HO HO HO!! It’s Day 2 of my 12 day of giving, and today’s activity is all about creating your go-to list for all things holiday cinema! This is a post you can certainly bookmark and keep for the ages to serve as your guide to holiday movies in 2020 and beyond! I ADORE the holidays myself, and you can find me pretty much every single night of December curled up on the couch watching an old favorite!

My absolute favorite movie (and actually, little known fact, favorite movie of all time) is The Family Stone. We watch it at least 4 times every December. Except I literally hide and leave the room during the dinner scene every single time. I can’t handle it.

Our kids LOVE to watch The Polar Express, The Grinch, Home Alone, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. Every single year. We get snuggled up for family movie night (most Fridays for us) and share in the joy of the season by sharing this tradition around our favorite holiday movies.

My challenge to you, if your family is as in to movies as we are - grab this list and start circling your must-watches! Then look at your calendar and see when you want to plan for either a date night with your partner or a family movie night, complete with homemade hot chocolate and marshmallows!

Family Guided

• Use your discretion here on whether or not you’d like to include your kiddos!

  • The Family Stone

  • The Man Who Invented Christmas

  • Little Women (multiple versions)

  • The Holiday

  • A Christmas Story

  • National Lampoons Christmas Vacation

  • Christmas with the Cranks

  • Santa Claus 1 & 2

  • A Christmas Carol (Jim Carrey version)

  • Last Holiday

Classics

• White Christmas

• It’s a Wonderful Life

• Miracle on 34th Street

• Babes in Toyland

Kid-Focused

• Home Alone (we had to screen this first to decide if our kiddos could watch it!)

• Elf (we had to screen this first to decide if our kiddos could watch it!)

• The Nightmare Before Christmas (we had to screen this first to decide if our kiddos could watch it!)

• A Charlie Brown Christmas

• The Polar Express

• How the Grinch Stole Christmas (classic version)

• The Grinch (Jim Carrey version)

• The Grinch (animated, newer version)

• The Muppet Christmas Carol

• Prancer

• Klaus

• Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

  
  

Love Actually

Four Christmases

Arthur Christmas

Rudolf the Red-Nosed Reindeer (classic version)

Frosty the Snowman (classic version)

Mickey’s Christmas Carol

The Christmas Chronicles 1 & 2

The Star