Most Popular Netflix Original Christmas Movies and Series Of All Time

It’s the most wonderful time of the year, and if you’re wondering what Netflix’s most popular original Christmas movies and series have been, we’ve got the top 50 from the past few years.

All data below was provided to What’s on Netflix exclusively from the excellent team at FlixPatrol, with whom we’ve collaborated on a number of articles, and they also power our top 10 hub page.

We’re going to split this list into two parts. First, we’ll cover the Christmas movies, shows, and specials that have picked up the most points in the United States, and then we’ll move onto the global list. The global list collects the points for 80+ Netflix countries.

As a quick refresher, points are picked up every time a show or movie gets featured in the daily top 10. If you’re a movie that ranks #10 for one day, you’ll get one point; if you rank #1, you get 10 points.

This data has a few flaws, the biggest being that the Netflix top 10s were only introduced in February 2020 after a small test. Therefore, for example, the first Christmas Chronicles movie wouldn’t have picked up any points for two years following its initial release.

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Most Popular Christmas Movies and Series in the Netflix US Top 10 Charts

The Christmas Chronicles is THE Netflix Christmas franchise to beat at the moment. Kurt Russell’s return as Santa Clause in the sequel has picked up the most points thus far, but even the first movie scored way more than it probably should’ve been in the second spot.

The two big new Christmas movies for 2023 have also made strong starts following their releases in November, with Family Switch ranking fourth and Best. Christmas. Ever! in fifth.

1. The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020) – 312 points
2. The Christmas Chronicles (2018) – 280 points
3. Love Hard (2021) – 177 points
4. Family Switch (2023) – 155 points
5. Best. Christmas. Ever! (2023) – 135 points
6. A Boy Called Christmas (2021) – 124 points
7. Falling for Christmas (2022) – 118 points
8. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) – 106 points
9. The Noel Diary (2022) – 105 points
10. A California Christmas (2020) – 89 points
11. A Castle For Christmas (2021) – 80 points
12. Operation Christmas Drop (2020) – 80 points
13. I Believe in Santa (2022) – 70 points
14. A California Christmas: City Lights (2021) – 61 points
15. The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) – 61 points
16. Single All The Way (2021) – 59 points
17. The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021) – 57 points
18. Christmas With You (2022) – 55 points
19. DASH & LILY (Season 1) – 50 points
20. Father Christmas Is Back (2021) – 43 points
21. The Great British Baking Show: Holidays (2023) – 43 points
22. Sugar Rush Christmas (2020) – 34 points
23. A Not So Merry Christmas (2022) – 22 points
24. Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (2022) – 21 points
25. Christmas on Mistletoe Farm (2022) – 18 points

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Most Popular Christmas Movies and Series on Netflix Globally

Moving into the global list – The Christmas Chronicles‘ second entry takes the top spot with a country mile in terms of points to the second spot, which is with last year’s Lindsay Lohan’s big return to the big screen in the form of Falling for Christmas.

Another romantic comedy, Love Hard, comes in third place, with this year’s Family Switch showing strength around the globe to come fourth.

1. The Christmas Chronicles: Part Two (2020) – 16,625 points
2. Falling for Christmas (2022) – 12,999 points
3. Love Hard (2021) – 11,612 points
4. Family Switch (2023) – 11,555 points
5. The Christmas Chronicles (2018) – 8,901 points
6. Best. Christmas. Ever! (2023) – 8,772 points
7. A California Christmas (2020) – 8,438 points
8. A Boy Called Christmas (2021) – 8,065 points
9. The Noel Diary (2022) – 7,119 points
10. The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020) – 7,090 points
11. Operation Christmas Drop (2020) – 6,707 points
12. A Castle For Christmas (2021) – 5,868 points
13. The Princess Switch 3: Romancing the Star (2021) – 4,974 points
14. Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020) – 4,472 points
15. Christmas With You (2022) – 4,071 points
16. DASH & LILY (2020) – 4,002 points
17. I Believe in Santa (2022) – 3,430 points
18. Santana (2020) – 3,227 points
19. A California Christmas: City Lights (2021) – 3,103 points
20. I Hate Christmas (2023) – 2,965 points
21. Single All The Way (2021) – 2,842 points
22. Christmas as Usual (2023) – 2,808 points
23. Father Christmas Is Back (2021) – 2,656 points
24. Home for Christmas (2020) – 2,579 points
25. Just Another Christmas (2020) – 2,312 points

What’s your favorite Netflix Original Christmas movie or series? Let us know in the comments.