One of the best parts of Christmas is curling up on the couch with a fresh cup of hot chocolate, in pursuit of watching a great holiday movie. If you're struggling with deciding on what to watch this year, here's my list of the top 10 Christmas movies and their summaries!

10. The Nightmare Before Christmas

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

9. Frosty the Snowman

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

8. Balto

An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.

7. 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.

6. The Santa Clause

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

5. Jack Frost

A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.

4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

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

3. A Charlie Brown Christmas

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

2. 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.

1. 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.

*All images and movie descriptions courtesy of IMDB.com