To let you in on a secret, you can try out one of Netflix's searchable codes, which give hyper-specific genre roundups: Find a trove of Christmas rom-coms here, feel good holiday movies, or even films for young children. Some are as satisfying as finding a treat in an advent calendar, and others are as polarizing as fruitcake. To help you figure out where to start, we’ve put together a list of the best holiday movies currently streaming on Netflix. And in 2021, a rom-com designed for romance readers is premiering: A Castle for Christmas is about a romance author voyaging to Scotland over the holidays. Or, how about trying the Dolly Parton-helmed Christmas in the Square, featuring Debbie Allen's choreography ? Netflix also has the charming Jingle Jangle, starring Phylicia Rashad and Forest Whitaker, with music by John Legend. You can watch Vanessa Hudgens get medieval in The Knight Before Christmas or use a British accent in The Princess Switch and its over-the-top sequels (the third one is coming this year). Combine those with a few classic Christmas titles, and Netflix has plenty of good holiday movies worth watching. Curling up with a movie (and a warm cocktail) is one of the most time-honored Christmas traditions, after all. More than any other streaming service, Netflix has gone all-in on original Christmas content, including some hidden gems. It’s a campy romp - with original songs - that follows a big-city success who doesn’t have to compromise her dreams for (queer) love.It’s that time of year to delight in tree decorating, fuzzy socks, Bing Crosby tunes, and all the holiday movies Netflix is adding to its lineup, just in case you want to give those Hallmark flicks a break. The two quickly reignite their relationship though struggle to figure out how they still fit into each other’s lives. Although the two haven’t spoken in years, their mothers decide to intensely meddle and reunite the pair aided by the fact that Becca will be directing the town’s Christmas pageant, where Sam runs the one-person crew (naturally). Broadway star Becca Winters (Dia Frampton) takes a break from the stage to spend a month back home in Evergreen, Tennessee, where her childhood best friend and first love, Sam Sheridan (Andi René Christensen), still works at their family’s bar as a trivia host and butch-of-all-trades. Merry & Gay (2022)Ĭhristin Baker’s ( Christmas at the Ranch, Season of Love - both on this list) latest queer holiday film is the first Christmas romance with a nonbinary lead. The Holiday Sitter premieres on the Hallmark Channel on Sunday, December 11. Dragons: Rescue Riders: Huttsgalor Holiday. DreamWorks Happy Holidays from Madagascar. The Holiday Sitter is a fast-paced, feel-good, family-friendly holiday film assimilating the queers into the suburban dreamscape. A Christmas Special: Miraculous: Tales of Ladybug & Cat Noir. Luckily for the bachelors, Sam hires Jason as an “uncle consultant” to help him get through four days with small kids. Nearby, handsome single-gay-father-aspiree Jason (George Krissa) studies an adoption pamphlet in his festively decorated mansion while his doting mom consoles him via phone from her home across the street. Sam (Jonathan Bennett of Mean Girls fame - watch for a very good reference), a self-employed Manhattan workaholic “business manager,” plans to jet off to Hawaii for Christmas but is instead summoned to the dreaded suburbs to babysit his niece and nephew. Hallmark’s first-ever gay Christmas romance is a sparkly, trope-y film about the virtues of settling down and starting a family in a glitzy world where homophobia doesn’t exist. Now if we could just get a smart, well-written, celebrity-cast lesbian Hanukkah rom-com. That is, gay and lesbian Christmas movies actually center queer people now - same-sex holiday revelers crush and fall in love, break up, regain romance, and just live the same celebratory December existence every heterosexual (or closeted) character has gotten for, well, ever. And while the film is still worth an annual watch, so much more has happened in seasonal cinema since SJP’s iconic spilled-strata scene with matriarch Diane Keaton. Not too long ago, LGBTQ+ people who wanted to see themselves represented in holiday movies could either (a) pretend or (b) settle for a second-rate film with a queer character who had very few lines, ambition, or development.Įarly in the contemporary queer holiday canon, 2005’s The Family Stone, which stars gay icon Sarah Jessica Parker as a (shocker) snobby New Yorker spending the holidays at her boyfriend’s family home, became a queer hit for its B-plot gay couple with ambitions to adopt a baby. This list was originally published in 2021. Netflix has built an extensive catalogue of movies of all genres and styles, and it has a good selection of Christmas movies and here are the best. Photo-Illustration: Vulture Photos Courtesy of Hulu, Netflix, The Weinstein Company via TUBI, and Hallmark Channel
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