Last year’s Clothes Show Live Christmas Survey revealed that 1 in 3 men prefer rom-coms to action movies during the festive season. So we thought it only appropriate to give you some ideas. Read on for our top 3 Christmas rom-com movies…

The Holiday, 2006

Loved by practically everyone here at Models Direct – including the men – The Holiday has quickly established itself as a Christmas classic. From the Director of ‘What Women Want’, this festive film unites the best of the UK and US as it follows two women troubled with guy-problems – played by Kate Winslet and Cameron Diaz. But, when they swap homes in each other’s countries, they each meet a local guy – played by Jack Black and Jude Law – and fall in love. “The Holiday is about leaving your baggage behind and opening your eyes to what’s in front of you and what you’re really feeling,” said Jude Law.

Four Christmases, 2008

Next on our list comes US movie Four Christmases. Think ‘Meet the Parents’, but at Christmas, this rom-com plays out around a theme that unfortunately the vast majority of us can relate to – divorce. The ‘slapstick’ plot follows Vince Vaughn and Academy Award winner Reese Witherspoon who play a couple pressured into visiting all four of their divorced parents’ homes on Christmas Day. Sound familiar? “This is a movie about the universal theme of the holidays: anxiety. Holidays, home and family have a way of bringing us back to our roots and exposing our vulnerabilities like nothing else. Which, of course, is fertile ground for comedy,” said Director Seth Gordon.

Love, Actually, 2003

The team behind Notting Hill and Four Weddings and a Funeral brought us this Christmas rom-com over 7 years ago now, and it’s still one of our models’ favourites. A star-studded cast including Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Bill Nighy, Alan Rickman and our favourite romantic actor Colin Firth, make up a series of individual storylines all dealing with love over the Christmas season in London. Billy Bob Thornton, Rowan Atkinson and Denise Richards also appear in cameos, making this multi-plotted comedy number one on our list. “Love, Actually is a laugh-packed affair, with more than a few tears to be shed along the way, and a startling amount of bawdy raunchiness,” said LOVEFILM.