Family and kids Christmas on Netflix

A selfish postman and a quiet toymaker stumble into inventing Christmas, and it is the softest movie Netflix owns. Hand-drawn, a little sad, and the one we put on when the room needs to exhale.

Kurt Russell plays Santa like a rock star who lost his sleigh, and two kids have to help him get it back. It is loud in the best way, and it is still on Netflix.

A boy goes looking for his father and finds the beginning of Christmas instead. It is a storybook movie, a little dark at the edges, and very kind in the middle.

A family comes apart over the holidays, and a basset hound narrates the long way back together. New on Netflix this November, from the people who wrote A Dog's Purpose. Have the tissues where you can reach them.

Two neighbors go to war over Christmas lights, and the lights are winning. Matthew Broderick and Danny DeVito, on Netflix. Broad on purpose.

A rich woman wants to sell her hometown out from under the Christmas festival, and Dolly is not going to allow it. A musical with a sermon's heart. Sing along or just sit with it.

A toymaker who stopped believing gets a second chance, and the whole thing is a musical with gears and glitter. Put it on when you want Christmas to feel handmade.

The kids are older, the North Pole is in trouble, and Kurt Russell's Santa has a score to settle. A bigger, brighter sequel for the night the first one was not enough.

A kid tries to glue his parents back together by forcing Christmas to happen in the wrong season. Danny DeVito is in the mess, which tells you the tone.

A little girl in Limerick wants one thing for Christmas and learns what the people around her need first. A half-hour, hand-drawn, and quiet enough to watch with cocoa still hot.

Angela is a bit older and the wish is bigger. Another short visit to the same kind streets, for the night you do not want a two-hour movie.

The 2001 Barbie Nutcracker, which was a first ballet for a lot of kids who never made it to the theater. On Netflix and Prime. Tutus welcome.

A soft 2020 Christmas movie, and it is everywhere we checked: Netflix, Prime, Paramount+, Peacock, and Tubi. When a title is this easy to find, the couch wins.

Bodies get swapped across a whole family right before Christmas, and everybody has to live somebody else's day. Jennifer Garner sells the joke, and kids will follow it.

The Herdmans, the roughest kids in town, take over the church Christmas pageant, and the pageant survives by becoming more honest. Judy Greer holds the congregation together. The 2024 film, newly on Netflix.

A boy finds out his family is closer to Santa than anybody let on, and December gets complicated in a lovely way. Netflix carries it. The original title is Dutch. The feeling is universal.

The Moses story as a musical, painted like a cathedral and sung like a prayer. Still one of the most beautiful animated films we know, and Netflix has it.