I was planning on showing some Christmas movies to my students right before the winter break. So I was curious what other people's favorite christmas movies were? I wanted to show Charlie Brown or Frosty the Snowman since I always loved it growing up, but it looks like things have changed in the past 16~17 years...lol. The kids don't seem to really enjoy the classics. They're all asking for Spongebob.

It depends how old your students are. What grade do you teach? Classics are good. I'd go for:

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Story (funny)
The Muppet Christmas Carol

Home Alone, Home Alone 2.

Obvious choices for me!

Elf is a good movie, it's funny and sweet

The Family Stone. I saw it like.. two years ago but it's still pretty good.

It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Story!

Two classics...

A Christmas Story! Muppet Christmas Carol is also a good choice.

I loveeeeee Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer!
and I like Home Alone 1 & 2
& Grandma Got Ran Over By a Reindeer
& Elf

(No particular order)

A Charlie Brown Christmas
A Christmas Story
The Muppet Christmas Carol
It's A Wonderful Life
Mickey's Christmas Carol
Scrooged (with Bill Murray)
The Nightmare Before Christmas (Tim Burton)
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (stop motion animation 1964)
Home Alone
Miracle on 34th Street

home alone
miracle on 34th street
its a wonderful life

i didn't see many christmas movies... and i didn't like elf... T_T

How the Grinch stole Christmas. <3

Muppet Christmas Carol
How the Grinch Stole Christmas (or whatever it's called...)
Scrooge

Or anything with a moral to the story.

I'd suggest Nightmare Before Christmas but I think it'd be a bit scary for the young ones....

just watch "The family man" starred by nicholas cage and tea leoni. In my own opinion, very good movie...not really 100% focus on christmas, but has some relations to it.

Home Alone 1&2
and

The Santa Clause 1&2 (w/ Tim Allen)
didn't really like the third one but I guess it was okay =P

home alone
home alone 2
a christmas story
elf
jingle all the way

All the Home Alone movies
The Polar Express
the very first Santa Clause with Tim Allen in it
and very recently This Christmas.

a charlie brown christmas is the best =]
i enjoyed it.

Love Actually

Christmas time in England, and unusual things going on round. Some people are falling in love, then breaking up or some people just desperately lonely and still looking for that someone special. This is a story about 8 people who follow their hearts and show love or anger. If you look carefully around 'Love Actually' is all around you...


The Holiday

Movie trailer editor, Amanda of Los Angeles, CA and journalist Iris of Surrey, England live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda having just broken up with her cheating boyfriend, Ethan and Iris having pined for her ex, Jasper, becoming engaged to the woman he left her for decide to take a vacation during Christmas. They come upon a website called home exchange and swap houses for two weeks both with a goal to forget their troubled love lives. But love ends up finding them anyways. Amanda starts a romance with Iris' older brother, Graham, a book editor and Iris starts a romance with a movie composer named Miles. With new found romance, both their lives change forever.


Serendipity

Jonathan Trager and Sara Thomas met while shopping for gloves in New York. Though buying for their respective lovers, the magic was right and a night of Christmas shopping turned into romance. Jon wanted to explore things further but Sara wasn't sure their love was meant to be. They decided to test fate by splitting up and seeing if destiny brought them back together... Many years later, having lost each other that night, both are engaged to be married. Still, neither can shake the need to give fate one last chance to reunite them. Jon enlists the help of his best man to track down the girl he can't forget starting at the store where they met. Sara asks her new age musician fiance for a break before the wedding and, with her best friend in tow, flies from California to New York hoping destiny will bring her soulmate back. Near-misses and classic Shakespearean confusion bring the two close to meeting a number of times but fate will have the final word on whether it was meant to be.


A Boyfriend For Christmas

Holly stopped believing in Santa Claus after her wish to meet the man of her dreams never came true. So Santa sets her up with Ryan, who isn't entirely truthful about himself. Now Holly faces a dilemma: marry her current boyfriend, Ted, or fall in love with someone who has lied to her.


Holiday Affair

This Christmas story centers on a widowed mother who is about to marry an old friend. The mother, eager to give her boy a very merry Christmas, allows a charming sales clerk to buy her son a toy train set, much to her fiance's chagrin. The triangle is in place. Steve, the clerk, understands that to win her heart, his must first win over her son. Remade for television in 1996.



Three Days

Andrew and his high school sweetheart Beth were married for about ten years but their relationship is not as great as it once was, now that Andrew is a high-powered literary agent. Beth is tragically killed on Christmas Eve while rescuing the neighbors' dog. Lionel, an angel, gives Andrew a chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But there's a catch, he cannot change the fate of his wife. There's only one gift he can give to save her life and he only has a very short time to figure out what that gift is.

^ we have similar tastes in movies
love actually and the holiday <3

A Christmas Story

Heh, I watch it every year.. it's a classic

I generally don't enjoy Christmas movies because they feel so recycled but I love Love Actually.

LOVE ACTUALLY! I still need to watch the holiday :|, just friends? does that count as a christmas movie? haha

The Polar Express, most definitely!

A Christmas Story, Santa Claus is Coming to Town, and Home Alone are my top three favorites.

does While You Were Sleeping count?

Love Actually
Home Alone
Home Alone 2

The Nutcracker!! I love it to death. Possibly one of my all time favourites.

My favourites so far would be The Holiday and Serendipity
=) hehe* I haven't watched many cartoons that have stuck with me >_<

I think I'm gonna watch Love Actually soon though ^^

--xoxo.
TM

Christmas Story, Home Alone 2, Jingle all the way, and Elf. I like Jingle all the way the best because the governator is in it.

Elf and Serendipity

The Year Without a Santa Claus.

God, I've been looking for that title since forever. But I love that movie to death :]]

The Holiday was really cute.

Home Alone 1 and 2 are the greatest.

Bad Santa ;D
^ Hilarious but definitely not for the kids.


A family friendly one is Elf! I love Elf XD

One of the home alones!
Or polar express hehe it's so kiddy.

Nightmare Before Christmas
A Muppet Christmas Carol
Home Alone 1 && 2
Elf
Polar Express


I want to see Love Actually!! Ahh ;_; Too bad I have no boyfriend to watch it with.

for some reason.. beauty and the beast does it for me.. i love it..

home alone, a classic! my family totally loves it b.c it was filmed in chicago and at o'hare, so every time we watch it we're like "i've been there! and there! and there!" hahaha

elf is also really good, and it's PG so pretty much anyone can watch it; it's cheesy and the script is kind of annoying, but i think will ferrell pulls it off so that it's not as grating on your nerves. haha and you gotta love it when he tells santa "you sit on a throne of LIES!!"

and um, i don't like these movies but my younger cousins love them, the santa clause (tim allen), jingle all the way (arnold schwarzeneggaraweroi3hraksghwhatever), miracle on 34th street (mara wilson). ok that last one is an oldie but goodie, i guess

it depends on what age they are. but here's my list:

How The Grinch Stole Christmas
The Santa Clause 1-3
Christmas With The Kranks
Elf
A Christmas Story

there are more but i can't think of the names at the moment.

Home Alone 1 & 2 -------- Macaulay Culkin!
I'll Be Home For Christmas --- Jonathan Taylor Thomas

The Nightmare Before Christmas

: DDDDDDDDDD

Home Alone 1, A Christmas Story, and Elf are my favorites. Does Die Hard count as a Christmas movie?

Love Actually, ofcourse, 'cause Thomas Sangster starred in this movie. He's too cute.

I don't have any. I think most Christmas movies are crap - didn't particularly like Love Actually either.