My Favourite 6 Christmas Movies
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December 19, 2015Some people will tell you Christmas is all about family, giving and receiving gifts, religion, or eating your own bodyweight in Pringles.
I think it’s all about Christmas Movies. Well, some of it is anyway, a lot of it is about all those other things, of course.
Every year, as well as wearing my vast collection of Christmas themed clothing, there are certain films I have to have seen over the Christmas period or it’s just not Christmas yet. Some people assume that as a Vintage fan I probably spend all my time watching old movies, and while I do love an old movie, there’s actually only one on my Christmas essentials list that really qualifies under that bracket. The rest are just slightly aged!
In our house we have what we rather grandly call a Cinema Room. It’s actually a spare bedroom with a projector screen that goes over the window as a blind, a sofa bed, a projector and a laptop, but Cinema Room sounds way fancier. When the room isn’t full of washing that I haven’t yet got around to putting away it’s great fun to spend an evening in there with Mulled Wine mince pies and a box of Quality Street watching some of the films on this list.
It’s not a ground breaking list, I doubt very much whether there are any films on here you HAVEN’T seen, but if there are, I recommend getting hold of it immediately, because you don’t know what you’re missing.
6.Edward Scissorhands
5. Scrooged
4. Die Hard
3. Gremlins
2. It’s A Wonderful Life
1. Elf 
What is YOUR favourite Christmas movie?
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Yay!!! You’ve got the Netflix fire on too!!! It makes me so happy 😀
That’s not my living room, I wish my living room was that nice! But I know what you mean 😀
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Has to be Scrooged – the fairy with the toaster gets me every time.
Apparently Elf the musical is good…
I haven’t seen that! Is that the cartoon one?
No it’s on in the west end, Kimberley of Girls Aloud in it…
Ah! Oh, that sounds cool!
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Thank you for the suggestions. At our house in Connecticut, Barbara Stanwyk and Sidney Greenstreet in Christmas in Connecticut is a must every year. We also love Fred Astaire’s drunken NYE dance in Holiday Inn and its remake, “White Christmas”; all of It Happened on Fifth Avenue; Judy Garland singing “I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas” in “Meet Me in St. Louis”. In celebration of the 80’s, Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, or Trading Places. A Holiday Affair is an interesting romance looking at post war dynamics. The Bishop’s Wife is a different take on the romantic comedy. I have not found a great Christmas movie from the 60’s, though The Apartment is on my list. Happy viewing and Happy Holidays!
Imust admit, we watch new movies just about all day.
Elf is the bestest Christmas film EVER! Good choices. 🙂 T xx
I properly bawl at the end of Elf whilst singing along. My all-time, isn’t Christmas until I’ve seen it, is a Muppet’s Christmas Carol. 🙂
Good choices! A Nightmare Before Christmas and Muppet Christmas Carol are my all time faves ?
Oh man! How could I forget nightmare before Christmas!
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Wot no Muppets Christmas Carol?! It’s a Wonderful Life, Gremlins and Die Hard are deffo good films – the first of those is my husband’s absolute favourite (and it does indeed make him cry). But it has to be Muppets for me, and the entire Lord of the Rings trilogy between Christmas and New Year.
My favorite is, “It’s a Wonderful Life.” I am always left wondering what things would be like if I had not existed…
Second favorite is, “One Magic Christmas”, and third is,
“Scrooge” with Alistair Sim.
I would add ‘Miracle on 34th St’