42 Animated Christmas Movies for a Perfect Christmas Countdown

Christmas is a holiday that comes with nostalgia baked into it. There are annual traditions, the timeless stories told year after year and plenty of stored memories about the holiday to re-live, feeling those warm feelings over again. That's probably why, when it comes time to sit down and watch a Christmas movie, we often reach for Christmas movies for kids — the ones that we remember watching when we were small.

And when it comes to family-friendly Christmas movies, they're often cartoons. When you want to experience those feelings again, either with your own families or on your own, these are the best animated Christmas movies to watch in 2022, listed in order of release from newest to oldest. Some of them are the stop-motion animated classics from Rankin and Bass, who reinterpreted everything from Rudolph the Red-Nose Reindeer to Santa Claus Is Coming to Town. Some of them are much newer, with animated Christmas movies on Netflix or on Disney+ that you can stream whenever you're in the mood. Most of them are funny Christmas comedies, but there are also of plenty of heartwarming moments. Gather the family around, pick one from the list and get ready to make new memories.