duminică, 16 decembrie 2012

100 greatest Christmas movies


Top 100 greatest Christmas movies

1. It's a Wonderful Life - (1946, Frank Capra) (James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore)
2. Miracle on 34th Street - (1947, George Seaton) (Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O'Hara, Natalie Wood)
3. Scrooge (aka A Christmas Carol) - (1951, Brian D. Hurst) (Alastair Sim, Meryvn Johns, Michael Hordern)
4. Holiday Inn - (1942, Mark Sandrich) (Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds)
5. Scrooge - (1970, Ronald Neame) (Albert Finney, Alec Guinness, Edith Evans)
6. A Christmas Carol - (1938, Edwin L. Marin) (Reginald Owen, Gene Lockhart, Leo G. Carroll)
7. White Christmas - (1954, Michael Curtiz) (Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney)
8. Scrooge - (1935, Henry Edwards) (Sir Seymour Hicks, Maurice Evans, Robert Cochran)
9. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - (1966) (TV) (Animated) (Boris Karloff as voice of the Grinch)
10. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer - (1964) (TV) (Animated) (Narration by Burl Ives)
11. A Christmas Carol - (1984, Clive Donner) (TV) (George C. Scott, David Warner, Susannah York)
12. A Christmas Story - (1983, Bob Clark) (Darrin McGavin, Melinda Dillon, Peter Billingsley)
13. The Bishop's Wife - (1947, Henry Koster) (Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven)
14. A Charlie Brown Christmas - (1965, Bill Melendez) (TV) (Animated)
15. A Christmas Wish (aka The Great Rupert) -(1950, Irving Pichel) (Jimmy Durante, Terry Moore)
16. Beyond Tomorrow - (1940, Edward Sutherland) (Richard Carlson, Jean Parker, Charles Winninger)
17. A Christmas Carol - (1999, David Hugh Jones) (TV) (Patrick Stewart, Richard E. Grant, Joel Grey)
18. The Muppet Christmas Carol - (1992, Brian Henson) (Michael Caine, Dave Goelz-voice)
19. Christmas in Connecticut - (1945, Peter Godfrey) (Barbara Stanwyck, Reginald Gardiner, S.Z. Sakall)
20. The Christmas Wife - (1988, David Hugh Jones) (Jason Robards, Julie Harris, Patricia Hamilton)
21. The Nightmare Before Christmas - (1993, T. Burton) (Animated) (Chris Sarandon, Catherine O'Hara)
22. Scrooged - (1988, Richard Donner) (Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Karen Allen)
23. Christmas Vacation - (1989, Jeremiah S. Chechik) (Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Randy Quaid)
24. A Christmas Without Snow - (1980, John Korty) (Michael Learned, John Houseman)
25. Home Alone - (1990, Chris Columbus) (Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern)
26. An American Christmas Carol - (1979, Eric Till) (TV) (Henry Winkler, David Wayne, Dorian Harewood)
27. Elf - (2003, Jon Favreau) (Will Ferrell, Zooey Deschanel, James Caan)
28. The Christmas Star - (1986, Alan Shapiro) (Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler)
29. Silent Night - (Canada) (2002, Rodney Gibbons) (Linda Hamilton, Romano Orzari, Martin Neufeld)
30. A Christmas Visitor - (2002, Christopher Leitch) (William Devane, Meredith Baxter, Dean McDermott)
31. Prancer - (1989, John D. Hancock) (Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman, Rutanya Alda)
32. The Year Without a Santa Claus - (1974) (TV) (Mickey Rooney, Shirley Booth)
33. A Christmas Wish - (1998, Ian Barry) (TV) (Debbie Reynolds, Neil Patrick Harris)
34. The Santa Clause - (1994, John Pasquin) (Tim Allen, Wendy Crewson, Judge Reinhold)
35. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York - (1992, Chris Columbus) (Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern,)
36. Mrs. Santa Claus - (1996, Terry Hughes) (TV) (Angela Lansbury, Charles Durning, Michael Jeter)
37. Santa Claus - (1985, Jeannot Szwarc) (Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, Burgess Meredith)
38. The Fourth Wise Man - (1985, Michael Ray Rhodes) (TV) (Martin Sheen, Alan Arkin, Eileen Brennan)
39. All I Want for Christmas - (1991, Robert Lieberman) (Harley Jane Kozak, Leslie Nielsen, Lauren Bacall)
40. Eve's Christmas - (2004, Timothy Bond) (TV) (Elisa Donovan, Sebastian Spence)
41. A Boyfriend for Christmas - (2004, Kevin Conno) (TV) (Kelli Williams, Patrick Muldoon, Charles Durning)
42. I'll Be Home for Christmas - (1998, A. Sanford) (Jonathan Taylor Thomas, Jessica Biel, Adam LaVorgna)
43. How the Grinch Stole Christmas - (2000, Ron Howard) (Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen)
44. Emmet Otter's Jug-Band Christmas - (1977) (TV) (Muppets, voices of Jerry Nelson, Frank Oz)
45. Jack Frost - (1998, Troy Miller) (Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross)
46. A Christmas to Remember - (1978) (TV) (Jason Robards, Eva Marie Saint, Joanne Woodward)
47. I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus - (2002, John Shepphird) (Connie Sellecca, Corbin Bernsen)
48. The Angel Doll - (2000, Alexander Johnston) (Betsy Brantley, Beatrice Bush, Pat Hingle)
49. A Smoky Mountain Christmas - (1986, Henry Winkler) (TV) (Dolly Parton, Lee Majors, John Ritter)
50. Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus - (1991, Charles Jarrott) (TV) (Richard Thomas, Edward Asner)
