This is your ultimate christmas movie guide this year. From streaming to VOD to in-theaters we brought you a calender to help guide you through all the Christmas-movie-watching options as the countdown for the holidays begin.
Netflix
Nov. 30
– Family Switch
Starring : Jennifer Garner, Ed Helms, Rita Moreno, Emma Myers and Brady Noon.
This is another body swapping movie, where a wife and her husband find themselves switching bodies with their teenage children, days before chritsmas. After a chance encounter with an astrological leader.
– The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday
Starring : Michael Godere, Ezekiel Ajeigbe, Raul Ceballos, Chris Diamantopoulos, Mallory Low, Zehra Fazal, Keith Silverstein and, Kari Wahlgren.
An animated special spun off from The Bad Guys film. Where “the Bad Guys” plan to execute a heit on christmas morning when everyone is buisy opening guifts.
But to their surprise, christmas got cancelled. So their plan now, is to try to restore christmas spirit, and eventually getting back christmas.
BET+
Nov. 30:
– A Royal Christmas Surprise
Starring : Jennifer Freeman, Thapelo Mokoena, Abena Ayivor, Sello Maake Ka- Bcube, Trisha Mann-Grant, Tony Grant, Andi Anderson, and Andrae Bicy.
In this sequel to A Royal Surprise, Riley plans the perfect Christmas for her fiancé, Mandla, and his parents Queen Nobantu and King Chidike at their house in Kentucky. But what didn’t she plan for is a suprise that will ruin all her plans.
– The Christmas Ringer
Starring : Trenyce, Kelly Price, Tyler Lepley, Chrisette Michelle, Arischa Connor, Q Parker, Akbar V, Tamika Scott and Jarrett Michael Collins
After a career change caused by her manager-fiancé, an R&B singer goes back to her family’s home for the holidays. where her mother convinces her join the Christmas Choir Competition with them by directing their ragtag church choir.
Dec. 7
– Never Alone for Christmas
Starring : Macy Gray, Mignon Von, and Allen Maldonado.
After Lauren calls off her wedding to Miles right before the holidays, neither of them want to spen christmas alone. So by coincidence, each happen to attend the same Cajun Christmas retreat, with someone new on their arms.
Dec. 14
– Christmas Rescue
Starring : Robin Givens, Raven Goodwin, Donny Carrington, Catfish Jean, Mario Van Peebles, Cameron Bailey and Samantha Neyland Trumbo.
A man abducts the love of his life from her holiday themed wedding in a desperate attempt to win her back.
– Favorite Son Christmas
Starring : Tank, Darrel Walls, Loren Lott, Serayah, Lisa Arrindell, MC Lyte, Jekalyn Carr and Anthony Evans
The graceway church is in a deep financials problem, the new appointed Pastor, is Looking to the Jubilee to save the day. First Lady Rita suggests a SO GIFTED reunion to rouse the necessary ticket sales. Will the reunion help to bring them all back together ?
Dec. 21
– Whatever It Takes
Starring : Tami Roman, Kandi Burruss, Brely Evans, AJ Johnson, Rayan Lawrence, Kendrick Cross, Stevie Baggs Jr. and Zuri James
The movie follows five women bonding over their mussy love lives, over a thanksgiving weekend.
Hallmark Movies & Mysteries
Nov. 30
– Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas
Starring : Shenae Grimes-Beech, Chris Carmack, and Grace Leer.
In this mystery movie, Carly heads to a small town to lead the church choir during Christmas time, only to meet an Army Veteran along the way. So maybe she was brought here for a life changing reason.
Dec. 7
– To All a Good Night
Starring : Kimberley Sustad, and Mark Ghanimé.
A small-town photographer saves the life of a mysterious man who may just be here to buy her family’s parkland.
Dec. 14
– Heaven Down Here
Starring : Krystal Joy Brown, Tina Lifford, Juan Riedinger, Richard Harmon and Phylicia Rashad.
inspired by Mickey Guyton’s song of the same name, it tells the story of four disparate people who get stranded in local diner on Christmas eve when snowtorm hits the town.
With time passing, they start to devolop bonds, and help each other with answers to their prayers.
