The 15 Best Holiday Movies to Watch This Season

It’s A Wonderful Life (1946)

An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed. A heartwarming movie that will bring tears to your eyes every year.

Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Henry Travers, Beulah Bondi

Elf (2003)

Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn’t know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit. A quirky holiday classic that will always have you laughing.

Cast: Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, Mary Steenburgen, Zooey Deschanel, Peter Dinklage

Holiday Inn (1942)

At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer. A classic like this never fails to put you in the holiday spirit.

Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale

Love Actually (2003)

Full of an all star cast, this movie follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England. All the feels….

Cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Gregor Fisher, Thomas Brodie-Sangster

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White Christmas (1954)

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general. The talent in this moving will have you in awe.

Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen, Dean Jagger

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Last Holiday (2006)

The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on her overly cautious life. So, Georgia withdraws her life savings and jets off to the Czech Republic where she lives like a millionaire.

Cast: Queen Latifah, LL Cool J, Timothy Hutton

Mean Girls (2004)

Cady Heron is a hit with The Plastics, the A-list girl clique at her new school, until she makes the mistake of falling for Aaron Samuels, the ex-boyfriend of alpha Plastic Regina George. It’s so fetch.

Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Lacey Chabert, Amanda Seyfried, Amy Poehler, Tina Fey

You’ve Got Mail (1998)

Book superstore magnate, Joe Fox and independent book shop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet both blissfully unaware that he’s trying to put her out of business.

Cast: Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

This classic clamation holiday movie follows a young reindeer named Rudolph who lives in the North Pole. His father is one of Santa’s reindeer so it’s expected that Rudolph will be one too. However, his one unique feature causes him to be ostracized: his red nose.

Cast: Billie Mae Richards, Burl Ives, Stan Francis, Paul Soles

The Princess Switch (2018)

Competing in a Christmas baking competition in Belgravia, a Chicago baker bumps into the prince’s fiancée–who looks just like her. They switch lives for two days. Get your holiday romance movies in while you can!

Cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Sam Palladio, Nick Sagar

Klaus (2019)

A simple act of kindness always sparks another, even in a frozen, faraway place. When Smeerensburg’s new postman, Jesper, befriends toymaker Klaus, their gifts melt an age-old feud and deliver a sleigh full of holiday traditions. This Netflix movie includes a star-studded cast and will have you laughing, feeling, and rich with Christmas spirit.

Cast: Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, Will Sasso, Norm MacDonald

What are your favorite films to watch over the holidays? We’d love to know, comment below!