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With just 23 days until Christmas, streaming services are quickly releasing some holiday favourites and new movies that are sure to get you in the Christmas spirit.

Dubbed as the most wonderful time of the year, the season would not be complete without a cheesy romantic comedy, about a small town guy and a big city girl who fall in love.

Of course, there is also the Christmas spirit that brings everyone together, spreading kindness and love.

If you are feeling like the grinch this holiday season, here are some Christmas movies that can change that grumpy attitude.

1. Falling for Christmas

Streaming platform: Netflix

Genre: Romantic comedy

Cast: Lindsay Lohan, Chord Overstreet, George Young

Synopsis: A wealthy heiress has a skiing accident that leaves her with amnesia. She then finds herself living with a small town widower and his daughter, until she regains her memory.

2. The Noel Diary

Streaming platform: Netflix

Genre: Drama

Cast: Justin Hartley, Barrett Doss, Bonnie Bedelia and James Remar

Synopsis: An author returns home for Christmas after his mother has passed to recover her estate. While cleaning out her house, he finds a diary that holds all of her secrets.

3. Christmas movie magic

Streaming platform: Hulu

Genre: Comedy, Romance, Drama

Cast:  Holly Deveaux, Drew Seeley, Jill Frappier and Jennifer Gibson.

Synopsis: An entertainment writer and a small town theater owner work together to unravel the origins of a classic Christmas movie.

4. Saying yes to Christmas

Streaming platform: Hulu

Genre: Romance

Cast:  Erika Prevost, Romaine Waite, Zoe Doyle, and Sabrina Grdevich.

Synopsis: A workaholic decides to say yes to every Christmas invitation she gets during the holiday season. Her adventures leads her to rekindle love with an old flame.

5. Your Christmas or mine?

Streaming platform: Amazon Prime

Genre: Romantic comedy

Cast:  Asa Butterfield, Daniel Mays, Lucien Laviscount, Cora Kirk and Angela Griffin.

Synopsis: Two young love birds say goodbye to each other as they prepare to celebrate Christmas with their separate families.

Without knowing, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other and are left unaware that they swapped Christmas.

6. A unicorn for Christmas

Streaming platform: Amazon Prime

Genre: Fantasy

Cast: Sunny Mabrey, Charlene Tilton, Christian Finlayson, Abby James Witherspoon, Ed Marinaro

Synopsis: A young girl finds a magic unicorn while at a Christmas fair. She then tries to protect it from a greedy fair manager.

7. A Christmas story Christmas

Streaming platform: HBO Max

Genre: Comedy, Family

Cast: Peter Billingsley, Erinn Hayes, River Drosche, Julianna Layne, and Julie Hagerty.

Synopsis:  The movie follows the classic movie ‘A Christmas Story’ starring Peter Billingsley. Ralphie tries to give his children the amazing Christmas experience he had as a child.

8. A Christmas Mystery

Streaming platform: HBO Max

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Violet McGraw, Santino Barnard and Lauren Donzis.

Synopsis: A town’s most prized Christmas bells goes missing. When her best friend’s dad is accused of stealing the bells, a young girl goes on a mission to find the real thief.

9. How to ruin Christmas: The baby shower

Streaming platform: Netflix

Genre: Comedy, Drama

Cast: Busi Lurayi, Thando Thabethe, Yonda Thomas, and Nambitha Ben-Mazwi.

Synopsis: Part three of the movie series How to ruin Christmas. An African family plans a gender reveal as they celebrate the expansion of the family, but everything goes wrong.

10. The Claus Family 2

Streaming platform: Netflix

Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Family

Cast: Jan Decleir, Mo Bakker, Bracha van Doesburgh, Renée Soutendijk and Eva van der Gucht.

Synopsis: Jules Claus stars to embrace Christmas and is getting ready to delivery presents to boys and girls around the world with him grandpa Noel.

Everything seems to go according to plan, until Jules receives a very special letter with an intriguing question.