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31 Christmas Movies to Stream All Through the Holidays
Yule love these festive flicks!
By Mary Sollosi
Dec. 17, 2025
31 Best Christmas Movies to Watch All Through the Holidays - Netflix Tudum
If all you want for Christmas is some very merry movies to stream, then you’ve come to the right place. Netflix is here to help you unwrap the holidays with festive original movies and shows you can only find right here.
Every December, we rearrange our schedules around gift-shopping, cookie-baking, party-going, carol-singing, and — more than ever — movie-watching. Here you’ll find a treasure trove of holiday features to make the season bright, so you’d better queue them up before the New Year rolls around, resolutions kick in, and the long wait for the next holiday season begins.
Here are 31 Christmas movies available to stream exclusively on Netflix, enough to fill the holiday season. So brew up some cocoa, break out the fuzzy socks, and let the holiday season streaming start!
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Best. Christmas. Ever!
Christmas is a competitive sport in Mary Lambert’s new comedy. Heather Graham stars as a suburban mom who ends up, in a bit of comedic confusion, taking her family to spend the holiday with her longtime frenemy (Brandy), whose impeccable facade has long been a source of resentment. Tune in to find out if old tensions give way to a new understanding — or if the setup leads instead to a holiday-hostess smackdown.
A Boy Called Christmas
Christmas Eve is the perfect time to hit play on Gil Kenan’s enchanting A Boy Called Christmas. When the king (Jim Broadbent) promises a reward in exchange for a symbol of hope, young Nikolas (Henry Lawfull) tries to help his father win the prize, and finds himself on an epic quest to reach a city of magic inhabited by elves.
Carry-On
If the definition of a Christmas movie is that it takes place at Christmas and imparts a message of love, peace on earth, and goodwill to men, then Carry-On fits the bill. Ethan Kopek (Taron Egerton) is relatively unambitious at his job as a security officer for TSA at LAX airport. But since his girlfriend, Nora (Sofia Carson), is now pregnant, he finally asserts himself and is assigned to a baggage-scanning machine in the midst of the Christmas Eve rush. Ethan finds a lone earpiece in a bin and gets a text message to put it in his ear. He’s threatened by “the Traveler” (Jason Bateman) to let a particular bag through security without flagging it — or Nora’s life is on the line. The heat is on for Ethan to find a way to prevent a deadly attack from happening while being monitored constantly. Like Die Hard, an action film considered by many to be a great holiday flick, this gripping thriller is a perfect seasonal shake-up in a sea of rom-coms and heartfelt family movies.
A Castle For Christmas
Brooke Shields and Cary Elwes star in Mary Lambert’s cozy romantic comedy, in which a recently divorced romance novelist (Shields), under siege from her fans for killing off a beloved character, flies to Scotland to wait out the storm. Upon seeing a castle her father once knew as a child, she impulsively decides to buy it from the grumpy duke (Elwes) who calls it home. You’ll just have to watch to find out if the historic château is the only thing she falls in love with over there!
Champagne Problems
Sydney Price (Minka Kelly) is a workaholic executive sent to France around Christmas to secure the acquisition of a world-renowned Champagne brand. Allowing herself one night of tourism, she meets Henri (Tom Wozniczka) and has an instant connection. After a night together, Sydney rushes out the next day to her business meeting, only to find that she’s competing with three other companies, and the acquisition will require more work. Plus, the Champagne company’s founder has a reluctant heir … who happens to be Henri. Can business and romance truly mix?
The Christmas Chronicles
Who knew that Santa Claus was the role that Kurt Russell was born to play? In Clay Kaytis’ 2018 yuletide adventure, the star brilliantly embodies a Saint Nick who –– when his sleigh is disrupted and bag of presents lost mid-Christmas Eve night –– must team up with a pair of kids to save the holiday before daybreak. In the Chris Columbus–directed sequel, Russell’s real-life partner, Goldie Hawn, takes his side as Mrs. Claus.
