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Tuesday, 28 October 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SANTA TRAP (2002)

 

Bill and Molly Emerson (Robert Hays and Shelley Long) have recently moved to the balmy southwest from Connecticut with their children Mike and Judy (Brandon Michael DePaul and Sierra Abel) and they are all struggling to adjust to their new surroundings.

Bill is being worked to death, Molly misses New England, and claims  that “it doesn't feel like Christmas,” and the children have found it  hard to settle in.

On Christmas Eve Judy is told that Santa is just a myth, so she sets an elaborate trap to catch him, and successfully snares Santa (Dick Van Patten).

However Bill and Molly think he is an intruder and call the police and is arrested and he is locked up Chief Spivak (Corbin Bernsen) with Biker Max (Stacy Keach).

However later that night Bill finds live reindeer on the roof turning him into a believer, so he goes to the police station to get Santa released but the police let Max out and that’s when the fun begins as the family try to save Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ELFETTE SAVES CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

The Pencilphone is the must have gift of the year, but Penelope Coalbottom (Sheli Sanders) is still losing money as Santa Claus (Quinton Aaron) is giving too many away, so Little Georgie (George Vricos) is sent to the North Pole to kidnap Santa and Mrs. Claus (Nicole Stefansic).

Elfette (Brielle Carter) is on vacation in Florida with Sparkle (Alea Figueroa) when it happens, so it’s up to her to save Christmas with help along the way from Bartholomule (Sean Keller), Duey (Christian Cashmir) and even a double agent Elf, Sebastian (Anaïs Blake) won’t stop her.


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

 

Single mother Roz Mckenzie (Noree Victoria) is struggling with the bills and then she loses her teaching job, and her ex-husband Dalton (Blue Kimble) isn’t paying his child support, so she asks for a miracle for her and her daughter Esta (Nadia Simms) during Christmas.

She is offered  guidance from Pastor Noel Preston (Javon Johnson) who helps her through her difficulties which ultimately leads to the whole family having a happy Christmas.

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

 

Single mother Roz Mckenzie (Noree Victoria) is struggling with the bills and then she loses her teaching job, and her ex-husband Dalton (Blue Kimble) isn’t paying his child support, so she asks for a miracle for her and her daughter Esta (Nadia Simms) during Christmas.

She is offered  guidance from Pastor Noel Preston (Javon Johnson) who helps her through her difficulties which ultimately leads to the whole family having a happy Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – UNPERFECT CHRISTMAS WISH (2021)

 

Thirty-year-old Madison O'Hara (Alys Crocker) dreams of being a singer-songwriter but instead performs as a singing performer for her own busy event company.

As Christmas approaches, she is dressed as a singing Elf for Christmas parties with her best friend Cooper (David Pinard).

After breaking up with her successful though inattentive boyfriend Luke  (Ish Morris) she sits in the park waiting for Cooper to pick her up she has a conversation with Santa (Stephen Davis) about her perfect match, and he suggests that there's a perfectly “Un-Perfect” match in her life already.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA BOOTCAMP (2022)

 

Emily Strauss (Emily Kinney), of Strauss and Strauss events planners, which she runs with her mother Olive (Deanne Bray),is hired by shopping mall magnate Ed Mancini (Patrick Cassidy) who is hosting a Christmas Gala for his biggest investors.

He has just sacked his previous planning firm, because they couldn’t come up with the perfect Santa, so Emily heads to Santa Bootcamp run by the formidable Belle (Rita Moreno), to find the perfect Santa Claus but Belle makes her sign up for the coarse.

While she’s there she meets chef Aiden (Justin Gaston) and Belle keeps pushing them together and as the coarse goes on they are both forced to reevaluate their goals.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING PLANNER (2017)

 

Kelsey Wilson (Jocelyn Hudon) gets her big break when her beloved cousin Emily (Rebecca Dalton) hires her to plan her lavish society Christmas Wedding to Todd (Eric Hicks).

With the days passing by towards the event everything is going according to plan until handsome private investigator, Connor McClane, turns everything upside-down when she tells him she has been hired to investigate the groom, and he persuades her to help him.

