It’s that time of the year to curl up on the couch with a cup of hot chocolate and watch the perfect holiday movie.
This holiday season, there are a ton of new Christmas movies coming out and there are also a ton of classics streaming on various platforms.
To help you avoid the hassle of finding that perfect holiday movie, we have put together the best holiday movies streaming on Netflix, Max, and many other services to watch together.
Without further ado, let’s dive in.
Holidate
Holidate is the perfect movie for you if you hate trying to avoid inquiries about your romantic life over the holidays. Sloane, played by Emma Roberts, is a woman whose family keeps nagging her to find a good man and get married. And here comes Jackson (Luke Bracey), a stunning Australian man in search of a platonic plus-one for the year.
Falling for Christmas
Although Netflix has bet everything on the holiday movie market, Lindsay Lohan is the one we can’t ignore. She plays a wealthy hotel heiress who had a catastrophic skiing accident while on vacation and loses her memory. Overstreet appears as the innkeeper who aids her recovery.
Elf
Is there a funny Christmas character that truly loves the holiday season?
The answer to this question is thankfully a loud yes thanks to Will Ferrell’s fearlessly devoted performance as the titular elf.
In a genre that has become overused, there is one contemporary Christmas movie that is actually pleasant. Elf is a classic that shows the spirit of the season with a great deal of heart and soul.
The Noel Diary
In his boyhood home, Jacob (Justin Hartley) runs into Ellie (Bonnie Bedilia), who is looking for her birth mother. Jacob finds a diary that could reveal secrets about both of their pasts.
Something from Tiffany’s
This modern holiday rom-com featuring Zoey Deutch, Ray Nicholson, Kendrick Smith Sampson, and Shay Mitchell is about misunderstandings and missed connections in the Christmas season. When Tiffany’s gifts get into the wrong hands, everything begins to unravel.
Home Alone
No holiday movies list is complete without this all-time favorite classic.
Though Kevin McCallister goes on a rampage in the movie, director Chris Columbus spends most of the movie setting it up and examining what a child does when his family accidentally leaves him behind at Christmas in their expansive Chicago house.
Although Home Alone has been around for more than 30 years, for many of us, Christmas isn’t truly Christmas until we’ve spent 90 minutes watching Macaulay Culkin teach the two pesky burglars their lessons.
Spirited
Yes, Spirited is a uniquely funny interpretation of A Christmas Carol.
But this time, thanks to a very special Scrooge, it’s the Ghost of Christmas Present who is contemplating his life. Spirited, which stars Ryan Reynolds as the miserly human who is supposed to be the one changing and Will Ferrell as the spectral representative of Christmas, has by far the most well-known cast of all the Christmas films released this year.
Did we mention that it was a musical?
A Hollywood Christmas
A Hollywood Christmas, the fourth-holiday movie from HBO Max, follows a budding director who has become well-known for her work on Christmas movies. A Scrooge-like (yet attractive) network boss threatens her movie, and the young director finds herself attempting to salvage both Christmas and her Christmas movie.
A Hollywood Christmas is a good holiday movie to stream on HBO Max.
Klaus
Klaus was the first animated film from Netflix to tell the eccentric origin tale of Santa Claus, and it’s a real doozy. The film’s eye-popping art direction earned the streamer a nod for Best Animated Feature. It stars Oscar winner JK Simmons as a grizzled proto-Fat Man who loves toy-making but isn’t interested in children, Jason Schwartzman as an inept postal worker, and Rashida Jones as a cynical teacher.
Klaus is one of the best animated Christmas movies on Netflix you can enjoy with your whole family and love it till the end.
Polar Express
This motion-capture animation, which features Tom Hanks in a variety of roles, including the narrator, train conductor, and Santa Claus, was blessed by Robert Zemeckis’ kid-friendly magic. Polar Express is a heartfelt Christmas movie for everyone to enjoy.
A Christmas Mystery
A Christmas Mystery is a holiday movie set in a tiny village that explores the legend around Santa’s bells.
The legend has it that near Pleasant Bay, Oregon, 100 years ago, a young child found a strip of Santa’s bells, ushering in a century of luck and prosperity. But just a few days before Christmas, the town notices that the bells are gone, and it’s up to a group of heroic kids to locate them.
Love Hard
Natalie, a Los Angeles-based romance journalist played by Nina Dobrev, intends to surprise a man she met through a dating app during the holiday season. After going across the country, Natalie realizes she’s been catfished by Josh (Jimmy O. Yang).
Accepting the catastrophe, Natalie decides to date another local guy. Will she reconsider, though, after meeting her catfish?
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Ron Howard’s screen rendition of the Dr. Seuss classic, however cornball and clichéd this (non-animated) Grinch movie may be. And no matter how monotonous you find Jim Carrey’s purposeful overacting, it nonetheless moves ahead with enough vigor to make you raise a glass of eggnog.
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Holiday Harmony
A potential for huge break presents itself for a homeless singer, but while traveling cross-country to the event, she breaks down in Harmony, Oklahoma.
She only needs to assist a group of neighborhood children with their Christmas show to get things back on track.