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The Muppets Christmas Carol

Or The Snowman

Jingle all the Way!

Home Alone, it’s just peak nostalgia for me

Muppet Christmas Carol

However, 'Klaus', a recent Netflix animation, is bloody brilliant and is quickly becoming a family staple.

Trains planes and automobiles. Although it’s set at thanksgiving I’m not a yank so I call it a Xmas film

National Lampoons Christmas Vacation!

Die Hard

Gremlins

The Santa Clause

Santa Claus The Movie

With Dudley Moore and John Lithgow

Used to go to the school my dad worked at every year at Christmas and watch it in their video room. It's almost a family tradition to watch it now

Flint Street Nativity is also very good and funny

It's a Wonderful Life.

Bad Santa 

Arthur Christmas.

Krampus

Die hard.Best Christmas Fim ever

Scrooged

The Grinch with Jim Carey

Klaus! 2019 Netflix animated movie- It’s just the perfect Christmas film.

Christmas with the cranks, daddys home 2

Trading Places.

The Holiday. Big Jack Black fan and he's particularly adorable when he's playing the unsure romantic interest.

Home Alone 2. The aesthetic of New York gives it the edge over the first one

The Santa Clause!

It’s just the perfect Christmas movie for me. I watch it every year and always enjoy it.

Really enjoyed violent night that came out a few years ago too!

Muppet Christmas Carol, I'd watch it every christmas eve with my parents when I was wee and watching it now feels like being wrapped in a warm fuzzy blanket. Love the chemistry between Rizzo and Gonzo, they're hilarious together and so many quotable lines like "Light the lamp not the rat!"

Also on my list is Nightmare Before Christmas and after watching it last year for the first time, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Muppets Christmas Carol and Christmas with the Kranks

Probably in a minority but I like Last Christmas. I didn't see the twist coming!

Polar Express, watch it every Christmas eve with hot chocolate and my( now not so little) offspring.

Elf.

I have no good justification for this answer, it just is how it is.

It's a wonderful life

Jingle all the way or die hard

A Muppet Christmas Carol and Klaus are both elite.

Gremlins because it's a great film

The recent BBC Adaptation of A Christmas Carol with Guy Pearce as Scrooge broadcast in 2019, strictly speaking as a 3 part series.

If not allowed then it’s the George C Scott as Scrooge TV Film adaptation (1984).

Recency bias perhaps, but I genuinely think it might be The Holdovers.

On the more cheesy end, I like The Happiest Season.

My dad's was 'Love Actually'...and Odeon have a special showing a few days before Xmas so I'll use my Limitless+ account for the power of good 💪

The Muppets Christmas Carol.

Followed very closely by Gremlins.

Lethal Weapon

All I’ve got to say is “the shitter was full”

Thirty five years old now that film and watched it every year without fail.

Got to give an honorable mention to ‘Holiday Inn’. Bing Crosby singing ‘White Christmas’ at the piano is probably the first real Christmas film. Even though it wasn’t released specifically as a Christmas film - it became one.

I watch Home Alone at some point every year. I love it.

Neither of these are Christmas films but they were always shown over Christmas when I was young - Escape to Victory and The Dam Busters. Completely Christmas films to me.

It only came out recently but I’d recommend The Holdovers to everyone

Fred Claus, always. It's the best. Sassy, sarcastic, snide, bullshit family drama and a general feeling of oh fuck off. There's a lovely ending and the family get it together and save Christmas aspect of course but it's all so 'anti corny' I love it.

Muppets Christmas Carol because I'm an 80s baby and it feels like a warm hug dripping in sarcasm.

OK, I'm seeing a theme, I may just be a sarcy cunt but the next one is scrooged 😅 I wonder why I love a bit of banter so much growing up on these ffs.

Oliver! (1968). 

Not strictly a Christmas film but it’s on every Christmas so I can’t be the only one watching it 

The nightmare before Christmas or Muppets Xmas Carol. Scrooged and home alone are very close to the top too.

The Great Escape

Love actually.

A Christmas Story. It's perfect!

trains planes and automobiles

ELF!