Christmas Inheritance
It’s a classic Christmas setup: A city dweller gets stuck in a small town, where they’re at first frustrated and eventually charmed. In this twist on that holiday subgenre from Ernie Barbarash, Eliza Taylor plays the spoiled city girl, Ellen; her CEO father sends her to his tiny New England hometown at Christmas to test whether she’s capable of inheriting his role. There, she meets Jake (Jake Lacy) and his aunt Debbie (Andie MacDowell), whose generous influence changes her perspective.
A Christmas Prince
Take a whole Sunday to get cozy and make your way through the entire Christmas Prince saga. The trilogy begins with Alex Zamm’s 2017 rom-com, in which an American journalist (Rose McIver) travels to the fictional country of Aldovia at Christmastime. While snooping around for a scoop, she falls in love with the Aldovian prince (Ben Lamb). Viewers fell in love, too, prompting the release of A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding in 2018 and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby in 2019.
Christmas with You
Rom-com icon Freddie Prinze Jr. returns to the genre in this holiday offering, directed by Gabriela Tagliavini. Aimee Garcia co-stars as an exhausted pop star whose label is demanding a holiday track before Christmas. Seeking inspiration, she travels to upstate New York to meet with a young fan, but when a snowstorm hits, she has to crash with the teenager’s family. Luckily, the girl’s widowed father (Prinze) is a songwriter, too — and it turns out they make pretty good music together.
Dolly Parton’s Christmas on the Square
You know what this Christmas could use? More Dolly Parton. Luckily, there’s Christmas on the Square for that. Directed and choreographed by Debbie Allen, the Emmy-winning musical stars Christine Baranski as a rather Scroogeish landowner planning to evict the residents of her hometown and sell the real estate to a mega-mall developer. With the guidance of a sassy Christmas angel (Parton, who also wrote all the film’s songs), she starts to reconsider her scheme — and her own history with the town.
Falling for Christmas
Ring in December with Falling for Christmas, which marked the triumphant return of Y2K queen Lindsay Lohan to the screen. The Parent Trap and Freaky Friday darling stars in Janeen Damian’s rom-com as a bratty heiress who loses her memory after a skiing accident. Staying in a cozy lodge while trying to figure out who she is, she forges a bond with its proprietor (Chord Overstreet) and his daughter.
Family Switch
A family of five, generationally disconnected and consumed by busy schedules, gets a powerful jolt of togetherness in McG’s new comedy, based on Amy Krouse Rosenthal’s 2010 children’s book Bedtime for Mommy. Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms star as the parents of three children (and a dog), who are all forced to walk in each other’s shoes — literally — when they get body-swapped just before Christmas. ’Tis the season for intensive empathy!
Holidate
Sloane Benson (Emma Roberts) is having an especially bad Christmas. Recently single and with a family that won’t stop bringing up her relationship status, she laments the expectation that she should have a date each holiday. Her Aunt Susan (Kristin Chenoweth) introduces her to the concept of a “holidate” — someone you date only for holidays, with no romantic expectations. A chance encounter with Jackson (Luke Bracey), a pro golfer who also hates the pressure of the holidays, leads to them being each other’s holidates. Over a year of seeing each other on holidays, and with Christmas coming up, Sloane and Jackson’s platonic pact starts to skew toward possible real feelings. This complicates everything, forcing them to confront how they feel about relationships and each other.
Hot Frosty
You know the story of Frosty the Snowman, right? Made of snow, came to life, etc.? Great. Now close your eyes and picture it: Frosty the Snowman, but he’s hot. That’s the enticing premise of Jerry Ciccoritti’s 2024 romantic comedy, starring Lacey Chabert as a widow who finds romance with a gorgeous snowman come to life (Dustin Milligan). Can you believe we’ve all been singing that song all these years, and we are only just now letting Frosty be hot?!
Jingle Bell Heist
A posh department store employee, Sophia (Olivia Holt), and a former security consultant to the store, Nick (Connor Swindells), team up to rob the place. They have their reasons — Sophia needs funds for her sick mother, and Nick has a daughter to provide for — but when they learn just how nefarious the store owner Maxwell Sterling (Peter Serafinowicz) really is, they are further motivated. As they make their plans and conduct reconnaissance, the two find their connection deepening into something beyond money or revenge.
