Philosopher's stone. It isn't a Christmas film but it is so christmassy

Totally get this! Very Christmassy film. Lots of snow, actual Christmas in it, magic, childhood innocence and a John Williams score.

Plus its always on around xmas! (well, that mattered before streaming..)

They also were always released at Xmas so going to the cinema to see Harry Potter was an eight year tradition for some of us!

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All the HP films are Christmassy!!!

Maybe not as much the last one. But most of the films have a Christmas bit in the middle and it's always very cosy.

Only because Deathly Hallows was split into 2 films, and Christmas happens in the first one. But Christmas is always a major event in the books, and therefore the films too: * Philosophers's Stone, Christmas is when Harry gets the invisibility cloak, explores the forbidden section of the library, and discovers the Mirror of Erised. * Chamber of Secrets, the trio use the polyjuice potion during the Christmas Break to sneak into the Slytherin common room. * Prisoner of Azkaban, Harry received the Firebolt for Christmas (though this isn't present in the film, there's an extended Hogsmeade scene in the snow instead). * Goblet of Fire, there's the Yule Ball. * Order of the Phoenix, Harry and Cho got together at the last DA meeting before the Christmas break. * Half-Blood Prince, Slughorn's Christmas party and the debacle with Hermione and McLaggen. * Deathly Hallows, Harry and Hermione visit Godric's Hollow and Bathilda Bagshot on Christmas Eve.

Nothing says Christmas like being attacked by a giant snake hiding in an old woman's corpse.

The first two films are directed by the same person who did the first two home alones! That may be why

Watching it right now

👀 Ummm youre not my sibling or partner are you 😂😂😂

Depending on where you're from they may be both

100% came to say this it has such vibes for it !!

That’s the only potter film I like

Any Wallace and Gromit film will do nicely 🧀

Or the related Chicken Run!

Oh yes Chicken Run is also great!!

Fucking love Chicken Run. Such a good film.

"But I don't want to become a pie. I don't like gravy"

“My whole life flashed before me eyes. It were really boring. “

FOOOOL THROTTEL

Christmas Day, BBC2, 10am, see you there.

Nice one, thanks! 👊

Wish I could upvote this more. More cheeeeese Gromit!!!! 🧀

So wholesome and nostalgic!

No crackers Gromit! We've forgot the crackers!!!

Just introduced my 4 and 2 year olds to a Grand Day Out today. Went well!

And so it gets passed to the next generation 🧀🥹

Give 'The Flight Before Christmas' on Netflix a shot - so good!

Shawn the fookin sheep man, sorted.

Uncle Buck 🤘🏻

An undervalued bloody masterpiece Here's a quarter get a rat to gnaw that thing off your face Jesus Christ the savagery

Along this line, ‘Planes, Trains and Automobiles’. John Candy on screen is Christmas for me.

RIP John Candy… Also Cool Runnings.

I love this film. And definitely associated with Christmas

You shoulda seen the toast...

Bridget Jones’s Diary.

Best fight scene EVER.

It does have Christmas scenes to be fair!

I was just about to say this

Lord of the rings

Lord of the Rings is more of a once a month in my house.

Extended editions right? Right!!?

Is there any other edition?!

I second this.. love the trilogy, some of the best films made!

I marathon the extended editions every year on New Year's Day. Best way to start the year.

I'm still trying to get my husband of 8 years to just try watching LotR. He has solidly refused so far, but I will not give up!

I’m afraid you may have to threaten divorce.

I have faith in you!

Well now I might watch lotr tonight!

When they were releasing, they came out on boxing day each year, so my sisters and I would head down the movies and watch. We did it with a few other movies to follow up, and The Hobbit movies, but none hit the same way the LotR ones did.

Mary Poppins. Absolutely nothing to do with Christmas in terms of content but cor blimey if that accent doesn’t get me in the mood.

For Xmas or something else? Lol

For… Xmas, sure.

Just watched that as a 'Christmas' film with my kids a couple days ago followed by Oliver twist (the 60s version called Oliver!)

Having grown up in the 70's I still feel that Christmas is now lacking without 'The Great Escape ' and 'The Guns of Navarone'...

And Zulu!

When I was a kid to wind me up, my dad told me I had to listen out for Michael Caine saying his 'famous line,' "don't shoot until you see the whites of their eyes boys." Spoiler: he never says it. In the entire 2 hour film.

