There’s one thing that’s easy to do during Christmas week with your family and that’s a movie night! Watching Christmas movies is one of the perks of the holiday season. If you’re looking for some Christmas movie night ideas, you’ve come to the right spot.
Christmas Movie Night Ideas
When it comes to some Christmas movie night ideas you need to determine what kind of Christmas movie you’re looking for. What does this mean? You just need to make sure that you know your audience when deciding which Christmas movie to watch.
Are you watching with little kids?
Are you watching with older kids?
Are you watching with a date?
There are all sorts of Christmas movies. My personal favorite happens to be a Christmas movie with a romance angle, but I know my family would disagree with me.
To make it easier for everyone, I’m going to laundry list out all sorts of Christmas Movie Night Ideas for you. These movies are ones that can be watched be anyone, but this will give you a good idea of what’s out there. They’re all family friendly and nothing is inappropriate.
I’m going to lay these Christmas Movie Night Ideas out easily for you so not to overwhelm you. This way you’ll be able to quickly (an hopefully seamlessly) decide what movie to watch. There really are so many amazing options out there, so it’s a great time to relax and watch!
Best Classic Christmas Movies:
| It’s a Wonderful Life |
| White Christmas |
| Holiday Affair |
| The Apartment |
| Miracle on 34th Street |
| A Christmas Carol |
| The Shop Around the Corner |
| A Christmas Story |
| Holiday Inn |
| Christmas in Connecticut |
Best Comedic Christmas Movies:
(Please note that not all of these are family friendly for kids to watch. To be fair, only Home Alone and ELF are the ones that I would suggest letting your kids watch.)
| Home Alone |
| ELF |
| National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation |
| A Bad Moms Christmas |
| Planes, Trains, and Automobiles |
| Office Christmas Party |
| Disney’s NOELLE |
| The Night Before |
| A Madea Christmas |
| Bad Santa |
Best Romance Christmas Movies:
(Please note, too – I’m a HUGE Christmas and Holiday romance movie watcher. ANYTHING on Hallmark or Lifetime works, too. There are over 50+ movies that were released JUST this season, never mind on Netflix and other streaming services. You’ll have a ton to choose from, but here are some romantic goodies!)
| The HOLIDAY |
| The Family Stone |
| Last Holiday |
| Happiest Season |
| While You Were Sleeping |
| The Family Man |
| The Best Man Holiday |
| Last Christmas |
| Four Christmases |
| Love Actually |
Best Animated Christmas Movies:
| Polar Express |
| Dr. Seuss’ The Grinch |
| Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer |
| Disney’s A Christmas Carol |
| Klaus |
| ELLIOT The Littlest Reindeer |
| Frosty the Snowman |
| Disney Mickey’s Once Upon a Christmas |
| Santa Claus Is Comin’ to Town |
| A Charlie Brown Christmas |
Hopefully this list of 40 Christmas Movie Ideas will help you out. Spreading it out via different categories will hopefully be an easier way to view and check out the movie offerings.
With so many date nights halted, too watching some Christmas movies this week should be a list topper. This is one thing that is easy to do at home and (depending upon what movie you choose) potentially free. Many of these are being offered on Netflix right now, so check it out.
If you’re looking for some other date nights during the winter, I wrote an article on 101 Winter Date Night Ideas. With kids it’s not always easy to get out, but if you do here are some ideas for you! Let me know if you decide to do any of these ideas.
Enjoy this holiday season with these Christmas Movie Night Ideas. It’s that time of year to sit around the TV with maybe a fire going, a tree in the background and breathe in the beauty of the season. It’s just a really fabulous, fun and festive time of year.