Dec. 21
– Miracle in Bethlehem, PA
Starring : Laura Vandervoort and Benjamin Ayres
Due to the bad weather, she and the infant get stuck in Bethlehem, PA, for the holidays. After all the rooms are booked in the inn, her only choice is to stay with the innkeeper’s brother, Joe. Sparks fly between the new mom and the quintessentiel bachelor as she spends more time with him and his family participating in the church’s christmas events.
Amazon Prime Video
Dec. 1
– Candy Cane Lane
Starring : Eddie Murphy, Jillian Bell, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ken Marino and Nick Offerman
The story starts when a man (played by Eddie Murphy) makes a deal with an elf to help him win his neighborhood’s annual christmas house decorating contest. But it backfires on him, when the Elf brings to life the “12 Days of Christmas.”
Dec. 8
– Merry Little Batman
Starring: Yonas Kibreab, Luke Wilson, James Cromwell and David Hornsby
Damian Wayne, Batman’s son finds himself alone in Wayne Manor on Christmas Eve. So he transforms himself into Little Batman to protect his house and Gotham City from supervillains who try to destroy the holidays.
– Your Christmas Or Mine 2
Starring : Asa Butterfield, Cora Kirk, Daniel Mays, Angela Griffin, Alex Jennings, and Jane Krakowski.
The film is a sequel to British comedy Christmas film Your Christmas or Mine? (2022). It follows two families planning on spending the holidays in a luxury ski resort in the Alps. But a mix-up with transport at the airport, leads them to each other’s accommodations.
theaters
Dec. 1
–Silent Night
Starring : Joel Kinnaman, Scott Mescudi, Harold Torres and Catalina Sandino Moreno.
An action thriller film, that tells the story of a father who goes to the underworld to get revenge after witnessing his sons death due to gang related activities on Christmas Eve.
– Waitress: The Musical
Starring : Sara Bareilles, Drew Gehling, Charity Angél Dawson, Caitlin Houlahan, Dakin Matthews, Christopher Fitzgerald, Joe Tippett, Eric Anderson.
The Tony-nominated, Broadway phenomenon about a small-town pie baker, with a bad marriage and big dreams is now on the silver screen.
Dec. 15
– Wonka
Starring : Timothée Chalamet, Calah Lane, Keegan-Michael Key, Paterson Joseph, Matt Lucas, Mathew Baynton, Sally Hawkins, Rowan Atkinson, Jim Carter, Tom Davis, Olivia Colman, and Hugh Grant.
The movie is based on the extraordinary character of Willy Wonka in the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory. It tells the story of how Willi Wonka went from a young adult selling chocolate in small shop, to the world’s greatest inventor and chocolate-maker we know today.
Hallmark Channel
Nov. 25
– Christmas in Notting Hill
Starring : Sarah Ramos and William Moseley.
Always too busy for love, famous Footbal star Graham gets his mind changed about love. It all stars after he comes home to Notting Hill for Christmas and meets Georgia Right, a visiting American who has no idea who he is.
– Haul Out the Holly: Lit Up
Starring : Lacey Chabert, Wes Brown, Stephen Tobolowsky, Melissa Peterman, Ellen Travolta, Seth Morris and Jennifer Aspen.
As the holidays approach, Emily and Jared are looking forward lead the Evergreen Lane HOA toward another successful Christmas season.
Nov. 26
– A Biltmore Christmas
Starring : Bethany Joy Lenz, Kristoffer Polaha, Jonathan Frakes and Robert Picardo.
The sory follows Lucy, a screenwriter remaking a beloved holiday classic from 1947, His Merry Wife!
After writing the remake with a not-so-happy ending, the studio refuses and sends her to where the original movie was filmed in Biltmore. While she’s there she finds a way to time travel to 1947, where she fells in love with the film’s star.
– Our Christmas Mural
Starring : Alex Paxton-Beesley, and Dan Jeannotte.
Returning home for Christmas, a single mother, Olivia is scretly entered into a mural contest by her mom. she gets teamed up with a teacher, Will to create a mural for a holiday contest.
