Best Christmas Movies on Netflix Streaming

Anne Wright
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The best Christmas movies on Netflix streaming can be hard to find. This is a list of 10 Netflix instant movies and TV specials including Christmas classic movies, family Christmas movies, and some odder selections.

Best Christmas Movies on Netflix Streaming: Christmas Classic Movies

The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993): Santa gets kidnapped but all ends well in this animated musical by Tim Burton.

March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934): Laurel and Hardy mistakenly supersize some toy soldiers but they'll need them to rescue Bo Peep.

Best Christmas Movies on Netflix Streaming: Odder Movies

Mixed Nuts (1994): Steve Martin stars in a zany Christmas story complete with a suicide prevention line and a roving serial killer.

Midnight Clear (2007): Stephen Baldwin stars in this touching Christmas Eve story of despair and kindness among 5 small town residents.

How About You (2007): Vanessa Redgrave stars in this quirky comedy-drama about 4 seniors in a rural Irish retirement home who rebel against their holiday substitute caretaker.

Best Christmas Movies on Netflix Streaming: Family Christmas Movies

A Christmas Story (1983): Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) is a 9 year old trying to talk his parents into getting him a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas. It's rated PG as appropriate for children 8 and older.

Caillou's Winter Wonders (2008): From the popular PBS animated series, 4-year-old Caillou stars in 4 episodes about how different cultures celebrate the holidays and engages in some winter fun including making paper snowflakes and snow angels.

The Christmas Dinosaur (2004): Jason is disappointed about getting a petrified dinosaur egg instead of the toy dinosaur he wanted for Christmas. When it hatches, he tries to find its home while hiding it from his own parents. This animated special is rated TV Y as appropriate for all children.

The Christmas That Almost Didn't Happen (2006): Rudolph's brother Rusty (Fred Savage) can't seem to do anything right when he tries to help Santa prepare for Christmas. Rusty runs away and joins a support group for other holiday characters where he learns the real meaning of Christmas. This animated special is rated TV Y7 as directed to children over 7.

A Tad of Christmas Cheer (2007): This animated special adapts It's A Wonderful Life for a cast of frogs. Tad is jealous of his new brother until a fairy god-bug teaches him a lesson. It's rated TV Y as appropriate for all children.

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  • Ian 12/23/2010

    Hmm!! I think you need to go back to the website and watch this movie on instant cue: http://movies.netflix.com/WiMovie/Christmas_Story/70123480?trkid=2361637#height1687

    which is by far the BEST Christmas movie for anyone to watch!! AND it didn't even make your list??

    SHAME ON YOU! lol

    Merry Christmas Everyone!!

  • Anne Wright 12/22/2010

    Thanks MM and Netflix Streaming! This list was 2009 so the update: Miracle on 34th Street (1959). Home Alone 2 (1992). Christmas Carol: The Movie (2001), animated. Meet John Doe (1941). Nothing Like the Holidays (2008). Christmas Classics: Vol. 1 (1952), animated. A Christmas Tale (2008). A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007).Christmas Story (2007). Hollywood Christmas (1996). Also: http://netflixstreaming.blogspot.com/2010/12/streaming-christmas-movies-on-instant.html

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  • M.M. 12/5/2010

    Home Alone 2 is also available for instant streaming for the 2010 Christmas season...

  • Nate 11/24/2010

    This list is pretty useless now; every movie I looked for from this list isn't available for streaming.

  • mar 11/20/2010

    a lot of these movies are not "streaming" or if you rather they don't have the instant view option.

  • Anne Wright 11/30/2009

    Curtis, I agree the selection was really limited. I had to use TV specials or go into low budget horror films I didn't even want to try viewing.

  • Curtis 11/27/2009

    Streaming Netflix is great, but this list of Christmas movies is kinda terrible (at no fault of your own, I've looked myself. The movies just aren't there).

  • Tal Boldo 11/18/2009

    Great list, and super useful for Christmas. I stream Netflix movies all the time. I'm bookmarking this article for the cold, cuddling-up evenings of Christmas.

  • Tricia Sabol 11/18/2009

    I love to stream movies on Netflix! I'm bookmarking this article so that I'll have something to watch over the holiday season!

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