🎄 Joe’s Christmas Movie Collection: Family-Friendly Classics for the Holidays
You’ll find classics, comedies, cartoons, heartfelt stories, and a few hidden gems — all kid-friendly, cozy, and great for watching with the whole family. Grab some hot chocolate, snuggle up, and enjoy a movie night that actually feels like Christmas.
| MOVIE | PLOT | YEAR |
|---|---|---|
| A Charlie Brown Christmas | Depressed at the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find a deeper meaning to Christmas. | 1965 |
| A Christmas Carol | Original Title: Scrooge | Scrooge has no time for Christmas. However, this Christmas Eve, he will be visited by three spirits. | 1951 |
| A Street Cat Named Bob | The true feel-good story of how James Bowen, a busker and recovering drug addict, meets a stray cat. | 2016 |
| A Christmas Gift from Bob | James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that wants to take away his cat at Christmas. | 2020 |
| Auntie Mame | An orphan goes to live with his free-spirited aunt in 1928 after his father's death. | 1958 |
| Frosty the Snowman | A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat. | 1969 |
| How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (original cartoon) | A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville. | 1966 |
| It's a Wonderful Life | An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman see the value of his own life. | 1946 |
| Miracle on 34th Street | A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is really Santa. | 1947 |
| Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Young reindeer Rudolph, destined for Santa’s team, is shunned because of his bright red nose. | 1964 |
| Scrooge | Scrooge hates Christmas until three spirits show him past, present, and future. (The best Scrooge movie - Joe) | 1935 |
| Sunshine Christmas | A musician visits Texas with his daughter and rekindles romance with his high school girlfriend at Christmas. | 1977 |
| The Little Drummer Boy | An orphan drummer boy who hates humanity finds his life changed when he meets three wise men en route to Bethlehem | 1968 |
| The Muppet Christmas Carol | Muppets retell Scrooge’s story as ghosts show past, present, future, transforming miser’s outlook on life. | 1992 |
| The Night Before Christmas | Clement Moore writes A Visit from St. Nicholas for his sick daughter, creating the classic Santa poem. | 1968 |
| The Polar Express | A boy rides Polar Express to North Pole, discovering friendship, bravery, and his Christmas spirit. | 2004 |
| The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | In 1933 on Christmas Eve, the worried Walton family awaits their father's delayed return home. safely. | 1971 |
| 'Twas the Night Before Christmas (Rankin/Bass) | A town learns Santa has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind. | 1974 |
| White Christmas | Two performers fall for sisters and help save their former general’s failing Vermont inn together. | 1954 |