Many Christmas stories have been adapted to feature films and TV specials, and have been broadcast and repeated many times on television. Since the popularization of home video in the 1980s, these films are sold and re-sold every year during the holiday shopping season. Many networks, studios, and production companies, such as Hallmark and Lifetime, produce and release new Christmas-themed films every year during or around December, all with different variations of similar plots and themes. One film that has become the flashpoint for "Is this a Christmas movie or not?" debates is the original Die Hard (1988), alongside argument lines that either view the Bruce Willis-starring action film as a genuine "Christmas movie" intertwined with its action genre setting, or as a film that is simply set around that time of year.

Theatrical

Christmas-themed films that received a theatrical release.

A Christmas Carol adaptations

A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens.

The Nutcracker adaptations

The Nutcracker is an 1892 ballet by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky.

Christmas Action/Thriller films

Christmas comic book films

Christmas horror films

Short films

Made-for-television and direct-to-video

These are films that were made for television (including streaming services), or for the direct-to-video or direct-to-DVD market.

Family

A Christmas Carol adaptations

A Christmas Carol is an 1843 novella by Charles Dickens.

Christmas animals

Children's

Horror

TV series

Comedy

Fantasy/superhero

Family

Children's

Drama

Romance

Adult/horror/thriller/crime