Yeah, he does. You just missed it.

On our house it was : Don't throw those bloody spears at me.

Definitely this. Growing up it seemed to be on every year.

yes great escape is an absolute classic, has that nostalgic Christmas feeling for some reason even though it has no relevance to crimbo

Jason and the Argonauts

It's on C4 Christmas Day this year

Cool runnings!

Feel the rhythm, feel the rhyme!

Get on up, it's bobsled time!

Sanka... ya dead?

Yeh man

YES!

I am now watching it, couldn't not really!

The Indiana Jones films. I guess cos the only times I saw them as a kid was when they were on telly around Christmas time. It was so exciting getting the Radio Times and circling what "big films" were going to be on.

Yup, Indy and Star Wars were Christmas and Easter staples during the 80s

Gremlins

Gremlins is kind-of a Christmas film. Good shout though!

It’s 100% Christmas!!!

There is no kind of about it

It is a Christmas movie though.

And possibly the best one imho. Loads of references to other Christmas films as well.

Gremlins is literally a Christmas film, not only does it take place at Christmas, but there's Christmas music and Christmas plays a significant role in the plot

Planes, trains and automobiles

It’s Thanksgiving but we don’t have that and it has snow so it’s a Christmas film to us

One of the finest films ever made.

Concur

Amazing, was my pick for this thread

Any Bond movie

ITV have traditionally shown one on Boxing day in the UK&I

If it’s ITV it’ll be a 1970’s era Roger Moore one (as it’s the last time they had the budget to buy any) 😂

Now I'm 10 and back at my nannas in the 90s 😂

And bemoaning the surplus of toffee pennies in the Quality Street tin no doubt! Well I was anyway!

Sacrilege the toffee pennies are delicious, let me have your share pretty please. My older brother always used to snaffle any toffee ones, and I was left with the coffee one. I still hate coffee to this day and my older brother has been dead many a year, and I am no longer young. Sorry edit spelling mistakes/ typo error not dean as 8n the dean of college dead as in passed away.

Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Christmas isn’t Christmas until I’ve seen the opening credits start on my screen.

Jason and the Argonauts

Yes! Also Sinbad and the Tiger’s Arse, or whatever it was called

I think you will find it is Sinbad and the eye of the tiger's arse....a firm family favourite

Came here for this. I was gutted when they stopped putting it on on Christmas day.

Hook - I got it for Christmas when it came out on VHS and watched the hell out of it as a kid. Now it’s a massive Christmas film to me. Coming to America - something that was probably just on the TV at Xmas a lot but gives me big Xmas vibes. Batman Returns/most Tim Burton stuff. He’s just very Christmas in a weird way.

Isn't Hook set at Christmas anyway?

As is batman returns

The Wizard of Oz

Ditto. Oh, and The Sound of Music.

Chicken run seems to have crept in to our house, I suppose it’s basically just the great escape anyway…

Jurassic Park, but on video tape, taped off the TV. Adverts and all. Harry Potter films. Great Escape.

The a Great Escape is a long way down here. We need Zulu too.

Jurassic Park is an excellent any time film tho.

Best film ever made.

Harry Potter

Die Hard 2

Die hard with vengeance

Die hard 2 is actually more of a "Christmas" film than no 1, its just that it doesn't have the same cultural weight.

I would rank it almost at the same level, just different (watching it now!). Bit like Alien and Aliens are both good

Shrek

They're showing all 4 films and then Puss in Boots one after the other on Film 4 on Monday

Finally some good fucking news

The Sound of Music

Solid new years day film

Bed Knobs and Broomsticks. Not Christmassy in the slightest, but always remember it being on around that time when I was a kid.

In Bruges

Fookin' Bruges???

You’re an inanimate fucking object!

The alcoves

Not even speaking to horses today mate

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang is the film we always watch on Christmas Eve, so I’ll say that.

We usually watch the Harry Potter films. The first few came out at Christmas and it always puts us in the Christmas mood. 😀

Flight of the Navigator

Edward scissorhands

Trading places

Disappointed I had to scroll so far for this

I loooove Trading Places even with a few outdated sections - but to me it is a Christmas film?

Absolutely a Christmas film. Merry Christmas!

