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Christmas Films

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Babyyodasmacarons · 20/12/2020 20:54

AIBU to ask you all for your favourite Christmas films?

DP and I will be spending the Christmas period on our own and I’m writing a List of Christmas films to watch from tomorrow until probably NYE. What ones would you recommend? (We will probably watch a few films a day - nothing else to do!)

So far we have already watched Home Alone 1 & 2 and Deck the Halls, so have the below on our list:

Miracle on 34th street
Elf
It’s a Wonderful Life
Die Hard (DP insists 😂)
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Christmas with the Kranks
Scrooged

Any of your faves I’ve missed? 🎄🎄🎄

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IamMummyhearmeROAR · 20/12/2020 21:08

There

Babyyodasmacarons · 20/12/2020 21:08

Love all the suggestions, got enough to keep us going well into the New Year! but keep them coming 😃

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CrazyBaubles · 20/12/2020 21:10

Christmas chronicles
Muppets Christmas Carol
Fred Claus
I recently watched Noelle and enjoyed that
The Santa Claus 1 & 2 (the Tim Allen ones)
Four Christmases
Daddy's Home 2
The Grinch (newest one)
Arthur Christmas

Not strictly Christmas but always watched in this here - Edward Scissorhands

Also, if you like pure cheese - Christmas Inheritance & 12 dates of Christmas

I may have an addiction slight fondness for Christmas films Xmas Blush

LunaLoveFood · 20/12/2020 21:10

Arthur christmas
The polar express
The Muppet christmas carol
The Grinch

BrumBoo · 20/12/2020 21:11

Oh! I have a left field one, but if you're watching Die Hard anyway...

Con Air. Not a Christmas film, but definitely one to watch whilst having a drink and not wanting to engage too many braincells.

'Put the bunneh daawwnn' Grin.

BeeDavis · 20/12/2020 21:12

I have a list that I tick off every year!

Muppets Christmas Carol
New Years Eve
Santa Claus The Movie
Miracle on 34th Street
Daddys Home 2
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Jack Frost
Jingle All The Way
Love Actually
Home Alone 2
Home Alone
Santa Clause 3
Santa Clause 2
Santa Clause
Elf
Last Christmas
Christmas With The Kranks
Deck The Halls
Nativity
Bad Moms Xmas
Fred Claus
The Night Before
Grinch
Polar Express
The Holiday
Arthur Christmas
The Christmas Chronicles 1&2

ChestnutStuffing · 20/12/2020 21:13

The Snowman
A Child's Christmas in Wales
A Child's Christmases in Wales
Mr Bean's Christmas
Nativity (+2 and 3)
Joyeux Nowell
A Christmas Story
Charlie Brown Christmas

Pl242 · 20/12/2020 21:17

The Family Stone

InTheNightWeWillWish · 20/12/2020 21:17

Not a Christmas film as such (although there is snow and Father Christmas) but we watched chronicles of Narnia the other day which helped get us in the mood.

When you watch The Santa Clause, there is also the Santa Clause 2 - not as good as the first but still worth a watch in my opinion. The Santa Clause 3 isn’t that great.

I watched Holidate on Netflix and expected it to be total trash, which it was, but I also quite enjoyed it.

My favourites have all been said though.

kerkyra · 20/12/2020 21:17

Billy Elliot is on TV next Sunday,not a christmas film but brilliant.
Some like it hot is on on Christmas day! Superb.The first 20 mins is a bit oh,maybe this isnt for me if you havent seen it before,but it really is worth a watch.Funny too.

Boozysoozy1 · 20/12/2020 21:38

Not Christmas but Groundhog Day and Cool Runnings are proper “between Christmas and New Year” films

Graphista · 20/12/2020 21:49

This is the thread I have been waiting for as I suspect most of mine will be disagreed with but...

Last Christmas - a recent discovery by me but I loved it

Gremlins - a much maligned movie but full of fun

Die hard - certainly the first 2 at least

Trading places - very dodgy jokes and politically incorrect throughout but I maintain still loads of fun!

LA confidential - just stunning!

The long kiss goodnight - cannot stream it anywhere! If anyone can help with this I'll love you forever!

Batman returns - Michelle Pfeiffer in a catsuit and Danny devito's deliciously squirmy penguin - what's not to love?!

A bad moms Christmas - another quite new one but great fun

On the more conventional side of things though possibly not exactly "traditional"...

The family stone - if you're not crying at the finale you're not human!

Four Christmases - anyone with a remotely dysfunctional family can totally relate

Deck the halls - just daft fun

Scrooged

More traditional but still not totally schmaltzy crap...

Muppets Christmas carol

The Santa clause

Miracle on 34th street - ok a bit schmaltzy

while you were sleeping

The preachers wife

Love actually - I know it gets slated on here but I still like it with all its faults

The sound of music - a family tradition really

Little women (1994) I like this version it's fairly faithful to the book and I like Susan Sarandon in it although I must admit I haven't seen the most recent adaptation yet so can't comment on that

On my list to possibly try (would love to know thoughts on these and if posters could say what they're like other than just 'good' or not as the case may be Grin)

Christmas chronicles
The best man holiday
Jingle jangle
Happy Christmas (2014) and Noelle (2019) - both star Anna Kendrick who I love
Kiss kiss bang bang
National lampoons Christmas vacation - I've never seen ANY national lampoon anything a friend is trying to persuade me

Absolutely cannot STAND it's a wonderful life, bloody awful film! And I like old movies!

If you must watch an oldie make it a good one like holiday inn or the shop around the corner though there tends to be plenty of these on tv over the Xmas period anyway. For a really quality old movie not a Christmas one though Casablanca is on at some point (spotted in my radio times can't remember details sorry)

Graphista · 20/12/2020 21:52

Never heard of trading places, going to look it up now 😃

What?! How?!! Even my dd knows it and she's only 19 so it was made 18 years before she was born!

ColdNovemberDay · 20/12/2020 21:59

@Babyyodasmacarons Rare Exports is one of our Christmas favourites - it’s the national Christmas movie of Finland!
May give you nightmares though :)

LadyTiredWinterBottom2 · 20/12/2020 22:11

Four christmases.

Definitely not Christmas Eve, it's on now and l want to gouge my eyes out

MisiSam · 20/12/2020 22:13

It's a wonderful life

evilharpy · 20/12/2020 22:26

Die Hard is the ultimate Christmas film.

I don't think anyone has said Meet Me In St Louis. It's gorgeous - not Christmassy till near the end but just so lovely. Makes me cry every time, and I'm not a cryer.

Redyoyo · 20/12/2020 22:30

Daddies home 2 is a fab film

scrivette · 20/12/2020 22:31

The Snowman
The Snowman and the Snowdog
Father Christmas
The Bear

shamus2020 · 20/12/2020 22:33

The star

AriesTheRam · 20/12/2020 22:35

Deck the halls

LouiseTrees · 20/12/2020 22:39

Jingle all the way

MoonlightMedicine · 20/12/2020 22:40

Nativity

goingtosnow · 20/12/2020 22:41

Sleepless in Seattle
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (i know it's thanksgiving but still...)

Beconase20 · 20/12/2020 22:42

Meet me in St Louis is one of my favourites as is Little Women and The Sound of Music at Christmas. National Lampoons we watch every year on Christmas Day afternoon without fail...it is THE best movie of all time!!! Muppets Christmas carol is our Christmas Eve movie and all the others you’ve mentioned fit in around it. Trading Places is great too but who can forget Coming to America with a Eddie Murphy...also great!!