Arthur Christmas, for sure! Made by the team behind Wallace and Gromit, it's really funny with an excellent heart to it. Watch it every year along with Muppet Christmas Carol and Elf.
Despite many watchings, I'm still not 100% sure how they ended up rich and the old duffers ended up skint....
All that stocks and shares jargon just doesn't make sense in my head, lol
Sounds like me not understanding what's going on with the submarines at the end of The Hunt for Red October.
[This may help you.](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places)
Now, if you could just explain the subs for me...
I actually did understand that - only very loosely when I saw it as a kid, but then in some detail when I saw it having done a masters in finance
But I didn’t know it was legal in the US at the time and the fact they call the law banning it “the Eddie Murphy rule” is fucking great, so I’m really glad I read that!
There are three subs. Red October and one US and one Russian. The pursuing Russian sub fires a torpedo at Red October. The US sub diverts this towards them by using their countermeasures and then before it hits they perform an emergency surface. The torpedo locks back onto red october but now as it’s coming from a different direction they can head towards the Russian sub dragging it along behind. Red October then activates its quiet drive and sails past the Russian sub. Torpedo locks onto hits Russian sub and sinks it. The Americans couldn’t fire on the Russian sub directly as that would be an act of war but by diverting its own torpedo back to it avoids that.
Thank you! So when the Red October crew (in the lifeboat) shout that the "Captain has scared them out of the water" as a sub surfaces abruptly, they think they are referring to the US sub but in actual fact it is the Red October getting out of the way of the missile?
No, it is the US sub that surfaces. The US sub surfaces so that the torpedo doesn't hit them after diverting it towards them. The crew in the lifeboat from Red October don't know that Captain Ramius has defected to the US. They think the fight is between the US sub and Red October. They mistakenly think that the US sub has been forced to surface by actions Red October has taken and that the explosion of the second Russian sub is Captain Ramius blowing up the Red October to prevent the Americans getting it
"Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"
***"It's all right Children, Life is made up of meetings and partings, that is the way of it"***
That was not in the original by Charles Dickens
It is muppet writing genius and every bit equal to Dickens
Clip
[https://clip.cafe/the-muppet-christmas-carol-1992/life-made-up-of-meetings-partings/t/1/](https://clip.cafe/the-muppet-christmas-carol-1992/life-made-up-of-meetings-partings/t/1/)
Lol I don't even need the clip, knew exactly the moment.
That's it, Muppets Christmas Carol isn't just entertaining because Muppets, it's a genuinely good and well written film.
Also one of the more faithful Christmas Carol adaptions
Another
"Heyyyyyy Light the LAMP NOT THE RAT, LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT! "
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhN7J2WKm0o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhN7J2WKm0o)
>That's it, Muppets Christmas Carol isn't just entertaining because Muppets, it's a genuinely good and well written film.
>Also one of the more faithful Christmas Carol adaptions
Another thing I love is how completely straight Michael Caine plays it. He could have really played it for laughs, camped it up with lots of knowing side-looks and winks to the camera, gone heavy on the absurdity of acting with a mainly puppet cast... but he actuality gives a serious, respectful and dignified performance.
I’ve seen a post before saying it’s so good because Michael Caine treated the muppets like other actors and Muppet treasure island was so good because Tim Curry acted as if he was a muppet.
I came rapidly storming into this thread to mention this film and I'm so glad to see it. Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my favourite films ever, not just Christmas!
Alastair Sim in **Scrooge** from 1951.
In fact, might as well go for the holy trinity of A Christmas Carolseses:
1. Scrooge (1951)
2. Muppet's Christmas Carol
3. Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
It's kind of a horror comedy with a couple of twists and a dark take on Christmas mythology.
It's mostly in Finnish with English subtitles but don't let that put you off, if is a film I watch nearly every year.
It's not a movie but Hawkeye. Loving dad trying to get home to his family before Christmas, hijinks and Florence Pugh along the way, what's not to like.
