Films to watch over Christmas which suit 3 generations...?

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Over Christmas we'll have two young adult DD's and grandparents staying. To save us from scrolling through Netflix etc... and ending up not watching anything, I want to gather together some ideas in advance. Current films or classics. I guess we're looking at PGs, 12s and old school 15s. The grandparents are mid-70s. No-one minds a bit of violence or swearing but trying to avoid cringey sex scenes. No-one wants to watch those in front of their parents.

Gish - lots of suggestions here. I'll come back to this. I've had my head in work since posting. Thank you everyone.

The Holdovers from last year was really good. Have been suggesting my 22 year old watch it. It's a bit Xmassy, but not too much. Nice mix of laugh and cry.

Another vote for the Holdovers - great film!

Green book is brilliant. Not too babyish, great, great acting, thought provoking but also funny in many places. Starring Viggo Mortensen and Mahershala Ali, the film is inspired by the true story of a 1962 tour of the Deep South by African American pianist Don Shirley...

Mrs Harris goes to Paris - A widowed cleaning lady in 1950s London falls madly in love with a couture Dior dress, and decides that she must have one of her own. I loved this.

This Beautiful Fantastic - Bella, a young woman with a quirky past, tries to write a children's novel. Soon, she forms an unlikely friendship with an old, rich and temperamental widower.

Room with a View - not on Netflix but I think my 16yo DD would love this

Emma - with Anya Taylor Joy. Gorgeous visually. A classic, of course!

Sense and Sensibility - one of my all time favs!

Not sure what is on Netflix. Sometimes you can pay a bit to watch something on Amazon prime.

Short circuit was a film we all enjoyed recently!

That Christmas:- was surprising good on Netflix it's new and Enola Holmes both films - also Netflix- was a hit with IL and older kids.

Everything else I could think of a PP mentioned

I LOVED and always recommend CODA on Netflix. It’s a wonderful film. There is some sex but it’s more comical than cringe.

Great idea for a thread.

We’re in the same situation and will be watching the new Wallace & Gromit film when it airs.
Glass Onion and the sequel went down well last year
wicked Little Letters is excellent and very funny but it is extremely sweary, that’s the point of it

Dungeons and Dragons: honour among thieves- I don't know which service has it but we saw it in cinema with teens and IL and it was surprisingly funny.

We watch the Life of Brian every Christmas - swears & nudity but 82 year old grandmother down to the teens and tweens all love it.

Christmas with the coopers. The dog narrates the story.

How about some of the older classics?
Some Like it Hot
Casablanca
The African Queen
Ice Cold in Alex

Also highly recommended is Click and Collect, a short comedy drama with Stephen Merchant. It’s still on Iplayer and apparently it’s also on Netflix

Pretty much anything unless grandparents are anti certain kinds of film. We find British films seem to go down well. Unless they are anti swearing try wicked little letters

If you don't mind subtitles there's some great new Indian films on Netflix, dhak dhak i recommend, funny and female empowering

Seen a couple of good romantic comedies recently, one with Harry connick junior

Chef - a gem of a film

trailer
m.youtube.com/watch?v=5xlHJAEaf-s

Something "classic" from the 30s or 40s, like Casablanca, a Cary Grant movie - although my favourite Cary Grant movie is Charade with Audrey Hepburn and made in the 60s- Citizen Kane, the evergreen Christmas story, It's a Wonderful Life? Have a quick look at the AFI site and you'll be spoilt for choice.

Coincidentally, I was discussing The Third Man based on Grahame Greene's book the other day, and I remember thinking that was a great movie and I think deserves a rewatch.

Three Amigos, a Marx Brothers film - Duck Soup is great -, the Hitchcock The Lady Vanishes, North by Northwest

Ealing comedies might be a safe bet. The better known ones are Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Ladykillers.

Other good, ‘classic’ British films:
Local Hero
A Matter of Life and Death
Truly Madly Deeply

Also: The Italian Job, Oceans 11, Thomas Crown Affair

And Kenneth Branagh’s Poirot remakes work well for a wide age group (although it’s a case of diminishing returns on them I think!)

The Great Escape.

Planes Trains and Automobiles is fabulous. Also The Great Outdoors.

There are some great suggestions here. My parents watch more films than me, so, I think the 80s, 90s film ideas are good. A chance to rewatch good films and introduce to our children.

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Same here. We'll watch Wallace and Grommit.

In the past we've watched The Glass Onion all together and the last Agatha Christie film (can't remember the name) Those kind of films work well. We've all seen Wicked Little Letters.

I must have missed that bit…? It’s been a while but what are you meaning?