It’s the most wonderful time of the year; a time to indulge in the festivities and share the Christmas cheer! The iiTeam have come together and shared their all-time favourite movies to watch during the holidays to provide a merry movie list for you. There’s the traditional, the controversial, and the yearly new release movies on Netflix!
Get ready for a whole lot of festive flair– bought to you by iiNet. Now you just have to choose what to watch first!
Love Actually
Year: 2003
Rating: M
Festive Quote: “If you look for it, I’ve got a sneaky feeling you’ll find that love actually is all around” – Prime Minister.
It’s a Wonderful Life
Year: 1946
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “Merry Christmas, movie house! Merry Christmas, Emporium! Merry Christmas, you wonderful old Building and Loan!” – George Bailey.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Year: 1964
Rating: G
Festive Quote: “I love this Christmassy time of year” – Sam the Snowman.
Home Alone (1 & 2)
Year: 1990 and 1992
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “Merry Christmas, ya filthy animal” – Kevin McCallister.
Elf
Year: 2003
Rating: G
Festive Quote: “The best way to spread Christmas cheer is singing loud for all to hear” – Buddy the Elf.
Die Hard
Year: 1988
Rating: M
Festive Quote: “Yeah. I got invited to a Christmas party by mistake. Who knew?” – John McClane.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Year: 1965
Rating: G
Festive Quote: Rats. Nobody sent me a Christmas card today. I almost wish there weren’t a holiday season. I know nobody likes me. Why do we have to have a holiday season to emphasise it? – Charlie Brown.
Jingle All the Way
Year: 1996
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “Put that cookie down. NOW!” – Howard Langston
The Snowman
Year: 1982
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “I remember that winter because it had brought the heaviest snows I had ever seen. Snow had fallen steadily all night long and in the morning I woke in a room filled with light and silence, the world seemed to be held in a dream-like stillness. It was a magical day. And it was on that day I made the snowman.” – Older James
A Christmas Carol
Year: 2009
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “Bah Humbug” – Scrooge
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Year: 1994
Rating: M
Festive Quote: “There I was, standing there in the church, and for the first time in my whole life I realised I totally and utterly loved one person. And it wasn’t the person next to me in the veil. It’s the person standing opposite me now… in the rain” – Charles.
The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
Year: 2005
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “Always winter but never Christmas” – Mr. Tumnus
Klaus
Year: 2019
Rating: PG
Festive Quote: “A true selfless act, always sparks another” – Klaus
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The Nightmare Before Christmas
Year: 1993
Rating: G
Festive Quote: “Kidnap the Sandy Claws, beat him with a stick. Lock him up for fifty years, see what makes him tick!” – Lock, Shock, and Barrel
Find it in the Movie Store on Fetch.
Arthur Christmas
Year: 2011
Rating: G
Festive Quote: “No one gets an unwrapped present on my watch!” – Elf
Find it in the Movie Store on Fetch.
Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch
Year: 2018
Rating: G
Festive Quote: “It was me. I stole your Christmas. I stole it because I thought it would fix something from the past. But it didn’t.” – The Grinch
Find the fully animated 2018 feature here. You can also find the movie Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas movie in the Movie Store on Fetch.
The Holiday
Year: 2006
Rating: M
Festive Quote: “You’re incredible! You’re a prodigy! A doodle prodigy!”- Miles
Find it in the Movie Store on Fetch.
What’s your go-to Christmas movie during the festive season? Let us know in the comments so we can add them to our must-watch list!
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Hi Colleen!
New releases start at $4.95 and some of these movies may be available in the Fetch Movie Box from time to time.
– Leo
Love the list but could add :
The Santa Clause (1, 2 & 3)
Christmas with the Kranks
Miracle on 34th Street
The Polar Express
Holiday Inn
White Christmas
There is nothing like Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol”
To begin:
“Marley was dead to begin with.”
Only Charles Dickens can write like that.
I know it’s a little different than your usual Christmas fare, but I love The Silent Partner (1978) with Elliot Gould and and Christopher Plummer. It’s a good old-fashioned thriller that’s set around Christmas time.
I will have to take a look at this one Brian!
– Erin
Oh yes – The Polar Express AND Holiday Inn AND White Christmas. The last one, even after so many years of viewing it, still sings. Add, even though it isn’t a Christmas movie, Mama Mia. I will always love that one!
We all have must-watch movies that aren’t ‘technically’ Christmas films Daphne!
– Erin
Also:
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
Deskset is my wife’s go to Christmas movie and I can’t resist it either with Spencer Tracy and Katherine Hepburn.
@Fiona, agree with your adds as they are part of our family tradition.
@John, I’ll take a look at Desk Set as we love the oldies.
We recently watch Almost Christmas. Wasn’t what we thought it be, but was well worth watching.
Scrooged – with Bill Murry
The Christmas Chronicles (released last year) with Kurt Russell, is simply brilliant.
I still need to check this one out. Added to my list!
– Erin
National Lampoons Christmas Vacation
This is a great one Heather!
– Erin
Christmas Chronicles
Kurt Russell as Santa
Nails it
Definitely Desk Set, their Christmas party is almost as good as ours and also Nativity, very funny!
Fetch Mighty- note NO Ctick (ACMA) shown on box.
Watched 1 movie only then checked BBC,CNN off & on etc & in 2 days used 25Gb data. Couldn’t watch Free To Air FTA unless connected to internet. Each time you click any program it’ll buffer up to 100-500Mb data (they don’t tell you that) so after checking all available channels on Fetch …bugga 25Gb gone. Then it locked up. SBS on Demand needs a lot of searching programs + lots GB gone 🙁 IT’S A LEMON 🙁
Hi Brian,
Thanks for your comments! We’d like to take a look at this for you, as we certainly don’t think that Fetch is a lemon. If you’re able to, would you please make direct contact with us via our Social Media e-mail address: iiOnline@iinet.net.au with your details and mentioning your post here? We can then use this to locate your account so we can take a further look into this one for you.
– Leo
What is the cost t9 watch these movies on Fetch?