Yahoo News Netflix Christmas movies 2018: Best films to watch over the festive period
It's the most wonderful time of the year - but when it's too cold, Netflix can keep you warm.
With classic Christmas hits like Love Actually and The Holiday, to the streaming giants own production The Princess Switch, there's no shortage of festive capers to feast on this December.
So grab a blanket and bury down on the sofa because we've rounded up all the that best Netflix has to offer:
Love Actually
Richard Curtis’ classic film has landed on Netflix. The 2003 hit film follows nine different groups of people as they fight their way through the trials and tribulations of love at the most wonderful time of the year.
Key cast: Hugh Grant, Liam Neeson, Emma Thompson, Alan Rickman, Martin Freeman, Laura Linney, Martine McCutcheon
The Holiday
A big-time movie trailer executive and a wedding columnist switch places for the holiday season in a bid to escape their lives. Cue completely unexpected romantic consequences.
Key cast: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Rufus Sewell, Jack Black
The Princess Switch
A Princess-in-waiting and a Chicago baker discover they look like they could be twins and decide to switch lives for Christmas, soon realising how the other half lives proves complicated.
Key cast: Vanessa Hudgens, Sam Palladio, Nick Sagar
Christmas Inheritance
A high-flying socialite is forced to visit her dad’s small hometown in order to understand the true meaning of helping people at Christmas, before inheriting his company.
Key cast: Eliza Taylor, Jake Lacy, Andie MacDowell
A Christmas Prince
Netflix’s so-bad-it’s-good sleeper hit sees rookie journalist Amber dispatched to the European nation of Aldovia to dig up some gossip on the party-loving Prince Richard. After a case of mistaken identity allows her to go undercover at the palace, she ends up falling for the subject of her exposé…
Key cast: Rose McIver, Ben Lamb, Alice Krige, Honor Kneafsey, Sarah Douglas, Emma Louise Saunders
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Wedding
One year on from the events of A Christmas Prince, Amber and King Richard are gearing up for a festive wedding, but the demands of royal protocol and some Aldovian political drama has the former journalist questioning whether she’s ready to trade in her freedoms for life as a Queen.
Key cast: Rose McIver, Ben Lamb, Alice Krige, Honor Kneafsey, Sarah Douglas, Theo Devaney
The Holiday Calendar
Struggling photographer Abby is down on her luck, stuck taking pictures at the local Santa’s grotto until her grandfather presents her with an antique advent calendar. Behind each door is a clue that seems to predict the future – and might lead her to the love of her life…
Key cast: Kat Graham, Quincy Brown, Ethan Peck, Ron Cephas Jones, Genelle Williams, Kevin Hanchard
Nativity
Primary teacher Paul channels his thwarted hopes of theatrical stardom into his school’s annual Christmas play. When he tells a rival teacher that a Hollywood producer wants to turn his show into a film, his white lies threaten to spiral out of control.
Key cast: Martin Freeman, Ashley Jensen, Jason Watkins, Marc Wootton, Pam Ferris, Alan Carr
The Christmas Chronicles
Siblings Teddy and Kate hatch a plan to prove Santa Claus’s existence by capturing him on camera, but things go awry when the pair stow away on his sleigh, prompting Father Christmas to lose sack loads of Christmas presents. To set things right, they join Santa and his elves in a quest to return the toys to their rightful owners
Key cast: Kurt Russell, Judah Lewis, Darby Camp, Oliver Hudson, Kimberly Williams-Paisley
Arthur Christmas
A sprightly Aardman animation with a voice cast of much-loved British actors, Arthur Christmas introduces us to Santa’s clumsy son, Arthur Claus, who sets out to retrieve a young girl’s lost present before she wakes up on Christmas Day.
Key cast: James McAvoy, Hugh Laurie, Bill Nighy, Jim Broadbent, Imelda Staunton, Ashley Jensen, Marc Wootton
Jack Frost
Family-friendly 90s hit Jack Frost has returned to Netflix just in time for Christmas. A year after losing his dad in a car accident, Charlie’s much-missed parent comes back to life in snowman form, giving him another chance to say goodbye. Did we mention it was a tearjerker?
Key cast: Michael Keaton, Kelly Preston, Joseph Cross, Henry Rollins, Mark Addy, Andrew Lawrence
