Christmas Movies On Netflix, Hallmark, Amazon, Cable In 2019

Shoppers and Santas are packing the malls, Christmas trees are decorated, houses are covered in lights, and the 2019 Christmas movie season has kicked into festive high gear. Networks and streaming services are airing their movies for the holidays — including Hallmark, which has two channels in its Countdown to Christmas format, plus Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, Disney+, Freeform and UPtv.

The holiday classics run from “Home Alone,” "Elf" and "Christmas Vacation," to “Polar Express,” "Love Actually," “A Christmas Story” and the heartwarming oldie "It's A Wonderful Life." Such TV classics as “A Charlie Brown Christmas” and “How The Grinch Stole Christmas” start airing this week, with repeats again right before Christmas. Many favorites, such as “Elf” and “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation,” will air more than a dozen times before Christmas.

Listings are subject to change; check each network or streaming website for updates. If you want to imbibe in some Christmas cheer at the expense of Hallmark's formula of women dropping their clearly inappropriate boyfriends when they find true love at the holiday, there's a drinking game for that — watch for small towns pulling together, kids who need a parent, women named Noel, Eve and Holly, and adorable dogs.

That channel kicked off its 10th anniversary Countdown to Christmas programming in mid-November. If you missed any of the premieres, they rotate in again throughout the month, along with favorites from past years.

Here’s the new Hallmark Channel movies airing this year:

• Christmas Under the Stars
• Write Before Christmas
• Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays
• Cherished Memories: A Gift to Remember 2
• A Christmas Duet
• Check Inn to Christmas
• The Christmas Club
• Christmas at the Plaza
• Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy
• Christmas in Rome
• Christmas Town
• A Christmas Love Story (Dec. 7 at 8 p.m.)
• Christmas at Dollywood (Dec. 8 at 8 p.m.)
• Holiday Date (Dec. 14 at 8 p.m.)
• A Cheerful Christmas (Dec. 15 at 8 p.m.)
• It's Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas (Dec. 21 at 8 p.m.)
• Double Holiday (Dec. 22 at 8 p.m.)
• When Calls the Heart Christmas (Dec. 25 at 8 p.m.)
• New Year, New Me (Dec. 28 at 8 p.m.)

Here's a sampling of holiday movies the networks and cable channels have announced:

ABC Shows

• "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" (Dec. 1 at 8 p.m.)
• "CMA Country Christmas" (Dec. 3 at 9 p.m.)
• "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (Dec. 5 at 8 p.m.)
• "Same Time, Next Christmas" (Dec. 5 at 9 p.m.)
• "The Great Christmas Light Fight" (Dec. 8 at 8 p.m., Dec. 9 at 8 p.m., Dec. 16 at 8 p.m.)
• "Olaf's Frozen Adventure" (Dec. 12 at 8 p.m.)
• "Toy Story That Time Forgot" (Dec. 12 at 8:30 p.m.)
• "The Great American Baking Show: Holiday Edition" (Dec. 12 at 9 p.m., Dec. 19 at 9 p.m., Dec. 26 at 9 p.m., and Jan. 2 at 9 p.m.)
• "Shrek the Halls" (Dec. 17 at 9:30 p.m.)
• "Disney Prep & Landing" (Dec. 19 at 8 p.m.)
• "Disney Prep & Landing 2: Naughty vs. Nice" (Dec. 19 at 8:30 p.m.)
• "I Want a Dog for Christmas, Charlie Brown" (Dec. 22 at 7 p.m.)
• "Disney Parks Magical Christmas Day Parade" (Dec. 25 at 10 a.m.)
• "Happy New Year, Charlie Brown" (Dec. 26 at 8 p.m.)

