10 Best Holiday Movies

Great List! so glad White Christmas, Christmas Vacation, the original Miracle on 34th street, Home Alone and The Santa Clause are on there. voted up!

Great hub, I was just thinking about what we could expect from our satellite TV channel thins Christmas and my daughter said she wished Elf would be on again. Wouldn't it be great to have a 'holiday movie marathon'? I s'pose it's a bit like that anyway, lazy days in, full of loely food and watching great movies! Voted up.

I love it when October rolls around because it gives me just the type of holiday joy that I need in my life. Its three months filled with three major holidays; Halloween, Thanksgiving and then Christmas! I love how holiday cheer excites people and what better way to get it started then to watch great family movies! My favorite types of movies are those made decades ago such as ‘Charlie Brown’s Christmas’ and ‘Rudolph’! The good thing is that I can rent them all from Blockbuster using my Blockbuster Movie Pass! I have DISH Network with my employee account and now I have the chance to experience value like never before and it’s even available to new and existing DISH Network customers.

All of my favorites were on your list! I am also a sucker for the Hallmark, Lifetime and ABC Family original holiday movies. A Christmas Story is on our TV for practically the full 24 hour marathon on Christmas Eve through Christmas Day. But my all time favorite is Miracle on 34th Street - either 1947 B&W version or the 1990s remake. Love them both! :) Merry Christmas!

All totally cute and worth seeing again. My two favorites from the list are It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas. Love the oldies! Great Hub and movie suggestions. Thanks!

Hi, Love this, we have a tradition of watching "It is a wonderful life" on Christmas eve and I wrote my favorite Xmas movie list too. Love these movies.

Hey fellow holiday movie fans!

Keep an eye out for "Holiday Baggage" written/directed by Stephen Polk, airing on Monday, December 20th, at 5pm on Lifetime.

Awesome Hub! Voted up! The Muppets Christmas Carol is my all time favourire Christmas movie too, Infact i watched it yesterday whilst putting up my christmas decorations! x

Thanks steph, I love that movie. Love Uncle Eddie too.

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Great hub! I love Elf! it is soooo funny.

Great topic! Christmas Vacation has to be one of my favorites, "Then why is the carpet wet Todd? I don't KNOW Margo!"

Although it has no mention of Christmas, The Great Escape does it for me, and I suppose it's also a metaphor for how some of us feel after a period of enforced happiness and enduring family. Haha, actually my family is great, but I could see others having a problem.

Good selection, i'd add Bad Santa for its irreverence, and Gremlins, set at Xmas, with its rather creepy but funny story of how the heroine's father died trying to be Santa one year.

I love Home For the Holidays:)

Steph - we just watched It's a Wonderful Life last night. We watch it every year - it just isn't Christmas without viewing this beautiful movie. I feel like I could recite the dialoge along with it!

I totally forgot about The Santa Clause and Home Alone. My favorite has always been White Christmas followed by the original Miracle on 34th St. I've never liked Christmas Story and, despite its quality, don't like watching "It's a Wonderful Life" because my sense of fair play really gets annoyed when the banker steals the deposit (yes, I know - it's just a movie!) I also forgot about Christmas Vacation, but it's not a movie I feel like watching because it's Christmas. It doesn't have that "feel" to it for me.

My favorite is Home Alone, hands down! The aftershave part is priceless!

i like them all, including the Christmas Carol! Thanks for the list...a few I have yet to get! :D

So glad to see Uninvited Writer mention The Bishop's Wife. One of the all time greats. Will someone correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the original casting had Niven as the angel and Grant as the bishop. Sam Goldwyn saw the rushes and said, in so many words, "All wrong. Swap their roles!" And let's not forget Love Actually. Bill Nighy is fabulous!

Love love love these movies!

I love The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant and David Niven.

Elf gets funnier every time I see it. It was on in June, why? I know it's a good film but keep it to christmas time please.

Elf is my favorite modern film and old school has to be home alone.

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What a great list although I must admit I have never seen the Muppet movie. Better correct that! This time of year so many of the good old and even newer ones are shown over and over again. Enjoyed your 10 best holiday movies list.

You made my day so colorful with your movie list. You remind us again about these movies. Some of these movies are phenomenal. Thanks for share with us. I hope your day always beautiful. Cheers.......

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I am so glad to see the Muppet Christmas Carol on here! Every year, on Christmas Eve, we split a bottle of wine and watch that! I love that movie! And National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and a Christmas Story are classics!!!!

I guess I'm still stuck in the past. My list has to be White Christmas, It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street, Holiday Inn, The Bishop's Wife, and The Bells of St. Mary's. I think most of the new ones are trite and pandering.

Nice selections! I'll go for Muppet's Christmas Carol as well and maybe Home Alone after that? :)

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Yes, Muppet's Christmas Carol - I MUST watch it every year!!! Love The Santa Clause, own the 'trilogy.' Now, you can't forget the old muppet classic "Emmet Otter's Jugband Christmas!"

I have always loved " It's a Wonderful Life ". And " A Christmas Story " is always great. Gene Shepard the writer of " A Christmas Story " is a fantastic humor writer from the mid 20th century. My english teacher in high school used to read his books all the time to the class. And that teacher Mr. O Brien is the man I credit for getting me interested in reading and writing.

But I would also like to add " Jingle All The Way " with Arnold and Sinbad. That one was an absolute crack up.

