THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON THE RANCH (2024)

 

Christina Campbell (Jade Harlow) is a talk show relationship expert, with her own show “Heart of Chicago” and a whole raft of her own romantic hang-ups, who is good at advising other people but can’t sort her own love life out.

While driving through Ohio to New York to advance her career she has a near miss with a horse in Cedar Grove and crashes her car.

With the Inn fully booked, the owner of the horse, widower Corey Henderson (Houston Rhines) and his daughter Heather (Saige Chaseley) insist she stays at their ranch while her car is being repaired.

While stranded in Ohio and enjoying the hospitality of the charming rancher she is reminded that love is always worth the risk.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS MARKET (2021)

 

Hawkins Bay Mayor Alexandra Foster (Brooke Nevin) has a problem in the lead-up to Christmas, due to essential repairs on the bridge, with a detour in place and a road closure starving Main Street of trade at what should have been the busiest time of the year.

The fear was that some businesses might not even survive into the new year if she didn’t do something, so she decided to hold a Christmas market away from Main Street, but the only suitable place was the old Hawkins Mill site.

The only problem was a feud between the Foster and Hawkins families, so she needs to approach the reclusive Darcy Hawkins (Corey Sevier).

Darcy agrees and while spending time together preparation for the market Alex and Darcy start to fall for each other and a romance between them could end the family feud for ever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – IT TAKES A CHRISTMAS VILLAGE (2021)

 

Hawkins Bay Mayor Alexandra Foster (Brooke Nevin) has a problem in the lead-up to Christmas, due to essential repairs on the bridge, with a detour in place and a road closure starving Main Street of trade at what should have been the busiest time of the year.

The fear was that some businesses might not even survive into the new year if she didn’t do something, so she decided to hold a Christmas market away from Main Street, but the only suitable place was the old Hawkins Mill site.

The only problem was a feud between the Foster and Hawkins families, so she needs to approach the reclusive Darcy Hawkins (Corey Sevier).

Darcy agrees and while spending time together preparation for the market Alex and Darcy start to fall for each other and a romance between them could end the family feud for ever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SAVING CHRISTMAS (2013)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) is the new general manager at the bank in the winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah.

He moves there with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) fifteen and ten years old respectively.

Kassie is afraid she won't make friends, but as music and singing are her passions, partly because it’s one of the ways she stays connected to the memory of her musician mother, so she joins the church choir, which also makes her friends.

At the same time she finds an injured and abandoned German Shepard, and she and Esther nurse him back to health and name him Scoot.

It turns out that Scoot was a K9 who was injured on duty and left for dead by two crooks who he recognizes in Heber Valley working at the bank and it’s up to Scoot and the children to catch the crooks, recover the money and save Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SCOOT & KASSIE'S CHRISTMAS ADVENTURE (2013)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) is the new general manager at the bank in the winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah.

He moves there with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) fifteen and ten years old respectively.

Kassie is afraid she won't make friends, but as music and singing are her passions, partly because it’s one of the ways she stays connected to the memory of her musician mother, so she joins the church choir, which also makes her friends.

At the same time she finds an injured and abandoned German Shepard, and she and Esther nurse him back to health and name him Scoot.

It turns out that Scoot was a K9 who was injured on duty and left for dead by two crooks who he recognizes in Heber Valley working at the bank and it’s up to Scoot and the children to catch the crooks, recover the money and save Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – K-9 ADVENTURES: A CHRISTMAS TALE (2013)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) is the new general manager at the bank in the winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah.

He moves there with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) fifteen and ten years old respectively.

Kassie is afraid she won't make friends, but as music and singing are her passions, partly because it’s one of the ways she stays connected to the memory of her musician mother, so she joins the church choir, which also makes her friends.

At the same time she finds an injured and abandoned German Shepard, and she and Esther nurse him back to health and name him Scoot.

It turns out that Scoot was a K9 who was injured on duty and left for dead by two crooks who he recognizes in Heber Valley working at the bank and it’s up to Scoot and the children to catch the crooks, recover the money and save Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GUESS WHO'S COMING TO CHRISTMAS DINNER? (2021)

 

Maya Greyson (Kalilah Harris) is an active liberal progressive law student, and she goes home for Christmas and takes her boyfriend Trent (Karson Kern) with her to meet her family for the first time.

Trent is head-over-heels in love with Maya, but his arrival is a shock to Maya's family, because he is white, and the most shocked of all of them is her mom Renee (Robinne Lee).

