Best Christmas Movies 2023′ and Where to Watch Them
By Isabella Wilson
We are not sure where the time went either, but Christmas is quickly approaching. If you are not feeling festive already, now is the perfect time to start wrapping gifts, eat candy canes, and trim a tree.
If all of that seems like too much work, you can still easily create a festive atmosphere by sitting down and watching some classic Christmas movies, such as The Santa Claus, Die Hard, and Elf.
The top holiday films available on Netflix, Amazon Prime Video, Hulu, Apple TV+, and other streaming services in 2023 are listed here.
Recognizing that this is the time when people want to unwind, the streaming services that dominate the entertainment industry add more new family-friendly options every year.
1. Best Christmas Ever
This winter, Heather Graham and singer-turned-actress Brandy Norwood are collaborating on a Christmas comedy in which they portray lifelong rivals brought together for the holiday season.
Jackie (Norwood) enrages Charlotte (Graham), a friend from university who is skeptical that anyone’s life could be so perfect, by bragging about her perfect family in an annual Christmas newsletter that she sends to all of her friends. But Charlotte swears to uncover the truth when, days before Christmas, a cruel turn of events puts her at Jackie’s door.
You can watch this movie today on Netflix.
2. Dashing Through the Snow
The father, Eddie (Ludacris), who is unmarried, hates Christmas. When a man dressed as Santa Claus (Lil Rel Howery), who might be Father Christmas, appears in Eddie’s chimney, he and his daughter set out on a bizarre adventure. Can Eddie get his Christmas spirit back?
Viewers can enjoy this movie on Disney+.
3. Family Switch
What person does not enjoy a good body-switch film? Well, Jennifer Garner certainly does. Nearly two decades after exchanging bodies in 13 In this Netflix Christmas movie, she plays a thirty-something woman whose body gets switched with her husband’s teenage kids a few days before Christmas due to a rare cosmic event.
The family is compelled to assist one another in navigating getting a football tryout, record deal, college interview, and promotion.
Family Switch is streaming now on Netflix.
4. Candy Cane Lane
In this holiday comedy adventure, Eddie Murphy plays a man who is determined to win the annual Christmas home decoration competition in his neighborhood.
However, Pepper (Jillian Bell), an elf, and Chris (Murphy) accidentally strike up a deal, and Pepper then uses her magic to bring the “12 Days of Christmas” to life. As Chris sets out to break the spell, we anticipate seeing a large number of birds invade the town.
Watch this interesting movie on Amazon Prime Video today.
5. Genie
Christmas King, The author of Love, Richard Curtis, is back this Christmas with a brand-new movie. Bernard Bottle, who plays Paapa Kwakye Essiedu in I May Destroy You, is stuck in a rut in Genie.
In addition to losing his job, his wife left him. However, he then finds an old jewelry box and starts to rub it. Melissa McCarthy’s character Flora emerges, having spent more than 2,000 years imprisoned within the box and prepared to grant an infinite number of wishes.
Bottle finds much more along the way in this comedic adventure than he anticipated when he goes looking for his family with Flora.
The streaming platform for Genie is Sky Cinema.
6. How to Fall in Love By the Holidays
Teri Hatcher, a former desperate housewife, has a busy Christmas schedule. She stars in two winter films, one of which is Lifetime’s Christmas at the Chalet, which is also included on this list.
In this one, Hatcher portrays a successful author who left her career to become a CEO, and her company is failing. She has to start penning a column about falling in love around the holidays if she wants to save it from collapse.
However, matters get considerably more complicated when the attractive photographer assigned to the column steps in.
7. Reporting for Christmas
Reporting for Christmas, which stars Tamara Feldman as a serious reporter forced to take a break from her very serious reporting duties to do a puff piece on a small-town toy company, features one of the most well-known holiday movie tropes.
She learns while on assignment that men from small towns can be just as attractive and endearing as those from large cities, particularly when she meets the toy manufacturer in person.
8. A Christmas Frequency
Right before the holidays is the worst time to be depressed. Unfortunately, Denise Richards, who portrays a morning radio show host who has secretly split from her husband and whose show is losing a ton of listeners, finds herself in this situation.
However, someone has the brilliant idea to save both of them by arranging a string of blind dates, where she, you guessed it, meets a guy with whom she has an intense interest.
9. Sworn Justice: Taken Before Christmas
Would you like to take some risks with your winter-themed content? If so, you should read this thriller about the holidays first on your list.
The film, which stars Vivica A. Fox, Mishael Morgan, and Leland B. Martin, centers on a kidnapped and separated couple. What is scarier is that, for them to survive until Christmas, they must comply with all of their tormentor’s horrifying demands.
10. A Merry Scottish Christmas
A Salinger reunion occurs! One of Hallmark Channel’s biggest wagers this winter is undoubtedly A Merry Scottish Christmas, which stars Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf from Party of Five as estranged siblings reuniting to play siblings once more. You would have to be a huge grump to not support Chabert and Wolf—the latter of whom is dressed in a kilt—in this film, which is set and filmed in Scotland (how is that for a work trip?).
11. Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas
Feeling like we are on a major Ted Lasso withdrawal? With a holiday special where she displays her amazing musical abilities, Ted Lasso’s Hannah Waddingham is here to lift your spirits during the holiday season.
Here’s a bonus: Leslie Odom Jr. and other special guests will be joining her, along with some of Ted Lasso’s best. Win-win!
12. So Fly Christmas
It is not cool to get dumped on Christmas Eve, but Wyvetta (Tichina Arnold) experiences just that. Fortunately, Dione (Tami Roman), her best friend, stands by her side, and together they declare that love has died.
However, right after they start dating, Dione develops feelings for the owner of a record store, which could get awkward if her friend finds out.
13. My Christmas Hero
A film starring Candace Cameron Bure is a Christmas staple! The actress waves the American flag with pride in her first holiday film, My Christmas Hero, which is set with the Great American Family rather than Hallmark.
Bure plays an army doctor who stumbles upon romance while attempting to piece together her family’s military past.
14. Christmas at the Chalet
For Christmas at the Chalet, Teri Hatcher embraces her inner influencer as she portrays a former socialite and TV host who is stranded at a cabin with her son, her ex-husband, and his new girlfriend.
She volunteers at the chalet and records her every move for her expanding fan base to lessen those awkward run-ins.
15. A Biltmore Christmas
Vintage Hollywood! Travel back in time! A film inside another film! Singing! Check, check, check, and check.
In Hallmark’s A Biltmore Christmas, Bethany Joy Lenz and Kristoffer Polaha turn up the charm when Lenz’s character Lucy is transported to the 1947 set of the beloved holiday film His Merry Wife! because her suggested script for the remake is not good enough.
There, she first meets Jack Huston from Polaha, the movie’s star, and sparks fly. However, tampering with any space-time continuum is bound to result in problems.
16. Never Alone for Christmas
Just before Christmas, you break up with your significant other, and then you both end up at the same New Orleans retreat. Not only is that uncomfortable, but you both have a new person in your arms. Oh no? If you look up “messy” in the dictionary, this movie will come up in large red type.
17. Four Christmases
What’s better than one Christmas? Two Christmases! This 2008 romantic-comedy holiday movie doubles that.
Vince Vaughn and Reese Witherspoon portray a couple who, after their tropical Christmas vacation is canceled, must spend Christmas at their divorced parents’ homes, which explains the four.
Anticipate an all-star cast that includes Sissy Spacek, Tim McGraw, Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen, and more, along with a lighthearted and poignant story.
