Christmas gift guide: DVDs

For the younger boy:
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Possibly the best-cast Dickens adaptation ever, with Michael Caine's cuddly core emerging almost plausibly from his curmudgeonly shell as Scrooge and Kermit's Cratchit as wide eyed an innocent as Dickens ever dreamed of. Terrific songs as well. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the younger girl:
WALL-E
Pixar's most poignant tale, of a lonely robot scratching an existence on a deserted, waste-choked planet, silent for the first 25 minutes until fellow robot EVE arrives and a love story begins on whose outcome humanity's future depends. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the hard-to-scare child: Coraline
Junior needs to have a taste for genuinely frightening stuff for this clever, Wonderland-ish story of a girl's journey into a parallel world, identical to her own apart from the fact that everyone's eyes have been replaced by buttons. Can be watched in 3-D for extra shock value. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the X Factor addict:
Sounds Like Teen Spirit
Documentary following the Junior Eurovision Song Contest manages to sweetly combine the appeal of mainstream TV talent contexts with the understated comedy of Christopher Guest's musical satires. Simon Cowell-free. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the vampire enthusiast:
Let the Right One In
Prepubescent misfit Oskar finds a kindred spirit when Eli arrives as his new neighbour on a chilly Stockholm housing estate. Little does he realise that she's been 12 for a lot longer than him. The most touching horror film for eternities. Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the frustrated action hero:
Inglourious Basterds
About as plausible as Where Eagles Dare, and rather more bloodthirsty, but almost as much fun. With Brad Pitt as a redneck Jewish, Nazi-scalping vigilante, this is, as Tarantino told Cannes film festival, "Hitler defeated by cinema". Photograph: guardian.co.uk

Tony Hancock Collection Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the buff:
"Have You Seen...?": a Personal Introduction to 1,000 Films Including Masterpieces, Oddities and Guilty Pleasures (with Just a Few Disasters)
Difficult to shop for, since they've seen everything already, and formed an unpredictably fierce opinion. They'll likely already have Thomson's legendary Biographical Dictionary of Film, the film nut's film reference book of choice; but this, from last year, is another bracingly oblique take on the canon. (Or you could just give them a gift subscription to Sofa Cinema.) Photograph: guardian.co.uk

For the fashionista: Audrey Hepburn - Couture Muse Collection, £17.99
Six popular favourites, including Funny Face, Sabrina and Breakfast at Tiffany's, that will keep an entire family entertained. Co-starring enough frocks to put Sex and the City to style shame.
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For the early adopter:
Star Trek Trilogy
They've bought the kit and the obscenely-oversized TV already; now they need the crash-bang spectaculars to show off the kit at its most dazzling. Includes THE WRATH OF KHAN, THE SEARCH FOR SPOCK, and THE VOYAGE HOME. Photograph: guardian.co.uk