THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS GIFT (2015)

A journalist whose life was deeply impacted by a Secret Santa gift that she received when she was 10 years old sets out to discover who anonymously gave it to her, but ends up finding a lot more along the way.

The Christmas Gift is a story built around Megan (Rylan Lee), a beautiful 10-year old girl who received a gift through Secret Santa and not only is she impressed by the gift, she treasures it, because it came at a time in her life when she really needed it.

As time passes, she never forgets the gift, and she never forgets the face of the little boy whose photo was attached to the shoe box it was packed in.

After almost 10 years, Megan (Michelle Trachtenberg), who is now a journalist, makes it her mission to find out the location of the little boy who touched her heart so many years earlier.

When she decides to approach the editor with an idea for the perfect holiday story to find her “Secret Santa”, Megan’s life changes in a way she never expects after finding him.

This is the perfect uplifting holiday movie about giving, sharing, and finding love in the most unexpected places in this case with Wesley Hardin Johnson Jr (Sterling Sulieman) her Secret Santa.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS TREE (1996)

This is the story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony (Julie Harris), and head gardener at New York's Rockefeller Centre, Richard Reilly (Andrew McCarthy).

They meet when he wants to fell a tree that she's been growing for decades and move it to New York for display at Christmas.

Over the months long forgotten memories of her past come to the fore as she reveals her relationship to “Tree” and Richard slowly comes to realised that he is in love with his assistant Beth (Trini Alvarado).

The story culminates at the lighting of the tree with a final revelation. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOOKS LIKE CHRISTMAS (2016)

Single parent Carol Montgomery (Anne Heche) lives with her son Bryan (Sean Michael Kyer) and is the undisputed Queen of Christmas and she organised every aspect of the holiday, but all that changed when another single parent Terry Evans (Dylan Neal) and his daughter Amelia (Farryn Van Humbeck) move to the town and he is a breath of fresh air and offers an alternative view of the plans and Carol and Terry battle for control of the Christmas holiday at the middle school that their children attend and learn a lesson about the true meaning of Christmas. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOLIDAY TREE

 

Molly Logan (Lacey Chabert) and Lucas Bishop (Corey Sevier) were childhood friends and high school sweethearts in Danbury Falls, Vermont, where Molly's family founded the town two hundred years earlier, and with her immediately family still living on the same property, where her parents, Gordon and Betty Logan (Eric Keenleyside and Lini Evans), have continued the family business of operating a Christmas tree farm.

Since they were children, Molly knew she wanted to become a writer, a dream which her parents supported while Lucas knew he wanted to become a photographer, something his banker father, Elliot Bishop (James Kidnie) vehemently opposed him pursuing as a career, he believed only in careers like his own, and making money by any and all means.

When he would not follow her to New York, where they would have pursued their professional dreams together, Molly and Lucas broke up and had not seen each other since.

After getting an MBA, Lucas returned to Danbury Falls to work at the bank for his father.

Molly works at a publishing house, where she is treated more as a 24/7 PA by her recently widowed boss, Walter Dunlap (Jim Thorburn) at the expense of her writing career.

When Molly hears from her brother Ryan (Matthew Kevin Anderson) that the bank is foreclosing on a mortgage for the tree farm property they both head back to Danbury Falls to help their parents save the farm from being turned into a golf resort.

On her return, Molly runs into Lucas, who is heading the search for investors for the development proposal and then Christmas begins to work its magic.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A FIREHOUSE CHRISTMAS

Firefighter Jenny Jenkins (Anna Hutchison) falls in love with local star Tom Norris (Marcus Rosner) but his ex-wife and celebrity figure skating champion Mary Hamilton (Anita Brown) is asking him to choose between reconciling or going through an ugly custody battle, but she has an ulterior motive.

But Jenny’s natural warmth and kindness to the community starts to convince everybody that her love for Tom is real however Mary's fierceness is more powerful than anything Jenny has ever faced before so who will Tom choose in the end? 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SCROOGED

 

Bill Murray stars as miserly TV executive Frank Cross in this humorous retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit him, revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.

The Spirits are played by David Johansen (Past), Carol Kane (Present) and Robert Hammond (Future)

The other key characters and portrayed by John Forsythe (Lew Hayward i.e. Marley), Karen Allen (Claire Philipps i.e. Belle), Alfre Woodard (Grace Cooley i.e. Bob Cratchit), Nicholas Phillips (Calvin Cooley i.e. Tiny Tim), and John Murray (James Cross i.e. Fred).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS STORY (1983)

It’s the 1940’s and Christmas is approaching and 9 year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants only one thing for Christmas that year: a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun.

When he mentions it at the dinner table, his mother (Melinda Dillon) immediately reacts by telling that he'll put his eye out.

He does little better when he raises it with his father (Darren McGavin) or his teacher (Tedde Moore) but all the while he fantasizes about what it would be like to be “Red Ryder” and catch the bad guys.

When the big day arrives, he gets lots of present under the tree including a lovely gift from his aunt that his mother very much approves of but will the BB gun be among them?