13 Awesome Films You Forgot Were Christmas Movies

4. On Her Majesty's Secret Service

On Her Majesty Secret Service
MGM

Quite possibly the most underrated of all the James Bond flicks, On Her Majesty's Secret Service is, if you can forgive George Lazenby's so-so performance in the role, a thrilling Bond film, and the most Christmassy of the lot.

The Christmas setting is evident from the outset: there's Yuletide celebrations going on throughout the movie, plenty of Christmas music, and the vast majority of the film's action sequences take place in the snow, from the ski scene, to the attack on Blofeld's (Telly Savalas) compound, and the climactic bobsled showdown.

Granted, it's also one of the heavier Bond films, given that Bond's new wife Tracy (a fantastic Diana Rigg) is murdered at the very end of the film in a tremendously affecting moment, but that only detracts slightly from the feeling of festive cheer cutting through almost the entire movie.

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