Netflix’s November 2026 holiday lineup draws on a wider mix of outside studios and networks than in recent years. The service has 26 licensed Christmas titles slated for the United States, according to its November newsletter and additional listings: three more than last November and 10 more than in 2024. The range includes a theatrical release, two seasons of a Hallmark mystery series, recent Lifetime premieres and a new Barbie special.
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The licensed slate complements a busy Netflix Originals schedule, which includes Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas, A Dog’s Perfect Christmas, Sweden’s The Christmas Switch and the Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki romance Guarding Stars. The full list of Netflix-produced titles appears in the Netflix Christmas movie schedule for 2026.
For families, Netflix Kids & Family plans a limited-time “Holiday Magic Playlist” starting November 2. It will collect Christmas episodes from shows including My Little Pony, Hilda, Johnny Test and The Smurfs.
Licensed holiday films tend to be difficult to secure during the season when their rights are most valuable. That helps explain why this month’s roster leans heavily on recent romantic comedies from independent distributors instead of familiar studio staples such as Home Alone, The Grinch, The Polar Express and Elf.
The suppliers have shifted again. Freeform and ABC titles from Disney return for a second year, Lifetime contributes four recent films, and Great American Family also has several entries. Nicely Entertainment is the largest individual source, with as many as six titles. Hallmark’s first two seasons of Mistletoe Murders are a notable addition: they arrive shortly before Season 3 debuts on Hallmark Channel. Lionsgate’s The Best Christmas Pageant Ever is the month’s most prominent theatrical film. Six titles that streamed on Netflix last Christmas are returning; the rest appear to be new to the US service. Release dates may change as Netflix publishes title pages.
November opens with seven holiday arrivals
Seven licensed titles are set for November 1, alongside a broad library refresh that includes Air Force One, Bridesmaids, Looper and Whiplash. The holiday group ranges from a new Barbie production to a major theatrical adaptation and several returning Disney titles.
Shout! Studios
- A Sudden Case of Christmas (2024) – Danny DeVito and Andie MacDowell star in this Italian comedy about a divorcing couple who travel with their daughter to her grandfather’s Dolomites hotel to share the news. The child asks for one last Christmas together, despite it being August. Peter Chelsom (Serendipity) directed. Shout! Studios/Notorious Pictures.
- Barbie in the Nutcracker (2026) – This CGI reimagining marks the original Barbie film’s 25th anniversary; the 2001 movie returned to Netflix in September. Debbie Allen choreographs and executive produces, and the late Tim Curry voices the Rat King’s father in his final performance. Netflix and Mattel previously announced the new special.
- The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024) – Dallas Jenkins, known for The Chosen, adapts Barbara Robinson’s novel about the unruly Herdman children taking over a small town’s Christmas pageant. Judy Greer, Pete Holmes and Lauren Graham star. The film earned more than $40 million at the box office and has a 92% Rotten Tomatoes score. This is its Netflix debut. Lionsgate.
- Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas (2019) – Aisha Dee plays a woman who dies after a promising first date and returns as a ghost to settle unfinished business. Her best friend, played by Kimiko Glenn, is the only person who can see her. Freeform/Disney. Returning.
- Mistletoe Murders (Seasons 1–2) – Sarah Drew stars as Emily Lane, who runs a Christmas shop year-round while secretly investigating murders. A local detective, played by Peter Mooney, grows wary of her. Season 1 debuted on Hallmark+ in 2024; Season 2 aired on Hallmark Channel last November. Both seasons arrive four days before Season 3 starts on Hallmark Channel on November 5. Hallmark Media.
- No Sleep ‘Til Christmas (2018) – Real-life spouses Odette and Dave Annable play two insomniacs who discover they can sleep only beside each other, complicating matters because she’s engaged to someone else. Freeform/Disney. Returning.
- Same Time, Next Christmas (2019) – Lea Michele leads her first feature film as Olivia, who repeatedly meets her childhood sweetheart, played by Charles Michael Davis, at a Hawaiian resort. Their annual reunion gets harder as life intervenes. ABC/Disney. Returning; it drew 4.8 million viewing hours on Netflix last year, the strongest result among the three returning Disney films.
Three more titles arrive November 3. Danica McKellar stars in Great American Family’s A Cinderella Christmas Ball (2024) as a Chicago dance instructor who travels to the kingdom of Havenshire in search of her birth mother. She winds up teaching a reluctant prince, played by Oliver Rice, to waltz before the Christmas Eve ball. The film is already available on Netflix in the UK and Ireland.
Great American Family’s Christmas Time Is Here (2021) follows a realtor, played by Rukiya Bernard, who’s trying to sell her widowed father’s resort to a prospective buyer, played by Dewshane Williams. The sale may be complicated by their growing interest in each other.
Menorah in the Middle (2022) is the lineup’s sole Hanukkah film. Lucy DeVito plays a food blogger who takes her finance-bro fiancé home for the holidays, where she finds her father hospitalized and the family bakery struggling with debt. Jonah Platt and Sarah Silverman also star. After its Hulu premiere, the film hadn’t been available to stream in the US.
Lifetime premieres and holiday romances fill the middle of the month
November 4 brings two Lifetime films alongside Netflix’s own A Dog’s Perfect Christmas.
