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Holiday Movies On Prime Video to Watch This Christmas Season
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It’s the most wonderful time of the year to be an Prime Video subscriber. The streamer may not be serving up original holiday movies like Netflix just yet, but Prime Video’s Christmas movie selection is still impressive. You can stream all-time classics like “A Christmas Carol” and Hallmark holiday fare like “The Most Wonderful Time of the Year” any time you want. In true Prime Video fashion, finding the best Christmas movies on offer is no easy task thanks to the streamer’s vast library, but we’ve cut through the clutter to bring you the holiday movies that are sure to make your season merrier.
Check out all the Christmas movies streaming on Prime Video that you need to watch this holiday season, because it ’tis the season the stay inside and watch festive films.
Additional reporting by Alicia Geigel.
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"A Christmas Carol" (1984)
“A Christmas Carol” has had multiple film adaptations over the years and for good reason. The Christmas classic centers around Ebenezer Scrooge, known for being mean-spirited and cheap. While everyone is jolly and excited about the upcoming Christmas holiday, Scrooge isolates himself from anything involving the holiday, including a party invitation from his nephew and charitable donations. One day, Scrooge returns home and is visited by the ghost of his old business partner, Jacob Marley, who advises him to change his ways before he is subject to a terrible fate. After this, three ghosts visit Scrooge (the Ghost of Christmas Past, Present, and Future) in hopes of warming Scrooge’s cold heart.
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“Arthur Christmas”
Each year, the Claus family works diligently to bring presents and joy to children around the world on Christmas. With the help of Steven Claus, Arthur Claus, Malcom Claus, and a village of elves, Santa can do his job effectively with zero error, or so everyone thought. When a glitch in the system causes Santa to miss gifting a present to a child, Arthur takes it upon himself to deliver the gift before Christmas morning with a group of reindeer and his 136-year-old Grandsanta.
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“Tyler Perry’s A Madea Christmas”
At the start of the holiday season, Madea Simmons (Tyler Perry) works with her great-niece Eileen Murphy at a local store, but is soon fired. When Eileen learns that her daughter, Lacey, isn’t coming home for Christmas, she recruits Madea and travels to Alabama in hopes of spending the holiday with her. When the two get there, however, Eileen discovers that Lacey is married and her new son-in-law is not who she expected him to be. Along with Madea, Eileen and Lacey work through their differences and share the holiday together.
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“The Christmas Toy”
Toys have a mind of their own in this film featuring Jim Henson’s Muppets. When the coast is clear, and no one is in sight, toys move around freely and play together. The toys have to always be on guard, however, as they can become frozen in time if a person sees them out of their usual spots. On Christmas Eve, Rugby the Tiger wants to relive the joy of Christmas by planting himself in a gift again. But by doing so, he could become frozen, so the gang of toys from the playroom fight to stop him before it’s too late.
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“Nothing Like the Holidays”
Married couple Sarah (Debra Messing) and Mauricio Rodriguez (John Leguizamo) have plans to visit Mauricio’s vibrant, Latino family for Christmas. Upon their arrival, the two are bombarded with questions about having children and thrust into the family’s lively yet dysfunctional dynamic, which reaches an all-time high when Mauricio’s mother announces over dinner that she wants to divorce his father. Along with his wife and siblings, Mauricio does his best to make this Christmas, which could be their last as a family, the best one yet.
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“Last Holiday”
During the Christmas season, retail worker Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) has dreams of becoming a chef and dating her handsome coworker Sean (LL Cool J). Just as Sean is about to ask her out on a date, Georgia hits her head on a cabinet and is forced to go to the hospital where a CT scan reveals she has a terminal illness. With only three weeks to live, Georgia quits her job, drains her bank account, and books a vacation to Karlovy Vary in the Czec Republic. As she fulfills her bucket list, Sean travels to find her and declare his love for her.
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"Christmas Story"
“Christmas Story” features a unique take on the origin story of Santa Claus. As a young boy, Nikolas becomes an orphan after his family is tragically killed in an accident. The people of his village in Lapland take him under their wing and watch after him together. Nikolas lives with many families in the village, and decides to make toys for the children of the families when he moves each Christmas. As he grows older, he continues the tradition of gift-giving, which has now expanded to multiple members of his village’s many families each Christmas.