Which didn’t bode well considering his plans to give Maya an engagement ring on Christmas Day.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GREYSON FAMILY CHRISTMAS (2021)

Maya Greyson (Kalilah Harris) is an active liberal progressive law student, and she goes home for Christmas and takes her boyfriend Trent (Karson Kern) with her to meet her family for the first time.

Trent is head-over-heels in love with Maya, but his arrival is a shock to Maya's family, because he is white, and the most shocked of all of them is her mom Renee (Robinne Lee).

Which didn’t bode well considering his plans to give Maya an engagement ring on Christmas Day.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SLEEPING TOGETHER (2018)

 

Lizzie Hinnel (Odette Annable) is preparing to marry Josh Wright (Charles Michael Davis) on New Years Eve, but the preparations are complicated by her micromanaging mother-in-law to be (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and more significantly her insomnia.

She would often take late night drives to try to induce tiredness and one night she accidentally hits Billy Wilson (Dave Annable), a bartender who also suffers from insomnia.

After insisting on driving him to the hospital, but they both fall asleep in the hospital parking lot outside, they both fall asleep in the car.

Feeling refreshed after a sound sleep, they strike up a deal to sleep together again which works every time, but things become more complicated when they develop feelings for one another.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NO SLEEP 'TIL CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

Lizzie Hinnel (Odette Annable) is preparing to marry Josh Wright (Charles Michael Davis) on New Years Eve, but the preparations are complicated by her micromanaging mother-in-law to be (Sheryl Lee Ralph) and more significantly her insomnia.

She would often take late night drives to try to induce tiredness and one night she accidentally hits Billy Wilson (Dave Annable), a bartender who also suffers from insomnia.

After insisting on driving him to the hospital, but they both fall asleep in the hospital parking lot outside, they both fall asleep in the car.

Feeling refreshed after a sound sleep, they strike up a deal to sleep together again which works every time, but things become more complicated when they develop feelings for one another.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SAME TIME, NEXT CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Olivia Anderson (Lea Michele) and Jeff Williams (Charles Michael Davis) first met when they were six years old at a resort hotel in Hawaii where their families were staying for Christmas and both families returned every Christmas until they reached their teens when they shared their first kiss.

The following year however the Williams family didn’t appear as Jeff's mother had died and although Olivia repeatedly called and left voice mails, but she got no response, and they stopped going after that.

Olivia's family kept up the Christmas-in-Hawaii tradition though and then one year out of the blue when they were grownups, Jeff and his father arrived at the resort having decided to revive the tradition and its clear that the spark is still there.

Unfortunately Jeff isn’t free.

The following year roles were reversed, and it was Olivia who wasn’t free, but the heart wants what the heart wants so what will this Christmas bring?   

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A TRUE FAMILY CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Journalist Campbell Wallace (Jaicy Elliot) was raised in Dallas by her mother and stepfather, Sarah and Gary Wallace (Katie Hughey and Gralen Bryant Banks) and she took her stepfather’s surname and as her biological father Everett Bergeron (Bruce Campbell), abandoned the family when she was a child and resolved never to see him again.

However one day out of the blue she is contacted by his current wife Jennifer (Moira Kelly) who invites her to Sorrento, Louisiana where her father had turned his life around and had been chosen to be that years Père Noel.

She agrees after discovering that she had two half-sisters but only on the basis that she meets him without revealing her identity.

As she spends time with the Bergeron’s she begins to fall in love with them as a family, and with Jackson Shepard (Ryan Rottman) the town archivist, who encourages her to tell her father who she is, but she is afraid that he might reject her a second time.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY SOUTHERN FAMILY CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Journalist Campbell Wallace (Jaicy Elliot) was raised in Dallas by her mother and stepfather, Sarah and Gary Wallace (Katie Hughey and Gralen Bryant Banks) and she took her stepfather’s surname and as her biological father Everett Bergeron (Bruce Campbell), abandoned the family when she was a child and resolved never to see him again.

However one day out of the blue she is contacted by his current wife Jennifer (Moira Kelly) who invites her to Sorrento, Louisiana where her father had turned his life around and had been chosen to be that years Père Noel.

She agrees after discovering that she had two half-sisters but only on the basis that she meets him without revealing her identity.

As she spends time with the Bergeron’s she begins to fall in love with them as a family, and with Jackson Shepard (Ryan Rottman) the town archivist, who encourages her to tell her father who she is, but she is afraid that he might reject her a second time.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WITH A KISS (2023)

 

Social Media Influencer Mona (Mishael Morgan) returns to her hometown of Milton to help with her family's Christmas Carnival and reconnects with her high school sweetheart Fletcher (Jaime M. Callica) but also a magazine photojournalist Dez (Ronnie Rowe) is in town, and staying in her mum’s guest room, to do a piece on the carnival for the Christmas Eve edition.

