THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS DANCE (2021

 

During a Church Nativity performance two young girls, Sarah and Kate (Cassady Jane Lorentzen and Lorelai Green) are performing a dance duet when Sarah trips and falls over a mic lead which was carelessly left on stage by her brother Sherman (Brady Amaya).

The resulting trauma from being humiliated on stage in front of the whole Church community meant that for the adult Sarah (Kristen Vaganos), Christmas was not her favourite time of year.

She also found any excuse not to go home for the Holidays, despite the best efforts of her Pastor brother Sherman (Miles Faber).

However, it was on one occasion when they were on the phone and he was trying to persuade her to come home that he had a car accident and the line went dead.

She was in such a panic that she dropped everything and returned home.

Fortunately, he was not seriously injured, but having got her there the family contrived to keep her there, and with the help of Jason (Carson Nicely) she is taught to bury the past and learns the  Christmas Dance along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS COLLISION (2021)

 

Just before Christmas, Theodora Greenly (Sebrina Scott) is sent to Ohio to complete the foreclosure on the King farm but arrives on the day of the funeral for the mother of Charles King (John Wells).

Being a time consumed professional and seemingly devoid of empathy she coldly delivers the news that his mother had defaulted on the mortgage and was there to repossess the farm.

However, despite her cold demeanour, she is persuaded to allow Charles an extra day to consult his bank, and she uses the time to check some details herself.

When she returns to the farm, she badly sprains her ankle and is forced to stay until she can put her weight on it again.

While experiencing his hospitality she begins to thaw and they are both taken by surprise when it appears that they have chemistry, and while they are falling for each other it becomes apparent that the repossession she had been sent to Ohio to execute is not at all above board.

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

 

On the last day before Christmas break, the popular art teacher at Ponchatoula Junior High, Faith Mason (Hilarie Burton), is told that the arts funding at the school has been totally cut, along with her job.

As usual school nurse and best friend Wyatt (Tyler Hilton) is by her side while she comes to terms with what has happened.

Her younger sister Maddie (Megan Park) returns home for the holidays on the same day with her boyfriend Ryan (Lee Norris) and believes that Faith’s problems stem from being alone so persuades her sister that a wish in the famous town Wishing Box is her best move, so she posts a wish that her sister will experience true loves kiss.

Unfortunately, the next day men start throwing themselves at her.

All the attention is initially very flattering, but soon becomes quite tedious and while she has been distracted by all the attention, she has been blind to the true love that has been right in front of her since the beginning.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – AN UNFORGETTABLE CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Non-profit Executive Director Lucy Lovett (Ashley Greene) slips on the ice outside a bridal shop in Portland and bangs her head but when she comes to her senses she doesn’t know where she is.

However, when she realises, she is clutching a wedding dress, she jumps to the conclusion that she is late to her wedding with Zach Callahan (Andrew W. Walker), so heads directly to her hometown of Bedford Harbor, Maine.

Unfortunately, when she reaches Zach’s Roadhouse Restaurant, she finds that Zach is confused to see her because they broke up almost two years earlier, on December 23rd and she is engaged to another man.

However, she has no recollection of the two years that had passed, and Dr. Caroline Albright (Jackée Harry) diagnoses retrograde amnesia, so she stays in Maine to do  things she feels familiar with during the annual Christmas Festival which she always enjoyed, especially when she was with Zach.

Spending time in her old hometown with familiar people and places she slowly uncovers the secrets surrounding the breakup and unblocks the memory of the two years she spent in Portland.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON MY MIND (2019)

 

Non-profit Executive Director Lucy Lovett (Ashley Greene) slips on the ice outside a bridal shop in Portland and bangs her head but when she comes to her senses she doesn’t know where she is.

However, when she realises, she is clutching a wedding dress, she jumps to the conclusion that she is late to her wedding with Zach Callahan (Andrew W. Walker), so heads directly to her hometown of Bedford Harbor, Maine.

Unfortunately, when she reaches Zach’s Roadhouse Restaurant, she finds that Zach is confused to see her because they broke up almost two years earlier, on December 23rd and she is engaged to another man.

However, she has no recollection of the two years that had passed, and Dr. Caroline Albright (Jackée Harry) diagnoses retrograde amnesia, so she stays in Maine to do  things she feels familiar with during the annual Christmas Festival which she always enjoyed, especially when she was with Zach.

Spending time in her old hometown with familiar people and places she slowly uncovers the secrets surrounding the breakup and unblocks the memory of the two years she spent in Portland.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS RING (2021)

 

Kendra Adams (Nazneen Contractor) is a writer for a Boston based online magazine, The Quizzer, but in the years since her father’s death she spends all her spare time trawling antique fairs and pawn shops searching for her mother’s engagement ring, which was not among his belongings when he died.

However, the closest she got was a similar style ring bearing the inscription, "My Christmas Love 1948."

Using the jewellers mark she discovers it was made in the small town of Pine Grove she takes some personal time and heads out of Boston in search of the story.

But when she arrives, she discovers the jewellery store is now a bakery, but the owner Paul (Milo Shandel) is the son of the craftsman who fashioned the ring and is able point her in the direction of Michael Jones (David Alpay), the grandson of the man who commissioned the ring for the woman he loved.

Together they learn the legacy his grandparents left behind as well as the sacrifices they both made for their love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS WISH (2007)

 

A week before Christmas, Gary and Paula Ferguson (Bret Anthony and Nicole Eggert) are really struggling with paying the bills and don’t know how they are going to pay for food and gifts for Christmas.

Then Paula’s high school boyfriend Nick Brett (Le Bourveau) returns to town, wealthy, successful and seemingly living the perfect life with his wife Sheila (Stefanie von Pfetten), a perfect life that she could have been a part of had she not married Gary instead.

On one particularly bad day she wishes she had stayed with Nick, so she would be living a trouble-free life, and her wish comes true after pursuing a voice through the tumble drier and emerging in a luxury house where she meets her maid Martina (Patricia Mayen-Salazar).

Initially she is thrilled with the lavishly appointed house, well stocked dressing room and luxury car, but very soon realises what she really wants is to get back to her family and her old life.