December is the best time to put on your cozy sweaters and sip on hot chocolate while curling up on a couch. We bring you the best movies to binge-watch this holiday season filled with fun, drama, romance and most importantly, celebration. These movies are going to keep you up all night laughing and crying at the same time.
1.Last Holiday (2006)
Starring Queen Latifah and directed by Wayne Wang, Last Holiday is about a woman who is misinformed about her terminal illness, sets out on her last holiday where she makes her “Possibilities” into reality. From appearing on a ski magazine to having dinner with the world’s finest chef, she makes the best of every moment. It reminds us how not to be serious about life all the time. This movie shows us that dreams can be reality if we take a chance. Also to live life like it’s your last holiday.
2. Home Alone (1990)
After several remakes of the movie, the old and gold Home Alone never fails to entertain you. Passing The Silver Jubilee, Home Alone has been everyone’s favorite from kids to adult. The 8-year-old Kevin McAllister (Macaulay Culkin) outsmarting two con men is a great comedy and good for family bonding too. It’s the perfect holiday movie for this month. Just watch out for your chimney, it might not always be Santa.
3. It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)
Like all of us at some point of time, tired of life’s trial, George Bailey (James Stewart) wishes he were never born. After an angel grants his wish, George gets to see the city he once lived in. The city turned out to be different without his existence. He realized the number of lives he changed and impacted. The movie being a classic brought many tears and joy.
4. Love Actually (2003)
Need a reminder that love is around? Turn this on for a relentlessly delightful romantic comedy about nine intertwined stories. Directed by Richard Curtis, the movie has many plots connecting to one powerful emotion, love. Best movie to watch with your partner or even girlfriends and feel the love this holiday. Cupids are not just for Valentine’s Day!
5. The Family Stone (2005)
How nervous can you get when meeting your partner’s family? A hilarious Rom-com and family drama with a plot twist you never see coming. It does have a family cliché ending where they all come together, accepting one another. An uptight businesswoman Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker) spends the holidays with her boyfriend’s bohemian Connecticut family, not realizing her relationship might take a turn.
6. The Apartment (1960)
There’s nothing like the holidays to make a love triangle feel even bleaker. In Billy Wilder’s film, Jack Lemmon stars as a lonely office worker pining after elevator operator, who happens to be having an affair with his boss. As the melancholy, hard-drinking fairy tale draws to its close on New Year’s Eve, Lemmon must choose between his love and his job. The Apartment is a bona fide, award-winning classic—it scored Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Original Screenplay.
7. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Christmas means nothing if you haven’t watched the famous comedy holiday movie adapted from Dr. Seuss’s children book. The revenge seeking Grinch Max played by Jim Carrey, isolates himself on a mountain top home from the town filled with happy and glee people, the WHOs, who rejected the Grinch for being mischievous and green. After he plans to steal Christmas from the villagers, the bitter grump finds a hitch in his plans when he encounters the endearing Cindy Lou Who, his childhood crush.
8. Matilda (1996)
Based on Roald Dahl’s popular book, Matilda is an extremely curious and intelligent little girl who is very different from her lowbrow, mainstream parents who quite cruelly ignore her. As she grows older, she begins to discover that she has telekinetic powers. It doesn’t get any better when an awful headmistress of her school makes Matilda’s life miserable. Played in and directed by Danny DeVito, Matilda will make you want to be a kid again who read books, drinks tea and has super power.
9. 50 First Dates (2004)
Curl up for another romance with Adam Sandler and Drew Barrymore 50 First Dates where a Marine biologist Henry Roth finds the perfect woman, Lucy Whitmore, and falls head over heels for her. But when he sees her the following day, she hasn’t a clue as to who is he due to a rare brain disorder that wipes her memory clean every night. Now, with the help of his friend Ula, Henry has to concoct new and increasingly clever ways to meet her and get her to fall for him every day. This is a not so typical summer in December movie but watch it anyway for the love of beach and palm trees.
10. Daddy’s Home 1 (2015) and 2 (2017)
Why stick to one when you can have two? This double comedy consists of Brad, a flabby, furry, contentedly married executive of a smooth-jazz radio station, whose loving relationship with his two stepchildren comes under siege when their biological father, Dusty (Mark Wahlberg), roars back into their lives on a motorcycle like an avenging superhero. Brad, ignoring the advice of his wife, Sarah (an insipid Linda Cardellini), insists on befriending him.
See anything you like? Let this holiday be filled with magic and laughter with your friends and family.
Written by: Frah Eqbal
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