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Sleighbells ringing, chestnuts open on a roasted fire, you on your couch in front of a television as it moves onto to its 11th consecutive hour of Christmas programming. We all know the various traditions of the season.

Where once you were beholden to watching A Christmas Story four times in a row on TV every Christmas, now thanks to the magic of streaming you’ve got more options. Services like Amazon Prime are here to help you have the merriest Christmas possible.

Here is our list of the best Christmas movies on Amazon Prime. We trust that you’ll take a break from your holiday binging to point out titles we’ve missed.

Note: The titles on this list are available on Amazon Prime in the U.S. only. For a full list of holiday movies available in the U.S. and U.K., check out our complete holiday streaming guide.

Alec Bojalad Nov 9, 2019

Get in the Christmas spirit with the best Christmas movies available for streaming on Amazon Prime

Sleighbells ringing, chestnuts open on a roasted fire, you on your couch in front of a television as it moves onto to its 11th consecutive hour of Christmas programming. We all know the various traditions of the season.

further reading: Christmas Movies: A Complete Holiday Streaming Guide

Where once you were beholden to watching A Christmas Story four times in a row on TV every Christmas, now thanks to the magic of streaming you've got more options. Services like Amazon Prime are here to help you have the merriest Christmas possible.

Here is our list of the best Christmas movies on Amazon Prime. We trust that you'll take a break from your holiday binging to point out titles we've missed.

Bad Santa

God bless the movies whose titles are essentially their premise.

Independent film makers finally have a true partner in distribution with Destiny Image Films.

The Lamp is the second feature film released in less than 10 months from Trost Moving Pictures, The Narrative Television Network and Destiny Image Films.

From the executive producers of 2010′s holiday best-seller, A Christmas Snow, Jim Stovall (best-selling author of The Ultimate Gift) and Tracy Trost have hit another ‘home run’ with The Lamp. The movie is based on the novel by Jim Stovall. The Lamp has been awarded 5 out of 5 Doves from The Dove Foundation and approved for all ages.

The Lamp is a heartwarming story of faith, hope and charity with something special for audiences of all ages. Starring Louis Gossett Jr. (An Officer and a Gentleman), Jason London (The Man in the Moon and Dazed and Confused), Meredith Salenger (The Journey of Natty Gann), L. Scott Caldwell (Lost, The Net), Sarah Brown (Cold Case,...

With only a few days left until Christmas day is upon us, chances are your kids are now out of class until next year and spending their free time in some mixture of snowball fights outside and curled up in front of the television inside (we'd love for them to be reading, but we know how kids are). While the time they spend outside frolicking in the snow equates to peaceful R&R time for you parents, you can help even if out by putting in some of these high-quality Christmas classics that are guaranteed to be as entertaining for the grown-ups as they are for the kids.

For infants through 8-year-olds...

A Charlie Brown Christmas

A Charlie Brown Christmas, released in 1965, was (and remains) a huge hit. It came out at the height of Peanuts’ popularity, but also marked the transition Peanuts made from a comic strip about kids...

Before I begin my review, I must mention that I do not hate Jesus, Christians, or Christian filmmakers. I grew up in an evangelical church, watching Veggie Tales and listening to Psalty cassette tapes. Today, I am a professing Christian, and going into this movie, I understood the culture that created A Christmas Snow. On some level, I even appreciate someone trying to make a family-friendly film. However, all of my understanding cannot excuse that this is a really bad movie.

In A Christmas Snow, Kathleen (Catherine Mary Stewart) is a restaurant owner who everyone says hates Christmas. I don’t really think that she hates Christmas. There is never any indication that she hates Christmas other than the fact that she keeps her restaurant open on Christmas Day, the newspaper’s food critic calls her a Grinch, and her father abandoned her family on Christmas Eve. She might not...