Christmas have inspired movie makers for ages. We picked up our 5 favorite ones. Sit comfortably, prepare quality snacks, grab a beer and enjoy!

5. Home Alone (1990)

‘Home Alone’ is such a perfect kids’ fantasy, it’s a wonder nobody thought of it before. Parents go on holiday, forget a kid, he can eat ice cream and watch movies as much as he likes, before getting the chance to invent some booby traps to catch burglars. Four sequels followed.

4. Gremlins (1984)

Is there a more memorable soliloquy in the Christmas movie canon than Phoebe Cates’s tearful recollection of her father’s death – suffocated in the chimney, wearing a Santa suit? It’s the dark heart of Joe Dante’s timeless monster movie, a film that takes all those twinkly festive classics you loved as a kid and vomits – lovingly – all over them.

3. Bad Santa (2003)

It’s a brilliant scheme: Billy Bob Thornton dresses as Santa, hires himself cheap to desperate shopping malls then robs them blind with the aid of his foul-mouthed elf sidekick. A flop that became a cult Christmas classic, ‘Bad Santa’ may be gleefully tasteless but it’s also brilliantly sarcastic, enormously funny and – in the scenes with Billy Bob’s goofy kid sidekick Thurman Merman – impossibly sweet.

2. Elf (2003)

A gift to Christmas TV programmers, this festive comedy makes full use of Will Ferrell’s man-child charm by casting him as a naive human raised by elves and thrown into a cynical modern-day New York. Highlights include a duet of ‘Baby, It’s Cold Outside’ with an unwitting Zooey Deschanel as she sings in the shower.

1. It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

A moving tribute to the power of the individual, Frank Capra’s snowy festive classic is a true delight, as entertaining as it is message-driven. James Stewart puts in the performance of a lifetime as a potential suicide who’s given a chance to look at life with fresh eyes. Merry Christmas George!

Source: Time Out London - http://bit.ly/1Ofe5lu