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50 Best Free Movies on Fandango at home (December 2025)


We’re getting ready for the Holiday season! Top Christmas movies this month: Spoiler Alert, Better Watch Out, Red Snow, Violent Night, and more!


Everyone loves free movies, and Fandango at Home boasts over 20,000 of them. But where do you begin with that many films to choose from? You start with RT’s curated list of the best 50 titles.

Whatever you’re in the mood for, we’ve gathered a list of 50 films and ranked them by Tomatometer score to create our guide to the 50 best free movies on Fandango at Home. Check out the list below, and add these films to your watchlist this month.

#1

The Pianist (2002)
Tomatometer icon 95%

#1
Critics Consensus: Well-acted and dramatically moving, The Pianist is Polanski's best work in years.
Synopsis: In this adaptation of the autobiography "The Pianist: The Extraordinary True Story of One Man's Survival in Warsaw, 1939-1945," Wladyslaw [More]
Directed By: Roman Polanski
#2

Spoiler Alert (2022)
Tomatometer icon 87%

#2
Critics Consensus: It can be frustratingly uneven, but strong performances from a talented cast help Spoiler Alert stay on the right side of saccharine.
Synopsis: Based on Michael Ausiello's best-selling memoir "Spoiler Alert: The Hero Dies," the film is a heartwarming, funny and life-affirming story [More]
Directed By: Michael Showalter
#3

Nope (2022)
Tomatometer icon 83%

#3
Critics Consensus: Admirable for its originality and ambition even when its reach exceeds its grasp, Nope adds Spielbergian spectacle to Jordan Peele's growing arsenal.
Synopsis: A man and his sister discover something sinister in the skies above their California horse ranch, while the owner of [More]
Directed By: Jordan Peele
#4

The Apprentice (2024)
Tomatometer icon 83%

#4
Critics Consensus: Instead of cross-examining its subject, The Apprentice gives Sebastian Stan the chance to shine in a simplistic yet entertaining foray into the world of a young Trump.
Synopsis: A young Donald Trump (Sebastian Stan), eager to make his name as a hungry second son of a wealthy family [More]
Directed By: Ali Abbasi
#5

Better Watch Out (2016)
Tomatometer icon 89%

#5
Critics Consensus: Carried by its charismatic young cast, Better Watch Out is an adorably sinister holiday horror film.
Synopsis: Ashley travels to the suburban home of the Lerners to baby-sit their 12-year-old son Luke at Christmastime. She must soon [More]
Directed By: Chris Peckover
#6

The Bad Guys (2022)
Tomatometer icon 87%

#6
Critics Consensus: Fast-paced, funny, and full of colorful visual appeal, The Bad Guys is good news for audiences seeking options the whole family can enjoy.
Synopsis: In the new action comedy from DreamWorks Animation, based on the New York Times best-selling book series, a crackerjack criminal [More]
Directed By: Pierre Perifel
#7

Tortilla Soup (2001)
Tomatometer icon 76%

#7
Critics Consensus: An English remake of Ang Lee's Eat Drink Man Woman, Tortilla Soup is as charming and flavorful as the dishes it features.
Synopsis: Three grown sisters, Maribel (Tamara Mello), Leticia (Elizabeth Peña) and Carmen (Jacqueline Obradors) try to cope and live with their [More]
Directed By: Maria Ripoll
#8

The Retaliators (2021)
Tomatometer icon 86%

#8
Critics Consensus: It may not offer much they haven't seen before, but strong-stomached exploitation enthusiasts will savor The Retaliators.
Synopsis: In THE RETALIATORS, an upstanding pastor uncovers a dark and twisted underworld as he searches for answers surrounding his daughter's [More]
#9

Red Snow (2021)
Tomatometer icon 80%

#9
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When an injured bat transforms into a handsome vampire, struggling horror novelist Olivia Romo hides him in her garage to [More]
Directed By: Sean Nichols Lynch
#10

Violent Night (2022)
Tomatometer icon 74%

#10
Critics Consensus: Violent Night isn't as wildly entertaining as its concept might suggest, but for those seeking harder-edged holiday fare, it may be a ho-ho-whole lot of fun.
Synopsis: When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team [More]
Directed By: Tommy Wirkola
#11

Snowtime! (2015)
Tomatometer icon 74%

#11
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Children (Mariloup Wolfe, Nicholas Savard-L'Herbier, Sophie Cadieux) in a small village learn valuable life lessons when they form two teams [More]
#12