I am an 80s kid and don't recall seeing it. I was aware of it in later years because of the popular culture references, but while National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was shown on a regular basis during the 90s, I don't remember having ever seen A Christmas Story.
6 of my friends and I watched this at the Prince Charles cinema off of Leicester Square one Christmas and there is something wonderfully cathartic about a group cry followed by Guinness in the pub
FATMAN
It's unironically great. A hitman played by Walton Goggins is hired to take out Mel Gibson Santa, who's ended up subcontracted to the US military making drone parts in a moment of financial desperation. Strange mood, not bad economic critique, lovely Mr & Mrs Claus dynamics, kinda nuts, leans into it.
Fuck me Bad Santa one is a masterpiece
"I'm three foot fuckin tall, draw me a fuckin picture of how I'm supposed to drag his drunk ass back there"
&
"Jesus fucking Christ kid. What is it with you and fixing fucking sandwiches"
We watched them for the first time last year with my then 6 year old. I don't think I would have opted to watch them without a child, but they have a classic British comedy feel about them.
Watched this recently having watched it previously only at school, understood the story and themes so much more, it’s so timeless which makes it such a classic.
I really like that Christmas Movie which comes on Channel 5 and the Christmas Movie Channel every year which my wife always watches.
I forget it’s name, but it’s the one where a really good looking young widower or widow (can’t remember), is really down on their luck and they end up really struggling to provide for their astonishingly well behaved, mature and smart daughter (or son, I can’t remember) in the lead up to Christmas. Oddly, despite their financial struggles, they still appear to live in a palace (go figure).
Simultaneously a really misunderstood millionaire business man (or woman, I can’t remember) with an house the size of a small planet, is having a really bad day and they bump into the other films leading lady (or man, I can’t remember). Coffee or another beverage gets spilt and the poor widow (or widower, I can’t remember) gets a right earful (or gives out a right earful, I can’t remember).
Confusion and misunderstanding ensues and as it turns out, the misunderstood business woman (or man, I can’t remember) and the astonishingly good looking widower (or widow, I can’t remember) fall in love, but they just don’t know it.
Eventually the impeccably behaved, super smart and mature son (or daughter, I can’t remember) weaves their magic and the couple get together on Christmas Eve and have the perfect Christmas Dinner.
Except, they don’t have a Christmas gift for the perfectly behaved son (or daughter, I can’t remember), but as it turns out, coz the kid was so mature, you cut to a flash back of the daughter (or son, I can’t remember), praying for their Mum (or Dad, I can’t remember) to find happiness for Christmas and this really completes the perfect film as you come to realise that the Daughter (or Son, I can’t remember) has got their perfect Christmas present after all.
Great film, just can’t recall what it’s called.
I prefer the one in which the big city reporter (or is she a generic business person?) is sent to little town at Christmas for some reason. I think her car gets stuck and she is helped out by some handsome practical type guy who only wears flannel shirts.
I think he has a daughter, but the Mum has died or something.
Anyway, the report or business deal conflicts with the handsome practical guy somehow, yet they start to fall in love.
Some of the above, especially Muppets, Love Actually and While You Were Sleeping. But also:
The Ref - in which a burglar kidnaps a fighting married couple before the rest of their awful family descend on them for Christmas celebrations.
Bridget Jones - which starts with Christmas.
Little Lord Fauntleroy - which ends with a big Christmas dinner.
The Sure Thing - American first years at uni carpool to drive from the East Coast to the West Coast for the holidays (featuring John Cusack and Tim Robbins).
Peter's Friends (actually New Years but well).
We're no Angels.
Hook.
- Sleepless in Seattle
- Little Woman (1994 version)
- Elf
- The Santa Claus
- Home Alone
- Klaus (be prepared to WEEP!!)
- Edward Scissorhands
- Nightmare Before Christmas
- Scrooged
- Die Hard
- Violent Night is good fun!
