Best Holiday Movies of All Time

Best Holiday Movies of All Time

By Paul O'Donnell

Christmas movies fall into two categories: the oldies you've seen a million times and the new ones that fancy themselves irreverent because Santa's drunk or does pratfalls on the icy front walk. They all end with the same circularly heartwarming holiday message: that Christmas itself is too heartwarming for even the Scroogiest soul to resist. Try these 10 movies instead, a sampler of classics and obscurities that capture what we really go through, and ought to remember, at Christmas.


Paul O'Donnell is one of Beliefnet's Idol Chatter bloggers and is a former Senior Editor at Beliefnet.