Three Netflix holiday movies to watch if you loved ‘The Christmas Switch’
Netflix has brought the season’s greetings early with its new Swedish holiday romantic comedy, The Christmas Switch, and viewers cannot ask for more.
Directed by Adam Pålsson in their directorial debut, the light-hearted comedy brings back the classic festive-special life-swapping antics on its coattails, serving nostalgia, festive feels, and cosiness in a pre-Christmas platter. The movie follows two polar-opposite sisters, Mathilda and Freddie, as they swap lives just in time for Christmas and find healing, self-discovery, and unexpected romance.
Although life-swaps and romantic mix-ups are the age-old festive formula, they never really run out of style. Plus, when it comes to the holiday season, who doesn’t love familiarity and warmth? So, when you’re done with the seasonal rom-com, don’t switch off the devices just yet.
Instead, make it a marathon with these three Netflix holiday movies to binge if you loved The Christmas Switch.
Three Netflix holiday movies to stream after The Christmas Switch
The Princess Switch (Michael Rohl, 2018)
If you loved how two different worlds collide just in time for the holidays and lead to the unexpected in The Christmas Switch, you cannot miss The Princess Switch on Netflix. Set in the week leading up to Christmas, the holiday rom-com follows Chicago baker Stacey DeNovo as she takes a festive vacation to the fictional kingdom of Belgravia with her best friend Kevin and his daughter Olivia to participate in a prestigious baking competition.
While sightseeing, Stacy stumbles upon Lady Margaret Delacourt, the Duchess of Montenaro, who is engaged to Prince Edward of Belgravia, and discovers they are strikingly identical. Eager to experience normalcy and anonymity before her royal wedding, The Princess Switch follows Margaret as she swaps lives with Stacy for two days only to find unexpected romance in unlikely places.
Family Switch (McG, 2023)
Although The Christmas Switch centres on unexpected life-swaps, Family Switch is a body-swap comedy that doubles down on the chaos and hilarity. The Netflix Original holiday comedy follows the Walker family: architect mom Jess, music-teacher dad Bill, 16-year-old soccer star CC, 14-year-old math-geek Wyatt, toddler Miles, and family dog Pickles, who feel the warmth fading from the family and increasingly detached from each other.
During a holiday visit to the Griffith Park Planetarium under a rare planetary alignment, they are led to a strange encounter by an enigmatic astrological reader. The next morning, every family member wakes up with bodies swapped while Miles and Pickles swap consciousness. It is supposed to be the single biggest day of their lives, and safe to say, they find unexpected healing in upheaval as the swap helps them gain perspective.
Holidate (John Whitesell, 2020)
If you want another heartwarming rom-com based on holiday pretending to complete The Christmas Switch’s post-viewing marathon, we highly recommend Holidate. The Netflix romantic comedy follows strangers Sloane and Jackson on their chance encounter at a mall return counter after navigating and surviving disastrous holiday dates and intense family pressures to find partners.
Tired of being single and forced into awkward setups during every celebration, they make a secret pact: to be each other’s holidate as a non-romantic plus-on for a full year of holidays and annual events. Their relationship is strictly platonic, and the rules are set in stone. But what happens when a fake arrangement turns into real romance over the period of 12 months with endless holidates?