What are some of your favorite Christmas movies? 🎄

I love Mary Wickes as Miss Preen in The Man Who Came To Dinner.

Love, Actually, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Fitzwilly

All the ones the OP mentioned

A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott version)

The Shop Around The Corner

Meet Me In St. Louis

It Happened On 5th Avenue - It has a few problems. It has a couple of musical sequences that are terrible and some slapstick in the restaurant scene. If you ignore this, it's a really cute Christmas movie. It could have been a classic had someone used a little common sense.

And yes, Love, Actually.

Oh, and the short A Star In The Night - Is it corny? Yes. Obvious? Yes. Do I cry every single time? Yes.

If you've never seen it, do watch it.

The Bells of St. Mary’s and It’s A Wonderful Life.

Remember The Night starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray is also a fave of mine.

Ugh! Another all time fave I left off of my list. I’ll stop now. Lol

The Bishop’s Wife starring Cary Grant and Loretta Young.

I hear you. OP. Same here.

"Remember The Night"

"Silent Night, Lonely Night"

"Scrooge" (1951 and 1970 British film versions)

"The Homecoming" (the 1971 'Hallmark Special' TV-movie that inspired the 'Waltons' TV series)

Also, unsure if it's really a considered a Christmas film, but local TV stations used to air "Whistle Down The Wind" with Haley Mills over the Holidays each year.

Oh, and It's A Wonderful Life.

The Family Stone

Christmas in Connecticut

It's A Wonderful Life

Home Alone

Black Christmas

Batman Returns

Trading Places

Die Hard

The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Ref

Miracle on 34th Street.

Meet Me in St. Louis

Another vote for 'Christmas in Connecticut' mentioned at R11.

and the Harry Potter series

White Christmas for Rosemary Clooney and Vera- Ellen. I can't stand Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye but the women are worth it.

Holiday with Hepburn and Grant (the Holiday is NYE) + The George C. Scott Scrooge + Love, Actually + And we always watch two b/w David Lean films, Great Expectations and Oliver.

Six Weeks with the two Moores and a young child that dances in the Nutcracker and then collapses and dies on the subway back to the five star hotel. Christmas needs good cry movies.

I always watch The Trouble With Angels around Christmas-time. Two segments are Christmas related and they’re really lovely.

Some of you will fight me on this, but Edward Scissorhands is the BEST Christmas movie ever!

R22: I have never seen Six Weeks! I wish I could find it in some format.

R25 The Christmas scenes of NYC are classic and exceptional and really puts you in the mood for Christmas!

I love many of the older movies mentioned here. Here's another fave:

Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol

Love the original Mother Nature one, with heat and cold miser. I want to watch it now.

Beyond Tomorrow (1940) is a strange and flawed movie that I like very much. Three wealthy, eccentric eldergays live together with the fabulous Maria Ouspenskaya as their housekeeper. Through contrivance they become surrogate grandparents to a man and woman whom they hope will fall in love. But fate has other plans for all of them.

There's also a colorized version on YouTube if you swing that way.

[quote] Holiday with Hepburn and Grant (the Holiday is NYE)

It’s hard to tell as the dour Seton family doesn’t seem to celebrate it, but "Holiday" starts on Christmas Day.

Another for Miracle on 34th Street.

It's not exactly a Christmas movie, but it has a similar timeline to Meet Me In St. Louis -

A Tree Grows In Brooklyn.

Yeah, I enjoy a good cry around the holidays.

Complete list:

It Happened on Fifth Avenue

Christmas in Connecticut

White Christmas

A Christmas Carol (the 1938 MGM version and the 1951 Alastair Sim version)

The Man Who Came to Dinner

Mrs. Parkington (not totally Christmas but a look back on life occurring on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day)

It’s a Wonderful Life

Remember the Night

Holiday Affair

Desk Set

The Apartment

Miracle on 34th Street

The Holly and the Ivy

Holiday Inn

A Christmas Story

We're watching Meet Me In St. Louis and my partner just remarked that Tootie must have been the inspiration for Wednesday Addams.

Baby Cakes starring Rickie Lake and Betty Buckley

Another vote for 'Holiday Affair.'

The Ice Harvest

Sean Cody's Winter Getaway.

"The Gathering" - TV movie with Ed Asner from 1977.

One of my favorites.