In the process Connor manages to disrupt the rapidly approaching nuptials but wins Kelsey's heart along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WEDDING PLANNER (2017)

 

Kelsey Wilson (Jocelyn Hudon) gets her big break when her beloved cousin Emily (Rebecca Dalton) hires her to plan her lavish society Christmas Wedding to Todd (Eric Hicks).

With the days passing by towards the event everything is going according to plan until handsome private investigator, Connor McClane, turns everything upside-down when she tells him she has been hired to investigate the groom, and he persuades her to help him.

In the process Connor manages to disrupt the rapidly approaching nuptials but wins Kelsey's heart along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DATE BY CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Brand strategist Chelsea Simms (Vanessa Lengies) is devastated when her brilliant idea for a new dating app is stolen by a workplace rival, but following a Christmas wish upon a shooting star, good-hearted Chelsea’s fortunes take a turn for the better.

When she discovers the popular dating app “The Nice List”, has granted her magical powers, which she uses to teach all the selfish, “naughty” people in her life a lesson until Mrs. Kringle (Morgan Fairchild) and best friend Fisher Dougherty (Evan Williams) set her on the path to use her newfound ability to make all of the naughty people in her life learn how to be good again and also find her way back onto the Nice List herself in time for Christmas Eve.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OPERATION MISTLETOE (2024)

 

Interior designer Grace (Jen Lilley) runs a blossoming design business called K&R Interiors in Ivy Glen, with her best friend Olivia (Melanie Leishman) and her older brother Jack (Steve Belford) who is also Olivia's husband.

Grace is single and content with her life, she is in the friendzone with old schoolfriend Quinn (René Escobar Jr.), and is resigned to a single life, then she reunites with former love Ryan (Nick Bateman), a successful New York City financial advisor, back in town at Christmas to sell his grandmother’s old house.

Old feelings are rekindled as they work on the “Ribbons and Bows” charity event together, but will he change his plans for the future.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT GRACELAND (2018)

 

Laurel (Kellie Pickler) was born and bred in Memphis but is based in Chicago working for a bank as a business executive.

However she returns to her hometown with her daughter Emma (Claire Elizabeth Green) in time for Christmas as her boss (Ned Vaughn) sends her to Memphis to secure the takeover of one of the city's oldest family-owned banks.

While in town she reunites with old flame Clay, a local music promoter

The owner of Cypress bank, Mr Franklin (Tommy Cresswell) is reluctant to sign the deal as he is worried about redundancies, but her boss is a money man.

While in town she reunites with local music promoter and old flame Clay (Wes Brown) who she used to perform with ten years earlier.

Laurel tries to stay focused on work, but spending time with Clay reminiscing about the past, they even perform together and enjoy a holiday romance.

But when problems arise with the deal she's called back to Chicago, she has to choose whether to return or remain in Memphis and embrace her roots and secure a happy future.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Hardworking lawyer Zara (Ashley Newbrough) is haunted by Christmas memories  of her deceased brother and wants to avoid the season but is persuaded by her assistant Chloe (Kaya Coleman) to attend a Dickens themed Victorian dinner where she meets renovator Rafe (Chad Rook) and despite herself there is a connection, but they go their separate ways.

However his ghostly ancestor Aubrey (Mark Bellamy) has other ideas and plays matchmaker by giving Zara a book of Dickensian love stories which reawakens romantic feelings and opens her heart.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – UNWRAPPING CHRISTMAS: LILY'S DESTINY (2024)

 

Lily Morgan (Ashley Newbrough) runs a gift-wrapping shop with her three best friends Olivia Matheson, Mia Parker and Tina Mitchell (Cindy Busby, Kathryn Davis and Natalie Hall) and her holiday responsibilities are piling up but she still manages to secure a date with one of the town's most eligible bachelors, handsome successful local realtor Owen Mansfield (Franco Lo Presti).

However before their date she agrees to do an interview with local journalist Sean Allen (Torrance Coombs) who wants to write an article about their gift-wrapping business.

