Favourite Christmas Films/Comedies

[Joanne1991]

Here is a list of my favourite christmas films & comedies

Films

All i want for christmas
A christmas story
Mickey's once upon a christmas
The muppet christmas carol
A christmas carol (The one starring Jim Carrey)
Home Alone
Home Alone 2

Comedies

The catherine tate show (Christmas 2007)
The catherine tate show (Nan's christmas carol)
The royle family (Christmas 1999)
The vicar of dibley (The christmas lunch incident & winter)
Steptoe & son (A perfect christmas)
Gavin & Stacey (Christmas special 2008)
Mrs Brown's Boys (Christmas specials)

Drama's
Downton Abbey (Christmas specials)

My Sky box is stuffed with crimbo films recorded off Movies24 this month for the Christmas in July event.

Snap!
Just a few off the top of my head:
Elf
The Polar Express
Arthur Christmas
Bad Santa
And loads more but I can't think right now! :p

My all time favourite Christmas film is While You We're Sleeping.

Elf
Snowglobe
Home alone

The Snowman
The Snowman and The Snow Dog
Father Christmas
The Holiday
Serendipity
Arthur Christmas
The Family Stone
Love Actually
Both Home Alones

I bloody love Christmas 🎄

Shit, I missed out a Muppet's Christmas Carol!

All of the ones mentioned - I love Christmas films and try to start watching them in October but sometimes I get nostalgic before. Just wanted to mention Serendipidy - lovely Christmassy feel good film.

Bernard and the Genie. Nothing comes close.

That said, me and DD always make an occasion of it when The Ghost Of Greville Lodge is shown on C5 - they usually air it on the Sunday afternoon closest to Hallowe'en because, I suppose, of the haunting element. But it's very definitely a Christmas film, and it always marks the start of the run-up proper for us.

Special mentions go to A Child's Christmas In Wales (the BBC version from a few years ago - I'm Welsh and the 80s valleys Christmases are spot on, total nostalgiafest), the Patrick Stewart Christmas Carol, Scrooged, and anything ghostly because Christmas wouldn't be Christmas without ghosts!

Oh and The Good Life 'It's Silly But It's Fun' Christmas episode. And, rather embarrassingly, all the My Family Christmas specials. They're a bit of an institution in our house!

I forgot to add
The Grinch
Four Christmases
Crazy for Christmas
Arthur Christmas

I also love the 1999 Christmas special of the royle family and the only fools and horses Christmas specials

My absolute favourite is The Muppets Christmas Carol, but I also love Arthur Christmas.
The Snowman, The Snowman and the Snowdog, and Father Christmas are all lovely, too.

In terms of TV specials I can watch and rewatch Gavin and Stacy (the first Christmas special when they all go to Essex), Only Fools and Horses, or The Vicar of Dibley. A few years ago I picked up a Two Ronnies Christmas DVD in Sainsbury's. That always gets a spin in the run up to the big day!

BroomstickOfLove
My absolute favourite is The Greatest Store in the World, but DVDs are as rare as hen's teeth.

Not that I would dream of advocating something illegal...but I did manage to torrent find this online to download last year. Just throwing that out there...

Ooh, thanks, GutterStar. I watched it on YouTube for years, but last year the video has been removed.

As I would happily buy a legal copy if only the BBC would bloody well release one, I would have very little guilt over obtaining one in any way I can.

It's not Christmas until I've sobbed my way through The Office Christmas special followed by the Misfits Christmas special with a gin and tonic in hand. Genuinely find them life affirming and moving at that time of year.

I also love the vicar of dibley and father ted Christmas specials.
The Festivus episode of Seinfeld ( ideally watched on 23rd Dec )

Film wise it has to be elf, die hard and Groundhog Day

Scrooge (1970 film)
The Royle Family - The New Sofa

It's sad there'll never be any more Royle Families. They were brill