Favorite Holiday Movie

[sbk1234]

Just because I'm feeling a bit holiday-ish, what are your favorite holiday movies? What do you like about them?

I'll limit mine to just a few:
Fred Claus - I found this really relatable and understood Fred being in the shadow of his brother, and the anger that some kids feel.
Elf - Just not fitting in
Miracle on 34th Street (original) - a classic

 

[Degra1]

National lampoons Christmas vacation

Smoky mountain Christmas

Miracle on 34th street

Santa Claus the movie

Home alone. Part one only

Prancer

 

[Sparkle Fabulosa]

Elf
Home Alone 1 and 2
The Santa Clause
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (live action)
Eloise at Christmastime
Beauty And The Beast: The Enchanted Christmas
Christopher The Christmas Tree

 

[Gary Mitchell]

It's a Wonderful Life
Bad Santa
A Christmas Story
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon)

 

[auntiehill]

It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version is my favorite, George C. Scott version isn't bad either)
A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (cartoon)
Love, Actually

 

[1001001]

Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Elf

 

[Claudia]

Love, Actually - terrific actors, humour, romance, an ending that puts a smile on my face... love to rewatch it over and over again.

 

[tomalak301]

Die Hard
It's a Wonderful Life

I'm going to make it a point to see Love Actually this holiday season. I've never seen it and I've heard it's good.

 

[Mojochi]

Miracle on 34th Street (original) - a classic

Elf

It's a Wonderful Life

Also Edward Scissorhands

And Jimmy Stewart's other forgotten Christmas movie which I enjoy much more than It's a Wonderful Life, entitled
"The Shop Around the Corner". It's a wonderful picture that's premise is reused in the Tom Hanks / Meg Ryan picture "You've Got Mail", about two adversarial acquaintances who are unknowingly courting each other via correspondence. It also has a wonderful performance from Frank Morgan, A.K.A. The Wizard from The Wizard of Oz

 

[kirk55555]

A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart version) - I really like A Christmas Carol in general, and the Patrick Stewart version is my favorite version (and not just because Patrick Stewart is in it, and is awesome as Scrooge)

Fred Claus - This one gets a lot of hate, but I enjoy it a good deal. i like the concept of Santa Claus having a jealous brother, and I think they pulled it off well. I liked Vaughn as Fred, and the movie's version of Santa was entertaining.

 

[sojourner]

A Christmas Story
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Scrooged.
And strangely enough, Auntie Mame, the Rosalind Russell version. I blame this mostly on TCM always managing to show it around this time of year.

 

[auntiehill]

^I LOVE Auntie Mame; Rosalind Russel is awesome in that movie.

 

[Balok's Decoy]

I really like A Charlie Brown Christmas. Linus is my spirit animal.

Also Die Hard.

 

[sojourner]

^I LOVE Auntie Mame; Rosalind Russel is awesome in that movie.

Be afraid, I hear a remake is coming with Tilda Swinton.

 

[Kai "the spy"]

Elf
Santa Claus is Comin' to Town (Rankin/Bass)
Santa Claus (Salkinds)
Miracle on 34th Street (remake, I just love Richard Attenborough's Kris Kringle)
It's a Wonderful Life
Love Actually
A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Carol (Patrick Stewart)
Little Lord Fauntleroy (Alec Guinness, that film is a German christmas tradition)

 

[auntiehill]

Be afraid, I hear a remake is coming with Tilda Swinton.

 

[Gary Mitchell]

Another holiday movie that i really like is Remember the Night with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray from 1940. I only saw it for the first time a few years ago but it's a new favorite.

 

[MacLeod]

Die Hard
Die Hard II

 

[The Old Mixer]

Guh-garsh, I-I dunno...Say, what kind of a screwy question is this, anyway?

(It's difficult to convey the lameness of my Jimmy Stewart impression in writing.)

 

[Commander Richard]

12 Days of Christmas Eve
Bad Santa
Christmas Caper
Christmas with the Kranks
Die Hard
Die Hard 2
Ebenezer
Elf
Gremlins
Ernest Saves Christmas
Fred Claus
It's A Wonderful Life
Love Actually
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Naughty or Nice
Reindeer Games
Scrooged
The Christmas Suit
The Holiday
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2
Too Cool for Christmas