How to stream your Christmas favorites this year
How to stream your Christmas favorites this year
We track down all the top Christmas movies on each streaming service to help you watch more easily.
Streaming is hard sometimes, especially when it comes to finding all those feel-good holiday movies you want to binge for the rest of the week. You won’t really find one streamer that has all of the big Christmas movies in one place; rather, they are quite spread out across the board.
We’ve scoured through endless lists of Christmas content to find all of the best streamers where you’ll find all of your favorite flicks. From “Home Alone” to “Elf” and everything in between. Here’s where you can stream the best Christmas movies in 2025.
Where to stream the best Christmas movies
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Disney+: Chock-full of Christmas content this year, with greats like “Home Alone”, “Miracle on 34th Street,” “Mickey’s Christmas Carol” and “The Santa Clause” series.
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Hulu: A great option for Christmas movies this year, Hulu fills up your stocking with “Frosty the Snowman”, “Jingle All the Way”, “Die Hard” and more.
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Netflix: From the feel-good “Family Switch” to the award-winning “Klaus”, there are plenty of fantastic holiday movies — plus a selection of great yule logs — here to carry you straight through until Christmas.
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Prime Video: Some hard-to-find hits here, in a subscription you most likely have already, including “Emmet Otters Jug Band Christmas”, 1954’s “White Christmas” and 1946’s “It’s a Wonderful Life”.
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HBO Max: Some of our favorite flicks of all-time are here, including “Elf”, “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation”, and “Gremilins”.
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Paramount+: There’s not a ton of joy with Paramount+ this year, but still some gems like “Scrooged”, “Bad Santa”, and 1984’s “A Christmas Carol” — plus everyone’s favorite Hanukkah “classic” “Eight Crazy Nights.”
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Peacock: Maybe not the big-names you’re looking for, but you’ll still find both the original “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” and the animated remake “The Grinch”, tossed in with the Peacock original “Genie” and dozens of Hallmark rom-coms for good measure.
Where to stream ‘A Christmas Story,’ on TV or on demand
If all that isn’t enough, don’t forget that starting at 9 p.m. ET Christmas Eve (Dec. 24), you can stream the 1983 classic “A Christmas Story” for 24 hours straight on TNT using one of our favorite streaming services, like DIRECTV or Sling TV. On TBS, the “Christmas Story” marathon starts on Wednesday, Dec. 24 at 8 p.m. and runs through Dec. 25 at 8 p.m.
A Christmas Story
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.