“This is my favorite Christmas movie of all time, and when I tell people, they always think I mean The Muppet Christmas Carol, and I have to explain that no, it’s a made-for-TV Christmas special that my parents recorded for me on VHS in the ’80s. It absolutely delights me to see this as the top answer!” —panini84 “In Italy, it’s a tradition to watch it on Christmas Eve. I have been watching it since 1997, and every year at Christmas Eve, it’s broadcasted on one of the biggest channels here.” —sonoskietto “Agreed completely. Klaus is a masterpiece. The way the town becomes warmer and brighter as lonely and hurt people begin to connect and find happiness. It’s the only Christmas movie I can’t wait to watch multiple times each year.” —mariachi_ambush “Yearly tradition now to watch Klaus while trying not to cry.” —Sunny__Jim “Yeah, honestly without the score it would have been a cute, funny little Christmas cartoon, but not the classic it is today.” —wabawanga “I prefer Angels with Filthy Souls.” —Irbyirbs “The soundtrack alone makes them the best Christmas movies to me. They are genuinely amazing pieces of music, and some of them are part of my favorite Christmas songs ever. Songs like ‘Christmas Star’ sound like classic Christmas songs while they are in fact just made for this movie. John Williams is a genius.” —TMCThomas “Genuinely, Michael Caine is the best portrayal of Scrooge on film. Captures the full depth of his character better than any other version of the story. It’s the best portrayal of an iconic character, in an iconic Christmas story. So I don’t care if most of the rest of the characters are felt puppets — this is the best Christmas movie.” —breakfast_serial “It’s as close to a perfect movie as there is. No wasted scene, dialogue. As you grow up, the different scenes that impact you most intensely change. And if I really sit and watch — and don’t just have it on in the background — it still brings me to tears. ‘To my brother George. The richest man in town.’” —joelekane “This is the only movie that I can think of that sums up what Christmas really means to kids: getting that perfect present. None of that heartwarming, all-you-need-is-love crap, just the materialism from the point-of-view of a kid.” —LittleJohnStone “This is it for me. If I don’t watch a single other Christmas movie, fine, but I have to watch White Christmas. It’s my dad’s FAVORITE, and every time my sister and I would fight he’d start singing ‘Sisters.’” —nkbee “Do I consider it a Christmas movie? No. Do I enjoy calling it a Christmas movie around others who insist it’s not? Absolutely.” —mwagner1385 “I LOVE that movie, and I never really thought about it, but yeah, I watch it about once a year in December.” —_ChrisFromTexas “The montage when he first gets to New York is one of the best comedy scenes of all time, in my opinion.” —P-d0g “This was one of those surprisingly great and immediately overlooked buddy comedies. Love the bit where they do ‘Runaway’ on the big piano.” —FrancistheBison “This was a life-altering film for me — glad to see it get a mention.” —Taraxacologist “Agreed. It captures the magic and spirit of Christmas and Santa Claus perfectly. Has to be the original though, not the remake.” —johnrobertallan
