Good family christmas movies

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We love home alone, deck the halls, christmas with kranks need more suggestions please dcs 12 & 11 so past the polar express type movies.

Elf. Best Christmas film ever.

I second Elf. Saw it for the first time last year (obviously been living in a cave up till then). It was very funny.

Elf
Nightmare Before Christmas
The Grinch

It's a Wonderful Life is my personal favourite, but not sure that would go down so well with 11/12 year olds.

I was going to say Elf too.

You sit on a throne of lies.

Another Elf vote. Also Arthur Christmas and Muppets Christmas Carol

Muppet Christmas Carol is quite possibly the greatest Christmas film ever.

I also love Nightmare Before Christmas.

Scrooged is good. Elf obviously. National Lampoons!! A Christmas story is hilarious too.

Elf is a good one forgot about that one
We had nightmare before christmas last year and the kids wasn't impressed by it.
I'll look out for national lampoons christmas as well can't remember if I've seen that one or not.

I've never seen Elf either. Would it be good for my 7 and 4 year old do you think?

Elf is brilliant! Smile I personally think it is better for older children. Upper primary and beyond. But I think others might disagree. I also love miracle on 34th street

Oh I also love the nativity!!

Smile, mine were 4 and 7 when we bought Elf and they loved it.

smileandnod A big part of the story in Elf is about adults not believing in Santa so probably better for older kids depending on your views about maintaining the magic, we've not shown it to our kids yet (7, 5 and 2). That is true for a lot of Christmas movies though, stick with The Snowman with littlies.

Love Actually is my favourite at Christmas time, maybe still a bit adult for pre teens though.

But it shows that the adults were WRONG and that Santa is real. And it's funny.

Nativity! Best Christmas film ever!

Polar express is a favourite here.

I like the Father Christmas cartoon too as it reminds me of being a kid and watching it.

I like all the Santa clause films too but then I love Tim Allen, Christmas with the kranks is another favourite

love elf... In fact watching it now

The Nativity is absolutely brilliant. But our favourite is Miracle on 34th Street - nicely traditional and it makes me believe it has the real Father Christmas in it

I enjoyed Santa Claus the Movie (many, many times), Arthur Christmas is my favourite recent one, although Nativity is good too.

I love, Christmas vacation, elf, Christmas with the kranks, Fred Claus, polar express, the holiday, home alone, Jack frost and groundhog day which isn't a Christmas film but it has snow in

My DC love Nativity 1 & 2 (and I'm sure there's a 3 this year)

I love A Christmas Carol (the animated Jim Carey one)

I can't watch Elf because I was eating some salted caramel chocolates one year (they were very sweet and sickly) so my mind associates the two

My favourite favourite of all time is Lost Christmas (Eddie Izzard) . When the little girl is on the ice , I feel cold myself just watching it.

Oooh years ago someone recommended "Box of Delights" , I have it recorded but never watched it.

My Ds has been watching elf since he was 2 and dd has always watched it. They love it and if has reinforced rather than diluted the magic.

I make my family watch The Flint Street Nativity every year. Entirely for my own pleasure the DCs get enough other treats.

The sight of Frank Skinner's King processing up the stage, disappearing further and further into his own frock until he falls over, is part of the sheer joy of Christmas for me.

I absolutely agree about the Flint Street Nativity. It is genius! Love it when he's searching the inn for a free room "nope, David Beckham in that one..."

Ahhhh... I might fish it out tomorrow...