THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – UNINVITED FOR THE HOLIDAYS (2022)

 

Michael Garvin (Tres D. Velasco-Gardenier) is a struggling father of two, Tyler and Kara (Dan Gardenier and Kylee O'Connor), and they are facing their first Christmas after his wife's untimely death.

To make matters worse his life is turned upside down when Johnny Aguilar (Joe Gawalis) arrives at his door to steal his car to make his getaway because he’s on the run from the mob but instead he decides to stick around and lay low, so he poses as Michael’s cousin Johnny, who the kids fall in love with.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – UP ON THE ROOFTOP (2015)

 

Toby (Voiced by Adam Hicks) is a smaller than average sized dog who has big  dreams, in fact he dreams of leading Santa's sleigh on the big night.

But no one believes it will happen, so he sneaks aboard the sleigh when Santa Claus (Dennis Haskins) goes on a test flight in the run up to Christmas resulting in Toby getting left behind at the suburban Iowa home of the Anderson family.

Together they manage to foil the dastardly plans to rob the mall by of a gang of crooks, the mall Santa and his incompetent elf henchmen, and most importantly find his way back to the North Pole.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – UP ON THE WOOFTOP (2015)

 

Toby (Voiced by Adam Hicks) is a smaller than average sized dog who has big  dreams, in fact he dreams of leading Santa's sleigh on the big night.

But no one believes it will happen, so he sneaks aboard the sleigh when Santa Claus (Dennis Haskins) goes on a test flight in the run up to Christmas resulting in Toby getting left behind at the suburban Iowa home of the Anderson family.

Together they manage to foil the dastardly plans to rob the mall by of a gang of crooks, the mall Santa and his incompetent elf henchmen, and most importantly find his way back to the North Pole.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – O HOLY KNIGHT (2018)

 

A gentle, loveable, store clerk (Christian Barba) is walking home at the end of the day when he comes across two muggers (Jayvo Scott and Stephen Rodriguez) attacking Santa Claus (Tim Brown) so he rescues him.

After chasing the muggers away he picks up Santa’s hat and suddenly finds himself in the distant past where his is called Sir Klaus and is expected to fight to the death in the “Christmas Game of Champions” a medieval gladiatorial event traditionally fought between two opposing factions-the Butchers and the Greenfields, with the winner dining with Queen Ava (Misty Posey) on Christmas Day.

With the help of his squire Black Pete (Jackson Geach) Sir Klaus is victorious and with his victory he unites the two clans and then finds himself back in the alley being helped to his feet by his co-worker (Heather Danner).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MOMMA SAID COME HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

The matriarch of the family Dolly Roundtree (Jo Marie Payton) calls all her children home for Christmas with her and her husband Poppa (Buddy Lewis).

Their daughter Riri (JadaPaige) has never left home while their son Jarvis Roundtree (Sean Riggs) is a successful Football Player who fears he is at the end of his career.

To prevent his mother trying to get him back together with his ex Cecee (Shanti Lowry) he invites reporter Leticia (K.D. Aubert) to be his date for Christmas dinner and promises her an exclusive interview in exchange and just to spice things up a bit Momma’s nephew Slim (Brent Wise) shows up.

As a result the holidays prove to be full of surprises.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FORGETTING CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

After Marie (Victoria Rowell) passes following a long illness the family is left with crippling medical bills making it impossible for them to keep their farm.

So it was agreed that family friend and neighbour Linette (Raisa D'Oyley) would buy the farm but when April (Melan Perez) discovers that her father Bill (Dennis Jones) lied to her mother about their finances on her deathbed, breaking the family tradition of honesty at all costs, and crushing April’s heart beyond repair so she vows never to return.

A year later she is visited in the city by her friend Linette, to say that Bill was living in the barn and his mind is fading fast.

Reluctantly she agrees to return home, and she and her friends have to try to convince him of his need for help before the police intervene.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A YEAR FROM NOW (2021)

 

Paralegal Veronica Novak (Athena Hayes) goes home for the holidays to her parents Ronald and Betty (Brad Maule and Susan Triana) her overachieving sister Emily Novak (Cassidy Kelly) and younger brother Max Novak (Kasey Jobe).