Black Christmas (1974)
Tomatometer icon 71%

#12
Critics Consensus: The rare slasher with enough intelligence to wind up the tension between bloody outbursts, Black Christmas offers fiendishly enjoyable holiday viewing for genre fans.
Synopsis: As winter break begins, a group of sorority sisters, including Jess (Olivia Hussey) and the often inebriated Barb (Margot Kidder), [More]
Directed By: Bob Clark
#13

100% Wolf (2020)
Tomatometer icon 69%

#13
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Freddy Lupin, heir to a proud family of werewolves, is positive he'll become the most fearsome werewolf ever. On his [More]
Directed By: Alexs Stadermann
#14

Frozen (2010)
Tomatometer icon 64%

#14
Critics Consensus: Writer/director Adam Green has the beginnings of an inventive, frightening yarn in Frozen, but neither the script nor the cast are quite strong enough to truly do it justice.
Synopsis: As a winter storm approaches, three people become stranded on a chairlift high above the ground after a ski resort [More]
Directed By: Adam Green
#15

Christmas Evil (1980)
Tomatometer icon 57%

#15
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Eavesdropping on mother turns a boy into a killer (Brandon Maggart) who roams the streets dressed as Santa Claus. [More]
Directed By: Lewis Jackson
#16

Ticket to Paradise (2022)
Tomatometer icon 56%

#16
Critics Consensus: Ticket to Paradise may not send viewers all the way to the promised land, but this reunion for a pair of megawatt stars is still an agreeably frothy good time.
Synopsis: Academy Award® winners George Clooney and Julia Roberts reunite on the big screen as exes who find themselves on a shared mission [More]
Directed By: Ol Parker
#17

V/H/S (2012)
Tomatometer icon 56%

#17
Critics Consensus: An uneven collection of found-footage horror films, V/H/S has some inventive scares but its execution is hit-and-miss.
Synopsis: Hired to steal a rare VHS tape from a remote house, a ragtag band of crooks finds a dead body, [More]
#18
#18
Critics Consensus: The performances are the strength of Nothing Like the Holidays, a rather ordinary holiday comedy with a latin twist.
Synopsis: It's the Christmas season and the scattered members of the Rodriguez family come to their parents' Chicago home to celebrate. [More]
Directed By: Alfredo De Villa
#19

Rock Dog (2016)
Tomatometer icon 47%

#19
Critics Consensus: Rock Dog is amiable enough, but its second-tier animation and uninspired story add up to a movie whose meager charms are likely to escape all but the youngest and least demanding viewers.
Synopsis: For the Tibetan mastiffs on Snow Mountain, a dog's life has a simple riff -- guard a peaceful village of [More]
Directed By: Ash Brannon
#20

Spies Like Us (1985)
Tomatometer icon 35%

#20
Critics Consensus: Despite the comedic prowess of its director and two leads, Spies Like Us appears to disavow all knowledge of how to make the viewer laugh.
Synopsis: Looking for a way out of their mundane government jobs, Austin Millbarge (Dan Aykroyd) and Emmett Fitz-Hume (Chevy Chase) take [More]
Directed By: John Landis
#21

The Mean One (2022)
Tomatometer icon 23%

#21
Critics Consensus: A killjoy entry into the debauched children's story horror canon, The Mean One delivers a seasonally macabre bag of lime green coal.
Synopsis: One Christmas Eve in a sleepy mountain town, Cindy's family is killed and her Christmas is stolen by a bloodthirsty [More]
Directed By: Steven LaMorte
#22

Santa Claus (1985)
Tomatometer icon 22%

#22
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: In ancient times, a man named Claus (David Huddleston), who delivers toys in his small village, fulfills his destiny to [More]
Directed By: Jeannot Szwarc
#23

The Killing Tree (2022)
Tomatometer icon 17%

#23
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: On Christmas Eve, a scorned widow casts an ancient spell to resurrect her executed husband. However, when the spell goes [More]
Directed By: Rhys Frake-Waterfield
#24

Saving Santa (2013)
Tomatometer icon 17%

#24
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A stable elf is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using Santa's sleigh [More]
Directed By: Leon Joosen, Aaron Seelman
#25

Jack Frost (1997)
Tomatometer icon 16%

#25
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: As notorious serial killer Jack Frost is being driven to his execution, the truck carrying the murderer encounters a bizarre [More]
Directed By: Michael Cooney
#26
#26
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The members (Terry Ellis, Cindy Herron, Rhona Bennett) of En Vogue reunite for a Christmas concert to save a nightclub. [More]
Directed By: Brian K. Roberts
#27

