Yearly
...and usually multiple times each
Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
Elf

Most Years
Trading Places
Santa Clause - The Movie (first half - until not long after Dudley Moore leaves)
Arthur Christmas
Home Alone
Love Actually - I avoid it more and more. Used to really like it but too many depressing storylines. Trending to 2+.
Klaus - like this one but I foresee it becoming 2+
Grinch - at least one of Jim Carey or 2018 animated version
Snowball Express - not a Christmas movie but I associate with Christmas either because that's when it was on Disney when I was a kid or I thought it was and only watch during the holidays.

2+ Years
Babes in Toyland - loved as a kid but tougher today - a lot more nursery rhyme/musical than I remembered.
Bad Santa
Die Hard

Recent Additions - frequency TBD
Four Christmases - after watching earlier this season I think it'll probably become Yearly or Most.
Red One - haven't hit this year but last year we really loved it. I bet it settles into a Most category.

My yearly Christmas movies are:

Die Hard
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Elf

Another Christmas-adjacent movie that is pretty good is "Serendipity," with Jonn Cusack and the gorgeous Kate Beckinsale ... which interestingly, also starts Jeremy Piven, like "The Family Man."

White Christmas
Home Alone
Elf
Muppet Christmas Carol
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Frosty/Rudolph/Charlie Brown
Trading Places
The Hogfather

Had no idea so many people consider Trading Places a Christmas movie. For the record I do not. But Die Hard IS a Christmas movie.


Both were released in July making them non traditional releases for Christmas movies anyway. But Die Hard has several things that Trading Places does not.

- the entirety of Die Hard takes place at a Christmas work party
- only one sequence of Trading Places is during a Christmas work party in which Winthorpe gets very drunk and crashes it as Santa

- Die Hard contains a lot of Christmas music both in the soundtrack (Christmas in Hollis) and various characters humming Christmas tunes
- Trading Places contains minimal Christmas music, briefly in the background during the Christmas party and at Ophelia's apartment as she decorates a tree

Significant parts of Trading Places take place after Christmas and through New Years culminating on the first trading day after New Years and a coda of sorts on a tropical beach sometime later.

Die Hard basically revolves around a family reunification for John. Trading Places isn't about family or kids at all, although certainly some friendships develop.

Lots of other minor stuff in Die Hard like the wrapping tape playing a part of the finale, the Ho Ho Ho shirt, the fake snow at the end with Ode To Joy and Let It Snow playing.


I don't know. Just my opinion man but I've really never heard Trading Places called a Christmas movie and I would watch it anytime with little realization it is Christmas oriented at all really.

EclipseAg said:

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Another Christmas-adjacent movie that is pretty good is "Serendipity," with Jonn Cusack and the gorgeous Kate Beckinsale ... which interestingly, also starts Jeremy Piven, like "The Family Man."

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Love the movie but don't consider it Christmas either. Adjacent - sure.

Only maybe 25% is at Christmas: the way the meet initially while shopping and then a brief scene at the end again re-enacting that encounter sort of. Otherwise it takes place over several years and mostly spring/summer type scenes. Also released in October.

But it is one of my favorite of the rom com type. Molly Shannon and Jeremy Piven are both great as their besties.

Christmas Vacation
Elf
Die Hard
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Jim Carrey)
a Christmas Story

8-Bit Christmas (Very underrated movie).

OldArmy71 said:

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White Christmas

Meet Me in St. Louis

A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version)

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Absolutely the best one.

ElephantRider said:

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TyHolden said:

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OldArmy71 said:

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White Christmas

Meet Me in St. Louis

A Christmas Carol (Alastair Sim version)

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I believe this movie is playing in the background of a scene in The Family Stone.

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That it is.

The Family Stone is criminally underrated. It might be my favorite Christmas movie.

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JT05 said:

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Only one of my favorites that I haven't seen posted yet is 8 Bit Christmas. It's pretty far up there for me.

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great pick. love that movie.

Jingle All the Way should be on anyone's list!

Sinbad is hilarious. so is Phil Hartman.

my kids love it

JT05 said:

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Only one of my favorites that I haven't seen posted yet is 8 Bit Christmas. It's pretty far up there for me.

