Feeling sad! All alone in Christmas and far away from loved ones. Do not feel sad. There are lots to do during this time all by yourself. Why not watch some movies and enjoy the day. Even family can come together watch the movies and some quality time together. Let us go down the list.
Home Alone series can never go old. Especially the first one. Who does not want to become a Macaulay Culkin? His long time wish comes true to stay back at home all by himself, eat ice cream, fight the gangsters while his parents are paranoid to get back home to their son who is all alone at home. Every part of the film is entertaining and not a single moment can be missed. A Christmas Carol is an age old story which will never get old. Ebenezer Scrooge is a miser and full of negativities. Three spirits come to him to help him rectify his mistakes and get in to right path. This same movie has been made many times. The best are the ones made on 1951 and 2009.
Cartoons are at times quite welcoming. Mickey’s Christmas carol is quite an enjoyable one. This film was nominated in Oscars for the best animated film in 1983. This is quite entertaining and the whole family can have a ball of a time.
Arnold Schwarzenegger’s Jingle all the way is a story about crazy shopping spree before the festival starts. While all the fun goes on a clear message comes out about the madness behind modern day consumerism.
A superhero film is a welcoming start for Christmas. Why not watch Batman Returns? It is a 1992 film by Tim Burton based on DC comics. It received a lot of positive response for the special effects and action sequences.
The Apartment of 1960s is a romantic comedy drama. It was a masterpiece by Jack Lemmon and Shirley Mclain. This awarded the best film on 33rd Academy Awards. This film is about a lonely insurance officer in a high rise building who tries his best to appease his bosses by allowing them to use his apartment for their various extra-marital liaisons. In this way somehow he comes across his love of his life.
Elf is a very feel good movie. This is a movie of a boy reuniting with his long lost father who comes from North Pole. He joins the family for a spaghetti dinner and finishes a bottle of maple syrup. Best idea is why not cook some tasty spaghetti with meat in sauce and have a gala time with your family watching this film and savoring the tasty food.
101 Dalmatians is a treat for animal lovers and especially for dog lovers. It is an action comedy adventure film. This was a commercially successful film of 1996. The film revolves around the dogs and their escape from Anita Campbell Green who is obsessed about furs. Trust me children will have a lovely time watching this.
There is endless number of movies these were some of them that I suggested. I will not lie, they are all my personal favorites and even my family loves them. So what are you waiting for plan out your dinner parties and follow it up with some good movies. Merry Christmas!
It is said that the tradition of making Christmas movies is as old as making movies itself. And truly so. Christmas has long been a favorite subject of moviemakers. In fact, so many movies have been made on the theme of Christmas that we have lost count. So we suggest you some of the best Christmas movies that have been extremely well-received by cinegoers and celebrate the spirit of Christmas in a beautiful way.
Director: George Seaton
Starring: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Edmund Gwenn,
Natalie Wood, Harry Antrim, Jerome Cowan, William Forrest,
Herbert Heyes, Gene Lockhart.
Plot: When Kris Kringle(Edmund Gwenn), a bearded old
gent, is locked up in Bellevue as a lunatic
a young lawyer John Payne decides to defend him by arguing
in court that he is the real Santa Claus.
Based on the novel by Valentine Davies, this timeless
classic captures the spirit of Christmas in a beautiful way.
72-year-old Edmund Gwenn won an Oscar for his portrayal of
Kringle.
Director: Glenn Jordan
Starring: Patty Duke, Piper Laurie, Jeffrey DeMunn
Plot: The film tells the story of a seven-year-old boy, Buddy whose parents drop him off with distant relatives in an unfamiliar town one Christmas holiday. There he develops a close friendship with one of the older, simpler ladies, Sook.
Director: John G. Avildsen
Starring: Sylvester Stallone, Talia Shire, Burt Young
Plot: Rocky Balboa, a small-time boxer, gets a supremely rare chance to fight heavy-weight champion Apollo Creed in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
Director: John Frankenheimer
Starring: Ben Affleck, Gary Sinise, Charlize Theron
Plot: After assuming his dead cellmate's identity to get with his girlfriend, an ex-con finds himself the reluctant participant in a casino heist.
Director: Christian Carion
Starring: Diane Kruger, Benno Fürmann, Guillaume Canet
Plot: In December 1914, an unofficial Christmas truce on the Western Front allows soldiers from opposing sides of the First World War to gain insight into each other's way of life.
Director: Greg Kiefer
Starring: Chris Clark, Daryn Tufts, Lisa Clark
Plot: Millions of people believe in him. Thousands claim to have seen him. But only one man is foolish enough to try to prove his existence. Self-proclaimed "Santologist" Dr. Lloyd Darrow will stop at nothing to take on government conspiracy, corporate suppression and fake mall Santas, all in pursuit of the world's oldest yuletide enigma...
