Best Christmas Movies You Can Watch on Netflix Right Now
On a cold, snowy night, there’s nothing better than grabbing a cup of hot cocoa and enjoying this season’s finest Christmas movies. Once, that might have meant flipping on cable for a Christmas movie marathon, but these days, there’s only one place we’re looking for our holly jolly holiday needs: Netflix. After all, it’s the purveyor of instant-classic originals like The Princess Switch and A Christmas Prince. Just hit play and let the good times roll!
This year, Netflix is doing its level best to keep spirits high so long as we’re binge-watching. Did you gobble up Family Switch last year with Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms? Good! Because there’s a lot more where that came from. Some of our favorites are the John Legend-scored family-friendly Jingle Jangle starring Forest Whitaker and Phylicia Rashad, Dolly Parton’s magical Christmas on the Square, the Christmas Chronicles movies with Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn, Emma Roberts’ rom-com Holidate and so much more.
We promise, there’s something for everyone on Netflix’s Christmas list this season, from the fussiest kid to the pickiest in-law. And no matter how much you might be feeling like a Grinch this time of year, there’s no better way to snap into the holiday spirit than watching one of these wintry picks.
Let Netflix do the entertaining for you this holiday season with Yuletide romps like Klaus, A Very Murray Christmas, and so much more.
A version of this article was originally published in Dec 2016.
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‘Our Little Secret’
In this new Lindsay Lohan Christmas movie, Our Little Secret follows exes Avery and Logan as they hide their romantic history when having to spend Christmas together.
‘Hot Frosty’
Starring Dustin Milligan and Lacey Chabert, Hot Frosty follows young widow Kathy as she magically turns a snowman into a real-life handsome man.
‘Meet Me Next Christmas’
Any Pentatonix fans out there? Meet Me Next Christmas follows two people who plan to reunite at a Pentatonix concert a year after they met – but finding a ticket proves to be more difficult than they expected.
‘The Merry Gentlemen’
Starring Chad Michael Murray and Britt Robertson, The Merry Gentlemen follows a young woman as she tries to restore her family’s nightclub with a racy holiday-inspired show with some handsome (and merry!) men.
‘The Knight Before Christmas’
The Knight Before Christmas is the perfect movie to prove that love will always find its way! The movie follows a 14th-century knight as he’s transported to the modern day and falls for a high school science teacher.
‘A Castle for Christmas’
With Brooke Shields in the lead, what else could we ask for in a Christmas movie? A Castle for Christmas follows a best-selling author as she falls in love with a Scottish castle, and has to deal with the Duke who owns it.
‘Family Switch’
Starring Ed Helms and Jennifer Garner, 2023’s Family Switch is the perfect blend of Freaky Friday meets the Christmas spirit. The movie follows a family of four when chaos ensues as the parents swap bodies with their teenage kids.
‘The Noel Diary’
The Noel Diary follows quite an unconventional love story. Starring Justin Hartley and Barrett Doss, the movie follows a famous best-selling author as his mother’s death unites him with a woman in a mission for find her birth mom.
‘Christmas Island’
In the Hallmark Christmas movie, a pilot and her private clients get stranded in a small Canadian town.
‘Haul Out the Holly’
In Haul Out the Holly, a woman’s family failed to tell her that they are going away for the holidays (oops!), but she stays at their house anyway. She then meets a very persistent HOA board that wants her to join in the neighborhood’s Christmas festivities.
‘Christmas as Usual’
In one of the most unique movies in this list, Christmas as Usual follows couple Thea and Jashan as they spend the holidays together and learn to blend his Indian roots with her family’s Norwegian traditions.
‘Falling for Christmas’
For Lindsay Lohan’s long-awaited return, we follow her as a newly engaged heiress in Falling for Christmas, where she has a skiing accident resulting in amnesia, a handsome lodge owner, and a new journey of self-discovery.
‘Christmas With You’
Starring Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr., Christmas With You follows a burnt-out pop star who ends up falling in love with one of the locals in a small town.
‘Operation Christmas Drop’
Starring Kat Graham and Alexander Ludwig, Operation Christmas Drop is all about a Congressional aide who clashes with a captain who’s trying to defund her operation, but inevitably, a romance blooms.
‘Father Christmas Is Back’
Follow Elizabeth Hurley, Nathalie Cox, John Cleese, and Kelsey Grammer in Father Christmas Is Back, where four sisters try to make their Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion the best ever — but misunderstandings and drama inevitably come up.
