It’s almost time to get comfortable, the school holidays are about to start, and also the two holiday weekends We will have a few hours to relax and watch a movie (or several) as a family.

These are six titles we’ll never tire of, and if we’ve skipped one, there’s still time to catch up in 2023.

‘My poor angel’

The MacAllister house showed us in detail He Look of the American Christmas, with decorations everywhere, stockings on the fireplace, presents at the foot of the tree, snow everywhere and above all it provided us with a soundtrack, directed by John Williams and enriched with classics: white Christmas (from The Drifters), the Ukrainian one The singing of the bells And Have a Merry Christmas (Mel Tomé version).

In the second part, also at Christmas, but this time in New York, he brought us the interior of the Plaza Hotel (and a cameo by Donald Trump), the mysteries of Central Park and the songs All alone at Christmas, a Holly Jolly Christmas, my Christmas tree (the scene where Kevin breaks up the children’s choir because of his older brother), Jingle Bell Rock, it’s starting to look a lot like Christmas, Poinsettia And It’s the most wonderful time of the year.

‘The North Pole Express’

Can you hear the bells? Whatever the answer, as a child you can travel on the Polar Express. A train full of children in pajamas, where the waiters sing and dance as they serve the food, where no one falls asleep because (almost) everyone hopes to see Santa Claus in his fantastic workshop. The film shows the different nuances of childhood innocence, the ability to believe and be enthusiastic, the varied sensitivity of each child. When the film premiered in 2004, it incorporated then-new motion capture technology.

‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’

Is it Christmas if there are no presents? The Grinch is a green, wrinkled creature with enough decency to help a girl, but not enough decency to respect the gifts and decorations of others. The girl is small, but with the courage to cross the barriers necessary for a marginalized person to reintegrate into the community. Actor Jim Carrey remembers that putting on the Grinch costume and makeup was “like being buried alive every day,” in the dressing room for eight hours, and that when he threatened to resign, they hired an expert who taught intelligence agents how to resist torture. Part of it was him telling himself he was doing it for the kids. “I’ve put on makeup a hundred times. You know what helped me resist? The Bee Gees.”

‘The Promised Gift’

Have you already bought toys for your children? As you secure yourself, watch how Arnold Schwarzenegger joins the list of action heroes turned Christmas comedians, playing a father consumed by work trying to make up for lost time searching for trendy, out-of-stock toys; He meets another father under the same circumstances, but instead of uniting them, rampant competition arises between the two. It’s the closest thing to Schwarzenegger dressed as Iron Man.

‘Tokyo Godfathers’ (heroes to the rescue)

This one is easy for anime fans. Three homeless people, an alcoholic, a transvestite and a teenage runaway, find an abandoned baby girl on the streets of Tokyo and are torn between becoming attached to her and taking her as a divine gift or searching for her family. They have resigned themselves to the latter (the street is not a good place for a little girl) and find that doing the right thing is always the hardest. Directed by Satoshi Kon.

‘Hard to kill’

It is true that there are no Christmas decorations, but everything happens during Christmas and the most important thing is that it has become part of the catalog of these dates. The holiday matters in the plot, because McClane (Bruce Willis) arrives in Los Angeles because it’s Christmas and, in the spirit of reconciliation, he tries to win his wife back. The robbery takes place during a Christmas party, when there are more customers and police surveillance is less acute. For those who continue to deny it because it’s an action movie, there’s the macabre “ho, ho, ho” that McClane leaves to Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman). Just from the aftermath Die hard 2 It happens on Christmas Eve, as McClane waits for his wife’s flight and the terrorists take over the airport.