Although they didn’t know each other it turned they were at the same university at the same time, and they spent most of the time discussing that rather than the interview. The date with Owen we well enough to lead onto a second date, and because the interview wasn’t completed, she met again with Sean to answer follow-up questions regarding the article and suddenly she finds herself caught between two men, but which one will sweep her off her feet?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS SECRET (2025)

 

Bestselling author Nathan McAllister (Alex Trumble) is late completing the next book in the series, which is jeopardising a lucrative movie deal, but he has hung up his quill, abandoning writing the final book in his bestselling series and is working as a ski instructor in Aviemore, Scotland.

So co-owners of Golden Bennett Publishing, Tiffany Bennett (Caprice Bourret) travels to Scotland incognito at the behest of her sister Sophie (Patsy Kensit) to get Nathan back on track.

So Tiffany heads to the picturesque Highlands posing as tourists with her mischievous nephew, Logan (Jett Bourret Comfort) and hires Nathan as their ski instructor, as they have never met, hoping to rekindle his love for writing, however as the days slip by, they grow closer and ignite a love of a different kind.

But how will he react when he discovers the truth about her?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A BRUSH WITH CHRISTMAS ROMANCE (2022)

 

Charlotte (Jillian Murray) struggles to find time to indulge her artistic endeavour’s helping her mother (Jan Skene), run the family restaurant in the town of Bayside, in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Then the restaurant has to take on extra work for the Christmas art festival when their caterer had to withdraw, and she has even less time, so she throws out the painting she was working on for the contest.

Charlotte put it out with the trash from where it ends up in the hands of a visiting artist, Wyatt (Joseph Cannata), who sees its worth.

When he meets its mysterious creator amid all the festival's exposure, he finds her to be more than just a talented artist.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A BRUSH WITH CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Charlotte (Jillian Murray) struggles to find time to indulge her artistic endeavour’s helping her mother (Jan Skene), run the family restaurant in the town of Bayside, in the weeks leading up to Christmas.

Then the restaurant has to take on extra work for the Christmas art festival when their caterer had to withdraw, and she has even less time, so she throws out the painting she was working on for the contest.

Charlotte put it out with the trash from where it ends up in the hands of a visiting artist, Wyatt (Joseph Cannata), who sees its worth.

When he meets its mysterious creator amid all the festival's exposure, he finds her to be more than just a talented artist.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GHOSTS OF CHRISTMAS ALWAYS (2022)

 

The Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present and Future, Arlene, Katherine and Roy (Lori Tan Chinn, Kim Matula and Reginald VelJohnson) spend the runup to Christmas “scrooging”.

But this year Christmas has something unusual in store for Katherine, when their assignment turns out not to be a scrooge, it is a “nice” man called Peter Baron (Ian Harding) who is about to succeed his workaholic father Robert (Christopher Innvar) as CEO of the family firm.

The trio of Ghosts soon find Peter is no scrooge, and his stingy father Robert, is a more appropriate candidate.

So they are unsure how to proceed with the task, correct Robert, or prevent Peter turning scrooge, but it turns out that true love is at stake rather than redemption.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A FROZEN CHRISTMAS TIME IN JULY (2021)

 

A Frozen Christmas Time in July is an animated Christmas tale written by Brooke Nethers and directed by Alejandro Aitana set in Sunnyville, the most amazing town in the whole world, where Santa and his buddy Mittens the reindeer live and play.

Despite the fact that its July and the weather is warm and sunny, it doesn’t stop Santa and the residents of Sunnyville from creating a little holiday cheer.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A FROZEN CHRISTMAS TIME 3 (2021)

 

A Frozen Christmas Time 3 is an animated Christmas tale written by Brooke Nethers and directed by Alejandro Aitana set in Sunnyville where It's Christmas time and Santa and his buddy Mittens the reindeer have to work out what to bring all their many friends for Christmas and have a jolly adventure along the way.

Voiced by Paul Felters, Kelsey Painter, Ken Redling, Bruce Stoller and Sarah Taylor.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A FROZEN CHRISTMAS TIME 2 (2020)

 

A Frozen Christmas Time is an animated Christmas tale written by Denise Schooler and

directed by Pippa Seymour set in Sunnyville where the inhabitants are preparing for a wonderful Christmas.

Santa and his buddy Mittens the reindeer talk to everyone in town to find out about  their favourite Christmas miracle, then Santa announces what miracle he will perform that Christmas and on Christmas Eve he invites the whole town over for Christmas dinner ever.