What are your favourite Christmas movies?

[joytime365]

Do you like christmas movies? What's your top 10 christmas movie list?
Personally I can't remember too much, only these few ones I quite like:
It's a Wonderful Life
Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol
Scrooged
White Christmas
And I have found a Top 10 Christmas movie list, I going to try some of them out.

[legalsuit]

Always enjoy Christmas Movies.

Haven't quite got a Top Ten...but here are a few I like:


Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000) - Quite a giggle...reminds me of some people I know...the Grinch that is


White Christmas The music and songs give you that warm, fuzzy feeling.


The Santa Clause (1994) I quite like Tim Allen...good comic, and he carries his role well here.


A Christmas Carol - This one I particularly like...especially when I feel "bah humbug"!

[*PewPew*]

I like
1. The Santa Clause ( VERY FUNNY!)
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4. Bad Santa (ALSO VERY FUNNY)
5. Home alone ( GREAT MOVIE SO FUNNY )
6. Elf ( Very funny will ferel movie )
7. Dr. Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas ( a very old movie but very funny ) watched it ages ago

[WindowsXPer]

ummmm lets me see...
Home Alone 1 & 2

^^does that count?

[MishY]

Not a movie but Blackadders Christmas Carol

[PurestLight]

Id say Home Alone 1 Counts

my favourites are (cant think of 10)

Miracle on 34th Street (1947 version)

It's A Wonderful Life

Lethal Weapon 1 (lol- its set around Christmas time)

A Christmas Carol

I havent seen Scrooged or the Grinch one with Jim Carrey but they look good fun

[DugE]

It's a Wonderful Life

The Santa Clause

The Santa Clause

It's A Wonderful Life

Badder Santa

[legalsuit]

Originally Posted by MishY

Not a movie but Blackadders Christmas Carol

Blackadder. Always loved his show...wasn't aware he had a one off Christmas Carol as well! Must check that out.

[Ned Seagoon]

Not a movie but very funny!

[sho-dan]

My favourites

A Christmas Carol (1951)

A Christmas Story(1983)

Tim Burton's Nightmare Before Christmas(1993)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas(1966)

Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer(1964)

The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

Frosty the Snowman (1969)

Santa Claus is Coming To Town (1970)

[renegade600]

theres a series of movies where peter falk plays Max an angel. Those are pretty good.

Christmas Carol
The Santa Clause (all three movies)
I am burned out on the other main streamed xmas movies.

[Mr Bean]

Christmas Vacation

[AnnMarie]

Ah a wonderful excuse for posting my favorite Christmas story of all time and I think they made a movie out of it (if not they should have)

Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus

By Francis P. Church, first published in The New York Sun in 1897. [See The People’s Almanac, pp. 1358–9.]

We take pleasure in answering thus prominently the communication below, expressing at the same time our great gratification that its faithful author is numbered among the friends of The Sun:

Dear Editor—

I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no Santa Claus. Papa says, “If you see it in The Sun, it’s so.” Please tell me the truth, is there a Santa Claus?

Virginia O’Hanlon

Virginia, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by the skepticism of a skeptical age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not comprehensible by their little minds. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, are little. In this great universe of ours, man is a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.

Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. He exists as certainly as love and generosity and devotion exist, and you know that they abound and give to your life its highest beauty and joy. Alas! how dreary would be the world if there were no Santa Claus! It would be as dreary as if there were no Virginias. There would be no childlike faith then, no poetry, no romance to make tolerable this existence. We should have no enjoyment, except in sense and sight. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be extinguished.

Not believe in Santa Claus! You might as well not believe in fairies. You might get your papa to hire men to watch in all the chimneys on Christmas eve to catch Santa Claus, but even if you did not see Santa Claus coming down, what would that prove? Nobody sees Santa Claus, but that is no sign that there is no Santa Claus. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see. Did you ever see fairies dancing on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the wonders there are unseen and unseeable in the world.

You tear apart the baby’s rattle and see what makes the noise inside, but there is a veil covering the unseen world which not the strongest man, nor even the united strength of all the strongest men that ever lived could tear apart. Only faith, poetry, love, romance, can push aside that curtain and view and picture the supernal beauty and glory beyond. Is it all real? Ah, Virginia, in all this world there is nothing else real and abiding.

No Santa Claus! Thank God! he lives and lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay 10 times 10,000 years from now, he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.
About the Exchange

Francis P. Church’s editorial, “Yes Virginia, There is a Santa Claus” was an immediate sensation, and went on to became one of the most famous editorials ever written. It first appeared in the The New York Sun in 1897, almost a hundred years ago, and was reprinted annually until 1949 when the paper went out of business.

Thirty-six years after her letter was printed, Virginia O’Hanlon recalled the events that prompted her letter:

“Quite naturally I believed in Santa Claus, for he had never disappointed me. But when less fortunate little boys and girls said there wasn’t any Santa Claus, I was filled with doubts. I asked my father, and he was a little evasive on the subject.

“It was a habit in our family that whenever any doubts came up as to how to pronounce a word or some question of historical fact was in doubt, we wrote to the Question and Answer column in The Sun. Father would always say, ‘If you see it in the The Sun, it’s so,’ and that settled the matter.

“ ‘Well, I’m just going to write The Sun and find out the real truth,’ I said to father.

“He said, ‘Go ahead, Virginia. I’m sure The Sun will give you the right answer, as it always does.’ ”

And so Virginia sat down and wrote her parents’ favorite newspaper.

Her letter found its way into the hands of a veteran editor, Francis P. Church. Son of a Baptist minister, Church had covered the Civil War for The New York Times and had worked on the The New York Sun for 20 years, more recently as an anonymous editorial writer. Church, a sardonic man, had for his personal motto, “Endeavour to clear your mind of cant.” When controversal subjects had to be tackled on the editorial page, especially those dealing with theology, the assignments were usually given to Church.

Now, he had in his hands a little girl’s letter on a most controversial matter, and he was burdened with the responsibility of answering it.

“Is there a Santa Claus?” the childish scrawl in the letter asked. At once, Church knew that there was no avoiding the question. He must answer, and he must answer truthfully. And so he turned to his desk, and he began his reply which was to become one of the most memorable editorials in newspaper history.

Church married shortly after the editorial appeared. He died in April, 1906, leaving no children.

Virginia O’Hanlon went on to graduate from Hunter College with a Bachelor of Arts degree at age 21. The following year she received her Master’s from Columbia, and in 1912 she began teaching in the New York City school system, later becoming a principal. After 47 years, she retired as an educator. Throughout her life she received a steady stream of mail about her Santa Claus letter, and to each reply she attached an attractive printed copy of the Church editorial. Virginia O’Hanlon Douglas died on May 13, 1971, at the age of 81, in a nursing home in Valatie, N.Y.

[Snurfen]

It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street (either version)

[sho-dan]

Merry Christmas Annie

Hope you enjoy this, you can watch this from the beginning or skip to the 6 minute mark.

for Annie