Christmas Films New and Old . Time for a list !

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Yes the Hallmark Channel will be bustin' with all the CCF (Cheesey Christmas Films) of which there will be a gem or two .

This year we're going to see "Violent Night" it's along the lines of "Nobody" and "DeadPool" (two of DH and DS favourite films) not one you'd autmatically think Oh how festive but the trailers looked good .

My favourites are
Lost Christmas (Eddie Izzard film)
Last Christmas (Emma Thompson and Emilia Clarke which got slated but is quite funny)
Angels In The Snow (Kirsty Swanson) bit sad/bit preachy /annoying child . Perfect Christmas fodder

So , films Old&New

Gems and Turkeys

I'm very excited by Spirited - I think it is coming out on Sky Cinema so we will be able to watch it on Xmas eve!

Also the new animated A Christmas Carol which comes out on Netflix on 2nd December, one to watch with the kids!

I know I am the only one in the world but I loved A Castle for Christmas last year.

Also The Bishop’s Wife

I also count When Harry Met Sally as a Christmas film

And what was that one about a famous person stuck in a small town and the waitress takes him home for Christmas? That was nice.

@AdmiralButterfly

the waitress one is a Hallmark type film but I cant remember exact title but think it might be One Royal Holiday. Theres a few with similar story, A Prince for Christmas is one and in Jingle Bell princess its a princess stranded.

yes I have a spreadsheet

@Purpleavocado Bernard and the genie is brilliant! Not many people know that one.

I love Fred Claus and drool over Vince Vaughan 😍

Klaus
Daddy’s Home 2
Muppet Christmas Carol
Men Behaving Badly Christmas special - the dream montages of the perfect Christmas juxtaposed with their self inflicted and relatable misery is hilarious.
Merry Christmas Mr Bean

A Hallmark-ish one called The Christmas Card - Woman sends Christmas cards to a group of unknown soldiers. One tracks her down to thank her and ends up staying in her town and they fall in love.

I feel I need more Hallmark films in my life.

Oh yes, love this

Never seen the Greatest Store in the World, but type it into youtube and there are two vids at the moment around 1 hour 12 minutes, so could be the full film?

Love the Family Stone for the decorated house and stylish family porn, although every time I watch it I notice again how intolerant and illiberal they really are.

The Holiday is my favourite, although wish they'd got a different Miles every time...Jack Black is grim!

Lots of great films on this list. A new one discovered last year, called the Feast of the Seven Fishes about an Italian family prepping Christmas Eve dinner. Very different vibe to the usual offering but we enjoyed it
In the tenuous camp is sleepless in Seattle as it's starts on Christmas Eve!
Santa Claus the movie for utter cheesiness
As well as the Snowman we watch the Father Christmas by the same author

Christmas chronicles 1&2
Santa Claus the movie
Surviving Christmas
Christmas with the Kranks
National lampoon's Christmas vacation
Home alone 2 lost in New York
The Christmas shoes
Christmas snow
The holiday
A Christmas orange
Dawid i Elfy (David and the elves)
The polar express
Both miracle on 34th streets
The snowman (first Xmas Eve off in a few years so I'm really looking forward to watching it this year)

Whoops forgot The Grinch

Christopher's Christmas Mission which is an old Swedish animated film that I have watched every Christmas since I was about 10.
It's a Wonderful Life - even though DH hates it
Home Alone

Oh what a great thread! Thank you 🎄

This may give us some good ideas.

Very handy! Thanks!

The bishops wife
Its a wonderful life
Miracle on 34th street
Snowman
The small one (disney)
Elf
The holiday
The grinch
Christmas Carol(has to be the alistair sims one)
Nightmare before christmas

Thanks 4 the ideas!!!

For me it’s always;
Gremlins (the original only)
A Christmas Carol (but it must be the one with George C Scott
Home Alone (Original not 2 or worse the others)
Father Christmas the Movie
The Raymond Briggs Santa Claus (another bloomin Christmas)
Its a Wonderful Life

And also not a film but The Father Ted Christmas special.

Forgot I will also watch Nightmare Before Christmas with grown up DD.

Christmas with the Kranks - always watched the day the deccies go up.

Jingle All The Way

The Christmas Card (cheesy)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Christmas with the Kranks

DH likes this one (because of Jamie Lee Curtis )

In no particular order mine are:

1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Home Alone
3. Scrooged
4. Santa Claus the Movie (but only really for the first part set in the North Pole and for David Huddleston who was Father Christmas)
5. Arthur Christmas (this started showing on Netflix the year the DC really got Christmas for the first time and gives me all the warm fuzzy memories of that time)
6. Home Alone 2
7. All the Raymond Briggs ones.
8. The Grinch
9. White Christmas

10. Nativity (the first one) 11. Muppet Christmas Carol 12. Love Actually 13. The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe BBC series (easing the Sunday back to school blues - pure childhood nostalgia) 14. Swiss Family Robinson (not a Christmas film although it has a Christmas scene but more the fact it reminds me so clearly of my childhood Christmasses. It must have been around 1988 and I can so clearly remember sitting in our old lounge with my younger brother, highlighting this in the Christmas Radio Times, writing the label for the video cassette, programming the video to record it and then watching the film on repeat for weeks afterwards). 15. Any of the Julia Donaldson ones but especially The Gruffalo's Child as it was DS's favourite book when he was tiny and not a smelly, hairy teenager <sob>. 16. The Box of Delights. 17. Any of the gloriously cheesy Hallmark films.

I'm off to check out Bernard and the Genie and The Greatest Store as both sound familiar and right up my ridiculously sentimental street.

Obviously agree with all these!! But one not mentioned yet!!

Grandpa for Christmas.

Absolutely amazing Hallmark cheese!!

Oh and I always watch while you were sleeping. Not really a Christmas film but it has Christmas in it!

I’m currently watching A California Christmas on Netflix. It’s quite funny. Worth a watch.