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2024 holiday movies: 100+ new Christmas films to watch this season
All of the best 2024 Christmas movies on Netflix, Lifetime, Hallmark Channel, and more.
The holiday movie season is upon us. Cable channels, streaming companies, and on-demand platforms have been cranking out the 2024 holiday movies since late October, with many more to come in November and December.
The most prolific purveyor of holiday movie cheer is Hallmark, which has 48 Christmas movies in total — 32 holiday movies on its flagship Hallmark Channel, nine new movies on its Hallmark Mystery channel, and seven exclusively on its Hallmark+ streaming service.
Chances are that if you turn on one of the Hallmark channels on any given night, you’ll be treated to some wholesome holiday entertainment. That said, if you miss a specific Hallmark movie on TV, you can stream it through either Hallmark+ or on Peacock up to 72 hours after its original airdate.
Watch: Kevin talks 2024 holiday movies on ‘Boston Globe Today’
Among the most popular streaming services, Netflix leads the way this year with nine new 2024 holiday movies, including one starring Christmas movie queen Lacey Chabert (“Hot Frosty”) and one featuring her “Mean Girls” co-star Lindsay Lohan (“Our Little Secret”).
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Below you’ll find 119 new 2024 Christmas movies, with info on when and how to watch them.
(Note: If you miss a broadcast or cable movie’s original air time, be sure to check out the channel’s website, as many movies are available on-demand with the correct app or a valid cable login.)
2024 Christmas movies in theaters
Top pick: “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (Nov. 8)
Amazon’s $250 million Christmas action-adventure movie “Red One” wastes the talents of Chris Evans and everyone else involved. If you must watch, wait until it inevitably lands on Prime Video.
Instead, buy a ticket for “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever,” about a the chaos of planning a small-town Christmas pageant and starring the likes of Lauren Graham (“Gilmore Girls”), Judy Greer (“13 Going on 30”), and Lexington native Pete Holmes (“Crashing”).
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“The Best Christmas Pageant Ever” (Nov. 8)
“Red One” (Nov. 15)
Netflix 2024 Holiday Movies
Top pick: “Hot Frosty” (Nov. 13)
If you’re a Hallmark Channel devotee, you know that Lacey Chabert is the queen of Christmas movies. The “Mean Girls” actress is taking her talents to Netflix this holiday season with “Hot Frosty,” in which she plays a recent widow who magically brings a handsome snowman to life. Would it be too on-the-nose to say that this one will melt your heart?
“Meet Me Next Christmas” (Nov. 6)
“Hot Frosty” (Nov. 13)
“The Merry Gentleman” (Nov. 20)
“Spellbound” (Nov. 22)
“Our Little Secret” (Nov. 27)
“The Snow Sister” (Nov. 29)
“That Christmas” (Dec. 4)
“Mary” (Dec. 6)
“Carry-On” (Dec. 13)
Lifetime Holiday Movies 2024
Top pick: “Christmas at Plumhill Manor” (Nov. 16)
Margot Stone (Medford native Maria Menounos) gets the fairytale Christmas movie of her dreams when she discovers “a magical Christmas secret” in an English countryside manor.
“Christmas at Plumhill Manor” (Nov. 16)
“Holiday in Happy Hollow” (Nov. 17)
“Christmas in the Spotlight” (Nov. 23)
“Sincerely, Truly Christmas” (Nov. 24)
“Bebe Winans’ We Three Kings” (Nov. 30)
“Make or Bake Christmas” (Dec. 1)
“A Very Merry Beauty Salon” (Dec. 7)
“How to Fall in Love By Christmas” (Dec. 8)
“The Holiday Junkie” (Dec. 14)
“Christmas on the Alpaca Farm” (Dec. 15)
“A Carpenter Christmas Romance” (Dec. 21)
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“Engaged by Christmas” (Dec. 22)
Hallmark Holiday Movies 2024
Top pick: “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story” (Nov. 30)
Maybe “most opportunistic pick” is a more apt descriptor than “top pick” for “Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story,” a Hallmark collaboration with the NFL that was clearly greenlit in order to capitalize on the interest pop star Taylor Swift and Chiefs tight end Travis Kelce’s relationship. The film concerns a romance between the team’s Director of Fan Engagement (Tyler Hynes) and a hardcore Chiefs fan (Hunter King) who thinks her family is a lock to win the Fan of the Year contest. It also has Ed Begley Jr. in it, so it can’t that bad, right?
