Christmas is no time for cinematic Scrooges. If you’re looking for complicated emotions and realistic plotting, you’re just going to have to wait until the pine trees hit the curb and the talk turns to awards season. For now, your options are bubbly rom-coms with scenarios that have never once occurred on planet Earth and movies underscoring the importance of friends, family and togetherness with all the subtlety of a giant decorative candy cane smashing you in the head – and damn it, you’re going to like it!
It’s the kind of holiday fluff Netflix specialises in. Over the last decade, the streamer has challenged Hallmark as the main producer of yuletide cheer, cranking out all manner of cheery, peppermint-scented originals while also loading up on a few Christmas classics. Sure, no one’s going to argue that most of these movies for Oscar consideration, but that’s not what this time of year is about. It’s about throwing on your most garish sweater, picking the cheesiest-looking title you can dig out, and letting it warm your core like the hottest of cocoa. To that end, here are the best Christmas movies currently streaming on Netflix in the UK.
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