The festive season has arrived this year. I am putting together my list of movies that I am going to watch during this period. The best way to celebrate the season and to put yourself into the mood is to watch a great Christmas movie.
Happy, happy Christmas, that can win us back to the delusions of our childhood days, recall to the old man the pleasures of his youth, and transport the traveler back to his own fireside and quiet home!
-Charles Dickens
Here is my list of 25 Christmas movies to watch this season. I am sure that you will have a number of movies or tv series to add to your list.
1. Jingle All the Way
2. The Santa Clause
3. It’s a Wonderful Life
4. The Family Stone
5. Home Alone
6. Die Hard
7. A Christmas Carol
8. The Night Before
9. Four Christmases
10. Gremlins
11. While You Were Sleeping
12. Office Christmas Party
13. Elf
14. Miracle on 34th St.
15. Edward Scissorhands
16. How the Grinch Stole Christmas
17. The Polar Express
18. Jack Frost
19. Just Friends
20. Love Actually
21. The Man Who Invented Christmas
22. Heidi
23. Christmas Chronicles
24. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
25. White Christmas
Christmas is the spirit of giving without a thought of getting. It is happiness because we see joy in people. It is forgetting self and finding time for others. It is discarding the meaningless and stressing the true values.
-Thomas S. Monson
Keep a Christmas movie list that you can update over the years, as new movies come along. Movies are great for our imagination and creativity. I have noticed as you will have too, that Christmas movies have a way of tugging-at-the-heart-strings.
Christmas waves a magic wand over this world, and behold, everything is softer and more beautiful.
-Norman Vincent Peale
Every movie you watch is usually attached to a memory from your childhood, teen years, or from some important moment in your life. Bring all those happy and maybe some not-so-happy memories back to make your Christmas more memorable.
Sit with your friends and family this festive season and enjoy some great and unforgettable movies. Christmas is a time for happiness, joy, family, friends, and for sharing love, peace, and hope in your home and among your family and friends.
I stopped believing in Santa Claus when I was six. Mother took me to see him in a department store and he asked for my autograph.
-Shirley Temple