50 Iconic Christmas Movies To Watch With Your Family

50 Iconic Christmas Movies To Watch With Your Family  – Looking for family activities this season that are inexpensive? Look no further than watching classic holiday movies for an absolutely phenomenal fun time with the family!

If you are wondering what to do with your family over break, we select a holiday movie each day. We wrap each movie and take turns selecting one, unwrapping and that's the movie we watch that night. However, you can also create a schedule of what is showing on TV or what is streaming (Netflix, HULU, etc.)

If you really want to knock it out of the park, you can create a theme around certain Christmas movies.

Here are a few ideas:

Elf- Serve spaghetti.

A Christmas Story- Chinese food.

Polar Express- Hot Chocolate

Most importantly, think outside the box and come up with 

Here are the top 50 holiday and Christmas movies:

50 Iconic Christmas Movies To Watch With Your Family

1. Elf
2. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
3. A Christmas Story
4. The Muppets Christmas Carol
5. Home Alone
6. Home Alone 2
7. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
8. Jingle All The Way
9. The Santa Clause
10. Prancer
11. It’s a Wonderful Life
12. White Christmas
13. Miracle on 34th Street
14. A Mom for Christmas 
15. Ernest Saves Christmas
16. I’ll Be Home For Christmas  
17. Deck the Halls 
18. Four Christmases
19. Jack Frost 
20. Christmas with the Kranks
21. The Polar Express
22. A Charlie Brown Christmas
23. Mickeys Christmas Carol
24. Rise of the Guardians
25. Prep & Landing
26. Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas
27. Frosty the Snowman
28. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
29. Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas Special
30. Arthur Christmas
31. Love Actually
32. While You Were Sleeping
33. The Family Stone
34. The Family Man
35. The Holiday 
36. Gremlins
37. The Nightmare Before Christmas 
38. A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas
39. 12 Men of Christmas
40. Surviving Christmas
41. All I Want For Christmas 
42. 12 Days of Christmas
43. Santa Baby
44. Love the Coopers
45. Holiday in Handcuffs 
46. Fred Claus
47. Nothing Like the Holidays 
48. Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas
49. A Merry Friggin’ Christmas
50. Santa Buddies

That's a lot of Christmas Movies and you would have to watch two Christmas movies a day even if you started watching before December. That means so many options you might have to start a rotation that skips movies on some years. I know that there are some we have to see every year, while others stay on the shelf (with the elf of course) for a few years before we wath them again.

No, some of these might not be what you consider iconic. You may not have even heard of a few of these, but I really like them so they made my list! If you want to settle down to a list that is more general audience (ie. no talking puppies) and truly iconic here is a more concise list that you can probably watch every year without fail even though you already know most of the lines and can recite them verbatim throughout the movie.

• Elf
• Home Alone
• The Santa Clause
• Miracle on 34th Street
• A Charlie Brown Christmas
• The Nightmare Before Christmas
• Frosty the Snowman
• Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas
• White Christmas
• A Christmas Story
• National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
• It's a Wonderful Life

Notice I picked 12? That was on purpose, but it hurt to do because I had to leave off so many that I like. Let me know about your favorites below if you have to cut your list to 12.