Best Christmas movies to watch on Netflix, Amazon, Disney+ and Now TV

(Pocket-lint) - Not lone is Christmas a large clip for getting families together, sharing gifts and gorging yourself connected mince pies and Quality Street, it is besides 1 of the champion times of the twelvemonth to ticker immoderate large films and TV shows.

Streaming services successful peculiar are going festive movie huffy and you tin drawback immoderate of the precise champion vacation classics connected Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Disney+ and Now TV.

Here are our picks of the champion Christmas films to drawback connected 1 of the online services.

Netflix

A Netflix subscription costs from £5.99 / $8.99 per period for a standard, non-HD program up to £13.99 / $17.99 per period for the full, 4K-ready bundle wherever you tin ticker connected up to 4 devices concurrently. You tin get one-month escaped if you are a caller subscriber.

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The Christmas Chronicles

Devised by the aforesaid accumulation squad down Home Alone and Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone, The Christmas Chronicles stars Kurt Russell arsenic Santa and is simply a Netflix exclusive. He gets a mates of kids to assistance him aft his sleigh breaks down, which leads to a large adventure.

The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two

A sequel is present besides disposable connected the level too, with Russell returning arsenic Santa alongside real-world woman Goldie Hawn arsenic Mrs Claus. Expect much enactment amusive for each the family.

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey

Another Netflix exclusive - which it snapped up erstwhile a cinema merchandise was not imaginable - this household philharmonic is the kid-friendly, Christmas-themed equivalent to The Greatest Showman. Forest Whitaker stars arsenic an eccentric toymaker who creates a magical invention.

Klaus

With beauteous hand-drawn animation and a roster of fantastic dependable actors specified arsenic J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones and Norm Macdonald, this flick has go an instant classic. Klaus is simply a heartwarming communicative reimagining the classical Santa Claus mythology.

Nativity

The archetypal successful a bid of 4 films, Nativity is simply a heartwarming, comic communicative starring Martin Freeman arsenic a teacher who misguidedly fibs astir getting his schoolhouse nativity turned into a film, conscionable to impressment a girl. Hilarity ensues successful this amazingly fun, household British caper.

The Holidate

This 2020 Netflix Original is simply a self-aware rom-com that's connected the raunchy side, truthful decidedly not 1 to ticker with the kids. The movie follows 2 strangers who hold to go year-long platonic plus-ones, but inevitably commencement to autumn for 1 different arsenic clip goes by.

A Very Murray Christmas

Bill Murray's Christmas extravaganza debuted connected Netflix successful 2015 and became an instant classic, albeit a alternatively unusual 1 astatine times. Bill and immoderate of his personage friends unite to sing immoderate Christmas classics wrong a drama movie that volition support you entertained this year. 

Jack Frost

Not to beryllium confused with the fearfulness movie of the aforesaid name, this 1998 classical stars Michael Keaton and is simply a heartwarming tear-jerker for the full family. The crippled follows a begetter killed successful a car accident, lone to beryllium brought backmost to beingness successful the signifier of a snowman via a magical harmonica.

Deck the Halls

Buddy Hall (Danny DeVito) has conscionable moved into the neighbourhood and plans to decorate his location with capable Christmas lights truthful that it tin beryllium seen from space. His caller neighbour Steve (Matthew Broderick) has ever been known arsenic "the Christmas guy" and truthful doesn't instrumentality kindly to Buddy's plans. Thus ensues a drama caper of Steve trying to sabotage the festivities, but things don't ever spell his way.

Amazon Prime Video

Amazon Prime costs £79 / $119 per twelvemonth but gives entree to the retailers Prime Video streaming service, positive a stack of other added bonuses, specified arsenic escaped one-day transportation and Amazon Music streaming. You tin besides opt to wage monthly astatine £7.99 / $12.99 per month.

New customers tin motion up for a 30-day escaped proceedings period.

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Love Actually

One of the astir fashionable Christmas rom-coms ever sees Richard Curtis assemble a acquainted formed of characters to play retired 10 antithetic communicative lines, each acceptable astatine Christmas, galore of which are interlinked successful immoderate way. It's cheery British amusive astatine its finest and can't assistance but enactment a grin connected your face. Also disposable on Netflix.

The Holiday

Not truly for the kids but large for rom-com fans, The Holiday stars Jude Law, Cameron Diaz, Kate Winslet and Jack Black successful two, intertwining stories astir emotion during the vacation season. There are tears, laughs and it's an perfect flick for grabbing a mug of mulled vino and watching portion curled nether a blanket. Also disposable connected Netflix.

The Night Before

One for adults only, this is simply a hilarious drama starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Seth Rogen and Anthony Mackie (Falcon successful The Avengers) arsenic a trio of friends gathering up for 1 past large Christmas Eve nighttime earlier accepting adulthood.

Office Christmas Party

Anyone who has been to an bureau Christmas enactment knows however rapidly things tin get retired of manus but successful this film, things get really, truly retired of a hand. A amusive drama romp starring Jason Bateman, T.J. Miller and Olivia Munn.

Anna and the Apocalypse

If you fancy thing a spot antithetic this Christmas, however astir a Scottish zombie apocalypse Christmas musical? In this movie, Anna and her friends person to fight, and sing, for endurance successful the sleepy municipality of Little Haven.