Director: Jeff Myers
Starring: John Merian, Gary Casey, Peter Fontana
Plot: The story of one man entering the culture and character of Santa Claus for a single season. We follow Jack as he bleaches his hair and goes to Santa School. He tries to do everything that Santa is asked to do.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
Starring: Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston
Plot: A peasant woodcutter becomes Santa Claus and later foils an evil toy manufacturer's scheme to take over Christmas.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Starring: Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Elizabeth Mitchell
Plot: Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus.
Director: Michael Lembeck
Starring: Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell
Plot: Santa, aka Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy, and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.
Director: Nicholas Webster
Starring: John Call, Leonard Hicks, Vincent Beck
Plot: The Martians kidnap Santa Claus because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents.
Director: Ron Underwood
Starring: John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Ethan Suplee
Plot: Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
Director: Phil Morrison
Starring: Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins
Plot: While out on parole, Dennis reluctantly takes a job selling Christmas trees with his old buddy Rene in order to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano she's always wanted.
Director: Robert Lieberman
Starring: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Embry
Plot: A brother and sister attempt to bring their divorced parents back together for Christmas.
Director: Ron Howard
Starring: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Kelley
Plot: On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.
Director: John Stephenson
Starring: Hans Matheson, Samantha Barks, Lesley Manville
Plot: A pastor who's suffered a personal loss accepts a position in a town that believes in a Christmas miracle candle, which he strives to abolish.
Director: Abel Ferrara
Starring: Drea de Matteo, Lillo Brancato, Lisa Valens
Plot: A New York drug dealer is kidnapped, and his wife must try to come up with the money and drugs to free him from his abductors before Christmas.
Director: Novin Shakiba
Starring: Barbara Jean Barrielle, Charlotte Barrielle, Anthony Campanello
Plot: One Christmas a little boy loses it, and kills his father and the family's housekeeper.
Director: Benjamin Gourley (as Ben Gourley)
Starring: Luke Perry, Ariana Bagley, Taylor Negron
Plot: Luke Perry stars in this heartwarming "tail." Kassie, her friends and her dog, Scoot, organize a holiday fundraiser, but must protect the cash from some crooks in order to save Christmas.
Director: Sue Corcoran
Starring: Elliott Gould, David DeLuise, Elijah Nelson
Plot: A Christmas obsessed Jewish boy on his way to sunny Florida figures out how to get the Christmas of his dreams by trading airline tickets and places with another boy on his way to snowy Christmastown, WA.
Director: Joe Roth
Starring: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd
Plot: Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
Director: Phillip Borsos
Starring: Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton
Plot: An angel must show a mother the true meaning of Christmas. It's not just presents and materialistic things, but the people she cares about.
Director: Jon Favreau
Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart
Plot: Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.
Director: Paul A. Kaufman
Starring: Alicia Witt, Gabriel Hogan, Peter Benson
Plot: Isobel Gray (Witt) plans a storybook Christmas with her boyfriend, including a snow-covered cottage in the Northwest, and a carefully composed bucket list of classic holiday traditions. But when the boyfriend goes AWOL, the list proves challenging and a tempting new romance turns her life upside down. Will Isobel have a White Christmas ending under the mistletoe?
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis
Plot: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
Director: John Pasquin
Starring: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson
Plot: Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?
Director: Brian Levant
Starring: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman
Plot: Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, he tries hard to come up with a way to make it up to him, this is when his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure of his son's television hero, Turbo Man. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man figures, now Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else including a mail man named Myron to find a Turbo Man action figure, and to make it to the Wintertainment parade which will feature Turbo Man.
Director: Bob Clark
Starring: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin
Plot: In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Director: Michael Curtiz
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
Plot: Having left the Army following W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act. Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act. When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, as the lodge owner. A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.
Director: Terry Zwigoff
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, Lauren Graham
Plot: A miserable conman and his partner pose as Santa and his Little Helper to rob department stores on Christmas Eve. But they run into problems when the conman befriends a troubled kid, and the security boss discovers the plot.
Director: Ron Underwood
Starring:Melissa Joan Hart, Mario Lopez, Timothy Bottoms
Plot: A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas.
Director: David Dobkin
Starring:Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, Elizabeth Banks
Plot:Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole.
Director:Nancy Meyers
Starring:Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law
Plot:Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
Director: Ron Underwood
Starring: Jenny McCarthy, Mig Macario, Dean McDermott
Plot: Santa's in the midst of a "late-life" crisis--he's tired of the responsibilities of the job and he's ready to let his business-minded daughter, Mary, take over. Mary feels torn between the ...
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard.
Plot: A young boy named Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Once he realizes he has been left "home alone," Kevin learns to fend for himself. But his true test comes when he eventually has to protect his house against two bumbling burglars (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) who are planning to rob every house in Kevin's suburban Chicago neighborhood. One of the most highly successful and beloved family comedies of all time.