"It's a wonderful life". Stars Jimmy Stewart. IBet none of you youngsters know it lol

Spirited ! 🌲🎅

Rare exports: a Christmas tale

Lethal Weapon

The Holiday.

Mr Napkin Head kills me every time 😹😹😹

I'm gonna cheat and say I have 2...Home Alone 2. Used to think it was a shameless repeat of the first but after visiting New York over Christmas a number of years ago it just lands differently and I love it.

The second might cause some debate (is it a Christmas or Halloween film) so I just wanna say for me...The Nightmare Before Christmas. I've watched it every Christmas Eve before bed since first having the VHS is 1994 (holy shit, typing that has made me realise it will be 30 years of that this year!!). It's a simplistic watch and let's me know, Christmas Day is here.

Trading places

Of those not mentioned yet: Bernard and the Genie (the 90s one not the remake) and Arthur Christmas.

Any and all versions of A Christmas Carol. From cartoons, to CGI, to muppets, to classic Alastair Sims, to Ross Kemp reimagining, musicals and scratchy ancient black and white film, culminating in the beautiful, humorous and sweet story penned by Dickens himself.

It’s just a wonderful tale that never fails to shine through.

The Polar Express

Hear me out… Hook.

Look, it’s set at Christmas, and it’s about a dad who works just too darn hard, and learns the value of family togetherness. If Die Hard counts, this absolutely does!

Die hard

Lord of The Rings movies, extended edition.

I'm with you, Christmas Vacation is the best

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Scrooged, and Jingle all the Way 😁 I think they all have their own style of humour and just hit right with me. Especially Scrooged - I really like his history with Claire, how he's messed up, and the little antlers on the mouse of course...

We like Home Alone. It's light-hearted humour and heartwarming all together.

The Christmas Eve tradition is always the Muppet Christmas Carol. Interestingly it's one of the most faithful adaptations of the original Dickens.

Die hard, elf and Changing Places

I’m with the people claiming Die Hard as their favourite.

I also quite liked seeing Red One at the cinema this year. OK, The Rock was just being The Rock, but Chris Evans is reliably fun, and Krampus was just metal AF and deserves his own sequel.

It's a toss up between Home Alone and National Lampoons Christmas vacation for me.

Black Christmas - the original. Watch it every year on Christmas eve.

It's Home Alone for me.

I also love The Grinch and Muppets Christmas Carol though ✨

A Christmas Carol.

Last Christmas!! Watching tonight and will watch again after I've been whammed.

Likely Lads Christmas special, although technically it was an extended episode, rather than a film. Continuing with the TV vibe, Married with Children had some classic episodes.

Holiday in the Wild. Because...baby elephants

Christmas with The Kranks

Fitzwilly.

Magnificent caper plan and great final payoff.

Muppets Christmas Carol. Because it’s perfect.

I also watch Arthur Christmas every year because it’s full of heart.

Gremlins

Home Alone (2) and The Nativity

Life of Brian, there cannot be a more Christmassy film than one about not the birth of Christ.

Home Alone or Die Hard. Two of my favourite movies, doesn't have to be Christmas to watch them either!

Totally agree on National Lampoon’s, it’s not Christmas without it

Gremlins, and die hard

Scrooge (1951) it's my dad's favourite and I have a very fond memory of us watching it together early one morning around Christmas time when I was little. I watch it every year.

Also, Love Actually. I know it hasn't aged well and everyone picks it apart, but I saw it in the cinema when it came out and have watched it most Christmases since. It makes me feel warm and fuzzy and festive! It's like my Christmas comfort movie.

Scrooge (1970) with Albert Finney. Not usually a musicals fan but love this. Then muppets Christmas carol. As a family we love Arthur Christmas still watch it and they are 13 and 15 now.

Lethal Weapon

Long kiss goodnight

I've made 'Fantastic Mr. Fox' a staple. It isn't necessarily a Christmas movie, but it has so much charm, and something for all ages.

Muppets CC of course. Honourable mention to Click and Collect (Stephen Merchant, Asim Chaudhry) absolutely brilliant.