Musical "Scrooge" with Albert Finney.

The Man Who Invented Christmas - Dan Stevens plays Charles Dickens dealing with his real life as well as the characters he is writing for "A Christmas Carol".

Joyeux Noel - From 2014 - An unofficial truce on WWI's Western Front in December of 1914.

Reckless

Eyes Wide Shut

Four Christmases and Christmas with the Kranks.

Bad Santa

Christmas in Connecticut on TCM now

Cabbage Patch Kids First Christmas

Mr T & Emmanuel Lewis - A Christmas Dream

The Night They Saved Christmas starring Jaclyn Smith and Art Carney

DL fave Barbara Stanwyck in Christmas in Connecticut on TCM now. After that, they’re showing her other one Remember the Night, which I find waaaay too corny to watch.

R49 see r45

Scrooged.

I hate you I hate Christmas

R50, read it before. My comment includes mush-fest Remember the Night, on TCM at 6PM.

The Rankin /Bass version of The Year without a Santa Claus

Get in the toilet r53

The Cheaters, with Billie Burke being inane and Eugene Pallette being grumpy at Christmas.

The one with Gary Coleman

R56 - YES! Great choice.

They used to show this each year on Chicago WGN TV station.

I managed to get it on my VCR the last time it showed.

I love this movie.

Particularly the character Anthony Marchard reciting Marley's speech from "A Christmas Carol" as the guests look at each other guiltily due to the nasty trick they plan to play.

[quote] And Scrooge asked "Why are you fettered?

[quote] “I wear the chain I forged in life,” replied the Ghost. “I made it link by link, and yard by yard; I girded it on of my own free will, and of my own free will I wore it. Is its pattern strange to you?”

The Ref

Grumpy Old Men (it counts)

‘Twas the Night Before Christmas

Bad Santa

Christmas in Connecticut

Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas

The Muppet Christmas special with John Denver, as well as the Muppet Christmas Carol

Scrooged

The original version of The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young and David Niven.

Oh yeah! Home for the Holidays and though I claim to dislike it, I end up watching Love Actually every year. I also like to put on old variety show Christmas specials and every once in a while the Rich Little Christmas Carol that I memorized as a kid. Guilty pleasures abound

Holiday Inn

White Christmas

Its A Wonderful Life

It’s a wonderful life…. I hate that shit

I like a whole lot of Christmas themed movies, but two recent ones that I find insidiously funny and rewatchable are The Family Stone and Four Christmases.

Decades ago, my mom made me bring my videotape of A Christmas Story to watch with my family, especially the nieces and nephews, on December 23. It was a special tradition. Then TBS and TNT began running it 24/7 for a month and that ruined the nuance of watching it once a year.

I re-watched The Family Stone the other night and have decided it's on my annual Christmas Movies list.

Xmas Cocksucking Championship Competition

I saw The Family Stone in a mostly empty cinema in Stockholm at Christmas 2005. Despite serious jet lag, I laughed heartily and frequently. So much of the muttered dialogue was not captioned and I think the non-English members of the audience thought I was high. One elderly lady grabbed my arm on the way out and asked what, exactly, I found funny about the movie. She said she thought it was very sad.

[bold]Dawson's 12 Loads of Christmas[/bold]

When they got to the 10 Lords a Breeding I excused myself. I probably could have made it through the full 78, but I could see they were going to just transition in the end to "Children, Go Where I Send Thee" and I didn't want to see what the "Little Bitty Baby" was going to be.

R67 Did you say SJP horseface?

R67 the Family Stone is a classic Xmas movie in my family. An unintentional laff riot.

Remember the Night would have been better if they’d starred dishy Dennis Morgan opposite Babs, instead of that dishrag Fred McMurray.

R57 yes, I used to watch it yearly on WGN. I particularly love the dialogue at the beginning with the English secretary Mattie (Norma Varden), they gave her very funny lines.

^R58 I meant.

I like the Muppets version of A Christmas Carol. With the sad song they cut when they started airing it on stream platforms. I saved the VHS tape for a loooooong time, even after I no longer had a VCR. It's one of those movies in which you notice something new almost every time (or something funny you forgot).

Pee Wee's Playhouse Christmas Special

[quote]Remember the Night would have been better if they’d starred dishy Dennis Morgan opposite Babs, instead of that dishrag Fred McMurray.

