The winter season puts you in a cozy mood to sit around the TV with a warm cup of cocoa while it’s snowing outside. Out of the hundreds or Christmas movies, the classics can’t be beat, but it can be hard to choose. Here is the list of the Top 10 that you and your family can enjoy during the holiday season. These movies include classics, cartoons, and comedies.
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
A film by Frank Copra, a famous director, this film is a holiday staple masterpiece. The movie is comedic yet heartwarming, reminding you holidays are more than just presents. A wonderful performance by Jimmy Stewart playing George Bailey.
2. A Christmas Story
This humorous movie written by Jean Shepherd, this holiday movie follows Ralphie Parker, a child, who spends most of his time dodging a bully and dreaming of his ideal Christmas gift. Which happens to be a “Red Ryder Air Rifle.” Parker has a comforting mother, but he’s frequently at odds with his father, struggling to make it to Christmas day.
3. Home Alone
When the troubling 8-year-old Kevin McCallister acts up the night before a family trip to Paris, his punishment is sleeping in the attic. The McCallisters accidentally leave for the airport without Kevin! Kevin is left home alone enjoying his time enthusiastically. However, he soon realizes that 2 con men plan to rob the McCallister residence. Kevin devises his creative devious plans and he must protect the family home from these foes.
4. Elf
Buddy was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa’s elves. Trying to fit in, Buddy travels to New York, in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. He finds father Walter Hobbs, a businessman, and after a DNA test proves this; Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
This movie follows the Grinch, a cranky creature who attempts to contravene the public’s Christmas plans by stealing Christmas gifts. He also steals decorations from the homes of the nearby town of Whoville on Christmas Eve. He’s known for his cynical and pessimistic nature, but thankfully, the Grinch realizes Christmas is not all about money and presents.
6. A Charlie Brown Christmas
When Charlie Brown is complaining about the overwhelming importance people place on the Christmas Season, he gets a suggestion from Lucy. She suggests that Charlie becomes director of the School Christmas Pageant. Brown accepts, but in turn, he struggles along the way. When an attempt to restore the jolly spirit with an aluminum Christmas tree fails, Charlie realizes he’ll need Linus’ help to grasp the meaning of Christmas.
7. White Christmas
When Singers Bob Wallace and Phil Davis join a sister act Betty and Judy Haynes to perform a Christmas show in rural Vermont. There, they run into Gen. Waverly, the boys’ commander in World War II, who, they learn, is having financial difficulties with his inn. So the four of them plan a Christmas Miracle, that’ll be sure to put his business back on track!
8. Miracle on 31st Street (1947)
A divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy’s, and she’s startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he’s not mistaken. The stakes of the case rise higher, as uncertainty rises.
9. Frosty the Snowman
A group of children create a snowman with a discarded magic top hat bringing the snowman to life. That is until a magician, Professor Hinkle, wants it back, and the temperature starts to rise. Frosty the Snowman will melt or no longer be a jolly soul, if the kids cannot get him away from Hinkle and warm weather. So Frosty hops a train to the North Pole with young Karen to embark on his resolve.
10. Frosty the Snowman
In this modern take on Charles Dickens, ‘A Christmas Carol:’ Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose distances and cold ambition has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips. But after firing a staff member, Eliot Loudermilk on Christmas Eve, Cross is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
