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Our growing catalog of Christmas movie profiles: cast, story, and where to watch — from 1940s classics to this year’s Hallmark premieres. New batches land all the time; this is the destination, one movie at a time.
1988. One kid. One Nintendo Entertainment System. Total war.
Before he was Santa, he was Nikolas — a boy looking for elves.
A bestselling author flees a scandal to Scotland, falls for a castle, and battles its grumpy duke.
Charlie Brown just wants to know what Christmas is all about.
George C. Scott's Scrooge: the most commanding of the straight adaptations.
Jim Carrey plays Scrooge — and all three ghosts — in Zemeckis's dark motion-capture Carol.
A blizzard reroutes two strangers into one rental car and one long drive home.
A reporter, a playboy prince, and the royal Christmas that launched a genre.
All Ralphie wants is a Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
A waitress loses everything before Christmas — and her town shows up.
Pop superstar Ebony Scrooge skims her own charity concert — so her dead bandmate comes back with three ghosts and a set list.
Madea goes to the country for Christmas. The country was not consulted.
Mama Agatha wants grandchildren — so she puts her Ikoyi house on the table for whichever son marries first.
She's a Philly seamstress. He's the crown prince of Cordinia. His mother is Jane Seymour.
The first Christmas without Mom. Dad, the house, and five grown children try anyway.
Santa's clumsy youngest son has one night to deliver one forgotten bike.
Disney's first live-action musical: Toyland, a villain, and a wedding to save.
The worst mall Santa in America plans his annual heist — then a kid happens.
Gotham at Christmas: a Penguin, a Cat, and a Batman between them.
The worst kids in town hijack the church Christmas pageant. It becomes the best one.
College friends reunite for Christmas — and Mia has something to tell them.
An angel arrives to help a bishop — and falls for the bishop's life.
The 1974 original: a sorority house, obscene phone calls, and the birth of the slasher.
A sorority fights back: the 2019 Blumhouse reimagining.
Langston runs from Baltimore to Harlem — and into his family's faith and music.
Santa is retiring after 200 years — and the glowing hat picked a shopping-network producer who hates Christmas.
Chris Carver wants the best-decorated house on the street — and an elf named Pepper is happy to help, for a price.
A soldier in Afghanistan gets a stranger's Christmas card — and it changes everything.
Two kids stow away on Santa's sleigh. Santa is Kurt Russell. Buckle up.
Mrs. Claus runs the village; a bitter ex-elf wants to ruin it forever.
America's perfect homemaker is a fraud — and Christmas dinner is at her fake farm.
A vet, a wish on a snow globe, and a whole town that runs on Christmas.
A big-city doctor, a tiny Alaska town, and a Santa who seems suspiciously real.
They tried to skip Christmas. The neighborhood declared war.
A fired hotel maid becomes a royal governess for the holidays.
A social worker who stopped believing in Christmas takes his daughter to work on Christmas Eve — and finds Santa in the chimney.
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.
A quiet street, a new neighbor, and enough lights to be seen from space.
A New York cop, an LA skyscraper, twelve terrorists, one Christmas Eve.
An unfinished artificial man, a snowy suburb, and the inventor who died too soon.
Raised by elves, Buddy comes to New York to find his dad — who is on the naughty list.
Santa needs a successor. Ernest is available. Heaven help us all.
Lindsay Lohan, a ski accident, amnesia, and a lodge that needs saving.
A Wall Street Scrooge gets shown the road not taken — with minivans.
She's meeting his family for Christmas. It goes badly. Then it goes somewhere real.
Fake reviews, a real B&B, and a travel critic in disguise.
Stranded by snow, two strangers share the last room — and the last flight home.
Both sets of parents are divorced. That's four Christmases in one day.
Santa's older brother is a repo man with a grudge and a deadline.
A ghetto Santa steals the rent money on Christmas Eve — Craig and Day-Day have one day to get it back.
A silk hat, a magician who wants it back, and a race to the North Pole.
Never feed them after midnight — the Christmas gift that ate Kingston Falls.
Benedict Cumberbatch voices the Grinch in Illumination's bright, musical retelling of the Seuss classic.
Abby plans to propose at Christmas — then learns her girlfriend hasn't come out to her family yet.
Two strangers, sick of holiday dating pressure, agree to be each other's plus-one for a whole year of holidays.
