Why do the holidays make for such a romantic time of the year? The colder days (and nights) that encourage cuddles? The twinkling lights that make everyone look attractive and tempting? The joy that comes with sharing the magic of the season with someone you love? Whatever the reasons, the holiday romance movie genre is robust and flourishing. Rom-coms are great, but a rom-com in the snow is on its own level.

Whether you love the abundant decor, the inherent humor in holiday stress and family bonding (whether heartwarming or awkward), or just feel gooey inside over the hopefulness of the season, a holiday rom-com is sure to satisfy. So get ready to laugh and cry in equal measure as you plow, no pun intended, through these seasonal love stories.

A Merry Little Ex-Mas

Kate (Alicia Silverstone) and Everett (Oliver Hudson) have ended their marriage amicably, agreeing to co-parent and remain friends. Kate has plans to sell her old home and return to the architecture career she gave up to support Everett’s medical practice. After planning one last family Christmas, she is shocked to find out Everett is already dating someone new — Tess (Jameela Jamil), whom he’s invited to the holiday festivities. When she meets Chet (Pierson Fodé), an attractive younger man who asks her out, she has a chance at a holiday fling that may be the perfect way to get even with Everett. Then again, it might just remind him of what he’s given up.

A Merry Little Ex-Mas

1h 31m   TV-PG   2025

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Champagne Problems

Workaholic executive Sydney Price (Minka Kelly) heads to France for what could be a huge career boost: beating out the competition to purchase Château Cassell, a famed champagne brand. She takes a night off for sightseeing and, while out, meets Henri (Tom Wozniczka), a charming stranger who shows her the city and spends the night with her. Harsh reality sets in the next day when she discovers her company is in a four-way bidding war. She’ll need to spend a weekend at Château Cassell convincing its founder, Hugo (Thibault de Montalembert), to sell to her company — a task made infinitely more complicated by the presence of Hugo’s son, who happens to be Henri. At least she has a new friend in Roberto Salazar (Sean Amsing), whose comedic quips keep things light.

Champagne Problems

1h 39m   TV-14   2025

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My Secret Santa

How far would you go to fulfill your child’s dreams? Is pretending to be an old man on the list? This is where Taylor Jacobson (Alexandra Breckenridge) finds herself when her daughter is accepted into an elite snowboarding camp. Taylor realizes landing a seasonal job at the resort is the perfect way to get half off the lessons, and the best job available just happens to be as Santa Claus. Taylor turns to some creative friends to fashion the perfect disguise, transforming her into the white-bearded old man we all know so well. Things are going smoothly until she runs into the resort’s manager, Matthew Layne (Ryan Eggold), with whom she has chemistry — so long as he doesn’t discover she’s actually the jolly old St. Nick he employs.

My Secret Santa

1h 32m   TV-PG   2025

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Jingle Bell Heist

Sophia Martin (Olivia Holt) works a thankless job at a posh department store in London and isn’t above a little petty thievery from time to time to help with her sick mother’s medical bills. She is caught on camera by Nick O’Connor (Connor Swindells), a former security technician at the store, who blackmails her into a meeting and then attempts to recruit her into robbing the store for far more money. Sophia is reluctant, but both are desperate and broke. They form an unwilling alliance and plot the heist, soon becoming friends — and maybe something more. As amateurs, they’ll need trust and a whole lot of Christmas luck to pull off their plan.

Jingle Bell Heist

1h 36m   TV-14   2025

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A Christmas Prince

Amber (Rose McIver) is a journalist who thinks she’s found her big break by covering the news that the Prince of Aldovia (a fictional country) is ascending to the throne. She travels abroad to a wintry wonderland perfect for the holidays and is quickly mistaken as a tutor for the princess. Seeing a way to spy on the inner workings of the royal family, she plays along, expecting to find Prince Richard (Ben Lamb) to be the playboy the press makes him out to be. Instead, she sees the prince as warmhearted and a bit intimidated by the pressure of being king, making him more than a little irresistible. As Netflix’s first Christmas rom-com franchise, Amber and Richard’s love story has two sequels to keep the charm flowing.

A Christmas Prince

1h 32m   TV-PG   2017

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Love Hard

Nothing says modern romance quite like a catfishing comedy of errors. Natalie Bauer (Nina Dobrev) is a columnist in Los Angeles with horrible luck when it comes to dating, which is why she’s thrilled when she starts communicating with Josh Lin (Jimmy O. Yang) and finds a real connection. Unfortunately, he lives in upstate New York. Ready for romance, Natalie flies to Josh’s hometown for Christmas to surprise him, and is surprised instead to find Josh used fake photos in his profile. The man in the pictures, Tag (Darren Barnet from Never Have I Ever), is a friend of Josh’s, so Natalie has to decide whether she fell for the man she saw or the one she got to know. 

Love Hard

1h 46m   TV-MA   2021

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The Hating Game

This enemies-to-lovers tale is set around Christmas in New York, and while it isn’t a primary focus of the story, it makes for a dreamy backdrop. Lucy Hutton (Lucy Hale) works at a newly merged publishing house, forcing her and her office rival, Josh Templeman (Austin Stowell), to work together. When a dream promotion comes up, their competition intensifies as they vie for the job. But when Josh confronts Lucy about their dynamic — kissing her in the elevator — she has to ask herself whether the passion she feels for Josh is truly hate, or if it might actually be love. 

The Hating Game

1h 42m   R   2021

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Our Little Secret

Lindsay Lohan is back for more holiday romance after 2022’s Falling for Christmas. She plays Avery, whose long-term romance with Logan (Ian Harding) ends when she decides to go to London for a career opportunity. Ten years later, they are both in new relationships and both meeting their partner’s parents for the holidays … which happens to be the same family. It turns out they are dating siblings, and to avoid an awkward situation, Avery and Logan decide to keep their past a secret. But the pressures of the holiday, impressing potential in-laws, and getting reacquainted with one another may be a recipe for rekindling love. 

Our Little Secret

1h 41m   TV-14   2024

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Single All The Way

Peter (Michael Urie) and Nick (Philemon Chambers) are best friends and roommates and when Peter discovers the man he’d been dating is actually married, he begs Nick to fly home with him to New Hampshire for the holidays. Peter’s family tries to set him up with James (Luke Macfarlane) while he’s in town. But as he spends more time with James, away from Nick, Peter realizes his feelings for his friend may not be platonic. 

Single All The Way

1h 41m   TV-PG   2021

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Christmas as Usual

Thea (Ida Ursin-Holm) gets engaged to her boyfriend, Jashan (Kanan Gill), after they move in together in Los Angeles. Deciding it was time he met her mother, Thea takes Jashan home with her to Norway for the holidays. Thea’s mother is skeptical of Jashan’s Indian heritage, and he bumbles along trying to keep up with their Scandinavian holiday traditions. Then Jashan learns about Thea’s neighbor Jørgen (Mads Sjøgård Pettersen), whom she failed to mention she had a five-year relationship with. Can their love withstand their many differences?

Christmas as Usual

1h 29m   TV-14   2023

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Last Christmas

Paul Feig’s 2019 Christmas rom-com is an excellent reminder that life — and Christmas — are what we make of it. Emilia Clarke plays Kate, an aspiring musician and an elf at a year-round Christmas shop. Disillusioned after a heart transplant the previous year, Kate has a hard time believing she has anything to offer the world. She meets a mysterious man, Tom (Henry Golding), who shows her a new way to see her city and its people, and to put herself forward creatively despite her fear. Kate’s attraction to Tom grows, but there are things she doesn’t know about him that will change everything.

Last Christmas

1h 42m   PG-13

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