So which one of them will win her heart?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CATCH ME IF YOU CLAUS (2023)

 

Avery Quinn (Italia Ricci) is desperate to follow in her news anchor mother Sophie Ashburn (Suzanne Cyr) and finally gets her chance on the Christmas Day broadcast due to Misty McAllen (Katerina Maria) loses her voice.

However on Christmas Eve she catches an intruder in her house who identifies himself as Chris, Santa Claus (Luke Macfarlane), but she thinks he is the Santa Robber that has been responsible for a series of break-ins by someone dressed as Santa in the neighbourhood.

But due to a series of circumstances they end up being chased by the police and bad guys and while they are evading capture, they fall for each other.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A VERY MERRY MIX UP (2023)

 

Best friends since childhood, and business partners in their co-founded a tech company, Naomi Long and Liz Waitt (Janel Parrish and Tyler Hynes), return home for the holidays at the behest of Naiomi’s mother.

Almost immediately they arrived in town they met their high school crush, Chris Silver (Tyler Hynes), who was the most attractive guy in school.

They also both reconnected with their old classmates, but it is soon apparent that things have changed since their school days in many ways.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NEVER BEEN CHRIS'D (2023)

 

Best friends since childhood, and business partners in their co-founded a tech company, Naomi Long and Liz Waitt (Janel Parrish and Tyler Hynes), return home for the holidays at the behest of Naiomi’s mother.

Almost immediately they arrived in town they met their high school crush, Chris Silver (Tyler Hynes), who was the most attractive guy in school.

They also both reconnected with their old classmates, but it is soon apparent that things have changed since their school days in many ways.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CANDY CANE LANE (2023)

 

Chris Carver (Eddie Murphy) is laid off just before Christmas, so he is determined to win the annual Christmas home decorating contest in his neighbourhood.

He comes across a shop call “Kringles” full of unique decorations run by a mischievous elf named Pepper (Jillian Bell) who sells him a huge 12 Days of Christmas decoration which he thinks will increase his chances of winning.

However what he doesn’t know is that she has tricked him into activating a magic spell that brings the “12 Days of Christmas” to life, which wreak havoc in the whole town.

To break the spell Chris, his wife Carol (Tracee Ellis Ross), and their three children Joy,  Nick and Holly (Genneya Walton, Thaddeus J. Mixson and Madison Thomas) must race against the clock to find the gold rings to break Pepper's spell and save Christmas for everyone.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WHERE ARE YOU, CHRISTMAS? (2023)

 

Addy (Lyndsy Fonseca) used to be a huge Christmas fan until she moved to Chicago and began working for a company that markets Christmas twelve months of the year.

So she stopped celebrating the season and avoided going home to spend Christmas with her Christmas Crazy family in the small Christmas crazy town of Red Lake Falls and took herself off to the Maldives for the holidays.

However her brother Connor (Andrew David Bridges) begs her to go home because she wanted the whole family present for when he proposes to his girlfriend Sienna (Melanie Sutrathada) on Christmas Eve, at the town's Christmas Festival.

Her marketing company’s Santa App on her keeps asking her to make a wish so she wishes Christmas away for a year and wakes up the next morning in a black and white. World where Christmas never existed so she has to figure out a way to remind people about what they’ve forgotten beginning with the town mechanic Hunter (Michael Rady) and then they work together to restore Christmas to the rest of the town and as they do, they start to fall for each other but what will it take to restore her Christmas spirit.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY BOYFRIEND (2023)

 

When Mandy (Natassia Malthe) meets a handsome lawyer, Blake (Louis Mandylor) she falls head over heels, but she is dating Rex (Paul Parducci).

However after Rex dumps her, she starts dating Blake but he isn’t quite what he seems and when he backs out of spending Thanksgiving with her family she persuades her best friend Nathan (Paul Collett) to pose as him for the holidays.

Nathan reluctantly agrees but that’s because he is secretly in love with her.

So will she eventually see through Nathan and see the man she should really give her heart to?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS BREAK-IN (2018)

 

It’s the last day of school before Christmas and 9-year-old Izzy Rush (Cameron Seely) is excited because her parents Heather and Pete (Denise Richards and Sean O'Bryan) are taking her to the guitar store straight after school to buy her dream guitar.

However they are notoriously unreliable and are running late and a blizzard has made the situation even worse, but the janitor Ray (Danny Glover) lets her wait inside. 

The night before a gang of crooks, Barbi, Ned and Rico (Katrina Begin, Jake Van Wagoner and Douglas Spain) robbed the Salvation army in an Ice Cream truck and they break into the School to escape the storm, and they kidnap Ray.