AMC

• "Christmas with the Kranks" (Dec. 1 at 10:30 p.m., Dec 2. at 7 p.m., Dec. 6 at 8 p.m., Dec. 7 at 6 p.m., Dec. 12 at 8 p.m., and Dec. 21 at 4 p.m. and 10:15 p.m.)
• "Elf" (Dec. 4 at 8 p.m., Dec. 5 at 6 p.m., Dec. 8 at 6 p.m. and 8 p.m., Dec. 10 at 8 p.m., Dec. 11 at 6 p.m., Dec. 14 at 7 p.m. and 9 p.m., Dec. 16 at 8 p.m., Dec. 17 at 6 p.m., Dec. 18 at 8 p.m., Dec. 19 at 6 p.m., Dec. 20 at 8 p.m., Dec. 21 at 6 p.m., and Dec. 24 at 7 p.m.)
• "Fred Claus" (Dec. 2 at 9 p.m., Dec. 3 at 5:30 p.m., Dec. 6 at 10 p.m., Dec. 12 at 10 p.m., Dec. 16 at 5:30 p.m., and Dec. 22 at 6:30 p.m.)
• "Four Christmases" (Dec. 2 at 11:30 p.m., Dec. 5 at 8 p.m., Dec. 6 at 6 p.m., Dec. 11 at 10:15 p.m., Dec. 19 at 8 p.m., Dec. 20 at 6 p.m., Dec. 22 at 9 p.m., Dec. 23 at 6 p.m., and Dec. 24 at 11:15 p.m.)
• "The Polar Express" (Dec. 4 at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., Dec. 8 at 4 p.m. and 10 p.m., Dec. 10 at 6 p.m. and 10 p.m., Dec. 13 at 7 p.m., Dec. 14 at 5 p.m., Dec. 22 at 11 p.m., and Dec. 24 at 5 p.m.)
• "The Year Without Santa Claus" (Dec. 13 at 10 p.m.)
• "National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation" (Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., Dec. 7 at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., Dec. 11 at 8 p.m., Dec. 12 at 5:45 p.m., Dec. 15 at 7 p.m. and 9:15 p.m., Dec. 17 at 8 p.m., Dec. 18 at 5:45 p.m., Dec. 20 at 10 p.m., Dec. 21 at 8 p.m., Dec. 23 at 8 p.m. and 10:15 p.m., and Dec. 24 at 9 p.m.)
• "Planes, Trains & Automobiles" (Dec. 2 at 5 p.m.)
• "Miracle on 34th Street" (Dec. 5 at 10 p.m., Dec. 9 at 7 p.m. and 9:30 p.m., Dec. 17 at 10:15 p.m.)
• "How Murray Saved Christmas" (Dec. 13 at 9 p.m.)
• "Frosty's Winter Wonderland" (Dec. 13 at 11:15 p.m.)
• "Ernest Saves Christmas" (Dec. 22 at 4:30 p.m.)

CBS

Besides its animated classics, the network has a new special by “Frozen” and “Rent” star Idina Menzel.

• "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (Dec. 2 at 8 p.m.)
• "I Love Lucy Christmas Special" (Dec. 20 at 8 p.m.)
• "A Home for the Holidays with Idina Menzel" (Dec. 22 at 9 p.m.)

NBC

• "It's a Wonderful Life" (Dec. 24 at 8 p.m.)
• "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (1966) (Dec. 3 at 8 p.m. and Dec. 25 at 8 p.m.)
• "Christmas in Rockefeller Center" (Dec. 4 at 8 p.m.)
• "A Saturday Night Live Christmas Special" (Dec. 5 at 9 p.m. and Dec. 23 at 9 p.m.)
• "A Legendary Christmas with John and Chrissy" (Dec. 12 at 10 p.m.)
• "DreamWorks Trolls Holiday" (Dec. 14 at 8:30 p.m.)
• "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (Dec. 25 at 8:30 p.m.)
• "A Toast to 2019!" (Dec. 31 at 8 p.m.)

Netflix Holiday Movies 2019

There are a wealth of Christmas movies and specials on Netflix, many new for this season, but you can also find the Bing Crosby classic “White Christmas” on the streaming site. New offerings that Netflix has highlighted for 2019 include “Holiday in the Wild” with Rob Lowe and Kristin Davis of “Sex and the City”; Vanessa Hudgens returns with a tale of chivalry and time travel; and the next installment in the popular “A Christmas Prince” franchise.

• "Holiday in the Wild"
• "Let It Snow"
• "Klaus"
• "The Knight Before Christmas"
• "Nailed It! Holiday Season 2"
• "Super Monsters Save Christmas"
• "True: Winter Wishes"
• "Holiday Rush"
• "Merry Happy Whatever Season 1"
• "Sugar Rush"
• "Christmas Team Kaylie Part 2"
• "A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby"

Other holiday movies on Netflix:

• "The Christmas Chronicles"
• "Christmas Inheritance"
• "A Christmas Prince"
• "A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding"
• "Christmas Wedding Planner"
• "Christmas with the Kranks"
• "Christmas with a View"
• "Dr. Seuss' The Grinch" (2018)
• "The Holiday Calendar"
• "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" (2000)
• "Mariah Carey's Merriest Christmas"
• "The Princess Switch"
• "The Spirit of Christmas"
• "A Very Murray Christmas"
• "White Christmas"

Streaming service Hulu also has some holiday cheer:

• "The Christmas CalendarChristmas Perfection"
• "A Cinderella Christmas"
• "Daddy's Home 2"
• "Girlfriends of Christmas Past"
• "The Holiday"
• "Home by Christmas"
• "Home for the Holidays"
• "Second Chance Christmas"

Amazon streaming movies:

Amazon has its own Christmas lineup, which includes “A Christmas Carol,” the Christmas specials in the British sci-fi series “Doctor Who,” and a Mariah Carey special.

