Here are 10 underappreciated holiday movies to watch.

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BRONWYN MCKAY, LOCAL NEWS EDITOR

Are you more of Will Ferrell's Elf or Charles Dickens' Scrooge when it comes to watching Christmas movies?
 

Regardless, for the month of December, streamers and TV channel schedules are riddled with Christmas movies past and present, especially old favourites like How The Grinch Stole Christmas and Home Alone.
 

But if you're keen on something different this year, Mojo has listed 10 Christmas movies that may not be quite as good but still deserve more credit than what they got.
 

From 1996's Mrs Santa Claus, starring the late Angela Lansbury, to 2000's The Family Man with Nicolas Cage, you may have missed several of these gems in the video above.
 

Click 'read more' to see the full list.

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