These are the best Christmas movies you can stream on Peacock
These are the best Christmas movies you can stream on Peacock
It’s not the best streamer when it comes to Christmas movies, but there are some hidden gems.
While Peacock might not have quite as robust a holiday catalog as some of its streaming competitors, it is not completely bereft of quality options, especially if you are looking for some Christmas movies that are outside the traditional fare that you’ve seen every year since childhood. While I wouldn’t recommend subscribing to the NBCUniversal streamer specifically for its Christmas offerings, if you already have a subscription, there is an eclectically interesting group of holiday movies you can stream to keep you merry and bright through the end of the year.
The streamer is home to the original “How the Grinch Stole Christmas,” the 2000 Jim Carrey remake, and the animated version “The Grinch” that came out in 2018.
In addition, Peacock has both the 1947 original “Miracle on 34th Street” as well as the 1994 remake. Mixed in are the Arnold Schwarzenegger “Jingle All the Way,” multiple versions of “A Christmas Carol,” the beloved holiday sequel “The Best Man Holiday,” and more.
If you’re looking for even more holiday content, be sure to check out the best Christmas movies on other streaming platforms as well!
Best Christmas movies on Peacock
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Miracle on 34th Street
June 4, 1947Kris Kringle, seemingly the embodiment of Santa Claus, is asked to portray the jolly old fellow at Macy’s following his performance in the Thanksgiving Day parade. His portrayal is so complete that many begin to question if he truly is Santa Claus, while others question his sanity.
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Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol
December 18, 1962In this animated musical version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol”, Ebenezer Scrooge - via Mr. Magoo’s starring performance in a stage production of the classic - doesn’t have a ghost of a chance unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three spirits who haunt him one Christmas Eve.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas!
December 18, 1966Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of a nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. Disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he decides to raid the village to steal all the Christmas things.
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A Christmas Carol
October 9, 1984Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
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Miracle on 34th Street
November 18, 1994Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood’s most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who’s convinced he’s the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
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Jingle All the Way
November 21, 1996Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son’s karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son’s favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
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The Family Man
December 12, 2000Jack’s lavish, fast-paced lifestyle changes one Christmas night when he stumbles into a grocery store holdup and disarms the gunman. The next morning he wakes up in bed lying next to Kate, his college sweetheart he left in order to pursue his career, and to the horrifying discovery that his former life no longer exists. As he stumbles through this alternate suburban universe, Jack finds himself at a crossroad where he must choose between his high-power career and the woman he loves.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas
November 17, 2000Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of Munchkin-like people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos, whom he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriending the Grinch.
This is the live-action Grinch film starring Jim Carrey as the mean green guy. Ron Howard directs a cast that includes Christine Baranski, Molly Shannon, Jeffrey Tambor, and a young Taylor Momsen as Cindy Lou Who.
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The Legend of Frosty the Snowman
October 18, 2005Frosty the Snowman goes where he is needed most, and the town of Evergreen sure needed a visit. Mr Tinkerton, the mayor, runs a tight ship, and there’s no room for talk of magic or any other such nonsense. But, when Frosty the Snowman blows through town, he shows the town’s children that magic is real. Tinkerton’s sons, Charlie and Tommy, along with their friends Sarah and Walter, want to spread the word about Frosty’s fun-loving, magical antics but meet resistance from Evergreen Elementary’s dastardly principal Hank Pankley. In the end, good wins out, and all the citizens of Evergreen happily learn that magic is real and fun is for everyone!
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The Dog Who Saved Christmas
November 9, 2009Zeus, a Labrador Retriever and a former police dog, has lost his bark after his barking ended up blowing off a five-year investigation and his partner can’t shoot straight again and ends up at the pound. He is adopted by a father as both an early Christmas present and as a guard dog for the house, but the mom remains hesitant.
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A Madea Christmas
December 13, 2013Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she’s coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
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The Best Man Holiday
November 15, 2013When college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
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The Night Before
November 20, 2015In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
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The Grinch
November 8, 2018The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration. But a certain little who might change things.
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The Housewives of the North Pole
December 9, 2021The Christmas Queens of North Pole, Vermont, Trish and Diana, have won the Best Holiday House decorating competition every year for the past nine years. But days before Christmas, a friendship-ending argument sparks a town-wide feud and draws the attention of a national magazine writer hoping to make a name for herself with her scintillating expose.
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Genie
November 22, 2023Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
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It's Christmas!
November 11, 2024A woman sets out a well-intentioned plan of bringing her dysfunctional family together in the wake of the family’s matriarch, her mother-in-law.
More holiday hits
Not enough holiday content for you on Peacock this season? Don’t be a Grinch – you can check out the great selection of Christmas-themed movies on other streamers to round out your holiday cheer.