The holidays are full of all kinds of fun traditions. Some people look forward all year to trimming the tree or baking trays and trays of their favorite family cookie recipes. While others of us love getting outside; shopping downtown, exploring neighborhood light displays, or attending a night of Christmas music. Whether you’re an indoor or an outdoor Christmas person, we can all agree that no matter what, there needs to be plenty of Christmas movie watching during the season (and beyond!).
With so many options to stream these days, it can get a little daunting narrowing down your favorite holiday favorites to binge along with wanting to discover new ones, so we’ve pulled together our favorite festive offerings from the Paramount+ Holiday Collection. You’ll discover something for the whole family, along with new exclusive content premiering throughout the month, including Must Love Christmas (Dec. 11), Snow Day (Dec. 16), When Christmas Was Young (Dec. 18), and Mariah Carey: Merry Christmas To All! (Dec. 20) to name just a few.
And the bow on top of all these incredible movies and shows, is that Paramount+ is currently having a promotion to save 50% on annual plans now through January 2nd, 2023. So give the gift that keeps on giving this Christmas!
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A young woman learns that she has a terminal illness and decides to sell all she has and celebrate Christmas at a posh hotel in Europe.
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This musical adaptation of the classic 2000 comedy of the same name follows a group of kids as they discover what it means to take risks and live in the moment during an epic day off from school.
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Charles Dickens’ Christmas masterpiece, A Christmas Carol, comes to life in this 1984 adaptation of the novella, starring Academy Award winner George C. Scott (Patton, Dr. Strangelove).
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This hilarious take on Charles Dickens’, A Christmas Carol, stars Bill Murray as a “modern” (for the 1980s at least) take on Ebenezer Scrooge as a high powered New York City finance executive.
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This film adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s classic, Little Women (and arguably one of the best versions), contains a holiday warmth and classic Christmas scenes like singing around Beth’s piano, making Christmas morning deliveries, and playing in the snow with the neighbor boy Laurie. A perfect addition to your Christmas movie marathon.
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A Christmas-obsessed fitness instructor falls in love with an elusive business developer. Their relationship soon creates complications to his plans to replace the local community center with his next project.
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Sing along with Meg Ryan as she sings “Horses! Horses! Horses! Horses!” during her road trip to Christmas dinner. One of many memorable holiday scenes from this Nora Ephron and director Rob Reiner classic about a widower and a young woman who are inexplicably drawn to one another through his confessions on a late night radio program.
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Two kids are accidentally shrunk by a careless elf and end up in Santa’s giant bag. The two are transported to the neighbors house before they are able to escape the bag and must navigate a slew of obstacles to get back home—and to their regular size!
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A successful Seattle attorney proposes a business arrangement with a struggling chef to have her pose as his girlfriend and spend the holidays with his family. The arrangement gets murky when sparks start to fly between them.
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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Traveling home for the holidays can be hectic enough if everything goes well, but imagine everything that could go wrong does! Then you have the premise for this hilarious holiday comedy starring Steve Martin and John Candy. This odd couple joins forces to make it home for the holidays and discovers a lot more about themselves than they bargained for.
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What’s better than a Christmas love-triangle?! The romance novelist in this film finds herself in one after ending up stranded in a snowed-in small town during the holidays.
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Two single parents stumble into love during the holidays, only to discover that their teenage daughters are bitter rivals at school.
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The holiday’s are turned upside down when the polar opposite fathers of a father and step-father join the family for Christmas.
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Christmas Kid (The Return of the Yuletide Kid)
A struggling former child star returns home for Christmas and must decide whether to fake it through a performance for his small town, or quality time with his family.
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Surviving Christmas with the Relatives
Two sisters and their families descend on their late parents’ run-down country house for the holidays and try to manage to survive each other.
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Christmas in the Heartland
Two teenagers meet on a plane and find out they are both traveling to celebrate the holidays with family in the same small town. To mix things up, they decided to switch places for the holidays and both discover new experiences and an appreciation for their families.
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Instead of navigating the holidays single and alone, a recently broken up couple decides to celebrate one more Christmas together.
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Christmas Takes Flight
A cost-cutting CEO buys a family-owned airline and starts making changes to their annual holiday charity event. A pilot for the airline gathers the community to protest the changes, but finds herself reluctantly falling for the mogul in the process.
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A Christmas in New York
In the week leading up to Christmas, five romantic couples intersect at the same hotel.
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A Fairly Odd Christmas
After a mishap that causes kids to stop believing in Santa, Timmy Turner and his fairy godparents must work to fix it before Christmas is ruined.
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This Oscar-nominated film starring Albert Finney is a musical adaptation of the Christmas Dickens classic, A Christmas Carol.
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When Christmas Was Young
A young singer song-writer who left behind her dreams of making big runs into a high-powered music manager and music is made while sparks fly.
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Santa and the Three Bears
Two bear cubs and their mother learn all about Santa from a storytelling park ranger.
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