‘Tis the season to rejoice over memories of your favorite Christmas movies – but where to stream them? Here’s a handy guide to where you can find your classic preferences, along with some eclectic oddities:
HBO MAX
“A Christmas Carol” (1938) – Reginald Owen is Scrooge
“A Christmas Story” (1983) – Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas
“Elf” (2003) – Will Ferrell discovers he’s not really a North Pole elf.
“Four Christmases”
“Fred Claus”
“Gremlins” (1984)
“Jack Frost”
“Miracle on 34th Street” (1947) – What happens when Kris Kingle becomes Macy’s Santa?
“National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” (1980) – frolic with the Griswold family
“The Polar Express” (2004) – animated
DISNEY+
“Home Alone” (1990) – An eight year-old his accidentally left behind on a family trip…plus “Home Alone 2” and “Home Alone 3”
“A Muppet Christmas Carol” (1992) – Michael Caine joins the Muppets
“Jingle All the Way” – Arnold Schwarzenegger is desperate for a Turbo Man action figure (it’s also on Amazon Prime and Hulu)
“Noelle”
“The Night Before Christmas” (1992) – Tim Burton/animated
“The Santa Clause” (1994)…plus two sequels
“I’ll Be Home for Christmas”
“Miracle on 34th Street” – both the 1947 classic and the 1994 remake
AMAZON PRIME VIDEO:
“Bad Santa” (2003) – Billy Bob Thornton is hilarious as a demented mall Santa
“Arthur Christmas” (2011) – animated
“Christmas With the Kranks” (2004)
“Mariah Carey’s All I Want for Christmas Is You” (2017)
“Surviving Christmas” (2004 comedy)
“Holiday Inn” (1942) – Bing Crosby introduces Irving Berlin’s “White Christmas” & Fred Astaire dances
“White Christmas” (1954) – remake of “Holiday Inn” with Bing & Danny Kaye
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (2000) – Jim Carrey is the Grinch
“Love Actually” (2003) – romantic comedy with Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Hugh Grant
“Meet Me in St. Louis” (1944) – Judy Garland sings “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas”
“It’s A Wonderful Life” (1946)- Jimmy Stewart in the most iconic holiday films
“Santa Claus Conquers the Martians” (1964) – sci-fi fantasy about kidnapping Santa Claus
“Scrooged” (1988) – a weird adaptation of Charles Dickens’ classic with Bill Murray
“The Holdovers” (2023) – Paul Giamatti at a boarding school
“The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945) – Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman
“The Lemon Drop Kid” (1951) – Bob Hope comedy introducing the song “Silver Bells”
NETFLIX:
“White Christmas” (1954) – remake of “Holiday Inn” with Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney
“The Holiday” (2006)
“A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas” (2011)
“A Very Murray Christmas” (1915) – Bill Murray is the center of a star-studded variety show
HULU
“A Christmas Carol”
“Christmas in Connecticut” (1945) – Barbara Stanwyck & Dennis Morgan
“Christmas With the Kranks”
“Happiest Season”
“Deck the Hall”
“The Mistle-Tones”
“The Family Stone”
“Jingle All the Way”
“The Holiday”
“The Man Who Invented Christmas”
APPLE TV+
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” (1965) – Emmy/Peabody-winning Charles Schultz’s short
PEACOCK
“Die Hard” (1988) – Bruce Willis action thriller (also shown on AMC+)
“How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (1966) – animated
“Better Watch Out” (2016)
“My Santa” (2013)
AMC+
“Die Hard” (1988) – Bruce Willis action thriller (also shown on Peacock)
“Scrooge” (1951) – Alastair Sim is absolutely wicked as Scrooge
TUBI & YouTube
“The Bells of St. Mary’s” (1945) – Bring Crosby & Ingrid Bergman save a parish school
“Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & Island of Misfit Toys” (2001) – animated