Tis the season, and I can watch 2 of my top 4 on streaming this year. Here they are in no particular order, what are yours?
I like A Christmas Story. I usually watch the Garfield Christmas Special but that is way too short to count as a movie.
Die Hard is pretty good.
Elf
The Holiday.
Last Holiday.
Love Actually.
Raunch No 9—never thought the same about Mrs Claus after watching
I like scrooged too.
And those:
Bad Santa
Groundhog day (not Christmas, but winter)
Trading places
And: Kevin alone at home, haha.
Jingle all the way, an honorable mention.
Nothing says Christmas more than a terribly-produced 90s film with an exclusively-white cast.
There is only one
A Christmas Carol, 1951, Alistair Sims as Scrooge,
It’s a Wonderful Life. It’s not even close.
All That Heaven Allows and Klaus are good too.
I don’t know if there’s ONLY one, but that’s certainly the one I’ve watched the most at this time of year.
I once used the final scenes of that in class and may never do so again, because I was close enough to crying that I had trouble talking.
This one is nice to watch with the family:
My tie for favorite movie ever The Lion in Winter (tie with Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?) takes place at Christmas yet isn’t a Christmas movie per se. Still evokes much Christmas atmosphere, a historical drama film set around the Christmas of 1183.
Maybe you should add TV too?
‘Bad Santa’, ‘Scrooged’, ‘A Christmas Story’, ‘It’s a Wonderful Life’ and ‘Elf’ are all great fun around this time of year.
‘Jingle all the Way’ with Arnie is kind of a guilty pleasure too.
Someone said Garfield, this is an open thread! But ok, added to the title
If it’s your Christmas movie, that’s what counts
Some people disagree about Die Hard. I don’t care!
Sinbad is white? News to me! (And probably him)
Gremlins and Rudolph the red nosed reindeer.
Going with an open mind and Spirited is good.