Dec. 1
– My Norwegian Holiday
Starring : Rhiannon Fish and David Elsendoorn
A woman grieving the loss of her grandmother starts forming a bond with a Norwegian man after he discovers she has a a troll figurine from his hometown. So she travels to Norway with him to uncover the origins of a troll figurine during the holidays.
Dec. 2
– A Not So Royal Christmas
Starring : Brooke D’Orsay, and Will Kemp.
When a tabloid journalist tries to land an interview with a reclusive count during the holidays, the royal family has a groundskeeper to pose as him since the real one fled years ago.
Dec. 3
– Christmas with a Kiss
Starring : Mishael Morgan, Ronnie Rowe Jr. and Jaime M. Callica
The film follows a woman (Morgan) who returns home for her family’s Christmas Carnival. But romance sparks where she meets a photo journalist (Rowe).
Dec. 8
– Magic in Mistletoe
Starring : Lyndie Greenwood and Paul Campbell
Harrington is a successful but reclusive author. As he returns to his hometown for an annual Christmas festival celebrating his books, his publicit goes with him to try and do some damage controle.
Dec. 9
– Christmas on Cherry Lane
Starring : Catherine Bell, Jonathan Bennett, John Brotherton, Erin Cahill, James Denton and Vincent Rodriguez III
Three couples get together to celebrate the holiday, each one trying to deal with some major turning points in their lives.
Dec. 10
– Round and Round
Starring : Vic Michaelis, Bryan Greenberg and Rick Hoffman
After Rachel gets stuck in a time loop, reliving the night of her parents’ Hanukkah party, she turns to Zach for help, a boy that her grandmother is trying to set her up with.
Dec. 15
– The Secret Gift of Christmas
Starring : Meghan Ory and Christopher Russell.
Bonnie, a personal shopper helps a widowed client to find the perfect guift for his daughter, in an attempt to reconnect with her.
Dec. 16
– Sealed with a List
Starring : Katie Findlay, and Evan Roderick.
For this holiday season, Carley is deterlined to conquer her list of abandoned resolutions from last year. With the help of her co-worker Wyatt she finds love and confident to chase her dreams.
Lifetime
Nov. 25
– Christmas at the Chalet
Starring : Teri Hatcher and William DeVry.
Ex-TV host and socialiste, Lex gets stuck spending Christmas at a chalet with her son, ex-husband husband and his new girlfriend. Her way of dealing with the awkward situation, is to work at the chalet and document it for her followers.
Nov. 26
– Laughing All the Way
Starring : Paniz Zade and Jake Epstein.
A ghostwriter and aspiring comedian Aubri Wilson gets a career changing opportunity when she’s placed in charge of the Christmas variety show. Worried she may mess it up, she meets a famous comedian Mike Baxter who helps her shows the world her inner funny girl.
Dec. 2
– Ladies of the ‘80s: A Divas Christmas
Starring : Loni Anderson, Morgan Fairchild, Linda Gray, Donna Mills, Nicollette Sheridan, Taylor Ann Thompson and Travis Burns
Five former ’80s soap opera stars, reunite to film the final Christmas episode of their long-running popular soap opera.
Dec. 3
– Mistletoe Match
Starring : Elena Juatco and Ryan Bruce
Sparks fly when Olivia meets Thomas while she’s undercover to report on the popular annual Mistletoe Match event.
Dec. 9
– A Cowboy Christmas Romance
Starring : Jana Kramer, Adam Senn, Mary-Margaret Humes, Cassie Randolph, Curt Mega, Bruce Thomas, Lisa Lee and Max Ehrich.
One week before Christmas, real estate “closer” Lexie Crenshaw goes back to her hometown of Tubac, Arizona. Her mission is to try to convince the local horse whisperer, Cody to sell his family’s land. All while trying to navigate her broken relationship with her father.
Dec. 10
– Yes, Chef! Christmas
Starring : Tia Mowry, Buddy Valastro and Luke Humphrey.
This holiday season, a culinary school instructor gets invited to compete in the city’s annual Kringle Cook-Off with the help of a fiery mentor. But she accidently discovers a family secret that will change her life.
Dec. 16
– The Holiday Proposal Plan
Starring : Tatyana Ali, Jesse Kove, Geovanni Gopradi and Whitney Able.
