When it comes to Christmas movies, Netflix always makes sure that its subscribers have enough titles to choose from, both licensed and original, and here are the best ones for the Holiday season 2021. Streaming platforms have gained a lot of force in the last years and have become a main source of entertainment for many around the world. The appeal of these comes not only from the fact that subscribers get easy access to a wide catalogue of TV shows and movies but also the quality of content they offer, with most of them combining licensed and original content.
Although there are now a variety of streaming platforms, each of them offering different content, Netflix continues to be at the top thanks to it being around for longer, its wide catalogue, and its original TV shows and movies. Netflix even brings original Christmas content every year, and it has built its own connected world of Holiday movies, and while some of these aren’t exactly the most impressive and complex stories, they have proven to be very popular with viewers, and have even got sequels to create their own little worlds.
Of course, when it comes to Christmas movies, Netflix also has movies that weren’t produced by the streaming giant and some that were released even before streaming platforms were a thing, but its biggest hook is its original movies – and here are the best Christmas movies on Netflix in 2021.
The Holiday
The Holiday has become a must-watch for many during the Holiday season and with good reason. Written and directed by Nancy Meyers, The Holiday tells the story of Iris (Kate Winslet), an English columnist, and Amanda (Cameron Diaz), a movie trailer producer, both with very bad luck in love. Tired of their failed relationships, they arrange a home exchange and spend the Holidays in a completely different world and meet two men that will change their perspective on relationships: Miles (Jack Black) and Graham (Jude Law).
White Christmas
From the vault of nostalgia comes White Christmas, the 1954 musical film directed by Michael Curtiz. Former Broadway star Captain Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) and aspiring performer Private Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) help Betty (Rosemary Clooney) and Judy Haynes (Vera-Ellen) escape from their landlord, after which they ask them to perform in a t Christmas show so they can help their old commander’s inn get back in business, but not before a romance starts brewing between Betty and Bob, and Judy and Phil.
Klaus
Klaus is an English-language animated movie directed by Sergio Pablos and released on Netflix in 2019. It tells an alternate origin story of good old Santa Claus, using a fictional 19th-century setting and following Jesper Johansson (voiced by Jason Schwartzman), a postman stationed in an island town to the Far North. As Jesper is about to give up due to the citizens hardly exchanging words (let alone letters), he finds an ally in local teacher Alva (Rashida Jones) and discovers Klaus (J.K. Simmons), a mysterious carpenter who lives alone in a cabin full of handmade toys.
The Christmas Chronicles
Holidate
The Holiday season is perfect for rom-coms, and Holidate follows Sloane (Emma Roberts), a young woman living in Chicago, and Jackson (Luke Bracey), a young Australian golfer living in Evanston, and what they have in common is that they hate the holidays. Sloane and Jackson constantly find themselves single, sitting at the kids' table, or stuck with awkward dates, but when they meet one particularly bad Christmas, they make a pact to be each other’s “holidate” for every festive occasion throughout the next year. With a mutual disdain for the holidays and assuring themselves that they have no romantic interest in the other, they make the perfect team – but as a year of miscellaneous celebrations come to an end, Sloane and Jackson find that sharing everything they hate may prove to be something they unexpectedly love.
Let It Snow
Following the line of Christmas rom-coms is a mysterious woman covered in tin foil (Joan Cusack), and an epic party at the local Waffle Town. Also starring are Isabela Merced, Odeya Rush, Liv Hewson, Mitchell Hope, Kiernan Shipka, and Jacob Batalon.
The Knight Before Christmas
The Knight Before Christmas is a Christmas comedy movie directed by Monika Mitchell. When Sir Cole (Josh Whitehouse), a medieval English knight, is transported to the present day, he has to acclimate to the modern world of radios, television, cars, and more. Luckily, he meets Brooke Winters (Vanessa Hudgens), a high school science teacher who offers him a place to stay, and with whom Cole quickly develops a deep bond, leading to a romance that has time as its worst enemy.
A Castle For Christmas
Sophie Brown (Brooke Shields) who travels to Scotland to escape the scandal of her latest work, and so she decides to visit the ancestral village of her grandfather. There she hopes to buy a small castle of her own, but the prickly owner, Duke Myles (Cary Elwes), is reluctant to sell to a foreigner. Working to find a compromise, the pair constantly butt heads, but they just may find something more than they were expecting.
Love Hard
Josh (Jimmy O. Yang), who is also unlucky in love. However, her crush actually does live in the same town, so Josh offers to set them up if she pretends to be his girlfriend for the holidays.
A Christmas Prince
A Christmas Prince is yet another Netflix original Holiday rom-com, this one directed by Alex Zamm. In the lead-up to Christmas, young journalist Amber Moore (Rose McIver) is sent abroad to go undercover to get the scoop on Prince Richard Bevan Charlton (Bem Lamb), a playboy prince who is destined to be king. Amber eventually gets to know Richard and realizes he’s not like everyone thinks, and as this is a Christmas movie, they soon end up developing feelings for each other. A Christmas Prince is followed by two sequels: A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.