I'd like to wipe myself with this dishrag.

Morgan was too pretty and milquetoast to play a prosecutor. MacMurray was perfect for the part.

For Francophiles, A CHRISTMAS TALE/UN CONTE DE NOEL (2008).

Starring Catherine Deneuve, Melvin Poupaud, and Mathieu Amalric. Two and half hours of laughter, tears, and drinking. It's great.

R22, R25 and R26, Buck would never have died on the subway at Christmastime

Christmas With My Cunt

The Godfather. Christmas postwar New York and all hell breaks loose. My kind of good cheer.

And just so you know I'm not a monster, A Christmas Carol. Also must be the George C. Scott version, the only one that got Jacob Marley right. When Scrooge tries to console him by calling him a good businessman:

MANKIND was my business! The common welfare was my BUSINESS! Charity, mercy, forbearance and benevolence were ALL my BUSINESS! The dealings of my trade were but a drop of water in the COMPREHENSIVE OCEAN of my BUSINESS!

I only just noticed the decor in Kevin’s house in Home Alone is red and green year-round.

The Bishops Wife with Cary Grant and Loretta Young is on TCM now. I love this movie so much.

A Christmas Story. It's a must-watch every holiday season for me!

Silent Night, Deadly Night.

Are they ever going to rerun the live "A Christmas Story" musical? Or is it available for streaming somewhere?

I still love "The Night They Saved Christmas" featuring Art Carney as Santa, and Paul Williams as his chief elf. It's cheesy as can be, but I like cheesy movies.

Here's the full movie on YouTube.

Christmas in Connecticut

A Christmas Story

Holiday Inn

And White Christmas if you could just have all of the songs in a row and absolutely no talking.

The first part of Fanny & Alexander - I can’t believe no one has mentioned it yet.

It’s absolutely magical.

We need a new one which will be destined to become a classic. Not sure if Hollywood is capable of doing that anymore.

^What are you saying?!

The Christmas that almost wasn’t

[quote]Please, Howard, try to get through this without a fight. I can't stand another one—not on Christmas.

A Christmas tradition in our house too, R52.

Polar Express is my favorite. I love the illustration quality. I love the fact that the boy falls asleep before the train comes, so we know it is all a dream. And, of course Josh Groban's singing and Tom Hanks is always fun.

I'll Be Seeing You (1944)

Based on a radio play called "Christmas Furlough" about a convict on an 8-day furlough to visit relatives,who meets a soldier with battle fatigue, or PTSD. Underrated movie from Selznick-International Studio, starring Ginger Rogers, Joseph Cotten, and Shirley Temple, with Spring Byington and Tom Tully, Directed by William Dieterle.

R93 And do you like all the Leni Riefenstahl Nazi imagery embedded in the illustrations?

Cabbage Snatch XXXmas

Rudolph red nose reindeer

The year without a Santa Claus

Sadly, I cannot find it on this year and I lost the dvd.

R98, Merry Christmas Baby!

Emmett Otter’s Jug-band Christmas

Sometimes TV used to show Since You Went Away on Christmas Eve. It ends on Christmas Eve. I've also seen A Tale Of Two Cities on Christmas Eve...not a Christmas movie at all but it has some Christmas scenes and uses O Come All Ye Faithful in the score. I really enjoyed these films in that Christmas context.

The Christmas Poop Log.

Was it at Christmas or Easter that they would always show that Canadian TV’s exquisitely animated version of Oscar Wilde’s The Selfish Giant each year? The religious theme could probably work well for either.

The Christmas Poop Log is a real animated movie for children. Thanks, filmmakers.

Love "The Gathering", the TV movie with Ed Asner, Maureen Stapleton. It's a shame it isn't easy to find, although I was able to download it via torrent and watch it today. It still holds up. A bit soapy but never maudlin, and what a cast! DL Catnip Indeed. Gregory Harrison! Laurence Pressman! Veronica Hamel! Bruce Davison! James "Pathmark" Karen!

I like to watch TV shows focused around Christmas-time.

There are 2 Sopranos episodes that come to mind. Season 3 episode 10, “…To Save Us All From Satan’s Power.” (Tony and Furio get revenge on the Russian guy who attacked Janice.) There's another episode where Bobby Bacala is forced to dress up as Santa Claus and grumpily gives gifts to neighborhood kids.