So it's up to Izzy to save the day.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN NOTTING HILL (2023)

 

Special education teacher Georgia Bright (Sarah Ramos) travels from Indiana to London to spend Christmas in Notting Hill with her little sister Lizzie (Joelle Rae) to whom she had been like a surrogate mother since their mother passed away.

While out Christmas shopping, she literally bumps into a famous footballer Graham Savoy (William Moseley), the captain of Newbourne FC.

He had been avoiding relationships because he could never tell he women were interested in him because of him or because he was a famous footballer.

But he reconsidered after meeting the one person in Notting Hill who had no idea who he was, coincidentally his half-brother Henry (Peter Rothwell) is dating Lizzie.

Georgia and Graham bond because they are both at a crossroads  in their lives, he’s at the wrong end of his playing career and she is on the threshold of a career change.

So can they open themselves up to a relationship with all the uncertainties in their lives?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WITH A PRINCE: THE ROYAL BABY (2021)

 

Despite the fact she is heavily pregnant Dr Tasha (Kaitlyn Leeb) insists on accompanying Prince Alexander (Nick Hounslow) on a Royal State Visit culminating in the official opening of the new wing of her hometown hospital.

After leaving for the flight home Tasha experiences a scare with the baby so they return to the hospital where she is confined to bed.

Which brings the royal couple into conflict with King Edward (Charles Shaughnessy) and they struggle with blindly following tradition and literally delivering on expectations.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA'S CHIMNEY OF SECRETS (2024)

 

While their mother (Mely Pinon) is sleeping, siblings Adam and Emily (Gavino Tragarz and Ayli Pinon) find Santa’s hat by their fireplace but no sign of Santa, so Ayda (Mandy Lee Rubio) and Detective Nut (Bert Lopez) come to investigate.

They find out that their chimney is a gateway to a magic world, so Ayda and the children embark on a magical quest to rescue Santa (Dave Malin) and do battle with the Ice Fairy (Marivel Tragarz) to save Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CARIBBEAN CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Theatre critic Rachel (Elizabeth Hurley) is a hopeless romantic and after she catches her actor boyfriend sneaking out of the church minutes before he was supposed to marry her she is devastated. 

So her mother Chloe (Stephanie Beacham) suggests she makes use of the honeymoon and take her bridesmaids Amanda and Rebecca (Caroline Quentin and Nathalie Cox) to St Kitts in the Caribbean.

On their night on the island she meets handsome restaurateur and chef Allesandro (Edoardo Costa) and they are smitten.

So her friends and resort manager Ellie (Downtown Julie Brown) set about getting them together, but his Monica (Hadar Cats) daughter tries to keep them apart.

So who will succeed?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN THE CARIBBEAN (2022)

 

Theatre critic Rachel (Elizabeth Hurley) is a hopeless romantic and after she catches her actor boyfriend sneaking out of the church minutes before he was supposed to marry her she is devastated. 

So her mother Chloe (Stephanie Beacham) suggests she makes use of the honeymoon and take her bridesmaids Amanda and Rebecca (Caroline Quentin and Nathalie Cox) to the St Kitts in the Caribbean.

On their night on the island she meets handsome restaurateur and chef Allesandro (Edoardo Costa) and they are smitten.

So her friends and resort manager Ellie (Downtown Julie Brown) set about getting them together, but his Monica (Hadar Cats) daughter tries to keep them apart.

So who will succeed?

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

 

Christmas hating New York mob boss Tony Pantera (Nino Cimino) is betrayed by some of his associates and when he is apprehended by the FBI he turns the tables on them and is relocated to Los Angeles in the witness protection program.

It’s up to FBI Agent Martin (Chris Spinelli) to keep him alive and on the straight and narrow.

While LA Cop Natalie (Jaclyn Marfuggi) tends to his personal needs while she helps him rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EVE (2018)

 

Michael (Rafael Jordan) lives in Brooklyn and is struggling to make ends meet despite working hard as a car valet, Parking wealthy people’s luxury cars, as a short order cook, and other menial and demeaning jobs, but he loses the cook job because of an act of kindness.

While taking a break from a serving job at a cocktail party on Christmas Eve he makes an unexpected connection with a stranger Evelyn (Elisabetta Fantone) who offers him an alternative view on life despite their vastly different social status and backgrounds.

So they go on a journey on that cold December night which offers him a break from the routine and a glimpse into what might be, but ultimately nothing changes.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY LIDDLE CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

App designer Jacquie Liddle (Kelly Rowland) has just won a huge account with a magazine “Queen of the Castle” but they want to feature her home in their Christmas edition of her enjoying her own family Christmas.

