MY FAVORITE COZY CHRISTMAS MOVIES | MY SWEDISH ADVENT CALENDAR #16 

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation is my favorite Christmas movie that I watch every year.

I like all the old black and white 1940s classics like It's a Wonderful Life, The Shop Around the Corner, Miracle on 34th Street. A 1980s classic is Prancer. I grew up in rural Michigan and watching it is like watching my childhood. I like the children's cartoons and stop animation shows by Rankin Bass. A new one I love is The Man Who Invented Christmas about Charles Dickens. ♡

A Christmas Carol is my favorite

The one I absolutely HAVE to see during the holidays is ITS A WONDERFUL LIFE. And I love all of the animated oldies.

Thank you for your lovely list, Maria, and for sharing your traditions with us. God Jul!!! 🌲🎄🇸🇪☃️❄️♥️ Love Actually, and Bridgette Jones', Nativity Story, Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas, and The Polar Express, but It's A Wonderful Life, and The 80's Little Women are my favorites, and a film with Cary Grant called: "Penny Serenade". Also must watch; The Peanuts Christmas, Rudolf The Red-Nosed Reindeer. Planes, Trains, and Auto Mobiles. And I agree that LOTR must be watched, as well!

My favorite that I haven't seen mentioned is The Man Who Came to Dinner, with Bette Davis. We also love Stanwyck's Christmas in Connecticut & The Holiday & Scrooged (Carol Kane!) & A Child's Christmas in Wales. Hope your having a festive Yule!

Great choices, love Elf and Holiday as well! But, don't forget the old great classics from the Golden Age of Hollywood in the 1930s and 40s..."Holiday Inn" with the late greats Fred Astaire/Bing Crosby where he introduced the great classic song, "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas" with wonderful singing and dancing, "It's a Wonderful Life" with the late great Jimmy Stewart, "Christmas in Connecticut" with the late great Barbara Stanwyck, "A Christmas Carol" with the amazing Alistair Sims who did the best job ever playing old Scrooge in 1951! The original " Miracle on 34th St." abt the Macy's Thanksgiving parade starring the late great Natalie Wood when she was nine years old who drowned tragically in 1981 at the age of 43. See if you can get your hands on these, well worth watching and shouldn't be forgotten! Also loved the Swedish film, "Fanny and Alexander" which also takes place at Christmas time in Sweden. Another great classic film! Thanks for sharing your favorites~

All time favorite is White Christmas.

It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart! Prancer with Sam Elliott, White Christmas with Bing Crosby all oldies but GOODIES!!!!!

Miracle on 34th Street. Love it

christmas vacation and a christmas story

Maria, please also watch The Family Stone, Prancer, and the classic It's Wonderful Life in black and white. I love Holiday also. Try also One Magic Christmas, Christmas Vacation, Chrismas Story, Christmas Carol ( with George c, Scott.) Santa Claus, Home Alone. Wishing you and your hubby blessing this Holiday season. I love your videos.

Dear Maria , i see that a lot of people have mentioned it already... you have to see "It's a wonderful life " - 1946 with James Steward - it's so inspiring and it plays around Christmas .

Just found your channel a few weeks ago and I’m binge watching your videos especially My Swedish Advent Calendar series. It wouldn’t be Christmas without watching A Charlie Brown Christmas, the original animated version of The Grinch Who Stole Christmas, 1966. We also like It’s A Wonderful Life, The Bishop’s Wife with Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven, Miracle On 34th Street, and an absolute must to watch is Laurel and Hardy’s The March of the Wooden Soldiers! I know there’s more but these are our big ones!

All the oldies, especially the black and whites: It's a Wonderful Life, A Christmas Carol, White Christmas, Holiday Inn, Bells of St. Mary's, Miracle on 34th Street (the original, of course!). The newer faves: A Christmas Story and Elf.