Suffering from middle child syndrome She is unfulfilled in her job as she really wants to be a writer, and she gets really frustrated with everyone obsessing with her lack of a significant other, so she goes to her friends Debbie and Tyler Jones (Calvin Henson Jr. and Makeala Hiner-Smith) at their new bar.

After writing in the journal on Christmas Eve that Debbie got her for Christmas Veronica wakes up on Christmas Day, one year later, and the next day is Boxing Day the year after that.  

So she by experiencing seven years of her future over the course of one week she learns about what’s important to her family and what she needs in her life.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A LAW FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

A young and ambitious politician Gloria Winters (Savannah Lathem) is working her way up the political greasy pole and accepts the appointment of Secretary of Agriculture and  has to leave Washington with her assistant Jill (Marley Ames) and travel to the farming community of Snow Point to meet local leader Mayor Christian Baker (Chase Giacomo) who Gloria thinks is a hick.

They stay at the Inn run by the Mayors sister Carol (Ebie Adkins) which isn’t up Gloria’s standards, and she moans about everything.

Gloria and Chris are like chalk and cheese, and it seems unlikely they will ever see eye to eye on anything, but as she actually starts to meet the people on the farms her true nature comes to the surface and finds her vocation and true love in the countryside.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ANOTHER CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Andrew Davis (Malik Brazile) is a professional baseball player in Myrtle Beach and wants to rekindle things with his old college sweetheart Kelly Brooks (Sheena Faust) who is an elementary school teacher in the same city.

She is reluctant to see him because of the way things ended between them, but their mutual friend Tyler (Jimmy Willis III) encourages Kelly to give Andrew a second chance for Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MATCH FOR THE PRINCE (2023)

 

Julia Castle (Paniz Zade) is an acclaimed medieval romance novelist who is hired as a matchmaker for Prince Maximillian 'Max' Lucien Adalwolf (Jamie Thomas King) in a desperate attempt to find his true love before the fixed Royal wedding date.

But as they work closely on their quest, they draw cues from romantic novel clichés, the tropes start to become real, and they must decide whether to become the characters in their own love story or bow to the Royal traditions.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS JOURNEY (2021)

 

After returning home after serving in a foreign war Jaime (Tyson Alexander) is looking forward to being home with his wife and getting back to normal only to discover his wife has run off with his friend and that they have lost the house because she wasn’t paying the mortgage.

So his mum (Tommye Staley) suggests they take motorcycle trip during the run up to Christmas to take him out of himself and have some adventures and do some good along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – K-9 ADVENTURES II: LEGEND OF THE LOST GOLD (2014)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) became bank manager in the  winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah, and lived with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) sixteen and eleven years old respectively.

In the year since the move Kassie has made a lot of friends and expresses her passion for music and singing with the church choir, and when Pastor Bailey (Adam Johnson) tells her the tale of John Garrison and shows her an old pocket watch the adventure begins.

And it’s that old, broken pocket watch that leads her, her dog Scoot and friends to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold, ahead of criminals Clint and Brandy (Bob Clendenin and Renny Grames) and finding the treasure would save the shelter for the Pastor in time for Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – K-9 ADVENTURE : LEGEND OF THE LOST GOLD (2014)

 

Widowed Paul Stevenson (Luke Perry) became bank manager in the  winter resort town of Heber Valley, Utah, and lived with his two daughters, Esther and Kassie (Camrey Bagley Fox and Ariana Bagley) sixteen and eleven years old respectively.

In the year since the move Kassie has made a lot of friends and expresses her passion for music and singing with the church choir, and when Pastor Bailey (Adam Johnson) tells her the tale of John Garrison and shows her an old pocket watch the adventure begins.