‘The Princess Switch’
A baker and a duchess (both played by Vanessa Hudgens, Parent Trap-style) have a chance encounter in The Princess Switch that leads to them switching lives for a day and falling in love with each other’s romantic interests.
‘The Princess Switch: Switched Again’
If you liked the original Princess Switch, you’ll like the sequel, The Princess Switch: Switched Again, twice as much. Duchess Margaret and her double Stacy are already struggling to keep control of the throne of Montenaro when a third Vanessa Hudgens — party girl Fiona — steps in to complicate things even further.
‘Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star’
In the third installment of the beloved Princess Switch saga, we get a little more topsy-turvy in Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star. When a relic is stolen, the two stars enlist the help of their cousin, all switching up their identities and leading to love, betrayal, and amazing fashion.
‘Scrooge’
Who can resist a classic retelling of the Scrooge story? This brand-new, animated version shakes things up with an ultra-supernatural musical adaptation the whole family will love.
‘A Boy Called Christmas’
A Boy Called Christmas is a fantastic fantasy film about the origin story of Father Christmas, where we follow a boy who goes on an extraordinary adventure to find the village of Elfhelm.
‘Let It Snow’
Let It Snow is the perfect rom-com for those who want a lighthearted adventure, where we follow a group of young adults who are brought together by a freak snowstorm.
‘The Christmas Chronicles’
In The Christmas Chronicles, a brother-and-sister team up to help save Christmas after they derail Santa’s sleigh with their holiday shenanigans.
‘The Christmas Chronicles 2’
Kurt Russell is back as Santa Clause to Goldie Hawn’s Mrs. Clause in The Christmas Chronicles 2. Teen Kate (Darby Camp) winds up in the business of saving Christmas with her mom’s boyfriend’s son Jack (Jahzir Bruno) when the mischievous Belsnickel reroutes them to the North Pole and sets out to destroy the Clauses’ village.
‘A Christmas Prince’
A reporter falls in love with her subject, a prince with a very active dating life, in A Christmas Prince.
‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding’
Former reporter Amber prepares to marry Richard, but is she really ready to become a royal? Find out in A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding.
‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby’
A royal baby is on the way! But the timing couldn’t be worse — a priceless royal artifact has been stolen from the kingdom they need to maintain peace with an ally, and they need to recover the treaty before it’s too late.
‘A Bad Moms Christmas’
Bad moms Kristen Bell, Mila Kunis, and Kathryn Hahn are back for the holiday season in A Bad Moms Christmas when the only thing more stressful than being a full-time mom at Christmas comes around: their own mothers Susan Sarandon, Cheryl Hines, and Christine Baranski.
‘Klaus’
In this take on how Santa Claus came to be, Klaus follows spoiled son Jesper (Jason Schwartzman) is sent to the remote town of Smeerenburg to prove himself by saving the postal service there and convincing residents to send mail. When he meets reclusive toymaker Klaus (J.K. Simmons), he begins to hatch a plan.
‘Holidate’
Emma Roberts and Luke Bracey are sick of spending the holidays without significant others in Holidate, so they decide to pair up with a total stranger instead. And, as it turns out, these strangers might have more in common than they thought.
‘Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey’
The Christmas musical Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey stars Forest Whitaker as Jeronicus, a renowned toymaker who has his creative spark renewed by the arrival of his granddaughter. Together, they patch back together a family torn apart by an incident years ago and repair his reputation as a maker of magical toys.
‘Christmas on the Square’
Dolly Parton and Christine Baranski star in the holiday musical special Christmas on the Square about a Scrooge who plans to sell her small town — unless its residents can figure out a way to save it first.
‘A Very Murray Christmas’
Bill Murray gets his own hilarious Christmas special centered on the premise that Murray is snowed into a hotel with some of his dearest friends.
‘The Holiday Calendar’
A photographer finds romance and a different perspective on her life after she is gifted with an Advent calendar that can seemingly predict her future in The Holiday Calendar.
‘El Camino Christmas’
El Camino Christmas is a dark Christmas comedy about a young man looking for his absent father and getting stranded in a liquor store with five strangers. With an eclectic cast featuring Dax Shepard, Tim Allen and Jessica Alba, this movie is a solid choice for anyone who likes their holidays with a dash of gritty realism.
‘Christmas Inheritance’
An heiress discovers the real meaning of Christmas as a series of events gets her stranded in a tiny town thanks to a snowstorm in Christmas Inheritance.
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