15+ Festive Movies on Disney+ to Get You Into the Holiday Spirit

Add these festive movies on Disney+ to your holiday must-watch list ASAP!

By jacqueline weiss Dec 05, 2025 1:00 AMTags
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If you’re in need of a good dose of holiday cheer, Disney+ has got you covered.

From childhood classics to recent favorites, and maybe even a few you haven’t watched yet, we’re rounding up the 15+ festive movies to watch on Disney+ this weekend to get you into the holiday spirit.

Hunt down a sold out toy with Arnold Schwarzenegger in Jingle All The Way, deal with family woes in National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, or stop a home robbery with Home Alone. Whatever you choose, we think you'll be feeling merry and bright very soon.

Scroll for our favorite festive titles!

I'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)

College student Jake is lured home to New York from California for Christmas by the promise of receiving a vintage Porsche as a gift from his father. But when he is dumped in the desert in a Santa suit with no money and no way to get home, he has to make his way across the country if he wants to make his dad’s deadline to receive the car.

Where to Watch: Disney+

The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)

If you never thought a snow day would arrive in Los Angeles, think again! When Allie and Sam stumble upon, and use, a weather machine belonging to Santa Claus to cause snow, things quickly get out of hand and may even ruin Christmas.

Where to Watch: Disney+

The Naughty Nine (2023)

After realizing that he landed on the naughty list when he had no presents from Santa on Christmas, Andy pulls together a team of eight other "naughty listers" to execute a heist in Santa's Village at the North Pole to get their gifts.

Where to Watch: Disney+

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)

Christmas is coming, and Clark Griswold wants everything to be picture-perfect. But his bad luck has a way of catching up to him, made even worse when his cousin unexpectedly arrives in an RV.

Where to Watch: Disney+

The Santa Clause (1994)

When divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover that Santa has fallen from their roof, he becomes the new Santa Claus due to a legal technicality called "the Santa Clause," accepting all of the duties and responsibilities that come with it.

Where to Watch: Disney+

A Christmas Story (1983)

All Ralphie Parker wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun, but his parents aren't convinced, and neither is Santa.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)

This Christmas anthology film includes three heartwarming features: Donald Duck: Stuck on Christmas, A Very Goofy Christmas, and Mickey and Minnie’s Gift of the Magi.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009)

The surly Ebenezer Scrooge hates Christmas, but when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Yet to Come visit him, he has to make a change before it is too late.

Where to Watch: Disney+

The Christmas Star (1986)

Horace McNickle escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus, and is befriended by kids who believe he is the real Santa. Taking advantage of their naïveté, he uses them to help him get his counterfeit money from a past heist. But will he stick to his ways? Or understand the meaning of Christmas? Watch and find out.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Four Christmases (2008)

Brad and Kate's Christmas vacation to Fiji gets canceled due to fog, and once their families get wind of things (thanks to them being interviewed on the news), they are forced to visit all four of their divorced parents on the same day.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Home Alone (1994)

Kevin McCallister is accidentally left in his Chicago home as his family jets off to Paris for Christmas. As his mom desperately tries to get home to Kevin, a pair of bandits have a plot to rob the McCallister family home which Kevin plots to prevent.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)

Jack Skellington, the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town, stumbles upon Christmas Town and wants to introduce the holiday to his neighbors. But Sally, who secretly loves Jack, has a vision that Jack's attempts to take over Christmas will end badly.

 

Where to Watch: Disney+

A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)

Celebrate the holiday season with your favorite trio of musical brothers, who just want to get home to their families after finishing the European leg of their tour. But when tensions arise between them, a certain jolly man makes it so they have to work things out.

Where to Watch: Disney+

The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)

Join Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy, and all of your favorite Muppets in this retelling of the classic Charles Dickens story, starring Michael Caine as the greedy and grumpy Ebenezer Scrooge.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Noelle (2019)

Noelle is Kris Kringle's daughter, who's full of holiday cheer. Her brother Nick has been training to replace their dad as Santa, but he doesn't quite have it down yet. And when Nick doesn't return from what should have been a quick getaway, it's up to Noelle to search for him and the true meaning of Christmas.

Where to Watch: Disney+

Jingle All The Way (1996)

Howard Langston loves his family, but isn't always great at making time for them the way he should. After missing his son Jamie's karate class graduation, he wants to make it up to him with a Turbo Man action figure. The only problem? It's Christmas Eve, and they are sold out everywhere.

Where to Watch: Disney+

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