Most Popular Netflix Original Christmas Movies and Series Of All Time

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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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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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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.