It’s that time of year! With the holidays right around the corner, we could all use some extra Christmas cheer. The fact of the matter is that the holidays are a stressful time, especially for college students. Between traveling back and forth from school to your home, trying to figure out how you’re going to afford holiday gifts, we could all use a cheery pick me up from a holiday movie. Here are my favorites that never fail to get me feeling festive.
HOLIDATE
Starting with my all-time favorite, Holidate is the perfect Christmas movie. The movie has a raunchy, adult humor, making it not the best family movie, but a great choice for a fun night in. Two singles who hate the holidays decide to be each other’s dates to holiday get togethers to get their families off their backs. Christmas, New Years, Valentines Day, Easter, they do it all. The movie occurs over the course of a year. Our main characters meet during Christmas, but most of the movie occurs during other times of the year, making it the perfect ‘intro to the holidays’ movie.
LOVE ACTUALLY
This is a classic that never fails to get me in my feels. The main message is about how love is everywhere, if you just pause to look around. Not just romantic love either, but love between a father and son, and of course, a one- night stand or two. We follow a few different stories as the different characters find their own love within eachother, and see how small the world really is when all of their stories cross paths.
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
This movie to me is perfect for the beginning of the holiday season. While it is considered a holiday movie, the storyline doesn’t revolve around the holidays. Christmas just happens in the background. It’s the perfect 90’s rom com: cheesy, grand gestures, drama, and of course, borderline stalkers. Lucy, a woman working the ticket booth at the train station can’t help but be memorized by the man she sees every day. When he gets shoved onto the tracks, she steps in to save his life. The doctors at the hospital mistake Lucy for his fiancé, and when she meets his family, she can’t bear to tell them the truth.
THE HOLIDAY
Two heartbroken singles from across the world decide to swap houses for two weeks over the holidays to get a break from their normal lives. What can go wrong? The characters meet new people, make new friends, and even find love in their new cities.
MEET ME NEXT CHRISTMAS
This movie is new this year, and I absolutely adored it. It made Netflix’s top 10 movies as soon as it was released. The movie features holiday breakups, meet cutes, grand gestures, fate, and… Pentatonix? Pentatonix played a key role in this movie, with the ultimate goal being to get a ticket to the sold-out Christmas Eve show. This movie was adorable, and I will definitely be rewatching it every year.
DIE HARD
Don’t come for me, but I love watching Die Hard over the holidays. I love a great romcom, but sometimes you just need a break from all the love. Enter Die Hard. Filled with action, stunts, and of course, John McClane in a wife beater, this is a go-to for me every year.
With Christmas coming quickly around the corner, it’s time to turn on a Christmas movie and cuddle up with a cup of cocoa on the couch (or your dorm bed). I hope some of my favorite holiday movies quickly become some of your favorites as well.