And it’s that old, broken pocket watch that leads her, her dog Scoot and friends to unlock the secret of the legendary Garrison Gold, ahead of criminals Clint and Brandy (Bob Clendenin and Renny Grames) and finding the treasure would save the shelter for the Pastor in time for Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FELIZ NAVIDAD (2005)

 

While Luz Rivera (Giselle Blondet) is expecting another child and her husband Junior Rivera (Reymond Wittman) is facing problems at work, it is left up to their daughter Josie Rivera (Jatnna Toribio) to take it upon herself to find the true meaning of Christmas and make sure the family is able to have a wonderful Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A WONDERFUL CHRISTMAS (2005)

While Luz Rivera (Giselle Blondet) is expecting another child and her husband Junior Rivera (Reymond Wittman) is facing problems at work, it is left up to their daughter Josie Rivera (Jatnna Toribio) to take it upon herself to find the true meaning of Christmas and make sure the family is able to have a wonderful Christmas. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOW TO RUIN THE HOLIDAYS (2023)

 

Struggling comedian Michelle (Amber Nash) is tricked into going home for Christmas by her sister Andrea (Kate Lambert) who told her that her Dad (Colin Mochrie) had suffered a fall so she reluctantly returns home for the holidays to her dysfunctional and eccentric family.

After a chaotic pre-Christmas period with her special-needs brother Mark (Luke Davis) and her Dad’s sex worker “Girlfriend” Christmas itself ends in tragedy and when her estranged mom (Caroline Aaron) turns up out of the blue Michelle ultimately makes a life-changing decision regarding the future with her siblings.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMOOSE STORY (2005)

Bertil Wagner (Raban Bieling) is very sad since his father left and spends much of his time in the shed at the family home, he shares with his mother Kirsten (Anja Kling) and sister Kiki (Sarah Beck).

Then one day just before Christmas a large moose crashes through the roof of the shed who goes by the name of Mr Moose (Voiced by Armin Rohde) who had been out on a test flight with Santa Claus (Mario Adorf) when they had a crash.

The children are very excited to have a talking Moose as a domestic pet, and even their mother Kirsten is happy to have him around but when his Grandmother (Monika Hansen) arrives at the house with a disgruntled Santa Claus.

But after Santa is arrested trying to get the star dust back from their crazy neighbour Pannecke (Jürgen Tarrach) they must retrieve the star dust and rescue Santa from the Asylum before the festive season starts and Christmas can be saved.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMOOSE CAROL (2005)

 

Bertil Wagner (Raban Bieling) is very sad since his father left and spends much of his time in the shed at the family home, he shares with his mother Kirsten (Anja Kling) and sister Kiki (Sarah Beck).

Then one day just before Christmas a large moose crashes through the roof of the shed who goes by the name of Mr Moose (Voiced by Armin Rohde) who had been out on a test flight with Santa Claus (Mario Adorf) when they had a crash.

The children are very excited to have a talking Moose as a domestic pet, and even their mother Kirsten is happy to have him around but when his Grandmother (Monika Hansen) arrives at the house with a disgruntled Santa Claus.

But after Santa is arrested trying to get the star dust back from their crazy neighbour Pannecke (Jürgen Tarrach) they must retrieve the star dust and rescue Santa from the Asylum before the festive season starts and Christmas can be saved.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – KILLING GENTLEMAN (2008)

 

Just before Christmas Kate Frazier (Kelly Macdonald) leaves her abusive husband Michael (Bobby Cannavale) and moves to Chicago to start a new life.

Then she meets a quiet man, Frank Logan (Michael Keaton) who helps her when she is struggling with a Christmas Tree and on Christmas Eve, she returns the favour when she takes him to the ER after he collapses outside her building, after which they become friends while she is being courted by police detective Dave Murcheson (Tom Bastounes).

Everything changes when Kate’s husband tracks her down and it turns out that Frank is a professional killer, and detective Murcheson is investigating him, and then Michael ends up dead.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE MERRY GENTLEMAN (2008)

 

Just before Christmas Kate Frazier (Kelly Macdonald) leaves her abusive husband Michael (Bobby Cannavale) and moves to Chicago to start a new life.

Then she meets a quiet man, Frank Logan (Michael Keaton) who helps her when she is struggling with a Christmas Tree and on Christmas Eve, she returns the favour when she takes him to the ER after he collapses outside her building, after which they become friends while she is being courted by police detective Dave Murcheson (Tom Bastounes).

Everything changes when Kate’s husband tracks her down and it turns out that Frank is a professional killer, and detective Murcheson is investigating him, and then Michael ends up dead.