1. Prancer
   Surviving Christmas
2. Batman Returns
   It’s A Wonderful Life

It’s A Wonderful Life is a classic Christmas film. Its hopeful tone sends warmth during the cold yuletide season.

1. Eyes Wide Shut
   8 Women
2. The Holly and The Ivy
   A Christmas Carol

A Christmas Carol is the quintessential Christmas story, from book to film. It has been filmed several times, from 1938 to 1951 to 2009.

1. Miracle on 34th Street
   Holiday Affair
2. The Perfect Holiday
   The Family Man

Miracle on 34th Street was made in 1944. But a remake was made in 1994.

1. Frosty the Snowman
   Home Alone
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
   Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

Home Alone made Macaulay Culkin a household name. Even if he’s all grown up now, this is still how the world remembers him, especially during Christmas season.

1. The Polar Express
   Joyeux Noël
2. Remember the Night
   A Christmas Carol

The Polar Express is a 2004 3D animated film. Tom hanks voiced many of the characters.

1. A Christmas Tale
   The Apartment
2. Love Actually
   Meet John Doe

Love Actually has a great ensemble for a cast, and the storylines intertwining keeps audiences hooked. This became an instant Christmas classic for modern-day people.

1. Scrooge
   Four Christmases
2. The Nightmare Before Christmas
   While You Were Sleeping

The Nightmare Before Christmas tells the tale of Halloween characters who took over Christmas. They kidnapped Santa!

1. The Man Who Came To Dinner
   How The Grinch Stole Christmas
2. Metropolitan
   The Dead

How The Grinch Stole Christmas is the 2000 film version of the beloved Dr. Seuss book. But they stretched it a bit to fit a film-length story, since it’s originally from a children's book-length story only.

1. The Santa Clause
   Fred Claus
2. About A Boy
   All I Want For Christmas

The Santa Clause is a funny 1994 Christmas-themed film. It had two more sequels, but they’re not as funny as the original.

1. The Muppet Christmas Carol
   The Lemon Drop Kid
2. Christmas With The Cranks
   Gremlins

The Muppet Christmas Carol is a musical and comedic retelling of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. It’s always funny to see the Muppets gang role-play this way.

1. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
   Christmas in Connecticut
2. Bad Santa
   We’re No Angels

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation came out in 1989. While Chevy Chase supplied the fatherly laughs, his kid there might be more popular with kids today, because it’s Johnny Galecki — or Leonard in The Big Bang Theory.

1. Santa With Muscles
   Santa’s Slay
2. Elf
   I’ll Be Home For Christmas

Elf was directed by Jon Favreau. Would you believe there’s a musical version of this film?

1. Just Friends
   Babes in Toyland
2. Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
   One Magic Christmas

Babes in Toyland is an early live action Christmas-themed Disney production. It starred Annette Funicello in 1961.

1. Susan Slept Here
   The Ref
2. It Happened on 5th Avenue
   3 Godfathers

It Happened on 5th Avenue is a 1947 Christmas-themed film that became another classic fare to watch during the season. It was nominated at the Academy Awards for its story.

1. Comfort and Joy
   The Little Drummer Boy
2. Rare Exports
   The Shop Around The Corner

The Shop Around The Corner is actually based on a play. The storyline is also an inspiration for the newer film You’ve Got Mail.

1. Trapped in Paradise
   Unaccompanied Minors
2. The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t
   White Christmas

White Christmas is set during Christmas time alright, but the World War II storyline there is also interesting. Crosby had to show off his singing skills, of course.

1. Jingle All The Way
   Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
2. Angels Sing
   Bush Christmas

Jingle All The Way starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and Sinbad as suburban fathers who join in on the Christmas rush. It’s actually a good film that speaks of how commercialized Christmas became.

1. Lethal Weapon
   Beyond Tomorrow
2. Reindeer Games
   The Bishop’s Wife

The Bishop’s Wife is actually another rom-com set during the yuletide season. Whitney Houston starred in a remake of this 1947 film entitled The Preacher’s Wife, with that one released back in 1996.

1. Friday After Next
   Dangerous Minds
2. ’Til My Heartaches End
   Gotta G

Friday After Next stars Ice Cube and Mike Epps. This Christmas edition is actually the third sequel of his original successful film called Friday.

