Looking for the best Christmas movies on Netflix? We’ve picked out 16 of our festive holiday favorites.
Want to watch the best Netflix Christmas movies this week? Nothing fits the bill better at this time of year than a nice, festive film – and Netflix has them by the bucketload, even if a bunch of them wouldn’t be considered ‘good’ by movie critics. While we’ve all got a number of holiday favorites we like to check out every year (Scrooged, The Muppet Christmas Carol and Home Alone in our case), Netflix is no slouch when it comes to releasing new Christmas movies that enter our viewing rotation. As of 2021, Netflix has more festive originals than ever before, with Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey in particular earning positive notices from critics. You’ll find that one first on our list of the best Netflix Christmas movies below. Like with most genres, you’ll find there’s more to discover around the subject of Christmas on Netflix than you realize. We’ve limited this list to Netflix Originals, so no matter where you’re subscribed to the streaming service, you can enjoy everything below. These are the best Christmas movies on Netflix right now – and while the majority are family-friendly, we’d advise checking out the age ratings for each before you start watching. Merry NetfliXmas, one and all… This tale delivers winter whimsy by the truckload. A brand new spectacle for 2020, this musical adventure deserves to be seen on the biggest TV available, and with the best sound system you can find. Boasting original songs by John Legend, Usher, and more, the family film tells the story of the legendary inventor and toymaker Jeronicus Jangle (played by Academy Award winner Forest Whitaker). When his trusted apprentice (Keegan-Michael Key) steals one of his unique creations, it’s up to his smart granddaughter – and some inventions wizardry, naturally – to save the day. File this under future family favorites, and expect to watch it every December. If the idea of Kurt Russell as a super cool Santa sounds like fun to you (it should do, because it is) then The Christmas Chronicles makes for perfect Christmas streaming fodder. The comedy sees Santa accidentally get interrupted by two kids on his Christmas Eve deliveries — and crashes his sleigh, losing his presents in the process, before embarking on an adventure with the children to save Christmas. As if the kids in your life weren’t already going to love it, it comes from the director of The Angry Birds Movie, Clay Kaytis, who also happened to animate Frozen — so it has family rewatchability deep in its warm, festive heart. Plus, it comes with Christmas pedigree too, as it’s produced by Home Alone and Harry Potter helmer Chris Columbus. Make it a double bill this year with the new The Christmas Chronicles sequel, in which Goldie Hawn joins the action-packed adventure, too, as Mrs Claus. Set two years since the kids saved Christmas (sorry, spoilers), they’re now slightly older teens — and with their new Christmas plans spending the holidays as a recently blended family not filling them with holiday joy, they find themselves on a mission to save the North Pole, this time, instead. If you didn’t already consider Kurt and Goldie Hollywood’s golden couple, just wait until you see them in full Christmas costume. Before we get into more Christmas princes, royal babies, accidental romances and other fun stuff, how about a properly harrowing movie-length episode from Charlie Brooker’s anthology series Black Mirror? This episode covers several interlinking stories, told between two men (played by Mad Men’s Jon Hamm and Rafe Spall) seemingly spending Christmas in some kind of The Thing-style station in icy tundra, as they explain how they each came to be there.
