Favourite Festive Film/Movie

[dk168]

What's your favourite festive film/movie?

Mine is The Muppets Christmas Carol, closely followed by It's A Wonderful Life.

Other notable ones include:

The Elf
Christmas At The Palace (a TV film)
Scrooge
Scrooged
Miracle on 34th Street (1994 version)
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Trading Places
The Grinch (2018 animated version)

How about you?

DK

 

[kenny]

The closest I come to "festive" is Mon Oncle (French for My Uncle) a 1958 French film, now streaming on Amazon with English subtitles.
It's an Academe Award winner for "Best Foreign Film".

Amazon.com

If you search around you might find it free elsewhere, or free with ads.

Mon Oncle is my favorite genre-defying film.
It is so hard to categorize, but I see it primarily as a comedy.
I'd also call it imaginative, charming, poking fun at new technology of 1958, not-mainstream, sarcastic, quirky, and very French.
Charming is the best adjective.

I give Mon Oncle my strongest recommendation.

 

[kenny]

There's even a 2010 documentary about Mon Oncle.
It was made 52 years after the film, which says a lot about how important the film is.

I've never 'bought' a film.
But if I did, Mon Oncle would top my list.

Watch The Magnificent Tati | Prime Video

This internationally acclaimed documentary tells the story of one of films most adored artists - the French cinema icon Jacques Tati. As the creator of classics such as 'Mon Oncle', 'Les Vacance de Mr. Hulot' & 'Playtime', Jacques Tati changed the way the world experiences movies.

www.amazon.com

 

[rainydaze]

Elf (I used to change my VM greeting to "Buddy the Elf, what's your favorite color?" for December)
It's a Wonderful Life
Home Alone

Not holiday films per se (interestingly, It's a Wonderful Life was not meant to be a holiday movie) but I find I like watching these around this time of year as they give me warm, festive -type feels.
Forrest Gump
Titanic

 

[minousbijoux]

And I'll just leave this here to add to the list: https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/your-favorite-christmas-movies.182771/

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

what does festivle mean
like a holiday movie
or a foreign film that is film festivle type material ?

 

[Demon]

Not particularly festive, but its not Christmas until I've seen"

Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
Die Hard 2

 

[dk168]

And I'll just leave this here to add to the list: https://www.pricescope.com/community/threads/your-favorite-christmas-movies.182771/

Hmm, I looked for a similar thread and could not find it, hey ho.

DK

 

[dk168]

what does festivle mean
like a holiday movie
or a foreign film that is film festivle type material ?

This time of the year as in Christmas!

DK

 

[Betty Baguettes]

I'm partial to the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street.

Also, not a holiday movie, but the Wizard of Oz is a favorite of mine this time of year because it was always on t.v. Thanksgiving week (back in the olden days when we had only 3 network channels).

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

This time of the year as in Christmas!

DK

i dont do xmas movies
they are all snow and cold and thats not christmas to us

but id watch die hard if it was on the telly

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

not wanting to be the grinch i did watch this durring the pandemic and quite enjoyed it - my standards were a but low

Kiwi Christmas

www.nzfilm.co.nz

 

[ItsMainelyYou]

Krampus
Rare Exports
Nightmare Before Christmas
Peter & the Wolf 2006 short
The Snowman 1982
Christmas Vacation
Die Hard
A Christmas Story (only every few years, because you'll shoot your eye out)
Elf
Scrooged
Grinch (original animated)
Christmas Carol (the Carey one)
Coraline

 

[Mreader]

ELF and the original cartoon Grinch

 

[Daisys and Diamonds]

i recently discovered that love actually is a Christmas movie
i do love that movie

 

[canuk-gal]

HI:

Most of the movies everyone has already mentioned--plus "Get Santa".

cheers--Sharon

 

[Austina]

There’s only 1 Christmas film for me, I watch it every year, and love it just as much, and that’s White Christmas.

 

[Garnetgirl]

Showing my age here….

Holiday Inn

A Christmas Carol 1951, with Alastair Simm

Heidi, with Shirley Temple - not really a Christmas movie, but when I was a child, it was shown every year during the holiday season, so I came to associate it with Christmas.

 

[missy]

My DH's favorite is "Charlie Brown Christmas"
(though not a movie)

For me it is "The Sound of Music"

 

[jeaniefish]

The Bishop’s Wife , the original movie ( not the remake) made in 1947, starring Cary Grant as Dudley ( an angel), David Niven as the Bishop, and Loretta Young as his wife. The original was black and white, of course, but I think it was “ colorized” years later . I love the clever, intelligent dialogue in old movies like this one. The chemistry between the actors is a delight to watch…. and did I mention that Cary Grant stars in it? Swoon