This is a list of 10 Best/Top Christmas Movies. All Movies included in this list were released at least 30 years ago, and they have passed the test of time. People around the world watch these movies during the Christmas holidays, to spend a Good Family Time.
This list is created by teleclips.info. The direction. story, plot, screenplay, acting, and rating of these movies are kept in consideration in making this list of Top Christmas Movies.
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10. Home Alone (1990)
Production Company: Hughes Entertainment
Producer: John Hughes
Director: Chris Columbus
Genre: Comedy, Family
Duration: 103 minutes
When he is inadvertently left home alone by his family during Christmas break, an eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars. When his family leaves for France, Kevin is mistakenly left behind. He is pleased to be in charge at first, but when robbers attempt to break into his house, he tries to fight back.
9. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Production Company: Jim Henson Productions, Walt Disney Pictures
Producer: Martin G. Baker, Brian Henson
Director: Brian Henson
Genre: Family, Musical
Duration: 86 minutes
Scrooge is visited by spirits that foretell his future and exchange secrets from his history and present, an elderly miser who dislikes Christmas, and that helps to shift his outlook on life. The Muppet characters tell their version of the classical story of the salvation of an old and bitter miser on Christmas Eve.
8. Gremlins (1984)
Production Company: Amblin Entertainment, Warner Bros
Producer: Michael Finnell
Director: Joe Dante
Genre: Comedy, Horror
Duration: 106 minutes
Inadvertently, a boy breaks three crucial rules about his new pet and unleashes on a small town a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters. With three very unique orders, Billy’s father gets him a pet from China. However, it unleashes a swarm of monsters when Billy does not pursue them.
7. A Christmas Story (1983)
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer: Bob Clark, Rene Dupont
Director: Bob Clark
Genre: Comedy, Family
Duration: 94 minutes
A little boy named Ralphie tried to persuade his parents, his teacher, and Santa in the 1940s that a Red Ryder BB gun was really the ideal gift for Christmas. Ralphie spends much of his time dodging a bully (Zack Ward) and dreaming of his perfect Christmas present, a “Red Ryder air rifle.” Ralphie struggles to make it to Christmas Day with his glasses and his dreams intact, always at odds with his cranky dad (Darren McGavin) but comforted by his doting mother (Melinda Dillon).
6. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Production Company: Skellington Productions, Touchstone Pictures
Producer: Denise Di Novi, Tim Burton
Director: Henry Selick
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Duration: 76 minutes
A creature from the Halloween Town finds the gate into the Christmas town, he visits the Christmas town and becomes so obsessed with it that he abducts Santa Claus. It’s a great fantasy film.
5. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
Production Company: Liberty Films
Producer: Frank Capra
Director: Frank Capra
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Duration: 131 minutes
George Bailey (James Stewart), is standing on the bridge and thinking about ending his life to get away from all his problems. And on the other side the angels are discussing George’s life and the audience see his life in flashbacks. Then his Guardian Angel shows him what his town would look like if it wasn’t for him.
4. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Production Company: 20th Fox Century
Producer: William Perlberg
Director: George Seaton
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Duration: 96 minutes
Kris Kringle (Edmund Gwenn), plays Santa Claus at the Thanksgiving Day Parade of Macy, in replacement of another guy. He does the job so well that he starts appearing as Santa regularly for Macy’s main store in Manhattan. Soon he claims to be the real Santa Claus, which leads to a lawsuit to determine if he is mentally ill or he really is the real Santa.
3. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
Production Company: MGM Animation/Visual Arts, Cat in the Hat Productions,
Producer: Ted Geisel, Chuck Jones
Director: Ben Washam, Chuck Jones
Genre: Fantasy/ Short
Duration: 25 minutes
It is a short animation film based on the 1957 book of same name by Dr. Suess. It tells the story of a Grinch who come down from the caves and tries to steal/ the Christmas of people of Whoville; a small town right beside the hill in which the Grinch Lives alone in a cave.
2. The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
Production Company: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Producer: Ernst Lubitsch
Director: Ernst Lubitsch
Genre: Romance
Duration: 99 minutes
Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) and Alfred Kralik (James Stewart), both work at a General Store; Matuschek and Company, in Budapest. The two co-workers don’t get along and are usually in disagreement with each other. Little do they know that they have fallen in love with each other.
1. Holiday Inn (1942)
Production Company: Paramount Pictures
Producer: Mark Sandrich
Director: Mark Sandrich
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Duration: 101 minutes
This is a great movie with great songs and story. Jim Hardy (Bing Crosby), is betrayed by Lila Dixon (Virginia Dale) a day before Christmas. Lila runs off with her dance partner Ted Hanover (Fred Astaire). Jim then moves to another town and opens a Holiday Inn with Linda Mason (Marjorie Reynolds), which only operates on the Holidays. Then Ted once again comes into Jim’s Life, only to steal Linda from him.
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