Hi, good old Bing crosby, you can't beat that! my son has just bought the home alone series of films as he never saw them the first time, he was too young, I noticed someone said photographing fairies! I love it, it is well worth watching, cheers nell

Great Hub. Home Alone 1 and 2 is always a winner for the family.

I am a big fan of Miyazaki's films. Spirited Away is my favorite Xmas movie. Your hub reminded me of the movie. i amm going to enjoy it this time too. Nice hub.

One of my favorite Xmas movies is The Year Without a Santa Claus. I just love Mr. Snow Miser and Mr. Heat Miser. This hub actually prompted me to look up their song on youtube! Listening to it right now. Thanks for getting me in the spirit.

Stephanie,I love Home Alone and Santa Clause among others.Christmas season is never complete without the special Christmas movies! Love watching with my family.

Thanks for this awesome hub! Voted you up!

I love Christmas, I love Christmas movies, and I love this hub, Steph! I recently argued with my boyfriend about whether Elf should be on a top Christmas movies list, and this hub is now a critical piece of evidence supporting my position that it definitely should be.

My personal favorite holiday film is the cartoon version of the Grinch. I can recite it beginning to end! Others worth mentioning are Rudolph (with Burl Ives and the elf who wants to be a dentist) and Christmas in Connecticut (with Barbara Stanwyck).

For anyone wondering when these awesome films are going to be on TV, check out this schedule:

http://blog.moviefone.com/2010/11/24/christmas-mov...

All of them are treasures but something about A Christmas Story reminds me of too much of my own foibles or something. It was just too cute.

What a great choice of movies! Adore Elf... am a huge Will Ferrel fan and the fact that he made a Christmas kids movie just makes him better :)

Someone has mentioned the Grinch, it is hilarious and is automatically taken out once the season starts!

And thank you for mentioning Home Alone, too often forgotten as a has been because of newer movies by kids today... but back home in Ireland the TV line up is not the same unless Home Alone is topping it.. reminds me of cosy evenings on front of the fire with brothers and sisters!

Thanks for the reminders of the ones to watch this season :)

Love this one, Steph! Merry Christmas!

Voted for It's A Wonderful Life ~ All time favorite!

Also Love...

The Grinch (animated and Jim Carrey's)... Especially fond of the Beautiful song, "Where Are You Christmas?"

While You Were Sleeping, w/Sandra Bullock

When Harry Met Sally ~ Don't know why, but I have to watch around the holidays!

Funny story with that one. When my oldest was about 2 yrs old, I had it playing in the background while I cleaned house for Christmas. I heard his sweet little mouth imitating the orgasm scene from the other room! Ouch. Sorry!

A close second on my favorites list, though tearfully so, I absolutely LOVE The Family Stone around the holidays. It's not the pick me up that Christmas Vacation is, certainly, but so poignant in losing a parent and so touching, that a family ~ even with their prejudices and failings, can still come together in the end and find peace.

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I noticed you mentioned my favorite in the comment section. Scrooged is my all time favorite. It makes me laugh out loud and weep for joy. No other Christmas movie makes me do both to the level this one does. Bill Murray was perfectly cast. So was Bobcat Goldthwait. Awesome movie. We watch it every year.

This is the exact list I would have come up with, maybe the order would be different...but that doesn't matter. :) very cool how there are new Christmas movies that have been added recently; The Polar Express, it's so *magical*! Thanks so much for this article and sharing!

had to say thx for the list and memories,

i n ever had a holiday movies list since i was a kid,

but it seems this year i wish i did, photographing Faries, its a bit obscure i suppose, but its my favorite movie period

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Fairly good list; predictably oriented towards newer films. But my favorite has to be the George C. Scott version of "A Christmas Carol", which supplanted as my favorite the 1950's version starring Alistar Sim as E. Scrooge. Dickens' timeless classic is not only the best Christmas tale, but is one of the greatest stories ever written, period.

"The Nightmare Before Christmas" is a fav. Voted for "Christmas Story" in your poll.

Enjoyed readingthe list and all the comments. They are all good movies but my favorite Christmas movie isn't on there. It is a made for TV movie titled "The Gathering". Although there is an impending tragedy, the movie reminds me so much of the family gatherings, from putting up the tree to the fireworks, that we had growing up. Enjoyed the hub.

Nice hub - I would have to have Bill Murray and Scrooged in my list but most Christmas Movies are good for a watch.

All these are great movies and easy to watch over and over again. They are like old friends. I think it's popcorn time tonight!

Great selection, steph, White Christmas is one of my all-time favorites. And Elf, one of the funniest. Happy Holidays to you and your family.

I guess I like the old ones like "White Christmas" best.

This is a good list,Stephi. I've watched 2 on the list already and it's not quite Christmas. Thanks for the hub.

Great list of Christmas movies. One film that reminds me of Christmas is 'Trading Places' with Eddie Murphy. I remember watching it one Christmas sitting next to a nice warm fire. The fire kept me warm and the story warmed my heart up!

Thanks for sharing this list.

P.S. Love Home Alone especially the first one!

This is great, you gave me some ideas for movies to watch this Christmas, thanks!

Nice collection of holiday movies. My favorite is The Polar Express.

I love holiday movies--they never fail to get me in a good mood. Thanks for sharing your favorites--BTW, I always watch National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. Thanks again.

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I am happy that I have watched all those movies and like you, I also don't tire of watching them over and over again!

Oh, I can't even say which is my favorite because I love them all!

Thanks for sharing!