Violent Night with David Harbour, Beverly D'Angel, and John Leguizamo. Not for kids.
Posted on 12/13/2025 4:02:22 PM PST by Diana in Wisconsin
It’s easy to be a Scrooge about Christmas movies, especially these days. Streaming platforms have shamelessly muscled into the Hallmark market, churning out quick, cheap holiday romcoms with C-list casts every year, hoping to land on something so irresistibly cheesy it briefly becomes a seasonal phenomenon. Put that cynicism aside, however, and most of us can admit that we all have at least one movie we return to every December – the one that allows us to embrace nostalgia unapologetically and lets us know that the most wonderful time of the year has arrived.
It doesn’t have to be schmaltzy and saccharine, either. Maybe it’s a golden era classic like It’s a Wonderful Life or Miracle on 34th Street. Maybe it’s something more modern and goofy, like Elf or Home Alone. Maybe it’s raunchy and rude, like Bad Santa or Christmas Vacation, or just plain dark, like Black Christmas. That full range of yuletide cheer can be found on this list of the best holiday movies ever made. No matter what kind of Christmas movie you prefer, you’ll find one that warms your core like a cup of hot cocoa.
Very cool! Looks great!
There was a movie partially filmed in my little town a couple of years ago. It’s called “Mayberry Man”. If you ever watch it, you’ll see my little town in most of it. For a number of years, our town had a Mayberry Fest every May. The lookalike actors from the Andy Griffith Show all showed up, and several of them are in this movie.
Looks like they offer it on Amazon Prime video now. Watch the trailer, and you’ll get the idea. https://www.imdb.com/title/tt11700754/
“...and you just can’t stop watching it!”
After the first time, I learned quickly how. The list they put up is very incomplete as many of the old ones that were just terrible didn’t make the cut. But they were the fore runners of bad Christmas movies that the youth just eat up. If it had given them a little acid stomach the world would be better.
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See...that’s what I’m talkin’ about!!!
I always wished they could have made a movie about it, but...it is too short for a movie!
I like that characterization “reading it to the cubs”!
That is a nice Christmas tradition!
The single sexiest scene I've ever seen in any movie, is her & Jimmy Stewart sharing the telephone.
It boggles the mind that people nowadays think you've gotta show T&A to rank a scene as sexy.
Yup! Family Man, While You Were Sleeping, and Wonderful Life are my “must watch every December” list.
Two very great Christmas movies not yet mentioned on this thread.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remember_the_Night
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Since_You_Went_Away
Violent Night with David Harbour, Beverly D'Angel, and John Leguizamo. Not for kids.
Hubby and I were watching it last night but fell asleep before the end! So sad to be so old you can’t make it through a 30 minute cartoon!
Godfather 1 is a Christmas movie
About a third of it is at Christmas time
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