Here’s mine.
- Home Alone
- Die Hard
- Elf
- The Snowman (1982)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (both)
- The Star (2017)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas
- The Year Without a Santa Clause
- Violent Night
- LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special
- Mr. Bean S01E07 “Merry Christmas Mr. Bean”
In no real order at all.
The best Christmas trilogy:
- The Muppets Christmas Carol
- Scrooged
- Spirited
Also, make sure you watch the “full-length” Muppets, where the critical sad love ballad hasn’t been cut.
Agree about #1 movie choice. Hard disagree about the importance of the terrible ballad. :)
- White Christmas
- Polar Express
- Will Vinton’s Claymation Christmas
- William Wegman’s 12 Days of Christmas
- Elf
- The Santa Clause
We watch many of yours, and also Trading Places.
Eating salmon through a filthy Santa beard. Delicious!
Krampus
About 40% to 60% of Little Lord Fauntleroy, passively consumed because my dad turned on the TV for background ambiance while we’re both doing stuff on our laptops in his living room.
Weihnachten bei Hoppenstedts.
Nice. Tradition. That’s “The Snowman” for us. The soundtrack of our Christmas. And Handel’s Messiah.
How does violent night 2 compare?
Edit: whoops, I thought it was already out but it looks like it might start filming next year.
Well that’s great news!
It’s a Wonderful Life
Die Hard
Nightmare Before Christmas
Elf
The Night Before
Grinch (Carrey)
Klaus
Christmas Chronicles
Jingle All the Way
The Polar Express
Scrooged
Adds by my wife:
The Santa Clause 1, 2, and 3
White Christmas
Harry Potter (all of them) Edit: Home AloneIt’s November 30th. Go home Lemmy, you’re drunk.
I’m excited!
Santa’s Slay. It’s a B movie, and it knows it. But it’s good as long as you’re drinking spiked eggnog.
I do like it a lot myself.
For something a bit different, try Snow Queen from 2002 (live action, not the cartoon). It starts out like a generic Hallmark movie and goes entirely off the rails. It’s worth watching at least once.
C’mon
Rankin-Bass Rudolph or the list is bogus.
Same with National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Original Grinch is best Grinch, but I’ll accept them as a duo.
Die Hard is as Christmas as it gets, so yipee kai ay motherfucker!
A Charlie Brown Christmas is a must.
Emmet Otter’s Jug Band is almost at that level of necessity, though maybe only for us gen-x kids.
Anything else is open for negotiations on my end, I ain’t mad at anyone else’s list beyond joking.
However, Frosty the Snowman, also a Rankin-Bass production is awesome, and any of their Christmas specials deserve at least an honorable mention.
If I got Heat Miser and Cold Miser I’m good.
Have you seen the LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special? Very fun.
My true Christmas watch list has Rudolph, Frosty the Snowman, and Santa Claus is Coming to Town from Rankin-Bass. It just seemed like flooding to put them all in there, so I just put my favorite.
Haven’t caught it yet. One of those things where it’s on a long list of stuff to watch, but there’s usually something more interesting for one of us.
Tbh, I can spend days during the Christmas holidays with Rankin-Bass. There’s not really a stinker among them for me, though the older ones are the really great ones.
Le conte de Noël is a good one to add in to the mix.
From “Minivers?”
Gremlins A Christmas Story Elf Polar Express Rudolph
A quick warning about gremlins, its all fun and games until a scene involves a harsh talk betraying some of the Christmas mythology.
LOTR in my household.
They’re the perfect Thanksgiving movies for some reason.
Klaus is an excellent movie
