Best Movies of 2001

1. Moulin Rouge!
2. Memento
3. Donnie Darko
4. The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
5. Vanilla Sky
6. Training Day
7. A Beautiful Mind
8. Black Hawk Down
9. The Others
10. Serendipity

Best Movies with a Christmas Setting

Now this list is of movies that are great films at take place at Christmastime. Some of them are considered holiday movies and some aren't, but Christmas itself could be taken out and the film would not skip a beat.

1. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
2. Die Hard (1988)
3. We're No Angels (1955)
4. Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
5. Love Actually (2003)
6. The Thin Man (1934)
7. Pocketful of Miracles (1961)
8. Black Christmas (1974)
9. Go (1999)
10. Trapped in Paradise (1994)

Best Christmas Movies

Okay, this holiday season, I'm going to split Christmas movies into two categories. The first is straight-up Christmas movies. These are movies in which Christmas is a major theme or intregal to the plot. There are a lot more older movies on this chart than most of my lists, but, let's get real. How often does Hollywood put out a decent holiday movie these days?

1. Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
2. Scrooge (1970)
3. The Bishop's Wife (1947)
4. A Christmas Story (1983)
5. Elf (2003)
6. The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
7. Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1938)
8. The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
9. Home Alone (1990)
10. Prancer (1989)