Here’s mine.
- Home Alone
- Die Hard
- Elf
- The Snowman (1982)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (both)
- The Star (2017)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- The Year Without a Santa Clause
- Violent Night
- LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
- Mr. Bean S01E07 “Merry Christmas Mr. Bean”
In no real order at all.
Klaus is an excellent movie
For something a bit different, try Snow Queen from 2002 (live action, not the cartoon). It starts out like a generic Hallmark movie and goes entirely off the rails. It’s worth watching at least once.
A Christmas Story
Jingle All The Way
All of the Christmas Princess movies from Netflix 🤩
I have recently added Tokyo Godfathers into my holiday mix. My wife cries every time despite “hating animated movies”.
The best Christmas trilogy:
- The Muppets Christmas Carol
- Scrooged
- Spirited
Also, make sure you watch the “full-length” Muppets, where the critical sad love ballad hasn’t been cut.
Agree about #1 movie choice. Hard disagree about the importance of the terrible ballad. :)
- Star Wars Holiday Special
- Die Hard
- Batman Returns
- Babe
We watch many of yours, and also Trading Places.
Eating salmon through a filthy Santa beard. Delicious!
C’mon
Rankin-Bass Rudolph or the list is bogus.
Same with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Original Grinch is best Grinch, but I’ll accept them as a duo.
Die Hard is as Christmas as it gets, so yipee kai ay motherfucker!
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a must.
Emmet Otter’s Jug Band is almost at that level of necessity, though maybe only for us gen-x kids.
Anything else is open for negotiations on my end, I ain’t mad at anyone else’s list beyond joking.
However, Frosty the Snowman, also a Rankin-Bass production is awesome, and any of their Christmas specials deserve at least an honorable mention.
If I got Heat Miser and Cold Miser I’m good.
Have you seen the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special? Very fun.
My true Christmas watch list has Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town from Rankin-Bass. It just seemed like flooding to put them all in there, so I just put my favorite.
Haven’t caught it yet. One of those things where it’s on a long list of stuff to watch, but there’s usually something more interesting for one of us.
Tbh, I can spend days during the Christmas holidays with Rankin-Bass. There’s not really a stinker among them for me, though the older ones are the really great ones.
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Gremlins
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Black Christmas (original, don’t like either of the remakes for wildly different reasons)
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Rare Exports
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Black Adder’s Christmas Carol
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Rare Exports. Hogfather.
- Die Hard
- Mean Girls
- Elf
- Grinch (Jim Carrey version)
- Klaus
Mean Girls? Interesting.
It has a Christmas song & dance and at least a couple of other Christmas scenes
No love for muppet Christmas Carol?!
- Muppet Christmas Carol -National Lampoons Christmas Vacation -Always Sunny Christmas Special -Die Hard -Lethal Weapon -Santa Claus is Coming to Towns -Home Alone 1 and 2 -Krampus -Violent Night
Oh and I forgot! I always watch the black and white Miracle on 34th Street while cooking on Thanksgiving after the parade.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Nightmare Before Christmas
Elf
The Night Before
Grinch (Carrey)
Klaus
Christmas Chronicles
Jingle All the Way
The Polar Express
Scrooged
Adds by my wife:
The Santa Clause 1, 2, and 3
White Christmas
Harry Potter (all of them) Edit: Home AloneErnest Saves Christmas
