Movies to watch on CHRISTMAS

Christmas is an event that has an ability to make the crappiest film making feel warm and brilliant . The movies that are treacly and chagrined become festive  traditions , loudly mocked in the living room with family , yet affecting enough to be watched every year.

To help plan your festive viewing , here are some most exiting films to watch over the Christmas season...

• Sunday 22 December :

Sister act , Channel 5, 3:00 pm

Whoopi Goldberg's famed gospel comedy sees the star play a lounge singer who goes undercover as a nun after fleeing a gang of crooks.

Office Christmas party , Channel 4 , 10 pm

It is an ensemble holiday movie that feels as if it were produced in lab having actors like Jennifer Aniston , TJ miller ...

• Monday 23 December :

The Santa Clause , ITV , 02:15 pm

Tim Allen literally transforming into father Christmas , belly and all...

The Manchurian Candidate , BBC2 12:25 am

Frank Sinatra , Angela Lansbury and Janet Leigh makeup the enjoyable oddball cast of this thriller ...

• Christmas Eve :

 Beauty and the Beast , BBC1 , 05:30 pm

Emma Watson as an ambitious bookworm who fall in love with the beast of the title , played by Dan Stevens...

• Christmas Day:

Moana , BBC1 , 12:55pm

Moana is the tale of a Polynesian girl called upon by the ocean to save her people.

• New Year Day :

Pete's Dragon , BBC1 , 11am 

Lowery injecting his Dragon with a Swoon-worthy humanity while populating his film with earnest star like Robert Redford...