A travel columnist Sonny Kravitz and her ex-boyfriend Kip are forced back together to help their best friends get engaged in time for Christmas. As they work together, old memories and feelongs start to surface.
– A Christmas Intern
Starring : Jackée Harry, Ciarra Carter, Vivica A. Fox, Doug Rogers, Jasmine Avialotis and Michael Paré
Bored of retirement, Cecilia decides to becomes an intern at her daughter’s online gift giving business for the holidays. In the process the two get closer as they learn the importance of family.
– Merry Magic Christmas
Starring : Patricia Isaac and Andrew Dunbar.
As Christmas approaches, a financial advisor starts seeing the number : 624 everywhere. She was told that the number is from a Christmas angel to make her wish come true. As she discovers the true meaning of the number, she meets Nate.
Dec. 23
– Mom’s Christmas Boyfriend
Starring : Jeananne Goossen, Ai Barrett and Zach Smadu.
A 10 year old girl wins a writing contest to have her Chritsmas wish come true : finding true love for her adoptive mom.
Food Network
Nov. 30
– Selena + Chef: Home for the Holidays
Selena gomez and and her best friend, Raquelle Stevens invites four renowned chefs Eric Adjepong, Alex Guarnaschelli, Michael Symon, and Claudette Zepeda to make a mouth-watering holiday feast.
Hallmark Movies Now
Nov. 27
– Three Wise Men and a Baby extended cut
Starring : Paul Campbell, Tyler Hynes, Andrew Walker and Margaret Colin.
The 2022 original Hallmark movie “Three Wise Men and a Baby” was cable’s most watched TV movie of that year. So they decided to release an extended version of it this year.
Dec. 7
– Rescuing Christmas
Starring : Rachael Leigh Cook, Sam Page, T. Mychael Rambo, Patrick Thomas O’Brien and Bailey Stender
Erin, a photographer who hates Christmas, gets granted three wishes from two of Santa’s elves, Chuck and Debbie. Everything starts to go wrong when she wishes for Christmas to disappear.
Dec. 14
– An Ice Palace Romance
Starring : Celeste Desjardins and Marcus Rosner.
The film follows a journalist who returns to her hometown ice rink to cover a story. She starts facing her fears with the help of the handsome rink owner and his young daughter.
Dec. 21
– A Holiday Spectacular extended cut
Starring : Ginna Claire Mason, Derek Klena, Eve Plumb and Ann-Margret, and featuring the Radio City Rockettes.
In 1958, Maggie, a heiress from Philadelphia puts her high-society wedding plans on hold in order to go to New York City to fulfill her life’s dream of dancing on stage in the Christmas Spectacular at radio City Music Hall.
UPtv
Nov. 26
– Mistletoe Connection
Starring : Jessica Sipos and Markian Tarasiuk.
Kate who loves everything Christmas, runs a nostalgid gift shop that has been in her family for generations. This year, however, a developer, Mark, is trying to change everything in her neighborhood, but a chance encounter with a handsome stranger on a bus, will change her life forever.
Dec. 3
– Yuletide the Knot
Starring : Mary Antonini, Peter Porte, Kelley Jakle, Kelsey Scott and Melissa Peterman.
Small town wedding planner Rachel is orginazing her biggest Christmas wedding yet for an influencer couple from out-of town. But gets the suprise of her life when finds out that the bride’s manager is her first love and high school sweetheart, Logan.
Dec. 10
– Christmas at an Amish Bakery
Starring : Alexandra Harris and Sean Koetting.
After leaving the Amish community, a New York editor Sarah goes back to her Amish family farm in an attempt to save her job. With the help of a handsome local outsider, Dean, they try to save her family’s bakery.
Dec. 17
– Dial S for Santa
Starring : Sarah Dugdale, Julian Haig and Lynda Boyd.
An insurrance investigator, Lana, goes back home to visit her mom for the holidays, only to team up with a new police chief, Nick, to try to solve a string of local shop robberies.
Disney+
Nov. 25
– Doctor Who 60th Anniversary Specials
Starring : David Tennant and Catherine Tate, Neil Patrick Harris, Jacqueline King, Karl Collins, Bernard Cribbins, and Jemma Redgrave, and newcomer Yasmin Finney.
