15 Old Christmas Movies – Best Holiday Movies of All Times
25 Old Christmas Movies – Best Holiday Movies of All Times
We love a good Christmas movie, but do you even remember these festive films?
When it comes to holiday movies, the options are endless. There is the best movie of all times of all time, like A Christmas Story, holiday romances, old-school cartoons, Christmas movies on Netflix, and so much more. But with such an abundance of options, a few terrific holiday movies have likely slid under the radar. Rediscover the 15 incredible forgotten Christmas movies that you need to watch.
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1934: The Thin Man
A retired detective upends his Christmas holiday to take on one more case, and his adventure-loving wife won’t be left behind.
1940: The Shop Around the Corner
Providing inspiration for You’ve Got Mail, The Shop Around the Corner is about two coworkers who outwardly despise each other but don’t realize that the pen pals they each write to and are in love with… each other. The Christmas scenes in Budapest offer equal parts good cheer and romance.
1945: Christmas in Connecticut
Barbara Stanwyck is Elizabeth Lane, a woman who has made a living writing about cooking on her farm with her family in Connecticut — but she can’t cook a lick, doesn’t have a family of her own, and doesn’t live in Connecticut! It becomes a problem when her boss invites himself to her abode for the Christmas season and she has to pull off a massive lie with the help of friends.
1949: Holiday Affair
Christmas is what made this film a classic. Robert Mitchum and Janet Leigh star in a romantic comedy that all starts with a train set bought for a little boy at Christmas.
1955: We’re No Angels
Three convicts, including Humphrey Bogart, escape prison and end up hiding in a shop run by a small family. The criminals plan to rob the store — until the family invites them to Christmas dinner and they decide to help the nice family with their financial struggles instead.
1955: Young at Heart
Vocal powerhouses Doris Day and Frank Sinatra star in this Christmas romance filled with twists and turns. In the end, Sinatra’s gloomy character learns a powerful lesson: that family is one thing worth living for.
1960: The Apartment
Set at Christmas and New Year’s, The Apartment is a movie that covers all the feelings of the holiday season: loneliness as well as hope and joy. CC Baxter (Jack Lemmon) and Fran Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine) are two beaten-down characters who find solace in each other.
1965: A Charlie Brown Christmas
The titular character seeks to look past materialism and discover what the Christmas spirit is really all about.
1969: Frosty the Snowman
Frosty the Snowman, a magical snowman brought to life around the holiday season, makes his first TV appearance in a Christmas special. This original flick can still bring the Christmas spirit like no other.
1983: Trading Places
Eddie Murphy a hustler low on luck and Dan Aykroyd an influential executive are conned by two bored finance bros who frame Aykroyd for a crime and then replace him in his executive role with Murphy. But when Aykroyd and Murphy realize what’s happened, they seek to turn the tables.
1989: Look Who’s Talking
Bruce Willis narrates a baby’s perspective as he watches his mother (Kirstie Alley) debate the love and devotion of a kind taxi driver (John Travolta) at Christmastime.
1989: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
This hilarious comedy movie series about the trials and tribulations of a family on vacation produced a holiday version that involves a Christmas-tree cutting gone awry and an uninvited extended family that just won’t stay away.
1994: Mixed Nuts
Steve Martin as Phillip runs a suicide-prevention hotline, but his landlord kicks the small organization out of their office around Christmas. Combining a series of colorful characters and Martin’s well-known humor in chaos, Mixed Nuts is a Christmas comedy with a heartwarming message to boot.
1996: The Preacher’s Wife
In this remake of The Bishop’s Wife, Denzel Washington plays the angel who falls to Earth to answer the prayers of the preacher in need — but is distracted by his lovely wife, played by Whitney Houston.
First, appear on Good Housekipper’s “38 Forgotten Christmas Movies You Should Wath Right Now.“