Movies: Best Christmas Movies

[KallioWeHardlyKnewYe]

A Christmas Story.

 

[NyQuil]

North American bias on a predominantly North American website? The nerve!

It's a dumb comment anyway.

Love Actually is hugely popular in North America.

 

[NyQuil]

 

[DynamiteKid]

Christmas Vacation

Die Hard
Love Actually


Watched Elf the other night, didn't stand up like the others. I'm good with not watching it again.

 

[Bounces R Way]

put The Ref in there for my boy @NyQuil
Never seen it, might have to give it a go over the break.

 

[Osprey]

The Muppet Christmas Carol
A Christmas Carol (1984)
A Christmas Carol (1938)

They're all versions of the same story, but it's the best Christmas story and even one of the best stories, period, IMO. I also love the 1951 version and many of the other list choices (and a few movies that didn't even make the list, like The Shop Around the Corner and Holiday Inn), but we were asked to choose only three Christmas movies and those are the three that I watch most often.

BTW, if anyone's interested, the 1951 and 1984 versions are both on YouTube:

Spoiler

 

[Blackhawkswincup]

Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol

HM - Its a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story

 

[Tw1ster]

Christmas Vacation gets my vote, however I just finished watching Violent Night tonight and enjoyed it immensely. Stupid but great fun

 

[Sleemans]

Alastair Sim version of A Christmas Carol

HM - Its a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story

These are the three I voted for as well.

I watch the Alastair Sim version of Scrooge every year, and watch the other two every couple of years. My other yearly watch is A Charlie Brown Christmas, but don't consider it a movie so it didn't get my vote.

 

[WeThreeKings]

We always like watching The Night Before

 

[Scintillating10]

Christmas Eve or so we usually watch a Johnny Cash Christmas Special from the '70s. Last year it was from 1971. I remember a John Denver Christmas special we watched one year. Both pretty good

 

[MakeTheGoalsLarger]

Home Alone
A Christmas Story
Jingle All the Way (this one would lose its spot to Gremlins if the latter was included in the poll, such a cute little movie)

 

[Chili]

March of the Wooden Soldiers/Babes in Toyland (1934) -Don't know if it's considered a Christmas film but was shown every year around this time when I was a kid, still a favorite...with Laurel & Hardy.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)-Edmund Gwenn as Santa Claus is a real charmer. Great tale.

A Christmas Carol (1951) - Alastair Sim was a funny dude, although this is the role most know him for. Classic.

 

[93gilmour93]

Don’t forget about Krampus

 

[Took a pill in Sbisa]

Jingle All the Way
Miracle on 34th Street (the newer one)
Home Alone
Bad Santa

For me these its a steep drop off after these 4.

 

[alko]

Here in Czech and Slovakia we have more domestic Christmas cult movies. One of them is Cosy Dens

 

[Mr Jiggyfly]

Watching the same Christmas movies year after year finally got old and I’ve been watching several new ones every year instead.

Here are some of my new favorites:

Ones that I found funny and entertaining:

Love Hard
Holly Star

The entertaining and has hockey category:

Just Friends
Miracle on Christmas Lake
Jack Frost
EXmas

Other ones I enjoyed:

This is Christmas
I Believe in Santa
Jingle Jangle

 

[I am not exposed]

Elf
Love Actually

Are the two I watch the most in repeated viewings. Both were released in 2003. I remember watching Love Actually in the cinema, but can't recall much fanfare for Elf at the time, although it did great at the box office.

Going for Home Alone as my 3rd choice. Mostly due to nostalgia reasons.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Missing Lethal Weapon and Gremlins.

 

[BigBadBruins7708]

Required viewing for me are:

Christmas Vacation
Elf
Christmas Story
Home Alone
Santa Clause
Rudolph (claymation one)
Grinch (animated one)
Fred Claus

 

[93gilmour93]

Missing Lethal Weapon and Gremlins.

Gremlins is one of my favourites also

 

[Fiji Water]

Joyeux Noel
Die Hard

 

[Bahama Mama]

 

[Chili]

Another classic, Doctor Zhivago (1965) has a number of picturesque winter scenes

 

[End on a Hinote]

die hArD lMfAo BeCaUsE eVeRyOnE eLsE iS pIcKiNg InTeNtIoNaLy ChrIsTmAs MoViEs.

(Anyway, it's Christmas Vacation)