The holidays are great for revisiting classic festive flicks, but you don’t need to limit yourself to options from Christmases past. Streaming services are loading up the sleigh with merry movies about human-snowman romances, Santa Claus rescue missions and letters to the North Pole gone terribly wrong.
With Jack Black, Danny DeVito, Dwayne Johnson, Lindsay Lohan and other big names featured in the holiday fare, there are enough stars to top a ton of Christmas trees. If you plan to spend time in front of the TV this season, check out this list of 2024 Christmas movies you can stream right now.
New streaming Christmas movies for 2024
After hitting theaters in mid-November, the action-packed holiday offering Red One has made its streaming service debut. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, the PG-13-rated movie involves a globe-trotting quest to rescue Santa Claus. You can tune in to the film on Prime Video to see if these two movie stars ace the mission.
Exes on less-than-merry terms are brought together by Christmas after a decade apart in this Netflix movie. Lindsay Lohan and Ian Harding play former daters reunited when their partners — who are siblings — host them at a holiday gathering. Will they be able to keep their history a secret? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
This festive flick stars Ben Stiller as a big-city dweller whose life takes a turn. He leaves Chicago to temporarily look after his four orphaned nephews on a rural farm, and kid-fueled chaos ensues. Real-life siblings play the quartet of boys, and Linda Cardellini stars as a social worker.
It’s Taron Egerton vs. Jason Bateman in this Netflix airport thriller with enough holiday energy to land it on this list. The showdown takes place when Bateman’s enigmatic character urges Egerton’s TSA agent to let a bag make it through security and onto a Christmas Eve flight. If you’re up for a different kind of holiday flick, leave room in your suitcase for this one.
A Netflix holiday release no one saw coming — but that makes perfect sense — Hot Frosty stars Lacey Chabert as a small-town woman who meets a hunk with snowman origins. The comedic outing also features The Office’s Craig Robinson and Brooklyn Nine-Nine’s Joe Lo Truglio — a sheriff and his deputy on the trail of a streaker who may or may not be the community’s hottest (and also technically the coldest) new arrival.
A Magic Mike–channeling crowd-pleaser, The Merry Gentlemen centers on a big-city dancer out to save her parents’ struggling business. The strategy? An all-male revue led by Chad Michael Murray’s chiseled handyman. All of this must be accomplished by Christmas, of course.
Want to spend Christmas with an adorable little owl? This animated short film on Disney Plus follows the journey of a young bird named Moon, who winds up alone in Rockefeller Plaza during the holidays and befriends a young girl who’s also far from home. The voice actors include Jim Gaffigan, Mamoudou Athie, Natasha Lyonne and John C. Reilly.
Succession’s Brian Cox voicing Santa Claus is one of the draws of this PG-rated animated flick from Love Actually writer and director Richard Curtis. The film is based on three kids’ books by Curtis, who co-wrote That Christmas, and it wraps multiple tales in a holiday package.
Pop group Pentatonix and Christina Milian feature in this holiday rom-com that brings festive tunes and chemistry. Milian’s character hunts down tickets to a sold-out Pentatonix concert in New York City, hoping to join a guy she had a meet-cute with a year earlier. But a decision to hire a concierge introduces an unexpected second love interest.
Paramount Plus’ first original Christmas movie, Dear Santa, has a star-studded cast and an envelope-pushing setup: What if a little boy unintentionally addressed a letter to Satan instead of the man with the bag? Jack Black stars as the kid’s devilish new acquaintance, and Keegan-Michael Key and Post Malone appear in this unconventional holiday movie that didn’t prove very hot with critics.
Gerard Butler’s St. Nick encounters Emilia Clarke’s Christmas-loathing Queen of Hearts in this animated musical film based on the book of the same name by Carys Bexington. This is a holiday pic that can entertain the kids.
Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell star in this Hulu offering set in the Dolomites, Italy. In the merry comedy, a family holds Christmas at an unusual time of year as a 10-year-old girl tries to keep her parents from splitting up.
When it comes to new holiday movies, Hallmark has the winter goods. If you don’t have cable, you can use Peacock to catch the Countdown to Christmas lineup — but you’ll need to stay on top of the schedule. The streamer offers films live as they air on the Hallmark Channel on the East Coast or the next day on-demand. Just note if you go the on-demand route, the viewing window is limited to three days.
