THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST HOLIDAY (2006)

 

Georgia Byrd (Queen Latifah) is a clerk at a New Orleans department store, living a frugal life and unfulfilling her dreams, even not pursuing a relationship with coworker, Sean Williams (LL Cool J), then, right before Christmas, she's given three weeks to live without the treatment she can’t afford, and her insurance won’t cover her.

So she quits her job, withdraws her savings and decides to go on a dream vacation to the Grandhotel Pupp in the Czech Republic where she'd always dreamed of going.

where Chef Didier (Gérard Depardieu) presides.

She checks into the Presidential Suite, eats extravagantly and enjoys all the outdoor activities  the menu, snowboards, and rubs shoulders with a Congressman, a Senator, a retail magnate, and all their partners, and as she has only weeks to live she tells them all what she thinks, and they love her for it because they think she is their social equal.

But what will happen when they learn the truth?

 

Also starring, Timothy Hutton, Giancarlo Esposito, Alicia Witt, Jane Adams, Michel Estime, Susan Kellermann,

Jascha Washington, Matt Ross, Ranjit Chowdhry,

Michael Nouri, Jaqueline Fleming, Kendall Mosby and Chloe Bailey.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (2022)

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together? 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MERRY ROYAL CHRISTMAS (2024)

 

High-powered wedding planner Felicity (Kathryn Davis) is parachuted in at the last minute to plan a royal wedding between Princess Juliette (Rebecca Finch) and commoner George (Levi Mattey)  taking place on Christmas Day and is promised a chance to become a partner by her boss Wilhelmina (Jodie Steele).

Felicity travels there with her daughter Junie (Marley Quinlan-Gardner) and has to organize everything in a relatively short time, struggling between traditions and expectations.

When she arrives, she meets a handsome stranger, who she is shocked to discover later is the Prince whose sister is getting married.

The wedding also means that the Princess gives up her title, and that her brother, Vincent (Riley Neldam) will become Crown Prince instead.

As she works closely with Vincent, she learns that he has always lived a quiet life, staying out of the media spotlight and the last thing he wants is to be the heir to the throne.

The problem is the more they work together the closer they get but even falling in love can’t change his future, or can it?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HOLIDAY SPECTACULAR (2022)

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS FAMILY SECRET (2023)

Joan (Caranita Harrelson) is a successful lawyer who has just reached a milestone which she believed was the most important thing in her life and made sacrifices accordingly.

One such sacrifice was not seeing or speaking to her father for three years following an argument.

But with Christmas approaching and doubting the sacrifices were all worthwhile she decides to return to Wilmington and surprise her father during his favourite holiday.

However when she gets back home the surprise is on her as her father has passed away, and then one surprise follows another the last one being falling in love. 

 

Malachi E. Hamilton, Aimee Kochan, Dejia McCowan, Ty Respus, Kevin J. Stone and Madison Warren-Coombs also star.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A PICTURE PERFECT ROYAL CHRISTMAS (2020)

Beatrice Bitterley (Yana Marinova) is a famous photographer who receives an invitation from King Buckley (James Weber Brown) to photograph the Christmas festivities in the Kingdom of Pantrea which she turns down and goes on vacation instead.

Amanda Eastman (Roxanne McKee) is her assistant, and her friend Sunny (Manal El-Feitury) responds to the invitation on Amanda’s behalf. 

So Amanda travels to Pantrea but she is surprised to find that the Royal Court all believe that she is Beatrice and is travelling incognito.

When she meets Prince Leopold (David Witts) there is a palpable mutual attraction much to the annoyance of his fiancé Duchess Catherine (Sophie Vavasseur) and his mother Queen Gloriana (Sophie Ward).

So what will happen when Beatrice and the Pantrean’s find out the truth? 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE ON CHRISTMAS (2020)

Mary Boyce (Erin Bethea) is short on holiday spirit, and is still struggling following the loss of her father and a terminal diagnosis for her husband James (Jason Burkey) and even her children Lydia and Caleb (Lily Bowen and Ethan Mathias) have noticed she has lost her faith.

When James and the children return from church on Christmas morning, they bring stranger Harry

(Brett Varvel) with them. 

Her sister Martha (Micah Lynn Hanson), husband Bill (Justin Mane) and nephew Josh (Brayden Eaton) are the first to arrive for the festivities, followed by Mother Helen (Kimberly Cruchon Brooks), and finally younger brother Peter (James Pilachowski) and his latest girlfriend Gabby (Jacqueline Yunez).

As they days go on Mary gets meaner and snappy and eventually the family lose patience with her and the truth comes flooding out about James and their unborn child.

But Harry is there to calm and sooth proving to be a miracle on Christmas Day.