THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SPOTLIGHT ON CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Heroine of a trio of superhero movies, Olivia O'Hara (Tori Anderson) is dumped before Christmas by her rock star boyfriend Ryan Wrangler (Matthew James Dowden).

So, to avoid the reporters and paparazzi she secretly returns home to small town Happy Valley, Colorado, unannounced to spend Christmas with her family.

All she wants to do is watch Christmas Movies, eat cookies and avoid the press, but instead she has to go to the store for condensed milk which is where she runs into an old high school classmate, Casey Rawlins, (Victor Zinck Jr.) who now teaches English at Eagle Heights, their old school.

So instead of being a couch potato for the holidays she finds herself directing the Christmas Eve school show.

As a result, she spends the holiday busily directing the show, avoiding the paps and falling in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MEMORIES OF CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

Young businesswoman Noelle (Christina Milian) was raised by the queen of Christmas, so as an adult she had no love for the season.

So, when she inherits her late mother's house at Christmastime, she travels to her old childhood home with the intention of selling it as quickly as possible and getting out again.

Once in the house her worst fears are realised, she finds out that her mother had hired someone to decorate it for the holidays, Dave (Mark Taylor) to carry on the tradition.

As the lights and tinsel go up, Noelle's defences begin to come down and as her feeling for Dave grow, she decides to embrace him, Christmas and the town's Christmas gala that was her mother's legacy.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS PRINCESS (2019)

 

Jessica Byrnes (Shein Mompremier) is a talented but struggling Chef living in a trendy New York borough and trying to get her new restaurant up and running.

Then one day Prince Jack (Travis Burns) walks in and her life changes forever.

He is in the City to oversee and host his family's annual Christmas charity dinner and has just sacked his head Chef and after tasting Jessica’s meatloaf he offered her the job, shocking her and his Royal entourage in equal measure.

She reluctantly agrees because she knows it could make or break her career but she finds Jack very charming and very persuasive and they hit it off. 

But as their relationship evolves romance blooms, but they face mounting obstacles including the wrath of the Queen.

the dinner arrives and despite the Royal objections Jessica is a great success and gets a Christmas present she could never have imagined.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LONESTAR CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Widowed mother Erin Oliver (Stephanie Bennett) reluctantly takes her daughters Peyton and Carter (Lina Renna and Emma Oliver) to spend Christmas with her estranged Dad Gary (Brent Stait) and stepmom Farrah (Colleen Wheeler) on his Texas ranch.

On the way to the ranch, the tarpaulin comes adrift, shedding parcels all over the road, and Mateo, a family friend of her father, local Mexican restaurant owner Mateo Verdosa (Marco Grazzini) comes to her aid and sparks clearly fly.

Over the coming days Erin spends a lot of time with Mateo but her strained relationship with her dad keeps niggling at her, but the girls love him, and she can see he is a good and loving grandpa.

But in the end, she needs to forgive her father for the past and enjoy the fact that she had unexpectedly fallen in love with Mateo.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NOSTALGIC CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Anne Garrison (Brooke D'Orsay) is head toy buyer for Sinclair's chain of department stores and is riding high when she leaves New York City for North Bay, Maine, to help her father Bill (Ron Lea) close up his store, Garrison's Toys, due to his impending retirement.

What he wants is for Anne to take over the store and run it, but she already has a job, which she keeps reminding him.

So, her mindset is very much on packing up the store and returning to the City, but then she meets Wood Mill manager Keith McClain (Trevor Donovan) and his ten year old daughter Jessie (Jenna Weir) and her mind is not quite as set as it was.

In part its due to a set of themed wooden Santa’s which Anne carved just before she went away to college, which seem to work magic for the people who receive them.

But also, it’s the love and nostalgia that brings the city girl back to her small-town roots.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS LOVE LETTER (2019)

 

Amalie Hess (Ashley Newbrough) is a magazine feature writer dolling out relationship guidance but is sadly lacking herself in the relationship and romance department.

So, when she receives a Christmas card containing an unsigned love letter from someone she was at school with, full of romance and longing, the envelope bearing the postmark from her hometown, she starts to try and find out who the sender was.

So, to tackle the puzzle of who sent it head on she decided to head home and possibly discover the author.

The first person she meets is her old school friend Ian McCallister (Tilky Jones) and his daughter Marty (Izzy Herbert), so would they shed any light?

Or will she need to look further afield to find true love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BOYFRIENDS OF CHRISTMAS PAST (2021)

 

Late one night, in the run up to Christmas, Marketing Executive Lauren Kim (Catherine Haena Kim) has fallen asleep in her apartment while working on a last minute work project.

While asleep she is visited by the spirit of her first ever boyfriend, Tyler Mirsky (Jordan Kronis) and he tells her she will be visited by three other ex-boyfriends before Christmas.

On waking she dismisses it as just a very odd dream, but right on cue came Jake (Karn Kalra), then Henry (Ish Morris) and finally Logan (Jon McLaren) and all of then showed her their break up moments.

It soon becomes apparent that the one thing they all had in common was when they broke up, Christmas.

The other thing they had in common was her best friend, Nate Sagar (Raymond Ablack), who was a constant in her life, through thick and thin.

She comes to the conclusion that she must learn to open her heart to Nate or risk losing him forever.