PS I Love You. Murphy's Romance My Big Fat Greek Wedding Gotta see these! 👍🎄😀

I generally love classic movies therefore my favorite ones... "Holiday Inn", "The Shop Around the Corner", "Remember the Night", "Christmas in Connecticut", "Meet Me in St. Louis", "It's a Wonderful Life", "The Bishop's Wife", "It Happened on 5th Avenue", "3 Godfathers", "Miracle on 34th Street", "Holiday Affair", "Scrooge", "White Christmas".

I also enjoy watching movies during Christmas time. Two of my favorites are Little women and Chocolat.

I'll add to all of the movies already mentioned, The Bishop's Wife (the 1947 version with Cary Grant, of course), Christmas in Connecticut (the 1945 version with Barbara Stanwyck), A Christmas Carol (the 1951, Alastair Sim), Jingle All The Way, Holiday Inn, Home Alone, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation and Scrooged (an amazing and original reworking of Dickens). We start the Christmas movieathon Thanksgiving weekend (4th Thursday-Sunday of November) with Home for the Holidays (Holly Hunter, Robert Downey, Jr., Dylan McDermott and watch sometimes into the first week of January because we try to watch ALL of them. Oh, and another favorite, the Christmas Episode from season 2 of All Creatures Great and Small.

My favourite Christmas movies are National Lampoons Christmas Vacation, Elf and Muppets Christmas Carol! But I also love The Holiday and Love Actually like you! God Jul! X

Little Women (80's version), 4 Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill, The Family Man (Tia Leone), Love Actually, Its a Wonderful Life, The Family Stone, The Holiday, and Groundhog Day!

Another very fun Christmas time movie: Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Ooh, I already posted, but forgot to ask: Do Swedes really watch Donald Duck films on Christmas Eve? I heard that was a thing. I hosted a Swedish Christmas a few years ago, and got Disney's "A Christmas Carol", with Donald Duck, playing Scrooge. It was fun, and a great way to honor my Swedish mother, and grandpa, who have passed away.

One of my favs is "Little Women"; the one from the 1940's with June Allison. Another oldie is "Meet Me In St Louie" with Judy Garland.

Steve Martin...LA Story...I think you will love it. A Charlie Brown Christmas and A Christmas Story. And the original Miracle on 34th Street! Black and White preferably. For goofy movies, Laurel and Hardy, Babes in Toy-land.

My favorite Christmas movie is Prancer. My favorite movies in general are, ending with #1 (my all time five) : Blade Runner, Splash, the original Star Wars trilogy (4, 5, 6) , Ghostbusters, Gremlins, Superman (with Christopher Peeve) and my favorite #1 movie= ET the Extraterrestrial. I have watched these movies a million times, and I could watch them a million times more. Aah bliss!

A Christmas Carol (1951) version with Alastair Sim, Holiday Inn, White Christmas, It's A Wonderful Life, Miracle on 34th Street (1947), Babes In Toyland, The Polar Express. And the animated Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.

Donovan’s Reef...my dad always watched it every Christmas. mele kalikimaka. And so that tradition continues.

The family Stone is one of my Christmas must see

Oh do try ''The Bishop's Wife'' with beautiful Loretta Young as the wife and Cary Grant as an angel. I always laugh AND cry.

I watched Love Actually last night! It goes with The Holiday for me, too, Christmas must-watch movies. When I was younger there was no Christmas without the three Sissi movies from the 50s about Empress Sisi of Austria with Romy Schneider (and also the one where she played Queen Victoria!), just gorgeous. Another one we never miss is the Czech movie Three hazelnuts for Cinderella, despite the very 70s vibe, it's so sweet. I need to watch The Snowman and Polar Express at some point over Christmas, as well, and when the children were growing up Wallace and Gromit 😬 With them we also liked the Astrid Lindgren movies and series and on German TV there always used to be a new Christmas series every year, but I don't think they do that now.... LOTS of fond memories! I just remembered - I always like to watch a ballet performance of the Nutcracker, too, such a part of Christmas 😊 ...but I never saw any of the other movies you mention 😳 (well, obviously I know LOR and HP, but the others!)

