Let’s Talk 2026 Christmas Movies (And What To Watch)

If you also treat seasonal romcoms like a competitive sport, welcome back. This year there are even more new Christmas movies than last year, which means figuring out what to watch is its own project again. So I pulled together the 2026 lineup across Hallmark, Netflix and a couple of other streamers, so you can plan your cozy nights instead of scrolling while your hot chocolate goes cold.

This post is your master list of premiere dates, basic vibes and where everything is streaming. I’ll be updating it through the season with my thoughts as I watch, so you can highlight your own must watches on your planner, spreadsheet or media Notion tracker if you are a Type A holiday gremlin like me.

Christmas is my main Hallmark season, but if you’re still in fall mode, I’ve also got the 2026 Hallmark fall movies and the Halloween Hallmark movies to keep you busy until December. And if you missed last year, my thoughts are all still in the 2025 Christmas movies post.

Prefer to watch instead? Bree and I talked through this whole lineup, from our most anticipated picks to the Netflix book adaptations.

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Hallmark 2026 Christmas Movies

Hallmark went big this year with 34 new Christmas movies, ten more than last year, plus a new season of Mistletoe Murders. New movies premiere every Friday, Saturday and Sunday through December 20. All of these air on Hallmark Channel in the US at 8/7c unless I note otherwise, and they stream on Hallmark+ the next day.

October 2026 Hallmark Christmas Movies

Kicking off Countdown to Christmas:

’Tis the Season for Setups WATCHED
Friday, October 16
A party planner working a ski lodge’s holiday bash can’t stand the owner’s son, a laid back ski instructor. Then their single parents start hitting it off, and the matchmaking keeps throwing the two of them together. It was a bit of a weak opening, but it was still kind of cute. I always love to see kids meddling and setting the parents up, and in this case, it’s grown kids doing that while also falling in love. It does have the right vibes for the season! ★★★

Holiday Touchdown: A Bears Love Story WATCHED
Saturday, October 17
The third NFL movie heads to Chicago. A reporter who knows nothing about football profiles a superfan headed to her 500th Bears game, and the fan’s firefighter grandson gets assigned to teach her. Lyndsy Fonseca and Robert Buckley, plus a little One Tree Hill reunion. I really enjoyed this one! It’s definitely my favorite of the NFL movies and it had such a sweet backstory, besides the romance. Bree, who joined me to talk through this whole lineup, loved this one too. ★★★★

Mr. & Mrs. Christmas
Sunday, October 18
A single dad who designs holiday displays moves his kids to a new town and gets paired with a practical accountant to bring back the local Christmas market. Brendan Penny and Pascale Hutton, so Chesapeake Shores meets When Calls the Heart.

Winter Wonderlanes
Friday, October 23
A globetrotting pop up restaurateur comes home when her late grandfather’s bowling alley goes up for sale, and teams up with her high school boyfriend to bring back its youth bowling tournament for one last season.

Forgotten Holiday
Saturday, October 24
She panics and runs from his Christmas proposal, then a car accident wipes his memory of the past year, including her. Now she has to recreate their whole romance. The amnesia trope, Hallmark style.

What If Christmas WATCHED
Sunday, October 25
A heart surgeon’s wife who gave up on fashion design is given a magic ornament and wakes up in the life where she became a famous designer. Lori Loughlin and Tom Cavanagh. One of my favorites so far! It’s definitely a movie that will make you appreciate the family and love you have. Super sweet! ★★★★

Who’s Coming for Christmas?
Friday, October 30
A newcomer wants to fill her late grandmother’s table with eight guests on Christmas Eve. Her new neighbor and his daughter help make it happen, until a storm threatens the whole guest list.

Adopting St. Nick
Saturday, October 31
A hardware store owner’s daughter gets paired with a retirement community resident who looks a lot like Santa, and when a renovation stalls, her mom teams up with the community’s always busy director. A Christmas movie on Halloween night.

November 2026 Hallmark Christmas Movies

A Danish Christmas WATCHED
Sunday, November 1
Home in Copenhagen to help at her family’s inn, a hotel tech executive mistakes a guest for a travel writer and scrambles to give him the perfect Danish Christmas. My #1 so far this year! This movie was just perfection. From the hygge to the learning to slow down and feel the love of family around you. ★★★★

Mistletoe Murders Season 3
Thursdays, starting November 5
Emily and Detective Wilner are back with three new holiday mysteries, and this time Emily’s past catches up with her. If you need to catch up first, seasons 1 and 2 are coming to Netflix on November 1.

Merry Memories
Friday, November 6
A by the numbers accountant helps care for her nephew while his mom is deployed and teams up with his free spirited substitute teacher on a Christmas scrapbook.

Holiday Unplugged
Saturday, November 7
A widowed art teacher loses the home videos of her late husband. To keep her kids from finding out, she declares a screen free Christmas while she secretly hunts down the original tapes with help from her dating app match.

A Season of Promises
Sunday, November 8
Estranged sisters reunite when their widowed dad ends up in the hospital and put their differences aside to find him a date before Christmas.

My Christmas Cowboy
Friday, November 13
A Texas news producer still resents her college crush for landing the TV job she auditioned for. When he hides out in Texas after an on air blunder, she has to teach him to ride and rope before he hosts the town’s Reindeer Roundup. Amy Acker and Luke Macfarlane.

The Nights Before Christmas
Saturday, November 14
A New Yorker stuck in a rut keeps waking up on Christmas Eve and falls for a journalist who forgets him every single morning. Tyler Hynes in a time loop.

Mistletoe and Mimosas
Sunday, November 15
Claire inherits her uncle’s Christmas bar, The Tipsy Reindeer, and takes on a rival club owner in a 12 Days of Christmas competition. Tamera Mowry-Housley and Kristoffer Polaha.

Our Holiday Playbook
Friday, November 20
She needs a boyfriend to play in her family’s cutthroat Christmas flag football game, and a former football star turned teacher agrees to fake it if she helps him win his own family’s bake off.

Christmas in Blue Dog Valley
Saturday, November 21
A Hollywood on set veterinarian buys a small town clinic and has to win over the locals, with help from the former owner’s son and a mysterious dog who keeps showing up. Erin Cahill and Andrew Walker. This is based on the novel by Annie England Noblin, and it’s the only book adaptation in Hallmark’s Christmas lineup this year.

Double Booked for the Holidays
Sunday, November 22
Rachael Leigh Cook plays twins running a bookshop in a Welsh book town for Christmas. One falls for the barista next door, the other for a lord, and neither suitor realizes there are two of them.

Christmas Delivered
Thursday, November 26 (Thanksgiving)
A stressed out woman visiting her grandmother in Canada uses her tech skills to rescue a tree farmer’s glitchy Christmas tree delivery app.

The Christmas Eve Feast
Friday, November 27, 6/5c
A burned out New York chef heads home to Boston’s North End to cook her family’s Feast of the Seven Fishes after her Nonna hurts her wrist. Giada De Laurentiis is an executive producer.

Return to Santa
Friday, November 27, 8/7c
Santa finally finds a letter that got lost decades ago and starts granting a grown man’s childhood wishes, with chaotic results, right as his childhood best friend moves back to town. Paul Campbell and Rachel Boston.

The Most Wonderful Secret
Saturday, November 28, 6/5c
A burned out art teacher visiting her brother for the holidays gets picked for the town’s secret scavenger hunt tradition and teams up with the electrician next door.

Holiday Ever After: A Disney World Wish Come True
Saturday, November 28, 8/7c
Lacey Chabert’s family heads to Walt Disney World for Christmas, and the room next door belongs to her disastrous first date. It’s Hallmark’s first movie made with Disney World, and Christy Carlson Romano is in the cast.

Eight Nights for Love
Sunday, November 29, 6/5c
This year’s Hanukkah movie. An auction house employee is given an antique menorah that takes her back to moments from her past each night, and a lot of them involve her best friend.

Miles to Christmas
Sunday, November 29, 8/7c
After a snowstorm cancels her flight, a buttoned up businesswoman catches a ride home to Tennessee in a trucker’s 18 wheeler. Ashley Williams, Steve Lund and Alison Sweeney.

December 2026 Hallmark Christmas Movies

The Snowflake Effect
Friday, December 4
A lawyer’s White Elephant gift turns out to be a lucky charm, and giving it away the wrong way sends bad luck her way, so she and the gift shop clerk chase it across Chicago.

A Grand Biltmore Christmas
Saturday, December 5
The sequel to 2023’s A Biltmore Christmas. A young woman at Biltmore reunites with the mysterious boy she met there as a teen and gets pulled into the present day. Holland Roden, Niall Matter and Andie MacDowell.

The Hallmark Christmas Experience: A Hometown Holiday
Saturday, December 5, 10/9c
A special hosted by Jonathan Bennett and Melissa Peterman, with a sneak peek at what’s coming to Hallmark in 2027.

An Angel in My Stocking
Sunday, December 6
A divorcée who swore off Christmas gets stranded in a small town with her ex husband, and a quirky stranger claims to be her guardian angel.

Christmas in Canterbury
Friday, December 11
An Ohio choir director lands a job in Canterbury, England through a mix up and goes head to head with a traditionalist boys’ choir master over the Christmas Eve cathedral concert.

Snow Globe Town
Saturday, December 12
Inspired by the Brad Paisley song. Tagging along on her sister’s proposal trip to a town famous for Christmas engagements, a woman gets paired with a skeptical journalist.

Noelle Nomads
Sunday, December 13
On the way to Hawaii, a doctor and his daughter stop to deliver a package from his late father, and a fender bender with a free spirit’s RV leaves them stuck at a campground.

Hearts All Aglow
Friday, December 18
At a music museum gala, a music historian chasing an interview with a legendary singer teams up with a lawyer trying to get back his family’s Nat King Cole autograph.

Barking All the Way
Saturday, December 19
A workaholic realtor agrees to dog sit over Christmas, and the chaotic pup keeps pulling her back toward her high school ex. Ian Harding and Tori Anderson.

Save the Date for Christmas
Sunday, December 20
Two perennially single best friends swear off weddings and immediately get roped into a last minute Christmas wedding. Jonathan Bennett and Italia Ricci.

New 2026 Netflix Christmas Movies

Netflix has four big Christmas movies this year plus a Swedish rom com, and four of the five come from books.

A Dog’s Perfect Christmas
Wednesday, November 4
Two Christmases after losing his wife, a grumpy grandfather keeps butting heads with his teenage granddaughter, until a family crisis and a corgi puppy pull everyone back together. It’s narrated by a basset hound. Dennis Quaid, Milo Ventimiglia and Mary Steenburgen. Based on W. Bruce Cameron’s novel, and the director has said no dogs die in this one.

Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas
Wednesday, November 11
A struggling pastor inherits his family’s church in a troubled New York neighborhood and has to find his faith again before Christmas. Fantasia Barrino, Tank, and a cast full of gospel legends like CeCe Winans and Yolanda Adams.

The Christmas Switch
Thursday, November 12
A Swedish rom com where two very different sisters swap lives in the weeks before Christmas, played by real life twins Felice and Happy Jankell. It’s adapted from Eleonor Sager’s audiobook Christmas in St. Anna. If The Princess Switch is one of your comfort rewatches, put this one on the list.

Guarding Stars
Wednesday, November 18
A no nonsense bodyguard (Leighton Meester) is assigned to protect Hollywood’s biggest action star (Jared Padalecki) from a stalker, and when he goes home to his family’s ranch for the holidays, she has to pose as his girlfriend. It’s based on Katherine Center’s The Bodyguard, moved from Texas at Thanksgiving to Montana at Christmas.

In a Holidaze
Wednesday, December 2
After a romantic mistake during her family’s last Christmas at their Utah cabin, Mae wakes up back on the plane and has to relive the holiday until she figures out what will make her happy. Maddie Ziegler and Rob Lowe, adapted from Christina Lauren’s novel, and the authors co-wrote the script.

New 2026 Prime Video Christmas Movies

Clashing Through the Snow
Monday, November 23
Christopher Briney and Michelle Randolph in a holiday road trip rom com that’s been pitched as Planes, Trains and Automobiles for this generation. Paris Hilton plays herself, and it’s from the writers of Netflix’s Love Hard.

A Firehouse Christmas Romance on Roku

The Holiday Spark
Monday, November 2
A perpetually single firefighter (Joey Graziadei from The Bachelor) recruits a children’s book illustrator (Jamie Chung) to help plan his firehouse’s holiday party, and they both start rethinking the idea of love at first spark.

How I’m Tracking My Christmas Movies This Year

Every year I tell myself I’ll remember which ones I watched, and every year by mid December I’m staring at a poster trying to figure out if I saw the movie or just the trailer. So now every movie on this list lives in the watch list of my bookmarked Notion template, in its own 2026 Christmas Movies collection.

Each movie gets a card with its poster, the premiere date, whether I’ve watched it, my star rating and the date I watched it. When I finish one, I switch it to done right from my phone, give it a rating, and it shows up on my dashboard with everything else I’ve read and watched this year.

If you want to track your holiday movies the same way, bookmarked is the Notion template I built for exactly this: your books, your TV and movie watch list and your reading goals, all in one place. It’s what I use every day, Christmas movie season or not.

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Final thoughts on the 2026 Christmas movies

This guide is meant to live with you through the season, not just on day one. As I work my way through the 2026 Christmas movies, I’ll keep tagging anything I’ve seen with WATCHED and adding a quick line or two of my thoughts underneath.

If you’re reading this later, skim for the WATCHED labels to see what I thought, then build your own cozy lineup from there. And if you want the movies I go back to every single year, these are the Christmas romance movies actually worth your time.

I’d love to hear what you’re watching too. Drop your favorites in the comments so we can collectively sort out the holidays watch list. And if you want to read instead, don’t miss the holiday book recommendations here.

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