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25 Movies to Watch During The Holiday Season

Grab a cup of hot chocolate, a fuzzy blanket and enjoy one of these holiday favorites

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25 Movies to Watch During The Holiday Season
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It's that time of year again ladies and gents. Even amidst the hustle and bustle of everyday life, despite our different lifestyles, when it comes to the approaching holiday season, we are all looking for the same thing. That same thing, or things, are good holiday movies to watch. Forget Rogue One - thought not literally because I am going to see it in a few weeks - these holiday movies will take your mind off finals and get you in the holiday spirit. So grab a cup of hot chocolate, a fuzzy blanket and enjoy one of these holiday favorites.

Note: the descriptions listed down below were provided by the International Movie Database (I.M.D.B.) so I do not claim them as my own.

1. Love Actually


Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.

2. It's A Wonderful Life

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

3. Polar Express

A young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express. During his adventure he learns about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.

4. Home Alone

An 8-year old troublemaker must protect his home from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

5. Die Hard

John McClane, officer of the NYPD, tries to save his wife Holly Gennaro and several others that were taken hostage by German terrorist Hans Gruber during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.

6. The Muppet Christmas Carol

The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.

7. White Christmas

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

8. A Christmas Story

In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.

9. Miracle on 34th Street

When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

10. Grandma Got Run Over By A Reindeer

A youth embarks on a journey to find his missing grandmother and prove that Santa Claus is real.

11. Rudolph The Red-Nosed Reindeer

A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.

12. Elf

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

13. Santa Claus is Comin' To Town!

A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.

14. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but doesn't quite understand the concept.

15. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

16. How The Grinch Stole Christmas

On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.

17. A Charlie Brown Christmas

Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.

18. The Santa Clause

When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

19. Frosty the Snowman

A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat.

20. Holiday Inn

At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

21. Scrooged

A selfish, cynical T.V. executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.

22. Christmas in Connecticut

A food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas.

23. Dr Seuss How the Grinch Stole Christmas (The cartoon version)

A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.

24. The Holiday

Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.

25. Bridget Jones Diary


A British woman is determined to improve herself while she looks for love in a year in which she keeps a personal diary.

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