I love The Little Princess with Shirley Temple, so over the top..but I love it!

Like some others....It's a Wonderful Life is a must see, an the other is the original Miracle on 34th Street, with Natalie Wood. I'm also fond of most of the Hallmark channel Christmas movies, even tho I do have my top 5 can not miss of those.

I love "Home Alone" corny yes but great Christmas movie! The "Holiday" yes! "A Child's Christmas in Wales" reminds us of the funny relatives and happenings through the eyes of a child. Many of the movies you like are great for the holiday season. Love your Advent series xxxxx

We like to watch Elf, the cartoon version of the Grinch, Polar Express and It’s a Wonderful Life. 😀🎄

Great list! My absolute favourite is Ronia, the Robber's daughter. Another one is allready mentioned by someone else, the Czech movie Three wishes for Cinderella.

I always watch "It's a Wonderful Life" which is an awesome feel good movie really popular in America. Also, I love an old one called "Little Lord Fauntleroy", a really sweet movie with a young Mickey Rooney in it. I never miss watching those two over the Christmas season.

The Holiday is a favorite of mine. The visuals of the English countryside make me feel very cozy here in Illinois. A version filmed in the Swedish countryside would be even better. I had the blessing of being able to visit Sweden this past September. We stayed in a cottage in the countryside. It was wonderful.

I love aaaaaaall the movies you mentioned ❤I would also add The Polar Express, which always gives me tears 😭 I also love to watch all the Winter/Christmas episodes of Pippi Longstocking, Emil of Lönneberga and Pettson och Findus! I LOVE the atmosphere! 😍 Ahhh December is just my favorite time of the year and I spend 80% in bed with those movies!

those all are good choices. I love the classic It's a Wonderful Life

Thanks for sharing your favorite movies for Christmas! I love watching 'The fearless vampire killers' from Polanski at this time of the year.

Thank you Maria ❤

My favorite Holiday movies are: Holiday Inn with Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire, We are no Angels with Humphrey Bogart,. I like watching the specials from my childhood like: The year without a Santa Claus, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the Red nosed Reindeer, Santa Claus is coming to town, The Snowman by Raymond Briggs (I think you would like this one) and then my favorite crazy funny movies and shows are: Pee Wee's Christmas Special, and Elf

Thank you so much for introducing me to The Holiday and The Notebook. They are new to me and I have been to Netflix to watch them now, they are brilliant!!! I always watch Home Alone, Love Actually, It's a Wonderful Life and A Christmas Carol over Christmas: such a great thing to be doing on 26th December. Sometimes I have a jigsaw near me for any slow parts that I know too well, plus, of course, some nuts and chocolates:) Bliss.

We love Harry Potter, White Christmas, love love love Father if the Bride! It's complicated is one I haven't seen, but now on my list. Thanks for all the good ideas!

My sister and I quote the grinch on a regular basis, year round. Haha It’s always relevant!

I just found your channel and I LOVE your Christmas Advent series!! You gave me some ideas on some movies I haven't seen yet and your favorites reminded me of some I know you would love. You really have to see: Something About Mary, Overboard, and The Wedding Singer :)

Oh, all the films you've mentioned are so wonderful and I love them all very much! I'd say that my favorite is The holiday. It is so lovely, and romantic, and funny! And also I like the Grinch! My daughter loves the book, I know it all by heart, cause I read it all the time last winter 😄 and this year we've watched the film and the cartoon together! We've had such a lovely cozy time, getting into it's winter-Christmas atmosphere 💕✨ wishing you a wonderful evening, Maria! And thank you for the list❄️☕

Loving this series sooooo much! i can see it becoming a Christmas Tradition to watch them year after year. Movies: Miracle on 34th street (both old and new), Auntie Mame, The Santa Clause Series, Elf, Grinch (same as yours, so fun).

Thank you for your list, I1ve got some new ideas! My plus favorites: Holiday Affair and While you were sleeping. :)

Yes "the holiday" Jude Law 😍 I always cry.