Unfortunately Jacquie is single and lives alone, so she decides to host Christmas for her entire dysfunctional family, with boisterous kids and an untrained dog

Very soon Jacquie’s meticulously planned holiday falls apart as everyone else have different ideas so she is forced to go with the flow. and accept the resulting disorder and unpredictability.    

But amid the chaos and disasters they muddle through and although she doesn’t get her picture-perfect Christmas but as she becomes more flexible and openhearted, handsome restauranteur neighbour Tyler Brooks (Thomas Cadrot) comes into her life, so although it’s not perfect, its close enough.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SPARKS AND EMBERS (2015)

 

Tom Sanger (Kris Marshall) is made redundant and is understandably unhappy about it then he gets trapped in a lift with the architect of his dismissal Eloise Martin (Annelise Hesme) and despite some initial awkwardness the sparks fly between them.

Five years later their relationship has ended, and they are meeting up at Christmas before she goes back to France, but he didn’t realise she was not coming back.

The problem with that is that she is the love of his life, so can Tom win her back in the 45 minutes before she boards the Eurostar?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – KISS ME FOR CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Cara (Laila Odom) works for an overbearing “publicist to the stars” Millie Michaels (Golden Brooks) who has Cara working around the clock.

She is due to go to her friend’s birthday party but has to go to Millie’s apartment first and while she’s in her building she finds herself trapped in an elevator late one night with an incredibly handsome stranger Trevor (Terrell Carter).

Where she and the mystery man share an impulsive, romantic, life-changing kiss before the doors open and Cara runs out, leaving him in her wake.

But after that spontaneous kiss, she ends up falling in love with him, unfortunately he is the boyfriend of her demanding boss.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HOLIDAY BOYFRIEND (2019)

 

Katie (Olivia Dunkley) flies’ home for the holidays after being dumped by her boyfriend again and vows that it is the last Christmas she is going home without a boyfriend.

So in the New Year she starts using a dating app and discusses her progress with her two best friends Valerie and Keiko (Michelle Jubilee Gonzalez and PeiPei Alena Yuan).

However by November she is still looking, after meeting a lot of jerks, so out of frustration she wishes for a holiday boyfriend.

Eventually she makes a deal with Jacob (Matt Merchant) from the ranch where she stables her horse to fill the position, with conditions on both sides, but things don’t go exactly to plan.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOLIDAY SWITCH (2022)

 

Ally (Alex Paxton-Beesley) flies’ home for Christmas to see her family, however at the airport she mistakenly picks up the wrong piece of luggage and as she is technologically dependent on the devices in her bag, she is devastated, she has even lost her phone charger.

She then has to examine the intriguing contents of the luggage which appeared to belong to M. A. Turner, who is apparently an author, but try as she might, she can’t track him down.

On top of that she gets involved with organizing the Snowy Ball with her best friend Lara (Vanessa Jackson) and she keeps running into her ex, Henry (Ian D. Clark), with whom she had a bad breakup.

But there is a surprise in store for everyone.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOLIDAY SWAP (2022)

 

Ally (Alex Paxton-Beesley) flies’ home for Christmas to see her family, however at the airport she mistakenly picks up the wrong piece of luggage and as she is technologically dependent on the devices in her bag, she is devastated, she has even lost her phone charger.

She then has to examine the intriguing contents of the luggage which appeared to belong to M. A. Turner, who is apparently an author, but try as she might, she can’t track him down.

On top of that she gets involved with organizing the Snowy Ball with her best friend Lara (Vanessa Jackson) and she keeps running into her ex, Henry (Ian D. Clark), with whom she had a bad breakup.

But there is a surprise in store for everyone.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CIVIL CHRISTMAS (2024)

During the Civil War a young Christian woman, Aura-Lee (Sophie Bolen) is living alone in a small remote cabin while Grandpa Charlie (Andrew Dawe-Collins) is away fighting for the Confederate Army in the war.

On Christmas Eve a wounded Union soldier Douglas (Kyle Patrick) stumbles into her life and in the spirit of the season she tends his wounds and offers him refuge.

As they spend Christmas Eve singing their favourite songs, they fall in love despite being on opposite sides in a terrible conflict. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CIVIL CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

During the Civil War a young Christian woman, Aura-Lee (Sophie Bolen) is living alone in a small remote cabin while Grandpa Charlie (Andrew Dawe-Collins) is away fighting for the Confederate Army in the war.