Mary Tyler Moore had 2 memorable Christmas-themed episodes. In the first season, Mary has to work on Christmas Eve and Christmas day. In another episode, the WJM work crew, who are all fighting amongst themselves, get snowed in at the station. Luckily, Sueanne Nivens is taping (early) her Christmas cooking special and has a surplus of food and alcohol.

No joke, as I had never even seen this film until 2017- but Mame to me is the perfect Christmas film. I really enjoy it.

I also love the Black Christmas remake from 2009- its just a perfect Christmas horror film due to the production design. Its brilliant.

Christmas Vacation is good, as well as that Diane Keaton/Horseface Lady one. The chick that Kim Cattrall hates.

R86- That was my FAVORITE when I was little. Thank you for posting!! I had not thought about that film in years.

The Golden Girls season 2 ‘Twas The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Golden Girls season 5 Have Yourself Very Little Christmas

Love the Facts of Life visits a prison. Blair’s rendition of I’ll be Home for Christmas gets me every time

Kate & Allie - XXXmas lickers

Poopsy and Twatta together again

Another Stanwyck film, MY REPUTATION, takes place during Christmas, but it isn’t the main plot device. Still a holiday favorite of mine.

The 8 is Enough episode where they find angry Tommy’s Christmas gift from the dead mom!

Whute Christmas and Bells of St. Mary's

Batman Returns

Carol

Phantom Thread

The Apartment

Black Christmas (the original)

[quote] Love the Facts of Life visits a prison. Blair’s rendition of I’ll be Home for Christmas gets me every time

It made me nervous, though, when the inmates threatened to gang-rape Mrs. Garrett.

Fortunately Cousin Geri arrived just in time with the guards: a Christmas miracle!

Never Say Goodbye (1946)

Christmas Holiday (1944)

Yellow Snow

The "Dragnet 1968" Christmas episode where Friday and Gannon are assigned to a case where the statue of the Baby Jesus has been stolen from the creche in the San Fernando Mission church. This is a great episode, it's a remake of a 1953 epsiode that featured a lot of the same actors.

The original episode used the Old Mission Plaza Church in Los Angeles (closer to Friday's beat), that wasn't available in 1967. The original episode was filmed in color and was the first prime time network show to be broacast in color. It only exists in b&w now.

1967 version:

1953 version:

No mention of Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964) with DL fave Pia Zadora?

That's her as a Martian on the far left:

You guys can Mary me, but I think Downton Abbey had a couple of good Christmas episodes.

Why are people mentioning television shows when this is supposed to be about Christmas MOVIES??

The pool of Christmas movies is not that deep

Watching Golden Girls Xmas episode 1986

Last Christmas starring Emilia Clarke and dreamy Henry Golding. The twist caught me completely off guard but it's a very sweet movie and the two leads are great.

R128- I liked it as well :)

[quote]Last Christmas starring Emilia Clarke and dreamy Henry Golding. The twist caught me completely off guard but it's a very sweet movie and the two leads are great.

Also starring me, doll! Although they wouldn't let me show my baps.

Remember The Night starring Barbara Stanwyck is on TCM tonight. My favorite.

THE FAMILY STONE. The only non SITC role SJP was decent in.

violating the "movie" premise, the Jack Benny episode.

Polar Express

Home Alone

The Nightmare Before Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas

TV shows on film are just short movies.

Scrooge (1970). Alec Guinness broke his hip and got lead poisoning from his costume. Ah film in the 70’s.

"Christmas Holiday" with Deanna Durbin and Gene Kelly is available on YT. Despite its festive title it's actually a film noir crime film, directed by Robert Siodmark (The Killers, Phantom Lady).

The Shop Around The Corner

r138 On TCM right this minute!

84 Charing Cross Road isn’t a Christmas movie, though it does have a few Christmas scenes. But it has that perfect feeling of nostalgia and connection that works well for Christmas. It’s on Tubi right now and Anne Bancroft, Anthony Hopkins and Judi Dench are all perfectly cast.

How to watch your favorite (or at least Ron Howard's favorite) holiday movies.

"It Happened on Fifth Ave." on TCM right now.

^ This one really seems to have picked up steam as a holiday classic over the past decade. I had never heard of it before 2014, the first time I saw it on TCM. I've come to love it.

I can't stand IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE.