35 ultimate Netflix Christmas movies to add to your list
Christmas is coming! And do you know what that means? Netflix Christmas movies, obviously. After you've devoured the turkey, finished the Quality Street, pulled the crackers and torn open your presents, now is the time to kickback on the sofa with your family and watch a film (or three).
Unsurprisingly, Netflix has a delicious selection on offer, with this year's additions including Jingle Bell Heist, A Merry Little Ex-Mas – starring Clueless actor Alicia Silverstone and Jameela Jamil – and My Secret Santa, which sees a certain Virgin River star masquerade as Father Christmas.
You're welcome.
Not to mention some favourite Netflix Christmas movies from the last few years, including a body swap festive classic starring Jennifer Garner and a Friendsmas gone wrong with The Hangover’s Heather Graham.
Looking for a non-festive watch? Check out our picks of the best Christmas films on Netflix, our favourite period dramas, true crime documentaries, and not forgetting the absolute best comedies on Netflix we all need in our lives right now.
Rob Baker AshtonJingle Bell Heist
Starring Sex Education star Connor Swindells and Cruel Summer's Olivia Holt, Jingle Bell Heist sees Sophia (Holt) and Nick (Swindells) team up by chance to rob a department store. But, as often happens at Christmas, romance starts to blossom as they follow through with their mission.
Jingle Bell Heist drops on 26 November.
© 2025 Netflix, Inc.A Merry Little Ex-Mas
Starring Clueless' Alicia Silverstone, Jameela Jamil and Sabrina star Melissa Joan Hart, A Merry Little Ex-Mas follows the story of divorcée Kate (Silverstone), whose picture-perfect Christmas is rudely interrupted by the arrival of her ex-husband and his young, successful new girlfriend.
A Merry Little Ex-Mas drops on 12 November.
Diyah PeraMy Secret Santa
We're getting festive She's The Man vibes here. Virgin River star Alexandra Breckenridge plays Taylor, who pretends to be a man to get hired as a “seasonal Santa”, so she can pay for her daughter's ski lessons.
My Secret Santa drops on Netflix on 3 December.
NetflixThe Merry Gentlemen
Noughties romcom and teen drama fans – you're in for a huge festive treat. Chad Michael Murray, of A Cinderella Story and One Tree Hill fame, is starring in a Christmas Netflix film this year. And there's more: he'll be playing a Magic Mike vibes “shirtless dancer” who wants to help save a small-town performance venue with a little show of his own… Also starring Britt Robertson as his fellow dancer pal. Sign us up.
NetflixMeet Me Next Christmas
Another top pick for Noughties enthusiasts – this time because it stars an R&B legend. Christina Milian executive produces and plays the starring role in Meet Me Next Christmas, which tells the story Layla (Milian)'s race across New York City to get a ticket to a sold-out Christmas concert. Such cute, festive vibes – it's the perfect cosy season watch in front of a roaring fire.
NetflixOur Little Secret
Lindsay Lohan's 2024 Netflix Christmas movie sees her play Avery, who arrives at her boyfriend's family home for Christmas to find that her ex (Ian Harding) is dating his sister, and they'll be under the same roof for the festive period. Could this be a nightmare? Or a dramatic dream come true?
© 2023 Netflix, Inc.Best. Christmas. Ever!
Jackie (Brandy Norwood) sends out a smug newsletter about how well her life is going, leading to a visit from her university friend Charlotte (The Hangover’s Heather Graham) who is on a mission to prove that Jackie’s life isn’t as perfect as she says. A true testament to the importance (not to mention the unpredictability and drama) of female friendship.
What a complete and utter Christmas treat. Best. Christmas. Ever! also stars American Pie’s Jason Biggs.
Colleen Hayes/NetflixFamily Switch
Netflix's Family Switch is here to deliver the body swap comedy that we needed so badly this Christmas.
Starring Jennifer Garner, we see her character and her husband unexpectedly switch bodies with their teen kids over the Christmas period – festive hi-jinks will certainly ensue!
NetflixChristmas on Mistletoe Farm
A widowed father inherits a farm at Christmas but plots to escape. However, his children heartwarmingly hatch a plan to stay there as long as they can.
© 2022 Netflix, Inc.The Noel Diary
A fan of the emotional drama This Is Us? Well, its star Justin Hartley takes the role of Jake Turner in this Christmas movie, as he returns home to settle his estranged mother's estate when he meets Rachel. Together the pair get to the bottom of secrets from their past so they can move on in the future.
