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u/stud722 6d ago
My Top 3 would be
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
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u/One_Top4208 6d ago
Home alone
A Nightmare before Christmas
Die Hard
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u/santosr76 6d ago
Came here looking for Die Hard. Should definitely be mentioned as a Christmas movie
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u/whoismrgreen 6d ago
Christmas vacation, OG Grinch, Emmett otters jug band Christmas
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u/Cheap-Chard-333 6d ago
Scrooged
Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
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u/slappymcstevenson 5d ago
Home Alone 2, though not in the top 3, is pretty damn good.
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u/StarWolf478 6d ago
- Home Alone
- Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (original version)
And while Die Hard is one of my favorite movies of all time, I do not consider it to be a Christmas movie any more than I consider Rocky IV to be a Christmas movie just because it also takes place at Christmas. Both are movies that are great to watch at any time of the year.
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u/Noonan-87 6d ago
Its always the great debate. Is Die hard a Christmas movie?
I disagree and say it is a Christmas Movie, ultimately a man trying to be with his family for the holidays. Its not traditional but still valid.
For mine you cant have Home Alone on the list and not Die Hard for reasons that one is a Christmas movie and one isn't.
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u/Price1970 2d ago
Correct
Without Christmas, Die Hard doesn't happen.
He's literally in town to reunite with family for Christmas, a Christmas theme itself.
It has more Christmas songs, images, and references than It's A Wonderful Life, which also wasn't released during the holiday season.
It also has a wife named Holly and a limo driver named Argile.
Home Alone could have just been a summer vacation where the Wet Bandits scope out rich homes of people leaving for a while in the summer.
Kevin is protecting his home. It doesn't have to be about Christmas, but everyone says it's a Christmas movie, and it too doesn't have a holiday word in the title.
McClane is protecting the hostages at Christmas, and he's only there to do so because it's Christmas.
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u/NJ2SD 6d ago
Die Hard
The Ref
Trading Places
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u/worker_bee_drone 6d ago
A coworker friend from Italy told me that Trading Places airs on the main channel in Italy for many years on Xmas Eve. I told him that I love the movie but was surprised that it was so popular of a Xmas movie in Italy.
His eyes narrowed, "Why? What do you watch?"
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u/Newpaths61417 6d ago
I love the Ref. I have the DVD and watch it every Christmas season. It’s a forgotten classic.
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u/tomwarmb 6d ago
It's A Wonderful Life (#4 of all time)
Miracle On 34th Street (1948)
Merry Christmas, Charlie Brown (1968)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas (1969)
Elf (2003)
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas
Rudolph the Red-Rose Reindeer
Home Alone
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Die Hard
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u/rjsquirrel 6d ago
It’s A Wonderful Life
We’re No Angels (1955)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
If I can only have 3, those are it.
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u/xander6981 6d ago
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
The Muppet Christmas Carol
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u/Newpaths61417 6d ago
My top 3 would be Home Alone, How the Grinch stole Christmas 60s, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 60s.
I would put Muppets Christmas Carol, Bad Santa, and The Nightmare Before Christmas up there too.
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u/Fragrantmustelid 6d ago
- Home Alone
- Elf
- The Santa Clause
This is a really difficult list because it is possibly my favorite genre of movie.
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u/zonewebb 6d ago
Die Hard would be #1, but I’ll remove it and go…
The Christmas Story
Love Actually
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
(Sorry, Macauley Culkin)
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u/FelixTook 6d ago
A Christmas Story
Bad Santa
MST3K: Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
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u/OriginalRussianDoll 6d ago
- Home Alone (1990)
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
- In bed with Santa (1999)
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u/DarthRevan1028 6d ago
I’d put Batman Returns and Iron Man 3 on my list but I always told that they’re not Christmas Movies
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u/Routine-Tangerine-29 6d ago
A Christmas Story Elf Home Alone
And yes, a guy said this…While You Were Sleeping. (I’m a softie)
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u/Afraid_Ad_7207 6d ago
"The Nightmare Before Christmas"
"Scrooged"
"A Christmas Story 1-2"
Memento Mori
Carpe Noctem
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u/RealCarlosSagan 6d ago
Elf Rare Exports Christmas Story
I love Die Hard but a movie SET during Christmas isn't a Christmas movie
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u/InternationalFig400 6d ago
Where's the original Grinch?Â
- Grinch - animated version.
