Movies to get through the holiday season

Hannah and Her Sisters for Thanksgiving in the US

I’d also like to add:

The Innocents

The Apartment

The Wings of the Dove

Are you people above from out of town?

Godfather. There's a nice Christmas scene where Michael finds out his Dad's been shot and another one in front of a Christmas tree lot where Tom Hagan gets kidnapped by Sollozzo. We like to have our egg nog when Michael gets to the hospital to see his Dad. There are some nice Christmas lights in that scene too.

Brilliant r4 I like it.

I’d really like to use the holidays to just watch some movies I maybe haven’t seen before too. But I always find myself going to the same old ones. Usually something Technicolor. A Powell and Pressburger, David Lean, Douglas Sirk, Billy Wilder

Meet Me In St Louis, silly.

I usually make enchiladas and watch westerns, but I am a hill jack.

I like watching different versions of a Christmas Carol (except for that FX one), Meet Me in St. Louis (of course!) and I've added hate watching The Family Stone to my rotation for reasons I cannot understand.

Gremlins

The Bad Seed

Fanny & Alexander should be essential viewing

Home for the Holidays - Holly Hunter and Robert Downey Jr - for Thanksgiving. A classic

The Family Stone, The Bishop's Wife, You've Got Mail (and it's predecessor, Shop Around the Corner), Gremlins, The Ice Storm, The Family Man, The Holdovers, Christmas with the Kranks.

There are a couple of Christmas-centric Sopranos and Mary Tyler Moore episodes that I like.

To Save Us from Satan is the Sopranos episode where they figure out Pussy is a rat & Bobby has to take over the Santa role.

Not a Christmas Story is the MTM episode where they've all got beefs with each other and they're all snowed in the news station. SueAnn has made a Christmas meal for her show. So they gather on the Happy Homemaker set for a "Christmas" meal.

Christmas in Connecticut

The Horn Blows at Midnight (I used to watch this on NYE as a kid in the NY/NJ area). I never hear about that movie anymore, but it's a cute 1945 film.

Metropolitan!! My favorite 'holiday' movie. Not a huge fan of Christmas.

Although, there was a cheesy 80s Xmas movie with Jaclyn Smith, 'The Night They Saved Christmas', that I remember loving as a kid.

Bell Book and Candle is a great holiday flick too.

Wizard of Oz.

I already have it planned out-

Finally watching The Bear (never have seen this one) and then Season 3 of my favorite show ever-well close to it-- Industry.

Also? The Substance and Terrifier 3!!!

I will watch Auntie Mame and Home Alone because they always feel Christmasy to me, Along with 2006's(2007?) trashy but ever so Christmasy Black Christmas!

Alot of violence and sex for me this Christmas.

Mary Poppins.

The Bad Seed

In all honesty, by Christmas I will finishing season 5 of THAT GIRL. There was a Christmas episode one season 3, I bet they do another one.

It Happened on 5th Avenue is another sweet, funny one. It was never one we grew up watching for whatever reason but I found it on some streamer last year. It's from 1947.

Mine are The Wizard of Oz and Ben-Hur.

I watch the bad seed on every holiday

That is a great scene outside the hospital in The Godfather. I watch these movies around Christmas:

Susan Slept Here-just for Dick Powell’s Fantastic apartment

Desk Set

All That Heaven Allows

The World Of Henry Orient

The Lemon Drop Kid -if I can find it

All the usual Christmas movies (old ones) at least once

A Christmas Story-all day long

If you’re willing to go with something more current (no knock on the classics), give Dickensian a try. 20 hours over 10 episodes telling the backstories of various Dickens characters and how they all connect.

Ever wonder why Miss Havisham was left at the alter or how did her best friend Honoria Barbary end up Lady Dedlock?

Just how did Jacob Marley die? And was Bill Sykes always a vicious bastard?

Fantastic series from 2015 and because it’s Dickens of course we get Christmas scenes. Just not the one you think.

You can find it on Amazon, Peacock, Freevee and Tubi for free. Apple TV for $1.99/episode.

R25 almost forgot about Susan Slept Here. Great Frank Tashlin movie.

Eyes Wide Shut