Top 5 theatrical Christmas movies:
5. The Family Stone
An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
4. Home Alone
An 8-year-old boy who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas must defend his home against idiotic burglars.
3. A Christmas Carol (1951)
An old bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by ghosts on Christmas Eve.
2. Miracle on 34th Street
When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.
1. It's A Wonderful Life
An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.
Honorable mentions: A Christmas Story, Elf, The Muppet Christmas Carol, Mickey's Christmas Carol, Jack Frost
Top 5 made-for-TV Christmas movies:
5. Frosty the Snowman
A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman's magic hat.
4. Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
A mailman reveals the origin of Santa Claus.
3. Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer
A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.
2. A Charlie Brown Christmas
Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.
1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
source: me, imdb, & youtube