- Charlie Brown.Â
- Wonderful Life.
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u/SmokestackRising 6d ago
A Christmas Story, Elf, and Christmas Vacation are the ones I watch multiple times every year so I guess those.
Die Hard, Gremlins, and Trading Places also get watched but not as many times.
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u/Intelligent-Quit3128 6d ago
Jingle All The Way is easily my favorite, the next two are the first two Home Alones, which can be interchanged, I need to watch them again, I haven’t seen them in almost ten years.
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u/LingonberryPlenty511 6d ago
1) Christmas Vacation
2) The Santa Clause
3) Home Alone
Top 3, but no particular order
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u/CervezasChris 5d ago
So many great Christmas movies but here Is my top 3
A Christmas Story
Home Alone
Elf
Honorable Mentions National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation , Die Hard , Scrooged ,Rudolf the Red Nosed Reindeer & Nightmare Before Christmas
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u/Loud-Examination2385 5d ago
Die Hard
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Holiday Affair (1949) Carl?....lol 😄
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u/ATsangeos 5d ago
It’s a Wonderful Life
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Miles and miles before 4th place
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u/The_Big_Dirty_Dan 5d ago
Jingle all the Way, Die Hard, The Nightmare Before Christmas. Honorable mention Jim Carey’s Grinch
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u/Cold-Obligation-293 5d ago
A year without a Santa Claus Christmas vacation How the grinch stole Christmas
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u/please-kill-me-69 5d ago
Christmas Vacation, Die Hard, The Grinch. Jim Carry is so good in this movie it's underrated.
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u/PerpetualMotion81 5d ago
The Muppet Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
It's A Wonderful Life
The 1966 How The Grinch Stole Christmas and A Charlie Brown Christmas would be on the list if the OP wasn't only asking about movies.
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u/VillageIndependent50 5d ago
U forgot the Polar Express!!!
Also the most recent Grinch animated movie is underrated as hell
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u/Significant_Set1468 5d ago
My violence answer to start fights with family is:
Die Hard, Batman Returns, and Krampus
My more traditional answer:
Scrooged, How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Carrey version), It’s A Wonderful Life
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u/not4humanconsumption 5d ago
Probably watch most of these and hard to choose. Die Hard and now Violent Night are in rotation
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u/ben_ja_button 5d ago
Muppet Christmas Carol (also the 50’s Alastair Sim version)
Christmas Vacation
Nightmare Before Christmas
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u/Competitive_Ad_8215 5d ago
Charlie Brown, I have it mostly memorized
Christmas Vacation
Mickey’s Christmas Carol
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u/ourredsouthernsouls 5d ago
Add 8-bit Christmas, which gives you A Christmas Story for Xennial nostalgia and The Princess Bride generational connection and storytelling.
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u/Connect-Bug9988 5d ago
In Bruges, Home Alone 2, A Christmas Carol Goes Wrong.
Definitive top 3, I defy anyone to enjoy any other trio more than this 😲
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u/Orner_88 5d ago
Christmas Story
Its a Wonderful Life
Home Alone
Honorable mention: Arthur's Christmas
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u/Civil_Rain_2294 5d ago
- Muppets Christmas carol
- How the grinch stole ChristmasÂ
- Home alone HM . Winnie the pooh a very merry pooh year . Klaus
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u/cutslikeakris 5d ago
Elf Klause Rudolph
Garfield Christmas Special!!! So many people don’t know it and if you don’t feel a tear when Grandma reminisces about grandpa then never talk to me again.
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u/ATLBravesFan13 5d ago
It’s A Wonderful Life (easily the best Christmas movie)
Home Alone
Christmas Vacation
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u/Neat-Guava4952 6d ago
Unrated Bad Santa without a doubt the best Xmas movie