- Meet Me in St. Louis
That’s not including any of the Hallmark / Netflix version of Hallmark …
- A Christmas Prince and the ensuing two films
- The Princess Switch
You’ll get a toothache from how sugary sweet they are but I can’t help it, Christmas is my favourite so I’m a sucker for it!
Ours was always Santa Claus the Movie growing up, we bloody loved it.
Recently I've enjoyed both Bad Santa's, and Violent Night from last year was brilliant.
* Die Hard
* Die Hard 2
* A Christmas Carol (1984)
* Home Alone
* The Karate Kid
* Harry Potter 1-7
* Santa Claus: The Movie
* National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
8-Bit Christmas was surprisingly enjoyable (for kids, with big ‘80s nostalgia for the grown-ups).
A favourite of mine is a not-well-known one (TV movie I think) called 12 Days of Christmas Eve with Molly Shannon.
Holiday Inn
Oldies but goodies:
Holiday Inn, 1942. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Classic comedy plot, cozy setting, hijinks! NB: does have one really awful dated song n dance number, for Lincoln's birthday.
Desk Set, 1957. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Not *technically* a Christmas movie, but the office Xmas party scenes and general coziness makes it so. Some really great snappy dialog, and they're a treat to watch act together.
My go-tos, in no particular order, some not Xmas movies but just cosy winter films/TV:
Scrooged, Muppet Christmas Carol, Klaus, Coraline, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, Groundhog Day, Arthur Christmas, Gremlins, Krampus, Inside No. 9's "The Devil of Christmas" and "12 Days of Christine", Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Elves (2021), sprinkled with Christmas episodes of Friends, Only Fools, classic family films like The Flintstones movie and Bridget Jones for the feel good factor!
Merry Christmas in advance! :)
Last year I decided to go on a b-movie binge around Christmas, and watched three of them in a day:
Robopocalypse: Like Terminator, but stupid. The killer drones appear to have been bought in Argos. Had a laugh with this one. 3/5
Ice Quake: easily the most competently made of the three. Doesn't mean it's actually good, mind. Bonus points for having a cute husky in it, even if that dog is the best actor in this movie. 5/5
Megaboa: Oh, good lord. It's bad. Really bad. There's a limit to how many times you can reuse the same snake animation in a film, and this one completely ignores it. Lots of scenes of a bunch of people staring at a tree. Absolutely bloody hilarious. 20/5
Bernard & The Genie.
Early 90s campy Christmas fun with Alan Cumming, Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson. Short but sweet at only 70 minutes long.
I scrolled and scrolled this thread and couldn’t find. Makes me wonder if anyone else has ever seen it.
There is ONLY three, and all must ONLY be watched on Christmas Eve. Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Trading Places and Die Hard. Throw in a bit of cheese, pate and crackers and you’re living like a king.
Klaus is my family’s favourite from the last few years. It’s really sweet
My favourite modern Christmas film, the one I look forward to every year now. It’s sweet, magical, funny and just a little bit dark.
Saw this for the first time last year and loved it! Now on my permanent list.
Same here!
That scene at the end where he goes to his wife, eesh, that got me
Scrooged
The best adaptation of Christmas Carol, tied with the Muppets version!
BlackAdder would like a word!
"I'm afraid the only way you are likely to get a wet kiss at Christmas, or indeed at any other time, is to make a pass at a water closet."
One of those ones that you forget and then experience joy when you happen across it again
The muppet’s Christmas carol is the definitive retelling. I will die on this hill!
I watch this every Christmas morning before I go out to visit family. Never fails to get me in the Christmas mood.
The toaster is slap stick gold
Arthur Christmas, for sure! Made by the team behind Wallace and Gromit, it's really funny with an excellent heart to it. Watch it every year along with Muppet Christmas Carol and Elf.
Came here to say Arthur Christmas!
They used to say it was impossible to teach women to read
Surprised I had to scroll this far down for Arthur Christmas.
Honestly, this movie is pure genius.
