My Favorite Christmas Films

It's a Wonderful Life

Scrooge with Alastair Sim - 1951 version

Rudolph the Rednose Reindeer (1964 Claymation)

The Grinch Who Stole Christmas (Boris Karloff - there will never be a better narrarator)

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation with Chevy Chase

Scrooged - Bill Murray - very funny film

The Bishops Wife with Cary Grant (he still makes my heart sing)

White Christmas or Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby

Love Actually - ONE OF MY FAVORITE ROMANTIC MOVIES!!!

Black Christmas (the old and new film) - Favorite scary movies

Elf

Dirty Old Men

A Christmas Story

I'm sure there are others I've missed but these are the films that jump right into my head.

It's a Wonderful Life - absolutely one of the best films ever made. Jimmy Stewart is perfect in this movie. A man with big dreams but gives it all up for the woman and the town that he loves but realizes this was better than his hopes and dreams (I still think they could have worked it in where they got to travel and I hope that once the kids grew up they got to travel around the world...). Anyway, such a sweet, sad and poignant film. It's always had that thought in my head that every time a bell rings an angel gets his wings...

Scrooge - 1951 Alastair Sim - This, in my opinion, is the best version of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens. Alastair Sim is one of the best Scrooges I have ever seen. So believable in that role. This version is also one of the spookiest and saddest. You will not be disappointed.

Rudolph the rednosed Reindeer & How the Grinch Stole Christmas - two of my favorite childhood films - I loved the Island of Misfits and the Abominable Snowman. Who can forget the narration for Boris Karloff in Dr. Seuss' classic, I remember how happy I would get when I saw that teeny little heart get bigger and bigger...

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Chevy Chase - this film has to be one of the funniest. It has a bit of a sick sense of humor, especially the part where the cat chews on the lights and becomes a bit of a crispy critter...the tree that's way too big, the rabid squirrel, Cousin Eddie...

Scrooged with Bill Murray - this is another funny classic movie. So cold he wants to staple antlers on little mice heads...anyway, a very cute movie.

The Bishops Wife is another Classic movie but has Cary Grant in it. They did a pretty cute remake of this with Whitney Houston and Denzel Washington a while ago, but the first is almost always the best.

Love Actually - this is one of my all time favorite romantic movies. Just a lot of really cute stories with Hugh Grant, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, etc. Just an excellent movie that really makes you feel great after you watch it!!

Black Christmas - so if you love horror movies like I do, here is a good little tradition. I am usually not one for remakes but this one was pretty good. It gives you a warm and fuzzy feeling until the killing starts...

A Christmas Story - basically a history of an old time American Christmas - Who can ever forget Ralphie and his Red Ryder BB gun (you'll shoot yer eye out kid).


Elf and Dirty old Men are both cute, funny movies too.

Anway, those are some movies that I really like to watch every December. It just makes things a little more festive!!!