What Are Your Favorite Christmas / Holiday Movies ???

Hi,

Miracle on 34th Street
A Christmas Story
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Charlie Brown Christmas
Polar Express
It's a Wonderful Life
The Santa Claus (all three)

Hope this helps! Merry Christmas!

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!!!!

That movie is the SOLE reason WHY I named my daughter Bethany.

(I was REALLY pregnant and tired of searching for names!!!)

I love all of the classics that have been mentioned already, but I also love Fred Clause w/Vince Vaughn and The Santa Clause w/Tim Allen (the first movie - sequels aren't as good).

Holiday Inn....1942 ( I am a purest I prefer the original black and white version)....A Country Inn that is only open on Holidays...starring Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire!! A great movie filled with comedy, dance and song. It was the song that introduced White Christmas to the world!!! I have watched it every year for probably 30 years!!!
Our family also has a tradition of watching Sound of Music together...even now that my girls are married and sometimes aren't home for Christmas...they watch it. My almost 3 year old grandson can sing My Favorite Things and Edelweisse by heart...lol.

Every Christmas eve (the second to last day of Yuletide) we all sit together and watch A Christmas Story. We all love that movie! And last year we got my 6 year old a BB Gun, so it was even more perfect. :)

"A Christmas Story" (love the 24 hours on TBS!) and "Elf".

All time favorite Christmas movie is "Blizzard". I can't wait every year until we start watching it. I always wait as long as possible because once it's out it is played nearly every day.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0309372/

It has the voice of Whoopi Goldberg as Blizzard, the very young offspring of 2 of Santa's main reindeer team. Christopher Plummer is Santa. Kevin Pollack as Santa's over achiever Santa's Village manager Archimedes.
Lavar Burton even has a small part that is uncredited.

In modern day a little girls best friend, Bobby, moves away and the little girl is very upset. Her Aunt Millie comes to help and tells her a wonderful story about a girl named Katie who made friends with one of the very young reindeer that lives in Santa's Village. The story Aunt Millie tells is set in times like the depression and is heart warming and full of good morals.
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It's one of the 3 movies that I have cried while watching nearly every time I watch them.

One being "Driving Miss Daisy" at the end when he is feeding her a bite of pie, that is so touching and I just bawl.

The second is "Heart and Souls" with Robert Downey Jr. The moment he is born in an old rambler a bus is having an accident that takes the lives of those on board. Their Ghosts are attached to him through out his life and it is hilarious and heartwarming too. The parts where I cry are during the wreck when Alfrie Woodard's character is crying about what will happen to her kids without her. Then the other places are when Robert finds her son and she takes over his body to hug her son, then close to the end when Robert realizes he is a changed man and makes a declaration to his girlfriend Elizabeth Shue.

A Christmas Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Polar Express
It's a Wonderful Life

I absolutely love National Lampoons Christmas Vacation.. cracks me up everytime I watch it.. The others on this list are also my favorites, just thought I'd throw a good comedy in there as well.

Miracle on 34th street
I now have added Four Christmases
And i love Vince Vaughn so I have to add Fred Claus

All good suggestions.

My new favorite Christmas movie for the last few years is "Love Actually".. It is a grown up movie, but it puts me in the spirit!

- The grinch who stole christmas (cartoon)
- Frosty the snowman (cartoon)
- The polar express
- Muppet christmas carol
- Miracle on 34th street

White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Miracle on 34th Street
Elf
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (both the Jim Carrey and the Cartoon)
Meet Me in St Louis

Joy to the World (a nativity story can be purchased here):
http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_1...

Mr. Krueger's Christmas (starring James Stewart who starred in It's A Wonderful Life, and has The Natvity and a few other chirstmas stories and music) can be purchased here:
http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_1...

or Stories of Christmas with Mr. Kreugers Christmas and a few other Christmas stories here:
http://store.lds.org/webapp/wcs/stores/servlet/Product3_1...

Here is a huge list of classics:
http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/reelrant/rant...

I have to watch the original Miracle on 34th Street each year. It's a Wonderful Life is also a close 2nd. Just not Christmas without them.

Happy Thanksgiving to you! I would have to say in order:

It's a Wonderful Life (classic b/w)
The Polar Express (new favorite)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
You've got Mail (sounds weird but it takes place from the fall through christmas then ends in spring).
Love Actually

Ah! Since you asked...

