01 A doctor's Christmas-season marital crisis spirals into one increasingly surreal night.
50 Best Christmas Movies of All Time
By Vlad Zakh · March 31, 2026
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Christmas movies split cleanly into two camps, warm family classics and, somehow just as popular every December, films where someone’s getting shot at in a skyscraper, and this list makes room for both.
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02 A time-loop premise that still gets remade in spirit every few years.
03 A guardian angel shows a suicidal man what his town would have become if he'd never been born.
04 Enemy soldiers on the WWI front call an unofficial truce to celebrate Christmas together.
05 Two women's forbidden romance begins over a chance holiday-season department store encounter.
06 A fresh, non-linear retelling of the March sisters' story, opening on a snowbound Christmas.
07 The definitive black-and-white Scrooge, still the benchmark every remake is measured against.
08 Two wealthy brothers swap a commodities broker and a street con artist's lives as a bet, ending in a Christmas-Eve train scheme.
09 Two hitmen hide out in a Belgian tourist town over Christmas while waiting for orders that will change everything.
10 A New York cop trapped in a hijacked skyscraper redefined the action movie for a generation.
11 Batman faces the Penguin and Catwoman in a gothic, snow-covered Gotham at Christmastime.
12 A cute new pet spawns a horde of destructive monsters on Christmas Eve.
13 A sorority house is stalked by an unseen caller during their holiday break.
14 A small Scottish town's zombie outbreak arrives just before the high school Christmas show.
15 A babysitter's night takes a violent turn when a home invasion is not at all what it first seems.
16 A family's bickering Christmas gathering summons a demonic anti-Santa figure instead.
17 A foul-mouthed conman poses as a department-store Santa to rob malls from the inside.
18 The Muppets take on Dickens' story with surprising sincerity underneath the puppet comedy.
19 Dickens' classic ghost story rendered in motion-capture animation, staying close to the original text.
20 A cynical, modern television executive gets the full Ebenezer Scrooge treatment from three ghosts.
21 Two bickering coworkers are secretly, unknowingly falling in love as anonymous pen pals.
22 A family's planned move away from St. Louis threatens to break up their happy home before Christmas.
23 Two performers stage a show to save a struggling Vermont inn run by their old army general.
24 A department-store Santa's claim to be the real thing ends up in an actual courtroom.
25 A young girl nurses an injured reindeer back to health, convinced it belongs to Santa.
26 The Pumpkin King of Halloween Town stumbles onto Christmas and decides to take it over.
27 Charlie Brown searches for the real meaning of Christmas underneath all the commercialism.
28 A bitter, isolated creature plots to ruin an entire town's holiday out of pure spite.
29 A reindeer with a glowing nose is bullied until his one flaw saves Christmas.
30 Santa's awkward son races to deliver one forgotten present before sunrise.
31 A lazy postman accidentally kickstarts the entire Santa Claus legend in a feuding Arctic town.
32 A skeptical boy boards a magical train to the North Pole on Christmas Eve.
33 A chaotic single woman's New Year's resolutions unravel across a messy love triangle.
34 A lonely transit worker is mistaken for the fiancée of a man she saved and barely knows.
35 Ten overlapping London love stories converge in the weeks before Christmas.
36 Two heartbroken women swap houses across the Atlantic and each fall for someone new.
37 A human raised as an elf moves to New York looking for his real father.
38 A family vacation mishap strands Kevin alone in New York City instead of Florida.
39 A Christmas staple that holds up purely on slapstick craft.
40 A father's picture-perfect family Christmas spirals into one disaster after another.
41 A boy's single-minded Christmas wish for a BB gun is met with universal adult skepticism.
42 A girlfriend's awkward first Christmas with her boyfriend's judgmental, close-knit family.
43 A chaotic woman's new romance coincides with a mysterious health scare she's been hiding.
44 A couple's plan to skip Christmas entirely outrages their entire tradition-obsessed neighborhood.
45 A couple tries to visit all four of their divorced parents' houses in a single day.
46 An ordinary dad accidentally becomes the new Santa Claus and starts physically transforming into him.
47 A lonely man pays a random family to let him spend Christmas pretending to be their son.
48 A father's last-minute hunt for a sold-out toy turns into an all-day citywide brawl.
49 Santa's resentful, ne'er-do-well older brother is forced to work at the North Pole.
50 Two neighbors escalate a holiday-lighting rivalry until it consumes the entire street.
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