Two heartbroken women swap homes for Christmas — Los Angeles for a Surrey cottage.
A church choirmaster by day and a beloved drag performer by night becomes the only family a mother and daughter have left.
The film that gave the world 'White Christmas.'
Eight years old, home alone, and the house is a fortress.
Kevin takes New York: the Plaza, a toy store, and two escaped burglars.
Jim Carrey inside Rick Baker's Oscar-winning Grinch suit. Enough said.
Chuck Jones, Boris Karloff, and three sizes too small.
The Whitfields come home: five siblings, their secrets, and Ma'Dere's rules.
A drifter moves into a millionaire's empty mansion for the winter — then invites guests.
The most beloved Christmas film ever made.
Two dads. One Turbo Man doll. Total retail war.
A betrayed toymaker, his granddaughter, and the invention that can save them both.
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 family loses the Christmas spirit, and something with horns comes instead.
Given weeks to live, Georgia Byrd finally spends her savings on the life she wanted.
Bob Hope as a racetrack tout who owes the mob by Christmas Eve.
A Christmas Eve snowstorm strands a small town's teenagers — and every crush, feud, and secret collides by morning.
Two mismatched cops, one Christmas in Los Angeles.
Winona Ryder leads the beloved 1994 March sisters — the Little Women a generation grew up with.
Nine London love stories, five weeks before Christmas.
She flew 3,000 miles to surprise her perfect match for Christmas — and found out she'd been catfished.
Charles Dickens has six weeks to write A Christmas Carol — and his characters won't behave.
The film that gave Christmas 'Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.'
Scrooge McDuck was literally born for this role.
A department-store Santa insists he is the real thing — and a courtroom has to decide.
The beloved remake, with Richard Attenborough's twinkle turned all the way up.
A corporate scrooge aunt, a free-spirited uncle, and Henry Winkler with a turkey.
Ebenita Scrooge runs her savings and loan with an iron fist — until the partner she buried comes back to warn her.
Michael Caine plays it completely straight — opposite felt — and it's perfect.
Clark Griswold just wants a good old-fashioned family Christmas. The house has other ideas.
The Pumpkin King discovers Christmas — and nearly ruins it, beautifully.
A firefighter who avoids commitment. A cat who has other plans.
A weary mother, a Christmas angel, and a letter to the North Pole.
A little girl asks Santa for one thing: a man who will pay her mother a compliment.
All aboard — the definitive Santa's-workshop train ride.
A little girl, an injured reindeer, and a town that needs to believe.
Denzel is an angel. Whitney is the gospel choir. The church is saved — the marriage needs work.
A Chicago baker and a duchess swap lives for Christmas. Twice the Vanessa Hudgens.
A commodities broker and a con man swap lives on a bet — over Christmas.
Santa has been kidnapped. The Rock is on the case.
Three brothers, one abandoned baby, zero childcare experience.
A shoplifter, a prosecutor, and a Christmas road trip home to Indiana.
The longest-running Christmas special in television history.
Fred Astaire, a mailman, and the whole origin story of Santa Claus.
Tim Allen kills Santa (accidentally) and legally becomes him.
Santa has to find a Mrs. Claus by Christmas Eve — or stop being Santa.
Alastair Sim's Scrooge remains the performance every other Scrooge is measured against.
Dickens as a big, brassy London musical, with Albert Finney dancing on Scrooge's grave.
Alastair Sim is Ebenezer Scrooge in the 1951 adaptation critics call the finest ever filmed.
Bill Murray is a TV executive Scrooge, and his ghosts fight dirty.
Two shop clerks who can't stand each other are secretly pen pals in love.
The killer-Santa film that parents picketed out of theaters in 1984.
Peter brings his best friend home for Christmas as his pretend boyfriend — and his whole family starts matchmaking.
A boy must sell his beloved old donkey — and finds the one buyer who matters.
A tabloid reporter goes undercover with a senator's family — and files the wrong story.
A Christmas Carol told from the ghosts' side of the haunting.
Santa is real, he's burned out, and mercenaries just took the wrong house hostage.
She saved his life, got mistaken for his fiancée, and fell for his brother.
Two song-and-dance men, two sisters, one Vermont inn, and a general who needs saving.
Five Christmas cards, sent to the people who changed her life.
Santa takes a year off — and the Miser brothers steal the show.
