23 Christmas Movies That Will Almost Certainly Make You Cry

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The holidays are a time for big emotions. The weather can get extreme, there’s too much to do, and family gatherings offer up wild swings of intense feeling: joy, excitement, apprehension, annoyance, exhaustion. The movies (and life) teach us that any holiday meal with a sufficient number of guests must involve drama of some sort: Somebody’s pregnant, somebody’s getting married or divorced, someone’s coming out of the closet, someone’s dying.