Sipping hot cocoa, baking holiday treats and singing off-key to Christmas carols are great ways to kick off the holiday season. But if you want to take the festivities up a notch, try streaming the best Christmas movies on Netflix.

The holiday rom-com has some new and familiar faces, as well as some festive cameos.When it comes to true love, timing is everything. But leaving it entirely up to fate? That’s a slightly bigger risk.

Tyler Thomas Taormina’s comedy drama about a Long Island family boasts some of the year’s sharpest characterizations and a strikingly original narrative form.

At the end of Peter Godfrey's "Christmas in Connecticut" -- the greatest Christmas movie of all time (don't fight me on this) -- beloved character actor Sydney Greenstreet, having just emerged from a comedy kerfuffle of epic proportions,