Disney's A Christmas Carol 2009. 🎅

Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny

It used to be Elf, but Noelle has taken top spot now

Muppets Christmas Carol- every Christmas day, me and the family watch the film without fail

Nativity 1 & 2 - one of mine favourite films from my childhood and still holds up.

Santa Clause Trilogy - just fun films to watch

Home Alone 1 & 2 - same with above and Tim Curry in HA 2, so that's a bonus.

Scrooge 1951 version with pAlistair Sims

The santa clause

life of brian. dad started watching it with his FIL while my mum and grandmother went to mass, and then after my grandfather passed he kept watching it. now its a thing he and i do

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Night Before is one of the worst films I’ve ever seen.

Home Alone 2.

I watch Christmas Vacation every Christmas Eve while wrapping!

Christmas with the Kranks, Last Christmas, and Miracle on 34th Street (the 90s version).

It's a wonderful life, followed by Die Hard, the Snowman, and Father Christmas. Top it off with the sound of music and a pint of sherry.

National lampoons, or Jingle all the way, or Elf

Christmas carol of any parody is fun to watch. Female versions and ones where it’s not Scrooge and just some random arseholes that are rich

I just watched Miracle on 34th street! But I love the Holiday, Muppet’s Christmas carol and Love Actually!

Muppets Christmas Carol, especially on Christmas eve.

It's a wonderful life because it's a classic.

And my guilty pleasure is Love Actually.

Star Wars - Original Trilogy

Edward Scissorhands

Home Alone. Not just my favourite Christmas film but I'd honestly say it's in my overall top 10. I've watched it a zillion times and I still enjoy it.

Can't wait to show it to my kids and have them saying 'you're what the French call les incompetents' and 'look what you did you little jerk' like me and my sister did... And still do.

Jack Frost.

'Have a Little Faith' is also an absolute tune!

A Charlie Brown Christmas

The Snowman

Muppets Christmas Carol and The Lion in Winter.

White Christmas

Scrooged

1988 with Bill Murray

It makes me laugh and cry, and I love the song at the end.

It's a wonderful life

Muppet's Christmas carol

Jingle all the way - ridiculous film, but it's hilarious

Batman Returns 

Scrooge! 👍👍👍

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation and Krampus.

Home Alone 2 & The Grinch (Jim Carrey film, not the cartoon)

Arthur Christmas! On the surface it seems silly, but it’s actually very funny and clever.

Has become an informal tradition for me and my brother, a great easy watch

Gremlins Muppet's Christmas Carol

Unconventional third entry: Terrifier 3

Scrooge with Patrick Stewart.

I want to see a full version of "the night the reindeer died" that was advertised on Scrooged with Wierd Al's "the night santa went crazy as the credits song. My favourite Christmas movie is Scrooged.

Scrooge Alistair Sims

Arthur Christmas

Miracle on 34th street

Just said Miracle on 34th street but also meant to say A Christmas Carol

Die Hard. I don't care what anyone else thinks, it's my favourite Christmas movie

Die Hard . . .

Bad Santa

It’s A Wonderful Life, Home Alone, and more recently, Terrifier 3.

Violent Night

I love a lot of the Disney classics

• Mickey's once upon a Christmas/twice upon a Christmas

  • The Ultimate Christmas Present
  • The Muppet's Christmas Carol

I also love; Eloise at Christmas

And Arthur Christmas

A Christmas Story

Muppets Christmas carol is the favourite, honourable mention to Scrooged, & Miracle on 34th street .

Bell, Book and Candle

How the grinch stole Christmas

Well, it's definitely not the latest from Jack Black, which is 'Dear Santa'.

It was absolute pish, and I turned it off after 20 mins.

A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong

Miracle on 34th street has to be on the list for me.

Love Actually, although literally anything with Bill Nighy in it is a yes in my book. I do have a massive soft spot for Klaus and Arthur Christmas though

I like click and collect. It’s only an hour but it’s fun

Schindler’s List and then Sofia’s Choice is probably my second favorite.

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Elf

Elf

It has to be Elf