On Christmas Eve a wounded Union soldier Douglas (Kyle Patrick) stumbles into her life and in the spirit of the season she tends his wounds and offers him refuge.

As they spend Christmas Eve singing their favourite songs, they fall in love despite being on opposite sides in a terrible conflict.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CURTAINS FOR CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

Holly (Aleen Isley) is obsessed with Christmas and loves Romantic Christmas movies and wants that kind of love in her own life and thinks that’s achievable after meeting a man with a similar love for Christmas and becomes desperate to win the man of her dreams and sets out to make him her next boyfriend by any means necessary.

But if she doesn’t get her own way, will her psychotic behaviour put everything in jeopardy and force her into extreme measures to get her holiday romance.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS OF WONDERS (2024)

 

For the first time in years globetrotting travel writer Eliza Gardiner (Krystin Arroyo) finds herself at a loose end after her travel magazine assignment gets cancelled, so she returns to her hometown of Maryville for Christmas with her parents, Nora and Jim (Sarah Kent and Ben Lomu) and her siblings Austin and Kate (Dave Martinez and Emma Andreasen Moore).

She is surprised to find that not much has changed in the town despite the passage of time, and her Christmas loving family continues to participate in all of the same old family traditions, wearing ugly Christmas sweaters, singing at the local care center, Christmas baking and all the other festive events.

And it’s while she is participating in all the familia activities, that she is reunited with old flame Will Matthews (James Gaisford), who helps her reconnect with her family and the season and rediscover the beauty of what she had been missing with her family and her hometown.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA STOLE OUR DOG (2017)

 

Struggling toy designer Nathan Whitehaven (Yves Bright) is separated from his wife Janice (Carrie Schroeder) and for Christmas he bought his kids Tommy and Suzie (Chase Pollock and Lexi Golden) a rescue dog called Rusty.

However on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus (Edward Asner) accidentally flies off with Rusty which isn’t discovered until he returns to the North Pole so he has no idea where he acquired the stowaway and can only narrow it down to somewhere between Arizona and Japan.

So Nathan takes the kids on an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas starting with his mum (Elaine Partnow) in Canada then onto the North Pole via Alaska to get their beloved dog back and reunite the family.

 

(Note of warning, the last ten minutes goes into a global warming narrative which I don’t want to see in a Christmas movie)

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A SANTA STORY (2017)

 

Struggling toy designer Nathan Whitehaven (Yves Bright) is separated from his wife Janice (Carrie Schroeder) and for Christmas he bought his kids Tommy and Suzie (Chase Pollock and Lexi Golden) a rescue dog called Rusty.

However on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus (Edward Asner) accidentally flies off with Rusty which isn’t discovered until he returns to the North Pole so he has no idea where he acquired the stowaway and can only narrow it down to somewhere between Arizona and Japan.

So Nathan takes the kids on an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas starting with his mum (Elaine Partnow) in Canada then onto the North Pole via Alaska to get their beloved dog back and reunite the family.

 

(Note of warning, the last ten minutes goes into a global warming narrative which I don’t want to see in a Christmas movie)

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MERRY DOGGONE CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Struggling toy designer Nathan Whitehaven (Yves Bright) is separated from his wife Janice (Carrie Schroeder) and for Christmas he bought his kids Tommy and Suzie (Chase Pollock and Lexi Golden) a rescue dog called Rusty.

However on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus (Edward Asner) accidentally flies off with Rusty which isn’t discovered until he returns to the North Pole so he has no idea where he acquired the stowaway and can only narrow it down to somewhere between Arizona and Japan.

So Nathan takes the kids on an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas starting with his mum (Elaine Partnow) in Canada then onto the North Pole via Alaska to get their beloved dog back and reunite the family.

 

(Note of warning, the last ten minutes goes into a global warming narrative which I don’t want to see in a Christmas movie)

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DOGGONE CHRISTMAS! (2017)

Struggling toy designer Nathan Whitehaven (Yves Bright) is separated from his wife Janice (Carrie Schroeder) and for Christmas he bought his kids Tommy and Suzie (Chase Pollock and Lexi Golden) a rescue dog called Rusty.

However on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus (Edward Asner) accidentally flies off with Rusty which isn’t discovered until he returns to the North Pole so he has no idea where he acquired the stowaway and can only narrow it down to somewhere between Arizona and Japan.

So Nathan takes the kids on an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas starting with his mum (Elaine Partnow) in Canada then onto the North Pole via Alaska to get their beloved dog back and reunite the family.

