Black Christmas Movies Are Eating in 2025 Year—Here Are the Best Flicks to Stream

If your holiday watchlist is looking a little too beige, this year’s Black Christmas movie lineup is here to save it. BET+, OWN, Lifetime, and other platforms delivered a fresh wave of holiday movies in 2024 and 2025 centered on Black families, Black love, and Black joy. Here’s a rundown of five Black holiday movies you can stream now – plus where to watch them, who stars in them, and why they deserve a spot in your December rotation.

Lifetime’s 2025 “It’s a Wonderful Lifetime” slate is leaning into R&B royalty with Christmas Everyday, a holiday movie starring Brandy alongside her real-life daughter Sy’Rai Smith. The film follows fashion designer Francine “Fancy” Ballantine (Brandy) as she balances a major career move, mounting family pressure, and her baby sister’s over-the-top Christmas wedding. Sy’Rai plays Belle, the ultimate bridezilla whose chaos keeps Fancy on her toes.

Fashion girls, this one’s for you. Christmas by Design centers on a famous handbag designer, Tuesday Comfort — played by Danielle LaRoach — who is racing to finish a special holiday collection for charity when her designs get leaked in a data breach. She has to call in an IT expert to fix the mess — only to find out it’s a man from her romantic past.

Netflix’s 2024 rom-com Meet Me Next Christmas gives us a Black rom-com heroine front and center with Christina Milian as Layla, with Devale Ellis and Kofi Siriboe rounding out the cast. In the film, Layla makes a pact with a charming stranger, James (Siriboe), to meet at a sold-out Pentatonix Christmas Eve concert the next year — if they’re both single. When she ends up newly single right before the holiday, she races across New York City to get a ticket and find him.

BET+ jumps straight into megachurch politics and Black love with Son of the Preacher. Gabrielle Graham stars as Jasmine, a driven beauty entrepreneur determined to launch her own haircare brand. Her potential big break comes through Caleb Samuel, a flashy preacher’s kid with millions of followers and deep ties to a powerful church empire. What starts as a business opportunity quickly turns personal.

Love After Holidays is messy, to say the least, but it has a heartwarming ending. The film is based on author and actress Jacinth Headlam’s book Love After and follows a once-beloved talk show host whose life falls apart as addiction and personal struggles become overbearing. The film stars Jacinth Headlam alongside Trina, Malik Yoba, and Jeremy Meeks. Headlam has been open about how personal this project feels, revealing on Facebook that Love After Holidays “started as an idea, a prayer, and a vision” before becoming a full BET+ film.