The El Paso Community Foundation Plaza Classic Film Festival will offer more FREE Holiday Movies at WinterFest at more locations this year.
Thirteen movies, including Elf, How the Grinch Stole Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life (80th anniversary) and Home Alone, will be shown between November 22 and December 26 at four locations — the Plaza Theatre, El Paso Museum of Art, Mexican American Cultural Center, and The Rink on the Convention Center Plaza.
Admission is FREE. No tickets are required.
The series includes our first two outdoor movies, Coco on the MACC Pavilion’s outdoor digital screen and The Grinch at The Rink, WinterFest’s ice skating rink.
Other movies include The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Polar Express, Frozen, Gremlins and Die Hard.
Plaza Theatre audiences may enjoy holiday music played on the theater’s original Wyler Mighty Wurlitzer Pipe Organ 30 minutes before each movie.
The schedule is:
Sunday, November 22
3 pm: A Christmas Story (PG), MACC Auditorium (with Spanish subtitles)
5 pm: Coco (PG), MACC Pavilion/Outdoor Digital Screen (with Spanish subtitles)
Saturday, November 28
3 pm: The Nightmare Before Christmas (PG), Plaza Theatre
5:30 pm: Home Alone (PG), Plaza Theatre
Saturday, December 5
3 pm: The Muppet Christmas Carol (G), El Paso Museum of Art
Sunday, December 6
3 pm: It’s a Wonderful Life (PG), Plaza Theatre
6 pm: Elf (PG), Plaza Theatre
Saturday, December 12
3 pm: Gremlins (PG), El Paso Museum of Art
7 pm: The Grinch (PG), The Rink (Convention Center Plaza)
Saturday, December 19
3 pm: The Polar Express (PG), Plaza Theatre
6 pm: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (PG), Plaza Theatre
Saturday, December 26
3 pm: Frozen (PG), Plaza Theatre
6 pm: Die Hard (R), Plaza Theatre
The Holiday Movies are presented in partnership with El Paso Live and the City of El Paso. This is the 15th year of the Plaza Classic’s Holiday Movies series, which has drawn more than 40,000 people.
The series is part of the City of El Paso’s 11th annual WinterFest, which runs November 21 through January 3. WinterFest opens at 5 pm Saturday, November 21 with the Scherr Legate WinterFest Lights Parade and tree lighting ceremony at San Jacinto Plaza.
The Plaza Theatre has a clear bag/cashless policy, which will be enforced. Click here for details.
The 20th annual Plaza Classic Film Festival will be July 15-25, 2027. Passes are on sale now here.
