime and Hallmark are embracing the pleasures of Chanukah. Here are some of the best Hanukkah movies to check out to get you in the holiday spirit.

It can be tough for a Jewish kid to celebrate Hanukkah when surrounded by Santa-worshipping classmates who look forward to the glitz and excitement of Christmas. All I Want Is Christmas (also known as Switchmas or Ira Finkelstein's Christmas) revolves around Ira Finkelstein (Elijah Nelson), who is sent to Florida to visit his grandparents for Hanukkah.

In a move not unlike Kevin in "Home Alone," he secretly exchanges plane tickets with another boy, Mikey (Justin Howell), for a festive Washington town named Christmas Town. In All I Want Is Christmas, Ira and Mikey have the opportunity to experience a variety of holiday traditions and decide for themselves if the grass is truly greener on the other side of the Hanukkah and Christmas fence.

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Seth Cohen of "The OC" seemed to have solved the holiday divide between Christmas and Hanukkah with a super holiday called Chrismukkah, but the culture clash that exists in December is a TV rom-com world is still a topic ripe for discussion in Mistletoes & Menorahs, in which star Kelly Jackle plays Christy, a cog in the wheel of a major toy company. As luck would have it, her co-worker has a friend (Jake Epstein) who also needs to learn about Christmas traditions, and the two exchange Christmas knowledge. Inevitably, sparks fly.

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The 2003 Disney Channel Original Movie, "Full Court Miracle," not only takes place on Hanukkah, but recreates the original miracle of Hanukkah through a Jewish high school basketball team Frustrated by the team's lack of success, Alex "Shrot" Schlotzky (Alex D. Linz) recruits former college basketball star Lamont Carr (Richard T. Jones) as the new coach. The team is initially unfamiliar with his coaching techniques and has to fight to convince the school that Lamont should be the coach in the first place, but together they make it to the finals, where they need a Hanukkah miracle to finish the game.

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Lifetime and Hallmark have been on the Christmas train for quite some time now, but "The Eight Gifts of Hanukkah" is not a Christmas and Hanukkah mishmash for the latter channel as it has been, but a completely It is the first film for the latter channel to revolve entirely around a Jewish holiday, rather than a mishmash of Christmas and Hanukkah as it has in the past. Inbal Lavie stars as Sarah Levin, a Jewish ophthalmologist. One day, Sara Levin begins receiving gifts from her secret lover. Intrigued by the gesture, Sara Levin embarks on a full-scale detective mission to find out who the owner of these gifts is. Hint: it is precisely the person she least suspects.

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Consider Adam Sandler as Hanukkah's biggest celebrity ambassador. He co-wrote and starred in the bawdy animated comedy Eight Crazy Nights in 2002, partly in an attempt to bring Hanukkah movies to Jewish audiences. He plays a variety of characters in the film, one of which is the rough-and-tumble protagonist Davey. Davey befriends Whitey (also voiced by Sandler) when he is court-ordered to volunteer as a referee for a youth basketball league. Hidden deep within the vulgar sense of humor lies the essence of the film, which is probably why it still has a cult following many years after its initial release.

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Christmas is the main focus in "The Night Before," but there is plenty of Hanukkah in this holiday-themed buddy comedy. Seth Rogen co-stars with Joseph Gordon-Levitt and Anthony Mackie as a trio of childhood friends who have a tradition of spending Christmas Eve together every year.

Their responsibilities as adults threaten their ability to continue this ritual, but they reunite one last time for a wacky misadventure in an attempt to find the elusive "Nutcracker" ball, an event they have tried to attend for years on Christmas Eve.The Night Before" may be centered around Christmas, but it is extremely Hanukkah: director Jonathan Levine developed the idea with a group of Jewish friends, who got together every year to play pranks while everyone around them was celebrating Christmas.

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Reminiscent of the Jewish classic Crossing Delancey, the holiday film Hanukkah in the Rye is one of the first holiday rom-coms to incorporate Jewish culture rather than replace the Christmas movie template with Hanukkah It feels like one of the first holiday rom-coms to incorporate Jewish culture rather than replace it with the Christmas movie template. Yael Grobglas and Jeremy Jordan play Molly and Jacob, who are set up by a matchmaker and hit it off immediately; if they want to continue their relationship, they must find a way to overcome obstacles in the form of pastrami, or they will be forced to make a new one.

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