christmas films

3. This comedy satisfies two sets of audiences: kids (Ralphie gets his BB gun) and parents (it does exactly what they warned him it would).
5. Christmas: The follow-up to Holiday Inn is once again full of Irving Berlin tunes, with Bing Crosby providing the vocals. What's not to love?
7. Whether or not you have your own guardian angel hovering, the lesson here is that it's not money that makes you rich.
11. George C. Scott plays Scrooge in this classic made-for-TV version of the Charles Dickens holiday tale.
12. Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire celebrate a year's worth of holidays, against a steady flow of Irving Berlin tunes.
13. Boris Karloff's dulcet baritone lends sinister charm to everyone's favorite Who hater in this short, sweet Christmas special.
15. A war hero has Christmas dinner with the Martha Stewart-esque Barbara Stanwyck in this holiday farce.
17. Full of expletives and sexual innuendos, this one about the opposite of what we expect Mr Claus to be like.
18. The puppet adaptation of the Dickens Christmas classic.
19. This sixties stop-motion-animation movie about santas favourite sleigh puller is impossibly cute, right down to Sam the Snowman.
20. It's rather hard to say who's the real star of this funny live-action version: is it Jim Carrey or Dr. Seuss?

1. This holiday staple based on the man made out of snow features one of the most memorably catchy Christmassy theme songs ever.
2. Tim Allen deconstructs Saint Nick -- and reconstructs his waistline -- as a hapless Santa in training.
4. Decking the halls and other traditions are all colossal failures for the Griswold family in the comedy classic.
6. Will Ferrell stars in the title roll as one of santas helpers who leaves his Lapland home and loves everything christmas.
8. A skeptical little girl meets the real Chris Cringle working as a toy store santa and he asks her for her Christmas wishes, whilst the competing toy store tries to discredit him. America asks…Do you believe in Santa Claus?
9. Tim Burton and Henry Selicks enchanting tale has all the familiar bones of a holiday classic.
10. Snoopy’s best pal sets out to find the true meaning of Christmas in this animated anti-commercialism classic.
14. In this one a boy gets left behind when the family go away for Christmas and takes on the burglars.
16. Bill Murray stars as the ultimate crank Frank Cross in this 1988 film.