Christmas Movies to Watch 2024
by hallebjer | created - 24 Dec 2022 | updated - 3 months ago | Public- Instant Watch Options
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1. The Family Man (2000)
PG-13 | 125 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A fast-lane investment broker, offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
Director: Brett Ratner | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Téa Leoni, Don Cheadle, Jeremy Piven
Votes: 119,366 | Gross: $75.79M
2. Spirited (2022)
PG-13 | 127 min | Comedy, Family, Musical
A musical version of Charles Dickens's story of a miserly misanthrope who is taken on a magical journey.
Director: Sean Anders | Stars: Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds, Octavia Spencer, Patrick Page
Votes: 50,254
3. Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022)
TV-Y7 | 96 min | Animation, Adventure, Comedy
A supernatural, time-travelling, musical adaptation of Charles Dickens's cult Christmas story.
Director: Stephen Donnelly | Stars: Luke Evans, Olivia Colman, Jessie Buckley, Johnny Flynn
Votes: 7,670
4. Noelle (2019)
G | 100 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Santa's daughter must take over the family business when her father retires and her brother, who is supposed to inherit the Santa role, gets cold feet.
Director: Marc Lawrence | Stars: Anna Kendrick, Shirley MacLaine, Bill Hader, Kingsley Ben-Adir
Votes: 27,050
5. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
PG | 122 min | Family, Fantasy, Musical
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
Director: David E. Talbert | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose
Votes: 20,737
6. Grumpy Old Men (1993)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.
Director: Donald Petrie | Stars: Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Ann-Margret, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 53,826 | Gross: $70.17M
7. Godmothered (2020)
PG | 110 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
An unskilled young fairy godmother ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored.
Director: Sharon Maguire | Stars: June Squibb, Jillian Bell, Sonia Manzano, Carlease Burke
Votes: 13,994
8. Get Santa (2014)
PG | 102 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
After Santa Claus is arrested and jailed, a recently paroled prisoner and his young son attempt to save Christmas before it's too late.
Director: Christopher Smith | Stars: Jim Broadbent, Rafe Spall, Kit Connor, Ewen Bremner
Votes: 4,753
9. Finding Santa (2016)
80 min | Animation, Family
Eight year old Julius lives at an orphanage and secretly believes in Santa Claus until he loses not only his belief in Santa but also himself. But then something strange happens, and suddenly Julius finds himself in a magic world.
Director: Jacob Ley | Stars: Dennis Storhøi, Bodil Jørgensen, Albert Rudbeck Lindhardt, Flora Ofelia Hofmann Lindahl
Votes: 76
10. Fatman (2020)
R | 100 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy
A rowdy, unorthodox Santa Claus is fighting to save his declining business. Meanwhile, Billy, a neglected and precocious 12 year old, hires a hit man to kill Santa after receiving a lump of coal in his stocking.
Directors: Eshom Nelms, Ian Nelms | Stars: Mel Gibson, Walton Goggins, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Chance Hurstfield
Votes: 30,135
11. Black Nativity (2013)
PG | 93 min | Drama, Family, Music
A street-wise teen from Baltimore who has been raised by a single mother travels to New York City to spend the Christmas holiday with his estranged relatives, where he embarks on a surprising and inspirational journey.
Director: Kasi Lemmons | Stars: Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Jennifer Hudson, Mary J. Blige
Votes: 2,371 | Gross: $7.02M
12. Better Watch Out (II) (2016)
R | 89 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
On a quiet suburban street, a babysitter must defend a twelve-year-old boy from intruders, only to discover it's far from a normal home invasion.
Director: Chris Peckover | Stars: Olivia DeJonge, Levi Miller, Ed Oxenbould, Aleks Mikic
Votes: 46,245 | Gross: $0.02M
13. Christmas Evil (1980)
R | 100 min | Horror, Thriller
A toy factory worker, mentally scarred as a child upon learning Santa Claus is not real, suffers a nervous breakdown after being belittled at work, and embarks on a Yuletide killing spree.
Director: Lewis Jackson | Stars: Brandon Maggart, Jeffrey DeMunn, Dianne Hull, Andy Fenwick
Votes: 8,571
14. Better Off Dead (1985)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Romance
After his girlfriend ditches him for a boorish ski jock, Lane decides that suicide is the only answer. However, his increasingly inept attempts bring him only more agony and embarrassment. Filled with the wildest teen nightmares.
Director: Savage Steve Holland | Stars: John Cusack, David Ogden Stiers, Kim Darby, Demian Slade
Votes: 49,366 | Gross: $10.30M
15. All Is Bright (2013)
R | 107 min | Comedy, Drama
While out on parole, Dennis reluctantly takes a job selling Christmas trees with his old buddy Rene in order to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano she's always wanted.
Director: Phil Morrison | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Paul Rudd, Sally Hawkins, Amy Landecker
Votes: 6,944 | Gross: $0.00M
16. Adult Swim Yule Log (2022)
TV-MA | 91 min | Comedy, Horror
What starts as a simple yule log feed devolves into a surrealist nightmare, as a couple and a group of podcasters spend the night in a double-booked cabin that is secretly occupied by evil and murderous forces.
