Your 2014 Christmas Movie VOD TV Guide: What’s available to watch online in the UK
David Farnor | On 11, Dec 2014
Ah, December. A month for eating mince pies, turning up the heating and curling up with the newspaper to find out what Christmas movies are on TV. Now, though, you don’t have to wait for a channel to show a Christmas film: you can have a Muppet Christmas Carol singalong or Elfalong whenever you like.
The only question is: what films are on where?
With a growing number of VOD services, it’s hard to work out if Netflix has a bumper selection (spoiler: it doesn’t) or if Amazon’s got something special in its sack. Our Christmas video on-demand guide rounds up the best festive titles available on each of the UK’s subscription platforms, so you can decide which VOD service is best to unwrap for Christmas.
But that’s not all.
What if you just want to rent Home Alone and laugh at other people’s physical pain with your kids? We’ve got you covered too: our VOD Christmas Film Finder will tell you where you can watch any seasonal favourite online in the UK, from Joe Swanberg’s Happy Christmas and Nativity! to Knowing Me, Knowing Yule and Holiday in Handcuffs, starring Melissa Joan Hart. (Don’t ask.)
Merry streaming!
Find a Christmas film on VOD
Search for your favourite festive flick and we’ll tell you where you can watch it:
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(This will be updated as new Christmas films are added to VOD services.)
Our Seasonal VOD Picks
Top Christmas movies on NOW
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If you like Will Ferrell, love sugar and really love Christmas, Jon Favreau’s comedy is everything you could want for Christmas – plus Zooey Deschanel singing Baby, It’s Cold Outside, while dressed as an elf.
Billy Bob Thornton is delightfully horrible in this dark, twisted take on the season of goodwill. Moving in uninvited with a home alone boy, will he soften up or stay the alcoholic, womanising loser he already is? For once, all bets are off.
This genre-defining blockbuster delivers explosions, laughs, one heck of an underdog romp and – what makes it such a classic festive favourite – an oddly sweet tale of one man trying to get to his family for the holidays.
Joe Dante’s seminal horror comedy sees a young boy acquire a new pet, under strict instructions to never get it wet or feed it after midnight. He soon learns a festive lesson of responsibility – via a hilariously dark wave of twisted chaos.
“I made my family disappear.” Macauley Culkin charmed his way into everyone’s hearts with a raise of his eyebrows and two hands on either side of his face. Learning what it’s like to be left behind his parents, Kevin McCallister’s battle to defend his house from Joe Pesci unites the whole family in the universal joy of other people’s physical pain.
For all its cliches, it’s impossible to resist Richard Curtis going full Richard Curtis in this rambling, uneven festive anthology. Shrewdly commercial yet annoyingly charming, Emma Thompson and Bill Nighy alone make it worth watching, while Rowan Atkinson’s cameo walks away with the whole thing.
John Landis’ classic sees a con artist and a rich investor effectively swapped as part of a bet to prove that low-lives and the upper class aren’t that different after all.
Tim Allen inadvertently becomes Santa after knocking him off his roof in this surprisingly charming family comedy, which combines the thrill of legal contracts with festive imagination.
Click here to see the full list of Christmas movies on NOW.
Top Christmas movies and TV shows on Netflix
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A cold-hearted TV exec is about to discover the true meaning of Christmas — the hard way — in this wild, woolly spin on Dickens’s A Christmas Carol.
Terror reigns inside a sorority house a few days before Christmas break as a series of menacing phone calls transform yuletide cheer into fear.
Replicate the peacefulness of an old-fashioned, wood-burning fireplace, as well as a crackling yule log fireplace, all set to holiday tunes.
A cute collection of four specials, featuring Shrek and Donkey, Hiccup and Toothless, and the animals from Madagascar. Short and sweet.
Alan Partridge’s Christmas spectacular boasts an interview with a golfer who was struck by lightning and the world’s largest Christmas cracker.
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and friends celebrate the spirit of the season while Scrooge McDuck humbugs in this animated holiday feature.
Click here to see the full list of Christmas movies on Netflix UK.
Top Christmas movies and TV shows on Amazon Prime Instant Video
An Amazon Prime Instant Video subscription costs £5.99 per month, no contract. An Amazon Prime membership (which also includes free next day UK delivery) costs £79 per year, the equivalent of £6.58 per month, with the first 30 days free.
Aardman’s adorable charm is just about present in this perfectly satisfactory slice of seasonal entertainment, which sees Arthur struggling to save Christmas with a range of high-tech gadgets.
In the reign of good Queen Vic, there stood, in Dumpling Lane in old London town, the Moustache Shoppe of one Ebenezer Blackadder – the kindest and loveliest man in all England.
Terror reigns inside a sorority house a few days before Christmas break as a series of menacing phone calls transform yuletide cheer into fear.
Catherine Deneuve plays the matriarch who gathers her family together not just for Christmas but for reasons of her own…
Mickey, Minnie, Goofy and friends celebrate the spirit of the season while Scrooge McDuck humbugs the whole affair in this animated holiday feature.
David Tennant plays identical twins in this annoying sequel that tries its hardest to wear down your resistance. By the end, you’ll be tapping your feet, even if you hate yourself.
Click here to see the full list of Christmas movies on Amazon Prime Instant Video.
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