It's that time of year again, and whether it's time for people to suit up for the cold, or decorate the tree, this movie takes place around that time period. Christmas Movies have the possibility to stay popular because they can be shown once a year on cable channels, so even movies made years ago stay in the limelight, where their contemporaries fall into obscurity.
Compare to Christmas Special or Christmas Episode, which is from a series or franchise, and requires knowing the original material first in order for it work. Christmas Movies, by contrast, can stand or fall on their own.
See also Christmas Tropes.
Examples include:
- 3 Godfathers
- All I Want for Christmas
- Annabelle's Wish
- Arthur Christmas
- Babes in Toyland
- Bachelor Mother
- Bad Santa
- Batman Returns
- Better Watch Out
- The Bishop's Wife
- Black Christmas (1974)
- Black Christmas (2006)
- The Christmas Bunny
- A Christmas Carol (1938, Reginald Owen as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol (1984, George C. Scott as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol (1999, Patrick Stewart as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol (2000, Ross Kemp as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol (animated, 1971, Alistair Sim as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol (animated, 1997, Tim Curry as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol (motion-capture, 2009, Jim Carrey as Scrooge)
- An American Christmas Carol (1979, Henry Winkler as Scrooge)
- Christmas Carol: The Movie (animated, 2001, Simon Callow as Scrooge)
- A Christmas Carol: The Musical (Made-for-TV Movie, 2004, Kelsey Grammer as Scrooge)
- A Diva's Christmas Carol
- Barbie in a Christmas Carol
- Ebenezer (1998)
- A Flintstones Christmas Carol
- Mickey's Christmas Carol
- Mister Magoos Christmas Carol
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
- Scrooge (1951, Alistair Sim as Scrooge)
- Scrooge (1970, Albert Finney as Scrooge)
- Scrooged (1988, Bill Murray)
- Christmas Cracker
- Christmas Evil
- Christmas in Connecticut
- A Christmas Horror Story
- Christmas is Here Again
- A Christmas Prince
- A Christmas Story
- The Christmas That Almost Wasn't
- Christmas with the Kranks
- A Country Christmas
- Crackers
- Deck the Halls
- Die Hard
- Don't Open Till Christmas
- Edward Scissorhands
- Eight Crazy Nights
- Elf
- Elf-Man
- Ernest Saves Christmas
- A Fairly Odd Christmas
- The Family Man
- The Family Stone
- Fitzwilly
- The Flint Street Nativity
- Franz Kafka's It's a Wonderful Life
- Fred Claus
- The Great Santa Claus Caper
- Gremlins
- Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever
- The Holiday
- Holiday Inn
- Holidaze: The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen
- Home Alone
- Hook
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
- I Believe in Santa Claus
- If You Believe
- I'll Be Home for Christmas
- I'll Be Seeing You
- In the Bleak Midwinter
- It Happened on Fifth Avenue
- It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie
- It's a Wonderful Life
- Jack Frost (1997)
- Jack Frost (1998)
- Jingle All the Way
- Joyeux Noël
- Krampus
- Lady in the Lake
- The Long Kiss Goodnight
- Love Actually
- Love Finds Andy Hardy
- Love the Coopers
- Make the Yuletide Gay
- The Man Who Came to Dinner
- The Man Who Invented Christmas
- My Reputation
- Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas
- Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas
- Miracle In Toyland
- Miracle on 34th Street
- Mixed Nuts
- A Muppet's Christmas: Letters to Santa
- National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
- Nativity!
- The Nativity Story
- The Night Before
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Nutcracker in 3D
- The Nutcracker Prince
- The Nuttiest Nutcracker
- Office Christmas Party
- One Magic Christmas
- Placido
- The Polar Express
- Prancer
- The Princess Switch
- Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale
- The Ref
- Reindeer Games
- Remember the Night
- Santa and the Ice Cream Bunny
- Santa Baby
- Santa Claus (1959)
- Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
- Santa Claus: The Movie
- The Santa Clause
- Santa's Slay
- The Santa Trap
- Santa with Muscles
- The Shop Around the Corner
- Silent Night, Deadly Night
- Smoke
- Spike
- The Star
- Star in the Night
- The Star Wars Holiday Special
- The Thin Man
- This Christmas
- Tokyo Godfathers
- 'Twas The Night
- A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
- We're No Angels
- While You Were Sleeping
- White Christmas
- Why Him?
- The Year Without a Santa Claus
