Our Top Festive Movies

As the festive season approaches, our TV’s will soon be flooded with numerous snow-filled movies that only feel right to watch at this time of year. To help you navigate the plethora of options on offer, we asked a few of the Finura team which festive movies they love to watch year after year at Christmas time.

Jackline Edwards, Client Account Manager

Die Hard

Some may argue this isn’t an official Christmas movie but I love this film because Christmas is a hectic time and this film is also hectic, but with a really good story line, whereby a police officer’s wife and some friends were taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party.

I love this film because it is tense, very aesthetically pleasing because I don’t think anyone does Christmas decor like Americans and it is full of action as Bruce is a police officer and it was a time when actors really pushed themselves to the limit in terms of fitness and fighting routines as CGI was very limited – there’s no way you can fall asleep even after a huge meal because you are on the edge of your seat.

Rio Stedford, Head of Financial Planning

Your Christmas or Mine & Your Christmas or Mine 2

These are British romantic comedies about two very different families with very different backgrounds who end up spending Christmas together by mistake. There is a quote in one of the films that I have written down and look at every day:

“Wherever you get yourself in life, that’s where you belong. And if you are the exception in the room, child, it is because you are exceptional”.

Jennifer Crane, Client Account Manager

Christmas with the Kranks

Based on a book by John Grisham, this is a story about a couple who try to ‘skip’ Christmas. It’s just a great good-hearted film and is always watched on Christmas Eve in our house.

Emma Hunt, Compliance & Client Support Manager

This is Christmas

It’s a 2022 British rom-com following a group of people on their daily commute from Langton to London, on the build up to the Christmas period.  Whilst delayed one day, the characters start to plan a Christmas party and the film then follows the forming of friendships between a group of individuals that provide support for one another whilst touching on the fact that, for a lot of people, Christmas is not a happy time of year.  It’s a heart warming film and I especially like that, however you feel about Christmas, the watcher will be able to relate to different characters.  Cast includes Alfred Enoch, who people may recognise from Harry Potter and How to Get Away with Murder, Kay Scodelario from Skins, along with Timothy Spall, Joanna Scanlan and Jack Donoghue.

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