Compiled by Ray Rojas, Christmas Carols Blog, editor
Updated September 26, 2021
South Pacific added for Thanksgivng
White Christmas added.
Date added for National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.
A Christmas Story moved to Dec. 21.
The Holiday moved to Dec. 17 based on date on Blackberry.
While You Were Sleeping moved to Christmas Eve.
I'll be seeing you moved to Dec. 23 and New Years.
One of our off topic posts. We've tried to create an Advent Calendar of when about these holiday movies start so you can watch these films on those specific dates. For example, While You Were Sleeping begin on Christmas Day, It's a Wonderful Life on Christmas Eve, etc. We admit we have not seen all of them so we need your help.
Methodology: We've watched tons of Christmas movies and what we call "Around-Christmas-Time Films" to date when about the film's plot begins.
Some we've had to count the nights before Christmas Eve to try to date it. For others, we've placed them in our "week-before" category or "just before" category. In these two categories', we my need the Christmas fandom's help in dating them.
We've included Christmas movies using the standard of the "Linus Moment." This is the key moment in a film when someone discovers the "true meaning of Christmas." Although it was purported that Tim Babb of the "Can't Wait for Christmas Podcast" who came up with "Linus Moment," he corrected us and credits Brian from Captain Slinky’s Weird Lamps (https://m.twitch.tv/
However, we did not want to be that limiting because we know we'd get recommendations for Die Hard and Lethal Weapon, so we created another category of "Around Christmas Time Films."
We also played with some dates or listed a film twice. For example, We placed "Rocky IV" in the "Just Before" category but also on "Christmas Day." Why? Because we must commemorate beginning of the end of the Cold War and fall of the Iron Curtain by honoring Rocky Balboa defeating Ivan Drago on Christmas Day in Moscow, Russia (yea, if you think Reagan's speech at the Berlin Wall started this but you're years off).
Last on methodology, we only included films that had a theatrical release (sorry Hallmark and Lifetime). It would just be too much to include TV-releases.
However, we did include some films that may have been meant for theatric release but due to the COVID-19 pandemic were released to a streaming service.
We made some exceptions for some made-for-TV films that are high quality or have "made into the canon."
Also, we included some so-called "Thanksgiving Films," or "Around Thanksgiving Films."
WE NEED YOUR HELP
It's impossible to watch every "Christmas" film out there and Christmas fans know some are unbearable to watch. However, if you see one on our list that you can date or tie to a specific date mas o menos, or that we got wrong, please contact us at christmascarolblog@gmail.com. You can also comment in the comments section.
Halloween (about)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
(Starts in March but way to far way for our purposes, so we'll go with Halloween scenes.)
Nov. 22
Love
Actually (2003)
Dutch (1991)
Thanksgiving
Addams
Family Values (1993)
Alice’s
Restaurant (1969)
Beethoven
(1992)
The Blind
Side (2009)
The Big
Chill (1983)
Broadway
Danny Rose (1984)
Down and Out
in Beverly Hills (1986)
Grumpy Old
Men (1993)
Hannah and
Her Sisters (1986)
Holidate
(2020)
Miracle on
34th Street (1947)(1994)
My blue
Heaven (1990)
Nightmare
Before Christmas (1993)
Planes,
Trains, and Automobiles (1987)
Primary Colors
(1998)
Rocky (1976)
Rocky II
(1979)
Scent of a Woman (1992)
South Pacific (1958, 2021)
Spider Man
(2002)
You’ve Got
Mail (1998)
December 13
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation (1989)
1941 (1979)
Just Before
All I want
for Christmas (1991)
Almost
Christmas (2011)
The
Apartment (1960)
Bad Moms
Christmas (2017)
Bells of St.
Mary’s (1945)
Black
Nativity (2013)
Carol (2015)
The
Christmas Candle (2013)
The
Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
Deck the
Halls (2006)
Elf (2003)
Ernest Saves
Christmas (1988)
Fred Claus
(2007)
Gremlins
(1984)
The Great
Rupert (A Christmas With)(1950)
The Green
Book (2018)
I’ll be Home
for Christmas (1998)
Jingle All the Way (1996)
Just Friends
(2005)
Jurassic
World (2015)
Kiss Kiss
Bang Bang (2005)
Lady in the Lake
(1947)
Less then
Zero (1987)
Lethal
Weapon (1987)
A Madea
Christmas (2013)
Office
Christmas Party (2016)
Prancer
(1989)
Shazam!
(2019)
Trading Places (1983)
3 Godfathers
(1948)
December 15
It Happened on 5th Avenue (1947)(film opens Nov. 3, but main plot begins in and around Dec. 15)
December 17
The Holiday (2006)
Week Before
Batman
Returns (1992)
Elf (2003)
The Family
Stone (2005)
Grumpy Old
Men (1993)
The Holy and the Ivy (1952)
The Lemon
Drop Kid (1951)
Love the Coopers (2015)
Noelle (2019)
Nothing Like
the Holidays (2008)
December 20
White Christmas (1954)(we tried dating this because about 5 nights pass with the fifth being Christmas Eve)
December 22
The Bishop's
Wife (1947)
Christmas in
Connecticut (1945)
Home Alone
(1990)
December 21
A Christmas Story (1983)
December 23
Holiday
Affair (1949)
Home Alone:
Lost in New York (1992)
I’ll be seeing you (1944)
Joyeux
Noël (2005)
One Magic Christmas (1985)
Surviving Christmas (2018)
This Christmas (2007)
Christmas Eve
Nutcracker Adaptions
Bad Santa
(2003)
Bad Santa 2
(2016)
Christmas
Chronicles (2018) Netflix
Dicken’s
Christmas Carol Adaptions
Die Hard
(1988)
Die Hard 2
(1990)
Exit Speed
(2008)
Fitzwilly
(1967)
Four
Christmases (2008)
Friday after
Next (2002)
The Great Rupert (A Christmas Gift)
The Ice
Harvest (2005)
It’s a
Wonderful Life (1946)
Love the
Coopers (2015)
Margie Claus
(2019)
Merry
Friggin Christmas (2014)
Noel (2004)
Period of
Adjustment (1962)
The Polar
Express (2004)
The Ref
(1994)
Rent (2005)
The Santa
Clause (1994)
Santa Clause: The Movie (1985)
Serendipity
(2001)
Susan Slept
here (1954)
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
White Christmas (1954)(films starts on Christmas Eve 1944)
Christmas Day
Arthur
Christmas (2011)
The Family
Man (2000)
Mixed Nuts
Rocky IV
(1985)
Trapped in Paradise
(1994)
New Years
I've placed films in this category that span the New Year.
I’ll be seeing you (1944)
Trading Places
While You Were Sleeping (1995)
Undated
Jack Frost (1998)
Pocket Full
of Miracles (1961)
Santa Claus:
The Movie (1985)
Santa with
Muscle (1996)
Trading
Places (1983)
Why Him (2016)
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