15 Best Christmas Movies on Netflix in 2024

1. A Boy Called Christmas

Introduction: Nikolas (Henry Lawfull), an ordinary boy, is determined to accomplish the king's edict of bringing back a spark of magic and giving the kingdom hope. He embarks on a journey to find a legendary place where elves dwell, known as Elfhelm. On his quest, he's accompanied by his talking pet mouse Miika and an impulsive reindeer called Blitzen. The team heads out to Elfhelm, fully realizing the limitless obstacles and dangers they will encounter along the way, from sleeping giants to icy mountains, witches and more. However, he discovers that humans are forbidden from entering the magical village of Elfhelm. With help from his friends, Nikolas tries to find a way to bring magic to the rest of the world.

2. A Castle for Christmas

Introduction: A Castle For Christmas is yet another Netflix original Holiday rom-com, directed by Mary Lambert. It centers on bestselling author Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields) who travels to Scotland to escape the scandal of her latest work, and so she decides to visit the ancestral village of her grandfather. There she hopes to buy a small castle of her own, but the prickly owner, Duke Myles (Cary Elwes), is reluctant to sell to a foreigner. Working to find a compromise, the pair constantly butt heads, but they just may find something more than they were expecting.

3. Single All the Way

Introduction: With such beloved animated Christmas films already out there — How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer alone have a pretty strong hold on the market – it takes a special movie to cut through and become a new holiday classic. Klaus is that movie. Sergio Pablos’ exquisite film stretches the boundaries of 2D animation, creating a visually astonishing world with a heartfelt story at its core. It features the voice talents of Jason Schwartzman as a postman who befriends a reclusive woodsman named Klaus (J.K. Simmons). Klaus was the first animated film from Netflix to be nominated for an Academy Award, and it’s one of the only holiday-themed animated films in recent memory that deserves a spot in your yearly Christmas movie rotation.

4. Klaus

Introduction: With such beloved animated Christmas films already out there — How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Charlie Brown Christmas, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer alone have a pretty strong hold on the market – it takes a special movie to cut through and become a new holiday classic. Klaus is that movie. Sergio Pablos’ exquisite film stretches the boundaries of 2D animation, creating a visually astonishing world with a heartfelt story at its core. It features the voice talents of Jason Schwartzman as a postman who befriends a reclusive woodsman named Klaus (J.K. Simmons). Klaus was the first animated film from Netflix to be nominated for an Academy Award, and it’s one of the only holiday-themed animated films in recent memory that deserves a spot in your yearly Christmas movie rotation.

5. Alien Xmas

Introduction:A stop-motion Christmas special, Alien Xmas is like a throwback to beloved claymation holiday movies like Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and The Nightmare Before Christmas. It is set at the North Pole, but this movie from renowned special effects artists the Chiodo Brothers (who worked on the stop-motion sequence in Elf) has a sci-fi twist when aliens try to steal Earth's gravity until one klepto, little grey guy gets the Cindy Lou Who-Grinch treatment when he meets a spirited elf. The animation is inspired, and you know you've seen the Rankin-Bass specials more times than you can count, so you owe it to yourself to try something new and blast off into this holiday movie that's even more out-of-this-world than you're used to.

6. Robin Robin

Introduction: From Wallace & Gromit to Chicken Run, there’s nothing quite like the magic of the British claymation studio Aardman. Robin Robin is no exception. This Christmas special tells the story of a young robin raised by mice who, desperate to fit in with her family, makes a wish upon a Christmas star. Not only with Aardman’s new felt-adorned animation style make you feel warm and fuzzy, but the 30-minute run time makes this a perfect family watch before bed.

7. Love Hard

Introduction: Love Hard is a rom-com directed by Hernán Jiménez. It tells the story of Natalie Bauer (Dobrev), an LA journalist unlucky in love who falls in love with a man named Tag (Darren Barnet) on a dating app and travels to his East Coast hometown to surprise him for Christmas. However, once there she discovers that she has been catfished by Tag’s childhood friend Josh (Jimmy O. Yang), who is also unlucky in love. However, her crush actually does live in the same town, so Josh offers to set them up if she pretends to be his girlfriend for the holidays.

8. A Christmas Prince

Introduction: A Christmas Prince is yet another Netflix original Holiday rom-com, this one directed by Alex Zamm. In the lead-up to Christmas, young journalist Amber Moore (Rose McIver) is sent abroad to go undercover to get the scoop on Prince Richard Bevan Charlton (Bem Lamb), a playboy prince who is destined to be king. Amber eventually gets to know Richard and realizes he’s not like everyone thinks, and as this is a Christmas movie, they soon end up developing feelings for each other. A Christmas Prince is followed by two sequels: A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.

