Best Christmas Movies
Compiled 2026-10-30. All 100 films. The page was published 2025-11-26. The Shop Around the Corner is No. 1.
Compiled 2026-10-30. The main table copies the Christmas list published on 2025-11-26 and modified on 2026-01-06, 100 films in all. No. 1 is Ernst Lubitsch’s The Shop Around the Corner (1940). No. 100 is Reginald Hudlin’s Candy Cane Lane (2023). The publish date, the modified date, and the compile date stay separate. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows of this table.
The 100 films
All 100 rows follow the page. Years and directors are copied from the page.
| # | Title | Director | Year |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Shop Around the Corner | Ernst Lubitsch | 1940 |
| 2 | Meet Me in St. Louis | Vincente Minnelli | 1944 |
| 3 | The Holdovers | Alexander Payne | 2023 |
| 4 | Tangerine | Sean Baker | 2015 |
| 5 | Miracle on 34th Street | George Seaton | 1947 |
| 6 | Little Women | Greta Gerwig | 2019 |
| 7 | Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas | Henry Selick | 1993 |
| 8 | Klaus | Sergio Pablos | 2019 |
| 9 | Carol | Todd Haynes | 2015 |
| 10 | It's a Wonderful Life | Frank Capra | 1946 |
| 11 | Die Hard | John McTiernan | 1988 |
| 12 | The Guardians of the Galaxy Holiday Special | James Gunn | 2022 |
| 13 | Arthur Christmas | Sarah Smith | 2011 |
| 14 | The Apartment | Billy Wilder | 1960 |
| 15 | Little Women | Gillian Armstrong | 1994 |
| 16 | Tokyo Godfathers | Satoshi Kon | 2003 |
| 17 | Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey | David E. Talbert | 2020 |
| 18 | Edward Scissorhands | Tim Burton | 1990 |
| 19 | Rare Exports: A Christmas Tale | Jalmari Helander | 2010 |
| 20 | A Christmas Story | Bob Clark | 1983 |
| 21 | Better Watch Out | Chris Peckover | 2016 |
| 22 | Spoiler Alert | Michael Showalter | 2022 |
| 23 | Gremlins | Joe Dante | 1984 |
| 24 | Trading Places | John Landis | 1983 |
| 25 | Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang | Shane Black | 2005 |
| 26 | A Christmas Tale | Arnaud Desplechin | 2008 |
| 27 | Elf | Jon Favreau | 2003 |
| 28 | Happiest Season | Clea Duvall | 2020 |
| 29 | Batman Returns | Tim Burton | 1992 |
| 30 | While You Were Sleeping | Jon Turteltaub | 1995 |
| 31 | Christmas Eve in Miller's Point | Tyler Taormina | 2024 |
| 32 | The Man Who Invented Christmas | Bharat Nalluri | 2017 |
| 33 | A Christmas Story Christmas | Clay Kaytis | 2022 |
| 34 | Bad Santa | Terry Zwigoff | 2003 |
| 35 | The Muppet Christmas Carol | Brian Henson | 1992 |
| 36 | Anna and the Apocalypse | John McPhail | 2017 |
| 37 | White Christmas | Michael Curtiz | 1954 |
| 38 | Happy Christmas | Joe Swanberg | 2014 |
| 39 | Merry Christmas | Christian Carion | 2005 |
| 40 | LEGO Star Wars Holiday Special | Ken Cunningham | 2020 |
| 41 | The Santa Clause | John Pasquin | 1994 |
| 42 | The Ref | Ted Demme | 1994 |
| 43 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Chuck Jones | 1967 |
| 44 | Holiday Inn | Mark Sandrich | 1942 |
| 45 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer | Maury Laws, Larry Roemer | 1964 |
| 46 | The Best Christmas Pageant Ever | Dallas Jenkins | 2024 |
| 47 | A Very Jonas Christmas Movie | Jessica Yu | 2025 |
| 48 | White Reindeer | Zach Clark | 2013 |
| 49 | The Year Without a Santa Claus | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | 1974 |
| 50 | Christmas in Connecticut | Peter Godfrey | 1945 |
| 51 | Dear Santa | Dana Nachman | 2020 |
| 52 | A Christmas Carol | Brian Desmond Hurst | 1951 |
| 53 | A Charlie Brown Christmas | Bill Melendez, Phil Roman | 1965 |
| 54 | The Bishop's Wife | Henry Koster | 1947 |
| 55 | Let It Snow | Luke Snellin | 2019 |
| 56 | 8-Bit Christmas | Michael Dowse | 2021 |
