So This is Christmas
Whether or not you celebrate Christmas, nobody can deny the heartfelt appeal of holiday movies. My top five favorites range from animated classics to modern romance and always put me in the best of seasonal spirits. So make some popcorn, curl up with a cozy blanket and revisit your childhood with some festive films.
What are your favorite holiday films?
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Great picks!! I like all these, and I must add “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, haha. So silly.
Aaron and I have been watching a different Christmas movie every night to get into the whole xmas spirit, it’s nice!
Serendipity, it’s not really about Christmas but set in the winter and they always play it around the holiday season
oh love actually was such an amazing movie! well I guess one of those adaptation to that scroodge story is a must for “the christmas movie list”.
my alltime favorit is ” It’s a Wonderful Life”. My parents and I watch it together every year, and it always makes me cry ( in a happy way of course!)
I agree with – ‘its a wonderful life’ ,and ‘Home alone’ – but I have to add ‘Elf ‘starring Will Ferrell, I love it! It makes me laugh and feel so festive!
I have to say I love It’s a Wonderful Life and I’m a sucker for the classic animated short films; Frosty, Rudolph, etc.
I posted a holiday viewing schedule in case you want to try to catch some of these on TiVo this year.
emily!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
thanks for ALL your beautiful words girl.
misses.
yay for christmas.
and now that i am with my fam + friends it makes it that much more special
x.
oh I didn’t like Love Actually the first time I saw it but now it’s grown on me and I LOVE LOVE LOVE IT!
i LOVE… Love Actually.. i always need to watch it around this time.
i LOVE love actually. i just watched it this past weekend again. one of my all time favorite movies.
other holiday movies i love are:
~national lampoon’s christmas vacation
~a christmas story
There’s not a film on here that I haven’t seen at least a gazillion times, and that particular scene in Love Actually… (sigh).
xxx
love actually definitely comes first, wonderful movie although I have to admit I got a wee bit tired of it after watching it at least two times 5 years in a row!
tonight I will be watching Polar Express, hope it´s good! otherwise I´ll just cover that with loads of mulled wine, hehe.
xx
Love Actually is #1 on my list! Followed closely by A Christmas Story (“You’ll shoot your eye out!!”)
I adore Christmas movies. I’ll be watching The Nightmare Before Christmas, Frosty the Snowman, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, The Christmas Story, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer once exam week is over! I can’t wait.
Home Alone, Home Alone 2, Christmas with the Cranks, Rudolph, Deck the Halls, Christmas Vacation and Nightmare before Christmas!! Also, anything with Charlie Brown!
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Hey! Why didn’t Little Women make the list? I guess it isn’t necessarily a Christmas movie.
It’s so old school, but I think I still love Miracle on 34th Street more than any other Christmas movie out there.
Honestly, I don’t love most Christmas movies. I do like “Elf”, though.
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oh yeah, and ELF <3
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home alone is my absolute favorite! kevin, you’re such a disease. buzz, your girlfriend…woof. i can’t get enough!
Thank you, Emily!!
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Love Actually is one of my all time favorites
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Ooh, good choices. I love a Mickey’s Christmas Carol & The Holiday, too!
this is such a pretty post!
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I really love the Grinch with Jim Carey. Such fun! And then of course there is always A Christmas Story. Such a classic. And I kind of want that boy’s big black square-rimmed glasses…
What great picks! I would have to agree with every single one of your choices.
love actually is definitely in my top list of lists, i could watch that movie forever and never get sick of it. heck i’ve already watched it twice this month. i am also loving the holiday the more times i watch it. i don’t know what it is but those british folks know how to make a good movie, haha.
great movies!! ive talked recently about christmas in new york and the windows at bloomingdales if you’re interested… bust some of my favorite christmas movies definitely include miracle on 34th street, charlie brown christmas, and love actually (as you said)
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Zoe
1.little women
2. elf
3. love actually
You picked all the best ones. I grew up with “Rudolph,” so I think that’s my favorite.
i love Elf and Love Actually! and of course It’s a Wonderful Life is a classic!
LOVE Love Actually–that image is of my favorite scene! I also love Ruldolph when it come to the classics.
I’m SO Glad you posted Love Actually—it’s my FAVE holiday movie and I just watched it again last week. It only gets better and better with each viewing. I don’t know what I like more—when Hugh is dancing around the prime minister’s residence, or getting to see hunky colin firth bumble around in france. Okay, I think I need to watch it again…
great choices! love them all. miracle on 34th street is also a good one!
Hi there-we all love Home Alone!!
ELF hands down!!
My favorites are:
Classics:
It’s a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Holiday Inn
The Bishop’s Wife
Contemporary:
Love Actually
The Holiday
When Harry Met Sally
family man and the disney version of miracle on 34th street are our favorites!
Great list!
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My favorites are:
Rudolph
Prancer
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Elf
The Grinch (the animated version of course!
LOVE ACTUALLY is the best holiday movie EVER!!!!!!!!!!!! one my fave movies period!
we have watched a Christmas movie every night since december 1st! we are running out… but i made everyone start with love actually, because there is no better movie to get one in the holiday spirit!
I just yesterday watched Love actually, I have to see it every Christmas time. Also “Gone with the wind”, “Amelie” and “Snowman” plus all cute Disney classics like “Lady and the tramp” are on my list to see during holidays..
i’ve still never seen love actually or night before christmas! weird. i know! this makes me excited though. adding them to my netflix queue now!
hope you had a happy halloween emily!
p.s. home alone is my all time fave too.
Love Actually is the best!
Perfect! Except I’d swap Home Alone with Miracle on 34th street or A Christmas Story. Nightmare and Rudolph are definitely my top two!
All of the above, but my No. 1 pick is “It’s a Wonderful Life.”
Love, love, love it. Your list of holiday movies are some of my faves (adore “Love Actually”). Of course, there is the mandatory “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “A Charlie Brown Christmas.” This time of year always makes me want to curl up and watch these movies with a bowl of yummy soup – even if it’s not chilly! =)
Its a Wonderful Life
Home Alone
Love Actually
Planes, Train, and Automobiles
It’s a Wonderful Life
White Christmas
The Family Man
The Family Stone
Love actually is wonderful! I love the scene in the marriage with all you need is love
It’s Wonderful Life….I’ve been seeing this movie since forever
White Christmas
A Charlie Brown Christmas
and i must see Love Actually…its practically on everyone’s list here
I think I could watch The Holiday on repeat for the next two months. My fave!
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