White Christmas (1954 - Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye)
Miracle on 34th Street (the original - Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn)
The Bishop's Wife (the original - although the remake, "The Preacher's Wife," is fun, too)
A Christmas Carol (I like best the 1984 version with George C. Scott and the Muppet version)
Christmas in Connecticut (the original - Barbara Stanwyck)
Amahl and the Night Visitors (1955 telecast. This one-hour Christmas opera was commissioned for the new medium of television and first presented live on TV in 1951. The libretto is in English, and children enjoy it as well as adults. It's the opera even opera-haters love - short and sweet.)
The Snowman (1982) - beautiful animated children's tale
Going My Way (1944 - Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald)
The Bells of St. M.'s (1945 - Bing Crosby, Ingrid Bergman)
A Child's Christmas in Wales (1980s, I think - based on Dylan Thomas' poem of the same name)
We're No Angels (1955 - a "dark comedy" starring Humphrey Bogart, who didn't often do comedies but should have done more)
The Christmas Wife (1988 - a TV movie starring Jason Robards and Julie Harris)

I also love Christmas music DVDs. Favorites include Christmas with Chanticleer, Christmas with Flicka (Frederika von Stade), and of course Handel's Messiah (Choir of King's College, Cambridge).

(Oh... I really need to see ELF some time.)

LEGEND
1985 with Tom Cruise & Mia Sara
http://www.tomcruise.com/tom-cruise-legend-movie.html

I don't know why. I suppose the first time I saw the movie, it was during Christmas. Its also aired many times around Christmas as well. Its so magical & mystical with lots of snow. I just LOVE it!

Christmas in Connecticut with Barbara Stanwyck. My family tells everyone that Die Hard is our favorite Christmas movie, lol.....A little on the adult side is Holiday with Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Kate Winslet....

The Rankin-Bass collection..Frosty, Rudolph, Santa Claus is coming to Town etc.
We watch Nightmare Before Christmas while putting the tree up.
Those are by far my favorites :)

"National Lampoons Christmas vacation"
"The Holiday"
"Bad Santa"

I love all the old ones: White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, It's a Wonderful Life, The Christmas Story and one newer one Elf. Love all the old cartoons too - Charlie Brown, Ruldolph, Frosty, Grinch. We kicked off the season last night by watching White Christmas.

I second Elf and Christmas in Connecticut

White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
The Santa Clause (all three of them)
A Christmas Carol (Allister Sym version)
Frosty the Snowman (animated)
Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer
Santa Claus is Coming to Town

Frosty the Snowman :o)

I watch a Muppet Christmas Carol every year around the holidays! I love it!

I also like Nightmare before Christmas

Elf....literally just watched it and it cracks me up every time! , National Lampoons Christmas vacation , Home Alone 1 & 2 (kids enjoy it). Polar Express , and not sure if it's set at Christmas but it is set in the cold/snow and that it Uncle Buck....again every time I watch it it never fails to have me in stitches!

Though not for kids, I adore Love Actually :)

pocket full of miracles (sometimes called apple annie) starring bette davis, glen ford, hope lange and a slew of other old stars. white christmas with bing crosby and danny kay. a christmas carol with alistair sim. mr magoo's christmas carol (just love this version!)

Annabelle's Wish (family)

Badder Santa (adult)

For something a little different - "A Wish for Wings That Work" with Bill the Cat and Opus!

Our family favorite is "It's a Wonderful Life." We watch it every year!

for the family, we love Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer, the original cartoon How the Grinch Stole Christmas, and Charlie Brown Christmas. For the adults, we like Love Actually.

Love Actually (NOT a children's movie)
the Grinch
The Santa Clause 1, 2, & 3
Santa Claus (late 80's or early 90's)
the Christmas Story
all the claymations (frosty, rudolph, etc.)

A Christmas Story for me.

For the kids: any of the Veggie Tales Christmas, Polar Express, Santa Paws, Grinch

It's a Wonder Life
The Santa Clause (1,2&3)
Christmas with the Kranks
Jack Frost (with Michael Keaton)
Frosty

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. I usually don't like to watch movies over and over, but I have to see this one every Christmas because it is soooo funny! My kids love the Polar Express.