I just bought myself the DVD of "A Christmas Story", which I just love, so I can finally enjoy it without commercials.
It is one of my favorite Christmas movies, if not my very favorite.

Some others I really enjoy are

The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant/Loretta Young)
A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim)
The Lemon Drop Kid (Bob Hope)
Scrooged (Bill Murray)
The Holly And The Ivy (Ralph Richardson/ Celia Johnson/Margaret Leighton)--I haven't seen this one in a long time, and I'd love to see it again.


Do you have any favorite Christmas movies that you've enjoyed watching and re-watching over the years?

I also love A Christmas Story. Nat'l Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is also a favorite at our house. I enjoy watching While You Were Sleeping although I don't know if it counts as it's set during the Christmas season but it's not necessarily about Christmas.

I still love "Miracle on 34th Streeet", and try to watch it when I can.

We like the version of "A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott as Scrooge. I just love him in that role! We get a kick out of the Muppet version, too, even though the kids aren't little anymore!

A Christmas Story is probably the hands down winner of all time in my book. Any movie I can watch 35 times [ or more ] has to be stellar in writing, performance and overall sharpness.

There are others, too...
- Scrooged with Bill Murray
- While You Were Sleeping
- The extremely durable It's A Wonderful Life starring my beloved Jimmy Stewart.

- Jack Frost with Michael Keaton is sad but pretty good. More aimed at children, I think.
And of course the rest of the ones CB mentioned above. My other favorite short production has to be A Charlie Brown Christmas.I just never get tired of it, for sentimental, family reasons [ knowing some of the animators who worked on it] I also love How the Grinch Stole Christmas for the same reason.

Never could warm up to anything of Tim Burton's [ The Nightmare Before Christmas]

whoops! forgot Meet Me In St Louis- the vehicle for Judy Garland's lovely Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas. I still love to watch it.

A Christmas Story is absolutely my very favorite. My next favorite is A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott. Then It's a Wonderful Life comes in to finish off the list.

I like all of these already mentioned (kinda hard to really dislike a Christmas movie, though, I reckon; with the possible exception of Home Alone, that is ). I'm a big fan of The Bells Of St. Mary's - which isn't exactly a 'Christmas' film but is close enough for me. And they always double play it with another fave Going My Way which gets me in a good mood no matter when.

I tend to avoid "modern" Holiday films because they're typically unoriginal but I watched a really good one today. A surprising gem, I thought, called Karroll's Christmas (2004). It seemed liked a rip-off of Dickens until Jacob Marley showed up and was a corn-rowed ancestor of Jacob's AND Bob's! Note: our esteemed Eraserhead beat them to that joke two years ago - but it was still funny this time around. The Ghost Of Christmas Past? A deceased stand up comedian from the Borscht Belt (I'll leave it to the imagination how he described what he escaped from in Hell - suffice it to say he was partnered there with the Turkish prison guard from the movie Midnight Express...yikes). The Ghost Of Christmas Yet To Come was a generally grumpy Mini-Me (app. 2 foot tall) sort who was not having a good day. You see, it seems these ghosts made a bit of a Dickensian "oops". They got the wrong address that eventful Christmas Eve and were inadvertantly sent to the home of a Yuletide phobic greeting card poet. Oh, one whose girlfriend had publicly rejected his marriage proposal on a hockey rink on Dec. 24 two years prior. Poor guy --- there was a skating donkey there and she dumped him for the fellow portraying the -um- "horse's behind"! It was clever, smart, hysterical and a wildly unexpected tale. And, thank goodness, all worked out happily in the end. Rear? Something or other...

My all time favorite Christmas movie is It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart.

Then I like:

Snowbound: The Jim and Jennifer Stolpa Story
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol with George C. Scott
Miracle on 34th Street with Natalie Wood

I'm another A Christmas Story fan, but I think that Meet Me in St. Louis might be my favorite. I'm partial to the Natalie Wood version of 34th Street as well. (I'm partial to most of Wood's movies, actually.) And, cheesy as it is, I like White Christmas. (I prefer White Christmas to Holiday Inn, mostly because I FAR prefer Danny Kaye to Fred Astaire.)

I won't be adding anything new to this post but I LOVE It's A Wonderful Life! (The fact that my Favorite Actor of All Time is in it is just a sidebar, really) I've seen it three times this year (once in the theater-thank you, local cinemall!!) And I've choked up Every. Single. Time. I'm sorry, if you can stay dry when Harry says, "To my big brother, George! The richest man in town!" then you are hollow inside. Hollow, I say! I forced my best friend to see it with me in the theater and she didn't even get misty!!.......

Uh, I think I need to re-evaluate our friendship......

Merry Christmas!!

"Bad Santa", "Home Alone" "Die Hard" (it was set during Christmas) and "A Christmas Carol" starring George C. Scott are my favorites Plus "A Christmas Story", though I haven't seen it in ages. Worst flick this season, holiday or any time of the year still has to be, for me anyway, "It's A Wonderful Life".

It's A Wonderful Life is my favorite. Followed by A Miracle of 34th Street.

It's a Wonderful Life w/ Jimmy Stewart
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation /w Chevy Chase
A Christmas Story
A Christmas Carol
Miracle on 34th Street w/ Natalie Wood
Home Alone 1 and 2 w/ Macaulay Culkin
Jack Frost w/ Michael Keaton
Look Who's Talking Now w/ Kirstie Alley
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus w/ Cole and Dylan Sprouse
Borrowed Hearts w/ Roma Downey
All I Want For Christmas w/ Thora Birch

That's all I can think of right now. I will post more later when I think of more.

My all time favorite is a Year Without a Santa Claus. I love the Heat and Freeze Meisers, and Mother Nature. It's great, and the songs are the best!

And I apologize to everyone who likes A Christmas Story, but for some reason I never liked it.

How about

Christmas in Connecticut
A Christmas Carol (Alistair Sim)
Miracle on 34th Street
White Christmas
The Santa Clause
The Polar Express

A Christmas Carol(1938)
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
Santa Claus the Movie
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever(tv movie from 1986)
Prancer
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Home Alone
Home Alone 2
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 2
The Polar Express
Christmas With the Kranks
Surviving Christmas

Ilove:

Borrowed Hearts
Single Santa Looking For Mrs Claus
Meet The Santas
A Boyfriend For Christmas
The Night They Saved Christmas

Nightmare Before Christmas is my most favorite Christmas movie.

if you happen to know Cutting edge, its a classical film but there is a new cutting edge part 2, this time its their daughter's adventure.
the story is simple, which makes it beautiful.