| 57 | A Boy Called Christmas | Gil Kenan | 2021 |
| 58 | It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie | Kirk R. Thatcher | 2002 |
| 59 | Get Santa | Christopher Smith | 2014 |
| 60 | A Castle for Christmas | Mary Lambert | 2021 |
| 61 | The Little Drummer Boy | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | 1968 |
| 62 | Violent Night | Tommy Wirkola | 2022 |
| 63 | Frosty the Snowman | Jules Bass, Arthur Rankin Jr. | 1969 |
| 64 | National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation | Jeremiah S. Chechik | 1989 |
| 65 | Something from Tiffany's | Daryl Wein | 2022 |
| 66 | The Best Man Holiday | Malcolm D. Lee | 2013 |
| 67 | Scrooged | Richard Donner | 1988 |
| 68 | Black Christmas | Bob Clark | 1974 |
| 69 | The Knight Before Christmas | Monika Mitchell | 2019 |
| 70 | Spirited | Sean Anders | 2022 |
| 71 | Single All the Way | Michael Mayer | 2021 |
| 72 | A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas | Todd Strauss-Schulson | 2011 |
| 73 | The Night Before | Jonathan Levine | 2015 |
| 74 | Godmothered | Sharon Maguire | 2020 |
| 75 | Prancer | John D. Hancock | 1989 |
| 76 | Krampus | Michael Dougherty | 2015 |
| 77 | The Christmas Chronicles | Clay Kaytis | 2018 |
| 78 | Home Alone | Chris Columbus | 1990 |
| 79 | The Christmas Chronicles 2 | Chris Columbus | 2020 |
| 80 | Love Actually | Richard Curtis | 2003 |
| 81 | Falling for Christmas | Janeen Damian | 2022 |
| 82 | The Preacher's Wife | Penny Marshall | 1996 |
| 83 | Dr. Seuss' The Grinch | Scott Mosier, Yarrow Cheney | 2018 |
| 84 | Silent Night | John Woo | 2023 |
| 85 | Miracle on 34th Street | Les Mayfield | 1994 |
| 86 | Last Holiday | Wayne Wang | 2006 |
| 87 | Noelle | Marc Lawrence | 2019 |
| 88 | The Santa Clause 2 | Michael Lembeck | 2002 |
| 89 | The Princess Switch: Switched Again | Mike Rohl | 2020 |
| 90 | The Polar Express | Robert Zemeckis | 2004 |
| 91 | The Apology | Alison Locke | 2022 |
| 92 | The Family Man | Brett Ratner | 2000 |
| 93 | Nothing Like the Holidays | Alfredo De Villa | 2008 |
| 94 | Love Hard | Hernán Jiménez | 2021 |
| 95 | The Family Stone | Thomas Bezucha | 2005 |
| 96 | The Holiday | Nancy Meyers | 2006 |
| 97 | How the Grinch Stole Christmas | Ron Howard | 2000 |
| 98 | One Magic Christmas | Phillip Borsos | 1985 |
| 99 | Last Christmas | Paul Feig | 2019 |
| 100 | Candy Cane Lane | Reginald Hudlin | 2023 |
How this ranking was built
Compiled 2026-10-30. The list was published 2025-11-26 and modified 2026-01-06. Rotten Tomatoes posted it. RT Staff is the byline. The page title is The 100 Best Christmas Movies of All Time. The page runs from No. 1 to No. 100, and this table follows that order. The top 10 and the top 25 are the first 10 and first 25 rows.
This was read from the live page on 2026-10-30, and all 100 titles are there. Director names are the Directed By lines. The page ranks by Tomatometer with Certified Fresh titles first. A later update moved most Christmas horror titles to a separate guide; those 50 films are not merged here.
Chinese and Russian titles are Wikidata labels where available. Chinese labels are simplified.
31 films keep the English title in the Russian cell.
Horror: best horror movies.
| Source | Snapshot | Scope | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| The 100 Best Christmas Movies of All Time (guide) | Published 2025-11-26, modified 2026-01-06, read 2026-10-30 | Christmas movies ranked by Tomatometer, Certified Fresh first. No. 1 is The Shop Around the Corner, 1940, Ernst Lubitsch. No. 100 is Candy Cane Lane, 2023, Reginald Hudlin | Primary |
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Rows S through D hold 20 films each. The pool is all 100 films.
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