Tuesday, 28 October 2025

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA BOOTCAMP (2022)

 

Emily Strauss (Emily Kinney), of Strauss and Strauss events planners, which she runs with her mother Olive (Deanne Bray),is hired by shopping mall magnate Ed Mancini (Patrick Cassidy) who is hosting a Christmas Gala for his biggest investors.

He has just sacked his previous planning firm, because they couldn’t come up with the perfect Santa, so Emily heads to Santa Bootcamp run by the formidable Belle (Rita Moreno), to find the perfect Santa Claus but Belle makes her sign up for the coarse.

While she’s there she meets chef Aiden (Justin Gaston) and Belle keeps pushing them together and as the coarse goes on they are both forced to reevaluate their goals.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS WEDDING PLANNER (2017)

 

Kelsey Wilson (Jocelyn Hudon) gets her big break when her beloved cousin Emily (Rebecca Dalton) hires her to plan her lavish society Christmas Wedding to Todd (Eric Hicks).

With the days passing by towards the event everything is going according to plan until handsome private investigator, Connor McClane, turns everything upside-down when she tells him she has been hired to investigate the groom, and he persuades her to help him.

In the process Connor manages to disrupt the rapidly approaching nuptials but wins Kelsey's heart along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WEDDING PLANNER (2017)

 

Kelsey Wilson (Jocelyn Hudon) gets her big break when her beloved cousin Emily (Rebecca Dalton) hires her to plan her lavish society Christmas Wedding to Todd (Eric Hicks).

With the days passing by towards the event everything is going according to plan until handsome private investigator, Connor McClane, turns everything upside-down when she tells him she has been hired to investigate the groom, and he persuades her to help him.

In the process Connor manages to disrupt the rapidly approaching nuptials but wins Kelsey's heart along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DATE BY CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Brand strategist Chelsea Simms (Vanessa Lengies) is devastated when her brilliant idea for a new dating app is stolen by a workplace rival, but following a Christmas wish upon a shooting star, good-hearted Chelsea’s fortunes take a turn for the better.

When she discovers the popular dating app “The Nice List”, has granted her magical powers, which she uses to teach all the selfish, “naughty” people in her life a lesson until Mrs. Kringle (Morgan Fairchild) and best friend Fisher Dougherty (Evan Williams) set her on the path to use her newfound ability to make all of the naughty people in her life learn how to be good again and also find her way back onto the Nice List herself in time for Christmas Eve.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OPERATION MISTLETOE (2024)

 

Interior designer Grace (Jen Lilley) runs a blossoming design business called K&R Interiors in Ivy Glen, with her best friend Olivia (Melanie Leishman) and her older brother Jack (Steve Belford) who is also Olivia's husband.

Grace is single and content with her life, she is in the friendzone with old schoolfriend Quinn (René Escobar Jr.), and is resigned to a single life, then she reunites with former love Ryan (Nick Bateman), a successful New York City financial advisor, back in town at Christmas to sell his grandmother’s old house.

Old feelings are rekindled as they work on the “Ribbons and Bows” charity event together, but will he change his plans for the future.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT GRACELAND (2018)

 

Laurel (Kellie Pickler) was born and bred in Memphis but is based in Chicago working for a bank as a business executive.

However she returns to her hometown with her daughter Emma (Claire Elizabeth Green) in time for Christmas as her boss (Ned Vaughn) sends her to Memphis to secure the takeover of one of the city's oldest family-owned banks.

While in town she reunites with old flame Clay, a local music promoter

The owner of Cypress bank, Mr Franklin (Tommy Cresswell) is reluctant to sign the deal as he is worried about redundancies, but her boss is a money man.

While in town she reunites with local music promoter and old flame Clay (Wes Brown) who she used to perform with ten years earlier.

Laurel tries to stay focused on work, but spending time with Clay reminiscing about the past, they even perform together and enjoy a holiday romance.

But when problems arise with the deal she's called back to Chicago, she has to choose whether to return or remain in Memphis and embrace her roots and secure a happy future.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DICKENS OF A CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Hardworking lawyer Zara (Ashley Newbrough) is haunted by Christmas memories  of her deceased brother and wants to avoid the season but is persuaded by her assistant Chloe (Kaya Coleman) to attend a Dickens themed Victorian dinner where she meets renovator Rafe (Chad Rook) and despite herself there is a connection, but they go their separate ways.

However his ghostly ancestor Aubrey (Mark Bellamy) has other ideas and plays matchmaker by giving Zara a book of Dickensian love stories which reawakens romantic feelings and opens her heart.