9. The Knight Before Christmas

Introduction: The Knight Before Christmas is a Christmas comedy movie directed by Monika Mitchell. When Sir Cole (Josh Whitehouse), a medieval English knight, is transported to the present day, he has to acclimate to the modern world of radios, television, cars, and more. Luckily, he meets Brooke Winters (Vanessa Hudgens), a high school science teacher who offers him a place to stay, and with whom Cole quickly develops a deep bond, leading to a romance that has time as its worst enemy.

10. How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Introduction: We all know the original Grinch, but this revamped version of the classic story also follows the relationship between the holiday-loving town of Whoville and a recluse Grinch. When the Grinch decides he's finally had enough of all the holiday cheer, he sets off on an adventure to stop Christmas from coming. But his plan is met with a challenge when the grump with a heart far too small (three sizes in fact) crosses paths with a little girl named Cindy Lou Who, who teaches him the true spirit of the season.

11. The Princess Switch series

Introduction: Disney meets Hallmark in The Princess Switch movies, a trilogy of Netflix originals that throws familiarity and all-things merry and bright into a mixing bowl for a formulaic but confectionary family movie. The original begins as a modern telling of The Prince and the Pauper, where we get double the Vanessa Hudgens as she plays the duchess of the fictional Montenaro who gets her chance at experiencing regular life with an American accent when she miraculously meets a baker in Chicago who happens to look exactly like her. It's set during Christmas for extra-magical coincidences, and of course sparks fly for the both of the women while on their respective adventures. And if you thought that two Vanessa Hudgenses were simply not enough, there's a sequel where a third lookalike (and maybe the best one of the franchise!) crashes the party, and a third film where all the gals tag-team once again. Sometimes Christmas movies are the most watchable (even if they're technically bad) when they've got just enough suspension of reality to whisk away your heart.

12. Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square

Introduction: You don't watch Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square for its high-end writing. You watch it to feel good. And to listen to crnfy songs and to believe in something greater than you. And if anyone judges you for it, you remind them that it won the Emmy for best movie made for TV and then you scream "I will always love you!" in their stupid faces.

13. Just Friends

Introduction: In the wake of There's Something About Mary and American Pie, the early-to-mid-'00s were filled with comedies that mixed crude humor with treacly sentimentality—but Just Friends was the only one to throw Christmas cheer into the mix. This tale of a smart-ass LA record producer (Ryan Reynolds) returning home to New Jersey over the holidays and romancing his high school BFF (Amy Smart) doesn't go down easy—some of the jokes have aged like your favorite Good Charlotte song—but the leads do their best with tepid gags about retainers, The Notebook, and "friend-zoning." So why give this one a chance? A very funny turn from Anna Faris as a deranged Paris Hilton–style pop singer who makes Reynolds' life a living hell. If her character ever makes a Christmas special, we'll be there.

14. White Christmas

Introduction: Needless to say, Michael Curtiz’ 1954 White Christmas is a bonafide holiday classic. Starring Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, and Vera-Ellen, the movie is as much of a historical time capsule as it is a delightful Christmas watch. Taking place during the height of World War II, White Christmas sees our quartet of winsome young performers in Pine Tree, Vermont on Christmas Eve. Uncharacteristically warm weather has driven away tourists from General Waverly’s empty Columbia Inn, inspiring Crosby and Kaye’s Bob and Phil to hold a benefit show to help their former military superior. Romance starts to blossom between Bob and Betty (Clooney) and Phil and Judy (Vera-Ellen), as the group works together to save the Columbia Inn.

15. Holidate

Introduction: The Holiday season is perfect for rom-coms, and Holidate is part of that list. Directed by John Whitesell, Holidate follows Sloane (Emma Roberts), a young woman living in Chicago, and Jackson (Luke Bracey), a young Australian golfer living in Evanston, and what they have in common is that they hate the holidays. Sloane and Jackson constantly find themselves single, sitting at the kids' table, or stuck with awkward dates, but when they meet one particularly bad Christmas, they make a pact to be each other’s “holidate” for every festive occasion throughout the next year. With a mutual disdain for the holidays and assuring themselves that they have no romantic interest in the other, they make the perfect team – but as a year of miscellaneous celebrations come to an end, Sloane and Jackson find that sharing everything they hate may prove to be something they unexpectedly love.

Final Words

So there you have it. The top 15 best Christmas Movies on Netflix, ranked in no particular order. Many are new, many are Netflix originals, and a few are classics that Netflix still holds the streaming rights to. While you are too busy to watch them, you don't need to stop the Christmas fun there. You can still download these Christmas movies for offline streaming by the Netflix official app.

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