Reindeer movies and TV shows

The list contains the best, new and most relevant reindeer movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious, christmas special, touching and christmas classics films and TV shows about / with reindeer, christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas movie, winter, xmas, snow, family relations and christmas season plots mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres shot in USA, Canada, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as reindeer: Prancer (1989), Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (2018), Blizzard (2003), Prancer Returns (2001), Northern Lights of Christmas (2018), Saving Santa (2013), The Worst Person in the World (2021), The Christmas Chronicles (2018), Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022), The Santa Clause (1994).

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 6K
Prancer (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, entertaining, sad, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, single father, reindeer, santa claus, farm, father daughter relationship, snow, widower, animal, xmas ...
Time: year 1989
Place: michigan
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Elliot: The Littlest Reindeer (2018)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Blitzen announces his retirement on December 21st, a miniature horse has 3 days to fulfill his lifelong dream of earning a spot on Santa's team at the North Pole try-outs.
Style: light, exciting, humorous, feel good, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: reindeer, christmas, santa claus, holiday, horse, north pole, save the day, friendship, escapades, imaginary, good versus evil, happy ending ...
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 5.8
 1K
Blizzard (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: christmas, reindeer, youth, santa claus, self discovery, young heroes, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, mischievous children, fish out of water, hopes, parents and children ...
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Prancer Returns (2001)
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer in the forest he is sure is Santa's beloved Prancer. Determined to return the creature to ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, youth, mischievous children, reindeer, young heroes, child as adult, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, danger, orphan ...
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Niko 2: Little Brother, Big Trouble (2012)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Finland, Germany, Denmark, Ireland
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Set right before Christmas, Niko the reindeer must deal with his mom getting re-married and his being tasked with looking after his little stepbrother.
Style: semi serious, christmas special, computer animated, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: reindeer, christmas, winter, youth, siblings relations, family relations, escapades, animal life, missing person, rescue mission, kidnapping, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: The Movie (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Young Rudolph suffers a childhood accident that sees his nose turn from the publicly accepted norm of black to a glowing red colour. His parents worry about him getting teased, and indeed he does in the end. When he is beaten in the reindeer games ...
Style: christmas classics, sweet, retro, cute, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, winter, reindeer, christmas season, xmas, parents and children, imaginary kingdom, disorder, family relations, friends, misfit, friendship ...
Time: year 1998
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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a ...
Style: feel good, christmas special, humorous, christmas classics, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, reindeer, christmas eve, christmas season, xmas, time travel, north pole, hidden identity, nothing goes right, disorder ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada
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Northern Lights of Christmas (2018)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Zoey Hathaway has been working towards her lifelong goal of being a pilot for years, but everything is thrown off-course when she unexpectedly inherits a reindeer farm, along with the dangerously handsome ranch hand Alec Wynn. Now buried in taking ...
Style: light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, ranch, holiday, christmas romance, inheritance, new life, opposites attract, unlikely couple, fall in love, life turned upside down, love story, initially antagonists ...
Place: seattle
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 5.3
 3K
Saving Santa (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, India
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, reindeer, santa claus, save the day, fish out of water, danger, escapades, disorder, time travel, xmas, when the parents are away, christmas spirit ...
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The Worst Person in the World (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Norway, France, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 128 min.
Story: Chronicles four years in the life of Julie, a young woman who navigates the troubled waters of her love life and struggles to find her career path, leading her to take a realistic look at who she really is.
Style: thought provoking, art house, funny, psychological, disturbing ...
Plot: love, flirting, breakup, cancer, existential crisis, female protagonist, voice over narration, infidelity, male female relationship, drug trip, reindeer, feminist ...
Place: oslo norway
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The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.
Style: light, atmospheric, sincere, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, santa claus, reindeer, holiday, firefighter, children, loss of father, new year, winter, snow, xmas ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2009, 90s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, chicago, mexico city
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Prancer: A Christmas Tale (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Ten-year-old Gloria and her recently widowed grandfather Bud befriend a mysterious reindeer when the family gather for Christmas. Bud comes to believe that Prancer may actually be magical, but Gloria fears his theory will send him straight to a ...
Style: captivating, thrilling, entertaining, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, reindeer, grandfather granddaughter relationship, family relations, christmas spirit, family life, wizard, magical creature, magic, christmas season, father daughter relationship, garbage dump ...
Place: london
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The Santa Clause (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns ...
Style: feel good, touching, christmas classics, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, adult
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, childhood, christmas season, father son relationship, toys, divorce, child custody, thanksgiving, xmas, snow ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, illinois
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 5.3
 11K
Santa's Slay (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Horror
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Santa Claus is actually a demon who lost a bet with an Angel, so he becomes the giver of toys and happiness. But when the bet is off, he returns to his evil ways.
Style: christmas horror, slasher, semi serious, suspenseful, scary ...
Plot: killer santa claus, christmas, holiday horror, grandfather grandson relationship, small town, santa claus, serial killer, strip club, angel, good versus evil, murder, vengeance ...
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The Polar Express (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Style: feel good, computer animated, fairy tale, motion capture, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, magic, train, railway, dream, santa claus, snow, winter, xmas, good versus evil, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: michigan
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The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, halloween, stop motion, imaginary, goth, music, imagination, good versus evil, objects come to life, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
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 5K
Get Santa (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: A father and son who must team up to save Christmas, once they discover Santa Claus sleeping in their garage after crashing his sleigh and finding himself on the run from the police.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, exciting, christmas comedy
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: santa claus, christmas, reindeer, youth, save the day, young heroes, rescue, family relations, escapades, parents and children, chases and races, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
Place: yorkshire, england, london, britain, united kingdom
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Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe (2002)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 30 min.