Mary Christmas (2002)
Tomatometer icon - -

#27
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A reporter (Cynthia Gibb) reads a letter from an 8-year-old (Jenna Boyd) whose one wish is for a new mother, [More]
Directed By: John Schneider
#28

A Holiday Chance (2021)
Tomatometer icon - -

#28
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When the family of the founder of a multi-million-dollar film production company experiences some tragic events during the Christmas holidays, [More]
Directed By: Jamal Hill
#29

A Christmas Switch (2018)
Tomatometer icon - -

#29
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: When singer Audrey and record executive Julia collide at the mall, they wake up in each other's lives the next [More]
Directed By: Brian Herzlinger
#30

Christmas Child (2003)
Tomatometer icon - -

#30
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A mysterious photograph leads a journalist (William R. Moses) to a small Texas town at Christmastime. [More]
Directed By: William Ewing
#31
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A boy finds a snowman-making kit beneath some floorboards. [More]
Directed By: Hilary Audus
#32
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Teenagers Kara and Jessie strike up an unlikely friendship while sitting next to each other on a plane that's bound [More]
Directed By: Harvey Lowry
#33
#33
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: At a holiday masquerade ball, fledgling event planner Angie Wells and wealthy playboy Nicholas Karmichael, who needs to marry to [More]
Directed By: Tosca Musk
#34

A Christmas Kiss (2011)
Tomatometer icon - -

#34
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Trapped in an elevator, a designer (Laura Breckenridge) shares an impulsive kiss with the boyfriend (Brendan Fehr) of her new [More]
Directed By: John Stimpson
#35

The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Tomatometer icon - -

#35
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) finds an injured rabbit on Christmas Eve and brings it to the Bunny Lady [More]
Directed By: Tom Seidman
#36

Christmas Eve (2015)
Tomatometer icon 0%

#36
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A power outage changes the lives of six groups of New Yorkers (Patrick Stewart, Jon Heder, James Roday) when they [More]
Directed By: Mitch Davis
#37

A Christmas Snow (2010)
Tomatometer icon - -

#37
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: The story of Kathleen Mitchell, a woman who refuses to celebrate Christmas because of her father's abandonment of his family [More]
Directed By: Tracy Trost
#38

Holiday Switch (2007)
Tomatometer icon - -

#38
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A woman wonders if she married the wrong man when a former boyfriend returns to town in order to visit. [More]
Directed By: Bert Kish
#39
#39
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A family must save its Smoky Mountains berry farm against all odds. [More]
Directed By: Gary Wheeler
#40

Santa's Boot Camp (2016)
Tomatometer icon - -

#40
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Santa's elves go on strike, exasperated with bratty, self-centered kids. Santa brings six mischievous kids to the North Pole in [More]
Directed By: Ken Feinberg, Kelly Nettles
#41

Christmas Trade (2015)
Tomatometer icon - -

#41
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Just days before Christmas, an LA real-estate lawyer and his 12-year-old son magically swap bodies. As they walk in each [More]
Directed By: Joel Souza
#42
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: While working at an animal shelter, a teen (Vincent Giovagnoli) must find a home for 12 lovable canines before Christmas. [More]
Directed By: Charlie Vaughn
#43

Alone for Christmas (2013)
Tomatometer icon - -

#43
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A family leave their dog home when they visit relatives on Christmas Eve. When burglars break in to steal the [More]
Directed By: Joseph J. Lawson
#44
#44
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Carrie dedicates her life to growing the company founded by her father, while her sister pursues her own passions. When [More]
Directed By: Letia Clouston Miller
#45

Santa Claws (2014)
Tomatometer icon - -

#45
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Santa is allergic to cats, but Tommy has been so good this year he decides to bring him a kitten [More]
Directed By: Glenn Miller
#46
#46
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A strange child becomes friends with the dark companion of St. Nicholas. [More]
Directed By: Robert Conway
#47
#47
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Journeying through the rich history of the iconic stage production "Wicked"; an in-depth exploration of the show's history with exclusive [More]
Directed By: Robin Bextor, Simon Hanning
#48
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: A teacher finds herself in the spotlight when she poses as the girlfriend of a famous billionaire. [More]
Directed By: Marco Deufemia
#49
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Three women join forces to seek revenge on their cheating ex at an upcoming holiday retreat, but the prospect of [More]
Directed By: Jake Helgren
#50
Critics Consensus: No consensus yet.
Synopsis: Becca falls for a handsome oil company rep helping to get her brother-in-law home for the holidays. [More]
Directed By: Marco Deufemia