The El Paso Community Foundation Plaza Classic Film Festival teams up with El Paso Live to bring back the Free Holiday Movies at the Plaza Theatre, sponsored by GECU. This year’s schedule, part of El Paso’s WinterFest, includes audience favorites Home Alone, Elf, and The Polar Express, and some new additions, including Ron Howard’s How the Grinch Stole Christmas.

GECU, which is celebrating its 90^th anniversary, is sponsoring a five-week, nine-film series that begins with Disney’s The Nightmare Before Christmas at 7 pm Thursday, November 17. The other eight seasonal movies — including a Jim Carrey double-bill on December 4 — will be shown at 1 and 3:30 pm Sundays, November 27 through December 18.

They will be presented “Plaza Classic style,” with an introduction and a 30-minute performance by Richard Garven and Ken Fedorick on the Wyler Mighty Wurliltzer Pipe Organ before each movie.

Here’s the schedule:

NOVEMBER 17

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

7 pm (PG)

NOVEMBER 27

A Christmas Story (1983)

1 pm (PG)

Home Alone (1990)

3:30 pm (PG)

DECEMBER 4

Disney’s A Christmas Carol (2009)

1 pm (PG)

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

3:30 pm (PG)

DECEMBER 11

Elf (2003)

1 pm (PG)

The Polar Express (2004)

3:30 pm (G)

DECEMBER 18

Four Christmases (2008)

1 pm (PG-13)

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)

3:30 pm (PG-13)

The movies are presented in partnership with El Paso Live, which this year is moving the ice rink from Arts Festival Plaza to the Convention Center Plaza. The Rink, presented by Chick-Fil-A, will open daily from November 19 through January 1. Tickets go on sale November 14. Go to epwinterfest.com for details.