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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.
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Audrey Hepburn...
Dana Carvey doing his Jimmy Stewart impersonation is hilarious. I saw him on a show once..and he did an impersonation of Jimmy Stewart having sex. Just so funny, here it is
Neither was Die Hard.
Both of them are a good movies and for the same reasons. Die Hard gets the edge because how can you not love seeing some smarmy reporter getting clocked by the lady he almost got killed? It brings the Christmas Glow to my cold dead heart.
About a decade ago I started reading “The Shepard” to the cubs. Well, just one at the time, but he liked it. Since then it has become a Christmas tradition.
Romy Schneider
“Trading Places is an outstanding movie.”
It really is! And I agree with whoever said Dan Ackroyd eating the fish is hilarious! And it’s also great because they never made a Trading Places 2, etc.
Well, he is only going to LA because he was invited for Christmas.
Yes, Elf is good. Definitely on the list of more modern movies.
The Waltons “Homecoming A Christmas Story” from 1971 is one of my favorites. I also love watching The Waltons on Prime. It is one of those things from my youth that makes me happy and takes me away from what the world is now.
Theatrical release version, please.
This story has a redemptive arc.
Saw that Grit TV was starting 12 Dukes of Gritmas and that movie might be on the 12th night.
Same channel last night had a 90s era movie called Ebenezer starring Jack Palance as Scrooge..
Probably didn’t win any awards but actually enjoyed Palance as Scrooge..
Scrooged was the worst adaptation of A Christmas Carol ever.
Thank you!!!
“I also love watching The Waltons.....
It really was / is a quality show.
Yippie Kaye mother fu*ker.
>>It is about a media personality getting socked in the face. And nothing says Merry Christmas like a purveyor of discord getting punched.
BRAVO!
This always gets quoted, but “The Long Kiss Goodnight” is in the same vein.
We’re No Angels.
1955
Humphrey Bogart, Aldo Rey, Peter Ustinov.
I want to live in Gimmelwald.
2016 - "Office Christmas Party"
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