What are your favorite movies to watch during the Christmas season?

The Family Stone

White Christmas

This Christmas

Almost Christmas

A Madea Christmas

A Diva's Christmas Carol

Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square

Love the Coopers

A Show Stopping Christmas (Because a friend is in it)

A Christmas Story.

And despite that it is not explicitly a Christmas movie, The Sound of Music.

Hallmark Channel, 24-7.

Salo

Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer

Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation for this scene:

Come to the Stable with Loretta Young and Celeste Holm. I watch it every Christmas Eve. Sweet but not sappy.

How is Sound of Music not mentioned? ABC broadcasts it every December!

The Family Stone

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Christmas in Connecticut

The Exorcist

Nightmare Berore Christmas

A Christmas Story

Trading Places

Scrooged

Meet Joe Black

Ebbie!!!!

My family has every one of Dawson's loads memorized!

A Christmas Memory (Geraldine Page!)

The first parts of A Christmas Carol, Scrooge, Scrooged and The Grinch who Stole Christmas.

They always take a turn for the worse, alas.

For me, the season wouldn't be complete without The Ref, Christmas in Connecticut, Miracle on 34th Street, the Alastair Sim Christmas Carol, and While You Were Sleeping.

I used to watch The Lord of the Rings trilogy (Extended Edition DVDs) during the week between Christmas and New Years. Haven't done that in years, so maybe it's time to bring it back.

Before Christmas I always watch A Tuna Christmas (a two-actor, many-character play that I can practically recite verbatim now) and Mark Morris's The Hard Nut (or just The Waltz of the Snowflakes).

And I usually read A Christmas Memory.

A Christmas Carol (the Oscar winning animated version, by Chuck Jones)

Christmas Is (animated special from 1970, starring Hans Conried)

Home Alone

Always Remember I Love You (Patty Duke, Stephen Dorf, and Joan Van Ark)

The Polar Express (despite the overabundance of Tom Hanks)

It Happened One Christmas (starring Marlo Thomas)

A Very Brady Christmas (despite and overabundance of Jerry Houser)

Greg and Joey

Bad Santa (makes me laugh every time)

Home Alone 2 (I turn it off after he leaves the hotel)

[quote] I turn it off after he leaves the hotel

As you should.

Christina Comes Home for Christmas.

As a 90s baby, I can’t let the Christmas season go by without watching my big five: Home Alone, The Santa Clause, Scrooged, Elf and Jingle All the Way. I prefer watching these on Christmas Day and night if I’m not being forced to do something stupid like travel to see family. 😡

I have a wider list for the rest of December. These include The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Ref, Grumpy Old Men, Die Hard, The Ice Harvest, The Santa Clause 2, Home Alone 2, National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, The Long Kiss Goodnight, and Gremlins. I’m sure I missed a few but these are the most important to me.

Christmas in Connecticut

The Philadelphia Story

A Christmas Carol (1938) with Reginald Owen

Little Women

Gremlins

Oliver!

Grumpy Old Men

FANNY and ALEXANDER!

Black Christmas (the original)

Silent Night, Deadly Night

Silent Night, Deadly Night 2

Christmas Evil

Don't Open till Christmas

Silent Night, Bloody Night

Fellows 90s child and I can't believe I forgot The Santa Clause, r20. Literally the only good thing Tim Allen has done with his life.

In chronological order:

The Shop Around the Corner (1940)

Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)

The Lion in Winter (1968)

Scrooge (1970)

Black Christmas (1974)

Gremlins (1984)

P2 (2007)

In Bruges (2008)

A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) [in 3D]

Anna and the Apocalypse (2017)

"It Happened On Fifth Ave."

"The Bells of St. Mary's"

"Miracle on 34th Street"

"The Man Who Came to Dinner"

"Wuthering Heights"

"The Bishop's Wife"

"Come to the Stable"

Always Remember I Love You (so good)

Meet Me in St. Louis

Remember the Night

It's a TOASTER!!!