1. A Holiday Nightmare
   A Redneck Christmas
2. Gunslinger Christmas
   A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story is a comedy film made in 1983. Not sure if its gun-buying and gun-shooting themes would fly today, but hey, it’s Christmas, so let’s just be merry?

1. While You Were Sleeping
   Scrooged
2. Four Christmases
   Scooby Doo Christmas

Scrooged was a vehicle for Bill Murray at the time when he just came off of the success of the original Ghostbusters film. He is backed up by a formidable cast here, like Alfre Woodard, Carol Kane, Karen Allen and Robert Mitchum.

1. Santa Claus: The Movie
   Fred Claus
2. About A Boy
   All I Want For Christmas

Santa Claus: The Movie is a 1985 film produced by the same team behind the Superman film series starring Christopher Reeve. This time, it’s another man in a red suit flying all over earth.

1. The Lemon Drop Kid
   Christmas With The Cranks
2. Ernest Saves Christmas
   Gremlins

Ernest Saves Christmas is a 1998 Christmas film that follows the vein of Jim Varney’s other Ernest movies. There’s Ernest Goes To Camp, Ernest Goes to Jail, and other Ernest comedy films.

1. Coming To America
   Mulan
2. Beverly Hills Cops
   Trading Places

Trading Places is a Christmas comedy made in 1983. The switcheroo storyline centers on a bet between two old businessmen who orchestrate the social status switching of the characters portrayed by Dan Aykroyd and Eddie Murphy.

1. The Black Swan
   The Nutcracker
2. Madam Butterfly
   Muzetta’s Waltz

The 1993 Christmas-set film The Nutcracker is based on the older ballet suite and storyline that features a wooden nutcracker in the storyline. This version is also a musical and has Macaulay Culkin in it.

1. Frozen
   Santa With Muscles
2. Jack Frost
   Santa’s Slay

Jack Frost is a 1998 comedy that features the Jack Frost snowman character associated with Christmas. There have been many other Jack Frost films, but this reincarnation thing is quite funny.

1. Die Hard
   Angels Sing
2. I’ll Be Home For Christmas
   Santa Claus Conquers the Martians

Yes, the original Die Hard film was actually set on Christmas Eve. Some folks tend to forget that important detail.

1. Mixed Nuts
   Trapped in Paradise
2. A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
   Unaccompanied Minors

A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas is the third sequel in the Harold and Kumar film series. This one guest stars Neil Patrick Harris, and is as hilarious as the previous ones.

1. Meet Me in St. Louis
   Bush Christmas
2. Lethal Weapon
   Beyond Tomorrow

Meet Me in St. Louis is a musical that features Judy Garland debuting many songs that are now classics. One of them is this particular Christmas song called “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.”

1. Reindeer Games
   Come What May
2. The Best Man Holiday
   Holiday Inn

Holiday Inn is a classic 1942 Christmas-themed film. Irvin Berling’s “White Christmas” first got featured here, before becoming a stand-alone film later on.

1. The Holiday
   Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang
2. One Magic Christmas
   Susan Slept Here

The Holiday also stars Jack Black partnered with Kate Winslet and Jude Law partnered with Cameron Diaz. It’s really a rom-com, people!

1. Love Boat
   The Christmas That Almost Wasn’t
2. Just Friends
   The Family Stone

The Family Stone is yet another ensemble cast film set during Christmas. Family holiday films are always blunder-filled, and makes for good Hollywood fare.

1. The Best Man Holiday
   While You Were Sleeping
2. The Apartment
   Demolition Man

While You Were Sleeping amplifies the loneliness that single people feel during Christmas time. It’s funny, heartwarming, but also all too real for some singles during yuletide seasons — no wonder this was a hit back in 1995!

1. The Nativity Story
   Black Christmas
2. Bell, Book, and Candle
   Arthur Christmas

The Nativity Story might be too dramatic for a Christmas movie, but this tells the story of how Jesus came to be, and what his parents underwent before that. After all, Christmas is about Him, right?

1. The Perfect Holiday
   Home Alone 2: Lost in New York
2. Holiday Affair
   The Family Man

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York now finds little Kevin lost in New York, after boarding the wrong plane, when his family decided to go on vacation during the yuletide season. But he has his parents’ credit card, so ho-ho-hoooo!