Christmas Movies to Stream Without the Kids
Bad Santa
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Lauren Graham, Brett Kelly, Lauren Tom, John Ritter and Bernie Mac.
Where to stream: Netflix
Bad Santa is a modern classic holiday film because it genuinely has a lot of heart, but that heart lies at the center of a whole lot of incredibly lewd-yet-hilarious humor and shocking moments.
Make sure to put the kids to bed before you queue this one up.
Bad Santa 2
Starring: Billy Bob Thornton, Tony Cox, Brett Kelly, Kathy Bates, Brett Kelly, and Christina Hendricks.
Where to stream: Netflix
Arguably, Bad Santa 2 does not hit the same high notes that its predecessor does, but there are still quite a few laughs to be appreciated. Luckly, this film is also streaming on Netflix, just like the first.
A Bad Moms Christmas
Starring: Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn, Christine Baranski, Cheryl Hines, and Susan Sarandon)
Where to stream: Hulu with Showtime
A Bad Moms Christmas is the 2017 holiday sequel to 2016s Bad Moms. It sees the ladies taking on the Christmas season with their own mothers in tow, and tests the the bonds of family with hilarious not-kid-friendly results.
Office Christmas Party
Starring: Jason Bateman, Olivia Munn, T. J. Miller, Jillian Bell, Vanessa Bayer, Courtney B. Vance, Rob Corddry, Kate McKinnon and Jennifer Aniston.
Where to stream: Hulu with Showtime
While it doesn't get as much love as some its peers, Office Christmas Party is a fun grown-up holiday flick with a fair share of sentiment underneath its raunchy exterior.
Pull this one up and make sure to take note of the fantastic performance that stand-up comedian Fortune Feimster delivers as Lonny, the Uber Driver. She only appears briefly, but she is absolutely one the best parts of the entire film.
Love, Actually
Starring: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Laura Linney, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Keira Knightley, Martine McCutcheon, Bill Nighy, Rowan Atkinson, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Andrew Lincoln, and Martin Freeman.
Where to stream: Netflix
Love, Actually strings together nearly a dozen different stories of love (and loss) that all intersect and take place at Christmastime.
With a star-studded cast to hold it down, this R-rated romantic holiday film is perfect for date night, and is available to stream on Netflix right now.
Black Christmas
Starring: Margot Kidder, Olivia Hussey, Keir Dullea, Andrea Martin, Marian Waldman and John Saxon.
Where to stream: Hulu
While not the first ever Christmas horror film — see Silent Night, Bloody Night or Home for the Holidays (both from 1972) — Black Christmas was certainly one that found more mainstream success.
Telling the story of a college campus tormented by a deranged killer over the holidays, Black Christmas is in many ways an anti-Christmas spirit film that a perfect match for us Scrooges.
Red Christmas
Starring: Dee Wallace, Geoff Morrell, David Collins, Sarah Bishop, Janis McGavin, and Sam Campbell
Where to stream: Netflix
Red Christmas is in no way connected to Black Christmas, other than it films like a film in the same vein as the former.
The film features a family greeted by a stranger at Christmas who ends up being a bit much for them to put up with. They send him on his way, but eventually come to understand that their connection to him may run deeper than they could have known.
Fans of The Ghost of Christmas Past will surely appreciate this terrifying holiday flick.
El Camino Christmas
Starring: Luke Grimes, Vincent D'Onofrio, Dax Shepard, Kurtwood Smith, Michelle Mylett, Emilio Rivera, Kimberly Quinn, Jessica Alba and Tim Allen.
Where to Stream: Netflix
El Camino Christmas is a Netflix original holiday film that co-stars Tim Allen in a role decidedly different than the one he play the classic Santa Clause franchise.
0commentsIn this movie Grimes plays a guy looking for his long-lost father (Allen), and ends up inadvertently taking a convenience store full of people hostage on Christmas Eve.
Add this one to your queue and watch it after you tuck the little ones into bed sometime this holiday season.