Christmas represents a different thing for different people and the Christmas Movies are reflecting in that kind.

To enjoy this Christmas holiday there’s no better place like curling up on the couch and watching the best Christmas movie ever. Listening to music is great and it is a surefire way to get you in high spirits. But the Christmas movies are special, much enjoyable and song can not beat the Christmas Movies race.

Don’t waste your precious movie-watching time, surfing through the OTT platform because it’s a time when we all have the holiday, it’s the best time to make your bond strong with your loved ones.

So to enjoy this festive season, of course, planning one requires some serious preparation. Don’t worry take a chill we’ve made a list of top movies that you must watch in your Christmas Holidays to all our nice readers around the world.

So the only thing that left is the key to getting everyone ready on this Christmas eve, and all that left now is pressing the play button.

So let’s start with our

1. Home Alone
2. It’s a wonderful life
3. The Nightmare Before Christmas
4. ELF
5. The Muppet Christmas Carol
6. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
8. The Polar Express
9. Arthur Christmas

“Best Christmas Movies that you must watch in your Christmas Holidays”

Home Alone

Home Alone is an American comedy movie released in the year 1990. The movie is all about an eight-year-old boy named Kevin McCallister who is accidentally left behind home when his family flies to Paris for celebrating their Christmas vacations. Soon two burglars named Harry and Marv decides to rob his house on Christmas Eve. Kevin quickly gets to know about their plan and decides to plot traps in his house to stop the burglars from robbing his house and to bring them to justice.

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS MOVIE?

The movie has been directed fantastically. It encourages a child to fight with his or her fear of staying away with their parents. It also highlights the importance of parents who ignore most of the time. It is an amazing movie for watching during your Christmas holidays.

Duration – 1h 43min

IMDB Rating – 7.6/10

Genres – Comedy | Family

It’s a wonderful life

It’s wonderful life is an American fantasy drama film released in the year 1946. This movie is based on the booklet named THE GREATEST GIFT which was written by Philip Van Doren Stern in the year 1939.

This film is one of the most loved American movies and it has become a tradition of watching this movie during the Christmas season. The film is about a man who has lost his dreams of helping others and decides to commit suicide on Christmas Eve.

Suddenly a guardian angel appears and stops him from committing suicide and shows him the importance of life.

WHY YOU SHOULD WATCH THIS MOVIE?

It is a wonderful and inspirational movie. This movie teaches us that our life is not worthless, we really have a place in society. It also teaches us that life gives all of us the opportunity but you just have to use them properly.

Duration –  2h 10min

IMDB Rating – 8.6/10

Genres – Drama, Family, Fantasy

3) The Nightmare Before Christmas

This movie is released in the year 1993. The Nightmare Before Christmas is directed by Henry Selick and produced by Tim Burton.

The movie tells the story about Jack Skellington the king of Halloween, who decides to celebrate his Christmas in the Christmas town. This movie is basically an American stop motion animated dark musical fantasy Halloween- Christmas film.

Why you should watch this movie?

This is one of the fantastic family movies of the ’90s.
The music of this film is awesome and the cinematography is perfect. If you are confused about which movie to watch in this holidays then this is the perfect movie to watch.

Duration – 1h 16min

IMDB Rating – 8.0/10

Genres – Animation, Family, Fantasy

Director – Henry Selick

Stars – Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O’Hara

Awards:

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA – Winner

Golden Globes, USA – Nominee

Academy Awards, USA – Nominee

The Nightmare Before Christmas

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4) ELF

Elf is an American Christmas comedy movie based on the book written by William named “Buddy” Hobbs.

The movie is about an elf named Buddy who was adopted and raised by Santa’s elves. Buddy grows up there in the North pole believing that he is an elf but due to his big size like humans he was demoted towards the toy testing department.

Then one day he overhears from other elves that he is human, Papa elves describes him about his birth and all details. Buddy was born to Walter Hobbs and Susan Wells and they gave their son for adoption. His mother dies due to disease and his father is working in the children’s books publisher at the Empire State Building in New York without knowing his son’s existence.

Buddy then travels to the earth to find his father and the story begins.

Why you should watch this movie?

It is the greatest holiday film that you should watch this Christmas vacation. In this movie you the role of elf is played by the comedy legend Will Ferrell. He is not really an elf and decides to go to New York to find his family.

The characters in this film are great, funny and original. The movie has deep meaning and it is beautifully directed and presented.

Duration – 1h 37min

IMDB Rating – 6.9/10

Genres – Comedy, Family, Fantasy

Director –  Jon Favreau

Cast – Will Ferrell, Peter Dinklage, Ed Asner, James Caen, Bob Newhart

Awards and recognition:

ELF Movie

• 2004 ASCAP award – Top Box Office Films (John Debney)
• 2004 Golden Trailer – Best Comedy – Nominated
• 2004 Nickelodeon Kids’ Choice Award – Favorite Movie
• 2004 MTV Movie Award – Best Comedic Performance (Will Ferrell)
• 2004 PFCS Award – Best Live Action Family Film and Best Use of Previously Published or Recorded Music
• 2004 Teen Choice Award – Choice Movie Actor – Comedy (Will Ferrell) and Choice Movie – Comedy
• 2005 Golden Satellite Award – Best Youth DVD
• In 2017 it has been rated as the best Christmas movie of the 21st century by Fandango users.

