Best Christmas Movies on Hulu: 2025 Edition

Thanksgiving is over, which means it’s officially Christmas. And there’s no better way to celebrate than by watching Christmas movies on streaming. Lucky for you, there are plenty of great Christmas movies streaming on Hulu in 2025.

Sure, you could spend this weekend fighting for parking and pushing through crowds to participate in the consumer ritual known as Black Friday sales.

Or you could stay home, make a mug of hot chocolate, get cozy on the couch, and binge Christmas movies. I know which option sounds more appealing to me!

Whether you’re looking for an animated Christmas movie to watch with kids, like The Polar Express; a new queer rom-com, like Happiest Season; or a classic comedy like A Christmas Story; Hulu has something for everyone this holiday season.

To help you cut through the noise, Decider has compiled a list of the best Christmas movies on Hulu, streaming free for Hulu subscribers.

If you’re new to Hulu, you can get started with a 30-day free trial on the streamer’s basic (with ads) plan. After the trial period, you’ll pay $10.99/month. If you want to upgrade to Hulu ad-free, it costs $18.99/month.

If you want to stream even more and save a few bucks a month while you’re at it, we recommend subscribing to one of the Disney+ Bundles, all of which include Hulu. These bundles start at $12.99/month for ad-supported Disney+ and Hulu and goes up to $32.99/month for Disney+, Hulu, and Max, all ad-free.

1. In a special treat just for millennial fan girls, Kevin Jonas, Joe Jonas, and Nick Jonas got together for a brand new Jonas Brothers project: A Christmas movie! This musical comedy finds the boys returning home after a tour in Europe, and tensions are high. Enter Santa Claus, aka St. Nick himself, who puts a curse on the brothers, preventing them from leaving home until their issues are resolved. It’s exactly as silly and fun as it sounds, and features seven original JoBro songs.

2. Jean Shepherd’s 1966 comedic collection of essay, In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, has been forever memorialized in this 1983 film, directed by Bob Clark, about a young boy, Ralphie, recalling his chaotic childhood Christmas with his family, growing up in the 1930s. I have to be honest: Watching this one over and over again on TBS’s “24 Hours of A Christmas Story” marathon has caused it to lose some of its charm, for me. But the “I like Santa” kid will always make me laugh.

3. Don’t listen to the haters: Happiest Season director/co-writer Clea DuVall made an excellent lesbian Christmas romantic comedy with this one. For that, I will always be grateful. Starring Mackenzie Davis as a lesbian not yet out to her conservative parents and Kristen Stewart as the girlfriend she takes home for the holiday, Happiest Season is both comfortingly predictable and remarkably groundbreaking. Plus, it’s funny, romantic, sweet, and heartfelt in a way that is sure to make you laugh just as much as you cry. This holiday season, unwrap the gift of Kstew and Davis smooching.

4. The kids in Nutcrackers—the Ben Stiller Christmas movie that released on Hulu last year—display an amazing naturalism rarely seen in child actors. That’s because, in fact, the Nutcrackers kids are not actors. They are the real-life brothers—Atlas, Arlo, Ulysses, and Homer Janson, ages 8 through 13—who inspired director David Gordon Green to make the movie in the first place. Directed by Green (known for his recent Halloween re-quel movies), with a script by Leland Douglas, Nutcrackers is a touching and funny holiday watch, which finds Ben Stiller in a familiar role: The uppity, curmudgeonly workaholic who is dropped in the middle of a chaotic situation. In this case, the chaotic situation is caring for his four rambunctious nephews, after the sudden death of his sister and her husband.

5. We know there’s a crowd of Love, Actually haters out there, but frankly, this Richard Curtis romantic comedy will always be a classic. It’s a classic for a reason, with that unforgettable ensemble cast of some of England’s finest actors. Even if you hate that Mariah Carey song, you’ll come away from Love, Actually loving love.

6. Make it a Vince Vaughn Christmas by watching this silly comedy where Vaughn plays the oft-forgotten, decidedly-less-jolly older brother of St. Nick, aka Fred Claus. When Fred finds himself in a tight spot, his brother generously offers him a job in the North Pole. As you can imagine, it’s a bit of a culture shock for the Chicago-bred Fred.

7. The annual Christmas viewing of this holiday classic is going to hit especially hard this year, after the great Diane Keaton died last month at the age of 79. For Gen X and millennial viewers, it’s one of Keaton’s most beloved roles—the matriarch of a tight-knit family who hosts her four adult children (Dermot Mulroney, Luke Wilson, Rachel McAdams, and Tyrone Giordan) and their partners for a chaotic, emotional, and memorable Christmas dinner.

8. Director Robert Zemeckis and star Tom Hanks are known for their collaborations on Forrest Gump and Cast Away, but don’t forget that The Polar Express belongs on that list, too. This animated adaptation of the beloved 1985 children’s book by Chris Van Allsburg famously used motion capture of its actors, meaning there are a lot of weird videos of Tom Hanks acting out the Polar Express lines out there. Personally, I found the animation terrifying as a child, but to each their own!

9. Jingle All the Way is pure ’90s family fun. Before he became governor of California, Austrian action star Arnold Schwarzenegger flexed his comedy chops as a dad desperate to get his son the popular, nearly-sold-out action figure on Christmas Eve. But a rival father, played by Sinbad, also has his eyes on the toy, and isn’t going to make things easy for our Arnold.