Home Alone (1990) - I was a huge fan of this movie when it came out as well as its first sequel. A huge family gets ready to leave on a holiday vacation and forgets to bring the youngest member. Now, home alone, he must fight to protect his home from idiotic burglars. The Dennis-The-Menace style antics in this movie are epic in scale and flawless in execution. This movie is on the list because no holiday is complete without at least one child during the holidays running around and doing bad things worthy of getting a sackful of coal from Santa.
Lethal Weapon (1987) - A movie with one crazy cop saving the day during Christmas time made it on this list so of course THE movie with two equally rich characters saving lives and enforcing justice had to be included. The Christmas scenery takes a back seat to law breaking intrigue but the undertone of the movie is summed up in this statement: "the police do their duty ... even when others are relaxed ... because evil never rests".
(see the previous three movies on the list: http://simplemethodscolumn.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-top-five-non-christmas-christmas.html)