With the long holiday approaching, it is time to sit back and have a grand family time. Schools are over, universities are on break, offices are in holiday mode, and to top it off, it is Christmas! The warmth in your home, the smell of all the roasting, pies and custards, your life seems like as if taken from a movie plot. And talking about movie, this long holiday is the perfect time to watch movies together with your family.
Here is the list of 10 must watch all time favorite Christmas movies that you can share with your family!
1. Home Alone
“You guys give up, or are you thirsty for more?”
Home Alone is a traditional movie that has been watched hundreds of times by everyone. The trilogy is a good option to have continuous laughs for three consecutive days, if you are willing to watch them on separate days, or all at once if you’re brave. The first two parts are the best and the most loved, starring Macaulay Culkin as Kevin McCullister, while the third part has a different protagonist named Alex D. Linz as Alex Pruitt. All three parts have the naughty boy left behind by family during the Christmas Eve, and how this boy overcome two burglars and save their house.
2. A Christmas Carol (2009)
“Nephew! Keep Christmas in your own way, and let me keep it in mine.”
A Christmas Carol is an adaptation of Charles Dickens’ famous novella by the same name. There have been multiple adaptations over the last century but this movie was from 2009 has been made into 3D animation starring Jim Carrey. The story is about about a miserly man who thinks everyone and everything is a humbug. One day, he is taken out on a journey to his past, present, and future life by three ghosts, that may change his bitterness towards life.
3. A Christmas Story
“Oh my God! I shot my eye out!”
A Christmas Story talks about a young boy with glasses (and hopes) trying to get rid of a bully boy, and wanting a “Red Rider Air Rifle” as his ultimate Christmas gift. This hilarious movie was set back in 1983, and it shows how this boy survives his Christmas holiday!
4. Arthur Christmas
“You were right, Arthur! It doesn’t matter how Santa’s gift gets there! It doesn’t matter if it is Mr. Postman in his spaceship!”
A 2011 film, Arthur Christmas, Santa’s youngest son, is out there to save the day. How? Santa, using very high-tech system to deliver gifts to every child on Earth, forgets about one child. It is up to Arthur now to make that child happy before it is Christmas dawn!
5. Elf
“You smell like beef and cheese. You don’t smell like Santa!”
Elf is a hilarious mix up of a young child who was accidentally transported to North Pole, and raised among Santa’s elves. Since he could not fit into their world, he travelled to New York, an adult in Elf’s clothes, and searched for his true identity.
6. Gremlins
“Tell me something, Billy. How come a cute guy like this can turn into a thousand ugly monsters?”
This is one of the Christmas movies that you should watch only if your family members are in to watching horror movies. This is a comedy-horror to be more exact. And if any one of you get scared you can always tease each other about it. Gremlins is about a “Mogwai” that gets sold to a father who bought it as a Christmas present for his son. The duo go exactly opposite to the warnings provided and unleash a gang of gremlins who bring terror to the city.
7. The Nightmare Before Christmas
“I am the shadow of the moon at night, filling your dreams to the brim with fright.”
The Nightmare Before Christmas is a dark fantasy musical film about a “Pumpkin King” from “Halloweentown” and how he gets bored of scaring people every day. What we can see next throughout the movie is his misadventures and what he does to overcome them.
8. Miracle on 34th Street
“This guy ain’t dangerous. He may be off his rails a bit, but he ain’t nothing. And if he wants to call himself Santa Claus, then God bless him.”
Miracle on 34th Street involves a young girl who has doubt regarding Santa. As Christmas is nearing, Macy’s wants to hire a man who would pose as Santa. The story then talks about a man with a weird name, and how the young girl comes to his defence. It is a lovely Christmas fantasy that will awe you and your family.
9. Scrooged
“I never liked a girl enough to give her twelve sharp knives.”
Scrooged is a modern version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, but here, we see a highly successful television executive whose aspiration and bad temper has made him a lonely man. It’s then that three ghosts take him on a life journey so that he can amend himself.
10. The Santa Clause
“Charlie, stay away from those things. They are reindeer, you don’t know where they have been. They all look they have got key lime disease.”
This family comedy / Christmas fantasy movie, The Santa Clause, has it all. The comedy involves how a divorced dad kills a man on Christmas eve, right after getting his son’s custody, and whatever follows the event will surely make you laugh for days.
Now that you have your list of Christmas movies, hopefully, some of your times will be spend having good laughs with your family at home, without boringly killing your time!
