In keeping with recent trends, stores are already decorated for Christmas, and it seems that streaming platforms are taking cues from the retail industry and pushing their holiday options, too. Multiple platforms have aggregated their festive fare into one page, while others are simply highlighting their Christmas content via what’s trending. If you’re already in the mood, check out some of your favorite Christmas movies streaming now.
Love Actually
Is there a better film of the multi-storyline-at-the-holidays genre than Love Actually? The Richard Curtis classic brought together an all-star cast including Laura Linney, Hugh Grant, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Keira Knightley, Liam Neeson, Bill Nighy, Andrew Lincoln, Colin Firth, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, and somehow more to make millennial women everywhere cry at Christmas.
Love Actually is streaming now on Netflix.
Elf
The quintessential holiday movie for many, Elf is everything it should be: jolly, funny, heartwarming, festive, and just plain good. It’s hard to think of a time when John Favreau was just a former boyfriend of Monica on Friends and Will Ferrell had yet to fully transcend his time on Saturday Night Live, but that was the world we were living in before Elf. Thank goodness we’re past that.
Elf is streaming now on Max.
Home Alone
Some say Home Alone is just Die Hard for kids, but we believe that Die Hard is just Home Alone for adults (despite Die Hard coming out a couple of years earlier than Home Alone). The fact that John Hughes got Joe Pesci to sign onto this film is truly a Christmas miracle, and because of it, we have two holiday classics to enjoy every year (we don’t formally consider Home Alone 3 as part of the canon). If Macaulay Culkin wanted to reprise his role a third time for another sequel worth watching, we’d have absolutely zero complaints.
Home Alone is streaming now on Disney+.
It’s a Wonderful Life
If you consider yourself a Christmas movie aficionado, It’s a Wonderful Life is a mandatory watch. Sure, you probably know the references (every time a bell rings, an angel gets its wings), but there’s so much more to the movie that can only be understood by watching the film. A beautiful story that wasn’t appreciated until years after it came out, It’s a Wonderful Life has stood the test of time for a reason. If it’s not already on your rewatch list for this season, it’s time to add it.
It’s a Wonderful Life is streaming now on Prime Video.