What is your Christmas Movie must watch list?

[BLUEVOODU]

As the topic asks... what is your Christmas Movie must watch list every Christmas (for Christmas time)?

If there are significant stories behind the choices, post those up as well!

[retro junkie]

We have a whole collection of movies that relate in some way to Christmas. We start each year on December 1st. Maybe with the cartoons, like Charlie Brown Christmas, each night we have one of these. Frosty the Snowman, and there is the enchanting The Snowman, which is one of my favorites. The Grinch will be one night. Movies start entering at one point, like the Cranks, Arnold's Christmas movie, and the Santa Clause, Bishop's Wife, Christmas in Connecticut, A Christmas Carol, more than one of them will be played including the muppets. There is one that we searched for years to find on DVD that I remembered as a kid and that was Truman Compote's A Christmas Memory. I am not talking about the remake. I am talking about the old b&w original one. Found it on eBay. There is something about that short movie that is so relatable to me that goes back to my childhood. We will continue watching Christmas stuff until New Years day. We may not get to all of them this year. Maybe next year there will be different ones on our lists while some will be skipped over only to be viewed the next Christmas.

[BLUEVOODU]

I think so far, our list is:
DieHard
Elf
Grinch (original and Jim Carrey version)
Christmas Vacation
Hawkeye (just added)
Santa Clause 2

There are other great mentions... however, the above seem to be the movies we keep going back to year over year.  I am forgetting a few right now...

[targetrasp]

Oh there's so many!

The various cartoon specials and Rankin Bass cartoon / stop motion are primarily used as background noise throughout December, but the first movie we watch every year while we put up the tree is Christmas Vacation. Deeper into December we work our way through the Grinch movies, Gremlins, Scrooged, Die Hard, Home Alone, and as Christmas draws closer, we tend to rock some of the classics, A Christmas Carol, it's a wonderful life, A Christmas Story, etc. For bonus points we pepper in the Harry Potter movies but as of yet have not found enough time in December to finish them all.