1Dashing Through the Snow (2023)
New for the 2023 holiday season, Dashing Through the Snow stars Ludacris, Teyonah Parris, and Lil Rel Howery and follows a cynical social worker with absolutely zero holiday spirit who finds himself following Santa (Howery) through a festive night of mischief, believing all the while he is mentally ill.
2Mixed Nuts (1994)
Written and directed by Nora Ephron (co-written with her sister), Mixed Nuts stars a comedy ensemble including Steve Martin, Madeline Kahn, Rita Wilson, Garry Shandling, Adam Sandler, and more. The film follows a man who leads a suicide-prevention hotline with a zany staff who field various crises during the Christmastime, and although this sounds like absolute devastation, it’s a comedy.
3I’ll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
The hitchhiker's holiday, I’ll Be Home for Christmas follows a college student who wakes up in the middle of the desert after a Santa themed 5k, far from home and with only a few days to hike home for Christmas. The film stars '90s teen idol Jonathan Taylor Thomas and Jessica Biel.
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4This Christmas (2007)
This ensemble rom-com follows a family reuniting for their first holiday together in years and it stars an all-star cast including Idris Elba, Regina King, Loretta Devine, Lauren London, Delroy Lindo, and Chris Brown.
5The Family Stone (2005)
Another ensemble cast on deck! The Family Stone stars Diane Keaton, Sarah Jessica Parker, Rachel McAdams, Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, and Claire Danes. The film follows a wild New England family who reunite for the holidays with a new guest – the uptight girlfriend of their eldest brother. Little do they know, he has a plan to propose to her over the Christmas holiday.
6Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
For your holiday movie marathon needs, Home Alone 2: Lost in New York is a rare sequel that just might be better than its predecessor, depending on who you ask. In this 1992 holiday comedy, Kevin McCallister finds himself, for the second time, all alone without his family on Christmas, but this time in the Big Apple.
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7Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
This black and white Christmas classic follows a culinary journalist who has put on the façade of the perfect housewife. In reality, she lives alone and can’t cook a thing. When her boss invites himself to her fake family’s holiday festivities, she must put on the show of a lifetime.
8Trading Places (1983)
Trading Places stars Eddie Murphy and Dan Aykroyd as a finance man and a con artist who switch places as a study in social hierarchy, culminating in chaos at an office Christmas party and the New Year’s Eve holiday.
98-Bit Christmas (2021)
This 2021 comedy takes place in 1980s Chicago, following a 10-year-old kid who hunts down the most coveted gift on the market–a shiny new video game system.
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10Get Santa (2014)
Old Saint Nick is a fugitive. This British comedy stars Heartstopper’s Kit Connor as a young boy whose father, upon being released from prison, claims to have found Santa in the family’s shed. When this festive intruder is arrested, the boy and his father must help him escape from prison to save Christmas.
11Metropolitan (1990)
Christmas is more of a backdrop in this movie, but it's the socialite’s holiday movie. Metropolitan follows a group of wealthy young New Yorkers gathering for a holiday debutante party, discussing all things life and philosophy (as only the way elitist Manhattanites can).
12A Midwinter’s Tale (1995)
From writer, director, auteur Kenneth Branagh, A Midwinter’s Tale follows an out of work actor who volunteers to help a church organize a festive holiday production of Hamlet.
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13Grumpy Old Men (1993)
This 1993 comedy stars Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau as two feuding neighbors (ala Deck the Halls) who develop crushes on their new neighbor, competing for her affection over the holiday season.
14The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
You know them, our sweet Muppets. This 1992 Christmas musical sees the lovable Muppets perform their version of Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol. The human on deck here is the incredible Michael Caine, who plays Ebenezer Scrooge, a cold finance grump who simply doesn’t get the Christmas cheer.
15Scrooged (1998)
One of the many offshoots of the classic Christmas story, Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol, Scrooged stars Bill Murray as a Grinch-like television executive who is visited by the ghosts of Christmas past.
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16Falling for Christmas (2022)
The Christmas film of the year, hooray! Falling for Christmas stars Lindsay Lohan as an heiress suffering from amnesia following a ski accident who finds herself in the company of a hot lodge owner for the holidays.
17Tyler Perry's A Madea Christmas (2013)
Tyler Perry’s take on Christmas follows the lovable character Madea, this time visiting a small town in Alabama to spend the holiday with her family. The film is the eighth in the Madea franchise and stars, naturally, Tyler Perry alongside Kathy Najimy, Chad Michael Murray, Tika Sumpter, Anna Maria Horsford, and unexpectedly, Larry the Cable Guy?
18Single All The Way (2021)
Jennifer Coolidge hive, rise up! This 2021 holiday comedy follows a young bachelor who convinces his best friend to pose as his boyfriend for the holidays to stave off his family’s judgment.
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19A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas (2011)
A festive stoner comedy for the “let’s go for a walk” crew of cousins, A Very Harold and Kumar Christmas follows our favorite buddies, played as always by John Cho and Kal Penn, as they hunt down a Christmas tree.
20The Holiday (2006)
Elite holiday rom-com alert! The Holiday stars Cameron Diaz and Kate Winslet as two women who swap homes and lives for Christmas, falling in love with the locals along the way (Jude Law and Jack Black).
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