OK, these are “Christmas” only by a loose definition in some cases, and they’re also sometimes not “movies”. But you can watch them on the audiovisual display system of your choice.
Without further explanation, this eccentrically curated list was created by your author and The Lovely Rebecca, and has been arranged with some deliberation. Not much.
November 25: The Blue Carbuncle, we’ll be watching the Jeremy Brett edition of this Christmasy Sherlock Holmes classic
November 26: It’s a Wonderful Life, but let’s admit it: Pottersville seems pretty fun
November 27: Blackadder’s Cbristmas Carol, no explanation needed, I hope
November 28: X-Files, “How the Ghosts Stole Christmas”, for your deep cut Christmas pleasure
November 29: All Creatures Great and Small “Merry Gentlemen”, one of many Christmas episodes in this BBC adaptation of the James Herriot veterinary memoirs.
November 30: National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, we’ve never seen it, so let’s give it a try
December 1: A Charlie Brown Christmas, no explanation needed
December 2: The Lady in the Lake, Marlowe Noir + Christmas, how can this go wrong?
December 3: How the Grinch Stole Christmas, this household doesn’t recognize any version not narrated by Boris Karloff.
December 4: Emmet Otter’s Jug-Band Christmas, a Muppet Christmas special we haven’t seen? And it’s technically Can-con? OK!
December 5: Elf, because of course we have to include Will Ferrell’s fourth-best movie (behind, in no order, Talladega Nights, Stranger Than Fiction, & The Other Guys)
December 6: A Wish for Wings That Work, an odd Bloom County animated special that was all but disavowed by Berke Breathed
December 7: The Snowman, this is a lovely animated version of the Raymond Briggs classic
December 8: Trading Places, which is a more remarkable movie than you likely realize.
December 9: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, maybe the pinnacle of Rankin/Bass specials
December 10: Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, an underrated neo-noir with enough Christmas to make this list
December 11: The Nightmare Before Christmas, “but wait!” I hear you say, “isn’t that a Halloween movie?” Reader, it’s both
December 12: A Christmas Story, I’m not sure this ages as well as the others on this list, it’s a bit slow in places, but there’s so many good vignettes
December 13: 2046, this Wong Kar-Wai masterpiece is many things, including a Christmas movie
December 14: The Box of Delights “When the Wolves Were Running,” a BBC classic recommended to me, so here we go
December 15: Jingle Bell Rocks, an obscure documentary about Christmas music collectors, if you like this sort of thing, you may like it very much
December 16: Scrooged, because I am not re-watching A Very Murray Christmas
December 17: A Christmas Carol, we mean the Alastair Sim version
December 18: A Very Venture Christmas, hijinks ensue when Krampus crashes the Christmas party, Rebecca is happy this is only 11 minutes long
December 19: Miracle on 34th Street, the 1947 original
December 20: In Bruges, the greatest hitman comedy is also a great Christmas movie
December 21: Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town, another Rankin/Bass classic, this a ludicrous Kris Kringle origin story that’s a bit too fun to miss
December 22: Tokyo Godfathers, I haven’t seen this weird anime from Satoshi “Cowboy Bebop” Kon, so here we go
December 23: Holiday Inn, the musical with “White Christmas” in it. OK, the first musical with “White Christmas” in it. White Christmas was the second musical with “White Christmas” in it
December 24: Die Hard, Now I have a machine gun, ho ho ho
December 25: The Muppet Christmas Carol, underrated as one of the most faithful renditions of the classic story, and one of four (!) we will be watching
And that’s the list, we’ll be working on the other 11 days of Christmas shortly.