Director: Chris Columbus
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard.
Plot: A sequel to Home Alone (1990), this film is another laugh riot. Once again Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) family leaves him behind. But this time Kevin gets on a flight to New York instead of going with his family to Miami. He rents out a suite at the Plaza Hotel, where, using his father's credit card, he has the time of his life. Though the hotel clerk (Tim Curry) and bellboy (Rob Schneider) eye him with suspicion, Kevin manages to keep them at bay. But when he runs into his old enemies Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern), Kevin has to fight one more battle as he finds out that they plan on robbing the old man's toy store on Christmas Eve. With electric prods, flames of fire, and sundry blunt instruments, Kevin is just eager to fight.
Director: Henry Koster
Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, Gladys Cooper, James Gleason.
Plot: When Episcopalian bishop Henry Brougham (David Niven) prays for divine guidance in his efforts to raise the necessary funds for a new cathedral, his prayers are answered. A handsome angel (Cary Grant) arrives, and the lives of both the bishop and his wife Julia are pleasantly altered by the presence of the amiable angel. Adapted from a novel by Robert Nathan, "The Bishop's Wife" remains one of the most beloved of all Christmas films.
Director: Mark Sandrich
Starring: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Virginia Dale, Marjorie Reynolds, Walter Abel.
Plot: Jim Hardy(Bing Crosby) and Ted Hanover(Fred Astaire) have been vaudeville partners for many years. When Ted breaks away from Jim with the latter's girlfriend, dancer Lila Dixon, Jim decides to retire from the hustle-bustle of big city showbiz. He buys himself a farmhouse in New England and converts it to an inn, which he opens to the public only on major holidays. Things go on well for him until his old partner Ted shows up and sets his sights on Jim's new friend, Linda Mason. A delightful Christmas film, "Holiday Inn" is a must-see for every lover of Christmas movies. It introduced the famous song White Christmas.
Director: Richard Williams
Starring: Alastair Sim, Michael Hordern, Melvyn Hayes, Joan Sims, Paul Whitsun-Jones
Plot: Based on a story by Charles Dickens, this animated film stays quite faithful to its source and tells about a bitter old miser named Scrooge whose lust for money alienates him from humanity. But he learns compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve and force him to reassess the direction of his life. A holiday classic, the film has been remade several times and is a great hit with the audience. A thrilling holiday movie with a nice message.
Directors: Sarah Smith, Barry Cook
Starring: James McAvoy, Jim Broadbent, Bill Nighy
Plot: Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Starring: Shirley Booth, Mickey Rooney, Dick Shawn
Plot: When a weary and discouraged Santa Claus considers skipping his Christmas Eve run one year, Mrs. Claus and his Elves set out to change his mind.
Directors: Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.
Starring: Fred Astaire, Mickey Rooney, Keenan Wynn
Plot: A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.
Directors: Leon Joosen, Aaron Seelman
Starring: Newell Alexander, Noel Clarke, Joan Collins
Plot: A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice.
Director: Brian Henson
Starring: Michael Caine, Dave Goelz, Steve Whitmire.
Plot: The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.
Director: Peter Harris, Eric Till (uncredited)
Starring: Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Richard Hunt
Plot: Kermit and his friends spend Christmas staging a surprise visit to Fozzie Bear's mother's farm.
Director: Kirk R. Thatcher
Starring: Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta
Plot: On Christmas Eve, an angel petitions God to send help for Kermit the Frog who has lost all hope after losing the Muppet Theatre.
Director: Kirk R. Thatcher
Starring: Steve Whitmire, Dave Goelz, Bill Barretta
Plot: When Gonzo accidentally diverts three letters to Santa, he talks Kermit and his friends into delivering them to the North Pole personally.
Director: Tony Charmoli
Starring: John Denver, Frank Oz, Jerry Nelson
Plot: In this beloved holiday classic, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the Muppets join the singer for a heart-warming Christmas celebration, with traditional carols as well as lesser-known holiday songs.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Tom Hanks, Chris Coppola, Michael Jeter
Plot: This is the story of a young hero boy on Christmas Eve who boards on a powerful magical train that's headed to the North Pole and Santa Claus's home. What unfolds is an adventure which follows a doubting boy, who takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole; during this ride, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery which shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Director: Henry Selick
Starring: Danny Elfman, Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara
Plot: Jack Skellington, the pumpkin king of Halloween Town, is bored with doing the same thing every year for Halloween. One day he stumbles into Christmas Town, and is so taken with the idea of Christmas that he tries to get the resident bats, ghouls, and goblins of Halloween town to help him put on Christmas instead of Halloween -- but alas, they can't get it quite right.
Director: Robert Zemeckis
Starring: Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth
Plot: An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.