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Comedy Christmas movies bring their own kind of holiday magic. Our catalog profiles 89 of them, from 1940 to 2024, across Netflix, Hallmark Channel, Universal Pictures and more — each with its full cast, story, ratings and where to watch it this season.
89 profiled films
Santa has been kidnapped. The Rock is on the case.
The worst kids in town hijack the church Christmas pageant. It becomes the best one.
Chris Carver wants the best-decorated house on the street — and an elf named Pepper is happy to help, for a price.
A social worker who stopped believing in Christmas takes his daughter to work on Christmas Eve — and finds Santa in the chimney.
Lindsay Lohan, a ski accident, amnesia, and a lodge that needs saving.
A Christmas Carol told from the ghosts' side of the haunting.
Three brothers, one abandoned baby, zero childcare experience.
Santa is real, he's burned out, and mercenaries just took the wrong house hostage.
1988. One kid. One Nintendo Entertainment System. Total war.
Before he was Santa, he was Nikolas — a boy looking for elves.
She flew 3,000 miles to surprise her perfect match for Christmas — and found out she'd been catfished.
Peter brings his best friend home for Christmas as his pretend boyfriend — and his whole family starts matchmaking.
A bestselling author flees a scandal to Scotland, falls for a castle, and battles its grumpy duke.
Mama Agatha wants grandchildren — so she puts her Ikoyi house on the table for whichever son marries first.
Mrs. Claus runs the village; a bitter ex-elf wants to ruin it forever.
Fake reviews, a real B&B, and a travel critic in disguise.
A betrayed toymaker, his granddaughter, and the invention that can save them both.
Two strangers, sick of holiday dating pressure, agree to be each other's plus-one for a whole year of holidays.
Abby plans to propose at Christmas — then learns her girlfriend hasn't come out to her family yet.
A spoiled postman and a reclusive toymaker accidentally invent Santa Claus.
A medieval knight lands in modern Ohio. He has a quest, a sword, and no idea what a car is.
A waitress loses everything before Christmas — and her town shows up.
A Christmas Eve snowstorm strands a small town's teenagers — and every crush, feud, and secret collides by morning.
Two kids stow away on Santa's sleigh. Santa is Kurt Russell. Buckle up.
A Chicago baker and a duchess swap lives for Christmas. Twice the Vanessa Hudgens.
Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Grinch in Illumination's bright, musical retelling of the Seuss classic.
A reporter, a playboy prince, and the royal Christmas that launched a genre.
A vet, a wish on a snow globe, and a whole town that runs on Christmas.
Charles Dickens has six weeks to write A Christmas Carol — and his characters won't behave.
The first Christmas without Mom. Dad, the house, and five grown children try anyway.
A blizzard reroutes two strangers into one rental car and one long drive home.
A fired hotel maid becomes a royal governess for the holidays.
Stranded by snow, two strangers share the last room — and the last flight home.
A family loses the Christmas spirit, and something with horns comes instead.
A firefighter who avoids commitment. A cat who has other plans.
She's a Philly seamstress. He's the crown prince of Cordinia. His mother is Jane Seymour.
College friends reunite for Christmas — and Mia has something to tell them.
Madea goes to the country for Christmas. The country was not consulted.
Santa's clumsy youngest son has one night to deliver one forgotten bike.
Letters to Santa, answered by a shopaholic with a deadline from her parents.
A widowed father, twin boys, and a housekeeper who seems heaven-sent.
Both sets of parents are divorced. That's four Christmases in one day.
A corporate scrooge aunt, a free-spirited uncle, and Henry Winkler with a turkey.
Santa's older brother is a repo man with a grudge and a deadline.
The Whitfields come home: five siblings, their secrets, and Ma'Dere's rules.
A little girl asks Santa for one thing: a man who will pay her mother a compliment.
Two heartbroken women swap homes for Christmas — Los Angeles for a Surrey cottage.
A quiet street, a new neighbor, and enough lights to be seen from space.
Given weeks to live, Georgia Byrd finally spends her savings on the life she wanted.
She's meeting his family for Christmas. It goes badly. Then it goes somewhere real.
They tried to skip Christmas. The neighborhood declared war.
Raised by elves, Buddy comes to New York to find his dad — who is on the naughty list.
Nine London love stories, five weeks before Christmas.
The worst mall Santa in America plans his annual heist — then a kid happens.
Santa has to find a Mrs. Claus by Christmas Eve — or stop being Santa.
A ghetto Santa steals the rent money on Christmas Eve — Craig and Day-Day have one day to get it back.
Santa is retiring after 200 years — and the glowing hat picked a shopping-network producer who hates Christmas.
Jim Carrey inside Rick Baker's Oscar-winning Grinch suit. Enough said.
A Wall Street Scrooge gets shown the road not taken — with minivans.
Pop superstar Ebony Scrooge skims her own charity concert — so her dead bandmate comes back with three ghosts and a set list.
Two dads. One Turbo Man doll. Total retail war.
Denzel is an angel. Whitney is the gospel choir. The church is saved — the marriage needs work.
She saved his life, got mistaken for his fiancée, and fell for his brother.
Tim Allen kills Santa (accidentally) and legally becomes him.
The beloved remake, with Richard Attenborough's twinkle turned all the way up.
The Pumpkin King discovers Christmas — and nearly ruins it, beautifully.
Michael Caine plays it completely straight — opposite felt — and it's perfect.
Kevin takes New York: the Plaza, a toy store, and two escaped burglars.
Eight years old, home alone, and the house is a fortress.
Clark Griswold just wants a good old-fashioned family Christmas. The house has other ideas.
Santa needs a successor. Ernest is available. Heaven help us all.
Bill Murray is a TV executive Scrooge, and his ghosts fight dirty.
Two mismatched cops, one Christmas in Los Angeles.
Never feed them after midnight — the Christmas gift that ate Kingston Falls.
All Ralphie wants is a Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
A commodities broker and a con man swap lives on a bet — over Christmas.
Chuck Jones, Boris Karloff, and three sizes too small.
Charlie Brown just wants to know what Christmas is all about.
The longest-running Christmas special in television history.
Disney's first live-action musical: Toyland, a villain, and a wedding to save.
Two song-and-dance men, two sisters, one Vermont inn, and a general who needs saving.
Bob Hope as a racetrack tout who owes the mob by Christmas Eve.
A department-store Santa insists he is the real thing — and a courtroom has to decide.
An angel arrives to help a bishop — and falls for the bishop's life.
A drifter moves into a millionaire's empty mansion for the winter — then invites guests.
America's perfect homemaker is a fraud — and Christmas dinner is at her fake farm.
The film that gave the world 'White Christmas.'
Two shop clerks who can't stand each other are secretly pen pals in love.
A shoplifter, a prosecutor, and a Christmas road trip home to Indiana.
Start with the highest-rated: How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966, ★ 8.3/10 on IMDb); A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965, ★ 8.3/10 on IMDb); Klaus (2019, ★ 8.2/10 on IMDb). Every rating shown on this site is checked against its source — see each film's profile for the full picture.
Our catalog profiles 89 comedy Christmas movies so far, and the complete A–Z catalog lists many more titles. The profiles below are the essentials — start there.
The comedy titles profiled here come from Netflix, Hallmark Channel, Universal Pictures. Each film's profile links to its current streaming, rental and purchase options.
