Terry Pratchett's Hogfather is my favorite Xmas movie. It's technically 2 90 minute episodes.
Red One was stupid and fun.
DreamWorks' the Grinch is actually a fun watch.
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Maybe this isn’t that obscure, but Klaus (2019) is an excellent Christmas movie. It’s become a yearly staple since the first time we watched it.
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Rare Exports
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Ernest Saves Christmas
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The Holdovers (2023) is very good
The Long Kiss Goodnight.
Peak form Geena Davis as an amnesiac housewife who slowly remembers that she's actually a government assassin. Samuel Jackson is the comic releif.
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bad santa
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Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang: Shane Black in high form writing Christmas comedy/action/noir. Pre-Iron Man Robert Downey Jr. and Val Kilmer absolutely crushing it. All around great movie.
Santa Claus: The Movie: Santa gets the Superman: The Movie treatment. Possibly made inside of a bag of cocaine. John Lithgow devouring large sections of scenery.
The Lion in Winter: Set during Christmas. Basically a Shakespearean drama/comedy, but written in modern English. Peter O'Toole, Katherine Hepburn, Timothy Dalton, and Anthony Hopkins in his first film role, just an incredibly talented cast working with an amazing script. Bunch of royals all plotting and scheming each others' downfall during a big Christmas get-together. Strong contender for my favorite movie of all time.
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There's a ton of versions of "a Christmas Carol" but Scrooged is absolutely worth a watch despite the age.
The ghosts are all fantastic and you can't go wrong with Bill Murray
Anna and the Apocalypse has become one of my family's traditions. Coming-of-age teen comedy set in the days before Christmas break, but also a zombie horror movie, and also a musical.
Kind of low-budget and some of the cast is shaky, but it's incredibly ambitious and very fun.
three of my favourite go to Christmas movies:
Brazil
Blast of Silence
Batman Returns
(all B's, weird)
Brazil you wouldn't think is a christmas movie but it is and it's easily my favourite Terry Gilliam movies.
Blast of Silence is an old movie but it's a unique one about a lonely hitman whose returned to New York City for christmas and how the city itself as kinda left him behind.
Batman Returns IS a christmas movie and easily my favourite Batman flick. watch it every year.
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The Holdovers is fantastic.
Being set during Christmas, eyes wide shut is technically a Christmas movie.
Not the best for the kids.
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
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Holiday Mismatch came out on Hallmark last year and was pretty good for a Hallmark movie. Reuniting the actresses from Sabrina the Teenage witch was the main draw for me.
Not sure on everyone’s definition of big, but lesser known and not obviously Christmas themed would include:
- Mean Girls (the original obviously)
- Grumpy Old Men
- Trading Places
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Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas
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These are relatively popular but a bit untypical: The Holdovers, The Snowman, The Family Stone, The Shop Around the Corner, Prancer, Eyes Wide Shut (nsfw), The Green Knight, Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point, The End of the Tour.
8bit Christmas was great for a child of the 80s like me. Violent Night is a guilty pleasure.
This may be too big: Arthur Christmas. It was made by Aardman (Wallace and Gromit, Shawn the Sheep) but using CG instead of claymation. I honestly don't like the animation as much as their claymation, but they did a good job with it.
It's the best representation of the "Christmas spirit" in my opinion. The story is great and the character arcs bring a tear to my eye.
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2018's Christmas Chronicles was an instant staple for us.
Jack Frost.
No, not that one...
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Went to a Christmas movie when I was a kid in the late 60's or early 70's. It was some low key film about a father living alone with his son. I don't remember hardly anything else about it but his son died at the end. I was bummed out and though that was a stupid Christmas movie. What did my parents send me to?
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Die hard 2
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Ebbie
Just for its sheer badosity, a 1950s movie made in Mexico, just called Santa Claus. Santa vs. the devil, I shit you not.
Not sure if it counts as a movie, but I've loved Rich Little's Christmas Carol for decades. Rich Little was/is a master impersonator and he plays all the major roles in A Christmas Carol with characters that would have been well known back in the 1970s. W. C. Fields as Scrooge. Richard Nixon as Marley. Johnny Carson as Freddie. You get the idea. It was my favorite version of that story until The Muppets, and still ranks as my second favorite.
Edit: you can find it on YouTube
- Lethal Weapon
- Gremlins
- Go
- Trapped In Paradise
- Less Than Zero
- Better Watch Out
- Dial Code Santa Claus
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Holly Star
Tokyo Godfathers (2003)
A Clüsterfünke Christmas (2021) is a decent satire on Hallmark Christmas movies
- Klaus (2019)
- The night before (2015)
- 8-Bit Christmas (2021)
- Red One (2024)
The Ref (1994) and A Wish For Wings That Work (1991)
"Die Weihnachtsgans Auguste" by Günter Rätz. I guess one can understand most of it without speaking German.
Bernard and the genie
Christmas, Again
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christmas%2C_Again
I have not seen it but it gets good reviews. Love to hear from someone who has.
A Biltmore Christmas.
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Unaccompanied Minors
Tangerine
Click & Collect starring Asim Chaudhry and Stephen Merchant.
Fantastic Fables
I mentioned this in another thread recently:
Cooper’s Christmas (aka Cooper’s Camera)
Jason Jones, Samantha Bee, Dave Foley and the very excellent Mike Beaver.
It’s my favourite Canadian Christmas comedy B-movie, a very specific genre to be sure.
In the UK The Great Escape (1963) has become synonymous with Christmas through a mixture of nostalgia, seasonal hope and just plain repetition in the broadcast schedules:
National Lampoon Christmas Vacation 2 Cousin Eddie’s Island Vacation
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