When it comes to cozy Christmas rom-coms, Netflix is the streaming world's answer to the Hallmark Channel, as every holiday season sees the platform offering a bigger selection of titles. 2024 was a banner year for them, with us getting Lindsay Lohan's triumphant return to Netflix Christmas romance movies, as she followed up 2022's Falling for Christmas with Our Little Secret. Lohan's Mean Girls co-star and perennial Hallmark leading lady Lacey Chabert also got in on the Netflix holiday fun with Hot Frosty. Other 2024 Christmas romance titles on the streamer included The Merry Gentlemen and Meet Me Next Christmas. 1v6k6d

The shared universe Netflix is setting up within its original romantic comedy films has potentially already been ruined. While the streaming giant confirmed its intent to intertwine its holiday movies, it intends to extend this continuity to non-themed rom-coms as well. However, as Netflix is finding, it takes more than vague references to create real intertextuality.

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.

If it happens, The Princess Switch 4 must pay off the character cameos from other Netflix Christmas movies in The Princess Switch 2 andThe Princess Switch 3and confirm the reality of the Netflix Christmas Movie Universe. The Princess Switch movies are about lookalikes switching places for holiday adventures, with the first movie telling a “Prince and the Pauper” style story in which Stacy, a regular girl from America, switches places with Margaret, a duchess from the fictional kingdom Montenaro. The third Princess Switch movie follows now-Queen Margaret and Princess Stacy as they enlist the help of Margaret’s identical cousin, Fiona, to help them steal back a priceless, jeweled Christmas star from a cunning thief, with Vanessa Hudgens playing all three characters.

Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Starhas doubled down on a confusing plot hole within the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe (or NCCU) with the introduction of another surprising cameo. The Princess Switch series has already featured cameos from cast from A Christmas Princeamidst its delightfully illogical saga of doppelgangers switching places. However, with their latest cameo appearance from another character from the Christmas Prince films, Princess Switch 3 has raised even more questions about the NCCU’s overreaching plot.

Netflixhas officially created its own holiday movie universe with a complex web of connections between the movies, some of which haven't been fully explained. In 2017, A Christmas Prince and Christmas Inheritance debuted as Netflix originals on the streaming platform. These two moves were only the beginning for Netflix, whose library of holiday-themed originals now includes at least ten known movies in the Netflix Christmas Cinematic Universe (or NCCU, as it has recently become known). These movies have referenced each other with many easter eggs, references, and one cameo - so far.

The Princess Switch: Switched Again included three cameos from A Christmas Prince that created a gaping plot hole in the Netflix Christmas movie universe. The Princess Switch: Switched Again is the latest entry of Hallmark-style Christmas movies from Netflix. The first Princess Switch movie stars Vanessa Hudgens as both Stacy and Margaret — one a humble baker and the other a royal duchess — who switch places in a true-to-formula movie where each falls in love with a handsome man in the other’s life. In The Princess Switch: Switched Again, Vanessa Hudgens reprises her roles as Stacy and Margaret — and adds a third identical character, Fiona, to the mix.

A Christmas Prince trilogy star Rose McIver wants to do a Netflix holiday movie universe crossover with The Princess Switch series and The Knight Before Christmas. In the last few years, Netflix has made a name for itself with its holiday rom-coms, with the first to really capture subscribers' interests being 2017's A Christmas Prince, starring McIver as Amber Moore, a journalist sent to the fictional country of Aldovia to dig up dirt on Prince Richard (Ben Lamb). The pair fall in love, but their story didn't end there; the stars reunited for two sequels: 2018's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding and 2019's A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby.

Netflix has become a stronger competitor for holiday audiences every year. Their romantic comedies aren't too far off from Hallmark's fare, but they also have some delightful movies for kids and families. In 2020, the streaming platform has still managed to unveil a line-up that subscribers look forward to viewing.

In 2017, Netflix released A Christmas Prince, one of its first feature holiday films. The cutesy, Hallmark-esque movie ended up striking gold and attracting a cult following. The fairytale premise follows an average girl from New York falling in love and getting into a relationship with a foreign prince. Thanks to Rose McIver and Ben Lamb's performances, Netflix went on to produce a sequel called A Christmas Prince: A Royal Wedding. And just like its predecessor, fans wanted more. What was next for the new King and Queen of Aldovia?