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The best thing about the holiday season is that once it starts, there’s no slowing down. Although the post-Halloween blues persist, thankfully, we have Thanksgiving to light up this November. But in case you’re one with a seasonal foresight and cannot hold on to your horses until Christmas, we’d love to break it to you: there’s nothing a merry Netflix watchlist cannot solve.

While some might feel it’s all too early, in all honesty, the cravings don’t hurt, and neither are we here to judge.

So, if you want a movie marathon that brings the holiday warmth early on, don’t forget to stream the ten ultimate Christmas movies we swear by.

But before you get comfy in your fuzzy socks, get the cups of hot chocolate ready because after you hit play, there’s no going back.

The 10 ultimate Christmas movies to stream on Netflix

A Boy Called Christmas (Gil Kenan, 2021)

Bedtime stories narrated by grandparents define a crucial part of our childhood, and A Boy Called Christmas, currently streaming on Netflix, taps that very membrane of nostalgia to transport viewers into the world of the fantastical. The magical origin story of Father Christmas revolves around an 11-year-old on a mission to trace his father in the icy north, who embarks on the tumultuous expedition accompanied by his pet mouse, whom he taught to speak.

Also on the venture is a headstrong reindeer, who joins the two on their quest to find the mythical elf village of Elfhelm following his father’s vanishing on a similar adventure.

Carry-On (Jaume Collet-Serra, 2024)

Festive seasons are usually associated with the cheers of feel-good and fantastical, but Carry-On takes an audacious leap to leverage the holiday excitement for a frightful adventure. Starring Jason Bateman, Taron Egerton, and Sofia Carson, the Netflix movie, which broke multiple records for the streamer last Christmas, revolves around a young TSA officer struggling with a holiday jitter of a different kind.

Having been subjected to a blackmailer’s sinister scheme, he’s coerced into permitting a nerve agent on board a packed Christmas Eve flight carrying 250 passengers. Christmas might be all about twinkling lights and family time for most. However, Carry-On sheds light on the dark side of holiday shenanigans.

A Castle for Christmas (Mary Lambert, 2021)

Whether or not you have someone to kiss under the mistletoe this year, Christmas is incomplete without a cheeky rom-com fit for the season. So, for those craving the Cupid butterflies to settle into the mood, let A Castle for Christmas do the deed. The Christmas romantic comedy revolves around a contemporary best-selling author, Sophie Brown, who’s having anything but the best time of her life ever since she killed off the male lead in her book, sparking relentless outrage in readers.

To seek some bliss and help herself recover from writer’s block, Sophie heads to her father’s ancestral town, where she’s welcomed with open arms. She soon finds herself drawn to a nearby castle where her grandfather used to work as a groundskeeper. But when caught exploring a segment deemed private, Sophie is shown her way out by the Duke, Myles Dunbar, unbeknownst to each other that they’d eventually fall head over heels for one another, making way for a whirlwind account of holiday romance.

The Knight Before Christmas (Monika Mitchell, 2019)

The thing about Christmas rom-coms is you can never get enough of them. Subsequently, if A Castle for Christmas leaves you yearning for more, make some room for The Knight Before Christmas on Netflix. The Netflix movie opens with two parallel plots, one in 1334 England and another in 2019, in a small city in Ohio. The plot follows a 14th-century knight, Sir Cole, who’s magically transported to modern-day Ohio just in time for Christmas in the aftermath of a gesture of kindness shown to an old crone.

While completely confused and uprooted from his native world, Cole stumbles upon a high school science teacher, Brooke, whose conviction in love is enough to make you fall for her. Although her past experiences have made her swear off love, the journey they embark on together to complete his quest of becoming a “true knight” writes a Cupid destiny she couldn’t have imagined in her wildest dreams.

Klaus (Sergio Pablos, 2019)

Christmas doesn’t make sense without the dear ones, and if you’re on the lookout for holiday titles on Netflix that you can enjoy with your family, Klaus is the way to go. The Christmas adventure movie serves as Sergio Pablos’s directorial debut and is primarily conceived as an alternate origin story of Santa Claus.

