What christmas movies do you recommend?

Tomtom07

Two films we have to watch every year are

• The Christmas Shoes - Have the tissues ready,it is a tv movie but very good
• Tom & Jerry Was the night before Xmas, normally on boomarang through out the year.

And any Channel 5 movie in the afternoon is always good

:j

trixietoes

paddingtondoo wrote: »

Muppet Christmas Carol would have to be my favourite

Without a doubt, the best Christmas film ever!

giverny_breeze

The Snow Man!!!

Twinny99

MEET ME IN ST LOUIS!!! Every year on the first saturday in Dec we put the tree up and all the lights, settle down with this film on, few glasses of champagne and spend the whole day wrapping presents! Its almost my favourite day of the year

Also LOVE Muppet Xmas Carol....... love the two old guys singing "We're Marley & Marley...woohooooooo" when they are in the chains

Just love love love christmas !!!

SandC

I've ordered a set called the Christmas Collection - The christmas Shoes, A different Kind of Christmas, A Christmas Romance, If you Believe. I also have on order Meet me in St Louis.

Faves are A Christmas Carol (1984 version with George C Scott, Scrooge (1951 Alistair Sim), Santa Clause the Movie, Gremlins, Home Alone 1 & 2, A Charlie Brown Xmas, The Nightmare Before Xmas, Miracle on 34th Street, National Lampoons Xmas Vacation.

For lil uns and old uns - any of the old Disney films like Cinderella etc. plus have a look around for Xmas version of cartoons and Xmas editions of sit coms.

What with the above and my Xmas CDs I'm all set!

By the way, already watched Home Alone II the other week.

SandC

Just spotted one called Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) - this apparently inspired the Waltons.

How much more Xmas schmalzy cheesy can you get?

lauzjp

It's A Wonderful Life. Makes me cry every time, lovely film. hubby now likes to venture into oldie films after being made to watch this, one of my favourite films, ever.

Triggles

Let's see - I'm a Christmas nut - so here goes:
-The Santa Claus - 1, 2, and 3 !!
-Home Alone 1, 2, and 3
-Love Actually
-Charlie Brown Christmas
-The Grinch (original cartoon)
-The Grinch (Jim Carrey version)
-I'll Be Home for Christmas (Jonathon Taylor Thomas) love this one don't know why - just silly fun
-The Christmas Box (highly recommend)
-White Christmas
-Christmas with the Kranks
-The Year without a Santa Clause (claymation original version)
-Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Muppet Christmas Carol (favourite)
-Miracle on 34th Street (both old and new versions)
-National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
-It's a Wonderful Life
-Jingle All the Way
-Elf
-Animaniacs Christmas
-Deck the Halls
-Twas the Night Before Christmas (original cartoon with the mice and clock)
-Frosty the Snowman (original cartoon)
plus some more that escape my brain right now.

I also have all the Home Improvement series (Tim Allen) on dvd, and dig out the Christmas episodes around the holiday time as well as they are very funny!

Scary thing is we make the effort to fit them ALL in during the holiday season! :rotfl: And usually do - does that make us serious couch potatoes??

Ruth_honey

Triggles wrote: »

Let's see - I'm a Christmas nut - so here goes:
-The Santa Claus - 1, 2, and 3 !!
-Home Alone 1, 2, and 3
-Love Actually
-Charlie Brown Christmas
-The Grinch (original cartoon)
-The Grinch (Jim Carrey version)
-I'll Be Home for Christmas (Jonathon Taylor Thomas) love this one don't know why - just silly fun
-The Christmas Box (highly recommend)
-White Christmas
-Christmas with the Kranks
-The Year without a Santa Clause (claymation original version)
-Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
-Nightmare Before Christmas
-Muppet Christmas Carol (favourite)
-Miracle on 34th Street (both old and new versions)
-National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
-It's a Wonderful Life
-Jingle All the Way
-Elf
-Animaniacs Christmas
-Deck the Halls
-Twas the Night Before Christmas (original cartoon with the mice and clock)
-Frosty the Snowman (original cartoon)
plus some more that escape my brain right now.

I also have all the Home Improvement series (Tim Allen) on dvd, and dig out the Christmas episodes around the holiday time as well as they are very funny!

Scary thing is we make the effort to fit them ALL in during the holiday season! :rotfl: And usually do - does that make us serious couch potatoes??

Yes, it does, but who cares....it's christmas!!! Nothing better than snuggling up with a good film, some nibbles and a hot choc. In fact, I think this year I'm going to have a couple of xmas movie nights every week in December. I'm loving this thread! It's reminded me of so many xmas films I'd forgotten about.

eryn_kathleen

Ooh, just saw this thread and had to contribute. We Americans take our Christmas movies very seriously, and I've had to import a fair few DVDs across the pond!

My personal preference is for the old classics:
White Christmas - cheesy but loads of great songs, and it stars Bing Crosby and the lovely Rosemary Clooney! This is my definitive Christmas movie. It's not Christmas without it.
Holiday Inn - Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Very similar to White Christmas, and it's a bit slow in places, but the Christmas scenes are great.
Christmas in Connecticut - This was my grandmother's favourite, and now one of mine. There's a remake from the 90s but the 40s original is funny and touching. I love it!
It's a Wonderful Life - Others have mentioned this, but I wanted to say that this is so much a part of American Christmas that there is one television channel that runs a 24 hour marathon of this film on Christmas Eve!
The Bishop's Wife - Another 40s film, this one is about a bishop trying to get a cathedral built for his community but can't get enough money together. He asks for help and a Cary-Grant-shaped angel comes to earth to help him.
Miracle on 34th Street - The black and white original version is excellent!
An Affair to Remember - This isn't terribly Christmassy, but they do meet at Christmas Eve so I've always counted it a Christmas movie. I always think black and white romances are great at Christmas!
Animation Classics - These still get played on telly every year in the States. There's a huge nostalgic love for them in my age group (25-35) but my neices and nephews (2-13) love them too! A Charlie Brown Christmas has to be included here too.
How the Grinch Stole Christmas - The original animated version is 100000000% better than the horrible John Carey live action version.

More modern favourites:
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Edward Scissorhands
Scrooged
Bad Santa

I'm sure there are dozens more I'm forgetting!