Scrooge

Scrooge is simply a 1970 philharmonic adaptation of the classical Charles Dickens' communicative 'A Christmas Carol' and galore judge it's 1 of the best. If you've someway avoided this 1 up until now, possibly it's clip to dive successful and spot what each the fuss is about.

Disney+

Disney+ is simply a comparative newcomer but acknowledgment to the aggregate studios owned by the location of mouse, it has plentifulness of Christmas treats.

A subscription costs £5.99 / $6.99 per month, £59.99 / $69.99 per year. However, those prices volition emergence successful March 2021 truthful the existent 12-month deals are worthy a look if you privation to prevention a batch of currency down the line.

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Home Alone

Without a uncertainty 1 of the top Christmas films of each time, the archetypal Home Alone is disposable connected Disney+ this year. It's improbable you volition person ne'er seen it before, but we thoroughly urge you springiness it a rotation again arsenic it delights each clip - cartoon unit and all.

Home Alone 2: Lost successful New York

Also disposable connected Disney+ is the Home Alone sequel that sees Kevin McAllister stranded successful New York. He adjacent gets to conscionable ex-US President Donald Trump, who appears successful the film. It's aptly titled too, arsenic Trump did so suffer successful New York. And Michigan. And Georgia. And...

Home Sweet Home Alone

This 1 mightiness not beryllium arsenic beloved arsenic its predecessors, but if you fancy a caller rotation connected the classical Home Alone look past wherefore not springiness this marque caller 2021 sequel a try? This entrant into the bid stars Rob Delaney and Ellie Kemper arsenic the transgression duo and Archie Yates arsenic the kid who, you guessed it, gets near astatine home, alone.

The Muppet Christmas Carol

Michael Caine stars arsenic Ebenezer Scrooge successful the Muppet's mentation of the classical Christmas Carol film. Great for the kids but it isn't conscionable a kids movie with immoderate acquainted characters including the Great Gonzo, Kermit and Miss Piggy successful accepted roles.

Disney's A Christmas Carol

Disney's 3D animated instrumentality connected the aforesaid root material, arsenic you mightiness imagine, is simply a tad darker than the Muppets version. With an all-star formed featuring the likes of Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman and Bob Hoskins and immoderate unthinkable visuals - it's a large watch.

The Santa Clause

Tim Allen is large arsenic the dada who accidentally kills Santa and indispensable truthful instrumentality his place. There are a mates of sequels too, but neither are arsenic bully arsenic this original.

The Nightmare Before Christmas

Tim Burton and Henry Selick's halt question animation masterpiece is 1 we bask each year. It has astonishing songs throughout, portion the communicative of Jack Skellington trying to capable Santa's boots arsenic he's bushed of Halloween is arsenic heartwarming arsenic it is fun.

Die Hard

While immoderate garbage to admit that Die Hard is simply a Christmas movie they are wrong. It takes spot during a Christmas enactment and has the immortal enactment "now I person a instrumentality gun, ho, ho, ho" successful it. What much bash you want?

Now TV and Sky Go

You volition request a Now TV Sky Cinema Month Pass to ticker films connected immoderate instrumentality with a Now TV app. The walk costs £11.99 per month.

You tin view offers connected the Sky Cinema Month Pass here.

All of the pursuing are disposable connected the Sky Go app too, which is escaped for Sky Q subscribers.

Arthur Christmas

This fantabulous British movie by Wallace and Gromit creator Nick Park's workplace has immoderate superior affectional clout and is simply a caller instrumentality connected what could beryllium considered a accepted Christmas story. It follows Santa's lad Arthur connected his ngo to present a contiguous to a small miss to prevention her Christmas, helped on the mode by a squad of trusty sidekicks.

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Whatever happened to Chevy Chase? We can't recognize wherefore helium faded from the large surface successful the 90s because, connected this showing, helium was astatine the precise apical of the drama ladder. The Griswold household movies were ever large fun, but this Christmas outing was connected different level. It's inactive arsenic comic contiguous arsenic it was successful the 80s.

A Boy Called Christmas

A marque caller British movie that tells the root communicative of Father Christmas, and his cute favored rodent of course. This 1 has proven to beryllium a deed with critics and viewers alike, good worthy checking retired this Christmas.

A Christmas Number One

Starring Iwan Rheon, of Game Of Thrones fame, and Freida Pinto, from Slumdog Millionaire; this Sky Original is simply a music-biz themed romanticist matter that sees a thrash metallic instrumentalist trying to instrumentality to marque a deed Christmas record.

8-Bit Christmas

Starring Neil Patrick Harris (who you whitethorn recognise from How I Met Your Mother) 8-Bit Christmas is acceptable successful the 80s and follows a young boys antics to unafraid the top Christmas contiguous of each time, the Nintendo Entertainment System.

Christmas At Cattle Hill

This Norweigan animated diagnostic is acceptable successful a municipality afloat of cows and includes a rampaging gnome each hopped up connected oatmeal. Confused? We are too, but it looks similar large fun, particularly for younger viewers. 

Writing by Rik Henderson. Editing by Britta O'Boyle. Originally published connected 5 December 2016.