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Never even heard of this movie, but the amount of people listing it here def has me putting it on the list.

Moe Jzyslak said:

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Fellowship of the Ring. The Fellowship departs Rivendell on December 25th.

It's the ultimate Christmas movie.

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Terrifier 3

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TP barely has any xmas stuff other than drunk Santa almost killing himself.

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I disagree. Much of the movie has Christmas decorations if not prominent then in the background scenes. It bleeds into NYE to setup the NYSE scene. A huge part of the story arc is Dan Akroyd's Christmas Eve meltodwn at the party leading to his re-introduction to Eddie via Ophelia.

it rules

Man Four Christmases is one of the most underrated Christmas movies out there.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are great but throw in Robert Duval, Tim McGraw, and Joh Favreau as trailer trash and Dwight Yoakum as the preacher and it's one of our favorites we watch every year.

Ag_07 said:

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Man Four Christmases is one of the most underrated Christmas movies out there.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are great but throw in Robert Duval, Tim McGraw, and Joh Favreau as trailer trash and Dwight Yoakum as the preacher and it's one of our favorites we watch every year.

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great ensemble cast including Mary Steenburgen, Sissy Spacek, Jon Voight and Kristin Chenoweth too.

Macaulay Culkin has declared Die Hard is not a Christmas movie. (Skip to the lightning round chapter.)



Also, a good watch in general. Especially his stuff at the end about being a proud father and breaking the cycle of abuse.

Haven't heard it mentioned, but Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire is a good one.

It's where Irvin Berlin's song White Christmas was first introduced.

Fatman. Cheers -

gigemJTH12 said:

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Jingle All the Way should be on anyone's list!

Sinbad is hilarious. so is Phil Hartman.

my kids love it

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put that cookie down!

Naaooo!

Ag_07 said:

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Man Four Christmases is one of the most underrated Christmas movies out there.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are great but throw in Robert Duval, Tim McGraw, and Joh Favreau as trailer trash and Dwight Yoakum as the preacher and it's one of our favorites we watch every year.

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"Flip the tube"

Batman Returns. You can keep everything else.

Ag_07 said:

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Man Four Christmases is one of the most underrated Christmas movies out there.

Reese Witherspoon and Vince Vaughn are great but throw in Robert Duval, Tim McGraw, and Joh Favreau as trailer trash and Dwight Yoakum as the preacher and it's one of our favorites we watch every year.

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. My daughter and I really enjoy this movie. Laugh every time we watch it.

I will update this with movies / tv we have watched thus far related to the holiday and what's on tap, not a rating system by any means.

1. Home Alone
2. 8 Bit
3. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
4. Some Hallmark movie where a girls parents are selling their inn behind her back to an investor... who she happens to be falling for
5. A Charlie Brown Christmas
6. A Christmas Story (I'll admit it - got up and did dishes during this)

On tap in the next few days:
Christmas Vacation
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Hawkeye mini series, a favorite of the kids - I dare you to not say "Kate Bishop" with an accent 100x.

we tried Nightmare Before Christmas last night because its on our family trivia list this year

we got through 10 minutes. awful...lol

I am punting on those questions this year

Four Christmases is one of the most underrated Christmas comedies out there.

Zombie Jon Snow said:

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Literally just watched Bad Santa last night for the first time.

I think it was released at a time when I never would have seen it due to only going to kids movies then - my kids were 8 and 5 in 2003.

It's funny. Not going to be in my regular rotation of christmas movies. But it had moments.

I saw there was also a sequel but I'm wary.

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I've now finished both Bad Santa (I'd give it a middling B-) and Bad Santa 2 (which is surprisingly better, I'd give it a B+). BS2 is helped by the presence of Kathy Bates as Billy Bob's mom adding another comic element. She's more of a messed up train wreck than he is and pulls off sweet Mrs. Claus while doing some bad things. It also includes Christina Hendricks in a smaller role and pretty messed up as usual. The level of sex jokes, cussing, and midget insults is off the charts. Gold.

Neither will find a place in my usual xmas rotation but I enjoyed them for what they were.