The three-part special of the British series Docto Who, follows Tennant as the Fourteenth Doctor, teaming up with Donna Noble, on a new sci-fi adventure. The programme will be prodcaste from 25 Nov to 9 Dec to celebrate it’s 60th anniversary.
Dec. 8
– Diary of a Wimpy Kid Christmas: Cabin Fever
Starring : Wesley Kimmel, Erica Cerra and Hunter Dillon.
This winter holiday is turning out to be stressful for Greg Heffley. After accidently breaking e snowplow, he worries that Santa won’t bring him the new video console he wants.
Great American Family
Dec. 2
– Christmas on Windmill Way
Starring : Christa Taylor Brown and Chad Michael Murray.
Mia Miejer is exicitedly anticipates for her mimi to win the town’s Christmas Market Dutch Bake’off competition with her award-winning Kerststol. But her mimi has a very difficult news for her.
Dec. 3
– The Jingle bell Jubilee
Starring : Erin Agostino and Marshall Williams.
A city manager (Williams) recruits the help of a childhood friend (Agostino) to set his town’s Christmas event, while trying to set him up with her close friend.
Dec. 9
– Meet Me Under the Mistletoe
Starring : Sarah Fisher and Simon Arblaster.
Two rival realtors are forced to work together to sell a house owned by a renowned botanist and mistletoe grower, before Christmas.
Dec. 10
– Peppermints & Postcards
Starring : Ella Cannon and Christopher Russell.
Afetr 9-year-old Megan makes a Christmas wish that her mom, Cara, finds love, her letter goes viral, and Cara realises that love was on her doorstop the whole time.
Dec. 16
– Designing Christmas with You
Starring : Susie Abromeit and Liam McIntyre.
With her career on the line, a decorator finds herself teaming up with an unexpected partner to showcase a house for an upcoming Christmas gala.
Dec. 17
– 12 Games of Christmas
Starring : Johnny Ramey and Felisha Cooper.
During a christmas party, a group of old friends and neighbors gets sucked into a Christmas-themed board game.
Dec. 23
– A Royal Christmas Holiday
Starring : Brittany Underwood and Jonathan Stoddard.
An ambitious reporter mooking for her big breaker finds love while trying to arrange a Christmas interview with a European Prince who’s in New York for an assignment.
OWN
Dec. 2
– A Christmas Serenade
Starring : Skye Townsend and B.J. Britt.
After years away from home, Jeremiah returns to play a gig with his band. But he’surprised when he gets recruited to take over as the minister of music for the annual church Christmas Jubilee, where feud and romance gets reignited with the pastor’s daughter.
Dec. 9
– Christmas of Yes
Starring : Michele Weaver and Jeff Pierre.
When a workaholic woman unexpectedly loses her job at Christmas, her free-wheeling brother challenges her to say “yes” to things she previously said “no” to.
Dec. 16
– The Christmas Detective
Starring : Javicia Leslie and Brad James.
A former beauty queen is struggeling to start her career as a private investigator. But her life changes when she takes a case of a famous missing portait from a local art gallery, with the help of a police detective.
Dec. 23
– Christmas Revisited
Starring : Tanyell Waivers and Jaime Callica.
After the death of a friend, a group of old college friends, now in their 30s, decide to spend Christmas together et their deceased friend’s remote mountain cabin.
LMN
Dec. 7
– Silent Night, Fatal Night
Starring : Alex Camacho and Matthew Pohlkamp.
Mallory is a famous mystery writer who decides to end her long-running detective franchise to focus on her personal life. Her enriged manager takes her a prisoner and forces her to write again during the holidays, while convincing the world that she’s dead.
Shudder
Dec. 8
– The Sacrifice Game
Starring : Mena Massoud, Olivia Scott Welch, Gus Kenworthy, Chloë Levine, Madison Baines, Derek Johns, Laurent Pitre and Georgia Acken.
The film is set in 1971, and follows two boarding school students who can’t go home for the holidays. But thinks becomes deadly when a murderous gang arrives at their doorstep, just in time for Christmas.