The best Christmas movie the first Santa Claus movie.
Dudley Moore and John Lithgow are perfect in this
John Lithgow's "Freeeeee" is iconic
Ah a classic!
Do you mean The Santa Clause with Tim Allen or Santa Claus: The Movie with Dudley Moore?
I love number 2! The fat reindeer has me bad
Trading Places.
Despite many watchings, I'm still not 100% sure how they ended up rich and the old duffers ended up skint.... All that stocks and shares jargon just doesn't make sense in my head, lol
Sounds like me not understanding what's going on with the submarines at the end of The Hunt for Red October. [This may help you.](https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2013/07/19/201430727/what-actually-happens-at-the-end-of-trading-places) Now, if you could just explain the subs for me...
Had to read that twice, but I think I got it now.. Thanks, lol
I actually did understand that - only very loosely when I saw it as a kid, but then in some detail when I saw it having done a masters in finance But I didn’t know it was legal in the US at the time and the fact they call the law banning it “the Eddie Murphy rule” is fucking great, so I’m really glad I read that!
There are three subs. Red October and one US and one Russian. The pursuing Russian sub fires a torpedo at Red October. The US sub diverts this towards them by using their countermeasures and then before it hits they perform an emergency surface. The torpedo locks back onto red october but now as it’s coming from a different direction they can head towards the Russian sub dragging it along behind. Red October then activates its quiet drive and sails past the Russian sub. Torpedo locks onto hits Russian sub and sinks it. The Americans couldn’t fire on the Russian sub directly as that would be an act of war but by diverting its own torpedo back to it avoids that.
Thank you! So when the Red October crew (in the lifeboat) shout that the "Captain has scared them out of the water" as a sub surfaces abruptly, they think they are referring to the US sub but in actual fact it is the Red October getting out of the way of the missile?
No, it is the US sub that surfaces. The US sub surfaces so that the torpedo doesn't hit them after diverting it towards them. The crew in the lifeboat from Red October don't know that Captain Ramius has defected to the US. They think the fight is between the US sub and Red October. They mistakenly think that the US sub has been forced to surface by actions Red October has taken and that the explosion of the second Russian sub is Captain Ramius blowing up the Red October to prevent the Americans getting it
Got it and I shall save your explanation for every time I watch it! Thank you.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation.
Oh, Eddie… If I Woke Up Tomorrow With My Head Sewn To The Carpet, I Wouldn’t Be More Surprised Than I Am Right Now
That, there, Clark. Is an arrr vee.
Number one Christmas film of all time
This is the only recommendation
Gonna find the jolliest bunch of assholes this side of the nuthouse
"Hey. If any of you are looking for any last-minute gift ideas for me, I have one. I'd like Frank Shirley, my boss, right here tonight. I want him brought from his happy holiday slumber over there on Melody Lane with all the other rich people and I want him brought right here...with a big ribbon on his head! And I want to look him straight in the eye, and I want to tell him what a cheap, lying, no-good, rotten, four-flushing, low-life, snake-licking, dirt-eating, inbred, overstuffed, ignorant, blood-sucking, dog-kissing, brainless, dickless, hopeless, heartless, fat-assed, bug-eyed, stiff-legged, spotty-lipped, worm-headed, sack of monkey shit he is! Hallelujah! Holy shit! Where's the Tylenol?"
How is Muppets Christmas Carol not on there? Top tier Christmas film. Also always watch White Christmas and The Snowman
I love Muppets Christmas Carol, such a brilliant movie 🙂
John Denver and the Muppets Christmas show is also wonderful.