Director: Casper Kelly | Stars: Megan Hayes, Tordy Clark, Brendan Patrick Connor, Andrea Laing
Votes: 1,356
17. A Christmas Horror Story (2015)
Not Rated | 99 min | Fantasy, Horror, Mystery
Interwoven stories that take place on Christmas Eve, as told by one festive radio host: A family brings home more than a Christmas tree, a student documentary becomes a living nightmare, a Christmas spirit terrorizes, Santa slays evil.
Directors: Grant Harvey, Steven Hoban, Brett Sullivan | Stars: William Shatner, George Buza, Rob Archer, Zoé De Grand Maison
Votes: 12,480
18. The Long Kiss Goodnight (1996)
R | 121 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Samantha Caine lives in a small town with her daughter. Eight years ago she emerged, two months pregnant, from a nearby river with no memory of her past or who she is. However, she's getting closer to finding out about her past.
Director: Renny Harlin | Stars: Geena Davis, Samuel L. Jackson, Yvonne Zima, Craig Bierko
Votes: 85,663 | Gross: $33.33M
19. Office Christmas Party (2016)
R | 105 min | Comedy
When his uptight CEO sister threatens to shut down his branch, the branch manager throws an epic Christmas party in order to land a big client and save the day, but the party gets way out of hand...
Directors: Josh Gordon, Will Speck | Stars: Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T.J. Miller, Jennifer Aniston
Votes: 88,199 | Gross: $54.77M
20. The Night Before (II) (2015)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Fantasy
On Christmas Eve, three lifelong friends spend the night in New York City looking for the Holy Grail of Christmas parties.
Director: Jonathan Levine | Stars: Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen, Jillian Bell, Lizzy Caplan
Votes: 82,622 | Gross: $43.04M
21. A Very Murray Christmas (2015 TV Special)
TV-MA | 56 min | Comedy, Music, Musical
Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a terrible snowstorm in New York City.
Director: Sofia Coppola | Stars: Bill Murray, Paul Shaffer, Michael Cera, George Clooney
Votes: 16,448
22. A Christmas Carol (2019)
TV-MA | 43 min | Drama, Fantasy
In Steven Knight's gothic adaptation of Charles Dickens' iconic ghost story, Ebenezer Scrooge experiences a dark night of the soul - past, present and future.
Stars: Guy Pearce, Andy Serkis, Stephen Graham, Joe Alwyn
Votes: 12,549
23. The Family Stone (2005)
PG-13 | 103 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
An uptight, liberal businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
Director: Thomas Bezucha | Stars: Dermot Mulroney, Sarah Jessica Parker, Claire Danes, Diane Keaton
Votes: 75,216 | Gross: $60.06M
24. Last Holiday (2006)
PG-13 | 112 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Upon learning of a terminal illness, a shy woman decides to sell all her possessions and live it up at a posh Central European hotel.
Director: Wayne Wang | Stars: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito
Votes: 36,257 | Gross: $38.36M
25. 29th Street (1991)
R | 101 min | Comedy, Drama
Frank's been lucky from the day, he was born. So why's he throwing rocks at a church after winning $6,200,000 in 1976 NYC lottery? He tells his story at the police station.
Director: George Gallo | Stars: Anthony LaPaglia, Danny Aiello, Lainie Kazan, Frank Pesce
Votes: 3,234 | Gross: $2.12M
26. A Clüsterfünke Christmas (2021 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 87 min | Comedy, Romance
Holly must buy up the Clüsterfünke Inn to make it a mega-resort, but then she meets Frank and wonders whether she should complete the assignment and go back to her city life, or fall in love with him and find the spirit of Christmas.
Director: Anna Dokoza | Stars: Michael Benyaer, Kerën Burkett, Sharon Crandall, Alia Domino
Votes: 972
27. The Holdovers (2023)
R | 133 min | Comedy, Drama
A cranky history teacher at a prep school is forced to remain on campus over the holidays with a grieving cook and a troubled student who has no place to go.
Director: Alexander Payne | Stars: Paul Giamatti, Da'Vine Joy Randolph, Dominic Sessa, Carrie Preston
Votes: 137,445
28. Dashing Through the Snow (II) (2023)
PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A separated social worker takes his daughter on a ride along with him on Christmas Eve.
Director: Tim Story | Stars: Lil Rel Howery, Ludacris, Madison Skye Validum, Teyonah Parris
Votes: 3,610
29. Red Snow (I) (2021)
80 min | Comedy, Horror, Thriller
A struggling vampire romance novelist must defend herself against real-life vampires during Christmas in Lake Tahoe.
Director: Sean Nichols Lynch | Stars: Dennice Cisneros, Nico Bellamy, Laura Kennon, Vernon Wells
Votes: 2,164
30. Family Switch (2023)
PG | 106 min | Comedy, Family
When a chance encounter with an astrological reader causes the Walkers to wake up to a full body switch, can they unite to land a promotion, college interview, record deal, and soccer tryout?
Director: McG | Stars: Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Emma Myers, Brady Noon
Votes: 25,396
31. Candy Cane Lane (I) (2023)
PG | 117 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A man is determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest. He makes a pact with an elf to help him win--and the elf casts a spell that brings the 12 days of Christmas to life, which brings unexpected chaos to town.
Director: Reginald Hudlin | Stars: Eddie Murphy, Tracee Ellis Ross, Jillian Bell, Genneya Walton
Votes: 20,081
32. Holidate (2020)
TV-MA | 104 min | Comedy, Romance
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: Emma Roberts, Luke Bracey, Kristin Chenoweth, Frances Fisher
Votes: 78,873
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