© 2022 Netflix, Inc.Falling for Christmas
Lindsay Lohan is an ultimate Netflix Christmas movie queen – she absolutely sparkles in Falling for Christmas. What's the plot, you may ask? Well, she stars as a spoiled hotel heiress who gets into a skiing accident, leaving her with total amnesia, meaning she has to be cared for by a handsome lodge owner in the lead-up to Christmas. sounds like a festive dream, TBH.
© 2022 Netflix, Inc.Christmas With You
Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr. take the lead in this comedy movie where a pop star grants a young fan's wish to meet her during the Christmas season and finds love along the way.
© 2020 Netflix, Inc.Angela's Christmas
This Christmas short film is perfect for watching with the kids. It's set in Ireland in the 1910s and follows the heartwarming story of young Angela, who wants everyone to feel safe, warm and loved at Christmas. We just want cuddles after watching this one!
NETFLIXThe Holiday Calendar
Starring Vampire Diaries star Kat Graham, Quincy and Ethan Peck, The Holiday Calendar is a feel-good watch centred on a photographer who realises that the advent calendar she inherited predicts her future – including an exciting new romance. We're sold! Sign us up immediately. And maybe we'd like one of these calendars? If they're going around?
Ilze KitshoffHoliday in the Wild
Sex and the City star Kristin Davis stars in Holiday in the Wild as Kate, who ventures out to Africa after her husband ends their marriage. Guess what? She meets a new man while nursing a baby elephant back to health. All the feels.
NETFLIXChristmas Inheritance
Ellen Langford discovers the true meaning of Christmas when a snowstorm leaves her stranded at the town inn while delivering a Christmas card to her dad's former partner in an effort to inherit her father's business. This movie stars Eliza Taylor, Jake Lacy and Maid star Andie MacDowell.
NETFLIXA Christmas Prince
It's like something out of a fairytale! An ambitious undercover reporter attempts to get some inside scoop on a playboy prince and realises she's royally messed up when she ends up falling in love.
NETFLIXA StoryBots Christmas
One for the kids – and you, of course! A StoryBots Christmas is an excellent message in learning that Christmas is more about gifts as it follows the journey of Bo, who assumes her friends don't like her presents and heads to the North Pole to ask Santa for help in making better gifts.
NetflixKlaus
Prepare to release your inner 13-year-old with Netflix’s holiday hit, Klaus. The feel-good animation, starring J.K Simmons, Rashida Jones, Joan Cusack, tells the story of a postman who befriends a local teacher and toymaker when he is stationed on a faraway island. Think Frozen, but festive. Holla!
The Princess Switch 3: Romancing The Star
The Princess Switch has become a cult favourite ever since the first film dropped on Netflix back in 2018. Its third instalment is another festive flick, starring Vanessa Hudgens as both Chicago-based baker named Stacy De Novo and Margaret, the Princess of the fictitious kingdom of Belgravia. This time, she's adding yet another character to her one-woman show (again) as the film picks up where The Princess Switch 2 left off.
Although rest assured, she won't be adding a fourth one to the mix. The official synopsis reads: “When a priceless relic is stolen, Margaret and Stacy enlist the help of Fiona to retrieve it... and rekindle the sparks of a Christmas romance.”
Bettina StraussLove Hard
Nina Dobrev plays unlucky-in-love LA writer Natalie Bauer who meets and falls for a guy on a dating app. However, she discovers she's been catfished after travelling all the way to the East Coast to surprise him for Christmas, and the story doesn't end there. Expect all the wholesome festive vibes and happy endings from this one, plus a voiceover from Nina that will take you back to her The Vampire Diaries days. Oh, the nostalgia!
Robin Robin
An instant feel-good classic, Robin Robin is a coming-of-age tale about – you guessed it – a little robin. What you may not have guessed is that this little robin was raised by a family of mice, and she very much wants to be a mouse too. So much so that she's willing to make a wish on a Christmas star.
From the creators of Chicken Run and Shaun The Sheep, this family-friendly animation is guaranteed to warm your heart this festive season. Oh, and it stars Gillian Anderson as a cat.
Philippe Bosse/NetflixSingle All The Way
Starring Michael Urie, who you may remember from Ugly Betty, and Jennifer Coolidge, who you definitely remember from Legally Blonde, this film is an oh-so-relatable exploration of what it's like to be single at Christmas, again.
