Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons

After reading Gina's post, I thought that I would start another one about favorite Christmas Movies and Cartoons. What are your top FIVE (5) favorites?

Mine are :

1)The Little Drummer Boy
2)How The Grinch Stole Christmas
3)The Polar Express
4)A Charlie Brown Christmas
5)Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer


Don Cardi

Definitely The Grinch and Charlie Brown. And then there's the King Family.

1. Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer
2. Miracle on 34th street
3. A Charlie Brown Christmas
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Frosty the snowman

As a kid i used to enjoy watching Home Alone at christmas,a fun film to watch with the family.

1. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
2. It's A Wonderful Life
3. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
4. Charlie Brown Christmas
5. The Christmas Story

My Top 5, in no particular order:

Home Alone
Home Alone 2
Jingle All the Way
Meet Me in St. Louis
Die Hard

1. A Christmas Story
2. It's a Wonderful Life
3. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
4. Charlie Brown Christmas
5. The Little Drummer Boy

In no particular order:

A Christmas Story
How The Grinch Stole Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
A Charlie Brown Christmas

Honorable mentions (again, in no particular order)

Frosty the Snowman
The Little Drummer Boy
Home Alone (1 & 2)
A Christmas Carol (1951, starring Alastair Sim)

1) All the Scrooge Movies (especially the one from 1937).
2) Grinch
3) Wonderful Life
4) Bad Santa
5) White Christmas

My list is actually two lists:

1. Scrooge (AKA A Christmas Carol) 1951 - Alastair Sim
2. Scrooge 1935 - Sir Seymour Hicks
3. A Christmas Carol (animated) 1971 - Alastair Sim
4. A Christmas Carol 1938 - Reginald Owen
5. A Christmas Carol 1984 - George C. Scott

BTW, if you are a fan of different adaptations of this classic story, then you really must check out this link:

Charles Dickens Christmas Carol & Scrooge CED Page

My other Top Five list:

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas
2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
3. Miracle on 34th Street
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Bedtime for Sniffles (animated)

I must confess that I haven't yet seen some of the newer films, but I'm sure I will at some point this season - or next. But these are the ones which came to mind the quickest.

Signor V.

The Bishop's Wife
It's a Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
A Christmas Story
Jingle All the Way

In that order!

A Christmas Story
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (movie)
Home Alone 1
Home Alone 2
(No order)

These are the top 5 that I like most, but more so that I feel I must see during the holidays. They're movies that I've watched each year since the first year I saw them, so they're traditional now. I also have to drink eggnog while watching the Grinch cartoon.

I've seen and enjoyed It's A Wonderful Life, but just not enough times. Hmm...thinking of it that way, I might be due for another viewing.

I was looking at some web sites to see if I was perhaps forgetting any that I like, and I came across this list:
100 Greatest Christmas Shows

I'm sure there's plenty room for argument as to each movie's placement, though...

That site helped me remember some other favorites...
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Ernest Saves Christmas (I loved Ernest...I want to see this again!)
- The Santa Clause

I forgot this one:

That is such a funny movie, Mig. I especially love Carol Kane in it.

No Christmas would be complete without "Its a Wonderful Life". Aside from being a truly wonderful movie it has a real Christmas "feel" to it (almost a Currier & Ives painting coming to film).

I agree with Sr. Vitelli that the best version of "A Christmas Carol" was the Alistair Sim version, and usually watch it once a year at holiday time.

The Bankin/Rass claymation version of "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" has been a favorite of mine for a long time and has been an annual tradition for at least ten years.

The Flintstones Christmas special.

Charlie Brown Kwanzaa

Ironically it was exactly 166 years ago today, December 19th 1843, that Charles Dickens' " A Christmas Carol" was first published.



Don Cardi

In no particular order:

Miracle on 34th Street
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
A Christmas Story
It's A Wonderfu Life
A Christmas Carol (I think it's the one with Alister Slim. They use to show it every year when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it in years)


TIS

1. A Christmas Story
2. Die Hard
3. How the Grinch stole Christmas (Cartoon)
4. It's a Wonderful Life
5. Rudolph the Rednosed Reindeer

I don't like It's a Wonderful Life. I've seen it twice now, and intend on catching it on the big screen on Christmas Eve. That'll be nice and cosy, if anything.

The Belles of St. Mary's for that wonderful scene in it with the little kids putting on a nativity playe and It's a Wonderful Life because it is.

i like the movie where richard attenborough (the guy in jurassic pasrk too) is Santa Claus and there was a court case in the end for him to prove he was real

i like the movie where richard attenborough (the guy in jurassic pasrk too) is Santa Claus and there was a court case in the end for him to prove he was real

That movie is the remake to Miracle on 34th Street. I've seen and have enjoyed the original for years but haven't watched this remake.

The original was made in 1947 and it starred Natalie Wood (Rebel without a Cause) as Susan and Edmund Gwenn (Foreign Correspondent) as Kris Kringle. The remake was made in 1993.

Here is a big list of classic Christmas Shows and movies that you can watch on the website.

A couple of Chrismas specials that they don't broadcast anymore;

1. The Homecoming. This was a movie involving the Waltons before the series even started. Different actors were used in some of the adult roles, but the story centered on news that there was a train derailment, in which there were fatalities, and the uncertainty of the father's fate. The movie was a little long, took place in the depression, but I enjoyed it.

2. The House without a Christmas Tree. This starred Jason Robards, and took place in the 30's and 40's. It was about a cantankerous widower, who lived with his mother and grade school daughter, and continued to grieve the death of his wife to the extent that he wouldn't allow a Christmas tree in his house, much to the disappointment of his little girl.

Come to think of it, these shows were as depressing as hell, but I liked them.

Man, talk about a blast from the past. As soon as I read the title, "The house without a Christmas tree" I immediately remembered it starred Jason Robarts. I have no recollection of the acutall plot, but just remember a young girl wanting a Christmas tree and he wouldn't get one. I can't believe they actualy wrote a whole tv special around that theme. That could describe 80% of my family. It describes me come to think of it..hahaha. I thought I was the only one who remembered it. Everyone else I ask about it looks at me like I grew a 2nd head.

My recollection isn't the clearest, but I remember that it was filmed on video tape. The girl got into a fight at school with a classmate, who had made fun of her grandmother for pulling a wagon to the grocery store, and she performed with others in a school play, in which she sang O Christmas Tree while staring at her father.
At the end, the father's heart melted (Grandma helped do this somehow), he brought in a tree on Christmas Eve, and took his daughter to a room where he brought out a special ornament that had belonged to his late wife. A bittersweet moment.