Favorite Christmas movies

[Hector]

In no particular order:

A Charlie Brown Christmas
Trading Places
Bad Santa
Elf
Die Hard
Gremlins
Babes in Toyland
Frosty the Snowman
Rudolph the Red Nosed Raindeer
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Nightmare Before Christmas
Batman Returns
Lethal Weapon
The Santa Clause

[Mikey]

Not very big on Christmas movies but if I had to pick one i'd say Scrooge with Albert Finney

[emeraldknight47]

Absolutely LOVE "Bad Santa"! It's my movie I watch every year at Christmas to put me in the holiday mood. I know, weird movie for that, but for some reason, it does the trick. Another movie that I watch, usually on Christmas Eve only is a Disney flick from a few years back called "One Magic Christmas" starring Mary Steenburgen as an Ebeneezer Scroogish type woman who's pretty much lost the Christmas spirit and Harry Dean Stanton as the angel Gideon who helps her to find it again.

[HardyGirl]

Hallmark Channel Junkie! Well, at Christmas time, anyway. The 3 Hallmark Christmas movies that are my favorite are:
The Christmas Card
The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
A Very Merry Mix-Up

Other movies are:
Miracle on 34th Street
The Littlest Angel (Hallmark movie from early 70s)
The Santa Clause 1&2
Jack Frost
Comfort & Joy (Lifetime movie)
Ebbie (Lifetime Movie)
Prancer
A Christmas Star
A Christmas Story
Santa Clause Conquers the Martians


And of course all the Rankin-Bass TV specials, a Charlie Brown Christmas, and Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer!

[Earth 2 Chris]

Movies...hmm...

1. A Christmas Story
2. Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) - 1951, Alastair Sim
3. Christmas Vacation
4. Scrooge (musical), Albert Finney
5. White Christmas
6. Elf
7. Miracle On 34th Street
8. It's a Wonderful Life

That's off the top of my head.

Chris

[Bruce Banner]

Gremlins
A Cosmic Christmas


Not much else springs to mind...

[enyawd72]

A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott

I have to watch it every year.

[knight errant00]

A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott

The best Scrooge in the best version of A Christmas Carol!

I also look forward every year to:

The Bishop's wife
Miracle on 34th Street
Opus & Bill: A Wish for Wings That Work
Santa Claus (the Mexican one with Pitch the Devil)
Elf
A Christmas Story
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Die Hard
"Night of the Meek" from The Twilight Zone (the original Art Carney version)

[megoapesnut]

Both versions of Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story do me just fine every year.

[knight errant00]

Both versions of Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story do me just fine every year.

There are four versions I can think of -- which two are your faves?

[warlock664]

In no particular order, these are the ones I try to watch each year:

-A Christmas Story
-A Christmas Carol (George C Scott, the definitive version of this Dickens classic!)
-The Polar Express
-Miracle On 34th Street (original B&W)
-It's A Wonderful Life
-Holiday Inn
-Christmas In Connecticut (Stanwyck)

Other specials I try to watch:
-A Charlie Brown Christmas
-Emmit Otter's Jugband Christmas
-Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
-"How the Ghosts Stole Christmas" (X-Files episode)
-"A Bionic Christmas Carol" (SMDM)
-"Santa, Don't Bring Your Guns to Town" (Partridge Family)
-"A Terminal Christmas" (Wings)
-"Guess Who's Coming to Christmas?" (Happy Days)

[PNGwynne]

The Shop Around the Corner--anytime, anywhere, but especially the holidays. Perfection.
A Christmas Story
Scrooge (musical)
A Christmas Carol (I like Scott's, and MGM)
Miracle on 34th Street (original)
The Bishop's Wife
Bad Santa--I can't resist it lol.

And R-B's "Santa Claus is Coming to Town" and "The Year Without a Santa Claus", plus Peanuts & the animated Grinch.

[megoapesnut]

There are four versions I can think of -- which two are your faves? (Miracle on 34th St.)

1947 and 1994 versions. I did not know there were others...

Edit:
Yeah, there are two more movies and several TV shows. You learn something new every day.

And I am going to buck a trend and admit that I like the 94 version a teeny bit more than the original. There I said it...

[Nostalgiabuff]

Elf
Bad Santa
Wonderful Life
March of the Wooden Soldiers
Christmas Vacation
the Rankin Bass Specials
I don't consider Die Hard or Batman returns or Gremlins to be Christmas movies. that is not what those movies are about, they just take place during the holiday. although I guess in fairness the same could be said about other movies on my list, LOL

[4NDR01D]

Rudolph
Frosty
Elf
Every few years I'll watch Home Alone, same with National Lampoons Christmas Vacation. Other than that I'm not much of a Xmas movie person.