Set in the fictional 19th-century town of Smeerensburg, Klaus tells the story of a lethargic postman, Jesper, who is sent to the remote place as a form of punishment. In order to save himself from being disregarded from the family’s fortune, he’s tasked with an impossible job of opening up a post office and posting 6,000 letters in a year. There, he lucks out after stumbling across a reclusive toymaker, Klaus, who starts a tradition of delivering those old toys to the children, inaugurating a custom of kindness and goodwill.

Let It Snow (Luke Snellin, 2019)

A good holiday rom-com never goes out of style, especially when it’s Christmas-coded. And Luke Snellin made a holiday wishlist come true in 2019 with a Netflix adaptation that has stood the test of time, Let It Snow. The Netflix movie doesn’t just narrate one isolated story. Instead, it interconnects a slew of narratives surrounding a group of high school seniors.

Set in a Midwestern town, Let It Snow takes place amid an alarming snowstorm on Christmas Eve, whose holiday plans and relationships are interrupted and entwined with this unforeseen climate development. Packed with Christmas drama, the Netflix rom-com primarily navigates love and friendship, but soon cracks into chaos, one story at a time.

Meet Me Next Christmas (Rusty Cundieff, 2024)

Netflix plans to leave you spoiled for choice when it comes to Christmas romantic comedies. So, in case you want to make a marathon out of the genre, you’re welcome to add Meet Me Next Christmas to the watchlist. The Netflix rom-com follows Layla on a mission to secure a last-minute ticket to a sold-out Christmas Eve concert, driven by a heartfelt desire to reunite with a man she had a chance encounter with at an airport.

Having made a pact back then about meeting at the very concert if they wound up single the next year, Layla is on the lookout for a concierge to help her get the ticket. Luckily, she finds Teddy, with whom she embarks on quite an adventurous hunt in NYC. But in search of a fateful chemistry, her holiday destiny takes a U-turn, trapping her in a tale of an unlikely romance as she tries to make the impossible possible.

A Merry Little Ex-Mas (Steve Carr, 2025)

Netflix has stepped up in more ways than one in the wake of the holiday season, and the arrival of A Merry Little Ex-Mas is proof. The holiday rom-com, available now for streaming on Netflix, tells the story of a divorcee named Kate whose hopes for a picture-perfect Christmas are upended when her ex-husband pulls out a move completely off the book.

While already grappling with a broken heart, she’s greeted with his highly successful young girlfriend over the holiday break, sparking unrelenting chaos and drama. So, if you’ve an appetite for holiday mischief, don’t forget to tune into A Merry Little Ex-Mas.

The Noel Diary (Charles Shyer, 2022)

When Netflix said it would leave no page unturned in the rom-com genre this Christmas, it clearly meant it. Hence, if you thought that’s all about it from the slate of its original offerings, buckle up for The Noel Diary. The Netflix adaptation revolves around a novelist who returns to his estranged mother’s hometown during the holiday season to sort out her estate.

As he clears out the hoarder’s place, he stumbles across a diary, whose owner is believed to be a young woman, Noel Ellis. Desperate to find out the mystery surrounding the diary, he eventually joins forces with another woman, Rachel, who is on a quest to find her biological mother. But little do they know that the search for the unknown would unexpectedly weave together their pasts, also entwining the secrets of the diary.

Single All the Way (Michael Mayer, 2021)

It’s only fitting that the Christmas marathon ends with a rom-com when it’s packed with so many. So, to wrap up the binge session, we have Single All the Way. The Netflix movie opens with a protagonist who’s struggling with a case we know all too well: to spend another Christmas as a single. He takes the high road, convincing his best friend, Nick, to be his boyfriend for Christmas during his family’s holiday visit.

But the plan backfires when his mother sets him up on an unexpected blind date, leaving him to grapple with his own feelings for Nick. It’s tradition that Christmas is nothing without a fair share of holiday drama, and with this to-do list, we hope you find plenty to sit back and enjoy.