Top 21 Black Christmas Movies For Families To Watch This Season
Yipee! It’s Christmas season again, and do you know what that means? A new year is just around the corner! Another reminder that it’s the grand season for celebrations, gifting, laughter, unlimited movie streaming, and unending festivity. What better way and time to get into the Christmas/holiday spirit than now?
This article contains a ranking of black Christmas movies that are bound to get you into an exciting holiday spirit. Are you looking to have a swell time with your kids, binge watch some silly comedy with your friends, in search of a family-friendly movie, or a heart-melting romcom to enjoy with your lover? This endless magical list of black Christmas movies has got you all covered.
These are just some, out of the many black holiday movies you can find on Netflix and other streaming platforms. Some of these movies range from old-time classics to horrors, comedy, drama, family, and much more. So, come on, Buckle those belts, grab a handful of your all-time favorite home-baked cookies, and that hot cup of season goodness, because this exciting Christmas binge is about to get started!
Thankfully these recommendations are not mine alone. Some of these movies have been rated above 59% on rotten tomatoes which are above the pass mark for excellence on the world’s top movie review website.
You definitely can trust this list.
Top Black Christmas Movies For Family This Holiday Season
1. Holiday Rush (A Netflix Original 2019)
Cast: Romany Malco, Sonequa, Martin-Green, Deon Cole, Amarr M. Wooten, Malika Samuel, Deysha Nelson, Darlene Love, and others.
This epochal holiday family drama has a passable rating on IMDb. It is a Christmas romantic comedy of a widowed Hip-hop radio DJ who loses his job when the agency is bought over by a pop broadcast called Camcom.
DJ Rush and his four children would have to experience a whole new level of lifestyle and sudden change like never before. Stripping them of their affluent privileges, and forcing them to cut down on their extravagant lifestyle a few days into Christmas. It becomes unbearable when they have to move back into aunt jo’s house to cut down on expenses.
The events take a new twist when Rush together with his Producer Roxy buys an old studio, and begin to fall in love. When Rush’s kids find out, the reaction is not so nice. This movie is a sit tight romance comedy that deals with sudden change, Christmas, career management, and most importantly, family and unity.
Click here to Watch Holiday rush.
2. Madea’s Christmas (2013)
Cast: Tyler Perry, Kathy Najimy, Chad Michael Murray, Anna Maria Horsford, Tika Sumpter, Eric Lively, Noah Urrea, and others.
This 2013 Christmas comedy is written, directed, produced, and starred by the iconic Tyler Perry himself. The plot is set in Atlanta, Georgia, and revolves around Madea who gets fired after getting a new job at a local store. Madea with no job whatsoever accompanies her niece Eileen to a small town called BuckTussel where she pays her estranged daughter, who also happens to be a teacher a surprise visit. We find out the reason why Lacey has been avoiding her mom, and the identity of her supposed worker, who is her white college boyfriend now turned husband. This movie shows the many facets of lies, judgments, love, family, and forgiveness.
This is a good movie to watch with your family, plus don’t forget the unstoppable premium comedy streak that Madea offers in all features.
Watch Madea Christmas here
3. Almost Christmas
Cast: Danny Glover, Gabrielle Union, Mo’Nique, Kimberly Elise, Romany Malco, J.B. Smoove, Nicole Ari Parker, Omar Epps
This 2016 Christmas comedy-drama features Walter Meyers, a retired Automotive Engineer, and his plan to reunite his children under the same roof after the death of their mother.
As they deal with different challenges, Walter soon realizes that a perfect Christmas with the children under the same roof would be almost impossible without the matriarch, and only a Christmas miracle can help…10 months after her death, the gap is still very much prevalent.
4. Black Nativity (A Netflix Original)
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Angela Bassett, Tyrese Gibson, Jacob Latimore, Mary J. Blige, Nasir Jones, Jennifer Hudson
Black Nativity is a 93 mins movie about Langston (Jacob Latimore), a Baltimore teen raised by a single mother (Jennifer Hudson). Langston travels to New York City for the Christmas holiday, and after countless hurdles meet with his estranged relatives and grandparents, the Rev. Cornell Cobbs (Forest Whitaker), and his wife, Aretha (Angela Bassett).
Before long, Langston soon realizes that Cobbs has strict rules, and he soon sets out to return to his mother. A journey that builds and teaches him healing, faith, love, and the profits of family.
Click here to watch Black Nativity
5. Best Man’s Holiday
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Taye Diggs, Regina Hall, Terrence Howard, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Harold Perrineau.
This movie chronicles the lives of friends who had been drawn apart by life, and their grand reunion 15 years later. These college friends Lance (Morris Chestnut), Harper (Taye Diggs), Candace (Regina Hall), Quentin (Terrence Howard), Robyn (Sanaa Lathan), Jordan (Nia Long), Murch (Harold Perrineau), and Mia (Monica Calhoun) eventually reunite over the Christmas holidays.