- A Runaway Bride for Christmas (2025) – Entertainment Tonight host Nischelle Turner takes her first lead role as a bride who flees her wedding and reconnects with a high-school crush, played by Virgin River actor Mark Ghanimé. Her former fiancé turns up hoping to win her back. The film premiered on Lifetime in December 2025. Lifetime/Reel One.
- Deck the Hallways (2025) – Loretta Devine plays a Chicago grandmother who stopped organizing her apartment building’s holiday party after her husband died. Her granddaughter, played by Naika Toussaint, returns home and changes the family’s plans. Lifetime.
On November 5, Netflix adds Deck the Halls (2006), a different film from the Lifetime title above. Matthew Broderick plays an uptight optometrist who clashes with a neighbor, played by Danny DeVito, over a Christmas light display intended to be visible from space. Its 6% Rotten Tomatoes score has become part of its appeal as a cult rewatch. 20th Century Fox/Disney.
Two more Lifetime titles land November 11, the same day as Tyler Perry’s The Gospel of Christmas. In How to Fall In Love By Christmas (2024), Teri Hatcher plays a lifestyle-brand CEO who has to write a column about finding love by Christmas to secure a major partnership. She pretends to date the photographer assigned to the story, played by Dan Payne. Rodeo Christmas Romance (2025) pairs Rebecca Dalton, as an equestrian caring for a ranch over Christmas, with Corey Sevier, a brooding veteran. The story also involves an injured horse. Both films are from Lifetime; the latter is distributed by Champlain Media.
Great American Family
Great American Family’s Australian-made A Christmas Castle Proposal: A Royal in Paradise 2 arrives November 12. Rhiannon Fish and Mitchell Bourke return as novelist Olivia and Prince Alexander, who invite both families to spend Christmas in his kingdom. The first film isn’t on the November schedule. Nicely Entertainment distributes the sequel.
On November 13, A Merry Christmas Wish (2022) brings Jill Wagner back to a family farm. Her New York advertising executive returns intending to sell it, then gets pulled into organizing the farm’s annual Winter Wonderland with the farmhand, played by Cameron Mathison. The Great American Family film previously streamed on Hulu.
Two Chicago-made films from the same producers arrive November 16, both previously Hulu exclusives. In Christmas On The Ranch (2024), Jade Harlow plays a radio relationship expert whose trip to a major New York job is derailed in rural Ohio. She ends up at the ranch of a widowed single father, played by Houston Rhines. The title is distinct from the 2021 LGBTQ romance Christmas at the Ranch.
Nicely Entertainment
Nicely Entertainment’s Reporting for Christmas (2023) follows a TV producer, played by Tamara Feldman, sent to a small Iowa town to cover a family toy company. She falls for the company heir, played by Matt Trudeau; D.B. Sweeney co-stars.
Returning titles and late-month arrivals
Two Nicely Entertainment films set around farms and family businesses arrive November 19. In A Cherry Pie Christmas (2025), Katie Leclerc (Switched at Birth) plays a Chicago pastry chef who returns to her family’s cherry orchard in Door County, Wisconsin. She searches for her grandmother’s unfinished recipe ahead of the town bake-off, with Ryan Carnes as an old flame.
Nicely Entertainment
Christmas at Fields Ranch (2025) centers on a New York broker, played by Anna Marie Dobbins, who inherits her grandfather’s ranch just before the holiday. She must weigh a profitable sale against reconnecting with the ranch hand she once liked, played by Marc Herrmann. Mischa Barton co-stars.
Three films return November 21, the same date they arrived on Netflix in 2025. Each streamed last Christmas before leaving the service in May. The Family Holiday (2007) stars Dave Coulier as a con man who borrows twin orphans and hires a nanny to pose as his wife, hoping to meet the family-man terms of his uncle’s inheritance. In Marry Christmas (2024), Joey and Matthew Lawrence play newly engaged brothers who accidentally reserve the same wedding venue for Christmas Day; Andrew Lawrence directed. The Lawrence family’s first Christmas film, Mistletoe Mixup (2021), stars Danielle Chuchran as a workaholic who meets two appealing men on the same day, unaware they’re brothers. The latter two come from Shout! Studios.
Netflix lists two films for November 24. All for Christmas (2026), starring Whitney Leavitt and Jesse Kove, is the month’s least familiar entry. Written by Ansley Gordon, who also wrote How to Fall In Love By Christmas, it follows a podcaster assigned to try online dating. She connects with a mystery man who turns out to be renovating her grandmother’s Christmas Eve venue. No network schedule had listed the film, suggesting a direct Netflix debut.
The Trouble With Mistletoe (2017) adapts Jill Shalvis’s Heartbreaker Bay novel for Passionflix. Rachel Melvin plays Willa, a San Francisco pet-shop owner whose former high-school crush, Keane (Thomas Beaudoin), returns needing a cat-sitter. This is separate from Great American Family’s 2026 film with the same title.
What the schedule leaves out
Hallmark’s 2026 Christmas films aren’t included in Netflix’s US lineup. The service has also dropped last year’s group of six Reel One titles and most of Lifetime’s 2025 selections, along with repeat arrivals A Holiday Engagement, Christmas in the Heartland and My Dad’s Christmas Date.
Netflix has already announced two December Originals: In a Holidaze for December 2 and Gabby’s Dollhouse: Makers and Bakers Holiday for December 9. No licensed holiday titles for December have been announced yet. For now, November’s release list points to a strategy built on volume and variety, with the best-known additions arriving early and independent distributors supplying much of the month’s remaining calendar.
