Favourite Christmas movie

[Moxiechick]

I asked earlier about about everyone's favourite Christmas books, so thought I'd start a thread asking everyone what theirs and their children's favourite Christmas movies are.
Mine in the Santa Claus. So many good memories of watching it with my nan, all cosy at Christmas time. My 3 y/o dd became obsessed with home alone last Christmas.
I love being able to talk Christmas and not have eyes rolling

A Nightmare Before Christmas.

I love Tim Burton.

Mine

Noel (Susan Surandon)
Mrs Miracle 1 & 2
While you were sleeping
Home Alone
Father Christmas
The Snowman
Snowman and the snow dog
The Bear
Mole's Christmas

Kids

The Grinch
Home Alone
Mickey's Once Upon A Christmas
Arthur Christmas
Prep & Landing

The Holiday

Just love it

Home alone 1&2
Elf
It's a wonderful life

Christmas bliss right there.. Ooh I feel festive just thinking about it!

National lampoon
Meet me in St Louis
A Christmas Carol, any version but preferably the Muppets'

I also have a mind to start a tradition of rewatching modern classics:
Frozen (with the kids)
The Gavin and Stacey Christmas special (after kids go to bed, with a drink)

Can't wait

Mine's an oldie but a goodie, The Bishop's Wife. Just love a bit of Cary Grant.

The Snowman
Elf
Die Hard

DS only has Polar Express so far. It has its moments- i love the CARIBOU! - but it also annoys me: Hanks when he says "the ice has frozen over the tracksssssss" is so fake, and i really don't like the creepy elves. Or the arse-clenchingly bad song the kids sing yuck! And the hobo is shit. However, it is played on average twice a month in the elQ house.

This year DS will be getting Muppets. Is 5yo too young for Home Alone? He would possibly get a bit wibbly at the thought of being abandoned, but would love the violence! If Christmas With The Minions existed he'd be one happy child!

Oh, Meet Me in St Louis is great! I'll buy it for my own stocking

Meet me in St Louis has great music, but the message that one of the daughters won't need to go to college, if she gets engaged really made me cringe, when watching it with DDs, recently.

I love, love, love Christmas with the Kranks. It so reminds me of my own parents, the way things were in my family years ago when I started living abroad (UK) and went home with hubby for holidays. Sadly my dear dad passed away few years ago and dear mum is very old and fragile now and everything has changed but this film warms my heart. Its a bit sad, a bit funny and so much familiar.
I also love The Holiday, and like Home Alone series and the Polar Express.

Elf
Nightmare before Christmas
Polar express
Muppets christmas carol
Arthur christmas
Oh and grinch lol

Sanity it is a very old-fashioned film but it has something for everyone:

DD loves Tootie's violent outburst when she destroys the snow family

DP identifies with the outnumbered, grumpy father

Personally I watch it for the music, the incredible dresses and the impossibly huge, ornate cakes they eat at family celebrations

The Muppet's Christmas Carol! I have it on in the background almost daily for the whole of December!

Up being sick with morning sickness (20 weeks pg) and looking forward to Christmas is helping me through

I have faves that are compulsory viewing with my DD (3.5) every Christmas, but I've got my own list as long as my arm of films I've watched year after year.

Here are mine in the order I usually watch them -
National Lampoons Christmas vacation (as soon as tree and decorations are up with mince pies and egg nog)
Deck the halls
Home Alone
home Alone 2 Lost in New York
Santa Claus the Movie (the real Santa is in this )
A Christmas Story (I love Ralphie)
muppets Christmas Carol (after visiting our local Christmas Market)
Scrooge (Albert Finney version)
Nativity! (Martin Freeman) (after DDs nursery nativity)
elf
bad Santa (usually with DH when he gets in from his work Chrustmas do )
Christmas with the Kranks
holiday inn
White Christmas
It's A Wonderful Life (on Christmas Eve)

For some reason we watch The holiday annually on New Years Eve, as opposed to at Christmas

I watch Meet Me In St Louis all year round x

Gremlins is my favourite. Loads of fun and makes me feel all Christmassy without being sickly sweet and soppy like most Christmas films.

Oh yes I love Christmas with the kranks!

I love all the cheesy made for tv Xmas films. My favourite being Holiday in handcuffs.

I need to get in to some classics as there's loads I haven't seen. This thread is giving me lots of ideas.

Family man is one of my favourite christmas films, I also really love Elf.

Elf. Or the nightmare before Christmas.

The Grinch

Mine are Muppets Christmas Carol, It's a wonderful life and Scrooged.

Miracle on 34th St.... no, Elf.... no, Home Alone..... no, The Velveteen Rabbit...... Oh I can't decide!

I can't believe no one has said Scrooged! Definitely part of mine and dh's Christmas warm up! Also love it's a wonderful life, but normally byself (and a stack of ironing). Dd1 loved mickeys cams last year, hopefully we will find more things this year...

The minister's wife (may have been a Bishop or Reverend I forget). The one with David Niven and Cary Grant.

I've just ordered a Christmas story on DVD on the back of this thread. 😀

My favourite is national lampoon.

Followed by Christmas with the kranks, deck the halls, and the one with arnie it whose name I always forget!