It’s that time of year again!
This year flew by, and it’s harder than ever to believe it’s about to be 2024. Luckily, getting into the Christmas spirit is one way you can always ease your mind into accepting the fact that the year is almost over.
Check out our list of some must-see Christmas movies to get you into the mood, all available on Netflix! Some are new releases, some are classics, but they’re all perfect for giving you some holiday joy.
The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday
The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday is a new adventure set before the events of the feature. There’s nothing the Bad Guys love more than Christmas morning–because while everyone is home opening presents, it’s the perfect time to execute their citywide holiday heist.
Family Switch
In Family Switch, Jennifer Garner and Ed Helms come together to play two overwhelmed parents during the holidays. The plot twist? They’re both somehow living inside the bodies of their two rebellious teenage children.
Meet Me Next Christmas
Meet Me Next Christmas sees Layla (played by Christina Milian) wanting to impress her knight in shining armor this Christmas. She knows that the best way to do that is by getting him tickets to see Pentatonix at their Christmas Eve concert, but she has to get creative since they’re already sold out.
Holidate
Emma Roberts’ Sloane Benson is tired of the dating scene and dreads being shamed by her family for being single. That’s why she’s so receptive to Luke Bracey’s character Jackson when he offers to date her only on holidays.
Christmas as Usual
Christmas As Usual follows couple who are part of two very different cultures: one with Indian roots, the other from a Norwegian upbringing. While they know how much they love each other, the problem is getting their families to learn how to accustom themselves to each others differences while spending the holidays together.
The Great British Baking Show: Holidays
It’s not exactly a movie, but there’s always room for more Great British Baking Show…Especially during the holidays. It will be the last time Matt Lucas hosts the franchise, so you’ll want to tune in for its premiere on December 8.
Yoh! Christmas
While Thando is an extremely successful woman, she still lied to her parents by telling them she has a boyfriend. In reality, she’s a single 30-year-old who now needs to “find love” before traveling back home for the holidays.
Best. Christmas. Ever!
Every Christmas, Jackie sends a boastful holiday newsletter that makes her old college friend Charlotte feel like a lump of coal. When a twist of fate lands Charlotte and her family on Jackie’s snowy doorstep just days before Christmas, she seizes the opportunity to prove her old friend’s life can’t possibly be that perfect.
The Claus Family 3
Everyone’s favorite festive family is back for a third round of their beloved holiday franchise. This time, brother and sister duo Jules and Noor must come together to figure out a way to finish delivering the gifts that their Grandpa Noël left behind.
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
Both Chevy Chase and Beverly D’Angelo return as the Griswold matriarchs, with Juliette Lewis and The Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki as Audrey and Rusty, respectively. This movie is a holiday classic that can give you both the holiday spirit and some nostalgia at the same time.
A Christmas Prince
Amber Eve Moore is an ambitious reporter who accidentally finds herself undercover in the royal court of Aldovia. After being mistaken as a tutor for Princess Emily Charlton, Amber investigates the reports that Prince Richard Bevan Charlton plans to abdicate the throne.
The Princess Switch
One week before Christmas, a duchess switches places with an ordinary woman from Chicago, who looks exactly like her, and they each fall in love with each other’s significant others.
The Knight Before Christmas
In The Knight Before Christmas, a medieval knight is transported to the present day, where he falls for a high school science teacher who’s lost her belief in love.
Falling For Christmas
Lindsay Lohan makes her return to acting in Falling For Christmas. She plays hotel heiress Sierra Belmont, a spoiled woman who never worked at a real job in her life. After her boyfriend, Tad Fairchild, proposes to her on a mountaintop, Sierra takes a nasty fall and ends up getting amnesia.
Love Hard
Nina Dobrev stars as Natalie Bauer, a romance columnist in Los Angeles who believes that she’s found her perfect match across the country in Josh Lin. Unfortunately, she doesn’t realize that she’s been catfished until she surprises Josh with a visit at Christmas.
Love Actually
You can’t go wrong with the classics! While most romantic comedies focus on one or two couples, Love Actually has eight different couples throughout the film, and a star-studded cast to portray them all.
The ensemble features Hugh Grant, Colin Firth, Liam Neeson, Laura Linney, Alan Rickman, Emma Thompson, Keira Knightley, Bill Nighy, Martine McCutcheon, and Rowan Atkinson.
The Polar Express
Director Robert Zemeckis’ adaptation of Chris Van Allsburg’s children’s book The Polar Express has become a favorite during the holiday season. Tom Hanks lends his voice to several characters in the film, most notably the conductor of the Polar Express, a magical train heading directly for the North Pole.
Four Christmases
In Four Christmases the idea of spending time with family you’re not-so-fond of is taken to the extreme as Brad (Vince Vaughn) and Kate (Reese Witherspoon) get caught red-handed in their annual ruse of avoiding their families during the holidays.
I Believe in Santa
After five happy months dating Tom, Lisa is horrified to learn that he’s obsessed with her least favorite holiday. As Christmas approaches, Lisa begins to learn the true meaning of love and the holiday season.
Single All The Way
In Single All The Way, Peter is desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about being single. In an effort to get rid of that problem, he persuades his best friend Nick to pose as his boyfriend on a trip home for the holidays.