The That’s-Not-A-Christmas-Movie Christmas Movie List

I consider Die Hard to be a Chrismas movie.  I asked for other people’s suggestions to add to my list.  I got suggestions that had nothing to do with the winter holidays, some that were traditional Christmas movies (some of which I’ll include, oh well), and a few that people started getting snarky about because they weren’t good enough movies.

AND A LOT OF GREAT NON-CHRISTMASY CHRISTMAS MOVIE SUGGESTIONS.  If it had some kind of winter holiday reference, I leaned toward including it, quality be damned.  Please note, I grew up with Christmas as my winter holiday, but I would be delighted to get a wider variety of holidays in here too.

Here it is.  Just in case you get bored.

• Die Hard – #1
• Hogfather (okay, my second favorite Christmas movie)
  • The Rise of the Guardians, which has a similar plotline, is the most Christmasy Easter movie ever made, and I’m not sure about adding it, but here it is, the recommender was most firm about this.
• Christmas Horror
  • Rare Exports
  • Invader Zim Christmas Special
  • Krampus (please note, the actual holiday movie Home for the Holidays seems to be the light-side version of the same flick)
  • Silent Night Deadly Night
  • Black Christmas/Black X-Mas (1974/2006)
  • Better Watch Out
  • Holidays (2016, anthology)
  • Christmas Evil
  • A Christmas Horror Movie
  • Sint
  • The Children
  • Jack Frost (1997)
  • Elves
  • Home for the Holidays (1972)
• Shane Black Movies
  • Kiss Kiss Bang Bang
  • Lethal Weapon
  • The Long Kiss Goodnight
  • Iron Man 3
  • I’m looking forward to the Shane-Black-directed Doc Savage movie with the Rock, and I HOPE THERE’S A CHRISTMAS SCENE.
• Terry Gilliam Movies
  • Brazil
  • 12 Monkeys
  • The Christmas Card
• Classic Movies
  • The Thin Man (the suggestor mentioned the tree shooting scene, here)
  • The Lion in Winter
  • The Shop Around the Corner
  • Bell Book and Candle (Jimmy Stewart!)
• Chris Columbus Films
  • Harry Potter movies almost always have a good Christmas scene, especially the Chris Columbus ones.
  • Gremlins
  • Home Alone
  • Jingle All the Way
  • Rent (the non-Christmas Christmas musical?)
• Tim Burton Movies
  • Edward Scissorhands
  • Batman Returns
  • The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Actual At Least Kind of Christmas Movies that Aren’t Too Sweet
  • National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  • The Grinch that Stole Christmas (Boris Karloff Cartoon only)
  • A Christmas Story
  • Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol
  • The Muppet Christmas Carol
  • Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas, which I’d never heard of and had to look up.  Jim Henson.
  • The Holiday
•  Misc
  • RED
  • Children of Men
  • Love Actually
  • Hebrew Hammer (Hanukkah)
  • Bad Santa
  • The Addams Family (remember the Christmas Carolers)
  • The Ref
  • Santa Claus Conquers the Martians (MST3K option available)
  • When Harry Met Sally
  • The Ice Harvest
  • Scrooged
  • A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
  • Fargo
  • Babe (la la laaaaaa!)
  • Funny Farm (has a Christmas scene)
  • A Tuna Christmas (which is actually a Christmas play about the folks in Tuna, Texas, trying to put on a production of A Christmas Carol)

Let me know if you have more.  I’ll add ’em if I feel like it, which I probably will, unless you’re like, “But It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t that sweet…?”