THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOWGLOBE (2007)

 

Twenty-five-year-old singleton Angela Moreno (Christina Milian) is at the mercy of her  overbearing New York Cuban family (Lorraine Bracco, Ron Canada and Luciana Carro) who don’t understand boundaries.

The only person she could confide in is her friend and coworker Claire (Erin Karpluk) but was in sympathy with the family in their matchmaking efforts to get Angela to date and wed a suitable man, which the family think could be new neighbour Eddie

(Josh Cooke).

However after receiving a magical snowglobe she discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside it when she goes to sleep and she is transported to an alternate reality, where she spends time with naive country people in permanent Christmas mood.

She also attracts and admirer while she is there, Douglas (Matt Keeslar) who then complicates matters when he follows her back to New York, followed later by his admirer Marie (Kailin See).

But when the snowglobe gets damaged and she is trapped inside it she realises that her Christmas, even with her family, wasn’t so bad after all.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HAPPIEST SEASON (2020)

 

Abby (Kristen Stewart) is planning to propose to Harper (Mackenzie Davis) at her family's annual Christmas dinner when she meets Harper's family for the first time.

She knew it was going to be tough but then she realises they don't even know their daughter is gay, and when she discovers Abby has kept their relationship a secret from her family, she begins to question everything about the girlfriend she thought she knew, which she needs to deal with while trying not to ruin Christmas.

 

Also starring Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber, Alison Brie,  Mary Holland, Dan Levy, Burl Moseley and Aubrey Plaza.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE MISTLETOE INN (2017)

 

Just before Christmas aspiring romance novelist Kim Ross (Alicia Witt) is dumped by her almost published boyfriend Garth

(Casey Manderson) so she signs up for a week-long writing workshop at the quaint Mistletoe Inn in Vermont where a top romance novelist is scheduled to attend.

On arrival she meets Zeke (David Alpay) who ends up being her assignment partner, but annoyingly her ex-boyfriend is also at the retreat.

As the week progressed a surprising and unstoppable attraction builds between her and Zeke, but there is an even bigger surprise on the horizon.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS LETTER (2021)

 

Leslie Libby (Glenda Braganza) inherited the Penny Lane Foster Home in Detroit from her parents, which she runs with Claudette (Amalia Williamson), while David Marino (David Lipper) divides his time between his duties as a postman and caring for his wheelchair-bound widowed father Robert (Enrico Colantoni), and both of them are especially sad during the Christmas season.

Leslie and David’s paths cross when he becomes her postman at a time when she is on the verge of losing everything, including the six foster children under her care because of a corrupt building inspector, Gerald Montgomery (Seán Cullen) and his selfish daughter Milan Chatsworth (Jorja Cadence) who wants to adopt one photogenic child, Sam (Ava Weiss).

Wendell (Callum Shoniker) overhears crucial conversations about their futures, and she and Sam have a plan to make things right for everyone, including Leslie and David.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR (2022)

 

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST HOLIDAY (2006)

 

Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a clerk at a New Orleans department store, living a frugal life and unfulfilling her dreams, even not pursuing a relationship with coworker, Sean Williams (LL Cool J), then, right before Christmas, she's given three weeks to live without the treatment she can’t afford, and her insurance won’t cover her.

So she quits her job, withdraws her savings and decides to go on a dream vacation to the Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic where she'd always dreamed of going.

where Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu) presides.

She checks into the Presidential Suite, eats extravagantly and enjoys all the outdoor activities  the menu, snowboards, and rubs shoulders with a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and all their partners, and as she has only weeks to live she tells them all what she thinks, and they love her for it because they think she is their social equal.

But what will happen when they learn the truth?

 

Also starring, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Jane Adams, Michel Estime, Susan Kellermann,

Jascha Washington, Matt Ross, Ranjit Chowdhry,

Michael Nouri, Jaqueline Fleming, Kendall Mosby and Chloe Bailey.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (2022)

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together?