let's see if we can find the best Christmas movie ever!

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My favourite is Santa Claus the movie. We watched it in the cinema when I was a little girl, it was my first cinema trip and we ate ice cream in little tubs.

Every year I watch it and enjoy it just as much as I did that first time.

Elf is a close second, then Christmas with the Kranks.

What's your favourite xmas film and why?

Ooh, just seen the list, also love White Christmas, especially the songs - love a bit of nostalgia. And A Hundred and one dalmatians is quite Christmassy in places, with all that snow? And how could I forget The Snowman - a wonderful classic, but maybe a bit short for best XMas Movie contender?
Anyway, I've voted already

OLittleTownOfBarflehem Sun 08-Dec-13 17:32:00
Santa Claus the movie - 6
Annabelles Wish - 1
Its a Wonderful Life - 12
Polar Express - 5
Miracle on 34th street - 2
Muppet Xmas carol - 10
Nativity - 1
Home Alone - 3
Elf - 10
Jingle all the way - 2
Love Actually - 9
Christmas tree - 2
A Christmas Carol (jim carrey) - 1
Nation Lampoons christmas vacation - 3
Gremlins - 1
The Snowman - 2
Christmas with the Kranks - 1
Father Christmas - 1
Die Hard - 2
Arthur Christmas - 2
Mickeys Once upon a Christmas - 1
Jack Frost - 1
The Grinch - 2
Scrooged - 2
Lost Christmas - 1
Mickeys Christmas Carol - 1
Nightmare before Christmas - 2
White Christmas - 2
Bad Santa - 3
Christmas Carol - 1
Meet me in st louis - 1

When Zombie was but a wee Zombiette, American TV always showed Peter Pan (the version with Mary Martin as Peter) at Christmas. That's her defining Christmas TV memory.

Sorry to be trouble - what's new?! - but can I change mine from Elf to A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart - they're both part of our Christmas but watching A Christmas Carol on Christmas Eve has become more of a tradition here. And though it's had a mention I don't think it's got a vote yet. Would like to see it on the list

Muppet Christmas Carol.

I like Miracle on 34th St too. But It's a Wonderful Life is sentimental gubbins and Jimmy Stewart is a card-carrying Creepy Weirdo.

It's a wonderful life is mine!

Santa Claus the movie - 6
Annabelles Wish - 1
Its a Wonderful Life - 12
Polar Express - 5
Miracle on 34th street - 3
Muppet Xmas carol - 11
Nativity - 1
Home Alone - 3
Elf - 9
Jingle all the way - 2
Love Actually - 9
Christmas tree - 2
A Christmas Carol (jim carrey) - 1
Nation Lampoons christmas vacation - 3
Gremlins - 1
The Snowman - 2
Christmas with the Kranks - 1
Father Christmas - 1
Die Hard - 2
Arthur Christmas - 2
Mickeys Once upon a Christmas - 1
Jack Frost - 1
The Grinch - 2
Scrooged - 2
Lost Christmas - 1
Mickeys Christmas Carol - 1
Nightmare before Christmas - 2
White Christmas - 2
Bad Santa - 3
Christmas Carol (patrick stewart)- 2
Meet me in st louis - 1
Peter pan - 1

Phew. We are watching jingle all the way now, its ace!

It's not a Christmas movie as such but I always watch Little Women (the one with Winona Ryder) while wrapping presents. :)

Also LOVE Arthur Christmas and It's a Wonderful Life, they both make me cry. Also the new Miracle on 34th Street is lovely.

Love actually is our number one. Just the right mix of laughter, tears, story and schmaltz.

Elf number two.

Muppet Christmas Carol and Arthur Christmas jointly!

Love Actually for me.

Also like Elf and The Holiday.

I think Bernard and the genie
dd1 thinks the greatest store in the world
dd2 thinks the search for santa paws

:)

Love Actually.

And I love the Raymond Briggs version of Father Christmas

Zamboni, is The Holiday something about a woman getting stuck somewhere (house!) in the snow?

Another one for A Muppet Christmas Carol. It's wonderful - we always watch it on Christmas Eve and I get all gooey when Kermit sings 'One More Sleep Til Christmas'.

HOWEVER!!!

Has anyone else noticed that the DVD edition (and every version I have seen on TV in recent years) always misses out the song between Scrooge and Belle. It's this one:

I used to love that song when I was little. In fact I used to spend the rest of the year acting it out, in the same manner that I used to act out Eleanor Rigby when I was even littler (if anyone is wondering, the correct way to stage these songs is to wander about the landing with a white bed sheet draped about one's shoulders, looking mournful yet at the same time quite stately and aloof).

Why was it cut? There's even a reprise at the end ("The Love is Found") which makes no sense without the full song as a counter!!!!

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White Christmas! Such a lovely film. I also love Love Actually, the Muppets and Beauty and the Beast Belle's Magic Christmas (or something like that )

Oh, a few years ago, I dont know why, but I always put up the xmas tree whilst watching The Fith Element

The search for Santa paws is crap. There is nothing good about it, at all.

So many to choose from, but A Christmas Carol (with Patrick Stewart and Richard E Grant) a favourite with us!

Muppet Christmas Carol every time.
Though I also really like Arthur Christmas. Give it a couple of years and I think it will also be a classic.

Just asked my dp what his fav Xmas film is and he said Gremlins, deadly serious too haha.

I love Santa Claus the movie, I loved it so much as a child and still get all warm inside watching it. Oh and It's a wonderful life, I ball my eyes out every time, beautiful film.

Is Santa Claus the Movie the one with Dudley Moore and the rich ginger girl / homeless boy subplot? And John Lithgow? Something about magic lollipops containing reindeer feed...

(No offense meant to gingers, btw, I am one myself!)

wow your nice

Got to be National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. I have seen it so many times but it still make me laugh.

SQUIRRRRRREEELLLLLLLL!!!!!

I couldn't possibly name my favourite Christmas film as I love them all but I can't believe we've got to page 5 and NOBODY has mentioned The Santa Clause! I love that film!

I also love Miracle on 34th Street, Love Actually and I think that Home Alone 2 is better than the first one.

Santa Claus the movie - 7
Annabelles Wish - 1
Its a Wonderful Life - 13
Polar Express - 5
Miracle on 34th street - 4
Muppet Xmas carol - 15
Nativity - 1
Home Alone - 3
Elf - 11
Jingle all the way - 2
Love Actually - 13
Christmas tree - 2
A Christmas Carol (jim carrey) - 1
Nation Lampoons christmas vacation - 3
Gremlins - 2
The Snowman - 2
Christmas with the Kranks - 1
Father Christmas - 2
Die Hard - 2
Arthur Christmas - 5
Mickeys Once upon a Christmas - 1
Jack Frost - 1
The Grinch - 2
Scrooged - 2
Lost Christmas - 1
Mickeys Christmas Carol - 1
Nightmare before Christmas - 2
White Christmas - 2
Bad Santa - 3
Christmas Carol (patrick stewart)- 2
Meet me in st louis - 1
Peter pan - 1
The Holiday - 1
Bernard and the genie - 1
The greatest store in the world - 1
The search for Santa paws - 1

Hester, that's the one.

I love Gremlins, it's ace. I'm boring keeping dh abreast of my findings (all very scientific) and he's horrified Die Hard isn't higher. I'm trying to persuade him to watch Love Actually. He is being a Grinch