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Top 10 Christmas Films to Watch This Holiday | 2023

Updated: Dec 17, 2023

Top 10 Christmas Films to Watch This Holiday | 2023

Just in time for the holidays comes our top 10 suggestions for Christmas that are a must-see for the first time or even as an annual tradition as we do at our house. So get cozy, kick back, check the list, and get the popcorn ready! Here are our top picks for your Holiday Movie List:


Number 10: "Scrooged"

Rated: PG | Run Time: 1hr 41min | Released: Nov 23, 1988 | Rating: 6.9/10

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Based on the 1843 novella A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens, Scrooged is a modern retelling that follows Bill Murray as Frank Cross, a cynical and selfish television executive who is visited by a succession of ghosts on Christmas Eve intent on helping him regain his Christmas spirit.


Number 09: "The Night Before"

Rated: R | Run Time: 1hr 41min | Released: Nov 20, 2015 | Rated: 6.4/10

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Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen), and Chris (Anthony Mackie) have been friends since childhood, and for a decade, their yearly Christmas Eve reunion has been an annual night of debauchery and hilarity. Now that they're entering adulthood, the tradition is ending, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracker Ball--the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.—Sony Pictures Entertainment


Number 08: "Arthur Christmas"

Rated: U | Run Time: 1hr 37min | Released: Nov 23, 2011 | Rating: 7.1/10

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Everyone knows that each Christmas, Santa Claus delivers presents to every last child on Earth. What everyone doesn't know is that Santa accomplishes the feat with a very high-tech operation beneath the North Pole. But when the unthinkable happens, and Santa misses one child out of hundreds of millions, someone has to save the day. It's up to Arthur (James McAvoy), Santa's youngest son, to deliver a present to the forgotten tyke before Christmas morning dawns.


Number 07: "Jingle All The Way"

Rated: PG | Run Time: 1hr 29min | Released: Nov 22, 1996 | Rating: 5.7/10

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Workaholic Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) wants to make things up to his son, Jamie (Jake Lloyd), and wife, Liz (Rita Wilson). He promises to get Jamie the hottest toy of the season, Turbo-Man -- even though it's Christmas Eve and the toy is practically sold out. As Langston hunts down the elusive gift, he runs into mailman Myron (Sinbad), another father on the same quest. With the clock winding down, Langston's moral code is tested as he starts to learn the real meaning of Christmas.


Number 06: "Home Alone"

Rated: PG | Run Time: 1hr 43min | Released: Nov 16, 1990 | Rating: 7.7/10

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When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.


Number 05: "Deck the Halls"

Rated: PG | Run Time: 1hr 33min | Released: Nov 22, 2006 | Rating: 5.0/10

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Steve (Matthew Broderick), a suburban dad and Christmas enthusiast, finds a wrinkle in his well-ordered existence with the arrival of his new neighbor Danny (Danny DeVito). Danny has big dreams and plans to illuminate his house with enough holiday lights to make it visible from space. Not to be outdone, Steve declares a war of one-upmanship with Danny that threatens to drag the Christmas spirit through the slush.


Number 04: "Four Christmases"

Rated: PG-13 | Run Time: 1hr 28min | Released: Nov 26, 2003 | Rating: 5.7/10

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To escape Christmas and their divorced parents with their dysfunctional families, happily unmarried Brad and Kate have been successfully pulling off the same trick for three years: a little bit of charity work in a far-off place at the end of the world is always the perfect alibi. However, not this year--and as the young couple is forced to spend Christmas with all four of their estranged parents--the ultimate Yuletide disaster is at hand.


Number 03: "Christmas with the Kranks"

Rated: PG | Run Time: 1hr 39min | Released: Nov 24, 2004 | Rating: 5.4/10

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Finally alone for the holidays, Luther (Tim Allen) and Nora Krank (Jamie Lee Curtis) plan to eschew the Christmas traditions and take a cruise in the Caribbean instead. This doesn't sit well with their Christmas-obsessed neighbors Vic Frohmeyer (Dan Aykroyd) and Walt Scheel (M. Emmet Walsh), who are determined to win the annual "best-decorated street" competition, and the Kranks soon find themselves social outcasts because of their lack of Christmas spirit.


Number 02: "Christmas Vacation"

Rated: PG-13 | Run Time: 1hr 37min | Released: Dec 01, 1989 | Rating: 7.5/10

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As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen (Beverly D'Angelo), and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line, including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry quickly. His hick cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid), and his family show up unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property. Even worse, Clark's employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.


Number 01: "Elf"

Rated: PG | Run Time: 1hr 37min | Released: Nov 07, 2003 | Rating: 7.1/10

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Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.



 


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