It’s time to pop the popcorn, switch on the Christmas lights and grab your favourite warm drink, the 2024 Christmas Movie List is here and ready for your enjoyment!
South Africa (01 December 2024) – Have you started the countdown to the festive season yet (we have! We may have started a bit early this year)? Or maybe you are just counting down the days until you get to take a break from work; either way, you can start the countdown by watching a few feel-good holiday movies. We have a whole bunch of new festive content to share, plus all our old favourites.
If you haven’t noticed yet, the Christmas Spirit is strong in the Good Things Guy office. We love the festive season; we believe it brings out the best in people. It is the one time of year when everyone feels the same kind of excitement and spreads joy to those around them.
These days, everything comes in an advent calendar. Gone are the days when you popped a simple, misshaped, practically melted bit of chocolate out a numbered door. Now, you get gin, beers, candles, beauty products, and more in advent calendars. This inspired us to do an advent-style post, and this is our sixth annual list.
There is loads of new festive content out there to look forward to. So let’s start by what to expect this Christmas and then we can jump into the list of classics you have to watch. You can stream these features or find them at your local cinema.
What’s New?
- Hot Frosty – Netflix
- A Sudden Case of Chrismas – Prime Video
- That Christmas – Netflix
- A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter – Netflix
- Our Little Secret – Netflix
- The Merry Gentlemen – Netflix
- Meet Me Next Christmas – Netflix
- Red One – At the Cinemas
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever – Apple TV
- Christmas Eve in Miller’s Point – Apple TV
- Carry On – Netflix
With that and what we estimate to be thousands of hours of options, there is no better time to start than now. Below are some of the classics you voted for! We hope this makes it easier to find something to watch each night.
Christmas Classics
- Elf
- The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
- Love Actually
- The Holiday
- Home Alone (all of them in one day is the best!)
- Arthur Christmas
- Jingle Jangle
- The Polar Express
- Four Christmases
- The Family Stone
- A Christmas Carol (1951 & 2009)
- Rise of the Guardians
- Jack Frost
- Klaus
- Christmas with the Kranks
- The Christmas Chronicles (1 and 2)
- Die Hard – It has been voted as a Christmas Movie!
- The Man Who Invented Christmas
- Deck the Halls
- A Boy Called Christmas
- The Nightmare Before Christmas
- Scrooged
- A Christmas Story
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
- The Muppet’s Christmas Carol
If we have missed any festive goodies, new or old, be sure to share them in the comment section.
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