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Fantasy Christmas movies bring their own kind of holiday magic. Our catalog profiles 30 of them, from 1946 to 2023, across Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros. and more — each with its full cast, story, ratings and where to watch it this season.
30 profiled films
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.
A Christmas Carol told from the ghosts' side of the haunting.
Mrs. Claus runs the village; a bitter ex-elf wants to ruin it forever.
Jim Carrey plays Scrooge — and all three ghosts — in Zemeckis's dark motion-capture Carol.
All aboard — the definitive Santa's-workshop train ride.
Raised by elves, Buddy comes to New York to find his dad — who is on the naughty list.
Santa has to find a Mrs. Claus by Christmas Eve — or stop being Santa.
Santa is retiring after 200 years — and the glowing hat picked a shopping-network producer who hates Christmas.
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.
Ebenita Scrooge runs her savings and loan with an iron fist — until the partner she buried comes back to warn her.
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.
Gotham at Christmas: a Penguin, a Cat, and a Batman between them.
An unfinished artificial man, a snowy suburb, and the inventor who died too soon.
A little girl, an injured reindeer, and a town that needs to believe.
Bill Murray is a TV executive Scrooge, and his ghosts fight dirty.
A weary mother, a Christmas angel, and a letter to the North Pole.
George C. Scott's Scrooge: the most commanding of the straight adaptations.
Never feed them after midnight — the Christmas gift that ate Kingston Falls.
Scrooge McDuck was literally born for this role.
Dickens as a big, brassy London musical, with Albert Finney dancing on Scrooge's grave.
Disney's first live-action musical: Toyland, a villain, and a wedding to save.
Alastair Sim's Scrooge remains the performance every other Scrooge is measured against.
Alastair Sim is Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 adaptation critics call the finest ever filmed.
An angel arrives to help a bishop — and falls for the bishop's life.
The most beloved Christmas film ever made.
Start with the highest-rated: It's a Wonderful Life (1946, ★ 8.6/10 on IMDb); Scrooge (1951, ★ 8.1/10 on IMDb); Scrooge (A Christmas Carol) (1951, ★ 8.1/10 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 30 fantasy Christmas movies so far, and the complete A–Z catalog lists many more titles. The profiles below are the essentials — start there.
The fantasy titles profiled here come from Walt Disney Pictures, 20th Century Fox, Warner Bros.. Each film's profile links to its current streaming, rental and purchase options.
