It is confirmed: Netflix has become the workshop of Santa, the fastest producer of holiday entertainment of Christmas movies. Once upon a time, Hallmark was the undisputed king of the snow-globe romance market; however, now Netflix has by all means arrived with a great number of various kinds of love stories, such as the ones with a warm and fuzzy plot, stories with a high budget, and even the ones that are delightfully weird and difficult to understand.
The programming for the coming holiday season is jam-packed with content: there is animation, music, warm drama, and even a little bit of anarchy. Make a cup of hot chocolate, and put on a pair of fuzzy socks before lying down and watching these top 10 Netflix Christmas movies of 2024, which we list in reverse order, of course, as who doesn’t like a little suspense?
10. That Christmas – Richard Curtis’s Animated Holiday Tapestry
The British Writer of Love Actually and Notting Hill has, after a long time, changed his style and turned his work into animation. Richard Curtis’s That Christmas features the signature ensemble narrative of the director selecting one theme in a warm, candy-colored universe with stories of love, family, and Christmas chaos that are interconnected. Brian Cox, Jodie Whittaker, Fiona Shaw, and Bill Nighy are among the cast, so in essence, it is Love Actually, plus a little British humor and a bit of childhood magic.
9. The Snow Sister – Nordic Magic and Melancholy
If you aren’t quite satisfied with just the usual holiday films and demand emotional depth as well, then The Snow Sister will be an emotional feast for you. The original for this Norwegian remake is the story of a boy named Julian whose Christmas spirit is brought back to life by a very lovely and, apparently, magical girl named Hedvig. What starts as an average holiday story metaphorically grows into a touching and mystical fable about loss and healing. It is gorgeously filmed, emotionally layered, and is a perfect substitute for anyone who is in need of less bright and more serious works during the holiday season.
8. A Nonsense Christmas with Sabrina Carpenter – Pop Meets Holiday Pandemonium
Christmas specials don’t have to be all sweet, right? Sabrina Carpenter throws that suggestion out the frosted window with A Nonsense Christmas, a musical-comedy extravaganza that’s part variety show, part fever dream. Filled with celebrity guest stars (Shania Twain, Quinta Brunson, Cara Delevingne, and more) and replete with tongue-in-cheek humor, it’s crazy in the very best way. Half-sparkle, half-snark, this is the Christmas special for those who adore tradition but with a dash of glitter and irony.
7. Meet Me Next Christmas – Music, Meet-Cutes, and Mayhem
Christina Milian gets back to romantic-comedy stardom in Meet Me Next Christmas, a bubbly love story filmed during a snowy New York City. The story? Layla wants to get tickets to a sold-out Pentatonix concert and perhaps find “the one” in the process. With musical numbers, slapstick antics, and the ideal balance of cheese and charm, it’s one of those movies that makes you smile even when you’re rolling your eyes (for good).
6. Our Little Secret – Lindsay Lohan’s Cringeworthy Ex-Mas Reunion
Lindsay Lohan keeps her holiday comeback vibe alive with Our Little Secret. In this rom-com, she is reunited with Ian Harding from the Pretty Little Liars series. After discovering that their new partners are siblings, two exes are compelled to spend Christmas together under the same very critical roof. Kristin Chenoweth overplays her role to the extreme as the domineering matriarch, while Tim Meadows brings on the hilarious chaos. It is fast, sharp, and ridiculously awkward—the kind of family Christmas terror that is unsettlingly accurate.
5. The Merry Gentlemen – A Naughty-but-Nice Holiday Spectacle
What if you take elements from Magic Mike and White Christmas and combine them? The result would be The Merry Gentlemen. Britt Robertson plays the role of a dancer who comes back to her hometown to save her parents’ theater by creating a fun, all-male, holiday revue. The glittery ensemble is led by Chad Michael Murray and, yes, it is as uproarious and over-the-top as it sounds. The movie goes from being heartfelt to tongue-in-cheek and back again, making it the right combination of sparkle, sweat, and sentiment.
4. Hot Frosty – The Snowman Rom-Com We Didn’t Know We Needed
Christmas queen and the most lovable one of the time, Lacey Chabert, finally takes her trademark holiday formula a step further in Hot Frosty. In the movie, she is the one who brings a snowman to life by accident (Dustin Milligan), and he is, well, outrageously handsome. What could be a fiasco turns out as a surprisingly charming rom-com about loss, love, and the weird magic of the holidays. It is ridiculous, heartfelt, and the perfect homage to every Hallmark movie you have ever liked (or mocked).
3. Carry-On – Holiday Action with High Stakes
Christmas action films are back on the holiday menu. Carry-On serves up straight-up Die Hard-esque, with Taron Egerton playing an X-ray technician who is blackmailed by Jason Bateman into smuggling a mysterious package onto a flight, on Christmas Eve. Trapped in an airport for most of the film, it still gets tense, frantic, and surprisingly festive. If you prefer your Christmas film with explosions rather than carols, this one’s your ticket.
2. Mary – The Nativity Retold on an Epic Scale
Netflix goes big with Mary, a majestic biblical epic reimagining the birth of Jesus from the perspective of Mary. Noa Cohen plays the title role with understated power, and Anthony Hopkins brings dignity as King Herod. Visually ambitious and emotionally honest, it’s a testament that the season’s spiritual heritage still has narrative heft. Respectful but never preachy, Mary is timeless, a welcome addition to the contemporary Christmas canon.
1. The Netflix Christmas Machine – Comfort, Chaos, and Holiday Gold
Let’s be honest: the actual star of Christmas 2024 is not any one movie, but rather Netflix itself. The streaming platform has basically perfected the self-aware holiday movie to a very fine extent by delivering equally snow-globe escapism, nostalgic, and innovative stories. Netflix has a certain way of making us millennial holiday nostalgia hit perfectly with the antics of Lindsay Lohan, the romance of Lacey Chabert, or the chaos of Sabrina Carpenter. What’s the result? Loads of comfort, glamour, and just the right amount of anarchy, and we can’t turn away from watching.
So, if you want to watch a heartwarming drama, a sparkling musical, or an utterly insane rom-com about a snowman boyfriend, Netflix is the place to be this holiday season.