The movie chronicles the changes in their lives, and remind us that friendship, love, and even old-time rivalries cannot be buried away with the facade of time. Even after 15 years apart, these feelings can still be reignited and rekindled.
6. The Perfect Holiday
Cast: Morris Chestnut, Gabrielle Union, Faizon Love, Terrence Howard, Queen Latifah, Charlie Murphy, Katt Williams, Jill Marie Jones, Rachel True, Malik Hammond, Khail Bryant, Jeremy Gumbs.
Single Mother of three, Nancy (Gabrielle Union) cannot get over a melancholic feeling of loneliness and so her youngest daughter assumes the duty to proffer help. Emily approaches Benjamin a Santa Claus at a department store to help make her mom happy again. Miraculously we learn that Benjamin who is a struggling songwriter requires some company as well. Before long, they’re both budding with a perfect Christmas romantic holiday!
Watch the perfect holiday here
7. The Holiday Calendar
Cast: Kat Graham, Quincy Brown Ethan Peck, Ron Cephas Jones.
Looking for a heart-swelling romantic getaway this Christmas season, then look no further cause the holiday calendar has got you covered. The movie tells the story of a talented photographer who is finding it very hard to reach success in her career. This photographer’s mystery magical story begins when she inherits an antique holiday advent calendar which appears to predict her future with someone else who is not the man in her life.
Does perfection exist outside? And would this magical calendar bring her home to the man that her heart loves during Christmas?
Watch the holiday Calendar here
8. The Preacher’s Wife
Cast: Denzel Washington, Whitney Houston, Courtney B. Vance Gregory Hines, Jenifer Lewis, Loretta Devine
This movie is an intriguing remake of “the Bishop’s Wife”. The Preacher’s Wife is a story of realization, doubt, love, and family. An angel visits a preacher to help him get over his numerous mid-life troubles. But the story takes a new twist when the heavenly emissary begins to lose focus on the most important assignment. Chaos breaks out when the angel himself begins to fall in love with the sweet and equally lovely Preacher’s wife.
Watch the preacher’s wife here
9. Family Reunion Christmas (A Netflix Original).
Cast: Tia Mowry, Anthony Alabi, Talia Jackson, Isaiah Russell-Bailey, Cameron J. Wright, Jordyn Raya James, Loretta Devine
M’Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
The McKellan’s are back to spread Christmas joy in this holiday special about the importance of family, forgiveness, and empathy.
Watch family reunion Christmas here
10. This Christmas
Cast: Delroy Lindo, Idris Elba, Loretta Devine, Chris Brown, Columbus Short, Regina King, Keith Robinson, Laz Alonso, Sharon Leal, Lauren London, Mekhi Phifer.
After four years of being away from home, matriarch Ma’Dere Whitfield summons the entire family for a long old reunion. But the happy events do not last for long as events soon begin to turn sour. Revelations, family secrets, and not-so-pleasant developments begin to unfold, causing the entire family to come to terms with the test and true value of life, especially when Ma’Dere teenage son plans to elope away to become a singer.
11. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Cast: Forest Whitaker, Madalen Mills, Keegan-Michael Key, Hugh Bonneville, Anika Noni Rose, Phylicia Rashad, Lisa Davina Phillip, Ricky Martin.
A joyful toymaker and inventor rekindle hope again for the first time in decades after his granddaughter shows up on his doorstep.
Watch jingle-jangle: A Christmas journey here
12. The Kid Who Loved Christmas
Cast: Cicely Tyson, Sammy Davis Jr., Della Reese, Ben Vereen, Ray Parker Jr., Vanessa Williams.
This movie is a touching Christmas story written about a couple based in Chicago who decides to adopt a kid called Reggie. tragedy strikes when the wife, Lynette dies, and Tony who has no clue whatsoever on how to train a child suddenly has to be a father to young Reggie.
Click here to watch the kid who loved Christmas.
13. Chief Daddy
Cast: Taiwo Obileye Joke Silva, Falz, Dakore Akande, Funke Akindele, Zainab Balogun, Shaffy Bello, Ini Edo, Linda Ejiofor, Mawuli Gavor, Richard Mofe-Damijo, Rachel Oniga, Nkem Owoh, Patience Ozokwor.
Chief Daddy is a family saga and a definite recommendation for family time. Chief Daddy is about a billionaire family who suddenly loses their benefactor, Chief Beecroft. The saga begins amongst his immediate and extended family members, as conversations of will and fortune cleanse the air.
Other Black Christmas Movies I would Recommend:
- How to ruin Christmas
- Ma Rainey’s black bottom
- Canvas
- The prom
- The Grinch
- The Christmas chronicles part two
- A family reunion Christmas
- Citation the movie
All images are sourced from IMBD
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