There's a lot on TV from which to choose. It's easy to miss some.

Here are a few of my more contemporary favourites.

I've not checked when or if they will be on.

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And a vintage one.

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Other suggestions, welcome.

You've got a few I haven't seen, will have to add them to my list. Some of these might not be considered "traditional" Christmas movies, but I never miss watching them during the holidays.
In no particular order:
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and the remake
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Holiday Inn (1942)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
White Christmas (1954)
And of course the various versions of A Christmas Carol, and It's a Wonderful Life, but those are on everyone's lists (I should hope so anyway).

As far as newer...
The Holiday (2006)

Hmm... yeah, I already mentioned I really love old black and white movies so I won't try to explain that list!

Murky said: You've got a few I haven't seen, will have to add them to my list. Some of these might not be considered "traditional" Christmas movies, but I never miss watching them during the holidays.
In no particular order:
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
The Bishop's Wife (1947)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and the remake
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
Holiday Inn (1942)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
White Christmas (1954)
And of course the various versions of A Christmas Carol, and It's a Wonderful Life, but those are on everyone's lists (I should hope so anyway).

As far as newer...
The Holiday (2006)

Hmm... yeah, I already mentioned I really love old black and white movies so I won't try to explain that list!

I've a whole file on one of my two Humax recorder/players devoted to black & white "film noir."

I love "Meet me in St Louis." It's in my "general" file of around 10o films.

I really appreciate the production values in the classic films, you can sometimes notice something new every time you watch them.

I love the colourful costumes in my favourite scene.

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Disney's 'The Santa Clause' (Tim Allen), and the remake of 'Miracle on 34th Street' (Richard Attenborough) always make my Christmas. But, I definitely also make sure to watch 'Elf' (Will Ferrell).

The Santa Clause is a good one!!!

pepper23 said: The Santa Clause is a good one!!!

I agree on the first one, the sequels not so much.

I have only recently in the past two years gotten hooked on watching Christmas movies which is why this thread caught my attention.

I discovered one last year that I loved. Christmas Story which takes place in Finland.

Hopefully y'all can tempt me with some new/different ones that I can watch this season.

Hows about 'Love Actually'?
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Grinch (the original) and Rudolph (ditto) take me back to my, and my kids', childhood

plasko20 said: Hows about 'Love Actually'?
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I've had that as a recording off the TV for ages. Always worth a watch.
As are Four Weddings and Notting Hill. I have those too.

Nancy, I think you listed all of my fav traditional Christmas movies. Especially It Happened on Fifth Avenue. That movie doesn't get enough recognition! Anything with Victor Moore is worth watching.

Christmas movies that I consider to be for adults-only, and silly-type hilarious.
Friday after Next (the 3rd Friday movie)
Bad Santa
4 Christmases
A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
Christmas vacation (Griswolds)

Adults only, some funny moments but not generally hilarious = Die Hard.

The Harold and Kumar one I watched last year for the first time.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1...
It was hilarious.
I love how Neil Patrick Harris makes fun of himself in that.
Awesome.
Another couple to add to hilarious contemporary non-family movies are:
"A Bad Moms Christmas"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6...
"The Night Before"
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3...

I agree about Victor Moore, he was a great character actor, always fun to watch. I'll have to catch some of the newer movies mentioned.

Through the years I've had things recorded on VCR tapes, figured out how to hook my computer up to the VCR and transferred those digitally, then hooked directly to the TV to be able to get cleaner recordings. Then I had a DVD recorder hooked up to the TV for even better recordings as broadcasts were coming in higher resolutions.

Through the years I've gotten quite a few DVDs in the $1-$5 bins at KMart, Walmart, Target, even Best Buy. Any DVDs I buy I then rip to my hard drives and put the DVDs away to keep safe. My husband is an absolutely slob when it comes to handling DVDs, so having them all streaming from my hard drives means they now last forever and I don't have to worry about having to rebuy yet again when he ruins a DVD. And they all still look very good even on 4k TVs with upscaling on TVs and Rokus. So I'm set... well, at least until 8k TVs become the norm!

Orion, I had not heard of The Night Before. Thanks for turning me onto it! Seth cracks me up!

Nancy, you're pretty sharp with that stuff! Wow! I would have no idea how to do any of that except use the VCR! LOL!

Radio Shack was one of my most frequent and favorite stops during those years, it had all those special connectors to be able to do things like that. When I got my 1st computer back in '85, I hooked it up to my big stereo console (remember those monsters?) to make my own ghetto surround sound while playing games. I then did that with my TVs using stereo receivers to hook up to big speakers in the back of the room, and the separate volume controls let you adjust the front and back speakers so it really did sound pretty good for its time, long before anyone thought of home theaters.

Yes, Tiffany. Seth is hilarious.
The movie Neighbors
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and Neighbors 2: Sorority rising. (Not so good, but OK).
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt4...

The first, especially, always makes me sore with laughter.

Murky said: Radio Shack was one of my most frequent and favorite stops during those years, it had all those special connectors to be able to do things like that. When I got my 1st computer back in '85, I hooked it up to my big stereo console (remember those monsters?) to make my own ghetto surround sound while playing games. I then did that with my TVs using stereo receivers to hook up to big speakers in the back of the room, and the separate volume controls let you adjust the front and back speakers so it really did sound pretty good for its time, long before anyone thought of home theaters.

Here in the UK, Radio Shack was Tandy, they ceased trading.

Murky said: Radio Shack was one of my most frequent and favorite stops during those years, it had all those special connectors to be able to do things like that. When I got my 1st computer back in '85, I hooked it up to my big stereo console (remember those monsters?) to make my own ghetto surround sound while playing games. I then did that with my TVs using stereo receivers to hook up to big speakers in the back of the room, and the separate volume controls let you adjust the front and back speakers so it really did sound pretty good for its time, long before anyone thought of home theaters.

Here in the UK, Radio Shack locally was called Tandy, they ceased trading, in 1999, the shops were bought by Carphone Warehouse.



They were handy for lots of stuff.
But after that there was still Maplin.
I used to buy slow blow fuses and Servisol switch cleaner from them for my jukeboxes. But they too, have gone. So I get what I want from eBay.

Orion, I love those Neighbors movies! I think the 2nd may be even better than the 1st, debatable. If it is, that's rare. Sequels are just so often going through the motions halfheartedly to grab a few more $$'s. The main character in that is in a remake of Carrie. She does an amazing job! It's like she's not even the same person. A true actress.

Do people consider Little Women a Christmas movie?

Just remembered Prancer. Such a sweet movie. I was very skeptical about Prancer Returns but ended up enjoying that very much too. I've been a John Corbett fan since Northern Exposure. And he's great in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.

Also just remembered Jack Frost but much of it is so sad, I don't usually want to watch it.

Snow Day is hilarious but we don't know which winter days are depicted. Since it's about snow, the connection could be made.

Nobody has mentioned the Home Alone movies yet.

First one was watchable as a kid.
But after that, even as a kid beyond the first one was too much to take.
As an adult, I just cannot watch the antics of Kevin. Too slapstick for my liking as an adult. But kids adore slapstick comedy.

For some reason I am reminded of 'Planes, Trains, and Automobiles'. Not a Christmas movie, a Thanksgiving movie. I miss John Candy.

What about.....
'Jingle All The Way?' with Arnie.
I think people hated it. I thought it was funny.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0...
Yes, it was pretty dumb and pointless. I admit.