Best Christmas movies of all time – from Elf to Miracle on 34th Street – The Sun

CHRISTMAS: a time for food, family, presents – and festive films.

The yuletide season is the perfect excuse to cuddle up and watch corny movies.

The best Christmas movies of all time

Home Alone (1990)

An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.

Starring: Macaulay Culkin
You can watch this on Disney+ or buy this movie now online through Google Play.

Elf (2003)

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the Elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

Starring: Will Ferrell

You can rent or by this film on Amazon Prime Video or buy it on Goggle Play.

It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.

Starring: James Stewart

You can buy this movie now online through Google Play.

Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.

Starring: Michael Caine, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy

You can watch this on Disney+ or buy this movie now online through Google Play

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.

Starring: Chevy Chase

You can watch this film now on  Amazon Prime Video.

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.

Starring: Danny Elfman

You can buy this movie on Amazon Prime or Goggle Pay.

Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalised as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

Starring: Edmund Gwenn

You can rent or buy this movie on Amazon Prime Video or Google Play.

The Santa Clause (1994)

When a man inadvertently kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.

Starring: Tim Allen

You can watch this movie on Disney+ or buy this movie now online through Google Play.

Love Actually (2003)

Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.

Starring: Hugh Grant
You can rent or buy this movie on Amazon Prime Video or Google Play.

The Holiday (2006)

Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.

Starring: Kate Winslet

You can watch this movie on Netflix.

 

 

 

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