THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NORTHERN LIGHTS CHRISTMAS (2021)

Hannah Reed (Maddy Foley) is an up-and-coming blogger, and photographer and is planning on spending Christmas in Sacramento with her Aunt Lucy (Jayne Lewis) but she gets an assignment of a lifetime, visiting the charming town called Christmas World in Alaska, so she and Lucy head up north.

But when they get there, it wasn’t the “Christmas Wonderland” they were expecting, and it was sparsely decorated and was a town on its last legs.

But Hannah meets Ben Locke (Steve Belford) and she and Lucy offer their assistance with the decorations in exchange for help to find the best places to photograph the Northern Lights.

But what neither of them realise is that the resort is being sabotaged. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS BENEATH THE STARS (2021)

 

Hannah Reed (Maddy Foley) is an up-and-coming blogger, and photographer and is planning on spending Christmas in Sacramento with her Aunt Lucy (Jayne Lewis) but she gets an assignment of a lifetime, visiting the charming town called Christmas World in Alaska, so she and Lucy head up north.

But when they get there, it wasn’t the “Christmas Wonderland” they were expecting, and it was sparsely decorated and was a town on its last legs.

But Hannah meets Ben Locke (Steve Belford) and she and Lucy offer their assistance with the decorations in exchange for help to find the best places to photograph the Northern Lights.

But what neither of them realise is that the resort is being sabotaged.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SANTA SUMMIT (2023)

 

Three single thirty-something teachers, Jordin, Ava, and Stella (Hunter King, Amy Groening and Stephanie Sy) at Garden City Collegiate decide to go to the Santa themed holiday event, the Santa Summit, because they are all stuck in a rut and need to get back out there.

Jordin is getting over a recent breakup and the fact that her ex has already moved on, however she meets a mysterious Santa, Liam (Benjamin Hollingsworth) who she connects with. 

Whereas shy Ava has spent five years pining for fellow teacher Ben (Adam Hurtig) without being able to tell him that she has feelings for him, but she knows that he is at the event.

Stella is the reluctant participant of the group as she is depressed about having had to transfer from Music to English.

So Jordin searches for mysterious Santa, Ava searches for Ben and Stella searches for her lost spirit of Christmas and finds Freddie (Rodrigo Beilfuss).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON CHERRY LANE (2023)

 

The story centres on Christmas Eve at 7 Cherry Lane over a period of 25 years beginning in 1973 with John and Lizzie Hamilton (John Brotherton and Erin Cahill).

Lizzie is eight and half months pregnant with their first child and they’ve only been in the house for 2 days and haven’t even unpacked.

Their hope was for a quiet first Christmas together in their new home before their lives changed forever, that hope was shattered however with the unexpected arrival of her overbearing parents Frank and Evelyn Sawyer (Fred Henderson and Lynda Boyd) who make no secret of the fact they don’t think John is good enough for Lizzie, they were joined by the rest of the Sawyer clan and they were all staying at the house for Christmas.

 

In 1998 Widowed Regina Johnston (Catherine Bell) lives alone at the house but when her grown up children, Conrad and Winnie Johnston (Matthias Falvai and Veronica Long) arrive her boyfriend Nelson King (James Denton) lets slip that they are getting married, and Regina is selling the house and moving to Florida and Conrad tries whatever he can to make his mother change her mind.

 

In 2023 its their first Christmas together in the house for couple Mike and Zian Harrelson (Jonathan Bennett and Vincent Rodriguez III).

They are planning to host a small Christmas Eve dinner with friends, if their contractor Quinn Lewis (Robert Moloney) actually finishes fitting the kitchen.

Throwing another spanner in the works is their acceptance as foster parents, and their charge Tina is expected to arrive that evening.

 

Amidst the trials and tribulations of the three featured Christmas Eves there are characters that thread their way across the years.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE GIFT OF PEACE (2022)

 

Traci (Nikki Deloach) once had a very strong faith until her husband's death despite her prayers and then she stopped believing.

On her second Christmas without him she decides to join a bereavement support group in search of comfort and inspiration

The leader of the support group Michael (Brennan Elliott) is masking his own grief and puts on a brave front to assist the other group members.

But Michael and Traci support each other through the grief process aided by their Christian faith.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MERRY SCOTTISH CHRISTMAS (2023)

Estranged siblings Lindsay and Brad Morgan (Lacey Chabert and Scott Wolf) and his wife  Sarah (Kellie Blaise) are invited by their mother Josephine (Fiona Bell) to spend Christmas at a Scottish Castle where Lindsay meets Mac Bell (James Robinson).

But reconciling Jo’s children’s differences is not the only reason for them sharing a Scottish Christmas and it’s a surprise that’s going to change their lives for ever.  

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON MISTLETOE FARM (2022)

 

Matt Cunningham (Scott Garnham), a widowed father of five, Rosie, Buster, Charlie, Violet and Lily (Delilah O'Riordan, Dexter Sol Ansell, Evan Scott, Faith Delaney and Madison Davis), inherits a farm in Cobbledon, and although it’s the last thing he wants to do, the kids persuade him to leave their London home for the farm.

His boss Ms Fletcher (Ashley Jensen) has him working on a pitch which she wants completed on time and he has to face a stark reality in adjusting to village life.

He doesn’t see himself staying in the Village but his eccentric farm hand Beano, and the children he spends a lot of his time entertaining, the Vet Miss Ashley (Kathryn Drysdale) and the rest of the villagers have other ideas and try to make Matt stay in Cobbledon.