The Best Christmas Movies Of All Time: From 'Home Alone' To 'Last Christmas'
Only a few weeks left, the atmosphere of Christmas will overflow. Prepare yourself a movie list for this exciting festive season! Here are some suggestions.
1. The Santa Clause - The Santa Claus (1994)
The movie The Santa Clause is about a guy who takes part in the job of Scott Calvin with his dream of expanding his toy store business to the North Pole. On Christmas Eve, he met Santa when he fell from his roof. Scott was chosen as the one who would become Santa Clause - Santa Claus for Christmas that year, and his journey of handing over gifts had begun.
The Santa Clause is one of the Christmas comedies that has impressed many generations of audiences and is a memorable milestone in the acting career of British actor Tim Allen.
2. Jingle All the Way - The War of Christmas (1996)
The movie Jingle All the Way revolves around the fight for a late Christmas gift for two sons between fathers Howard Langston (played by Arnold Schwarzenegger) and Myron Larabee (played by Sinbad). The irony situations that the two fathers face when trying to fulfill their promise to bring the Turbo-Man toy back to their children will bring the audience to the full spectrum of emotions.
3. Home alone - Home alone (1990)
Referring to the iconic movie characters for the Christmas theme, the audience must not ignore the super naughty boy Kevin in the movie Home Alone. In the first movie, Kevin (Macaulay Culkin) was 'forgotten' by his family during his year-end trip. Also from here, trouble comes because the guy has to manage himself at home alone and deal with two scheming thieves. The film set a box office record in 1990 and remains on the list of year-end holiday classics.
4. Home alone 2 - Lost in New York (1992)
Another Christmas season had come and Kevin was separated from his family on the wrong flight to New York. Here, the boy had a memorable journey when he first became an 'adult' in the busiest city in the world - New York. In addition, you have to find a way to run away from two "bad number" thieves. That is the content of the sequel in the Home Alone series, associated with the year-end movie season. Part 2 of the movie still retains the values of family affection and friendship that go beyond the age and status gaps, which were well conveyed by the first movie.
5. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
The Grinch is a green fur monster that hates Christmas deeply because of his childhood trauma. He conspired to steal the Whos dwellers' Christmas by taking away their decorations and gifts. But his friendship with Cindy Lou Who helped him realize that Christmas cannot be stolen because it is the spiritual and emotional value between everyone, not just decorations. How the Grinch Stole Christmas is adapted from Dr.'s work. Seuss, who made the character Grinch become a friend of many children.
6. Elf - Goblin (2003)
The movie Elf is a journey to conquer the heart of the biological father of Buddy (Will Ferrell), a guy who is often adopted by Santa's elves. The journey was not so smooth when Buddy was unable to integrate into New York life, from here on, many 'oh my' events happened.
But in the end, his family love and the good values of Christmas helped him feel a father's heart. The film has received good reviews from professionals as well as audiences from the very first day of its release.
7. Four Christmases - Four Christmas Seasons (2008)
For couples Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon), Christmas is scary when having family gatherings, so they always choose to hide. But due to unintentional incident, they can no longer avoid it, and a memorable Christmas season has come for the couple. Because both come from families with divorced parents, and all four parents have separate families so the couple did not have to attend 1 but 4 meetings.
8. Love Actually - True Love (2003)
Love Actually is a collection of love stories with different emotions of distinct characters. Each story has a special meaning about love. There are stories that have a beautiful ending, others do not, but the love messages that the movie brings are still valid until now.
9. Let it snow - Let it snow (2019)
Let it snow - Let it snow is a new and more trendy version of Love Actually, as the film also revolves around the love stories of young people in a small town during the Christmas season. However, the film still has its own mark because the exploitation of the sentiment theme is not limited to the love of men and women.
10. Last Christmas (2019)
Inspired by the legendary song Last Christmas by Wham !, the movie Last Christmas revolves around the chaotic life of a girl named Kate (played by Emilia Clarke). Kate has been experiencing a dangerous disease and is falling into a state of depression, disorientation in life.
The film is the process of Kate finding her way back to life with help from those around her. This is a movie worth watching if you want to find something a little fun to live with.