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One of my favourite Christmas movies is Klaus on Netflix, I'd be watching it again if I still had access. It's quite a touching movie...

I would disagree about Miracle on 34th St - it’s important that Kringle claims to be Santa Claus, because in the US at least there are...

Die Hard is structurally almost identical to the avalanche of Hallmark Christmas movies, featuring an estranged couple crossing the...

Man, it's thematically appropriate, but watching the "Fishes" episode of The Bear -- named after the Feast of Seven Fishes, which is a...

Yup, The Lion in Winter is definitely a Christmas film, I’d say it’s a Type 3, much like The Family Stone. Both can be upgraded if you...

when my mom was still with us, we'd do in the month of december : It happened on 5th avenue, miracle on 34th street(original). The Ref...

This is really helpful.

There’s a place near us (Martini Town in Langley) where they film pretty much every Hallmark Christmas film in the summer. We went there...

Let’s do some TV classics: In the UK there was always a Bond film on, as @Paul Farquhar notes, along with Star Wars and Disney Time...

One I haven’t seen mentioned is the Czech classic Type 1 Three Hazelnuts for Cinderella, which is a really neat piece of period...

The other thing is it’s an action movie, which is exactly the sort of movie all the family can enjoy. It’s why a Bond movie used to be...

Yeah, I tend not to think of rules so much as points for and against. Die Hard came out in the summer and isn’t really about Christmas...

Right. A June/July release meant that the VHS would be available right on time for the holiday. The rental business was huge then.

(2) Alt Christmas film, if you can find it, is Bill Forsyth's Comfort and Joy: Glasgow radio dj gets caught up in a gang war between ice...

Ah well, I agree that’s a point against it, but not against the 1994 remake. I’m honestly not bothered either way.