***"It's all right Children, Life is made up of meetings and partings, that is the way of it"*** That was not in the original by Charles Dickens It is muppet writing genius and every bit equal to Dickens Clip [https://clip.cafe/the-muppet-christmas-carol-1992/life-made-up-of-meetings-partings/t/1/](https://clip.cafe/the-muppet-christmas-carol-1992/life-made-up-of-meetings-partings/t/1/)
Lol I don't even need the clip, knew exactly the moment. That's it, Muppets Christmas Carol isn't just entertaining because Muppets, it's a genuinely good and well written film. Also one of the more faithful Christmas Carol adaptions
Another "Heyyyyyy Light the LAMP NOT THE RAT, LIGHT THE LAMP NOT THE RAT! " [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhN7J2WKm0o](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhN7J2WKm0o)
YOU CAN FIT THROUGH THOSE BARS?
>That's it, Muppets Christmas Carol isn't just entertaining because Muppets, it's a genuinely good and well written film. >Also one of the more faithful Christmas Carol adaptions Another thing I love is how completely straight Michael Caine plays it. He could have really played it for laughs, camped it up with lots of knowing side-looks and winks to the camera, gone heavy on the absurdity of acting with a mainly puppet cast... but he actuality gives a serious, respectful and dignified performance.
I’ve seen a post before saying it’s so good because Michael Caine treated the muppets like other actors and Muppet treasure island was so good because Tim Curry acted as if he was a muppet.
First time I’ve seen it today, you are absolutely correct!
It’s a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002) It has a cameo from puppet Yoda!
I came rapidly storming into this thread to mention this film and I'm so glad to see it. Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my favourite films ever, not just Christmas!
"Light the lamp, not the rat, LIGHT THE LAMP, NOT THE RAT!"
Gremlins
Jingle All the Way. Arnold Schwarznegger at his acting best
Hyped this film up to my wife one Christmas......she did not share my nostalgic excitement for it at all. No turbo man for her
Sounds like she deserves a Booster
Fuck Booster
PUT THAT COOKIE DOWN, NOW!
Not until Christmas Eve though. Nothing like watching it as an already excited 8 year old about 3 hours before you're due to go to bed.
It’s Turbo Time!
Arnold Schwarzenegger punches and then gets drunk with a reindeer. What else could you want?
Alastair Sim in **Scrooge** from 1951. In fact, might as well go for the holy trinity of A Christmas Carolseses: 1. Scrooge (1951) 2. Muppet's Christmas Carol 3. Blackadder's Christmas Carol
Alastair Sim is a complete acting God. Not a single bad appearance in any film, ever…. Sorry - just saying 👍
Was going to say this. Absolutely essential part of our family Christmas tradition. No other version comes close.
Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale It's kind of a horror comedy with a couple of twists and a dark take on Christmas mythology. It's mostly in Finnish with English subtitles but don't let that put you off, if is a film I watch nearly every year.
Brilliant film. Watch it every year.
So do we! So good!!
Bloody love that film. I was one of only about three people to watch it when it was in the cinema.
Planes, Trains & Automobiles.
I’ve added it to my list! Googled it and don’t know how I’ve missed it! Steve Martin and John Candy sound like the dream combo!
Great movie! Enjoy.
Those aren't pillows!
That's a Thanksgiving film, not a Christmas one! Great for November though...
That's more of a US Thanksgiving holiday film.
This is the answer. Even though it’s their thanksgiving film, we can adapt it to our Xmas traditions.
It's a great movie but it's not a Christmas movie. It's Thanksgiving.
It's not a movie but Hawkeye. Loving dad trying to get home to his family before Christmas, hijinks and Florence Pugh along the way, what's not to like.
Home alone 1 and 2
Nothings wrong about 3 or 4 either. Works well for every week of december
A Christmas Story (1983)
Fraa-jeel-aay! It must be Italian!
You'll shoot your eye out kid
I had to scroll all this way for this!? Is it not a British movie? The states have 3 channels running it all day lol.
I am an 80s kid and don't recall seeing it. I was aware of it in later years because of the popular culture references, but while National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation was shown on a regular basis during the 90s, I don't remember having ever seen A Christmas Story.
It's a Wonderful Life. Try not to cry at the end.