ELF Movie

The Muppet Christmas Carol

It is an American musical comedy movie released in the year 1992. The movie is actually adapted from the book of Charles Dickens’s “A Christmas Carol”.

It is one of the classic tales of Charles Dickens. The story has a very deep message and moral. In the movie, the story is narrated by Charles Dickens and his friend Rizzo. Scrooge does not accept the Christmas invitation from his nephew and does not share the merriment of Christmas.

Why you should watch this movie?

This is one of the favorite muppet movies of all time. All the Muppets were incredibly magnificent at their roles. Michael Caine has done an incredible job as a scrounge. It is one of the movies that you must add to your Christmas movie watching lists. The songs of this movie are very pleasing and soothing.

Duration – 1h 25min

IMDB Rating – 7.7/10

Genres – Comedy, Family, Drama

Director – Brian Henson

Cast – Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire, Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz and more

Awards and recognition:

The Muppet Christmas Carol

• Fantafestival (1993)
• Best Direction [Winner] – Brian Henson
• Grammy Awards (1993) – Grammy [Nominee]

The Muppet Christmas Carol

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is an American comedy film released in the year 1989 directed by Jeremiah Chechik. The movie based on the true story of National Lampoons magazine,” Christmas59″. It is one of the best family movies where they try to celebrate Christmas in traditional ways. The movie is all about how they do the preparations for the celebrations and in betu what all problems arise and how they face them.

Why you should watch this movie?

It is one of the comedy family film based on the Christmas Eve. If you are planning to watch some comedy movies with your family then this movie must be on the top of your watchlist. The movie is full of actions drama-comedy and meanings.

Duration –  1h 37min

IMDB Rating – 7.6/10

Genres – Comedy

Director – Brian Henson

Casts –  Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, Jhon Randolph

Awards and recognition:

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation Movie

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National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation

How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Dr. Seuss’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas is an American fantasy comedy movie based on Christmas. This movie is released in the year 2000 and directed by Ron Howard and written by Jeffrey Prince and Peter .S. Seaman.

The movie is based on the book written by Dr. Seuss in 1957. Basically, this was a children’s picture book so many additional pp parts were added to the storyline. This is the second highest-grossing movie after Home Alone(1990).

Why you should watch this movie?

This movie is very entertaining and full of comedy. If you are planning to sit on the couch and enjoy your Christmas vacations in relaxing environment then this is the best movie you are looking for. The movie is perfectly directed and presented. You will not get bored. Enjoy your Christmas with this perfect movie.

Duration – 1h 44min

IMDB Rating – 6.1/10

Genres – Comedy

Director – Brian Henson

Casts: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Bill Irwin, Molly Shannon

Awards and recognition

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

• Academy Awards, USA (2001) – Oscar [Winner]
• Golden Globes, USA (2001)
• Golden Globe [Nominee]
• BAFTA Awards (2001)
• BAFTA Film Award [Winner]

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

The Polar Express

This movie is released in the year 2004 directed by Robert Zemeckis. It is an American animated movie based on the book named The Polar Express is written by Chris Van Allsburg.

The movie is basically about a young boy who wants to meet Santa clause eagerly so he decided to take a train to the North pole to complete his dream. During his extraordinary interesting journey, he encounters special people which makes his journey memorable.

Why you should watch this movie?

This is the most interesting and best movie that you should watch during Christmas. It has a great storyline, great voices, amazing music, and has a very powerful moral! It is one of the movies that you should watch with your family.

Duration – 1h 40min

IMDB Rating – 6.6/10

Genres –  Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Director – Robert Zemeckis

Stars – Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter

Awards and recognition:

The Polar Express (2004)

• Academy Awards, USA (2005) – Oscar [Nominee]
• Best Achievement in Music Written for Motion Pictures, Original Song
• Glen BallardAlan Silvestri – Oscar [Nominee]
• Best Achievement in Sound Mixing – William B. KaplanRandy ThomTom JohnsonDennis S. Sands – Oscar [Nominee]
• Golden Globes, USA (2005) – Golden Globe [Nominee]
• Best Original Song – Motion Picture

The Polar Express

Arthur Christmas

This movie is an animated comedy movie released in the year 2011. The movie is all about Santa’s nervous but enthusiastic son named Arthur who sets out to a mission with st. Nick’s father to give the present that they accidentally misplaced to a small girl.

They have to do this work within 2 hours. The movie shows how Arthur manages to solve the problem within the allotted time. Inbetween many obstacles come which he manages to tackle in interesting methods. This movie is directed by Sarah Smith and Barry Cook.

Why you should watch this movie?

The storyline is very interesting and funny. The highlights of this film is its clever script and amazing vocal performance. The movie is basically based on the use of new technologies and how modern Santa uses these technologies to deliver presents. This is one of the all-time Christmas favorite movies. Those who are planning to enjoy their vacations then they must include this movie in their watchlist.

Duration – 1h 37min

IMDB Rating – 7.1/10

Genres –  Animation, Adventure, Comedy

Director – Sarah Smith

Stars – James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy, Imelda. Staunton, Hugh Laurie

Awards

Arthur Christmas

• Golden Globes, USA (2012) – Golden Globe [Nominee]
• BAFTA Film Award [Nominee]
• Alliance of Women Film Journalists (2012)- EDA Award [Nominee]
• Best Animated Feature Film – Sarah Smith
• Annie Awards – Annie [Winner]

Arthur Christmas

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