THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE THREE DOGATEERS (2014)

 

The Three Doggateers, Arfamis (Jesse Baget), Barkos (Jesse Baget) and Wagos (Danielle Judovits) are left on their own a few days before Christmas, when their master Matt (Dean Cain) is called away for work.

When a couple of burglars (Stephen Cedars and Benji Kleiman) make off with all of the family's presents and decorations, adventure-loving Arfamis, leads chronically hungry Barkos, and the pampered purebred Wagos on a mission to sniff out the bad guys, avoiding angry humans and a crazy dog catcher Barney Gloat (Bill Oberst Jr.) along the way.

So, can they save Christmas or will they need a little help from Santa Claus (Richard Riehle)?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE THREE DOGATEERS SAVE CHRISTMAS (2014)

 

The Three Doggateers, Arfamis (Jesse Baget), Barkos (Jesse Baget) and Wagos (Danielle Judovits) are left on their own a few days before Christmas, when their master Matt (Dean Cain) is called away for work.

When a couple of burglars (Stephen Cedars and Benji Kleiman) make off with all of the family's presents and decorations, adventure-loving Arfamis, leads chronically hungry Barkos, and the pampered purebred Wagos on a mission to sniff out the bad guys, avoiding angry humans and a crazy dog catcher Barney Gloat (Bill Oberst Jr.) along the way.

So, can they save Christmas or will they need a little help from Santa Claus (Richard Riehle)?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HUSKY CHRISTMAS (2025)

 

Marketing executive Olivia (Danielle Scott) quit her job before she burned-out and rented a rural cabin and moved in with her cheeky Shih Tzu, Milo.

Also on the same park, Theo (Stephen Staley), a novelist with writer’s block, lived with a Husky called Lucy.

One day they meet in the park and Milo and Lucy fall victim to puppy love, however for Olivia and Theo it is a slower process, but eventually they fall.

It comes to a halt when she is offered a job in London and they have a falling out, so it’s up to the dogs to plot to keep them together along with “Dog Whisperer” Maisie (Kitty Sudbery) to remind them that the right companion in your life whether two-legged or four changes everything.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HAPPY HOWLIDAYS (2024)

 

Mia Park (Jessica Lowndes) works for the Seattle Tourism Board as a webpage editor and was expecting to spend Christmas alone, when on one rainy night she encounters a stray dog and takes him in for the night.

Living alone and being unaccustomed to having a dog in the house she decides to take the dog to a shelter where she met Max Covington (Ezra Moreland) the belligerent manager and his much more reasonable sister Penny (Cassandra Sawtell) and leaves with the dog which she names Russell.

They have another encounter in the park later with his own dog which has been sickening and it’s another caustic exchange between them but the dog’s bond instantly.

Ater that meeting his own dog rallied so Mia agrees to let Max's ailing dog find solace with Russell, in exchange for Max showing her the hidden gems of Seattle which she filmed and posted on the tourism board website.

Through their journey together, they reveal the skeletons in their respective closets and discover new possibilities and a meaningful connection.

However, things are thrown up in the air with the arrival of her parents Jim and Cindy (Christopher Shyer and Lynda Boyd) from Florida and his ex-girlfriend Amy (Ella Cannon) from LA threatens to derail their burgeoning relationship.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FOLLOWING YONDER STAR (2024)

 

Former TV star, well known for starring as an inspirational mother in “Guiding Grace”, Abby (Brooke D'Orsay), finds out that her ex-husband Julian (Adam Hurtig), with whom she hoped to reconcile, was remarrying and his fiancé was pregnant, despite hm always saying he didn’t want children.

She was in a Christmas store at the time and was recognised by an insistent clerk who became very aggressive with her and then her vociferous response was recorded, uploaded and went viral.

This now threw into doubt a role she had previously been offered so she retreats to a luxury Vermont resort hotel for Christmas only to find she had reserved a room for the following Christmas in error.

There were no vacancies anywhere due to a rare astronomical event due to occur on Christmas Eve, when a beautiful star likened to the Star of Bethlehem would appear.

Thanks to hotel receptionist Clara (Melissa Murray-Mutch) she finds a room at a quaint B&B, owned by high school astronomy teacher Nick (John Brotherton), who took on the Inn after his wife's passing, along with directing the local church's Christmas pageant.

Abby offers to help with directing the pageant and bonds with his daughter Lucy (Isla Verot) and while helping with several other activities in the community and around the inn she finds herself enjoying both the projects and Nick's company and even wins over his overprotective sister-in-law Zoey (Amanda Austin).

So, with this newfound community, family and love, will Abby discover that her heart and purpose, has a new home.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ANGEL TREE (2020)

 

When Rebecca McBride (Jill Wagner) was a girl she lived in Pine River home of the wish-granting Angel Tree, but 20 years later she is a widowed on-line magazine writer in Los Angeles with her daughter Cassie (Cassidy Nugent).

After writing a well-received piece for Aspire Magazine about her childhood experience of the wishing tree, her boss Nina (Kalyn Miles) tells her that if she returns to Pine River to write a follow up piece revealing the identity of the person granting wishes she can have her own column.

So, in order to research the article, she travels to Pine River for the first time in 20 years with Cassie to stay with her Aunt Mimi (Annabel Kershaw) and finds her childhood friend Matthew (Lucas Bryant) still behind the counter at the diner.

As she tries her best to find the Angel, Matthew matches her efforts to make sure she doesn’t succeed, and in the process a romance blossom’s.

Resigned to failure she joins forces with the town to grant the plethora of wishes, and then and only then was the Angel revealed.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE FINNISH LINE (2024)

 

Juneau based champion dog sled racer Anya Kivelä (Kim Matula) followed in her late father's footsteps, being enthralled as a child by his stories of his exploits as a champion racer in Finland, especially the special Joulurauha competition in his hometown of Rovaniemi, Finland, the purported home of Santa Claus.

Due to the cost she had never competed in the race, she hadn’t even  travelled to Finland or met her many Finnish relations, however on the fortieth anniversary of the event she used every penny she had so that she, her best friend Elyse (Nichole Sakura) and her dog team could get to Finland.

Her biggest rival in the race is her father’s nemesis Monty White (Páll Sigþór Pálsson) who used to race against her father butt after the first race her lead dog is injured and to stay in the competition she has to borrow loan the lead dog of a ormer racer and journalist Cole Olsen (Beau Mirchoff) in exchange for her letting him write about her.

So, Anya, Cole, Elyse and Anya’s cousin Lavi (Benedikt Gröndal) team up to make sure Anya clams the prize but they all find that the real prize is love.