Story: Follow Robbie as he sets out to discover a mythical tribe of lost Viking warriors to help him save his friends from another dastardly plot by the evil Blitzen and his new-found partner-in-crime The White Rabbit. Robbie is having girl trouble too - ...
Style: christmas special, semi serious, satirical, feel good, captivating ...
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, vacation gone wrong, reindeer, viking, adventure hero, deer, adventurer, animal protagonist, talking animal, satire, animal, stop motion ...
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Christmas Under Wraps (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a driven doctor doesn't get the prestigious position she planned for, she unexpectedly finds herself moving to a remote Alaskan town. While she meets the locals and even starts a new romance, she has to learn to let the life she planned ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, touching, feel good, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night, family outing, toddlers
Plot: christmas, small town, love and romance, doctor, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fall in love, christmas romance, social relations, animal, reindeer, small town life, new year's eve ...
Time: 21st century
Place: alaska, usa, san francisco, seattle, north america
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The Action Pack Saves Christmas (2022)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 27 min.
Story: The Action Pack teams up with Santa Claus to save the day when greedy Teddy Von Taker plots to steal all of the Christmas cheer from Hope Springs.
Style: educational, entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous ...
Plot: santa claus, christmas, villain, saving christmas, salvation, holiday, save the day, reindeer, rescue mission, rescue, deer, theft ...
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One Piece: Episode of Chopper Plus - Bloom in the Winter, Miracle Sakura (2008)
Genre: Animation, Action, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Japan
Duration: 113 min.
Story: It is the second film to focus on Chopper, as it is a retelling of the Drum Island storyline from the manga. It features Franky, Nico Robin, and the Thousand Sunny, who weren't present in the original version.
Style: anime, exciting, suspense, captivating, atmospheric
Plot: one piece, illness, imaginary kingdom, rivalry, escapades, female doctor, reindeer, ship, revenge, imaginary, pirate captain, island ...
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 7.4
 660K
Frozen (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: Young princess Anna of Arendelle dreams about finding true love at her sister Elsa’s coronation. Fate takes her on a dangerous journey in an attempt to end the eternal winter that has fallen over the kingdom. She's accompanied by ice delivery ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, romantic, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, teens ...
Plot: princess, sisters, disney princess, snow, magic, magical, happy ending, power of love, female protagonist, wizards and magicians, love and romance, snowman ...
Time: year 2013, 2010s, 1800s, 1840s, 19th century
Place: europe, scandinavia
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Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: holiday, christmas, stop motion, time travel, new year's eve, new year, winter, christmas season, xmas, time, runaway, reindeer ...
Time: 20th century, prehistory, 18th century, 70s, 11th century ...
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Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: holiday, stop motion, christmas, xmas, christmas season, reindeer, winter, christmas wish, christmas spirit, circus, curses spells and rituals, disorder ...
Time: 70s
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A Boy Called Christmas (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France
Duration: 106 min.
Story: An ordinary young boy called Nikolas sets out on an extraordinary adventure into the snowy north in search of his father who is on a quest to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm. Taking with him a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen and ...
Style: captivating, thought provoking, happy, inspirational
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: holiday, christmas, snow, boy, destiny, santa claus, child, search for father, never give up, xmas, direction and purpose, adventure hero ...
Place: finland
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The Trolls and the Christmas Express (1981)
Genre: Animation, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 30 min.
Story: The Trolls and the Christmas Express is an animated classic about six roguish trolls who are determined to sabotage Christmas by infiltrating Santa's village disguised as elves. After a week of wreaking havoc but still not completely ruining ...
Style: christmas special
Plot: reindeer, santa claus, north pole, troll, elf, holiday, christmas, train, christmas carol, sabotage
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Sensuela (1973)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Finland
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Laila is an innocent Lappish girl and the only daughter of a reindeer herder. During world war II Laila rescues crashed German fighter pilot Hans and the two develop warm feelings for each other during his convalescence. Years later, after the war, ...
Plot: fake dating, sleaze, reindeer, lapland, prostitution, exploitation, daughter, nudity, abuse, father daughter estrangement, sauna, father daughter conflict ...
Place: finland
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Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and all his Disney pals star in an original movie about the importance of opening your heart to the true spirit of Christmas. Stubborn old Donald tries in vain to resist the joys of the season, and Mickey and Pluto learn a ...
Style: light, anthology, 3d animation, computer animated, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, anthropomorphism, cartoon mouse, family relations, friendship, self discovery, mickey mouse, friends, imaginary, uncle nephew relationship, snow ...
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style: humorous, slapstick, christmas classics, sentimental, melancholic ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot: christmas, father son relationship, holiday, santa claus, chase, toys, postman, shopping, superhero, christmas party, motorcycle, neighbor ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016
Place: minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota
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The Black Lapp (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: Norway
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Anna lives with her father Karl someplace in the outskirts of northern Norway. Karl killed his ex-wife and threw her newborn coloured child into the sea when he discovered that she obviously had been unfaithful. Now Karl is being haunted by her ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, dark comedy, suspenseful, captivating ...
Plot: ghost, confession, identity crisis, self discovery, dysfunctional family, supernatural, parents and children, infidelity, looking for love, family problems, family relations, love and romance ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe
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