THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOVE & GINGERBREAD (2020)

 

On the day New York stockbroker Sam Wallace (Vanessa Lengies) starts a new job she discovers that the company have been taken over and her boyfriend Will (René Escobar Jr) is her new boss.

So, she does the only thing she can do, she quits both of them and returns home to upstate New York to spend Christmas with her mother Tammy (Maria Ricossa) and reconnects with her high school sweetheart Noah Fitzpatrick (Corey Sevier) who she left behind in order to pursue her business career.

After some initial frostiness on his part he eventually thaws and they are able to rekindle their former love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FALLING IN LOVE AT CHRISTMAS (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.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES: PART TWO (2020)

Two years have passed since Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) and her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped Santa save Christmas.

However, she is now a cynical 13-year-old who is unhappily spending Christmas with her family in Cancún, Mexico, with her mom Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her brother, her mom's new boyfriend Bob Booker (Tyrese Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when she would rather be back home, where there is snow and it feels more like a real Christmas.

So, Kate decides to run away and uses her mom’s credit card to book an early flight back home to Boston.

When she is sneaking out of the Hotel and is unaware, she is being followed by Jack, she is tricked by an evil Christmas Elf Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), posing as a driver, to get onto a shuttle, which Jack sneaks on to as well.

But they aren’t going to the airport, instead they are transported to the North Pole where they are rescued by Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) who takes them back to his house where Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn) is waiting.

Of course, Belsnickel transported the kids in order to use them as bait to attract Santa so he could sneak into the Village.

Once inside he put his plan to take over Christmas for his own evil ends into action.

So not for the first time Kate has to help Santa save Christmas, this time he has Jack and Mrs Claus to help.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHARM BRACELET (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 – A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS (2020)

Natalie Rogers (Anni Krueger) learns that her cousin Olivia (Nia Vardalos) has to cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant because bad weather has her grounded in Rome.

Natalie’s heart goes out to Olivia and all of the guests who were planning on attending so, despite having no experience in such things she decides she will open it for her.

Luckily, an attractive if pessimistic chef named Stefano Grimaldi (Gilles Marini) is on hand.

Although he thinks getting ready to open with only three days until Christmas is impossible, but her positivity overrules his pessimism and with the help of two young students BeeBee Jordan and Tyler (Emma Myers and Andrew Brodeur) they overcome all the obstacles.

And of course, there is love on the menu. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SANTA 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 – CHRISTMAS FOR HIRE (2020)

 

Megan (Michelle Argyris) is a godsend during the holidays as she uses the weeks leading up to every Christmas to help around with any Christmas related tasks and saves the day for those who find the season taxing.

Then due to a misunderstanding when she visits a store called Trinkets and Toys she is mistaken for some kind of business guru by an investor.

As a result, the two owners Kurt and Mike (Travis Nelson and Marcello Di Fruscia) hire her to create a fantastic Christmas store display and increase footfall.

The investor David is impressed and insistent that she continue but she and Kurt continually clash but with each successive day she wears him down and works her way into his heart and he into hers.