THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FARMER AND THE BELLE (2020)

 

Pen pal youngsters Josh and Belle (Benji Russell and Livi Birch) met each year at Santaland until they were eleven years old when her mother chose a different path for her after an incident that resulted in her losing the bracelet that her grandmother (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) gave her.

Many years later Belle Winters (Jenn Gotzon) is a successful but tiring New York City model who's worried about aging out of the industry and she suddenly has a hankering to return to Santaland to find her missing charm Bracelet.

She reconnects with Josh Carpenter (Jim E. Chandler) who is now a widowed farmer raising his young daughter Adele (Adele Chandler) who along with Gran'Poppy (Corbin Bernsen) are struggling to save their beloved Santaland festival, but miracles can happen with a little love, family, and faith.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE FARMER AND THE BELLE: SAVING SANTALAND (2020)

 

Pen pal youngsters Josh and Belle (Benji Russell and Livi Birch) met each year at Santaland until they were eleven years old when her mother chose a different path for her after an incident that resulted in her losing the bracelet that her grandmother (Sandra Ellis Lafferty) gave her.

Many years later Belle Winters (Jenn Gotzon) is a successful but tiring New York City model who's worried about aging out of the industry and she suddenly has a hankering to return to Santaland to find her missing charm Bracelet.

She reconnects with Josh Carpenter (Jim E. Chandler) who is now a widowed farmer raising his young daughter Adele (Adele Chandler) who along with Gran'Poppy (Corbin Bernsen) are struggling to save their beloved Santaland festival, but miracles can happen with a little love, family, and faith.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON THE RIVER (2019)

 

In New Iberia , Louisiana, the Winter Family are like Christmas royalty and three generations of the Winter women, Doris, Charlotte and Sarah (Dee Wallace, Moira Kelly and Jana Kramer) were all crowned Miss Christmas.

When she returns home to celebrate the anniversary of the town’s Sugarcane Christmas Festival, Sarah, who is now a successful lawyer, she is reunited with her former Mister Christmas, Luke (Percy Daggs III) but will the magic of the season rekindle their old romance.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN LOUISIANA (2019)

In New Iberia , Louisiana, the Winter Family are like Christmas royalty and three generations of the Winter women, Doris, Charlotte and Sarah (Dee Wallace, Moira Kelly and Jana Kramer) were all crowned Miss Christmas.

When she returns home to celebrate the anniversary of the town’s Sugarcane Christmas Festival, Sarah, who is now a successful lawyer, she is reunited with her former Mister Christmas, Luke (Percy Daggs III) but will the magic of the season rekindle their old romance. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS RANSOM (2022)

 

On Christmas Eve a pair of bumbling crooks Nan and Shez (Geneviève Lemon and  Bridie McKim) break into the struggling Harrington and Sons toy store and take the owner Derrick (Matt Okine) and employee Pete (Ed Oxenbould) hostage and demand a ransom from his estranged sister Terri (Vivienne Awosoga) who owns a successful computer games company.

So it’s up to pregnant security guard Gladys (Miranda Tapsell) and a pair of mischievous kids Brady and Wombat (Tahlia Sturzaker and Evan Stanhope) to save the day in shades of “Die Hard”

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WE'RE SCROOGED (2023)

 

A curious reworking of Charles Dickens well spun yarn of redemption.

This retelling of the story is about two people, Sarah Russell and Scott Mayford (Tamara Duarte and Andrew Bushell), former high school sweethearts, who parted ways after college, who have spent the intervening year focussed on climbing the greasy pole.

And it’s their careers that make them return to their hometown to attend their 10-year high school reunion which is why they are visited at the hotel by the Ghost of Christmas Past, Mr. Fletcher (Sergio Di Zio), their old high school counsellor who shows them some key moments from their past.

The following night the virtual Ghost of Christmas Present, J.O.I. (Rebecca Lamarche) visits them and opens their eyes to things happening in their own lives.

Finally the Ghost of Christmas Yet To Come, Nick (Paul Dick) visits them on the third night, and shows them their future selves to highlight all the things they gave up achieving their goals and remind them of what they meant to each other.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY EXMAS (2014)

 

Jessie and Noelle Rogers (Dean Cain and Kristy Swanson) are divorcing after he is wrongly implicated in a sex scandal, but at Christmas, after a mix up as to who had the use of their cabin for the holidays they become snowbound during a blizzard, along with his yoga instructor girlfriend Tasha (Rebecca Grant), Noelle’s wealthy suitor, Flynn (Lochlyn Munro), Jessie’s former mother in law, Roz (Trish Cook) and his daughter Carrie (Shannon Kummer), which all makes for a very fraught Christmas and an enjoyable movie.

Jodi Lyn O'Keefe steals the show as Flynn’s self-absorbed lawyer Ashley Williams she is so good that you end up loving her despite her totally deplorable nature.