Thanksgiving

Discover where to watch the best Thanksgiving movies to celebrate the giving season.

Thanksgiving movies offer up the same sense of cozy or comedic sentimentalism as Christmas movies, though they often are lumped together in the same category. But if you’re not quite ready to start your cinematic Christmas binge, you still have a lot of movies on your plate. Whether you’re looking to laugh to the likes of Planes, Trains and Automobiles or cuddle up to a rom-com like You’ve Got Mail, the options are plentiful.

Keep scrolling for the best Thanksgiving movies and where to stream them.

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Friendsgiving
Friendsgiving
R
2020
1h 35m
Comedy / Drama

Molly and Abbey, along with their crew of close friends and acquaintances, host a dysfunctional, comical and chaotic Thanksgiving dinner.

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Hollidaysburg
Hollidaysburg
N/A
2014
1h 28m
Comedy / Drama

Home for Thanksgiving break after their first semester at college, five friends discover just how much things change (and don't) after high school.

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Funny People
Funny People
R
2009
2h 26m
Comedy / Drama / Stand-up & Talk

When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.

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The Vicious Kind
The Vicious Kind
R
2009
1h 32m
Comedy / Drama

A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.

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The Blind Side
The Blind Side
PG
2009
2h 9m
Biography / Drama / Faith & Spirituality / Sport

The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All-American football player and first-round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.

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Smart People
Smart People
R
2008
1h 35m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

Dissatisfied with his wife's death, an English teacher becomes depressed and bitter, but finds the possibility of new love.

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An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
PG
2008
1h 28m
Drama

In the late 1880's, a widowed mother of three struggles to keep her family intact and to put food on the table. The oldest daughter sends a letter to her estranged, very wealthy grandmother urging her assistance, much to her mother's disapproval. When the grandmother arrives, old wounds are opened but eventually healed. From a story by Louisa May Alcott. Stars Jacqueline Bisset, Ted Atherton, Tatiana Maslany, Helene Joy, Paula Boudreau, and Michael Barbuto.

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Boogeyman
Boogeyman
PG-13
2005
1h 29m
Drama / Horror / Mystery / Thriller

A young man tries to deal with the childhood terror that has never stopped haunting him.

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Four Brothers
Four Brothers
R
2005
1h 49m
Action & Adventure / Crime / Drama / Mystery / Thriller

When their adoptive mother is gunned down in a store robbery, four brothers decide to investigate the murder and find the killers themselves, but not all is what it seems.

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Pieces of April
Pieces of April
PG
2003
1h 20m
Comedy / Drama

A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.

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My Big Fat Greek Wedding
My Big Fat Greek Wedding
PG
2002
1h 35m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

A young Greek woman falls in love with a non-Greek and struggles to get her family to accept him while she comes to terms with her heritage and cultural identity.

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Tadpole
Tadpole
PG
2002
1h 18m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

Coming-of-age story about a suave 15-year-old prep school student who falls in love with his stepmother. When her best friend responds to his advances, he suddenly finds himself in way over his head.

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Chicken Run
Chicken Run
G
2000
1h 24m
Action & Adventure / Animation / Comedy / Drama / Family

When a cockerel apparently flies into a chicken farm, the chickens see him as an opportunity to escape their evil owners.

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What's Cooking?
What's Cooking?
PG-13
2000
1h 49m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.

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One Special Night
One Special Night
PG
1999
1h 32m
Drama / Romance

Two strangers take refuge in a small cabin during a stormy winter night and, despite their differences, or perhaps because of them, they are undeniably drawn to one another in this holiday classic.

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You've Got Mail
You've Got Mail
PG
1998
1h 59m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.

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Soul Food
Soul Food
R
1997
1h 55m
Comedy / Drama

One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.

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The Ice Storm
The Ice Storm
R
1997
1h 52m
Drama

In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning beyond their control.

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The House of Yes
The House of Yes
R
1997
1h 25m
Comedy / Drama / Thriller

A mentally unbalanced young woman - who is convinced she is Jackie Kennedy - flies into a murderous rage when her brother returns home to reveal he is engaged.

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Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays
PG
1995
1h 43m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

After being fired, making out with her soon-to-be ex-boss, and discovering that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces the unenviable task of spending the holiday with her exceedingly dull family.

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Pocahontas
Pocahontas
G
1995
1h 21m
Action & Adventure / Animation / Drama / Family / Musical / Romance

An English soldier and the daughter of an Algonquin chief share a romance when English colonists invade seventeenth century Virginia.

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Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale
PG
1994
1h 42m
Action & Adventure / Biography / Drama / Family

Fictional chronicle of Squanto's life prior to and including the arrival of the "Mayflower" in 1620.

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Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men
PG
1993
1h 43m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.

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Son in Law
Son in Law
PG
1993
1h 35m
Comedy / Drama / Romance

Having gotten a taste of college life, a drastically changed farm girl returns home for Thanksgiving break with her best friend, a flamboyant party animal who is clearly a fish out of water in a small farm town.

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Avalon
Avalon
PG
1990
2h 8m
Drama

A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.

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Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters
PG-13
1986
1h 47m
Comedy / Drama

Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.

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The Big Chill
The Big Chill
R
1983
1h 45m
Comedy / Drama

A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.

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Annie
Annie
PG
1982
2h 7m
Comedy / Drama / Family / Musical

A spunky young orphan is taken in by a rich eccentric, much to the chagrin of the cantankerous woman who runs the orphanage.

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Miracle on 34th Street
Miracle on 34th Street
PG
1947
1h 36m
Comedy / Drama / Family / Fantasy

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

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