• "Babes in Toyland"
• "A Christmas Carol in Color!"
• "Doctor Who Christmas specials"
• "If You Give a Mouse a Christmas Cookie"
• "It's a Wonderful Life"
• "Jack Frost" (1977)
• "Mariah Carey's All I Want for Christmas Is You"
• "Merry Christmas from Funny or Die"
• "A Norman Rockwell Christmas Story"

Newly launched Disney+ streaming has a batch of favorites you can watch:

• "Disney's A Christmas Carol" (2009)
• "Home Alone"
• "Home Alone 2: Lost in New York"
• "Home Alone 3"
• "I'll Be Home for Christmas"
• "Mickey's Christmas Carol"
• "Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas"
• "The Muppet Christmas Carol"
• "Noelle"
• "The Nightmare Before Christmas"
• "Santa Buddies"
• "Santa Paws 2: The Santa Pups"
• "The Santa Clause"
• "The Santa Clause 2"
• "The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause"
• "The Search for Santa Paws"

Freeform 25 Days Of Christmas

Freeform network began its annual "25 Days of Christmas" event on Dec. 1. Here's a sampling of what Freeform has planned for the season:

Monday, Dec. 2
6:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
9 p.m. – “Wrap Battle”
10 p.m. – “Wrap Battle”
Midnight - “Family Guy”

Tuesday, Dec. 3
5:50 p.m. – “Home Alone”
8:20 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
Midnight – “The Simpsons Holiday-thon”

Wednesday, Dec. 4
4 p.m. – “Home Alone”
6:30 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
9 p.m. - “Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas” Freeform Original Feature Premiere
Midnight – “Deck the Halls”

Thursday, Dec. 5
6:40 p.m. – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
8:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
Midnight – “Unaccompanied Minors”

Friday, Dec. 6
5:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
8 p.m. – “Frosty the Snowman” Freeform Premiere
8:30 p.m. – “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer” Freeform Premiere
9:30 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
11:30 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
1:30 a.m. – “The Little Drummer Boy”

Saturday, Dec. 7
7 a.m. – “Cricket on the Hearth”
8 a.m. - “Home Alone 3”
10 a.m. – “Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House”
12 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
2:05 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
4:10 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”
6:15 p.m. – “Frosty the Snowman”
6:45 p.m. – “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
7:50 p.m. – “Home Alone”
10:20 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
1 a.m. - “Wrap Battle”

Sunday, Dec. 8
7 a.m. – “Wrap Battle”
8 a.m. – “Home Alone 4: Taking Back the House”
10 a.m. – “I’ll Be Home for Christmas” (1998)
Noon – “Prancer Returns” Freeform Premiere
2:05 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”
4:10 p.m. – “Home Alone”
6:40 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
9:20 p.m. – “Despicable Me 2”
11:25 p.m. – “Shrek”
1:30 a.m. – “Kung Fu Panda Holiday”

Monday, Dec. 9
4:50 p.m. – “Shrek”
9 p.m. – “Wrap Battle”
10 p.m. – “Wrap Battle” Season Finale

Tuesday, Dec. 10
4:10 p.m. – “Deck the Halls”
6:15 p.m. – “Arthur Christmas”
8:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
Midnight – “The Simpsons Holiday-thon”

Wednesday, Dec. 11
5:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
8 p.m. – “Same Time, Next Christmas” Freeform Premiere
10 p.m. – “Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic”
Midnight – “Life-Size 2: A Christmas Eve”

Thursday, Dec. 12
1:35 p.m. – “The Perfect Holiday” Freeform Premiere
3:35 p.m. – “The Holiday”
6:50 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
8:55 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
Midnight – “Snow”

Friday, Dec. 13
6:45 p.m. – “Home Alone”
9:15 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
11:55 p.m. – “Home Alone: The Holiday Heist”

Saturday, Dec. 14
7 a.m. – “Home Alone: The Holiday Heist”
9 a.m – “Arthur Christmas”
11 a.m. – “The Simpsons Holiday-thon”
2 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”
4:05 p.m. – “Home Alone”
6:35 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
9:15 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
11:55 p.m. – “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish”

