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Your must watch Christmas programmes every festive season?

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Miracle on 34th Street (the 1947 original), A Christmas Carol (the 1951 version with Alastair Sim as Scrooge), A Charlie Brown Christmas, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (the TV pilot for The Waltons series and a hugely underrated Christmas movie), How The Grinch Stole Christmas (animated version narrated by Boris Karloff), Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer (never gets old even though it's claymation), It's A Wonderful Life. For humor, it's hard to beat Home Alone.
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I've gotta see ol' Ralphie at least once a year
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And my other favorite family at Christmas...the Griswalds
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Love Actually is my all time favourite Christmas movie.
 
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Let us not forget...........
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"The Silent Enemy" (1958)
A truly interesting & great World War II movie, based on facts in the life of Royal Navy Commander Lionel Phillip Buster Crabb... great watches.
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"When Eight Bells Toll" (1971)
For the scenery in Scotland, starring Anthony Hopkins and Nathalie Delon... great wrist watches as well.
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Among men surveyed, the movie that they would most like to watch on Christmas Day is …
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And the film score, composed by Elmer Bernstein, is probably one of the best ever written.
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Scrooge with Albert Finney
Mary poppins with Julie Andrews
Home alone
Gremlins
La la land
Love actually
All the musicals with frank Sinatra, fred astaire and gene kelly
Bad Santa
The shining
 
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Shabbaz Shabbaz
Scrooge with Albert Finney
Mary poppins with Julie Andrews
Home alone
Gremlins
La la land
Love actually
All the musicals with frank Sinatra, fred astaire and gene kelly
Bad Santa
The shining

The shining ????? :0)
 
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Nothing says happy holidays quite like a snowbound lunatic running rampant with an ax. 😲
 
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Nothing says happy holidays quite like a snowbound lunatic running rampant with an ax. 😲

Red Room, Red Room, Red Rum...... maybe :0)...
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Nothing says happy holidays quite like a snowbound lunatic running rampant with an ax. 😲
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The shining ????? :0)
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Another lesser known but very worthwhile Christmas film is Midnight Clear, not to be confused with A Midnight Clear. It's the story of a handful of desperate characters who, for various reasons, are at the end of their respective ropes, and they come together in various ways to help each other on Christmas Eve. It's kind of like the Christmas version of "Crash" - a lot of subplots that don't seem to lead anywhere until the last 30 minutes or so of the film, but when they come together it restores your faith in the best that mankind has to offer. In this scene, Mrs. Boyle, an elderly isolated woman whose health is failing, is prevented from committing suicide by a visit from carolers from her church, which she has long since abandoned. At the end of the film, she shows up at the Christmas Eve service with her son.
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