I love the holidays! And I love movies! So, needless to say, I love holiday movies! Every year around this time, I fill my Netflix queue with holiday movies to watch (and re-watch) to get me in the holiday spirit. Here is a list of my 5 favorite holiday movies of all time:
5. White Christmas (1954)
But of course - many people's holiday favorite! I have loved this movie since I was little, given that they play it a LOT during the holidays. I have always had a crush on Bing Crosby and he's incredibly dreamy in this movie. The songs are all amazing and the romance is delicious.
4. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Another holiday favorite for the masses. But it is a favorite for a reason - it's an amazing movie! A movie that restores your faith in humanity and in being nice to your fellow man. A movie with an amazing cast (Jimmy Stewart! Lionel Barrymore! Donna Reed!). I also have a crush on Jimmy Stewart and he and Donna Reed make a pretty adorable couple. I don't think I could personally be happy tied down to a family (kids are a definite NO for my future) and a job I wasn't passionate about, but I do love that the main message of this movie is to be happy no matter what life brings you - especially when you're as loving and loved as George Bailey. It makes me tear up every time.
3. Scrooged (1988)
Another of my favorites from my childhood. I loves me some Bill Murray and he is spectacular in this movie. It's funny and touching and totally 80s. I always shed a tear or two at the end of this movie too. Oh, and that Annie Lennox/Al Green cover of "Put a Little Love in Your Heart" is a heartwarmer for sure!
2. Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
I never even saw this movie until last year - a travesty! I love Barbara Stanwyck (as evidenced by several of my posts) and so I was bound to love this movie, but I love it even more than most Barbara Stanwyck movies. The whole movie is just so amazingly wonderful - it really takes me back to that time (well, as far as I can make out that time to be like, having not been alive then) and has such a wonderfully indescribable feeling to it. I found myself pulling really hard for Elizabeth and Jefferson to get together (yes, I know, it's an old movie - of course they're going to get together) and was so happy when they did. It's one of the very few Christmas movies I own.
1. Joyeux Noël (2005)
I first watched this movie only last year, but after one watching, it quickly became my #1 favorite holiday movie of all time. Set in WWI, it's a fictionalized account of the Christmas Truces that occurred all over the Western Front that first Christmastime during the war. It's heartbreaking to see people having to kill other people that they don't personally have anything against. And then it's heartwarming to see them break the rules of war and come together in the Christmas spirit and be friends. It makes me cry every time I watch it - in a really, really good way. It restores my faith in humanity.
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