Sunday, Dec. 15
7 a.m. – “Arthur Christmas”
9 a.m. – “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish”
11:10 a.m. – “Unaccompanied Minors”
1:20 p.m. – “Deck the Halls”
3:25 p.m. – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
5:05 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
7:45 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
9:50 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
11:55 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Monday, Dec. 16
4:50 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
6:55 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
9 p.m. – “Good Trouble”
Midnight – “Family Guy”

Tuesday, Dec. 17
5:50 p.m. – “Home Alone”
8:20 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
Midnight – “The Simpsons Holiday-thon”

Wednesday, Dec. 18
8:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
Midnight – “Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas”

Thursday, Dec. 19
7:20 p.m. – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
9 p.m. – "Toy Story"
Midnight – “The Truth About Christmas”

Friday, Dec. 20
3 p.m. – “Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas”
4:40 p.m. – “Santa Claus is Comin’ To Town”
5:45 p.m. – “Frosty the Snowman”
6:15 p.m. – “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
7:20 p.m. – “Toy Story”
9:20 p.m. – “Toy Story 2”
11:25 p.m. – “Toy Story That Time Forgot”
11:55 p.m. – “Arthur Christmas”

Saturday, Dec. 21
7 a.m. – “The Little Drummer Boy”
7:30 a.m. – “Prancer Returns”
9:40 a.m. – “Arthur Christmas”
11:50 a.m. – “Santa Claus Is Comin’ To Town”
12:55 p.m. – “Frosty the Snowman”
1:25 p.m. – “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
2:30 p.m. – “Toy Story 2”
4:35 p.m. – “Toy Story That Time Forgot”
5:05 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
7:10 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
9:15 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
11:55 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”

Sunday, Dec. 22
7:00 a.m. – “The Holiday”
10:15 a.m. – “The Santa Clause”
12:25 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
2:35 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause”
4:40 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
7:20 p.m. – “Home Alone”
9:50 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
12:30 a.m. – “The Little Drummer Boy”
1 a.m. – “Decorating Disney: Holiday Magic”

Monday, Dec. 23
7 a.m. – “Disney’s Fairy Tale Weddings: HHoliday Magic”
8 a.m. – “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish”
10 a.m. – “Deck the Halls”
Noon – “Prancer Returns”
2:05 p.m. – “Arthur Christmas”
4:10 p.m. – “Home Alone”
6:20 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
9:20 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
Midnight – “Family Guy”

Tuesday, Dec. 24
7 a.m. – “The Little Drummer Boy”
7:30 a.m. – “Prancer Returns”
11 a.m. – “Kung Fu Panda Holiday”
11:30 a.m. – “Arthur Christmas”
1:30 p.m. – “The Santa Clause”
3:35 a.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
5:40 p.m. – “Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas”
8:20 p.m. – “Frosty the Snowman”
8:50 p.m. – “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
9:55 p.m. – “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”
Midnight – “The Simpsons Holiday-thon”

Wednesday, Dec. 25
7 a.m. – “Richie Rich’s Christmas Wish”
9 a.m. – “Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice”
11 a.m. – “The Santa Clause”
1:05 p.m. – “The Santa Clause 2”
3:10 p.m. – “Frosty the Snowman”
3:40 p.m. – “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer”
4:45 p.m. – “Santa Claus is Comin’ to Town”
5:50 p.m. – “Home Alone”
8:20 p.m. – “Home Alone 2: Lost in New York”
Midnight – “Deck the Halls”

UPtv's premiere Christmas movies include:

• "Christmas in Paris" – Premieres 7 p.m. ET Sunday, Dec. 8: A French multi-millionaire comes to Montana to do a deal and a photo shoot with a cosmetics company and meets the woman of his dreams.
• "Snowbound for Christmas" – Premieres 7 p.m. ET Sunday, Dec. 15 : A marketing executive is invited by her boss to pitch a major project to prospective clients at a resort, and the two get snowed in together before any of the other guests can arrive.
• "Christmas Wedding Runaway" – Premieres 7 p.m. ET Sunday, Dec. 22 : A runaway bride does some soul-searching when she’s snowed in at a cabin with her grandmother and an old flame at Christmas.
• "Baby in a Manger" – Premieres 7 p.m. ET Tuesday, Dec. 24: With the help of a police officer, a social worker searches for the mother of a baby she has found abandoned in a nativity scene at her church.

This list is courtesy of the holiday TV website christmastvschedule.com and TVGuide, along with PopSugar, the Hallmark Channel, Freeform and UP TV.