 

(Note of warning, the last ten minutes goes into a global warming narrative which I don’t want to see in a Christmas movie) 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA STOLE OUR DOG: A MERRY DOGGONE CHRISTMAS! (2017)

 

Struggling toy designer Nathan Whitehaven (Yves Bright) is separated from his wife Janice (Carrie Schroeder) and for Christmas he bought his kids Tommy and Suzie (Chase Pollock and Lexi Golden) a rescue dog called Rusty.

However on Christmas Eve, Santa Claus (Edward Asner) accidentally flies off with Rusty which isn’t discovered until he returns to the North Pole so he has no idea where he acquired the stowaway and can only narrow it down to somewhere between Arizona and Japan.

So Nathan takes the kids on an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas starting with his mum (Elaine Partnow) in Canada then onto the North Pole via Alaska to get their beloved dog back and reunite the family.

 

(Note of warning, the last ten minutes goes into a global warming narrative which I don’t want to see in a Christmas movie)

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ULTIMATE GIFT (2006)

 

After the funeral of Billionaire Oil Tycoon Howard 'Red' Stevens (James Garner) his dysfunctional family all gather at the office of his lawyer, partner and friend Mr. Theophilus Hamilton (Bill Cobbs) and his associate Miss Hastings (Lee Meriwether) to see what was in the will for them.

One by one they came and went from the room with Red’s stinging words still ringing in their ears.

Last but by no means least was Grandson Jason Stevens (Drew Fuller) who had spent most of his adult life as a Trust Fund brat until he was cut off from the family money and had been living off petty crime and begging. 

Jason was singled out for special treatment as Red had every faith that he could redeem himself, so he was assigned twelve apparently simple tasks labelled “gifts” meant to challenge him and set him on a journey of discovery.

But it was meeting Alexia (Ali Hillis) and her terminally ill daughter Emily (Abigail Breslin) that changed his perspective of life and money, and becomes a better man than even his Grandfather expected and received the “Ultimate Gift”

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS KAREN (2022)

 

An amusing reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.

This retelling of the story is about Karen (Michele Simms), an entitled middle-aged woman whose demanding nature has alienated her neighbours and family.

She is a heartless grinch, racist, xenophobe, and homophobe, who hates everyone and everything and is seemingly irredeemable, however after a series of instances displaying her privilege and prejudice, she receives an “intervention” by some unconventional spirits.

Karen is visited in her Florida home on Christmas Eve. by the ghost of her former boss Jackie Morley (Meghan Moroney).

She tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and that she will have further visitation to show her the errors of her ways and save her from her own fate.

Her first visitor is Gary, the Ghost of Christmas Past (Rolin E. Alexis), followed by Joy, the Ghost of Christmas Present (Leyla Lawrence) and finally Damon (Lee Karlinsky) Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come.

Between them they open her eyes to her behaviour and show her what she is missing out on and help her discover the true spirit of Christmas and mend the rift between her and her brother Todd (Clint Robinson).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A PRICELESS CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

An enjoyable and credible reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.

This retelling of the story is of the owner of her own financial trading institution, Alexis Taylor (Toni Braxton), who is ruthless and driven and on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of her mother Lydia (Gloria Reuben).

She tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and takes her on a series of visitations to her past, present and future to show her the errors of her ways and discover the true spirit of Christmas and open herself up to love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PRICELESS CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

An enjoyable and credible reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.

This retelling of the story is of the owner of her own financial trading institution, Alexis Taylor (Toni Braxton), who is ruthless and driven and on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of her mother Lydia (Gloria Reuben).

She tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and takes her on a series of visitations to her past, present and future to show her the errors of her ways and discover the true spirit of Christmas and open herself up to love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – EVERY DAY IS CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

An enjoyable and credible reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.

This retelling of the story is of the owner of her own financial trading institution, Alexis Taylor (Toni Braxton), who is ruthless and driven and on Christmas Eve is visited by the ghost of her mother Lydia (Gloria Reuben).

She tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and takes her on a series of visitations to her past, present and future to show her the errors of her ways and discover the true spirit of Christmas and open herself up to love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ONCE UPON A PRINCE (2018)

 

After being dumped by her boyfriend, Susanna Truitt (Megan Park) goes for a drive around the countryside of Saint Simons, Georgia, when she has a flat tyre, and a handsome man named Nate Kenneth (Jonathan Keltz) comes to her rescue and the two are instantly smitten.

After her father suffers a minor heart attack the family Garden Center is left shorthanded so Nate volunteers to help but in reality, he is Prince Nathaniel of Cambria who is on a last vacation before his coronation.

When the truth comes out Nate has to return to Cambria but Susanna and her sister Avery (Kayla Wallace) are invited to visit the kingdom, but for her and the King to be together they must overcome some obstacles in the shape of Lady Ginny (Marlie Collins) and the Queen (Sara Botsford).

