Christmas movies are a time-honoured tradition that deserves careful thought and equally careful curation. And with December 25th right around the corner (Mariah Carey and Michael Bublé are being defrosted at this very moment), we've put together a list of the very best seasonal flicks.
Some are straight-up classics. Some are merely set during Christmas but not explicitly about Christmas. There are definitely one or two in the mix that are tangentially Christmas-themed in subjective feel - though they serve as great transitions/great watches all the same.
Here's your BH-approved advent calendar of Christmas movies for 2025. Note: feel free to mix the order up depending on household mood.
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BH's Christmas Movie Advent Calendar (2025)
- December 1 — Home Alone (1990)
- December 2 — Home Alone 2: Lost In New York (1992) or if you can't do another Home Alone, there's always Bad Santa (2003)
- December 3 — Elf (2003)
- December 4 — Edward Scissorhands (1990) or The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- December 5 — Batman Returns (1992) or Miracle On 34th Street (1947)
- December 6 — The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
- December 7 — The Holiday (2006)
- December 8 — Groundhog Day (1993)
- December 9 — The Green Knight (2021) or Little Women (2019)
- December 10 — Eyes Wide Shut (1999) or The Holdovers (2023)
- December 11 — LA Confidential (1997) or While You Were Sleeping (1995)
- December 12 — In Bruges (2008)
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- December 13 — Catch Me If You Can (2002)
- December 14 — Trading Places (1983)
- December 15 — Lethal Weapon (1987)
- December 16 — The Princess Bride (1987)
- December 17 — A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011) or if that's too crude/lowbrow for you Carol (2015)
- December 18 — Just Friends (2005) or if you're sick of Ryan Reynolds The Apartment (1960)
- December 19 — Mr Deeds (2002)
- December 20 — About A Boy (2002)
- December 21 — Die Hard (1988)
- December 22 — Kiss Kiss Bang Bang (2005)
- December 23 — When Harry Met Sally (1989)
- December 24 — Love Actually (2003) or if you're a little more old school, It's A Wonderful Life (1946) and/or A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
