We're not saying "the best". Just list 5 Christmas/Holiday movies that you really enjoy. Mine are:
1. Elf
2. Bad Santa
3. Christmas Vacation
4. A Christmas Story
5. A Christmas Carol-The new Disney one. I loved this movie. Can't wait to own it.
christmas vacation
a christmas story
muppet's christmas carol
elf
miracle on 34th street (the 1994 version)
scrooged gets honorable mention, but i think it falls apart at the end.
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i watch the first two diehards every year around christmas. i don't count them as actual christmas movies, but it's become kind of a tradition to watch them mixed in with the real stuff.
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1. Elf
2. Its a wonderful life (it counts!)
3. Scrooged
4. Love Actually
5. Miracle on 34th Street
All leave you with a smile on your face at the end and feeling Christmassy! Home Alone (1+2) & Gremlins are pushing for places!
I love:
1.Elf
2.A Christmas Story (this MUST be playing while we open presents on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!)
3.National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
4.The Santa Clause
5.Home Alone 2
Honorable mentions: Home Alone, Gremlins, Scrooged, Bad Santa
love actually
die hard
elf
home alone 1 & 2
the grinch
A Christmas Carol (1938), starring Reginald Owen as Scrooge and Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart as the Cratchits.
Scrooge (1951), re-titled A Christmas Carol in the U.S., starring Alastair Sim as Scrooge and Mervyn Johns and Hermione Baddeley as the Cratchits.
Elf
Love Actually
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (1964)
Must add-
A Christmas Story
Renfield: Isn't this a strange conversation... for people who aren't crazy?
Dracula (1931)
Elf
Love Actually
Miracle on 34th Street (original)
Merry Christmas Charlie Brown (though not technically a movie)
It's a Wonderful Life
No order:
Elf
It's a Wonderful Life
Love Actually
Home Alone
Die Hard
You fight like a dairy farmer.
How appropriate. Cue my username.
In order:
A Christmas Story
Elf
Keeping the Faith
The Whole Nine Yards
The Family Man
Die Hard
Bad Santa
Gremlins
Shrek 1
Movies that gets me in the Christmas spirit, though not all of them are classified as Christmas movies.
1. Die Hard
2. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
3. A Christmas Story
4. Elf
5. Love Actually
Love Actually
Elf
Home Alone
A Christmas Story
and one of my all time favorites, Mickey's Christmas Carol!
This happens. This is something that happens
1. Elf
2. A Christmas Story
3. Jingle All the Way
4. The Santa Clause
5. Eyes Wide Shut
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. Meet Me in St. Louis
3. A Christmas Story (loved it back in the '80s, before it was a marathon!)
4. White Christmas
5. Christmas in Connecticut
Worthy honorable mentions:
Holiday Inn
The Family Stone
Die Hard
1. The Polar Express
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
3. It's a Wonderful Life
4. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
5. Die Hard