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The holidays are great for revisiting classic holiday movies, but you don’t have to limit yourself to options from Christmases past. Streaming services are filling the sleigh with light-hearted movies about human-snowman romances, Santa rescue missions, and letters to the North Pole gone horribly wrong.
With Jack Black, Danny DeVito, Dwayne Johnson, Lindsay Lohan and other big names appearing on the Christmas lineup, there are enough stars to top a ton of Christmas trees. If you’re planning on spending time in front of the TV this season, check out this list of 2024 Christmas movies you can stream right now (or very soon).
New Christmas movies streaming for 2024
Red One has been in theaters for a while, but the action-packed holiday offering is about to make its debut on the streaming service. Starring Dwayne Johnson and Chris Evans, the PG-13-rated film involves a worldwide quest to rescue Santa Claus. You can tune into the movie on Prime Video to see if these two movie stars accomplish the mission.
Exes on less than happy terms reunite on Christmas after a decade apart in this Netflix movie. Lindsay Lohan and Ian Harding play former daters who reunite when their partners, who are brothers, host them at a Christmas gathering. Can they keep their story a secret? You’ll have to tune in to find out.
This holiday movie stars Ben Stiller as a big-city resident whose life takes a turn. She leaves Chicago to temporarily care for her four orphaned nephews on a rural farm, and child-fueled chaos ensues. The real-life siblings play the quartet of children and Linda Cardellini plays a social worker.
It’s Taron Egerton vs. Jason Bateman in this upcoming Netflix airport thriller with enough Christmas energy to land it on this list. The confrontation takes place when Bateman’s enigmatic character urges Egerton’s TSA agent to let a bag pass through security and onto a Christmas Eve flight. If you’re in the mood for a different kind of Christmas movie, leave room in your suitcase for this one.
A Netflix holiday release that no one saw coming, but it makes a lot of sense: Hot Frosty stars Lacey Chabert as a small-town woman who meets a heartthrob with snowman origins. The comic 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 man who may or may not be the hottest (and also technically the coldest) newcomer. of the community.
A crowd-pleasing Magic Mike channeler, The Merry Gentlemen centers on a big-city dancer trying to save her parents’ struggling business. The strategy? An all-men’s magazine run by Chad’s chiseled handyman Michael Murray. All this, of course, must be achieved before Christmas.
Do you want to spend Christmas with an adorable owlet? This Disney Plus animated short follows the journey of a young bird named Moon, who ends up alone in Rockefeller Plaza during the holidays and befriends a young woman who is also far from home. Voice actors include Jim Gaffigan, Mamoudou Athie, Natasha Lyonne and John C. Reilly.
Succession’s Brian Cox, who voices Santa Claus, is one of the attractions of this PG-rated animated film from Love Actually writer-director Richard Curtis. The film is based on three children’s books by Curtis, who co-wrote That Christmas, and wraps multiple stories into one Christmas package.
Pop group Pentatonix and Christina Milian appear in this Christmas romantic comedy bringing festive melodies and chemistry. Milian’s character searches for tickets to a sold-out Pentatonix concert in New York City after a meet-cute at the airport with a stranger a year earlier. But the decision to hire a janitor introduces an unexpected second love interest.
Paramount Plus’ first original Christmas movie, Dear Santa, has a star-studded cast and an innovative setup: What if a little boy accidentally addressed a letter to Satan instead of the bagman? Jack Black plays the boy’s devilish new acquaintance, and Keegan-Michael Key and Post Malone appear in this offbeat Christmas movie that didn’t do well with critics.
Gerard Butler’s St. Nick meets Emilia Clarke’s Christmas-hating Queen of Hearts in this animated musical film based on the book of the same name by Carys Bexington. This is a Christmas photo that can entertain children.
Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell star in this upcoming Hulu offering set in the Dolomites, Italy. In the light-hearted comedy, a family celebrates Christmas at an unusual time of year while a 10-year-old girl tries to prevent her parents from separating.
When it comes to new Christmas movies, Hallmark has winter products. If you don’t have cable, you can use Peacock to watch Countdown to Christmas programming, but you’ll have to stick around. above schedule. The streamer offers movies live as they air on Hallmark Channel on the East Coast or the next day on demand. Just keep in mind that if you go the on-demand route, the viewing window is limited to three days.
