With Christmas approaching, it’s time to watch countless hours of Christmas movies we’ve seen a thousand times before. I searched Netflix and found the best ones to watch as you get ready to go home and celebrate the holiday season.
10.) “A Holiday Engagement” (2011)
I think I’ve seen this plot a million times in Christmas movies. Someone hires someone else to be their boyfriend or girlfriend for Christmas to fool their family. This plot line is overdone, and I know there are much better Christmas movies out there, but it’s still worth a watch to so you can dive right into the holiday spirit.
9.) “Santa Claws” (2014)
In this movie, Santa has an allergic reaction to a sack full of kittens. While Santa recuperates, the kittens must deliver the presents. The lines are cringey and the acting isn’t the greatest. However, the talking kittens are pretty cute which makes it an enjoyable experience nonetheless.
8.) “The Christmas Switch” (2018)
Starring Vanessa Hudgens as two twins, a baker and a soon-to-be princess switch lives for Christmas. Even though it’s a Netflix original it feels like a Hallmark Christmas movie. So, it’s full of cliches and everyone gets together in the end. Sometimes that’s just want you want around Christmas time after the stress of finals.
7.) “The Christmas Chronicles” (2018)
A brother and sister try to stay up all night to catch Santa on camera. Kurt Russel stars as a sarcastic Santa. I haven’t seen Santa portrayed like this before and it’s enjoyable to watch.
6.) “Home for Christmas” (2019)
While this is not a movie, it’s still a Christmas themed television show. It takes the relatable situation of coming home for Christmas and being bombarded with questions about your love life, work life and anything else that you don’t feel like answering. I haven’t finished the first and only season yet, but I know it’s something I’m going to do over break.
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5.) “Holiday in the Wind” (2019)
Rob Lowe and Kristin Davis star in this movie, where a newly single woman goes to Africa by herself on what would have been her second honeymoon with her husband. Their relationship ended days earlier. It’s a good movie about finding yourself after heartache. It’s more focused on Lowe and Davis’s characters relationship rather than Christmas. However, it’s still a decent movie.
4.) “The Holiday Calendar” (2018)
In this movie Kat Graham plays a photographer who receives an advent calendar that can tell the future. I think this is a unique concept and the storyline is great. Plus, Graham kills it in her role. I think it’s an adorable movie any Christmas movie lover should see.
3.) “How the Grinch Stole Christmas” (live action version) (2000)
I think most of us grew up with this story. The live action version staring Jim Carrey brings the classic story to life in a nostalgic way. It’s something that I watch every year and will continue to watch every year.
2.) “Christmas with the Kranks” (2004)
I’m impartial to this movie since I watched it every year as a kid. I was excited when I discovered it was on Netflix. In this movie Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis decide to take a year off of Christmas and go on a cruise while their daughter is away in the Peace Corps. Much to their surprise, she is able to come home for Christmas. The characters must scramble to get Christmas ready a few days beforehand.
1.) “White Christmas” (1954)
This was the only classic Christmas movie I could find on Netflix, which is why it gets the top spot on my list. All those other movies were cute and had good qualities in their own ways, but they don’t beat the Christmas classics.
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