This 2024 Holiday season, Netflix has boldly asked the question: What if Christmas was hot?

Every November and December sees the streamer provide audiences with plenty of Yuletide seasonal movies, often resembling the type of corny, predictable, low-budget yet undeniably soothing made-for-TV works that Hallmark and other cable TV competitors push out during the tail end of the year. There's plenty of that this year, most notably Lindsay Lohan's "Our Little Secret," about a couple who break up only to reunite during a Christmas holiday when they discover their new partners are siblings.

But this year, the company has put a bit of spice in the egg nog, so to speak, with "Hot Frosty" and "The Merry Gentlemen" two movies that...also pretty neatly fit into the Hallmark and Lifetime Christmas movie formula, down to featuring the type of early 2000s teen film star (Lacey Chabert in "Hot Frosty," Chad Michael Murray in "The Merry Gentlemen") that often headline this genre. What sets them apart those is that they're loudly, proudly horny. "Hot Frosty" features Chabert as a widow who accidentally makes a snowman come alive, which sounds normal until that snowman is played by Dustin Milligan of "Schitt's Creek" fame and he can't stop taking off his shirt and showing off his muscles. "The Merry Gentlemen" meanwhile, features a pretty stereotypical "put on a show to save the family business!" plot, except the show is a Murray-headlined Christmas-themed male striptease act, like a low-budget "Magic Mike."

While the flashing of a pack of abs might not sound like the height of sexiness in most other artistic contexts, for the famously squeaky clean and often vaguely conservative and religious world of straight-to-TV/streaming holiday movies, this is practically something out of Paul Verhoeven's "Showgirls." And even beyond that subgenre of holiday filmmaking, Christmas movies aren't necessarily known for their racy content. Films about the holiday have always geared toward the G-rating, which is all too fitting for a major celebration that prioritizes children and spending time with family. Even as an adult, you probably want to spend the hours after opening presents watching "A Charlie Brown Christmas" with your parents, not, say, "The Wolf of Wall Street."

That said, it's also not unheard of for a Christmas movie to contrast the wholesome nature of the season with something a little more adult. There are plenty of classic Hollywood films, for instance, that shuttle the kids off to the side in favor of some classic steamy screwball chemistry between adult romantic leads. And as Hollywood has evolved, some directors -- from Tim Burton to Stanley Kubrick to Todd Haynes -- have used Christmastime as the backdrop for sexually charged romances. This December 25 sees another example of the form, in Halina Reijn's steamy workplace sexual drama "Babygirl," which casts Nicole Kidman as a CEO who enters into a clandestine affair with a seductive young intern played by Harris Dickinson. While it might be easy to see this minor trend of sorts as a sort of cheap irony, foregrounding some very adult situations in a famously sanitized holiday, in some respect Christmas is all too fitting a time to set an erotic film. It is, after all, a time of giving and wishing for what you want while reflecting as the year reaches its end, and there's something to be said about how palpable yearning and desire can feel in that context.

With "Babygirl" set to thaw some hearts this Christmas, let's take a minute to remember all of the holiday films that made us want to spend some time underneath the mistletoe. Here's the 10 sexiest Christmas movies. At the bare minimum, we can promise they're hotter than "Hot Frosty" and "The Merry Gentlemen."