Favorites like "Eyes Wide Shut" and "Die Hard" join classics like "It's a Wonderful Life" in IndieWire's guide to the best Christmas movies.

Nancy Meyers is the Queen of Cozy, and this Christmastime-set romantic comedy might be her most warm and snuggly film ever. Two women—one in London (Kate Winslet), one in Los Angeles (Cameron Diaz)—face simultaneous romantic disappointments, which leads to them swapping homes over the holidays and, in turn, finding new men to swoon over.

Whether it was a puppet band singing Christmas songs to make money for gifts, a family trying to find out who’s killing off their family one by one, or a holiday spent in the Stone Age, Christmas movies in the 1970s were wide-reaching,