Netflix selection: the Top 10 best Christmas movies!

Christmas is the time to watch films with the family and introduce our little ones to classics of cinema or animation. We had already made a selection of 10 films to watch as a family (Hook, Stuart Little, stardust, The 12 Labors of Asterix, etc.), but we’re doing it again with a new Christmas Top 10. If we missed a must-see, you can always point it out in the comments…

Our other “streaming” selections:

The best Christmas movies on Netflix

► Shrek

Shrek it’s the anti fairy tale, fun and irreverent. A real wind of change in the genre. It is the ideal cartoon to see with the family during the holidays. That’s good, Netflix also offers Shrek 2, 3 and 4 as well as the “spin off” The Puss in Boots. More than 20 years and not a wrinkle…

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► AND

If you haven’t seen AND, you no longer have an excuse since the most famous alien of the 80s is indeed on Netflix. A beautiful story of friendship and a great classic of cinema. A film to see and re-watch as a family. You don’t have children? Make some and put them in front AND.

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► Scrooge – The (bad) Christmas carol

From the book A Christmas Carol of Charles Dickens, this story is very well known among Anglo-Saxons who decline it absolutely in all sauces. Ebenezer Scrooge is a mean and embittered old gentleman who doesn’t like holiday parties. On Christmas Eve, he will meet 3 ghosts who will change him for life…

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► The Grinch

Film by Ron Howard (splash, Willow, Apollo 13…) with Jim Carrey, The Grinch is a sort of green bogeyman who doesn’t really like Christmas. A grumpy and resentful hermit, he wants to ruin the celebrations of the inhabitants of Chouville. More fun in VO, the film remains watchable in VF.

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► The Express Pole

An animated film made in “performance capture” (a sort of advanced “motion capture”), Zemeckis has again signed a fruitful cooperation with Tom Hanks. The pitch? A young boy who begins to doubt the existence of Santa Claus, boards a mysterious train and heads for the North Pole. A nice animated film, with no real villain, to watch with children from 6 years old.

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► The Christmas Chronicles

If one day someone had told me that Kurt Russell (Backdraft, Tombstone, Los Angeles 2013, Tango and Cash, Stargate…) would Santa Claus in a movie, I would not have believed it. Yet the film is dynamic and changes the usual codes of the genre. Nice to watch with children aged 8-12 (after this age they are evil and ungrateful beings, talk to them again around 19).

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► Life of Brian

Christmas is also the birth of our Lord Jesus Christ. And to pay homage to him, why not watch this masterpiece of Monthy Python released in 1979? Brian’s Life is a feature film as Terry Jones knew how to make them. Brian was born on the same day as Jesus and like everyone else, he hates the Roman occupier. This will push him to join the somewhat leftist terrorists of the Popular Front of Judea…

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►Forrest Gump

Another Zemeckis film? Yes, but it’s arguably his best. Released in 1994, Forrest Gump tells the story of a somewhat simple-minded boy who goes through life and trials in America in the 60s, 70s, 80s and 90s. He will meet four presidents, make Vietnam, become a ping-pong champion, captain of shrimper and millionaire while changing the world around him.

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► Kung Fu Panda

Another cartoon? Yes, but a great classic: Po is a restaurant waiter panda who will become a kung-fu master. Not easy for the dreamy, obese and clumsy panda… If you like Po, know that the other two sequels are also available on Netflix.

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► The Kingdom of Cats

Arguably the most underrated Ghibli anime. A very good feature film that tells the story of Haru, a 17-year-old girl who sees her life turned upside down the day she saves a cat that almost gets run over by a truck. Note that Netflix offers most of the creations of the Japanese studio: Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind Pompoko, Princess Mononoke, The Howl’s Moving Castle, Spirited away, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki’s Delivery Service, The Kingdom of Cats and Porco Rosso.

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Netflix without Internet? You can download your episodes!

Do you want to watch a film on the train or in your chalet at 2100 meters above sea level without Internet? Do you want to have peace in a car full of kids? On Netflix, it is possible to record the programs in advance and enjoy them offline. Watch our video…