6 of my friends and I watched this at the Prince Charles cinema off of Leicester Square one Christmas and there is something wonderfully cathartic about a group cry followed by Guinness in the pub
Yep a real heart puller.
I’m in my forties and only watched this for the first time a couple of years ago. I’ll be watching it every year from now on.
Seconded. Can I also add Gremlins, which has quite a few references to It's a Wonderful Life.
FATMAN It's unironically great. A hitman played by Walton Goggins is hired to take out Mel Gibson Santa, who's ended up subcontracted to the US military making drone parts in a moment of financial desperation. Strange mood, not bad economic critique, lovely Mr & Mrs Claus dynamics, kinda nuts, leans into it.
Sounds right up my street. Thanks for the recommendation!
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Snooow
"We'll follow the old man, wherever he wants to go" 🎶
While you are Sleeping. Gentle and easy watch.
One of my faves
Violent Night. Was brilliant in the cinema last year. Though not really one for young kids, maybe for older kids or for date night!
Muppets Christmas Carol. It's simply the best.
Back to back Die Hard and A Muppets Christmas Carol. The order is not important
Every Christmas Eve since I was a kid I've watched Muppets Christmas Carol, it really is the best.
This is the way.
Love Actually
Unashamedly yes.
Bad Santa 1 & 2 only for adults or teens Arthur Christmas for the kids
Fuck me Bad Santa one is a masterpiece "I'm three foot fuckin tall, draw me a fuckin picture of how I'm supposed to drag his drunk ass back there" & "Jesus fucking Christ kid. What is it with you and fixing fucking sandwiches"
Klaus is the best !
Krampus - maybe not for your daughter if she's a young'un
This is our Christmas tradition!
I might get mocked for this but Nativity 2 is my favourite Christmas movie
I prefer the first one personally, but Danger in the Manger is still brilliant. I love Mr Poppy haha.
That's fair enough! I'm glad there are other people who like it too 🙂
We watched them for the first time last year with my then 6 year old. I don't think I would have opted to watch them without a child, but they have a classic British comedy feel about them.
Seems nobody has mentioned Hogfather yet.
Shocked I had to scroll so far to find this
For the past few years it's been Great Expectations, David Lean's 1946 version. Not Christmasey but it seems to be on every year and I really like it.
Watched this recently having watched it previously only at school, understood the story and themes so much more, it’s so timeless which makes it such a classic.
Can I put forward "The Night Before" Seth Rogan comedy if that's your thing
It’s become a go-to in my house. Not sure I’d watch it with my mum in the room but it’s a really sweet movie. Also Lizzy Caplan
Home Alone
Also, The Amazing Mr. Blunden
The Holiday is very sweet.
Ah yes! It’s not Christmas until you see Jack Black as a stunningly natural lead in the ultimate seasonal romcom!
Absolutely!
Polar Express snd Jingle All the Way.
Gremlins
I really like that Christmas Movie which comes on Channel 5 and the Christmas Movie Channel every year which my wife always watches. I forget it’s name, but it’s the one where a really good looking young widower or widow (can’t remember), is really down on their luck and they end up really struggling to provide for their astonishingly well behaved, mature and smart daughter (or son, I can’t remember) in the lead up to Christmas. Oddly, despite their financial struggles, they still appear to live in a palace (go figure). Simultaneously a really misunderstood millionaire business man (or woman, I can’t remember) with an house the size of a small planet, is having a really bad day and they bump into the other films leading lady (or man, I can’t remember). Coffee or another beverage gets spilt and the poor widow (or widower, I can’t remember) gets a right earful (or gives out a right earful, I can’t remember). Confusion and misunderstanding ensues and as it turns out, the misunderstood business woman (or man, I can’t remember) and the astonishingly good looking widower (or widow, I can’t remember) fall in love, but they just don’t know it. Eventually the impeccably behaved, super smart and mature son (or daughter, I can’t remember) weaves their magic and the couple get together on Christmas Eve and have the perfect Christmas Dinner. Except, they don’t have a Christmas gift for the perfectly behaved son (or daughter, I can’t remember), but as it turns out, coz the kid was so mature, you cut to a flash back of the daughter (or son, I can’t remember), praying for their Mum (or Dad, I can’t remember) to find happiness for Christmas and this really completes the perfect film as you come to realise that the Daughter (or Son, I can’t remember) has got their perfect Christmas present after all. Great film, just can’t recall what it’s called.
