9 Festive Movies to Watch Over the Holiday Break (That Aren't It's a Wonderful Life)

If you're not into romantic A-list ensemble dramedies, do you even feel joy? Love Actually is festive sap at its finest, sure to put you in the cheeriest of moods. Plus, the movie has psychic powers... 

I refuse to believe that Bridget Jones's Diary is not a holiday movie. It has all the makings of a great one: a love triangle, British accents, a make-out scene set in the snow... 

It's not Christmas until you've seen Will Ferrell hit the mall. 

This delightful retelling of the Christmas classic is, in my opinion, woefully underrated. If the phrase "starring Miss Piggy" comes into play, I'm there. 

While on the surface, CMBYN may seem like a coming-of-age tale about a boy in Italy navigating an affair with an older man during the summer of 1983, at its core, it's really a Hanukkah movie—Twitter seems to think so, at least. Hanukkah movies are hard to come by, so we'll take it.

In case your lazy holiday season has you craving an action flick (and/or Bruce Willis). 

This idyllic romcom about two women who house swap over Christmas after crushing breakups provides the perfect holiday-themed reprieve from reality. If only life were as simple as the film's characters lead us to believe. 

What's more festive than two Internet strangers (and competing book store owners!) falling in love via email? Drawing a blank.

This is probably the funniest Christmastime comedy ever—laugh out loud level funny—and also perhaps the most underrated.