13 Christmas Movies For The Single People Who Hate ‘Love, Actually’

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No more ultra-cheesy love stories with a million couples coming together on a snowy Christmas Eve to make you feel bad about yourself. The holidays are a time to kick back egg nog and wrap yourself in the warm blankets of entertainment that allow you to forget your singledom. Like these movies.

1. How The Grinch Stole Christmas

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiaAIH8DQLo

Admit it, you are the Grinch. The Grinch is your spirit animal. There is very little about this movie and his persona that you don’t identify with.

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2. Scrooged

The only thing that makes classic stories like A Christmas Carol better is when they are translated into modern-day comedies and star people like Bill Murray. Yes, you know that he is eventually going to learn the error of his ways and become good again, but you can at least revel in his meanness while it lasts.

3. ‘Twas The Night

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRjTjsx7-qE

It’s a corny Disney Channel movie starring Walter White. Come on.

4. Die Hard

If you don’t consider Die Hard to be a Christmas movie, I don’t consider you a friend. The best Christmas movies are the ones that contain excessive explosions, machine guns, and gruesome deaths. (Not to mention Alan Rickman)

5. Bad Santa

The ultimate single person movie, not even counting its holiday theme. Billy Bob Thornton’s magnum opus. If this movie doesn’t immediately make you feel better about yourself and your place in life, you’ll probably never be happy.

6. The Nightmare Before Christmas

Is it a Halloween movie? Is it a Christmas movie? Can’t it be both?

7. Jack Frost

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mM-_eSWbI2A

It’s a B-movie about a mutant killer snowman. It’s half horror film, half comedy. It is extremely 90s. That video is the entire film, by the way. Enjoy yourself.

8. A Christmas Story

THE BEST EVER.

9. It’s A Wonderful Life

Ok, yes, this is a feel-good movie about a family man. But, come on, you need at least one ‘traditional’ story. And you can’t go wrong with this one.

10. A Charlie Brown Christmas

There is truly nothing not to like about this movie, and nothing that makes you feel bad for being single. (In fact, given some of the terrible relationships between the boys and the girls, you might be grateful not to have someone to pull a football out from underneath you.)

11. The Polar Express

The point is to get high and/or drunk and watch this movie with your friends so you can collectively make fun of the incredibly creepy animation. It’s an event all in itself.

12. The Muppet Christmas Carol

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dhpu2tq9GG4

It’s the Muppets, come on. You can’t go wrong with a classic story acted out by the dolls that you loved back before you even realized that “being single during the holidays” was a thing you would one day have to deal with. It’s pure nostalgia.

13. Elf

Yes, there is a love story. But the majority of this movie is about watching Will Ferrel at his best, enjoying the charming references to classic Christmas films, and simultaneously cringing and being jealous when Buddy makes his own food entirely out of candy and syrup. It’s hilarious, even if it does end in a kiss.

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