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Critically acclaimed and packed with holiday magic, David E. Talbert’s musical fantasy is a Christmas journey you don’t want to miss. Forest Whitaker stars as the brilliant toymaker Jeronicus Jangle — long ruined since his traitorous apprentice (Keegan-Michael Key) stole his book of inventions. With some help from his daughter (Anika Noni Rose) and granddaughter (Madalen Mills), he strives to reclaim his legacy and feel inspired again.
Klaus
Santa gets a fresh origin story in Sergio Pablos’ holiday flick, which scored an Oscar nomination for best animated feature. J.K. Simmons provides the voice for the title character, an introverted toymaker, whose unlikely friendship with a self-centered postman (Jason Schwartzman) yields an even unlikelier project — delivering toys for local children in the middle of the night. This brings joy to a bitterly divided town in 19th-century Norway.
The Knight Before Christmas
Even once you’ve watched all the Princess Switch films, your Vanessa Hudgens holiday viewing is not complete! Monika Mitchell’s zany romantic fantasy The Knight Before Christmas stars the actor as a Midwestern high school teacher who falls in love, improbably enough, with a medieval knight (Josh Whitehouse). The knight has magically traveled through time to fulfill an unspecified cosmic quest by Christmas Eve. As one does!
Let It Snow
Based on the YA novel of the same name by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle, Luke Snellin’s teen romantic comedy follows a large group of teenagers (including Kiernan Shipka, Isabela Merced, and Odeya Rush) on a snowy Christmas Eve. The teens’ various romantic intrigues — including one involving a pop star (Shameik Moore) passing through town — all intensify and intertwine over the course of the day in the lead-up to an epic party that night.
Love Hard
How about some catfishing for Christmas? Nina Dobrev stars in Hernán Jiménez’s romantic comedy as Natalie, a writer who travels cross-country to surprise Josh (Jimmy O. Yang) — whom she met via an app and has only spoken to over the phone — at Christmas, just to discover she’s been duped. Josh introduces her to his friend (Darren Barnet) whose photos he used in his profile, and after spending time with both men, Natalie realizes her true feelings.
Meet Me Next Christmas
Destiny takes the reins — with a harmonious assist from Pentatonix — in Rusty Cundieff’s 2024 holiday rom-com Meet Me Next Christmas. Christina Milian stars as Layla, a woman determined to attend the a cappella group’s Christmas Eve concert, where she hopes to run into a man she connected with the year before (Kofi Siriboe). With the help of a professional concierge (Devale Ellis), her quest to get tickets takes Layla all over New York City — and to a love she might not have expected.
The Merry Gentlemen
What’s better than a little dancing to make your days merry and bright? In Peter Sullivan’s 2024 romantic comedy, New York dancer Ashley (Britt Robertson) returns to her hometown, where her parents’ beloved nightclub is about to be shut down due to unpaid rent. In an effort to save the place, Ashley stages a Christmas-themed all-male dance revue, recruiting men from the town — most notably the handsome handyman Luke (Chad Michael Murray) — to take the stage.
A Merry Little Ex-Mas
Marriage is complicated, even after it’s over. Kate (Alicia Silverstone) and Everett (Oliver Hudson) have agreed to a “conscious uncoupling,” ending their marriage as amicably as they can. With their children grown and the last about to leave for college, Kate plans to sell her old home and return to the architecture career she gave up to support Everett’s medical practice. All she wants is one last traditional family Christmas, but when she finds out Everett is already dating someone new — Tess (Jameela Jamil), whom he invites to their holiday festivities — she starts to spiral. Then she meets Chet (Pierson Fodé), a younger man instantly smitten with Kate. With both of them dating new people, this is bound to be a Christmas unlike any Kate and Everett have ever had.
