Feel-good movies to keep you company this festive
Nothing beats relaxing at home with your favourite snacks sitting in the best spot on the couch.
‘Tis the season to be jolly and ho, ho, ho! Nothing beats relaxing at home with your favourite snacks sitting in the best spot on the couch.
Snuggle up, get comfortable and enjoy these five feel-good festive films.
1. Home Alone
Take it back to your childhood with this classic movie. Former child star Macaulay Culkin plays naughty eight-year old Kevin McCallister. The story begins when Kevin’s family mistakenly leaves him behind before their trip to France. Things take a turn when Kevin has to protect his family’s residence from con men all while home alone. Now, 30 years later, die-hard Home Alone fans still refer to Culkin as that bratty and adventurous boy.
Watch the trailer here:
2. Dinner for One
Old but gold, Dinner for One is the ultimate classic movie to take you way back in time. It follows the story of Miss Sophie and her Butler James. Having outlived all her friends, Miss Sophie insists on celebrating her 90th birthday with all the normal traditions. James is then required to impersonate her guests and the night turns into an intoxicated and exciting evening!
Have a blast from the past with this trailer from the 1963 film:
3. Operation Christmas Drop
A Netflix original, Operation Christmas Drop is the perfect rom com to keep your spirits high. Kat Graham plays the role of Erica Miller – a congressional aide who forgoes her own family Christmas at the request of her boss. Loosely based on the real-life US Air Force Operation Christmas Drop humanitarian, it has a sweet romantic element to make you fall in love this festive season.
Get your military-romantic dose:
4. Love Actually
This British film explores eight couples’ relationships through the complexities of life. Exploring a number of different characters, the common theme here is connecting through love all while realising how complicated relationships can actually be.
Explore the meaning of love with the trailer here:
5. Holidate
Two singletons who are fed up with being alone on holidays come to a year-long agreement of being each others platonic plus-ones. Unknown to them at the time, the two partners start catching real feelings along the way which ends up being just what they may have needed.
A Netflix original, watch the trailer here:
