Friday, 13 December 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOVE AT THE CHRISTMAS MARKET (2023)

 

Glass artist Heidi Heidelberg (Ginna Claire Mason) has always longed of selling her hand-painted ornaments in Germany at the Heidelberg Christmas market where her grandmother (Nela Bartsch) comes from.

At the last minute an opportunity arises so her grandmother arranges accommodation with acquaintances of hers, the Opperman family, and while she is there, she falls for their son Lukas (Frédéric Brossier) a local artisan who helps her reconnect with her lost heritage.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HEIDELBERG HOLIDAY (2023)

 

Glass artist Heidi Heidelberg (Ginna Claire Mason) has always longed of selling her hand-painted ornaments in Germany at the Heidelberg Christmas market where her grandmother (Nela Bartsch) comes from.

At the last minute an opportunity arises so her grandmother arranges accommodation with acquaintances of hers, the Opperman family, and while she is there, she falls for their son Lukas (Frédéric Brossier) a local artisan who helps her reconnect with her lost heritage.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PREACHER'S WIFE (1996)

 

“The Preacher's Wife” tells the tale of a Preacher, Reverend Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance), who has begun to lose sight of his wife, Julia, (Whitney Houston) and son Jeremiah (Justin Pierre Edmund) and of why he joined the church in the first place.

So an angel called Dudley (Denzel Washington), is sent to earth to help him and Dudley helps everyone he meets, but not always in the way they would have chosen.

None the less everyone likes Dudley with the possible exception of Henry.

As Christmas approaches Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, at work, and with his family’s affections.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE PREACHER'S WIFE (1996)

 

“The Preacher's Wife” tells the tale of a Preacher, Reverend Henry Biggs (Courtney B. Vance), who has begun to lose sight of his wife, Julia, (Whitney Houston) and son Jeremiah (Justin Pierre Edmund) and of why he joined the church in the first place.

So an angel called Dudley (Denzel Washington), is sent to earth to help him and Dudley helps everyone he meets, but not always in the way they would have chosen.

None the less everyone likes Dudley with the possible exception of Henry.

As Christmas approaches Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, at work, and with his family’s affections.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY BIRTHDAY, HAPPY CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

Sarah (Aeon Cruz) and Kevin (Scott Mitchell) have been best friends since childhood when they first realised, they both had Christmas Day birthdays and every year they have a cake with candles to mark the occasion, together in her tree house to begin with and via facetime when they were apart.

But when Kevin returns to their hometown to open his own veterinary practice just in time for Christmas, they fall back into the easy friendship they have always shared until her boss shows an interest in him their relationship takes on a different hue and a budding romance appears to be bubbling just beneath the surface.

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 – A PICTURE PERFECT CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

Ceci Carmichael (Kimberley Sustad) is a photographer for the local newspaper in the small-town of Harmony Bay who is still grieving the recent loss of her father and as a result has cancelled the local Christmas tradition he created called “Good Night” at which the townspeople decorate trees on the Carmichael grounds, with the proceeds from the Christmas tree sales being donated to charitable causes.

One day she is out taking photos when she witnesses an accident where a motorcyclist Sam Calloway (Mark Ghanimé) crashes in the woods, so she goes to his aid and saves his life, but in the moments before losing consciousness he asks her to marry him.
However when she visits him in the hospital, she discovers he’s a property developer  and she suspects he is trying to buy the parcel of land owned jointly by her and her step mother Vivian (Karen Kruper).

However once misunderstandings are straightened out, unexpected events unfold, and suddenly they are a couple, and they find themselves reviving her father's tradition.