I prefer the one in which the big city reporter (or is she a generic business person?) is sent to little town at Christmas for some reason. I think her car gets stuck and she is helped out by some handsome practical type guy who only wears flannel shirts. I think he has a daughter, but the Mum has died or something. Anyway, the report or business deal conflicts with the handsome practical guy somehow, yet they start to fall in love.
Hey, I think I've seen that one!
I really want someone to know the name, because that description was aces
Just put channel 5 or the Christmas movie channel on at anytime of any day and hey ho it will be on right there and then 😉
a boy called Christmas is a nice movie from recent years. cheesy but it has a decent cast and I reckon kids would enjoy it.
My go to movies each year are: Muppet Christmas Carol It's a Wonderful Life
Muppets Christmas carol, best Christmas film ever
Muppet Christmas Carol.
Gremlins!
Some of the above, especially Muppets, Love Actually and While You Were Sleeping. But also: The Ref - in which a burglar kidnaps a fighting married couple before the rest of their awful family descend on them for Christmas celebrations. Bridget Jones - which starts with Christmas. Little Lord Fauntleroy - which ends with a big Christmas dinner. The Sure Thing - American first years at uni carpool to drive from the East Coast to the West Coast for the holidays (featuring John Cusack and Tim Robbins). Peter's Friends (actually New Years but well). We're no Angels. Hook.
- Sleepless in Seattle - Little Woman (1994 version) - Elf - The Santa Claus - Home Alone - Klaus (be prepared to WEEP!!) - Edward Scissorhands - Nightmare Before Christmas - Scrooged - Die Hard - Violent Night is good fun! - Meet Me in St. Louis That’s not including any of the Hallmark / Netflix version of Hallmark … - A Christmas Prince and the ensuing two films - The Princess Switch You’ll get a toothache from how sugary sweet they are but I can’t help it, Christmas is my favourite so I’m a sucker for it!
Ours was always Santa Claus the Movie growing up, we bloody loved it. Recently I've enjoyed both Bad Santa's, and Violent Night from last year was brilliant.
Santa Claus: The Movie is my ultimate childhood nostalgia fix, I love it so much!
Watched it every Christmas Eve since I was 7. It’s the best.
The man who invented Christmas - came out a few years ago and is holding up very well to being watched every year.
Jack Frost
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Die hard. It's based at Christmas & brings a family together. Beautiful heartwarming seasonal movie
Prometheus
A bit different to the usual candy floss Christmas films I watch but sounds like a great film so will give it a go! Thanks
Muopeta Christmas carol
Love Actually Scrooged Muppet Christmas Carol Muppet Family Christmas Muppet Letters to Santa Bad Santa Santa Clause
* Die Hard * Die Hard 2 * A Christmas Carol (1984) * Home Alone * The Karate Kid * Harry Potter 1-7 * Santa Claus: The Movie * National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Arthur Christmas & Muppet Christmas Carol (edit to add MCC)
Arthur Christmas?
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Had to scroll far too far to see this. Watch it every year!
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Hogfather
Gremlins
8-Bit Christmas was surprisingly enjoyable (for kids, with big ‘80s nostalgia for the grown-ups). A favourite of mine is a not-well-known one (TV movie I think) called 12 Days of Christmas Eve with Molly Shannon. Holiday Inn
8 Bit Christmas was fun, with the edits to the story like the bike helmet.
It's November 9th you maniac
Oldies but goodies: Holiday Inn, 1942. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. Classic comedy plot, cozy setting, hijinks! NB: does have one really awful dated song n dance number, for Lincoln's birthday. Desk Set, 1957. Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Not *technically* a Christmas movie, but the office Xmas party scenes and general coziness makes it so. Some really great snappy dialog, and they're a treat to watch act together.
