I am a sucker for family Christmas movies. Are your kids at an age where you would like to expand your holiday movie line-up beyond thirty-minutes cartoons (although those can be excellent too!!!)? Below are ten of the most-love family Christmas movies EVER.
I pulled together a list of my favorite family Christmas movies, then we reached out to parents and asked them to help us narrow it down to The Top 10 Most-Love Christmas Movies.
VOTING CLOSE: See the results below!!!
Top 10 Most-Loved Family Christmas Movies
- Elf — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
- A Christmas Story — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
- The Santa Clause — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
- Home Alone — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
- A Charlie Brown Christmas — Buy DVD
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer — Watch on Amazon Now
- Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas — Watch on Amazon Now
- Miracle On 34th Street — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
- Polar Express — Movie Trailer | Watch on Amazon Now
Additional Family Christmas Movie Suggestions
These family Christmas movies were recommended by parents via Facebook:
- Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000, Jim Carrey)
- The Year Without a Santa Claus
- Disney’s A Christmas Carol
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- The Santa Clause: 3 Movie Collection
The classic It’s a Wonderful Life keeps coming up as a family Christmas movie suggestion.
I went back and forth about adding the title to our family holiday movie line-up. I was worried the topic of suicide was too deep for my very thoughtful seven and eight-year-old.
What is your opinion?
Do you watch It’s A Wonderful Life with your kids? How old are they? Let’s chat here on Facebook.
Thanks for your help!
PS: On our Family Movie Nights we serve popcorn for dinner. Click here to learn how you can make this a healthy-eating endeavor. Below are four of our holiday movie night MUST-HAVES: Stove Top Popper, white popcorn, M&M’s, and pistachios. Mmmmm. Stove-top popcorn. Get the best recipe EVER here.

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