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11.16.21

The Ultimate Christmas Movies List (61 Ideas + Printables!)

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This Ultimate Christmas Movies List contains only the best movies to help you and your family get into the holiday spirit! Grab our favorite movies and a free printable checklist, as well as, movie night invitations below!

the best Christmas Movies ListAlong with these ideas, we also put together a how to host a Christmas movie night with Christmas movie snacks and invitations as well!

While we’ve categorized the movies by: Favorites, Family Friendly, Classics, Cult Following, and “Kinda Christmas,” but all of these options could overlap into multiple categories as well.

We’ve linked each movie that is available on Amazon to keep things simple!

 Our Top 5 Favorite Christmas movies

  1. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  2. Love Actually
  3. The Holiday
  4. Four Christmases
  5. The Christmas Carol (1984)

 11 Classic Christmas Movies

  1. It’s a Wonderful Life
  2. The Bishop’s Wife
  3. Christmas in Connecticut
  4. Holiday Inn
  5. Miracle on 34th Street
  6. White Christmas
  7. The Shop Around the Corner (kinda Christmas)
  8. Disney’s a Christmas Carol
  9. Holiday Affair
  10. It Happened on 5th Avenue
  11. Babes in Toyland

Family Friendly Christmas Movies List

17 Family Friendly Christmas Movies

  1. Elf 
  2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas 
  3. Home Alone
  4. Home Alone 2
  5. The Christmas Chronicles (Netflix)
  6. A Christmas Story
  7. Klaus (Netflix)
  8. The Polar Express
  9. The Santa Clause 
  10. Arthur Christmas
  11. Prancer
  12. Noelle (Dinsey+)
  13. Jack Frost
  14. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer 
  15. A Charlie Brown Christmas
  16. Frosty The Snowman
  17. The Muppet Christmas Carol

collage of 5 Christmas movie night snacks

Snack Pairings

  1. Elf with candy cane forest cookies!
  2. Polar Express hot chocolate or a full-on themed movie night!
  3. We have 13+ Grinch snacks planned!
  4. Reindeer movies like Prancer with Rudolph Donut Holes!
  5. Santa movies with our Santa Claus Hats – It’s a no bake treat!
  6. Oh, Fudge and a full list of A Christmas Story party ideas!

 10 Christmas Movies with a Cult Following 

  1. Die Hard
  2. Scrooged
  3. Bad Santa
  4. Ernest Saves Christmas
  5. Silent Night Deadly Night
  6. Krampus
  7. Lethal Weapon
  8. Santa Claus: The Movie
  9. Mixed Nuts
  10. Babes in Toyland

9 More Christmas Movies

  1. The Preachers Wife
  2. I’ll Be Home for Christmas
  3. All I Want For Christmas
  4. Office Christmas Party
  5. Dolly Parton’s Christmas of Many Colors
  6. Dolly Parton’s Circle of Love
  7. Fred Claus
  8. Christmas with the Kranks
  9. The Family Man

9 Kinda Christmas Movies

  1. Serendipity
  2. The Family Stone
  3. Just Friends
  4. While You Were Sleeping
  5. Trading Places
  6. Gremlins
  7. Nightmare before Christmas
  8. Batman Returns
  9. The Man Who Invented Christmas

We hope this list helps you create your own Christmas movie night tradition! 

We’ve made a free Ultimate Christmas Movie Checklist Printable as well!

Want more Christmas Movies?

We also have a few other lists you may like including:

  • 25+ Black Christmas Movies
  • Best Christmas Movies on Netflix (Printable Checklist)

Now that you have a great list and snacks, all you need is invite some friends over!

Christmas Movie Night Invitation

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Christmas Movie Night Invitations

You can grab both of these invitations now — No email sign-up required! 

Another option is to print movie night invitations with a ticket template.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Invitation

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How to Use the Invitations

Just click for the full-size, high-quality invite that is printable!

You can also save it on your iPhone, click Edit, then Markup to add your date and address!

Aunt Bethany Jello Mold from Christmas Vacation

No movie night is complete without treats either!

We put together our favorite Christmas Movie Night Snacks for you to enjoy as well!

Christmas Snacks You’ll Love

  • Make Aunt Bethany’s Jello Mold from Christmas Vacation
  • Easy Mickey Christmas Funfetti Cake Mix Cookies
  • Cousin Eddie’s Eggnog

Christmas Movie Checklist

Print Your Christmas Movie Checklist

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  1. Tiana Burks says

    November 28, 2021 at 11:47 am

    I love this website so so helpful
    Thanks

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