THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WITH THE ANDERSONS

 

Mike and Caroline Anderson (George Stults and Christy Carlson Romano) have always gone all out with parties and gifts for Christmas with their 10-year-old twins Brendan and Julia (Luke and Savannah Judy) however when Michael loses his job just before the holidays, it looks like Christmas will have to be cancelled.

Being used to outdoing their friends and neighbours with ever more elaborate celebrations they are brought down to earth with a bump as they have to face up to their new reality.

But help is at hand when they receive a visit from wacky Aunt Katie (Julie Brown) who helps them realize they can still pull off Christmas, without, and rediscover the most important things in their lives.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN CANAAN

 

DJ (Zak Ludwig) and Rodney (Jaishon Fisher) didn't like each other from the first moment they met, and they repeatedly clash because DJ thinks Rodney acts too smart for his own good and Rodney thinks DJ is an ignorant white farm boy.

Things came to a head after a scuffle between the two on the school bus, when DJ's father (Billy Ray Cyrus) and Rodney's grandmother (Candus Churchill) come up with a clever solution that brings the boys closer than either of them would have liked.

Living in Canaan, Texas in the 1960s didn’t make it easy for a black boy and a white boy to forge a friendship it was only amid the magic of an unforgettable Christmas that DJ and Rodney discover a land of milk and honey where hope and love make all the difference.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NOEL

 

The film is set on Christmas Eve in New York, where it begins with lonely, divorced publisher, Rose Collins (Susan Sarandon), who needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother who is interned in a hospital with Alzheimer’s.

During one of her visits, she feels sorry for another patient across the hall and meets his visitor (Robin Williams).

Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez (Penélope Cruz) breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike Riley (Paul Walker) due to his suffocating jealousy but misses him terribly.

Mike is then stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela (Alan Arkin) and at the same time Jules Calvert (Marcus Thomas) arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager.

The lives of some of these characters cross with others as Christmas Eve passes into Christmas Day and we find out the secrets that they carry with them.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE (2004)

 

Nick junior (Steve Guttenberg) has always known that he needs to find a wife but he planned to let fate bring his wife to him, but those plans had to be altered because time was running out and he must replace his father as Santa Claus on December 26.

Ernest (Armin Shimerman), the right-hand man to several generations of Santa’s, generates a list of potential mates and Nick dutifully sets off to meet them, but fate may have a candidate for him after all when he meets Beth (Crystal Bernard).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 3 HOLIDAY TAILS (2011)

 

Lisa Haynes (Julie Gonzalo) has moved to Florida with three darling golden retriever pups and at once makes friends with the nice couple next door, Rod and Katherine Wright (Bruce Davison and Alley Mills) and their adult golden retriever.

The three become so close, in fact, that Lisa feels comfortable telling them how her love life is not running smoothly and her heart was broken long ago.

But old flames reunite and sparks are reignited at Christmastime in Florida, but the man David (K.C.Clyde) is already engaged to Kelly Jansen (Kelly Stables) but love finds a way with the help of their dogs.

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.