In a bid to avoid his family's judgement about his perpetual singledom, Peter (Michael Urie) enlists the help of his best friend Nick (Philemon Chambers) who pretends to be his partner over the holidays. We wonder where this is going…
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Father Christmas Is Back
If you're a fan of Love Actually, you'll love this hilarious Christmas comedy, which sees four feuding sisters (including Elizabeth Hurley as Joanna and Talulah Riley as Vicky) converge on their Yorkshire mansion for a not-so-happy family reunion. To top it all off, their long-lost father has returned, bringing with him untold amounts of Christmas chaos. You just love to see it.
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Mark Mainz/NetflixA Castle For Christmas
Facing a scandal in her career, a bestselling author flees to a Scottish castle for the festive season (as you do). However, she soon gets more than she bargained for when she realises the castle is up for sale, and she might just want to buy it. Full of questionable Scottish accents, unlikely romances, and errr, a literal castle, this film has all the makings of a totally escapist Christmas classic.
NetflixChristmas on the Square
Yes, that is Dolly Parton and yes, she wrote some original songs for the movie!
Regina Fuller (Christine Baranski) is a wealthy, bitter 'Scrooge' who returns to her small hometown to evict everyone right before the holiday season. But thanks to love, community spirit and a visit from an angel (yep, Dolly Parton), she changes her mind.
NetflixThe Christmas Chronicles: Part Two
Real-life long-term couple Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell reunite for this sequel, in which Mrs. Claus (Hawn) plays a more prominent role. "It's time for Mrs. Claus to get her due," Netflix's logline for the movie reads.
NetflixHolidate
Sloane and Jackson are fed up with being single on holidays, so they agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones for all of the festivities. All fun and games, until actual feelings start getting involved.
NetflixJingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey
Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey stars Forest Whitaker as legendary toymaker Jeronicus Jangle, who enlists the help of his granddaughter to 'heal old wounds and reawaken the magic within' after his most prized possession is stolen. The star-studded cast also includes John Legend!
NetflixOperation Christmas Drop
Congressional aide Erica Miller drops out of family Christmas to travel across the Pacific, where she lands at a beachside Air Force base and doesn't exactly get along with her guide Captain Andrew Jantz. But then she learns that Jantz's facility is running Operation Christmas Drop, which sees them parachuting gifts to remote islands nearby.
NetflixThe Princess Switch: Switched Again
Christmas flicks don't get more cheese-tastic than this! Vanessa Hudgens is back as both Duchess Margaret and Princess Stacy, but this time you'll be seeing triple, as Hudgens will also play Fiona, Margaret’s party-loving cousin.
The official synopsis reads: "When Duchess Margaret unexpectedly inherits the throne to Montenaro and hits a rough patch with boyfriend Kevin, it's up to her double Princess Stacy of Belgravia to get these star-crossed lovers back together.
“But the course of true love is complicated by the appearance of a handsome royal who's intent on stealing Margaret's heart. Throw in the unexpected arrival of Margaret's outrageous party girl cousin Fiona, a third lookalike who has ambitions of her own, and you have the recipe for Christmas triple trouble!”
NetflixLet It Snow
Hailed as 2019’s answer to Love Actually, Let It Snow is the heartwarming story of a group of teenagers whose lives collide when a snowstorm hits their small town on Christmas Eve. Starring Kiernan Shipka and Odeya Rush, the upcoming film, based on Maureen Johnson’s novel of the same name, is the festive rom-com you need in your lives.
NetflixA Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby
Pour the mulled wine and prepare to settle in for the hotly-anticipated third instalment of popular trilogy, A Christmas Prince. This time, "It’s Christmastime in Aldovia—and a royal baby is on the way! Amber and Richard host royals from a faraway kingdom to renew an ancient truce, but when the priceless 600-year-old-treaty disappears, peace is put in jeopardy and an ancient curse threatens their family!" Oooh, the tease.
NetflixThe Knight Before Christmas
Following on from the success of The Princess Switch, Vanessa Hudgens gave us another guaranteed Netflix crowd-pleaser. The Knight Before Christmas follows a science teacher who has given up on love when she meets an actual knight. Cliched, predictable and dripping in festive backdrops, this charming love story will be adored by even the coldest of hearts.
NetflixHoliday Rush
Make sure to carve out time in your busy party schedule for Netflix’s Holiday Rush, a moving story about a radio DJ who copes with his wife’s death by spoiling his children. When he loses his job, he’s forced to strip back the luxuries and realise true joy comes from the time with his family. N’awh.
