Top Christmas Movies 2025. Get cozy and unpack a digital stocking’s worth of christmas movies and other seasonal favorites. Variety picks the best christmas movies of all time, from modern films like ‘die hard’ and ‘elf’ to classics like ‘it’s a wonderful life.'

We compiled this list of modern christmas classics using a very simple set of criteria: Many new christmas movies are arriving on streaming and in theaters in 2024 with netflix’s ‘our little secret’ and paramount’s ‘dear santa.’