Best Christmas Movies

The Christmas season offers some of the best Christmas holiday-themed movies and greatest all time movies to watch with friends and family. Classic Christmas films include It's a Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street and A Christmas Story.http://www.franksreelreviews.com/shorttakes/reelrant/rantchristmas.htm

This page contains information, trailers, news, blogs, links and video clips from the most well-reviewed and highly regarded Christmas movies. This list of movies also is a great way to get Christmas ideas for Christmas presents for those movie lovers on your Christmas gift list. Is your favorite Christmas movie on this page, if not leave a comment or ask a question and it could be added.

1. A Christmas Story (1983): Based on Jean Shepherd's timeless classic, the film introduces us to Ralphie, who wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas, in spite of the fact that every adult he knows is convinced that he'll poke his eye out.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0085334/
2. Miracle on 34th Street (1947): A single mother and her daughter in New York City, discover that the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Santa Claus just might not be a myth.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039628/
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966): Try watching the TV version and the movie version back-to-back!http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039628/
4. A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965): The first of many prime-time animated TV specials based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, has aired annually since 1965.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0059026/
5. A Christmas Carol (1951): The original Dickens novel has had many film adaptations: set in the present, in the future, with a female Scrooge, with a diva Scrooge, etc. This version stars Alastair Sim as a Scrooge who really does seem to redeem himself (as opposed to those who reform because they are afraid of what the future holds)http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044008/
6. White Christmas (1954): One of those feel-good Christmas musicals starring Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye and featuring the music of Irving Berlin. The title song was originally one of the musical numbers in the 1942 Christmas classic Holiday Inn.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0047673/
7. The Bishop's Wife (1947): Cary Grant provides guidance as the angel Dudley to an episcopal Bishop and his wife (David Niven and Loretta Young) as Christmas approaches. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would prefer.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0039190/
8. The Santa Clause (1994): Tim Allen becomes a Santa Claus-in-training when the old Santa meets his demise during his annual present run. The film has amazing visuals of Santa's workshop at the North Pole!http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111070/
9. The Polar Express (2004): An animated Christmas film about a young boy who is taken on a train ride to the North Pole to meet Santa Claus and discover the true meaning of Christmas.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338348/
10. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): An animated musical film about Pumpkin King Jack Skellington, bored with the daily Halloween celebrations in Halloween Town. He discovers the holiday of Christmas and embarks on a misguided quest to make it his own.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0338348/
11. Home Alone (1990): The misadventures of a young boy who has been stranded by his parents during the Christmas holidays.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0099785/
12. Bad Santa (2003): A comic film about a con man pretending to be Santa Claus so he can carry out department store robberies.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0307987/
13. Elf (2003): Will Ferrell is an orphan raised by Santa Claus and his elves.http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0319343/

Not finding what you are looking for? Try our listing of the Best Christmas Movies for Kids or our Christmas movie listing.