Late 90s Macedonian flick "Goodbye, 20th Century".

Santa scene: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBWqVaI_gfk

It’s the “Christmas in the Car” episode of Bob’s Burgers. Yeah, sure it’s not a movie but it’s the most Christmassy feeling thing I’ve watched since I left home and it inspired my new favorite Christmas morning dish (a Dutch Baby) and I just love the scene when they’re cowering in their car in the forest and the car’s off and it starts to snow because it really captures how it feels to be out in the dark that’s not really dark because there’s snow everywhere.

If you haven’t made a dutch baby, it’s incredibly easy and extremely delicious and a good reason to buy a cast iron skillet if you haven’t already.

I actually really like The Night Before. That ~~Joe~~ Seth Rogan movie. It's the only one I've been rewatching over the last few years.

Ever notice how Arnold is always punching random animals, from deer to the camels in Conan the barbarian's tribe to I think a horse in one of the other movies? Wondering if that's a thing he asks for, like in every movie he asks "can I punch an animal in a part of the movie".

But anyways, I know Die Hard sounds cliché and like a dead meme at this point to choose, but aside from Elf, all the Christmas movies are so gimmicky in none of the good ways. In Die Hard, it's not trying too hard, which is exactly why I choose it even though it also makes it exempt from Christmas movie status to a lot of people.

White Christmas. Nothing special about it, but it’s the movie my family watched every year when I was growing up. I can probably quote more of it than is healthy.

“When what’s left of you gets around to getting what’s left to be gotten, what’s left to be gotten won’t be worth getting, whatever it is you’ve got left.”

The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus (1985 film) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Life_and_Adventures_of_Santa_Claus_(1985_film)

• Classic Rankin/Bass's stop motion like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
• Santa
• Elves
• Toys
• Flying reindeer

also

• Immortals
• Wood Nymph's
• Evil invisible creatures called the Awgwas

Happiest Season felt surprisingly new as a family, love tragedy christmas movie and I really like it. It isn't an older movie but since it came out, it is a must watch every christmas season.

Before this, it definitely was The Long Kiss Goodnight (and funny thing, the german title translates to "deadly christmas")

Has to be Krampus, and Anna and the Apocalypse.

Krampus really scratches that nostalgic itch every year and I don't know why. The broken family dynamics, the environment, the sound and set designs are amazing. And it has a lesson like every good Christmas movie should.

And Anna and the Apocalypse is similar. It is funny, musical, and ultimately an allegory about growing up and leaving everyone behind to forge your own path. A good reminder that you never know when it will be your last Christmas with someone. Or maybe I'm looking into it too much and I just like zombie musicals.

Violent Night

Home for the Holidays.

We swap between two movies each year.

Even years it is A LION IN WINTER, an amazing film with insanely quotable dialogue. (EDIT: Why? On "star power" alone, this movie is outrageously cast.)

Odd years it is A CHRISTMAS STORY, which is equally quotable (perhaps more so). (EDIT: Why? Because so many things in this film ring true to my own childhood - having to have last-minute dinner at a Chinese restaurant because of a disaster, for example, or begging for a b-b-gun...)

The Mistle-Tones. It's so bad, and I love it so much! It's a family tradition now to get high and watch it every year, and it's my favorite tradition.

Noelle (2019)

Black Christmas is one of my favorites I haven't seen mentioned yet. I am a big fan of horror movies and it's a bit of a classic a surprising amount of people haven't seen.