Bad Santa. I hate Christmas.

Christmas in Connecticut

Fanny and Alexander

A Child's Christmas in Wales (Denholm Elliott)

Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (For the pleasure of Jule Styne's and Bob Merrill's music, with Backus Cassidy, Amsterdam and the rest doing fine work)

I forgot to include that classic Helen Lawson offering "Christmas for the Jews." The scene where she bent the Star of David into a cross was bold for its day. She thought she'd get an Oscar nomination, at least.

That's when she said Dan Dailey was so flexible he could recognize who was fucking him from behind by the guys' taints.

"A fucking pretzel, hairy legs and wearing a slip," she swore of one accidental dressing room intrusion.

I tried to watch Planes, Trains and Automobiles the other night and turned it off after about 40 minutes.

What an awful film.

I like what R28 said, but also the 1938 Christmas Carol, which is one of the best movies ever made.

Carol and Notes on a Scandal for a Christmas with Cate

Fanny and Alexander

Sound of Music

Die Hard and Die Hard 2

Mommie Dearest

White Christmas Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol Scrooged The Gathering A Christmas Story Elf

The Homecoming

That Harry Potter movie that has the Christmas scenes.

And OP, I love Polar Express, especially the tinny Christmas music playing on the PA system at the North Pole, as well as all the industrial, turn of the century NP architecture.

It Happened on Fifth Avenue.

Forgot that one. And agree with R28.

Thanks for the reminder, R35. I'm more partial to the post-WWII film starring Alistair Sim. Other movies I associate with Christmas are "Murder on the Orient Express," which I remember seeing in the theatre over Christmas Week. Same goes for "Ordinary People." And I used to love watching Bond -- 007 -- movies that aired during Christmas Week.

FF for leaving off The Sound of Music

A Christmas Carol - Alastair Sim - 1951

The Cheaters - Joseph Shildkraut - 1945

The Man Who Invented Christmas - 2017

The Bishop's Wife - Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven - 1948

The Gathering - Ed Asner, Maureen Stapleton - 1977

Mr Soft Touch - Glenn Ford - 1949

Scrooge (musical with Albert Finney) - 1970

A Christmas Story - 1983

A Child's Christmas in Wales - PBS - 1986

Miracle on 34th Street - 1947

3 TV episodes....

"The Night of the Meek" - Art Carney - Twilight Zone - 1959

"Santa Claus and the Tenth Avenue Kid" - Barry Fitzgerald - Hitchcock Presents - 1955

"The Star" (from a story by Arthur C Clarke) - The New Twilight Zone 1985

The Thing

R34 what did you hate about it? I think it's great.

R19 I would have thought Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve were more your style.

Meet Me In St. Louis. Which I never watched as a kid, but it's become a more recent ritual.

And the Sound of Music when it's aired on ABC.

Those, plus the Charlie Brown Christmas special, represent Christmas to me.

Auntie Mame!!

The Thin Man

Holiday Inn

Love Actually

The Holiday

Serendipity

Rise of the Guardians

The year w/o a Santa Claus

Edward Scissorhands

While you were sleeping

Elf

Nightmare before Christmas

The Grinch (live action)

The Ref

The Santa Claus

The Shining

Black Christmas

Bell, Book & Candle

A Christmas Story, which I'm watching right now. It's a Wonderful Life, Harvey, The Year Without a Santa Claus, The Night They Saved Christmas.

A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim

The BEST Scrooge

What about OLD movies?

R49 Aunt Mame is awful. ZzzzzZzzz

Santa Claus and the Devil.

Santa Claus Conquers the Martians.

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny.

Beyond Tomorrow AKA Beyond Christmas

I Believe in Santa Claus

Santa’s Summer House

Fun in Balloon Land

Santa’s Village of Madness

Scrooge, starring Reginald Owen. That's a really good one, too.