It’s up to Nate to prove that the American girl is suitable to be his Royal bride.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT THE RANCH (2021)

 

Urban power broker Haley Hollis (Laur Allen) faces a career crisis in the City at the same time she is summoned home to Nashville, Tennessee, by her brother, Charles (Archie Kao), just prior to Christmas, in order to save their beloved from imminent repossession by the bank.

She hasn't been back to her family's ranch in years, and she is shocked when she sees her family struggling to keep the ranch going.

After the death of her parents she was raised by her grandmother, Meemaw (Lindsay Wagner), and seeing her struggle she feels compelled to stay and help.

When she is first introduced to ranch hand Kate (Amanda Righetti) sparks fly between them, but not in a good way initially, but they put their differences aside to save the ranch.

Reacquainting herself with the wilderness and the horses softened her heart and spending so much time with Kate she falls in love with the irresistible ranch-hand.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERCY CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Michael Briskett (Steven Hubbell) thinks all his Christmas’ have come at once when he meets the perfect woman Cindy Robillard (Casey O'Keefe) especially she invites him to spend Christmas with her and her family.

But he has a rude awakening when his thoughts of a Christmas dream come true turn sour with the realization that he hasn’t just been invited to Christmas Dinner HE is Christmas dinner as the main course for their horrifying festive feast.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SOUTHERN CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

Kara Gentry (Sierra McCormick) and Jessie Wilkins (Brighton Sharbino) find themselves sitting next to each other on a plane to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to spend Christmas with Grandparents they had never met, so they decide to swap places to see how the other half lives for the week.

Private school student Kara ends up with Jessie’s grandmother Judy Wilkins (Shelley Long) at her son’s trailer whereas orphan Jessie is picked up in a limousine and is taken to the Mansion of Kara’s Grandparents Bob and Elsa Gentry (Christopher Rich and Bo Derek).

They are able to pull off the ruse as they are strangers to their grandparents who only know the basics details of their lives.

But as the week progresses, things get more and more complicated for both girls, so will their web of lies finally fall apart?

Or will there be an unexpected twist at the end?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS TRAP (2018)

 

Kara Gentry (Sierra McCormick) and Jessie Wilkins (Brighton Sharbino) find themselves sitting next to each other on a plane to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to spend Christmas with Grandparents they had never met, so they decide to swap places to see how the other half lives for the week.

Private school student Kara ends up with Jessie’s grandmother Judy Wilkins (Shelley Long) at her son’s trailer whereas orphan Jessie is picked up in a limousine and is taken to the Mansion of Kara’s Grandparents Bob and Elsa Gentry (Christopher Rich and Bo Derek).

They are able to pull off the ruse as they are strangers to their grandparents who only know the basics details of their lives.

But as the week progresses, things get more and more complicated for both girls, so will their web of lies finally fall apart?

Or will there be an unexpected twist at the end?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN THE HEARTLAND (2018)

 

Kara Gentry (Sierra McCormick) and Jessie Wilkins (Brighton Sharbino) find themselves sitting next to each other on a plane to Stillwater, Oklahoma, to spend Christmas with Grandparents they had never met, so they decide to swap places to see how the other half lives for the week.

Private school student Kara ends up with Jessie’s grandmother Judy Wilkins (Shelley Long) at her son’s trailer whereas orphan Jessie is picked up in a limousine and is taken to the Mansion of Kara’s Grandparents Bob and Elsa Gentry (Christopher Rich and Bo Derek).

They are able to pull off the ruse as they are strangers to their grandparents who only know the basics details of their lives.

But as the week progresses, things get more and more complicated for both girls, so will their web of lies finally fall apart?

Or will there be an unexpected twist at the end?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PICTURE PERFECT CHRISTMAS (2020)

Beatrice Bitterley (Yana Marinova) is a famous photographer who receives an invitation from King Buckley (James Weber Brown) to photograph the Christmas festivities in the Kingdom of Pantrea which she turns down and goes on vacation instead.

Amanda Eastman (Roxanne McKee) is her assistant, and her friend Sunny (Manal El-Feitury) responds to the invitation on Amanda’s behalf.  

So Amanda travels to Pantrea but she is surprised to find that the Royal Court all believe that she is Beatrice and is travelling incognito.

When she meets Prince Leopold (David Witts) there is a palpable mutual attraction much to the annoyance of his fiancé Duchess Catherine (Sophie Vavasseur) and his mother  Queen Gloriana (Sophie Ward).

So what will happen when Beatrice and the Pantrean’s find out the truth?