New Christmas Movies to Stream in 2026

It's not the Christmas season until you flip through the channels and see more than one movie about a big city executive stuck in a small snowy town and unexpectedly forging a romance with a hunky chocolatier or candle maker. 

That's because television's favorite time of year is the winter holiday season, and it is not afraid to let you know that with a barrage of Christmas movies. Sure, you can watch Elf or A Christmas Carol or any other classic, but why not unwrap a new Christmas movie also?

We're taking a look at the new Christmas movies coming out this season, which are predictably dominated by romance, but also include some children's films and a little horror, too. 

If you're looking for Christmas movies from Hallmark, Great American Family, or Lifetime, they aren't in the list below because there's so many of those, that we gave them their own calendars.

More Christmas movies:

• Hallmark Christmas movie schedule
• LIfetime Christmas movies schedule
• Great American Family Christmas movies schedule

Joey Graziadei continues his meteoric ascension up the celebrity ladder as the heartthrob in Roku's Christ-mance movie The Holiday Spark. The former Bachelorette runner-up, Bachelor star, Dancing with the Stars winner, and future The Traitors contestant plays a firefighter who enlists the help of a children's book illustrator (Jamie Chung) to put on a holiday bash at his firehouse. It is quite possible that the "spark" in the title has more to do with romance than fire, but you'll have to tune in to find out. This will go great with your pre-midterms anxiety. [Trailer]

Monday, Nov. 2 on The Roku Channel

Look who's talking! In this film, it's a Basset Hound, who narrates the story of a family pulled apart during a health emergency over the holidays, and details the lengths he goes to in order to bring his human owners together with the help of a Corgi puppy (who apparently enjoys riding robotic vacuums). Thomas Haden Church provides the pooch's voice, while Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia, and Mary Steenburgen also star. This will go great with your post-midterms anxiety. [Trailer]

Wednesday, Nov. 4 on Netflix

Ayesha Curry shows her range in her feature-film starring debut, playing a woman who returns home for the holidays, where she reunites with the high school boyfriend (Matthew Daddario) who dumped her on Christmas day when she was 18. Will romantic sparks fly? Can Steph Curry hit an open three? [Trailer]

Thursday, Nov. 5 on The Roku Channel

Peyton (Kelley Jakle) and Ethan (Colton Little) were buzzing over the sparks between each other on their first date... and then he stole her dream job! Or did he? Was it all a misunderstanding? Nothing that getting stuck in a cabin for several days during a Christmas snowstorm can't fix. [Trailer]

Thursday, Nov. 5 at 8/7c on UPtv

There have been many holiday shows and movies with a spin on the title The 12 Dates of Christmas, but this Hulu original film is definitely another one. Lucy Hale plays a woman whose badgering family won't let her forget that she's a loser single person during Christmas, so she vows to be attached the next time the holidays roll around and goes on 12 dates in the 12 weeks leading up to Christmas to find a man. After many disasters, she finds romance with a man (seven-time Teen Choice Award winner Ian Harding) she meets in a chance encounter. Yep, it's a Pretty Little Liars reunion without the creepy student-teacher affair! [Trailer]

Friday, Nov. 6 on Hulu

Like 97 percent of Christmas romance movies, the logline for Chocolate for Christmas begins with "a woman returns to her small hometown." There, she (Angela Cole) tries to save her family's chocolate shop, and falls in love with the dude (Joel Berg) who is trying to raise the shop's rent. [Trailer]

Friday, Nov. 6 on UPtv

Tyler Perry's latest film follows a pastor (Durrell "Tank" Babbs) as he inherits a run-down church, which he revitalizes to empower his community before Christmas. [Trailer]

Wednesday, Nov. 11 on Netflix

The finest first responders in the canidae family crash land on a mysterious dinosaur-filled island, where real-world marketers search for more characters to turn into toys and put on cereal boxes and pajamas. [Trailer]

Thursday, Nov. 12 on Paramount+

Horse gal Ella (Kathryn Davis) arrives at a prestigious equestrian center to train and rehab her horsie, and finds a potential soulmate in fellow horse lover and ranch hand Theo (Franco Lo Presti). But Theo is hiding a secret: He's actually a centaur! No wait, he's a prince. 

Thursday, Nov. 12 on UPtv

Predictions for Jared Padalecki's post-Supernatural career ranged from box office superhero megastar to cowboy hat-wearing CBS procedural lead, and one of those has already come to fruition and gone away because of cancellation (R.I.P. Walker). In hindsight, we all should have predicted he would become the star of a Netflix Christmas movie, playing a hunk who engages in the holiday movie trope of faking a relationship with a hottie who doesn't initially like him, opposite a co-star who was also a big deal in a 2000s CW series. Gossip Girl's Leighton Meester plays a bodyguard (yes) whose newest client is an action star (Padalecki), and despite some tension, they decide to just remain professional. Just kidding, they hook up. Sorry for the spoiler! [Trailer]

Wednesday, Nov. 18 on Netflix

The Summer I Turned Pretty's Christopher Briney and Landman's Michelle Randolph leverage their breakouts as hot young streaming stars into what else? Starring roles in a romantic holiday movie about hot young people. This one is said to be in the vein of Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, with the duo trying to get across the country during the busy holiday season, except Steve Martin and John Candy never made out with each other along the way (that we know of).

Monday, Nov. 23 on Prime Video

In this adaptation of the Christina Lauren book In a Holidaze, Maddie Ziegler plays a young woman stuck in a time loop over Christmas, and she's convinced one way to get out of it is to confess her feelings for a family friend. [Trailer]

Wednesday, Dec. 2 on Netflix

In between takes on Reacher, Alan Ritchson is apparently shooting straight-to-streaming movies. The big guy stars as a thief who gets assigned a job by Santa Claus (Arnold Schwarzenegger) to steal back his magical bag of toys from a klepto elf (Awkwafina). [Trailer]

Wednesday, Dec. 2 on Prime Video

A judge (former Dancing with the Stars pro Kym Johnson Herjavec) on a dancing competition reality show hides out in a small town after her dramatic exit from the series goes viral. But as these things go, she meets a handsome dancer (former Dancing with the Stars runner-up Gilles Marini), and they waltz their way to romance. [Trailer]

Friday, Dec. 4 on UPtv

Greg Heffley and his family return for another Christmas special, this time ditching the cold snow by heading to the tropics for an island vacation. But paradise isn't what it's cracked up to be. [Trailer]

Friday, Dec. 4 on Disney+

A typical Italian family gathering on Christmas Eve becomes anything but typical when grandma dies and reanimates, going on an undead killing spree. As more relatives suffer the same fate, the survivors must battle the zombies while also withstanding the usual family bickering. [Trailer]

Friday, Dec. 4 on Shudder and AMC+

Everything you need for fall TV:

• The complete guide to fall TV
• The most anticipated shows coming this fall
• All the new shows coming this fall
• The ultimate guide to what to watch in November