'Tis the season to drown our sorrows in corny Christmas romantic comedies. Then again, if you're like me, it's always the season for.

Netflix has made its name in the Christmas space with films like “The Christmas Prince,” but there are plenty of lesser-known Christmas rom-coms on the streaming platform that need to be on your holiday watch list ...

There's a comfort to Christmas movies that surpasses the predictable format of the generic rom-com; it's oddly comforting to be able to guess the entire plot of a film in 10 seconds; classic Christmas movies from Lifetime and Hallmark are the ones where the protagonist, a city jaded of [insert cliché here] goes to a flannel-loving town with 17 hot cocoa shops to save the [insert cliché here], but Netflix often adds a spin to the genre that shakes things up snow globe-style while still keeping the staple.

Between quirky films like “Lovehard” and classics like “The Christmas Prince,” here are the five best Christmas rom-coms you can stream on Netflix.

It wouldn't be a list of Christmas movies without including a plot about “a jaded Scrooge learning the meaning of Christmas through some sort of charity work.” It's “Operation Christmas Drop. Kat Graham plays Erica, a congressional aide who is tasked with finding a reason to close down an Air Force base. The base's tradition of airlifting gifts to Guam, an actual Air Force tradition of the same name, underlies the film, a reality we don't often see in films of this type.

As you might imagine, Erika must stifle her twisted thinking in order to discover the joy of helping others (for good reason). In the process, she falls in love with the kind-hearted Inspector Andrew Janz (Alexander Ludwig). Who is surprised.

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There's something to be said for streaming services like Netflix giving a bit of, shall we say, glamour to a typically low-budget genre (not to be confused with the family name of dozens of Christmas movie families). In 2017, “The Christmas Prince” helped establish itself as Netflix's Christmas movie hub. Rising writer Amber (Rose McIver) dons the hat of an investigative journalist when she goes undercover as a tutor to a royal family in the fictional country of Aldovia.

Her mission. To get the scoop on Prince Richard (Ben Lam), the supposed playboy. Cue romance and the betrayal that comes with pretending to be someone you love in order to uncover his true identity. Awkward. Given that there are three films in the series, you know the rest.

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The LGBTQ+ Christmas movie section is lacking. These films have been popping up over the past few years, but there are still hardly enough of them to make one movie marathon.

Fortunately, this situation seems to be changing, and “Single All the Way” was the first mainstream attempt to offer what Christmas moviegoers have always wanted: a Christmas romance film between attractive gay friends that is not tinged with pessimism It was one of the first of its kind.

“Single All the Way” has its usual twists and turns. Best friends Peter (Michael Urie) and Nick (Philemon Chambers) begin a fake relationship in order to avoid criticism from Peter's family for staying single forever. Considering that everyone had already shacked up with them, it is not hard to make it work. They just have to decide if there is anything to the assumption that they have loved each other for years.

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Catfish is not usually offered at Christmas, but welcome to the wonderful world of online dating. However, there is something to be said for doing what is not apparent in order to give someone you would not normally look at a chance. Then again, if “Love is Blind” has taught us anything, it is that most people are extremely shallow, even when they are actively trying not to be. But that is the magic of Hollywood: realism is not a prerequisite.

Should I be offended by the fact that most Christmas movie protagonists are journalists? Perhaps because I, too, am a commitment-phobic, good-looking journalist. Perhaps they are on to something here. In the case of Natalie in Love Hard, played by Nina Dobrev, she is ready to settle down--so much so that the Los Angeles-based writer surprises an East Coast guy (Jimmy O. Yang) she was talking to online over the holidays. She is greeted with much drama and self-exploration when she realizes that her love interest is not who he says he is.

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What better than a movie focused on one holiday. It's a movie about all the holidays. The Holiday Date begins with the typical conundrum of being single at Christmas. Who hasn't experienced it?

Sloane, played by Emma Roberts, has a solution to everyone's worst holiday nightmare. It's to enter into a no-privilege friend contract with Jackson, played by Luke Blasey, in which the two sign a pact to be each other's “holiday date” (holiday date partner) for everything from New Year's Eve parties to weddings to excruciating Christmas dinners. It's clear that the platonic aspect of their friendship is put to great test. Of course, the best part of the film is Kristen Chenoweth's chaotically hilarious performance as Sloan's hot-headed Aunt Susan.

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