THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WHEN I THINK OF CHRISTMAS (2022)

City Lawyer Sara Thompson (Shenae Grimes-Beech) returns to her hometown of Oakcrest to help her mother (Beth Broderick) move out of the family home and into a condo and is surprised to find her ex-boyfriend Josh Hartman (Niall Matter) is also back home.

When they were in high school, they planned a life in music together, but Sara won a scholarship to Harvard and left to study law, while he went on to have a music career.

The former sweethearts slowly reconnect while working together on the Christmas concert and try to heal wounds both old and new and make it a Christmas to remember.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MOST COLOURFUL TIME OF THE YEAR (2022)

Widowed optometrist Dr. Michelle Stevens (Katrina Bowden) is determined to make Christmas special for her daughter Bailey (Ava Weiss) as they were both missing Bailey's father.

When she meets her daughter’s favourite teacher Ryan Tanner (Christopher Russell), who teaches science, she sees through the bah humbug charade and  believes he is hiding the secret that he is severely colour-blind.

So she takes it upon herself to discover the truth, and when he admits it to her, she enrols him on a trial to test some new technology, but he is reluctant, even though she believes may open up his world.

So she perseveres because a connection seems to be happening between them, so will she help bring colour into his life in time for Christmas while also brightening her life in the process, and making Bailey’s wish come true.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS COUPON (2019)

Ice skating instructor Alison Grant (Courtney Mathews) loses her job at the ice rink so she begins teaching students on the frozen pond of her friend Mrs Nixon’s (Tricia Harmon)

On the first day of class her old high school sweetheart, famous ice hockey player, Ivan Hall (Aaron Noble) unexpectedly shows up having enrolled his niece in her class.

Naturally there is an initial cold reunion, and her Bobby Harrison (Robert Laenen) certainly isn’t happy about it, but eventually Alison warms up to Ivan again as they reconnect, especially after Bobby’s plans for the town are revealed.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PAINTING CHRISTMAS (2021)

On the morning of her gallery opening, Noelle Palmer (Taryn Hacker), and her friend Daphne (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) get ready for the grand opening that evening.

After Daphne leaves Noelle has her first ever customer who let himself in, while she is out of sight, he leaves the store unnoticed but leaves behind a paint brush wrapped up as a Christmas gift.

When she goes outside to see where he had gone, she meets Tyler Jensen (Cody Calafiore) who is managing the coffee shop next door, and they make an immediate connection.

However it soon transpires that she can paint the future using the mystery paintbrush left by the stranger.

But as she and Tyler grow closer, she discovers that the true magic lies within herself, and as she grows more confident as she also learns to love again.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MAGIC IN MOUNT HOLLY (2021)

On the morning of her gallery opening, Noelle Palmer (Taryn Hacker), and her friend Daphne (Yan-Kay Crystal Lowe) get ready for the grand opening that evening.

After Daphne leaves Noelle has her first ever customer who let himself in, while she is out of sight, he leaves the store unnoticed but leaves behind a paint brush wrapped up as a Christmas gift.

When she goes outside to see where he had gone, she meets Tyler Jensen (Cody Calafiore) who is managing the coffee shop next door, and they make an immediate connection.

However it soon transpires that she can paint the future using the mystery paintbrush left by the stranger.

But as she and Tyler grow closer, she discovers that the true magic lies within herself, and as she grows more confident as she also learns to love again.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CHOCOLATIER (2024)

American Lawyer Charlotte Dobler (Brittany Bristow) moved to Vienna to become master chocolatier at the historic Dobler Chocolate Shop which she took over following the sad passing of her beloved grandmother.

All is not well however despite  being one of the three finalists in the Vienna Chocolatier of the Year competition because she is in danger of losing the shop in the  historic market due to Danube Developments redevelopment project.

One day while she is in the midst of an appeal to city hall, and the City Clerk (Adam Boncz), she attends a fund raiser and meets Henry Broadbent (Will Kemp), the new CEO of his retired father's development business, Eurostar, though he is also a philanthropist.

Sympathetic to her plight a bond forms between the two, but Henry soon learns that not only does his company owns Danube, but his father, Gordon Broadbent (Drew Taylor), acquired Danube specifically because of the redevelopment.

So Henry has to decide what is most important to him, Eurostar and by extension his father’s wishes, or the burgeoning romance with Charlotte.

 

Richard Sheridan Willis, Suzanne McKenney, Catherine Disher and Jinesea Bianca Lewis also feature.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE MALTESE HOLIDAY (2021)

Bubbly Shea Andrews (Ashley Brinkman) planned to travel to Malta with her friend Kristen (Abigail Hawk) over Christmas, but Kristen cancels at the last minute.

At the same time Michael Foster (Cody Calafiore) was headed to the same location with his brother Daryl (Clayton Snyder), but Daryl only got as far as the airport before he backed out.

So bubbly Shea and grouchy Michael travelled alone and were seated next to each other, and didn’t get on, they were even staying at the same hotel so kept running into each other so eventually they decide to spend the rest of their vacation together.