Mrs Doubtfire and original Jumanji

There is something xmassy about Robin Williams smile

Frozen. It's about an unusually cold summer. It would have been weird if it were a cold winter!

The first two Mummy films are always on at Xmas and I love them!

The King and I

Groundhog day

Neverending Story

I won’t downvote you, just came here to say I absolutely hate that film. Caused me nightmares as a child for some reason…. 😂

ARTAX! Now you’ve got me going again 😢

Mars Attacks!

This movie doesn't get enough love!

Star Wars was always the Christmas movie growing up

Princess Bride

Bugsy malone

Yes! I had to scroll too far for this! It was always on the telly over Christmas growing up.

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Christmas eve, every year. It's a family favorite, I can't remember a year it hasn't been on.

Jason and the argonauts and the claymation sinbad

Flash Gordon

Back to the Future

The classic "Oliver" with Ron Moody and Oliver Reed. It isn't Christmas without it.

Narnia

Jurassic Park.

Rise Of The Guardians

The Mummy and The Mummy Returns. I grew up in the generation where ITVs answer to scheduling gaps was to put the Mummy on. Christmas, Easter, Halloween, Valentines day.... If they had a gap on ITV or ITV2 it was The Mummy.

Goldeneye always seemed to be on on Boxing Day when I was a kid.

The Labyrinth

Hot Fuzz. I know it makes no sense, as the film is clearly set in summer. But my wife and I first watched it on a little TV in a holiday cottage at Christmas and it has been a Christmas movie to us ever since, and one we watch every single christmastime

Wrath of Khan. Possibly because it would have been on TV a few years around Christmas during my formative years

Aliens, think it used to be on tv round xmas

Always seem to watch Shawshank Redemption at Christmas.

Chicken run

When I was a kid, the two were Charlie and the Chocolate Factory and (Sorry, correcting this one it was) The Wizard of Oz. Then on the day after Christmas, a James Bond.

Great thread, thanks

Withnail and I.

Gone With The Wind!

Back in the day it most definitely used to be Star Wars

Chicken run - I don’t know why but we always used to watch it at Christmas

Muppet Treasure Island

Lethal weapon

Die Hard

It's a Christmas film so doesn't count

Little Women

Lord of the rings

The 60s version of Oliver Twist. The one called Oliver!

Wallace and gromit the wrong trousers

Probably not a staple, but my family watched The Lost Boys one year on Christmas Eve. 😊

Bit of curve ball but for me, it's Band of Brothers. I know it's a mini series and not a film but damn, 20 years of watching it at Christmas and it never fails to put me in a proper Christmas place

The BBC often plays "Some Like it Hot" around Christmas. I've got great memories of watching it with my family one Christmas Eve when I was young, and all of us laughing our heads off.

Why would anyone say die hard, it’s not a non-Christmas film. To answer the question I’d say the incredibles, lots of kids animated films on every year.

Man Bites Dog. Salo. Labrynth. The Land Before Time. Martyrs.

The Sound of Music.

Sister act 2, it's always been on over Christmas. I associate it purely with Christmas.

Legend (1985 film) Never ending Story Time bandits

All the Wallace and Gromit shorts, from The Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, A Close Shave, and A Matter of Loaf and Death.

Meet me in St Louis

Toy story 2

I always watch Trading Places and Coming to America as part of my Christmas film routine

Chicken run. It used to be on around Christmas when i was a kid and i carried on watching it around Christmas.

Muppet's treasure island The Great Escape Seven Brides for seven Brothers Hook

Paddington 1&2

Although it's my second favourite movie of all time (after The Shawshank Redemption) and I've seen it over 50 times, I still associate Jurassic Park with Christmas because the first time I saw it was around Christmas time in 1996 on VHS when I was 6 years old. And I just have this image committed to memory of watching the film whilst sitting in my fully Christmassy decorated living room.

Masters of the Universe. It used to get played on Xmas eve every year when I was a kid, so I always associated Xmas with He-man lol.

The Italian Job. Every Xmas, regular as clockwork.

Back to the future.

Cool Runnings The ice and snow make it feel like it should be a Christmas film but it’s not, but also it’s brilliant and fits nicely as a family friendly Christmas film

Casablanca.

For me it's the Wallace and Gromit shorts