Nerdist did a deep dive on this last year and determined: "Its plot is not intimately tied to its setting and the movie's major themes aren't particularly Christmas-relevant ones.
"While you'll always be able to find some theatre showing it in December, it somehow has never crossed over into being a definitive part of the holiday season the way a movie like Die Hard has.
"As such, Gremlins does not officially qualify as a Christmas movie."
Here's the full list of the most popular Christmas movies around the world:
England – Love Actually – 903,000 searches
Scotland – Elf – 98,400 searches
Wales – Elf – 51,360 searches
Ireland – Elf – 68,100 searches
Canada – Elf – 431,100 searches
USA – The Nightmare Before Christmas – 3,660,000 searches