This one is a recent (2017) release so it's not a classic, yet, but it is a great story and well-performed movie about Charles Dickens and how The Night Before Christmas came to be -

The Man Who Invented Christmas:
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6225520/

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Le Père Noel est une ordure (1982). Original french version, not the awful american remake with Steve Martin.

Very dark, un-PC, satirical comedy. The kind they wouldn’t make in current times.

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The Shop Around the Corner

That's one of my favorites that is often overlooked in polls like this. Different time, different values, a foreign location that somehow touches me. Yeah, I know, it was shot on a Hollywood set, but I like to pretend I'm in Budapest decades ago.

Just about everything already mentioned, plus Fat Man with Mel Gibson. It’s got guns in it!

In addition to those already mentioned, I liked Spirited. A different take, and I really enjoyed Will Ferrell.
There was another newer (to me) one, animated, about the beginnings of Christmas, that had to do with a postal employee getting sent to an outpost…I’ll try and post the name if I find it.

Found it: Klaus

A Christmas Carol, starring Alastair Sim. The best.

This is a fair warning to all of you. The sequel to A Christmas Story, A Christmas Story Christmas, is not just a bad Christmas movie, it is a bad movie. It will take you to the ground and bury you with sad and depressed scenes. Don't do it.

We had the family over for Thanksgiving and all gathered round to watch this abomination.

Other than that,
I've already done Christmas Vacation and am looking forward to watching Bad Santa as soon as possible.

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Originally posted by xd45man:
This is a fair warning to all of you. The sequel to A Christmas Story, A Christmas Story Christmas, is not just a bad Christmas movie, it is a bad movie. It will take you to the ground and bury you with sad and depressed scenes. Don't do it.

We had the family over for Thanksgiving and all gathered round to watch this abomination.

I am a big fan of A Christmas Story and grew up watching it. We tried to watch A Christmas Story Christmas and I fell asleep midway through it. Just garbage, pure garbage.

Yet another one they do WAAAAYYY too late. This movie should have been made in like 1993 to 1995. 10-12 years later. NOT 39 friggen years later

A Christmas Story
Die Hard
Christmas Vacation

Have to admit it's been about 3 years since Ive watched a Christmas movie.

My wife and I watch The Family Man (with Nicolas Cage and Tea Leoni) on Christmas Eve.

I wouldn't recommend "A Christmas Story Christmas" but it has several good moments. If you decide to watch, don't go in expecting a travesty and you might find it ok.

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A Christmas Story
Die Hard
Christmas Vacation

I agree with your choices and I for one think that ‘Die Hard’ is a Christmas movie

About 5 families from our neighborhood went to a local theater and watched Elf yesterday. It was a "movie party" and the theater makes little goodie bags for everyone that relate to scenes in the movie. You are encouraged to say the big quote lines out loud and we had a snowball fight during the snowball fight scene. It was a lot of fun even for the adults.

Elf and Home Alone are big in my house. The Christmas Chronicles and it's sequel are both good, especially the first one.

I've already watched Christmas Vacation and will watch White Christmas and maybe It's a Wonderful Life. The wife will probably put on Love Actually at some point.

The kids will also want to watch the Jim Carrey Grinch and my favorite is Charlie Brown, which we'll save for closer to Christmas.

My wife turned me on to White Christmas in 2011 when we first met, believe it or not I'd never seen it even once before that point but now we watch it every Christmas and love it.




We tried to watch Holiday Inn last year which is what White Christmas came from but just could not get into it.

Lethal Weapon
Die Hard
Violent Night
Fatman
Bad Santa

In no specific order

Scrooged
Die Hard
Lethal Weapon
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol
Bad Santa

Trapped in Paradise
1941

These two in addition to most of the others already listed.

Call me weird but I also tend to watch Band of Brothers around Christmas every year.

Most movies already listed.
Rambo:First Blood is a Christmas movie

"Yes Virginia, there is a Santa Clause" 1991 with Charles Bronson, is a favorite of mine to watch every year. Not sure why it does not get mentioned along with the others but I like it.