THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLLY AND IVY (2020)

 

Librarian Melody (Janel Parrish) is new in town and moves into a fixer upper and instantly forms a friendship with her neighbour Nina (Marisol Nichols) and her two daughters Holly and Ivy (Sadie Coleman and Piper Rubio).

Her plan is to get a job at one of the local Libraries and slowly work on her house but when she finds out that Nina’s cancer has returned and she is gravely ill her plans change.

Nina confesses to her that she is afraid of what will become of her daughters when she is gone as she has no other family and without a second’s hesitation Melody says that she will adopt them.

In order for that to happen her house has to be habitable for her to be a viable candidate to adopt so she has to step up her renovations.

Adam (Jeremy Jordan) a local contractor comes to her aid with support and love.

And when the community get to hear what she is planning to do for her friend, help comes from every direction to make her house a perfect home to raise Holly and Ivy.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ROAD HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

At a Bourbon Street lounge in New Orleans, in the run up to Christmas, Lindsey Scott (Marla Sokoloff) and Wes Bailey (Rob Mayes) are a reluctant duelling pianos/singing act, that reluctance being due to them being complete opposites.

Lindsey is classically trained and structured whereas Wes is more relaxed, and more Jazz oriented.

Their last gig of the year is cancelled at the last minute and as the money from that show was going to fund her flight home for Christmas, she is left deflated.

Her sister Allie (Whitney Palmer) is almost due with her first baby so her need to get home promptly was acute Wes on the other hand needed to get home to see his sick mother before she passed.

In passing conversation it transpired that they were both from small hometowns just outside of Akron, so he suggests that they drive the fifteen-hour straight through journey together and she reluctantly agrees.

On the road trip, they meet one obstacle after another, detours, breakdowns, adverse weather, all of which threatened to prevent them from reaching their respective homes in time for Christmas.

But as a result, they have to spend more time together than they expected and in the process, they truly to get to know and understand each other.

And somewhere along the way they fell in love.

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

 

Bill and Phylis Mitchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) are at a crossroads in their lives and marriage, so they summon their two grown sons Mike and Brandon (Robert Buckley and Jonathan Bennett) home for the holidays.

The hope is that bringing the family together to recreate “The Christmas House” once again will help them make a memorable holiday for the entire family and community.

What the boys are unaware of is that the reason for resurrecting the “Christmas House” tradition was that it was to be the swan song as they were selling up.

The realtor turns out to be Mike’s high-school sweetheart Andi Cruz (Ana Ayora) who did not part in the best of ways so their reunion is quite frosty.

However, while Brandon and his husband Jake (Brad Harder) are anxiously awaiting a call about the adoption of their first child Mike and Andi reconnect and the love they shared in their youth would soon burn bright again.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA’S SQUAD (2020)

 

Allie (Rebecca Dalton) is an unemployed art teacher who reluctantly accepts a job with the Santa Squad.

The Squad are employed for a myriad of Christmas tasks and projects and Allie is sent to the home of a wealthy widower Gordon Church (Aaron Ashmore) and his two adorable daughters, Rose and Iris (Hattie Kragten and Molly Lewis) to help get the house ready for Christmas.

But she decides that while she is doing that, she can help lift the spirits of a broken family so that they can rediscover the magic of Christmas.

What she didn’t expect however was that the magic of Christmas would provide her with true love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STAGING CHRISTMAS (2019)

Christmas is the busiest season for Lori (Soleil Moon Frye) as she stages homes for a living, and the one thing all the homes she dresses have in common is that they are for sale.

So, she is naturally intrigued when Everett (George Stults), a wealthy widower, hires her to stage his home for the holidays, not to sell, but to cheer up his daughter, Maddie (Mia Clark).

However, it soon becomes apparent as she begins to dress the house for the holidays that Maddie isn't the only one who needs to feel the benefit of Christmas spirit.

Although she was originally hired just to stage the perfect Christmas in their house, she starts to feel like part of the family as she spends more and more time with Everett and Maddie, and she really likes it. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A LITTLE CHRISTMAS CHARM (2020)

 

In Greenwich Village, jewellery designer Holly Hayes (Ashley Greene) works in the Vintage Clothing Shop run by her best friend Megan Snyder (Britt Irvin) and designs jewellery in her spare time.

One day Holly finds a valuable charm bracelet in the pocket of a donated coat, and she naturally reaches the conclusion that the bracelet, with many bespoke Christmas themed charms, was donated in error.

Holly makes it her mission to discover the owner and return the bracelet before Christmas.

Reluctantly she teams up with a magazine reporter Greg Matthews (Brendan Penny), who wants to assist her as he wants to write about her his "Christmas Hero" story.

The combination of her Jewellery expertise, keen instincts and his investigative reporter experience soon unearth the bracelets origins and the love story it represents.

But by the time they track down the owner they have written a love story of their own.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SECRETLY SANTA (2021)

 

Miranda (Alicia Dea Josipovic) and Paul (Travis Nelson) both meet at a Secret Santa party where they have both disguised their identities and they click instantly and are clearly on the same wavelength.

They agree to keep their disguises on and their anonymity until after the party, but they are separated before they can exchange numbers and have no way of finding each other.

Miranda is a talented tech guru who has developed an app to help Christmas shoppers select the perfect gift for their recipients, but is upset to find that her app has been sold to another company which in turn merges with a rival and she has to work jointly with one of the enemy on the holiday gift-giving app.

Her rival turns out to be her mystery man Paul from the Secret Santa but neither of them know so sparks fly between them but as they work together, they develop unexpected feelings for one another even before they discover their previous interactions.