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If You Aren’t Watching These 20 Classic Holiday Movies, You Aren’t Living Your Best Holiday Life
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Am I already watching holiday movies? Yes, yes I am.
There are a few Classic Christmas Movies — some well known, some not so much — that you need to stick on your must-watch holiday list this year.
I promise. You won’t regret it!!
These films are sure to help you catch that holiday spirit, and hold it tight all season long.
20 Must-See Classic Holiday Movies
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
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A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
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A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
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The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
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Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
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The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.
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When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
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Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
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Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
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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.
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One year after Kevin McCallister was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself stranded in New York City - and the same criminals are not far behind.
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A married couple tries to steal back a valuable heirloom from a troublesome kid.
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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.
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Yes. It's a Christmas movie!
An NYPD officer tries to save his wife and several others taken hostage by German terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.Stream it on Amazobn
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, England.
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A young boy, whose faith in Santa Claus is waivering, awakes on Christmas Eve to the sounds of The Polar Express, a magic steam train, in his front yard. The conductor, urges the boy to take the ride to the North Pole.
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A selfish, cynical television executive is haunted by three spirits bearing lessons on Christmas Eve.
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Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home causes confusion.
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Santa's daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit the Santa role, gets cold feet.
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The story of sister and brother, Kate and Teddy Pierce, whose Christmas Eve plan to catch Santa Claus on camera turns into an unexpected journey that most kids could only dream about.
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