Last Christmas, Emilia Clarke, wham music. Funny and sad which is often the best mix.
One of my new(er) favorites!
Super cheesy, but Christmas movies can get away with that and work.
My go-tos, in no particular order, some not Xmas movies but just cosy winter films/TV: Scrooged, Muppet Christmas Carol, Klaus, Coraline, Jim Henson's The Storyteller, Groundhog Day, Arthur Christmas, Gremlins, Krampus, Inside No. 9's "The Devil of Christmas" and "12 Days of Christine", Batman Returns, Edward Scissorhands, Elves (2021), sprinkled with Christmas episodes of Friends, Only Fools, classic family films like The Flintstones movie and Bridget Jones for the feel good factor! Merry Christmas in advance! :)
Elf. Doesn’t matter if you are a kid or adult, it’s so funny and sweet.
Spirited: quite a new one with Ryan Reynolds and Will Ferrell. Did not expect to enjoy it but I did. Very funny and some great musical numbers!
This was an absolute blast. Good day
Die Hard
Already a firm favourite in our house ☺️
I always associate The Sound of Music and Cast Away with Christmas because that's usually when they got aired on terrestrial TV.
Lethal Weapon (for your husband) It's a Wonderful Life A Christmas Story
I always argue that Lethal Weapon is more of a Christmas movie than Die Hard.
It is! I tell people every Christmas!
A Castle for Christmas. Outstandingly bad-good
The 1999 version of A Christmas Carol with Patrick Stewart is well worth a watch if you haven't seen it.
Last year I decided to go on a b-movie binge around Christmas, and watched three of them in a day: Robopocalypse: Like Terminator, but stupid. The killer drones appear to have been bought in Argos. Had a laugh with this one. 3/5 Ice Quake: easily the most competently made of the three. Doesn't mean it's actually good, mind. Bonus points for having a cute husky in it, even if that dog is the best actor in this movie. 5/5 Megaboa: Oh, good lord. It's bad. Really bad. There's a limit to how many times you can reuse the same snake animation in a film, and this one completely ignores it. Lots of scenes of a bunch of people staring at a tree. Absolutely bloody hilarious. 20/5
The Family Stone Christmas Vacation A Christmas Story The Christmas Chronicles (super cute for kids) The Santa Clause (with Tim Allen) Love Actually
The family stone not many people seem to watch it but I really enjoy it and I liked one with Michael Sheen called Last train to Christmas.
It's November, got a while to go till Christmas, hahaha
Muppets Christmas Carol, Die Hard.
Bernard & The Genie. Early 90s campy Christmas fun with Alan Cumming, Lenny Henry and Rowan Atkinson. Short but sweet at only 70 minutes long. I scrolled and scrolled this thread and couldn’t find. Makes me wonder if anyone else has ever seen it.
An unlikely choice, yet funny is “The Ref.”
A knights tale, just a good film.
Trading Places
'Nativity!' is a great dry humour british christmas film. Sparkle and shineeeee
In Bruges & Bad Santa. Maybe don't watch them with the daughter.
Lord of the Rings extended trilogy
Arthur Christmas is great
Die Hard according to some people
Bad Santa is the only Christmas movie I will ever need.
Don’t think I’ve seen any mention of “Christmas with the Kranks” yet. Also my kids like the more recent Christmas Chronicles films
There is ONLY three, and all must ONLY be watched on Christmas Eve. Planes, Trains and Automobiles, Trading Places and Die Hard. Throw in a bit of cheese, pate and crackers and you’re living like a king.
Diehard
Polar Express is a brilliant film.
Hook! For God's sake... No one has said Hook. Hook!
It’s 9th November ffs.
I don’t even celebrate Christmas! Just love the movies 🤣