Are the ‘Home Alone’ Movies on Netflix for Christmas 2020?

Every Christmas, millions flock to streaming services to observe their favorite Christmas movies. One among the primary movies most jump to is the Home Alone franchise but as per previous years, none of the  home Alone movies are on Netflix, here’s why.

Although the later movies aren’t held in as high regard, the primary two Home Alone movies are considered the simplest Christmas classic movies of all time. These two stars a young Macauley Culkin who has got to debar two criminals looking to break into their home while his family has gone on vacation.

This year, the primary movie celebrates its 30th birthday. The movie is notably owned by 20th Century Fox and as you’ll have heard they got bought out by Disney in 2018. Disney is constantly planning to reboot the franchise, something it’s been keen on doing for its entire back catalog in recent years. Chris Columbus, the first director dismisses the reboot as being “a waste of time“.

Let’s now take a glance at Netflix around the world to ascertain where it’s streaming and if it’s not on Netflix, where you’ll find them streaming instead.

Why aren’t the Home Alone movies on Netflix within the United States?

As you’ll imagine, the movie gets insanely popular around Christmas. In previous years, it’d be right down to who had the foremost money to buy the license fee or perhaps more importantly, which streamer or cable network had the movie licensed at that point of year.

In previous years, providers like Starz have carried the movie within the season but from 2019 it’s like Home Alone has found a replacement home.

Starting November 12th, 2019 Home Alone was on Disney+ for the vacations but was removed in January. It has, however, once more been licensed by Disney and is out there for the vacations thereon platform. 

Where are the Home Alone movies on Netflix?

For the bulk of regions round the world, you’ll need a Disney+ subscription to stream Home Alone movies for 2020.

In the UK, Disney+ didn’t carry Home Alone in 2019 because the service didn’t launch till early 2020. Before then, the movie was a permanent fixture on NowTV. Now, a bit like the opposite regions, you’ll find the films on Disney+.

Unlike last year when the primary movie was available on Netflix in South Korea and therefore the third on Netflix in Germany and Switzerland.

According to Unogs, the films are available on Netflix in Hong Kong (the first and third at least) but are scheduled to be removed at the end of November 2020.

We do have two pieces of excellent news for Netflix subscribers, however.

Firstly, you’ll watch all the behind the scenes footage and story of how the primary Home Alone movie came to be. The primary season of the films That Made Us is out there now on Netflix worldwide and also covers another Christmas hit, prevail (sadly also not on Netflix).

The second piece of excellent news is that the director of the primary two films, Chris Columbus works with Netflix on an output deal and his two movies currently on Netflix also happen to be Christmas movies! The Christmas Chronicles 1 & 2 are now on Netflix globally.