What is your favourite Christmas Movie you watch every year?

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Ever since my Granddaughter was a little girl we always watched "ELF". We all loved it, and it always made you feel the Christmas spirit. Now she is 27 and is living in a different area I will miss watching this movie and all the laughter it brought.
 

My DH and I watch "Family Man" with Tia Leone and Nicholas Cage.
This is more an adult "be careful how you live your life" and choices movie not so much about Christmas but set at Christmas time; lots of snow and being alone on Christmas. So MANY good lines, well written romantic, adult situations movie. Tia Leone, always classy, is just gorgeous in the movie.

We also watch the 1947 classic version of "Miracle on 34th Street" for nostalgia - times gone by of Classic America at Christmas.
We love it because Natalie Wood at age 8, plays the part of Maureen O'Hara's young daughter and does a superb job. There is also another great classic actor in it: Edmund Gwenn, a British actor who does a fine performance.

Used to watch "A Christmas Story" with the kids when they were over 8. Two scenes make me laugh because it is real stuff kids do: pre teens stick their tongue to a frozen metal lamp post and little kids have so many snow clothes on they fall down and can't get up. LOL. And of course the classic Red Ryder BB gun line: "You'll Shoot Your Eye Out!".
 
The 1951 version of 'A Christmas Carol', starring Alastair Sim.
I've watched it every year since the 70's.
VHS, then DVD.
Back in the day when the kids were growing up, it was one we always watched together.

Now I usually watch it at the beginning of December to get me in the mood and ALWAYS on Christmas Eve.
 
My kids and I had a group of movies we'd watch every year at Christmas: Elf, A Christmas Story, Christmas With the Kranks, Frosty, Rudolph (I guess Frosty and Rudolph aren't really movies per se) and, of course, It's a Wonderful Life.

Our favorite is a 1997 TV movie called The Christmas List, with Mimi Rogers. For some reason we have never been able to track it down online, so I finally bought a bootleg DVD. It's a goofy movie, almost an eye-rolling movie, but boy, it's just so sweet and has such a happy ending.
 
Feelslikefar said:
The 1951 version of 'A Christmas Carol', starring Alastair Sim.
I've watched it every year since the 70's.
VHS, then DVD.
Back in the day when the kids were growing up, it was one we always watched together.

Now I usually watch it at the beginning of December to get me in the mood and ALWAYS on Christmas Eve.
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Wonderful picture. Alastair Sim was one of my favorite actors. He was a riot, along with the great Terry-Thomas, in the 1956 Brit screwball comedy, The Green Man. If you've never seen it, you can watch it here: The Green Man (1956)🔹
 
oscash said:
Ever since my Granddaughter was a little girl we always watched "ELF". We all loved it, and it always made you feel the Christmas spirit. Now she is 27 and is living in a different area I will miss watching this movie and all the laughter it brought.
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I saw Elf for the first time this year. I was surprised how much fun it was.
 
I know some are going to go "HUH?", but I like the Wizard of OZ. It's on TV on Xmas day. Yeah, there's no reindeer, Santas, angels, miracles, or leg lamps in it. But on a supposedly magical day, it has its own magic, which just adds to the day.Wizard of Oz Xmas.jpg
 
I used to watch A Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim but hubby is sick of it and I don't like watching it alone. I might change my mind this year. White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, It's A Wonderful Life, Charlie Brown and others but haven't watched for a few years now.
 

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