IMDb ranks the BEST Christmas films of
all time... did your favourite make the list?
Daily Mail (UK),
by
Shannon Mcguigan
Original Article
Posted By: Imright,
12/25/2023 9:11:39 AM
Christmas time is finally upon us. The perfect time of the year to sit back and switch on a wholesome film while you tuck into a box of chocolates.
As much as the festive season is about gift giving, the best part is lounging with a belly full of food whilst watching your favourite film.
But there are just so many to choose from, whether it be Die Hard of Home Alone, finding a film the whole family wants to watch can be a challenge. Thanks to IMDb, MailOnline have collated a list of the Top Ten Christmas Films of all time - so you can don't miss out on the must-see
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Reply 1 - Posted by:
PChristopher 12/25/2023 9:41:51 AM (No. 1623903)
Elf? Really?
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
chagrined 12/25/2023 9:50:18 AM (No. 1623908)
I like the list. I love "Die Hard", but would have it third behind "Scrooge", definitely the 1951 Alistair Sim version.
Also, I really love "A Charlie Brown Christmas", but it's not exactly a movie. Sales of fake Christmas trees plummeted the year or two after the release of it.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
plomke 12/25/2023 10:02:56 AM (No. 1623912)
Rudolph(1964),Charlie Brown Christmas,Christmas Story,Its a Wonderful Life,Scrooge(George C Scott),The Nativity Story(2006)...
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Shells 12/25/2023 10:21:14 AM (No. 1623920)
Elf is a darling movie!
And Christmas Vacation!
Watch them both on Thanksgiving because they bring me joy.
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Reply 5 - Posted by:
Geoman 12/25/2023 10:24:32 AM (No. 1623922)
Linus sums it up in Charlie Brown Christmas. Charlie asks the question, "Isn't there anyone who knows what Christmas is about?" Linus recites from the 2nd chapter of the Gospel of Luke, verses 8 - 14, and then, picks up his blanket and tells Charlie Brown, "That's what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown." Cartoon or not, that's hard to beat.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
hershey 12/25/2023 10:46:31 AM (No. 1623936)
Hmmm, it ain't Christmas until Hans Gruber falls from the top of Nakatomi Plaza....
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
ramona 12/25/2023 10:56:57 AM (No. 1623943)
In 1949 Loretta Young was nominated for an Academy Award for Come to the Stable. This is a charmer - 2 French nuns arrive in the US to set up a children's hospital. Here's an example of how Hollywood could tell the true Christmas story in a modern setting. Highly recommend!
Merry Christmas,
Ramona (the Pest)
ps I actually do like Elf...
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
privateer 12/25/2023 11:05:08 AM (No. 1623951)
I have to wonder if the author---clearly there was no proofing---has even seen some of the older of these. FTA: 'Taking to the role like a duck to water, Kris (John Payne) is offered a more permanent role as Santa in Macy’s on 34th Street.' Edmund Gwenn played Kris Kringle. And both pictures from 'Scrooge' are definitely NOT Alastair Sim. They're not even from that 1951 version, nor the 1938 MGM classic. Perhaps they are from the even older Seymour Hicks version. The image quality certainly suggests that.
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 12/25/2023 11:21:18 AM (No. 1623961)
I like Elf, but Gremlins on the list anywhere? And Christmas Story should be second. I have to agree on
their choice for #1.
And I posted here a slightly tongue in cheek commentary from Am Thinker a couple of days ago why "Die Hard" was a Christmas movie. Interesting to see that it is #2....which I think being above several others is a mistake. Maybe fifth.
But Gremlins? I haven't seen it in so long that maybe I forget, but I didn't much like it the one time I saw it.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
ussjimmycarter 12/25/2023 11:26:58 AM (No. 1623964)
Die Hard and Christmas Story! The rest blow!
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
mamabear 12/25/2023 11:52:41 AM (No. 1623980)
If u love old movies check out three of my favs:
It Happened on Fifth Avenue
Beyond Christmas aka Beyond Tomorrow
and Shop Around the Corner. The latter was remade into You've Got Mail. Look for the repeated phrase
"Perfect combination of poetry and meanness."
Merry Christmas to all the faithful LDotters. :-)
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Reply 12 - Posted by:
mamabear 12/25/2023 11:55:08 AM (No. 1623981)
Adding "The Man Who Came to Dinner" one if my fav Bette Davis movies.
6 people like this.
Reply 13 - Posted by:
Strike3 12/25/2023 11:55:48 AM (No. 1623982)
My favorite titles begin with "Harry Potter." The 10 selected are all goofy kid stuff.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
DVC 12/25/2023 12:47:18 PM (No. 1624005)
Hmmm. The person who like "10 Harry Potter movies" calls the other movies 'goofy kid's stuff"???
did someone forget the "/s off"?
I'd put all Harry Potter movies firmly in the goofy kid stuff class.
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Reply 15 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/25/2023 12:50:53 PM (No. 1624009)
Only two of those entries have I watched more than once (A Christmas Story and Miracle on 34th Street), a couple I could not watch all they way through, and one movie on my All-Time Hate list is "It's a Wonderful Life."
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/25/2023 12:55:29 PM (No. 1624011)
What? No Scrooged?
And yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie. Deal with it.
3 people like this.