RECKLESS

MIRACLE ON 134th STREET 😁

Trading Places all the way

November Christmas with John Corbett Sam Elliott and Sarah Paulson

Miracle on 34th Street. (The old version with Natalie Wood).

Scrooged.

Mixed Nuts.

This made-for-tv GEM!

Our classics are Christmas In Connecticut, Miracle on 34th Street and It Happened On 5th Avenue every year.

Plus we usually put on Trading Places, Black Christmas, While You Were Sleeping and The Ref at some point.

Santa Claus is Comin' to Town, The Year without a Santa Claus, Frosty, Rudolph, A Christmas Carol

You must have a very busy day watching all that R67!

I have a friend whose holiday film rotation always includes "the Family Stone", with Diane Keaton, SJP, and assorted others.

Christmas Twister

A couple of years ago, I came across this compilation of holiday cartoon classics that has become a Christmas Eve tradition.

- "Frosty the Snowman" (1969)

- "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (1964)

- "Santa Claus Is Coming to Town" (1970)

- "The Little Drummer Boy" (1968)

Talking about made-for-TV gems:

[bold]Home for the Holidays[/bold] (1972). An ABC Movie of the Week with a killer cast: Sally Field, Julie Harris, Jill Haworth, Eleanor Parker and Jessica Walter. Walter Brennan plays an ailing patriarch, who summons his 4 grown daughters home for the holidays because he suspects his new wife (Harris) is trying to poison him. Camp and killings ensue.

The Ref

Metropolitan

The Ice Storm

Fearless Vampire Killers

Wonder Boys

In Bruges

Trading Places

The Lion In Winter

I hate Christmas, so I binge all the Saw movies.

R77a woman who was in the room next to my grandma in the nursing home binge watched the Saw series .

The Substance

Elf

The Godfather

Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil

Alien

The Exorcist

Se7en

Zodiac

Rosemary's Baby on Christmas night.

Emmet Otter’s Jug-band Christmas

I love most of the classic ones mentioned by many, but Krampus and Better Watch Out are fun, modern classics.

I loved the Holdovers and will be adding it to my favorite Christmas movies to watch.

My list of holiday musts. Xs by the ones I’ve already watched this year. I started last month:

A Christmas Memory X Holiday Affair X It Happened on 5th Avenue X Home Alone XHome Alone 2 X Meet Me in St Louis A Christmas Story X A Christmas Story Live Everybody’s Fine X Life With Mikey X Trading Places X Miracle on 34th Street X It’s a Wonderful Life X Jingle All the Way Deck the Halls X The Grinch X The Ref X The Holdovers X Santa in the Slush (Bones) X Fallout Shelter Arthur Christmas A Muppet Christmas Carol Edward Scissorhands

List posted wrong. X is before the ones I’ve watched. Pretty much watched them all.

All of the Doctor Who - Christmas episodes

Doctor Who Christmas specials can be so hit or miss.

I feel like I'm becoming the Metropolitan troll, but it's on TCM on the 16th. Check your schedule ideal to DVR to have for this and following yrs.

Tangerine.

"A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott, Roger Rees, David Warner, Susannah York.

1984

The screenplay, sets, costumes, mood are just what I want.

I like how the actors quietly underplay their roles, especially Scott.

I'm enjoy Alistair Sims performance too. I just think that overall, the 1984 version is a superior movie.

I enjoy^

Dawson's 50-Load Weekend

2046

Tonight I'm watching "Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square".

Apocalypse Now

Little Women 1949

Meet Me in St. Louis

Christmas in Connecticut

White Christmas

Desk Set - love Hepburn in this, great apartment set for her.

Trouble with Angels

Bell, Book and Candle

Robert M. Haas designed the fanstastic set for The Man Who Came to Dinner. Some of the architectural details are oversized, but painted white so you don't notice right away. He also worked on Mildred Pierce. Monte's family mansion was almost surrealistically exagerated in its proportions.

Bell Book and Candle's set decor was by Louis Diage, who went on to work on I Dream of Jeannie

Die Hard