THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SECRET SANTA (1998)

 

Gordon Covington (D.L. Green) doesn't get to spend enough time with his family because of his job as a used-car salesman.

It’s a tough job made worse by the fact he has a mean boss Mr Ambrose (Robert Quarry) who is forcing him to sell stolen cars.

So work pressures keep him from his family obligations, and he even misses the Christmas play his son Teddy (Harrison Myers) is performing in, and cancels the promised trip to the mountains for Christmas.

As a result his wife Carla (Debra Rich) moves out and takes Teddy to her sisters.

Teddy responds by writing a letter to Santa (Bennett Curland) asking for help, which prompts him to assign Lilith, a feisty elf, who appears to Gordon and turns him into Santa Claus and as such he has to learn the true meaning of Christmas as he gets to work putting his boss and his cronies in jail, delivering presents to children all over the world, as well as making up with his family.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

 

The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.

Santa (R.D. Reid) sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, but ends up crashing into the Fox family's house where he not only loses his memory but also his magic sack of presents.

If ever Santa needed help it was now but the modern and broken Fox family are scarcely up to the task.

The parents Angela (Jennifer Beals) and Wayne (Rick Roberts) are preoccupied with work and the kids Toby (Gage Munroe) and Hannah (Rebecca Williams) aren't particularly festive.

But the clock is ticking so it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and or Christmas will be ruined so they are forced to set their own petty problems aside and work together and rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE NIGHT BEFORE - SECRET PARTY (2015)

Three lifelong friends in New York City, Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie), have for a decade enjoyed their yearly Christmas Eve reunion which has been an annual drug and alcohol fuelled night of debauchery and hilarity.

But now that they're entering a more passive phase of adulthood, the tradition is to come to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracker Ball - the Holy Grail of Christmas parties that they have never managed to find in ten years of trying.

Jillian Bell, Lizzy Caplan, Heléne Yorke, Mindy Kaling and Ilana Glazer make up an excellent supporting cast along with Michael Shannon as Mr Green and James Franco and Miley Cyrus appear as themselves. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - CHRISTMAS MIRACLE (2012)

 

In the small town of Summit View there is a snowstorm blowing through on Christmas Eve.

It’s so severe the roads are almost deserted apart from a group of vehicles that become stranded on a remote road on the outskirts of town.

The occupants of the stranded cars take refuge in a nearby abandoned church.

James Mason (Aaron Pearl), is an ex-priest, who following the death of his wife and child is running away from his life and his vocation.

Darryl (George Canyon), is a Dyslexic EMT who dreams of becoming a doctor but believes that dream will never materialize.

Drake (David Nykl) and Madeleine (Lori Triolo) are a wealthy married couple whose marriage and its problems all revolve around money.

Nick (Randal Edwards) and Christy (Siobhan Williams) are newlyweds who have only been married for three days and have done nothing but argue

Joe Wells (Dan Payne) is the only local and is separated from his wife Mary (Allison Hossack), largely because of their differing views on how to manage their autistic son, Matt (Valin Shinyei) who runs away from his babysitter and walks through the storm to the church under his own steam.

Together the group must learn how to manage through the various dilemmas they face by working together.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE LEAST OF THESE: A CHRISTMAS STORY (2018)

 

A charming Christmas tale of, in equal measure, hope, forgiveness and faith that centre’s around a single mom, her seven-year-old daughter and a Salvation Army Santa Claus.

Rose (Tayla Lynn), a homeless single mother, and her young daughter Katy (Emma Faith) discover hope in a small-town diner where they are befriended by a feisty waitress, a big-hearted short order cook and a store front Santa called Charlie (G. Michael Nicolosi) who gets served a valuable lesson in forgiveness.

There is more to Rose than just waiting tables, she is an art lover and an accomplished artist and with Santa’s assistance she has a “chance” encounter with a wealthy art collector called Robert (Duane Allen) and his wife Livie (Deborah Allen) which could change her path, if she has faith in herself chooses to follow it.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MISTLETOE OVER MANHATTAN

 

Workaholic Santa Claus (Mairtin O’Carrigan) was exhausted and overwhelmed with the demands of modern children and his wife Rebecca (Tedde Moore) sensed her husband was losing his Christmas spirit.

So believing she can help him recapture his bliss Mrs Clause secretly heads to the one place she knows that the spirit of Christmas must still exist, New York City, which was where she first fell in love with her husband Nick.

However, New York was a very different place to the one she remembered and she was beginning to have doubts herself until in a crowded diner, Rebecca befriends a caring cop Joe (Greg Bryk), who was worried about her.

He reveals to her that he and his wife Lucy (Tricia Helfer) were in the middle of a divorce. Rebecca sensed that Joe was still very much in love with his wife and agreed to work temporarily as the family’s nanny until Christmas.

Rebecca’s hope was that by healing Joe and Lucy’s family, she would show Santa that Christmas miracles are still possible, and his job was as valuable as ever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS SOLO (2017)

 

“A Christmas Solo” is set in a small town where two single parents, Vet Jennifer (Kelli Williams), who is new in town, and bespoke furniture maker, Nate (Jonathan Scarfe), stumble into the possibility of love for Christmas, only to discover that their daughters Charlotte and Melissa (Pippa Mackie and Kayla Wallace) are embroiled in a rivalry at school as they compete for the Christmas Solo at the Christmas Festival.

When the rivalry gets out of control and Charlotte is on the wrong end of some nasty prank’s things come to a head and the parents and the school get involved, but will that lead everyone to a peaceful and merry Christmas?

An enjoyable tale of teenage angst and mature courtship, beautiful music and perfect friendships.

Alistair Abell stars as Nates brother, Pete, Ricky He and Naika Toussaint as Charlotte’s friends Henry and Audrey, and Natalie von Rotsburg as music teacher Ms. Baxter.