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What's your favourite Christmas film?

Tom Flanagan
7 years ago
last modified: 7 years ago

One of the great things about Christmas is the pleasure of revisiting a few festive classics on the big screen! The likes of Home Alone, Love Actually all resurface at this time of year.

But which one is your favourite? I'll start things off - you can't beat the menace and pessimism of The Grinch!

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    User
    7 years ago

    The Holiday

    Comments (59)

    • pixiegeaves
      7 years ago

      Elf definitely

    • ali270
      7 years ago
      It's a Wonderful Life ....we have watched it every Christmas for as long as I can remember and never tire of it .
    • Maggie Stephens
      7 years ago

      It has to be The Holiday!

    • lola4723
      7 years ago
      The Holiday
    • annroe47
      7 years ago

      Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde and miracle on 32nd street Black and White version

    • Jo Mitchell
      7 years ago
      White Christmas
    • Clare Jones
      7 years ago
      'Scrooge' starring Alistair Sim & 'It's a Wonderful Life'. I watch them every year and never tire of them.
    • Hil
      7 years ago
      Miracle on 34th street - I could watch it ALL YEAR ROUND
    • Andrea Jones
      7 years ago
      miracle on 34th street
    • scharn22
      7 years ago
      A Christmas Story (1983)
    • ruthpw
      7 years ago

      Meet me in St Louis

    • Sonia
      7 years ago

      Elf to make me laugh, and It's a Wonderful Life to make me cry and realise what I've got

    • soozmacrae
      7 years ago

      Home Alone 1 an 2.

    • rzanuk
      7 years ago

      Bad Santa.

    • carole_fordham1
      7 years ago
      Love actually
    • Sarah Foxx
      7 years ago
      Wizard of oz, the polar express
    • lorraine_mccullough54
      7 years ago

      It's a Wonderful World is my favourite---corny and dated perhaps but it never fails to stop me being an exhausted,cynical grinch.

    • anniec22
      7 years ago
      Love Actually
    • Angela Munroe
      7 years ago

      Definitely The Snowman!

    • Maggie Stephens
      7 years ago

      Tim Burtons Nightmare Before Christmas?

    • PRO
      Design Spec Ltd
      7 years ago

      It's got to be Home Alone 2!

      With The Grinch close behind...

    • lilimac
      7 years ago
      You can't beat the old classics and one I watch every year is The Bishop's Wife with Cary Grant as a very dashing angel and David Niven as the bishop.

      Another one I never tire of is Meet Me in St Louis, which isn't strictly a Christmas film but I always watch at this time of year, as it has Judy Garland singing the original and best version of Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas. It always makes me cry! Not sure if that's a good thing....
    • headers13
      7 years ago

      Chevy Chase in Christmas Vacation - laugh everytime.

    • Laura Thomas
      7 years ago
      The Holiday, although it makes me home sick and long to be back in the villages/towns where I grew up.
    • Doe Stewart
      7 years ago
      The Bishops Wife and Its a wonderful life - fab films
    • carole_beard6
      7 years ago

      Come on - what about The Sound of Music!!!????

    • Shelly Anne
      7 years ago

      It's a Wonderful Life takes no 1, but my list of fav Christmas films is so long I'd be typing all night if I had to name them all. One question though, many people have named 'The Holiday' but I've never heard of it, can anyone tell me about it (who's in it, when was it made etc) as I'm really surprised I haven't come across it before.

    • Laura Thomas
      7 years ago
      The Holiday features Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law and Jack Black. Winslet and Diaz swap houses for the holidays. Not sure but it must have been made about 10-12years ago, my mother and grandfather got confused, when on an sunny August day they came across a road full of snow just outside of our village.
    • Shelly Anne
      7 years ago

      Thanks Laura Ford-Thomas, I don't know how this one passed me by, though life was pretty hectic round about that time. I'll have to track down a copy and watch it

    • Jane Bateman
      7 years ago

      Bad Santa! Even looking forward to seeing the sequel.

    • PRO
      Building Tectonics Ltd
      7 years ago

      Some of our favourites in the office are:

      - The Holiday
      - Miracle on 34th Street
      - Elf
      - A Christmas Tale
      - Home Alone

    • andreaozment
      7 years ago

      "Bell, Book and Candle" has beautiful scenes of New York City at Christmas; it's one of my favorite movies, and it always seems Christmas-y to me. And of course I love "A Christmas Story," "Miracle on 34th Street," "The Snowman," and for uncontrollable laughter every time, "Home Alone."

    • PRO
      MBH Carpentry and Joinery Ltd.
      7 years ago
      Elf, The Polar Express and The snowman. These are my faves.
    • PRO
      Ruth Turner Interior Design Ltd
      7 years ago

      Has to be Elf! So funny

    • PRO
      The Stair Guru
      7 years ago

      National Lampoons Christmas Vacation always cracks me up, I watch it every Christmas Eve

    • sukiharrison
      7 years ago
      miracle on 34th street followed by Muppets Christmas Carol.
    • minnie101
      7 years ago

      I watch The Holiday at any time of the year :) Elf and Home Alone definitely get watched as do some of the classics and I'm going to add Bridget Jones to the list. I don't know how the Bishop's Wife has passed me by as I love Cary Grant (I normally insist that my husband leaves me alone on a day to blub in private over An Affair to Remember!). I'm sure it does me good as I'm not normally a teary person!

    • Debbie Byard
      7 years ago
      White Christmas with Bing Crosby can't beat it, it was always on over Christmas and when I was 13 (many years ago) I was watching it on Christmas Eve and it actually snowed, truly magical.
    • Shelley Maniovich
      7 years ago

      It's tough to pick but Scrooge, Home Alone, and the Grinch are my favourite!

    • PRO
      The Stair Guru
      7 years ago
      Thinking further about this, Scrooged and Its a wonderful life are up there too
    • E D
      7 years ago
      Elf.
    • peachypear
      7 years ago
      The Family Stone, gorgeous New England drama/comedy with a host of fantastic actors.
    • slimberley
      7 years ago
      Can't believe Nativity hasn't been mentioned yet. Elf, Love Actually, It's a Wonderful Life and I have a soft spot for Santa Claus The Movie with Dudley Moore as it was always on on Christmas Eve in the late 80s and reminds me being a kid and getting the house ready for our huge Christmas Eve party every year.
    • E D
      7 years ago
      I thought the question was: which ONE is your favourite...
      ;)
    • PRO
      Inkmill Vinyl
      7 years ago

      Elf!

    • janine woolford
      7 years ago

      Has to be It's a Wonderful Life. We've watched it every year for 40 at least, much to my childrens disgust, but last year my daughter really got it for the first time, so maybe this means you have to be a grown-up to fully understand what is so wonderful about it. A film that really makes you value what you have and realise that how you live is much more important than all the riches in the world.

    • PRO
      Saltbox Interiors London
      7 years ago

      A Christmas Story! Doesn't get much traction over here in the UK but growing up in the US, it was a classic. The leg lamp. . .come on, designers! :)

    • tajo39
      7 years ago

      The Holiday definitely

    • pialouise1967
      7 years ago
      Bad Santa , sooooo rude
    • mldoran
      7 years ago

      The Family Stone, its almost become a Christmas tradition to watch this.

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