Reply 17 - Posted by:
beancounter 12/25/2023 1:07:40 PM (No. 1624017)
Homecoming. The Walton’s Christmas TV movie.
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Reply 18 - Posted by:
udanja99 12/25/2023 1:44:23 PM (No. 1624028)
Top 10 and not a single one about Jesus.
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Reply 19 - Posted by:
privateer 12/25/2023 2:01:21 PM (No. 1624032)
The Shop Around The Corner is a very charming movie. And before 'You've Got Mail' it was remade as 'In The Good Old Summertime'. Judy Garland, who introduced 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' in 'Meet Me In St. Louis' sings 'Merry Christmas'. It also features the most brilliant violin performance ever by a Hollywood actress, Marcia Van Dyke, in a musical highlight. For those 'Diehard' (LOL) Harry Potter fans, don't miss Saunders and French in 'Harry Potter and the Secret Chamberpot of Azerbaijan'.
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Reply 20 - Posted by:
ladydawgfan 12/25/2023 2:58:21 PM (No. 1624053)
I'm currently watching the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street. The 1994 version is also a favorite.
Other favorites include: The Nativity Story, A Christmas Story, the George C Scott version of A Christmas Carol, Christmas Vacation, The Santa Clause, Home Alone, The Homecoming, The Bishop's Wife, and an old TV movie called The Gathering with Ed Asner.
And you will NEVER convince me that Die Hard is a Christmas movie!! Even Bruce Willis stated that it wasn't! It is as much a Christmas movie as My Favorite Things is a Christmas song because it mentions in passing "brown paper packages tied up with string!!"
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Reply 21 - Posted by:
slsusnr 12/25/2023 2:59:42 PM (No. 1624054)
#15, you hate "It's a Wonderful Life?" Wow! I bet you hate baseball, hot dogs, apple pie, and Chevrolet, too. I'm a NJROTC instructor, and I show that movie to my kids every year - in black and white - for the strong suicide prevention message it has. Then we discuss it. The kids that have seen it the previous year ask me to show it again.
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Reply 22 - Posted by:
Dr. Constant 12/25/2023 4:14:50 PM (No. 1624070)
Donovan's Reef
It's Christmas Charlie Brown
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Reply 23 - Posted by:
Italiano 12/25/2023 4:15:44 PM (No. 1624072)
I liked The Santa Clause. Hardly a classic, but Tim Allen is one of us, and doesn't apologize to Hollywood for it.
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Reply 24 - Posted by:
PostAway 12/25/2023 6:17:51 PM (No. 1624107)
Traditions at our house include Home Alone, Love Actually, A Christmas Story and Little Women (1994-the men watch football).
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Reply 25 - Posted by:
mamabear 12/25/2023 6:20:59 PM (No. 1624109)
#18 - no guilt trip here! Many of us love, honor, appreciate and express our gratitude for Jesus and His birth/ coming daily. We live in the light of His redeeming love, transformed and renewed by His indwelling presence - everyday of the year! :-)
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Reply 26 - Posted by:
mamabear 12/25/2023 6:26:23 PM (No. 1624112)
Beside which neither Daily Mail or IMDB is known for having a religious 'bent' . ;-)
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Reply 27 - Posted by:
red1066 12/25/2023 8:10:10 PM (No. 1624168)
Rudolph wasn't a movie, it was a tv program, and I would put another tv program Charlie Brown higher than a few of the full-length movies on the list. How can anyone rate Diehard higher than Miracle on 34th street when in the minds of most people Diehard isn't a Christmas movie.
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Reply 28 - Posted by:
broken01 12/26/2023 8:42:13 AM (No. 1624295)
First of all, yes folks Die Hard is a Christmas movie but ranks lower than Miracle on 34th Street. I love both versions of that movie and make it a point to watch both versions every year. I love A Charlie Brown Christmas and like #5 said Linus sums it up to Charlie Brown. Growing up I remember how I could only watch A Christmas Story once in December now it's featured all day on Christmas Eve and Christmas Day. That's awesome. As when they play Home Alone 1 & 2 back-to-back. Any version of A Christmas Carol I like but my all-time favorites are the ones with George C Scott and the musical with Kelsey Grammer. Plus, adaptations staring Mickey and the gang, the Muppets with Michael Caine as Ebenezer Scrooge and Bugs Bunny and the Looney Tunes. I also like other versions such as the one called Ms. Scrooge with the late Cicely Tyson and A Carol Christmas with Tori Spelling. Also, who can forget Scrooged with Bill Murray and Bobcat Goldthwait. My all-time favorite movie which didn't make the list with Scrooged is White Christmas with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye and a very beautiful Rosemary Clooney. My favorite scene is when Bing and Clooney sing Count Your Blessings (Instead of Sheep). She sings it beautifully and there's no voice like his. Every year when the local radio station plays Christmas music, I make it a point to turn my radio up a notch when he sings White Christmas. I first saw the movie in first grade right before Christmas break and like I said it's been my favorite ever since. with It's A Wonderful Life second. I hope everyone had a Merry Christmas and I wish you all a Happy New Year. God Bless.
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Reply 29 - Posted by:
FLCracker 12/26/2023 10:14:14 AM (No. 1624361)
#21, well, there you go - a Christmas movie that is a training film, with three-quarters of the film being such a downer, you WANT to commit suicide. Pretty much a typical military training class.
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