15 new Christmas movies you might want to add to your 2025 holiday watch list
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'Tis the season for Snoopy holiday jazz playlists on loop, cozy fireplace TV screensavers, and—of course—Christmas movies. Whether you're spending the yuletide season with family, gathering with friends, getting cozy with a significant other, or enjoying the solitude of being home alone, it's practically become tradition to have holiday films playing all month long. Miracle on 34th Street, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Elf, and other oldies but goodies are a sure-fire way to get everyone in a festive mood. But every year, a roster of new movies comes along. Some of them might be great to play in the background while folding laundry or putting up Christmas decorations, while others might actually be worth including on your movie night watch list.
Here are the new movies you might want to check out for the 2025 holiday season.
A Merry Little Ex-mas
On Netflix now
Alicia Silverstone and Oliver Hudson play Kate and Everett, a couple wishing for nothing but an amicable divorce this Christmas. But a lot of awkwardness arises as they navigate the situation while spending time with their family, and new love interests. Aside from the starring couple, this movie also features Jameela Jamil and Melissa Joan Hart.
The Family Plan 2
On Apple TV+ now
It's always been Morgan family tradition to spend Christmas together. So when Dan's (Mark Wahlberg) daughter makes plans to stay in London for the holidays, the family decides to move the party over to her. The clan makes a trip of it, thinking it would be a fun holiday vacation. But some surprises arise, including an unexpected rival from Dan's past life as an assassin, a mysterious guy named Aidan (Kit Harington).
Champagne Problems
On Netflix now
Business executive Sydney (Minka Kelly) is flying off to Paris just before the holidays, strictly for business. She's determined to close the deal in the acquisition of a world-renowned champagne brand. However, things get a bit more complicated when she falls for a handsome stranger. And, as it turns out, her one-night-fling is the champagne company founder's son.
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie
On Disney+ now
After a big show in London, the Jonas Brothers struggle to get home in time for Christmas with their families. Thus begins a crazy adventure through Europe, filled with extreme mishaps, brotherly quarrels, and quite a few exciting cameos (aside from Danielle Jonas and Priyanka Chopra Jonas) including Randall Park, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Billie Lourd, and more.
Merry Little Mystery
On The Roku Channel now
Natasha Maxwell (Jordin Sparks) goes back to her small hometown for the holidays, and this time she's filling some big boots. Now that her grandfather has passed, it's her turn to continue the tradition of being the town's Secret Santa, giving presents to her neighbors without revealing her identity. But then a handsome reporter comes to town, determined to unmask this mystery gift-giver.
Holiday Touchdown: A Bills Love Story
On the Hallmark Channel now
Since the success of the Taylor Swift and Travis Kelce Hallmark holiday film, Holiday Touchdown: A Chiefs Love Story, the Channel has decided to run it back one more time—only this time for another team. This story, produced in collaboration with the NFL, follows two lifelong friends and Bills fans as they embark on a search for a mystery Santa who's been giving Bills-themed Christmas ornaments. If you're a sports fan, you might recognize quite a few special cameos.
Jingle Bell Heist
On Netflix Nov. 26
Sophie (Olivia Holt) and Nick (Sex Education's Connor Swindells) are two minimum wage workers with an hourly stint at Santa's workshop at a London department store. Overworked and under-payed, they decide to stick it to the man. And so they hatch a plan to rob the department store on Christmas Eve.
Disney's Hulu's Family Guy's Hallmark Channel's Lifetime's Familiar Holiday Movie
Family Guy does its own satirical take on the classic, generic holiday films. In this movie special, Lois is a big city gal working for “Big Pie.” She travels to a small town in the hopes of stealing Peter’s award-winning family secret pie recipe.
Christmas Everyday
On Lifetime Nov. 29
Francine "Fancy" Ballantine (Brandy Norwood) is a fashion designer who's trying to juggle her career along with some big family responsibilities this holiday season. This is the first Christmas they're spending without her father, her mother is losing her eyesight, and she's planning her baby sister's wedding. To make matters even more complicated, a new man enters her life and complicates her current relationship. All of this leads Fancy to think about what it truly means to put herself first for once.
The Merchants of Joy
On Amazon Prime Video Dec. 1
In New York City, five families have dominated the Christmas tree business for decades. This documentary dives into the highly-competitive, high-pressure, high stakes world of the annual NYC tree selling season, but also the highly-rewarding feeling of bringing yuletide joy to thousands of people in the city.
Oh. What. Fun.
On Amazon Prime Video Dec. 3
Like many mothers, Claire Clauster (Michelle Pfeiffer) feels overworked and under-appreciated, especially during the holidays. Though she's the one putting in the most effort to make the holidays perfect, the members of her family don't seem to care to put in the same effort for her. It all comes to a head when her family accidentally leaves her home alone during a special outing she had planned. So Claire decides to go on a big holiday adventure all on her own.
My Secret Santa
On Netflix Dec. 3
A single mom is desperate to get her daughter half-priced snowboard lessons at a swanky ski resort. And the only way she can do that is by getting the job as Santa Claus, which she can only do if she manages to transform into an older gentleman that resembles ol' St. Nick. So she does, with the help of her best friends and their special effects makeup skills. The trouble is she might get caught in her lie by a handsome hotel manager with whom she develops complicated feelings with.
She's Making a List
On the Hallmark Channel Dec. 6
The queen of modern Hallmark holiday films, Lacey Chabert (a.k.a. the OG Mean Girls Gretchen Wieners), is back this year with another Christmas romcom. She plays Isabel Haynes, a "Naughty or Nice" inspector, who disguises herself and secretly evaluates the behavior of kids leading up to the holidays. But then she ends up falling in love with the father of one of the mischievous kids she's been assigned to evaluate.
Merv
On Amazon Prime Video Dec. 10
Anna (Zooey Deschanel) and Russ (Charlie Cox) have decided to break up after a years-long relationship. And they're not the only ones torn up about it. Their dog, Merv, is clearly taking their separation hard and seems to have lost his spark—even as his humans try to co-parent him as best they can. So, Russ decides to take Merv on a beach trip with him to try and cheer him up. But things become muddled when Anna decides to crash their boys' trip and old feelings resurface.
Silent Night, Deadly Night
In theaters Dec. 12
This remake of the '80s Christmas slasher film follows the same premise as the original. When he was young, Billy Chapman (Rohan Campbell) witnessed the bloody murder of his parents at the hands of a man dressed in a Santa suit. Because of this, he's made it an annual tradition to commit multiple bloody murders every Christmas—while wearing the red suit and white beard, of course. However, this revival puts a more twisted, supernatural twist to the original story.
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