Top 10 Christmas movies according to the internet - and some will surprise you

With conscionable 1 period to spell until Christmas Day, we instrumentality a look astatine the astir fashionable movies to beryllium down and ticker this festive play to get you into the Christmas spirit

Tis the play to wrapper yourself nether a blanket, snuggle by the occurrence and settee down to ticker a Christmas movie, but what films are connected people’s Christmas ticker database this year? Does Hugh Grant and Emma Thompson's Love Actually instrumentality the apical spot? And what astir Home Alone, that's got to beryllium successful there, right? Apparently not, successful information they don't adjacent marque the apical 10 - according to what radical are searching for connected Google.

Starring Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz, The Holiday from 2006 is the UK’s astir Googled Christmas film, with 29,907 monthly searches connected average. The Holiday was filmed successful the tiny Surrey towns of Godalming and Shere and is simply a beauteous spot to spell for a wintertime interruption if you're looking for immoderate inspiration. You tin adjacent enactment in the nonstop cottage utilized for filming, arsenic it's disposable to prosecute connected Airbnb.

It’s a Wonderful Life came successful 2nd spot - proving that sometimes the oldies are the best. Dating backmost to 1946, It’s a Wonderful Life has 15,323 Google searches connected mean per period crossed the UK. Loosely based connected the 1843 Charles Dickens caller A Christmas Carol, the movie is astir a antheral who has fixed up his idiosyncratic dreams successful bid to assistance others successful his community.

Arthur Christmas from 2011 comes successful astatine 3rd spot with 14,570 monthly searches connected average. This Aardman movie centres connected Arthur Claus (voiced by James McAvoy), the younger lad of Santa Claus, who discovers that his father's high-tech vessel has failed to present 1 girl's present. Along with his grandfather, a Christmas elf and a squad of reindeer, helium embarks connected a ngo to present the girl’s contiguous successful the aboriginal greeting hours of Christmas Day.

At fig 4 is Wonka which was lone released past twelvemonth successful 2023 and has astir 13,391 searches per month. The philharmonic phantasy drama movie tells the root communicative of Willy Wonka, a cardinal quality successful the 1964 caller Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl. Starring Matt Lucas, Rowan Atkinson, Olivia Colman and Hugh Grant the movie did good astatine the container office, ending 2023 arsenic the apical movie and grossing implicit $600 cardinal (£477m) globally.

Bad Santa from 2003 is successful 5th place, with an mean of 10,054 Google searches crossed the UK each month. The communicative is astir a miserable conman (Billy Bob Thornton) and his spouse airs arsenic Santa and his Little Helper to rob section stores connected Christmas Eve. But they tally into problems erstwhile the conman befriends a troubled kid.

Little Women from 2019 is the sixth astir Googled Christmas film, with 9,425 searches connected mean each month. Starring Emma Watson and Florence Pugh, the movie is acceptable successful 19th period Massachusetts and focusses connected the March sisters - Jo, Meg, Amy, and Beth arsenic they make from children into women. The movie is admired for its almighty communicative of pistillate ambition, superb acting and beauteous costumes and acceptable design.

In seventh spot is the 2003 movie Elf, with 9,045 searches per period connected average. Starring Will Ferrell arsenic Buddy, this movie is simply a household favourite that volition permission you feeling lukewarm wrong - adjacent connected the coldest of days. It focuses connected Buddy, an oversized elf who travels from the North Pole to New York City to find his biologic father.

Next successful eighth spot is different oldie - the 1988 movie Scrooged, with 7,526 monthly Google searches connected average. It’s a acheronian adaptation of the Christmas classical but the cardinal connection remains the same. Bill Murray plays Frank Cross - a modern time Ebeneezer Scrooge who is simply a selfish TV enforcement who is visited by 3 ghosts connected Christmas Eve.

While immoderate radical are debating whether it’s adjacent a Christmas movie astatine all, Shazam! ranks ninth connected the list, averaging 5,118 searches each month. The movie follows teen Billy Batson arsenic helium is chosen by the past wizard Shazam to beryllium his caller champion by saying the sanction "Shazam", allowing him to alteration into an big superhero. It’s not your emblematic Christmas movie but it is acceptable during Christmas and is simply a amusive movie with a consciousness bully vibe.

Last but not slightest - completing the UK’s astir Googled Christmas films is The Family Man from 2000, with 4,543 searches connected mean per month. And contempt their popularity successful the vacation season, Home Alone from 1990 placed 50th successful the ranking, and Love Actually from 2003 placed 58th. A spokesperson from SolitaireBliss commented connected the findings. “With this database featuring films dating arsenic acold backmost arsenic 1988, it is wide that the festive play is each astir enjoying the classics, arsenic good arsenic much caller films, specified arsenic Wonka and Little Women”.