My Secret Santa
Single mom Taylor Jacobson (Alexandra Breckenridge) is struggling this Christmas after losing her job and learning that her daughter has been accepted into an expensive snowboarding school she desperately wants to attend. Even a charming newcomer to town, Matthew Layne (Ryan Eggold), can’t distract Taylor from making a plan. When she learns that working at the ski resort would cut the cost of the school, she looks for a job there, but all that’s open is the seasonal Santa role. With some help from her creative brother, Taylor transforms into the jolly bearded man and lands the job. But can she keep her secret when Matthew turns out to be the manager of the resort?
The Noel Diary
This holiday drama from Father of the Bride filmmaker Charles Shyer delivers a little bit of romance and a little bit of mystery. After the death of his mother, a successful novelist (Justin Hartley) travels to his hometown at Christmas to settle her estate. There, he meets a young woman (Barrett Doss) searching for answers about her own family history; together, they confront their pasts — and maybe find a future.
A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter
The pop princess who kept things caffeinated all summer is bringing her cheeky humor to the holidays with her very own Christmas special. The Short n’ Sweet singer will perform classic festive tunes, tracks off her 2023 Christmas EP fruitcake (including the holiday remix of her hit single “Nonsense”) as well as some seasonal comedy bits — all with the help of some of her famous friends, including Chappell Roan, Tyla, Shania Twain, Quinta Brunson, Kyle Mooney, and more.
Our Little Secret
Following the success of 2022’s Falling for Christmas, newly minted Christmas movie queen Lindsay Lohan continues her reign with 2024’s Our Little Secret. Stephen Herek’s romantic comedy stars Lohan and Ian Harding as exes who discover, over the holidays, that their new partners are siblings. Spending Christmas under one roof, with their mutual prospective mother-in-law (Kristin Chenoweth) growing more suspicious by the day, the former couple struggles to keep their secret — and to keep their old feelings buried.
The Princess Switch
Ready for another movie marathon? Queue up Mike Rohl’s Princess Switch trilogy, in which an American pastry chef (Vanessa Hudgens) competes in a Christmas baking contest in the fictional Belgravia, where she meets the prince’s fiancée (also Hudgens) and is shocked to discover they’re seemingly identical. Who could resist such an opportunity for a quick little life swap? And then, who could resist following the look-alikes’ story further, with sequels Switched Again and Romancing the Star?
Scrooge: A Christmas Carol
Catch Netflix’s adaptation of Charles Dickens’ iconic Christmas ghost story, an animated musical interpretation directed by Stephen Donnelly. Luke Evans provides the voice of the miserly protagonist, with Olivia Colman as the Ghost of Christmas Past, Johnny Flynn as Bob Cratchit, and Jonathan Pryce as Jacob Marley, among others. It’s no humbug, we promise!
Single All The Way
In an effort to preempt his family’s annual interrogations about his relationship status, Peter (Michael Urie) asks his best friend Nick (Philemon Chambers) to pose as his boyfriend over the holidays. What Peter doesn’t expect, though, is that his mother (Kathy Najimy) would set him up with her fitness instructor — nor that there may be more to his bond with Nick than just friendship. Also featuring Jennifer Coolidge as Peter’s eccentric aunt, Michael Mayer’s 2021 rom-com has become a holiday must-watch.
That Christmas
Love Actually maestro Richard Curtis is back to making holiday magic, this time by co-writing (with Peter Souter) an animated adaptation of his own children’s Christmas book trilogy. Directed by Simon Otto, 2024’s That Christmas weaves together various stories about the people in a small English town one fateful Christmas, when a snowstorm threatens to derail the holiday. The voice cast includes Fiona Shaw, Bill Nighy, and Jodie Whittaker — not to mention Brian Cox as Santa Claus himself.
And a bonus gift for you …
Fireplace for Your Home
Surprise! It may not be a full-blown Christmas movie, but you’ll spend Christmas Day opening presents and eating roast beast, anyway. So leave this crackling fireplace (with a corresponding holiday soundtrack!) on in the background to maximize the cozy vibes.
Or, if you’re feeling like something more thematic, peruse the many yule log and fireplace scenes available on Netflix. You can cozy up at the Byers’s home in Stranger Things, sip tea in the drawing room of Bridgerton, or keep things dark and moody in Principal Weems’s office from Wednesday.
Additional reporting by Ananda Dillon.
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