20 best Christmas movies that help you believe in miracles

2024 Author: Malcolm Clapton | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-17 03:44

A magical evening with your family is guaranteed.

20. Miracle on 34th Street

• USA, 1994.
• Fantasy.
• Duration: 114 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 5.

This film is exactly what a film about Christmas should be: sweet, kind, a little naive and full of miracles. Now, perhaps, it will seem to someone too protracted. And yet, “Miracle on 34th Street” is useful to watch when you have not believed in Santa Claus, Santa Claus, or fairy tales for a long time.

19. The Polar Express

• USA, 2004.
• Fantasy, fairy tale, adventure.
• Duration: 100 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 6.

Usually at Christmas everyone sits at home and waits for a miracle, and Santa drives reindeer around the globe and distributes magic. The Polar Express shows a little boy who himself went to meet Santa and miracles. A simple fairy tale with an understandable plot that will appeal to young children.

18. A Christmas story

• USA, 2009.
• Fantasy, drama.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 8.

A screen adaptation of the classic story by Charles Dickens. Although there are enough dark scenes in the cartoon (three ghosts communicate with the hero, not fairies and good wizards), he is very life-affirming. This is a timeless story about the importance of being kind.

17. Intuition

• USA, Canada, 2001.
• Melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 87 minutes.
• IMDb: 6, 9.

A light romantic comedy about how feelings overcome distance and circumstances, and how real miracles happen when you don't count on them. Of course, this happens before Christmas.

16. A Christmas story

• Finland, 2007.
• Drama, fantasy.
• Duration: 83 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 0.

The title is the same as another movie on the list, but the story is completely different. In spite of everything and unnecessary tinsel, there is no holiday in it, but there is a piercing story about a man who gives people miracles. Try looking at Christmas from the perspective of Santa Claus, who was once an ordinary Finnish boy named Nicholas.

15. The Secret Service of Santa Claus

• UK, USA, 2011.
• Adventure, comedy, fantasy.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

A rare opportunity to get acquainted not only with Santa Claus himself, but also with his sons. Younger Arthur discovers that due to a mistake, little girl Gwen will not receive a gift - and decides to personally correct the situation.

14. Christmas chronicles

• USA, 2018.
• Fantasy, comedy, adventure.
• Duration: 104 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

A classic good comedy for children, and even with Kurt Russell in an ideal way for him. The eternally quarreling brother and sister videotape Santa Claus, but accidentally break his sleigh. And now the heroes must help the wizard save the holiday and deliver gifts to everyone.

13. Lost Christmas

• UK, 2011.
• Drama.
• Duration: 88 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 1.

A sad tale about the magic that we do ourselves. Each of our actions, like a spell, leads to trouble or joy. The question is what should we do.

Before Christmas and New Year, it is customary to take stock and make plans. And this film will certainly help to work on the mistakes.

12. Keepers of dreams

• USA, 2012.
• Fantasy, adventure.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 3.

A cartoon that helps to broaden your horizons: Easter Bunny, Sandman and Tooth Fairy are not the most popular characters in our country, and in this cartoon they are part of the team of the main character. A good reason to tell your child about different mythological creatures and think for a second why terrible dreams are presented in the form of horses. However, the characters may be unfamiliar, but the film is still about the main thing: about friendship and belief in miracles.

11. Home alone

• USA, 1990.
• Comedy.
• Duration: 103 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

A film from childhood that our parents did not like: the jokes in the film are mainly associated with bullying adults. The film is old and not as dynamic as the modern ones, but the kids still find it funny. And in the end, everyone gets what they deserve: the bad ones get punishment, the good ones get Christmas with their families.

10. Christmas holidays

• USA, 2019.
• Comedy.
• Duration: 97 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

Silly and even rude, but very funny comedy from John Hughes and Chevy Chase. The plot tells the story of an exemplary family man Clark Griswold, who does his best to arrange the perfect Christmas, but he is constantly disturbed.

9. Bright Christmas

• USA, 1954.
• Malodrama, comedy, musical.
• Duration: 120 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

A real classic of the genre about the post-war times. Two former co-workers, teamed up in a musical duo, meet a pair of singing sisters. They tour together and then decide to help their former commander.

8. Real love

• UK, USA, France, 2003.
• Drama, comedy.
• Duration: 129 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 6.

A film that can be re-watched every Christmas, like "Irony of Fate" on New Years. Several different love stories connected with each other will remind you which feeling is the most important both on holidays and on weekdays.

7. Evenings on a farm near Dikanka

• USSR, 1961.
• Fantasy, comedy.
• Duration: 66 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 7.

There are practically no films of domestic production specifically about Christmas, and not about the New Year. The adaptation of Gogol is almost the only one (except for the staging of the same work in black-and-white and silent version). But what a! Magic, laughter, true love and dumplings that jump into your mouth by themselves.

6. Merry Christmas

• France, Germany, Great Britain, 2005.
• Drama, military, historical.
• Duration: 111 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 7.

A film in which Christmas is celebrated in the war. Not the most obvious choice of scenery for a festive picture, but life itself invented the plot: the film is based on real events that happened in 1914. Then the fighting on the Western Front unofficially ceased: the soldiers did not fight and even celebrated Christmas together. What is not a reason to believe in humanity again?

5. Edward Scissorhands

• USA, 1990.
• Drama, fantasy.
• Duration: 105 minutes.
• IMDb: 7, 9.

The story is not entirely about Christmas, but 100% winter: about snowflakes, and about the cold that can take over the hearts of people, and about love, which appears in spite of everything.

4. The Nightmare Before Christmas

• USA, 1993.
• Fantasy, musical.
• Duration: 76 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 0.

An option for everyone who is already tired of the New Year's paraphernalia and who cannot find a "holiday feeling", despite the decorated Christmas trees and a pile of gifts. Christmas in Halloween costumes, black humor, great music - and now a good mood appeared when they no longer expected.

3. Shop around the corner

• USA, 1940.
• Drama, melodrama, comedy.
• Duration: 99 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 1.

A very old and very kind film, proving that happiness can be right under our noses, we just need to notice it. On the eve of Christmas, gift shop manager Alfred Kralik, who always fights with the saleswoman, goes on a date with his pen pal.

2. Klaus

• Spain, UK, 2019.
• Adventure, comedy, drama.
• Duration: 96 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 2.

An incredibly touching cartoon that will both amuse and bring many to tears. It is dedicated to an arrogant young man who is sent to establish a postal service in a distant northern city. There the hero meets the unsociable old man Klaus

1. This wonderful life

• USA, 1946.
• Drama, family.
• Duration: 130 minutes.
• IMDb: 8, 6.

Few selection of Christmas movies are complete without this picture. And all because this is the ageless story of a man who wants to commit suicide because of the hardships of life, but hesitates when he sees what the world would be like without him. A life-affirming film that is perfect for Christmas.

This material was first published in December 2018. In December 2020, we updated the text.