51. Frosty the Snowman - (1969) (TV) (Animated, narration by Jimmy Durante)
52. Christmas in My Hometown - (1996, Jerry London) (TV) (Tim Matheson, Melissa Gilbert, Travis Tritt)
53. The Miracle of the Bells - (1948, Irving Pichel) (Fred MacMurray, Alida Valli, Frank Sinatra, Lee J. Cobb)
54. The Life & Adventures of Santa Claus - (1985, Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr.) (TV) (Animated)
55. A Carol Christmas - (2003, Matthew Irmas) (TV) (Tori Spelling, Dinah Manoff, William Shatner)
56. Miracle on 34th Street - (1994, Les Mayfield) (Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins)
57. It Happened One Christmas - (1977) (TV) (Marlo Thomas, Orson Welles, Cloris Leachman)
58. The Night They Saved Christmas - (1984, Jackie Cooper) (TV) (Jaclyn Smith, Art Carney, June Lockhart)
59. Jingle all the Way - (1996, Brian Levant) (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson)
60. A Mom for Christmas - (1990, George Miller) (TV) (Olivia Newton-John, Juliet Sorcey, Doris Roberts)
61. One Magic Christmas - (1985, Phillip Borsos) (Mary Steenburgen, Gary Basaraba, Harry Dean Stanton)
62. Christmas Eve - (1986, Stuart Cooper) (TV) (Loretta Young, Arthur Hill, Trevor Howard)
63. Holiday Affair - (1949, Don Hartman) (Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Harry Morgan)
64. Christmas Mountain - (1981) (Mark Miller, Slim Pickens, Barbara Stanger)
65. The Nutcracker - (1993, Emile Ardolino) (Macaulay Culkin, Darci Kistler)
66. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear - (1984) (TV) (Mickey Rooney, Scott Grimes, Annie Potts)
67. The House Without a Christmas Tree - (1972) (TV) (Jason Robards, Lisa Lucas, Mildred Natwick)
68. Mixed Nuts - (1994, Nora Ephron) (Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Adam Sandler, Robert Klein)
69. The Holly and the Ivy - (1952, George More O'Ferrall) (Ralph Richardson, Celia Johnson, Denholm Elliott)
70. It Nearly Wasn't Christmas - (1989, Burt Brinckerhoff) (TV) (Charles Durning, Beverly Rowland)
71. Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus - (2004, Harvey Frost) (TV) (Steve Guttenberg, Crystal Bernard)
72. Meet the Santas - (2005, Harvey Frost) (TV) (Steve Guttenberg, Crystal Bernard, Marcia Ann Burrs)
73. Miracle Down Under - (1987) (TV) (Dee Wallace-Stone, John Waters)
74. The Kid Who Loved Christmas - (1990) (TV) (Cicely Tyson, Michael Warren, Della Reese, Ben Vereen)
75. The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story - (1983, D. Mann) (TV) (Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury, Polly Holliday)
76. Christmas on Division Street - (1991) (TV) (Fred Savage, Hume Cronyn, Kenneth Welsh)
77. The Christmas Stallion - (1992) (TV) (Daniel J. Travanti, Lynette Davies)
78. Bad Santa - (2003, Terry Zwigoff) (Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham)
79. The Homecoming: A Christmas Story - (1971) (TV) (Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas, Edgar Bergen)
80. The Lemon Drop Kid - (1951, Sidney Lanfield) (Bob Hope, Marilyn Maxwell, Jane Darwell)
81. Dear Santa - (1998, Fred Olen Ray) (D.L. Green, Harrison Myers)
82. Angel in the Family - (2004) (TV) (Meredith Baxter, David Chisum, Ronny Cox)
83. The Gathering - (1977) (TV) (Edward Asner, Maureen Stapleton, Stephanie Zimbalist)
84. Ernest Saves Christmas - (1988, John R. Cherry III) (Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Noelle Parker)
85. Eloise at Christmastime - (2003, Kevin Lima) (TV) (Julie Andrews, Sofia Vassilieva, Kenneth Welsh)
86. A Christmas Memory - (1997) (TV) (Patty Duke, Piper Laurie, Jeffrey DeMunn)
87. Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol - (1962) (TV) (Animated, voices by Jim Backus, Morey Amsterdam)
88. Christmas with the Kranks - (2004, Joe Roth) (Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd)
89. The Best Christmas Pageant Ever - (1983) (TV) (Loretta Swit, Jackson Davies, Anthony Holland)
90. Babes in Toyland - (1961) (Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Annette Funicello, Tommy Kirk)
91. Amahl and the Night Visitors - (1963, Kirk Browning) (TV) (Richard Cross, Martha King, Willis Patterson)
92. The Juggler of Notre Dame - (1970, Milton H. Lehr) (Barry Dennen, Jessica Benton, Christopher Ellis)
93. A Dream for Christmas - (1973) (TV) (Hari Rhodes, Beah Richards, Lynn Hamilton)
94. Guess Who's Coming for Christmas? - (1990) (TV) (Richard Mulligan, Beau Bridges)
95. The Curious Case of Santa Claus - (1982) (TV) (Animated, narration by Jimmy Durante)
96. Christmas Every Day - (1996) (TV) (Robert Hays, Erik von Detten, Bess Armstrong)
97. Bush Christmas - (1947, Ralph Smart) (Chips Rafferty, John Fernside)
98. The Twelve Days of Christmas Eve - (2004, Martha Coolidge) (TV) (Steven Weber, Stefanie von Pfetten)
99. A Flintstones Christmas Carol - (1994, Joanna Romersa) (TV) (Animated)
100. An All Dogs Christmas Carol - (1998, Paul Sabella) (Animated, voices of Steven Weber, Dom DeLuise)

Note: I took this list from this interesting site: http://www.digitaldreamdoor.com/pages/movie-pages/movie_christmas.html