As soon as Thanksgiving dinner is cleaned up, I want to watch Christmas movies. A much as I love family movie night, not everyone is as excited to watch It’s A Wonderful Life as I am. If your family is like mine, everyone wants a little something different. Here’s a list of 45 of my favorite Christmas movies for the whole family.
Tweens & Teens
- Elf
- A Muppet Christmas Carol
- The Polar Express
- The Santa Claus
- Home Alone
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- Mickey’s Twice Upon A Christmas
- Arthur Christmas
- A Christmas Story
- Good Luck Charlie: It’s Christmas!
Movies for Older Teens
- Scrooged
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Silent Night
- Gremlins
- Four Christmases
- Harry Potter Marathon
- Daddy’s Home 2
- Just Friends
- Krampus
Movies for Mom
- While You Were Sleeping
- You’ve Got Mail
- The Holiday
- The Nativity Story
- Sleepless in Seattle
- A Bad Moms Christmas
- Love the Coopers
- Love Actually
- The Man Who Invented Christmas
- Bonus: You are going to want to watch Dash & Lilly on Netflix with your teenage daughter. It was super cute. We both loved it and I loved watching it with her for some special mom/daughter time over the weekend.
Movies for Dad
- Plains, Trains & Automobiles
- Bad Santa
- Surviving Christmas
- Die Hard
- Office Christmas Party
- Christmas With The Kranks
- Why Him?
- The Night Before
- The Ref
Grandparents
- It’s A Wonderful Life
- Miracle on 34th Street
- White Christmas
- Holiday Inn
- Meet Me in St.Louis
Don’t forget to check out all the holiday shows on Netflix and add them to your favorite Christmas movies. Oh, and make sure you bake up some festive cookies for the show. You can’t have Christmas movies without Christmas cookies.
Unless you’re a Grinch.
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