🌟 As we like to say at the Kaboom office, home is where the films (read: cozy blankets and snacks) are. While wrapping up our work (and some presents), we faced the ultimate holiday dilemma: “What should we watch next?” 🎥 To save you the trouble, we’ve put together a list of 10(!) films perfect for your holiday binge-watching marathon. 🍿 Additionally, they are all easily accessible through your local cinema, Netflix or Disney+!  

Below you will find 10 animated recommendations to binge-watch with the whole family.  

🎄 #1 Flow

🎥 Gints Zilbalodis, 2024, 1h 25min 

Flow tells the story of a black shorthair cat who lives in a post-apocalyptic world seemingly devoid of humans, who once worshipped the animals now roaming the land. After a flood destroys the cat’s home, he finds himself on a boat and ventures out, joined along the way by animals he must learn to trust.

You can watch Flow in cinemas around the country now! 

🎄 #2 Bob Bobbin and the Christmas Stocking 

🎥 Linda McCarthy, 2021, 11min 52s 

It’s Christmas at Small Birds Singing and it’s another disappointment for Spandisman. Join the fun with Consommé, Delphinium and Hurtle as Spandisman attempts to make next Yuletide the best one ever!

Watch it here!

🎄 #3 Howl’s Moving Castle

🎥 Hayao Miyazaki, 2004, 1h 59min  

When an unconfident young woman is cursed with an old body by a spiteful witch, her only chance of breaking the spell lies with a self-indulgent yet insecure young wizard and his companions in his legged, walking castle.

Where to watch: Netflix

🎄 #4 Wallace & Gromit’s Cracking Contraptions: A Christmas Cardomatic

🎥 Nick Park, 2002, 1h 43min

Wallace designs a machine to make holiday mailing easier.

Watch it here!

🎄 #5 Shaun the Sheep

🎥 Richard Starzak & Mark Burton, 2007

All is well at Mossy Bottom Farm, except for the fact that the animals will do anything to get out of work. So, Shaun the sheep and his scheming friends devise a plan to put their master to sleep. However, the ruse backfires when the poor farmer finds himself transported to the big city, having lost his memory.

Where to watch: Netflix

🎄 #6 A Cosmic Christmas 

🎥 Clive A. Smith, 1977, 21min 51s

Bizarre TV production from Canada: three aliens resembling he three kings come to earth to learn about the true meaning of Christmas.

Watch it here!

🎄 #7 The Nightmare Before Christmas

🎥  Tim Burton, 1993, 1h 16min

The film follows the misadventures of Jack Skellington, Halloweentown’s beloved pumpkin king, who has become bored with the same annual routine of frightening people in the “real world.” When Jack accidentally stumbles on Christmastown, all bright colors and warm spirits, he gets a new lease on life — he plots to bring Christmas under his control by kidnapping Santa Claus and taking over the role. But Jack soon discovers even the best-laid plans of mice and skeleton men can go seriously awry.

Where to watch: Disney+

🎄 #8 The Little Match Stick Girl 

🎥  Arthur Davis, 1937, 8min 20s

Classic tear-jerker based on the fairytale of the same name.

Watch it here!

🎄 #9 Look back

🎥  Kiyotaka Oshiyama, 2024, 57min

The overly confident Fujino and the shut-in Kyomoto couldn’t be more different, but a love of drawing manga brings these two small-town girls together.

Watch it here!

🎄 #10 Mail Early for Christmas

🎥 Norman McLaren, 1959, 40s

A one-minute pre-Christmas reminder to send your Christmas cards on time, in McLaren’s inimitable style.

Watch it here!

We hope this list will help ease your choice of what to bingewatch with your family. For now, we wish you happy holidays and we can’t wait to see you all next year at the next edition of Kaboom Festival! 🎅🏠