Top 5 Christmas films

What do you think makes a classic Christmas film? Something comforting and heart warming maybe or something which will make you laugh?

We have put together a list of our top 5 Christmas films. Do you agree? What would your top 5 look like?

1. What a Wonderful Life (1946) – An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman (James Stewart) by showing what life would have been like if he had never existed. Christmas classic.

2. Miracle on 34^th Street  (1947, remade in 1994) – When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus (Richard Attenborough in the later version) is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing. Best line: Kris: If you can’t learn to accept anything on faith, then you are doomed for a life dominated by doubt.

 3. Little Women (1994) – Based on the Louisa May Alcott novel, this film starring Winona Ryder and set around the holiday period, focuses on the March sisters growing up in Massachusetts during the American Civil war. Expect drama, tears, love and family.

4. Home Alone (1990) – 8 year old Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) is accidentally left behind when his family takes off for a vacation in France over the holiday season. Whilst initially relishing time by himself, he is later greeted by two would-be burglars whom he eventually manages to outwit with a series of booby traps. Good family fun.

5. Elf (2003) – Will Ferrell stars as a man raised by Santa’s elves at the North Pole and sent to America in search of his true identity. Oddly endearing.