“‘Twas the Date Before Christmas” (Now Streaming)
“Holiday Crashers” (Now Streaming)
“Scouting for Christmas” (Now Streaming)
“This Time of Year” (Now Streaming)
“My Sweet Austrian Holiday” (Now Streaming)
“Operation Nutcracker” (Now Streaming)
“The Christmas Charade” (Now Streaming)
“The 5-Year Christmas Party” (Now Streaming)
“Five Gold Rings” (Now Streaming)
“A Carol for Two” (Now Streaming)
“Unwrapping Christmas: Tina’s Miracle” (Now Streaming)
“Our Holiday Story” (Now Streaming)
“Holiday Mismatch” (Now Streaming)
“Trivia at St. Nick’s” (Now Streaming)
“Santa Tell Me” (Now Streaming)
“‘Tis the Season to be Irish” (Now Streaming)
“A Reason for the Season” (Now streaming))
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“Unwrapping Christmas: Mia’s Prince” (Now streaming)
“Christmas with the Singhs” (Nov. 15)
“Jingle Bell Run” (Nov. 16)
“Confessions of a Christmas Letter” (Nov. 17)
“A Novel Noel” (Nov. 21)
“Unwrapping Christmas: Lily’s Destiny” (Nov. 21)
“Christmas on Call” (Nov. 22)
“Three Wiser Men and a Boy” (Nov. 23)
“To Have and to Holiday” (Nov. 24)
“Christmas Under the Lights” (Nov. 27)
“Debbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle” (Nov. 28)
“Unwrapping Christmas: Olivia’s Reunion” (Nov. 28)
“A ’90s Christmas” (Nov. 29)
“Deck the Walls” (Nov. 29)
“Believe in Christmas” (Nov. 30)
“Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story” (Nov. 30)
“The Finnish Line” (Dec. 1)
“The Christmas Quest” (Dec. 1)
“A Dance in the Snow” (Dec. 5)
“Season’s Greetings from Cherry Lane” (Dec. 5)
“Private Princess Christmas” (Dec. 6)
“Sugarplummed” (Dec. 7)
“Leah’s Perfect Gift” (Dec. 8)
“All I Need for Christmas” (Dec. 12)
“Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane” (Dec. 12)
“Hanukkah on the Rocks” (Dec. 13)
“The Santa Class” (Dec. 14)
“Following Yonder Star” (Dec. 15)
“Trading up Christmas” (Dec. 19)
“Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane” (Dec. 19)
“Happy Howlidays” (Dec. 21)
Hulu and Disney+ 2024 Holiday Movies
Top pick: “Nutcrackers” (Nov. 29)
Ben Stiller plays a workaholic suddenly enlisted by a child services worker (Linda Cardellini) to take care of his rambunctious nephews after they lost their parents in an accident.
“Christmas on the Ranch” (Now streaming)
“The Night Before Christmas in Wonderland” (Nov. 15)
“An Almost Christmas Story” (Nov. 15)
“Nutcrackers” (Nov. 29)
More 2024 Holiday Movies
Top pick: “Dear Santa” (Nov. 25, Paramount+)
If festive romcoms aren’t your cup of cocoa, Paramount Plus has a holiday movie for all of you on the naughty list with “Dear Santa,” directed by filmmaker siblings (and Rhode Island natives) Bobby and Peter Farrelly (“Dumb and Dumber”). When a child writing a letter to Santa Claus makes one *very* serious typo, his letter ends up with Satan, played by Jack Black.
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“A Christmas Miracle” (BET+)
“Heart for the Holidays” (BET+)
“Christmas Angel” (BET+)
“Wreathmaker Christmas” (Great American Family)
“A Vintage Christmas” (Great American Family)
“A Christmas Castle Proposal” (Great American Family)
“A Shelter and Season’s Greetings” (Great American Family)
“A Royal Christmas Ballet” (Great American Family)
“A Sudden Case of Christmas” (VOD)
November 14
“Style Me for Christmas” (BET+)
November 16
“A Christmas Less Traveled” (Great American Family)
November 17
“The Fabric of Christmas” (Great American Family)
November 19
“Jingle Bell Run” (The Roku Channel)
November 21
“A Wesley South African Christmas” (BET+)
November 23
“A Little Women’s Christmas” (Great American Family)
November 24
“Christmas by Candlelight” (Great American Family)
“Festival of Trees” (UPtv)
November 25
“Dear Santa” (Paramount+)
November 28
“The Day Before Christmas” (BET+)
“I Heard the Bells” (Great American Family)
“Momma Said Come Home for Christmas” (ALLBLK)
November 29
“A Cinderella Christmas Ball” (Great American Family)
December 1
“Home Sweet Christmas” (Great American Family)
“A Creature was Stirring” (Shudder)
“A Bluegrass Christmas” (UPtv)
December 5
“Brewster’s Millions: Christmas” (BET+)
December 7
“Once Upon a Christmas Wish” (Great American Family)
“A Season to Remember” (OWN)
December 8
“Let it Snow” (Great American Family)
“The Primrose Railway Children” (BYUtv)
December 12
“Too Many Christmases” (BET+)
December 13
“Joe Bob’s Christmas Carnage” (Shudder)
December 14
“Sleigh Bells and Sugar Plums” (Great American Family)
“Mistletoe and Matrimony” (OWN)
December 15
“Christmas in Scotland” (Great American Family)
“A Novel Christmas” (UPtv)
December 16
“The Chelsea Detective Christmas Special” (Acorn TV)
December 19
“Queens of Christmas” (BET+)
December 21
“Get Him Back for Christmas” (Great American Family)
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“A Country Music Christmas” (UPtv)
“24-Karat Christmas” (OWN)
December 22
“Coupled Up for Christmas” (Great American Family)
“North by North Pole: A Dial S Mystery” (UPtv)
December 25
“Blended Christmas” (BET+)
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