THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CROSS COUNTRY CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Former classmates, Lina Gordon (Rachael Leigh Cook), a professional problem solver and Max Cooper (Greyston Holt), a tech developer, have both made lives for themselves in Manhattan, without ever knowing of the others existence, until they bump into each other on board the same flight travelling to their small Colorado hometown for the holidays.

After a short exchange between the two of them the plane takes off, however a major snowstorm forces the plane to land and then all flights are cancelled.

All the buses are fully booked all the rental cars have gone so Lina puts her problem-solving skills into action to contend with a string of challenges that they must overcome, some of their own making, to find their way home.

And as they deal with various forms of transport and interact with various people along the way, they find insights into their travelling companions and by the end love eases the journey.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FIRST CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Children’s author Halle Downing (Idara Victor) was given up for adoption as a baby but never found her forever family and spent her life in foster care from a young age, and as a thirty something the closest thing to family she knew was her former social worker Eugene (Lance E. Nichols).

Then out of the blue she is invited to spend Christmas in New Orleans with the biological family she never knew she had.

She decides to seize the opportunity to meet them, partially out of curiosity and partly because she hopes it might help to break her writer’s block, but she is surprised by the welcome.

However, it takes some family conflict and an unexpected love interest to get her writing again. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS BALL (2020)

After Ballet Dancer Clare (Deirdre Mullins) is let go from her company she decides to visit her Aunt Bridget (Caroline Langrishe) in England for the holidays.

The first person she meets at her Aunt’s Manor House is Liam (Nick Hendrix) a handsome historian who Bridget has employed to establish the Manor as an historical landmark and have it protected against development, when she sells it.

She is also hoping to persuade Clare to take over her Dance School, but Clare hasn’t given up on joining another Corp.

But as part of a Christmas Eve presentation for the Historical Society, Clare agrees to teach her Aunt’s pupils two period dances and during the process she finds a new focus for her talents and falls in love along the way.  

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS LISTING (2020)

 

Julia Rogers (Lexi Giovagnoli) and Chad Everest (Travis Burns) are fiercely rival Realtors who are competitors in the listing of a lifetime, the Farmstead Inn.

But in order to stand a chance of winning they have to stay at the Inn for a week as guests of the owners, Herb and Donna Erickson (Greg Evigan and Susan Chambers), to experience the holiday season at Farmstead.

So, while her sister Jena (Rachel O'Connell) takes care of the office and looks after their Dad, (Bruce Purcell), Julia competes for the listing, however the more activities they do together the less they behave as adversary’s and seem more and more like a couple and their focus changes.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – COOKING UP CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Head Chef, Chloe (Meagan Holder) is fired from an Atlanta restaurant just a few weeks before Christmas, which is a blow to her long-term plan to open her own bistro.

Reluctantly she takes a live-in job to get her through the holidays at the home of a veteran pro baseball player, Donovon Jackson (Lamman Rucker) who is a single dad of three, Vanessa, Lindsey and DJ (Bailey Tippen, Lindsey Blackwell and Khamary Rose).

Donovan has a very strict fitness and dietary regime for him and the kids and expects Chloe to follow his menu to the letter, however his coach, Buck (L. Warren Young), who employed her, has very different ideas as he is bored with health food.

Slowly but surely, Chloe makes her mark on the menu and Donovan and romance is in the air, but then Grandma Dolores (Jen Harper) arrives early and she brings ex-girlfriend Shavonne (Marquita Goings) with her to upset the applecart which puts a “happy ever after” in jeopardy.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CHALET (2019)

 

Divorced Photographer Grace (Erica Durance) is given an assignment in Vermont for the holidays so being a lover of Christmas and having had a chalet booked for her she decides to take her mother Helen (Elva Mai Hoover) and sulky teenage daughter Lexi (Micah Kalisch) with her.

However, on their arrival they find the chalet already occupied by a writer, Jack (Robin Dunne) who is trying to escape the holidays, in fact he despises Christmas so much he’s even taken down all of the decorations and hidden them in the basement.

So having been double booked and with no other vacancies in town they have to make the best of a bad situation.

Although the main conflict isn’t between Grace and Jack its between her and her sullen daughter who has a chip on her shoulder because she blames her mom for the divorce because she has never been told that her father was unfaithful.

But Jack becomes a catalyst for their reconciliation, but it is the arrival of her father (Damon Runyan) which finally exposes the truth so the misunderstood mom and the grinchy writer can come together and learn the magic of Christmas and family together.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE DOG DAYS OF CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Aid worker Annie Blake (Georgia Flood) returns to her hometown in North Haven, Vermont, to spend the holidays with her family after finishing a mission in Nepal, while she waits for her next project with the "Helping Hand" organisation and a possible promotion.

It’s the first time she has been back home since her mother passed away three years earlier and stays with her Aunt Claire (Christine Amor) but having devoted her life to helping people in need she is unable to just relax and enjoy the holidays.

So, she pours all of her energy into rehoming animals from a shelter which brings her into the orbit of local vet and Annie's old school debating nemesis Dylan Hawkes (Ezekiel Simat) and they form a reluctant alliance to settle a ragtag bunch of animals looking for homes.

In the end they manage to create a Christmas that nobody will ever forget, and in the process, find true love.