I really enjoy Elf and the Lord of the rings/Hobbit series. We love musicals in our family so we watch White Christmas also. Oh and I love the Christmas Story. 🎄

Love your taste in movies

Hi Maria, Zuzu lost her paddles, It's a Wonderful Life with the late James Stewart. Elf is a pretty cool movie 2, there are a lot of Christmas movies on the Hallmark Channel here in New York that are uplifting in the spirit of Christmas. Also watching home movies from Christmas Past when we were children tearing the presents open enjoying the day with our family those are the best ones to watch. I hope you and hubby are well thank you for another nice video.

Snow Falling On Cedars !!!

I like The Holiday too.

I have made a note of "Father of the bride" and "The Notebook" and will definitely watch those asap! Two other favourites of mine and great hilarious family movies are "What about Bob" and "A fish called Wanda". I can watch those over and over and over again!

Awwww the notebook is my aaaaaalll time favorite movie!! I love it so much! I was so happy, when you mentioned it! Thanks for the tips - there are a lot I've never seen before and I'll watch them for sure this christmas time

I like your choices (although there are a couple I haven't seen yet). My all time favourite Christmas movie is The Muppets Christmas Carol, I watch it every year. I also love Journey to the Christmas star.

I love to watch Arthur Christmas, Silent Night (not the horror film, but the one about WWII)...but my siblings and I always get excited to see the DreamWorks animation special, *How to Train Your Dragon: The Gift of the Night Fury* and *Merry Madagascar.* They're childish and silly, but my siblings and I *love* them.

I think you might like "Love the Coopers" also!

Chocolate with Johnny depp

Jepp älskar alla filmer du nämnde! Varenda en! 😂❤️👍

I love Scrooge with George C. Scott and The Lake House with Sandra Bullock and Keanu Reeves.

I agree with Love Actually, and The Holiday gives me a cosy feel good feeling and makes me glad to live in a cold, dark country at Christmas! I'd say my favourite is an animation, The Snowman! Have you seen it Maria?

It’s a wonderful life, definitely!bAnd I watch some of theChristmas Hallmark movies that come out on youtube :).

Hallmark anyone? Princess switch is great

Oh I love The Holiday, I have it in DVD and watch it from time to time, even when it plays on TV ha ha On the other hand, I hated Love Actually at first and didn't understand all the fuss about it and one day, I don't know, I started liking it and now I watch it every time it's on TV. I saw The Grinch only once but remembered I had liked it, I should write it down on my Xmas list to watch later ^_^ I love The Notebook, the actors, the book, the story, I also have it in DVD of course. I like to watch Home Alone and Home Alone in NYC around Xmas as some people also commented.

Tack for atta du delar listan med filmer. Jag alskar hobbit the lord of the ring.film jag sag under den senaste julen ver a beautiful mind.planerar att se love actually and the holiday sa snart jag fa tid fran mitt dagliga schema med studier och bocker..

By the way, the kids and I watched the new "The Grinch" in the theatre yesterday and it was also really great!

Can’t buy me love wasn’t as popular when I was a teen ... compared to all the John Hughes films (16 candles, breakfast club, weird science, pretty in pink... you get what i’m saying). But oh how I love can’t buy me love. These movies all came out when I was 15-18 ... yes i’m that old! I’m like you I love watching the same movies over. My xmas favorites mirror yours a bit. The holiday Love actually Harry Potter The Hobbit trilogy (I love more than lord of the rings) ...But then... Dr. Zhivago ❤️❤️❤️ (this movie is my heart) Christmas Carol (the one from the mid 80s starring George C Scott) Little Women (from 1994 with Winona Ryder) ET (don’t ask me why) Close Encounters (again no idea why) Living Daylights (yes I know James Bond just screams festive holiday fare)

Karl Bertil Jonsson. And hearing my mother in law recite the same line every year, about the communist.

So, just a pile of Hollywood. Any Swedish movies you would recommend?

"Hans Brinker" 1969

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