Johannesburg - Amazon Prime has the best Christmas movies this year, research by Betway has revealed.
The streaming service is followed by Disney+ and then Netflix when it comes to Christmas film offerings.
Betway analysed the three top streaming services to find the five most popular Christmas films on each one.
The team then looked at the IMDb rating of the top five films and worked out the average rating for each streaming service.
Betway found that Amazon Prime was the Christmas King of streaming services, with an average IMDb rating of 7.5/10. Helping achieve this high rating is one of the most acclaimed Christmas films, It’s A Wonderful Life, with the 1946 classic holding an impressive 8.6/10 rating.
The 2003 festive favourite Love Actually also helps boost Prime’s rating with its 7.6/10 score. Joining the two festive classics are The Holiday (2006) with a 6.9 rating, White Christmas (1954), holding a 7.5 rating and Arthur Christmas (2011) with a 7.1/10 score.
In second place is the world’s most popular streaming service, Disney+, with an average IMDb rating of 7.3/10 for their top Christmas films. Tim Burton’s 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas takes the top rating with 7.9/10.
The two classics Home Alone (1990) and The Muppets Christmas Carol (1992) share second place with a joint 7.7/10 rating.
Following these films is the favourite Christmas sequel Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), with a 6.8 rating, and The Santa Clause (1994) with 6.5/10.
In what might be a surprise to many, Netflix comes in last place when it comes to the quality of their most popular Christmas films, with a mere 6.4/10 average rating. Netflix’s highest-rated Christmas film is The Christmas Chronicles (2018), with a 7.0/10 rating.
With a 6.4/10 rating is the 2009 family festive favourite, Nativity! The final three films, How The Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), A Christmas Miracle For Daisy (2021) and Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) have all received a 6.2/10 rating on IMDb.