The 18 Best Netflix Christmas Movies to Watch This Season

Hitting Netflix this November, Love Hard tackles the tough world of online dating. In it, an unlucky L.A. girl (Nina Dobrev) falls for an East Coast guy (Darren Barnet) through a dating app. When she flies to his home to surprise him for the holidays, she's the one hit with the real surprise: She's been catfished by her dream guy's childhood friend (Jimmy O. Yang).

With an all-star cast—Michael Urie, Philemon Chambers, Jennifer Coolidge, and more—this movie marks Netflix's first holiday rom-com with an LGBTQ relationship at the center of it. It follows Peter who convinces his best friend Nick to pretend to be in a relationship with him for the holidays, so he can avoid any family judgment about how he's constantly single. The streaming service will release it on December 2.

Based on a real Christmas tradition, this movie follows congressional aide Erica Mille (Kat Graham) who is sent to a beachside Air Force base with the intention of finding an excuse to shut it down. But falling for a big-hearted pilot (Alexander Ludwig) who shows her the magic of the base's airborne humanitarian airlift operation changes her plans.

As you can imagine from the movie title, this Christmas musical comedy revolves around Bill Murray. When a snowstorm hits New York City, he worries no one will show up to his TV show. It features plenty of other celeb faves, too, like Chris Rock, Miley Cyrus, Amy Pohler, George Clooney, and Rashida Jones—to name a few!

This one's not your typical Christmas movie gone wrong! It follows Eric Roth (Luke Grimes) who embarks on a journey to find the father he never knew. When he ends up in El Camino, Nevada, he's mistaken for a drug dealer by local law enforcement. On Christmas Eve, he gets cornered at a liquor store holdup with five other people—one of whom happens to be the man he's been searching for.

Before an heiress can inherit her father's company, he challenges her to deliver a Christmas card to his former partner in Snow Falls. To her surprise, the man she needs to give the letter to isn't there—and a snowstorm strands her at the town inn. Will the city girl learn something from the people there who don't know her family name?

American journalist Amber (Rose McIver) travels to the fictional country of Aldovia to write about Prince Richard (Ben Lamb), who’s said to be abdicating the throne. But when the palace mistakes Amber for Richard’s younger sister’s tutor, she learns that the careless playboy reputation he has isn’t exactly accurate. And if you too don’t want to leave Aldovia, you can move right on to the sequels: A Christmas Prince: A Royal Wedding and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.

An all-star voice cast including Rashida Jones, Jason Schwartzman, J.K. Simmons, and Joan Cusack bring life to this gorgeously animated Christmas tale. It’s a Santa origin story you’ve never heard but will want to share with your family every year.

Vampire Diaries actress Kat Graham stars as a photographer who’s gifted an advent calendar that turns out to be magical. Can it help her decide between a handsome new acquaintance and one of her oldest friends? We’re guessing so.

This is another Netflix holiday movie about royals in another made-up European country. This one’s called Belgravia, which is where American baker Stacy (Vanessa Hudgens) travels to participate in a baking competition. But when an ill-contented duchess (also Hudgens) realizes that they’re dead ringers for each other, they trade places and get a taste of one another’s lives. There’s also a sequel and third film coming out this year: The Princess Switch: Switched Again and The Princess Switch 3.

After Kate’s (Kristin Davis) husband blindsides her with a divorce, she escapes to Zambia, where she helps a handsome stranger, Derek (Rob Lowe), save an orphaned elephant. Wanting to watch over the baby’s recovery, Kate ends up staying at an elephant sanctuary over the holidays, falling in love with animal conservation, Africa, and maybe Derek too.

Popular DJ Rush Williams (Romany Malco) finds himself suddenly without a job when his radio station is sold to a corporation that wants to overhaul it. Determined to find a new outlet for their work, he and his producer Roxy (Sonequa Martin-Green) buy a station of their own. But their new closeness causes a rift with Rush’s kids, who don’t want to see their late mother replaced.

Sort of a Love Actually for Gen Z, Let It Snow follows a handful of interlocking storylines that all take place during the same blizzard. From a famous pop star falling for a small-town girl to a secret romance that becomes official, there’s something here for everyone.

Long-term real-life couple Kurt Russell and Goldie Hawn play long-term North Pole couple Santa and Mrs. Klaus in this good old-fashioned, family-oriented holiday adventure. The plot follows a couple of kids who stowaway in St. Nick’s sleigh and then have to help him save Christmas when disaster strikes. You can also check out The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two.

Vanessa Hudgens makes her bid to be the queen of the holidays on Netflix with another rom-com. This one is about a modern woman who encounters (okay, she hits him with her car), a knight (Josh Whitehouse) who’s been sent to the future from the 14th century.

John Legend is a producer on this whimsical holiday musical, one of Netflix's new Christmas movie offerings in 2020. With a cast including Forest Whitaker and Keegan-Michael Key, it tells the story of an inventor whose most magical toy is stolen, sending his granddaughter on a journey to recover it.

Also first streaming in 2020, Christmas on the Square is a must-watch for any fan of national treasure Dolly Parton. She not only stars in this flick about an angel who visits a businesswoman who’s intent on selling her own hometown off to a developer right before the holidays. Parton also wrote an entire soundtrack of brand new songs for the film.

Every single person knows how irritating it can be to navigate holiday parties and obligations alone—especially when you have a family that won’t stop asking when you’ll “settle down.” In this 2020 movie, Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) come up with the perfect plan to avoid awkward questions all season long: pretend to date. Naturally, their foolproof scheme is complicated when sparks begin to fly.