15 Christmas movies you can stream on Netflix right now

Esquire.com: Whether you’re turning it on because you want some fluff to get you through the holidays or you just need some background noise as you’re wrapping presents (this is the real holiday past time), you’re covered with Netflix’s catalogue.

‘White Christmas’

If you don’t watch this movie at the holidays, then you’re missing out. Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye, and Vera Ellen and the most insanely elaborate dance costumes ever will charm you right back to the 1940s. Just watch it. 

‘A Christmas Prince’

As soon as it premiered, this one quickly became a favourite (admittedly bad) movie. Even Stephen Colbert hilariously admitted to being obsessed with the story about an ambitious American journalist who goes to a fictional European village to cover the royal family. Shocker: She falls in love with the prince.

‘A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding’

Last year, after the surprising success of the first movie, the universe of ‘A Christmas Prince’ got a second story. This time, the story picks up one year later when journalist Amber and her prince are having an inevitable Christmas wedding. So, it’s the same thing, but filled with all the stereotypes of weddings and Christmas.

‘Get Santa’

Santa crashes his sleigh and then asks a father and son to help him evade the police and get back to the North Pole. A family plot and some anti-police action—something for everyone.

‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse: A Christmas Special’

Take it back to 1988 when ‘Pee Wee’s Playhouse’ was a favourite of the children of America. In classic Christmas-special fashion, there is a true grab bag of stars, including Oprah, Dinah Shore, Joan Rivers, and k.d. Lang.

‘El Camino Christmas’

So you hate Christmas movies but still want to be included? Great. Get to know El Camino Christmas—a tonally skewed hostage-turned-Christmas movie that stars Dax Shepard () and Tim Allen (!) in a gritty standoff with police.

‘Miss Me This Christmas’

Nothing says holidays like going down the memory lane of your romantic past. Regina and Franklin are preparing to finalise their divorce on Christmas Day (seems like most law offices would be closed, but OK). In the lead up to that day, Regina revisits the hotel where she and her husband were originally married. Here, she relives a whole lot of memories—and meets an attractive investment banker. We like our holidays complicated.

‘The Christmas Chronicles’

There is a confusing fascination in American holiday culture with wanting to either capture Santa, help Santa escape the law, or in the case of 1994’s ‘The Santa Clause,’ tend to Santa’s mortality. In this 2018 film, Kurt Russell plays Santa Claus, who finds himself in the crosshairs of two kids who want to capture him.

‘The Princess Switch’

Vanessa Hudgens plays a baker who goes to yet another made-up village in Europe for a baking contest and in the process meets a princess who looks just like her (also played by Vanessa Hudgens). When her royal doppelgänger proposes they switch places, things go awry. Is it terrible? Sure. Is it wonderful? Also, sure.

‘The Holiday Calendar’

A photographer inherits a seemingly magical Advent calendar that predicts her future—right down to her dating life. This one definitely aims for the Hallmark quality of holiday movie, and it gets pretty close. Bring on the corniness.

‘Unaccompanied Minors’

This 2006 Paul Feig film takes the worst nightmare of any holiday traveller and turns it into an adventure movie. When a group of youths get stranded in the airport at the holidays, they take it as an invitation to run free and get into trouble. Not every travel mishap has to be a bummer.

‘The Spirit of Christmas’

Here’s another holiday trope – a driven woman in a high-powered job needs to “slow down” and find love. As irritating as this plot is to anyone who has even heard of the Bechdel Test, you’ll find it repurposed again in this movie about a lawyer who finds love over 12 days (you know the song).

‘A Dogwalker’s Christmas Tale’

This movie could do better as far as titles go, but it’s enticing for anyone who’s spent the holidays making extra money scooping poop and being pulled along on a leash. The heroine in this story is a privileged 21-year-old who has to get a dog-walking job after she maxes out her credit card.

‘Holiday in the Wild’

Rob Lowe is a man of many talents, so why wouldn’t a new holiday Netflix movie be one of them? In this one, Lowe is somehow a tour guide in Africa who meets Kristin Davis, who’s there on safari. She agrees to help at an elephant sanctuary alongside Lowe’s character. 

‘How the Grinch Stole Christmas’

Jim Carrey’s take on the Dr. Seuss story involves full green body makeup, realistic whiskers, and more improvisation than anyone could ever want in one film. Come for the retelling of a classic Christmas story. Stay for the Faith Hill power ballad.