After the 10 must-watch classics — those films that sustain Christmas year after year — there is a second, equally important movement: making room for more recent stories that reflect different rhythms, sensibilities, and ways of experiencing the end of the year.

These titles do not compete with the classics or attempt to occupy the same symbolic space. They exist to offer more options, to follow the spirit of the time,s and to show how Christmas on screen remains a fertile ground for romances, reunions, irony, and small emotional reinventions.

✨ Recent titles that complete Christmas

(15 choices to vary the marathon without breaking the ritual)

Champagne Problems — Netflix
A romance that treats Christmas less as euphoria and more as an adjustment of expectations. The film finds its delicacy precisely in the space between what is desired and what can actually be lived.

Last Holiday — Netflix
An optimistic comedy about allowing oneself to live without apology. Christmas emerges as an emotional turning point, when the protagonist finally decides to take up space in her own life.

The Nutcracker — Amazon Prime Video
Here, Christmas reveals itself through tradition and fantasy. More than a narrative, it works as a visual and musical ritual that connects memory, childhood, and enchantment.

Dear Santa — Paramount+
A film built around the direct relationship between desire and hope. Christmas becomes the space where wishes — childish or adult — expose deeper emotional needs.

A Castle for Christmas — Netflix
A self-aware romantic fantasy. Christmas serves as an emotional refuge and a backdrop for late reinvention, proving that new beginnings have no expiration date.

The Christmas Chronicles — Netflix
A holiday adventure that restores Santa Claus as an active, imperfect figure. It quickly established itself as a “new classic” of the streaming era.

Christmas With You — Netflix
A gentle romance about listening, pause, and connection outside of spectacle. Christmas here is intimate rather than grand — and that is its greatest strength.

Falling for Christmas — Netflix
A romantic comedy that embraces cliché without embarrassment. Christmas works as an emotional reset, light and predictable in exactly the way it promises to be.

Family Switch — Netflix
The familiar body-swap fantasy gains a Christmas framework to explore family empathy. Christmas becomes an emotional laboratory: understanding the other is the real gift.

Holidate — Netflix
An ironic look at the social pressure surrounding holidays. Christmas appears as a trigger for loneliness, expectation, and emotional self-defense.

Jingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey — Netflix
An exuberant musical about creativity, legacy, and reconciliation. Visually inventive and emotionally generous, designed to become tradition.

Our Little Secret — Netflix
A Christmas marked by secrets, discomfort, and family silences. The film works precisely because it refuses to idealize the perfect holiday gathering.

A Little Merry Ex-Christmas — Netflix
Unwanted reunions and unresolved feelings are amplified by Christmas as a backdrop. Light, witty, and fully aware of its own contradictions.

My Secret Santa — Netflix
A story about anonymous gestures and discreet affection. Christmas is treated as a space of quiet generosity — the kind that asks for no recognition.

If the classics give us a sense of home, these more recent titles expand the emotional repertoire of Christmas. They do not replace the ritual — they offer variations. They shift the tone, test new formats and update conflicts, while preserving the essence: the idea that December is a different time, more vulnerable and more open to connection.

In the end, that may be what keeps Christmas so alive on screen. Not the exact repetition of the same stories, but the willingness to welcome new versions of the same old desire: to pause, to look at the other — and, perhaps, to begin again.