THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS LESS TRAVELLED (2024)

 

Desi Philips (Candace Cameron Bure) faces a dilemma, her diner is in debt and the only way to save it is to sell her late father's beloved old pickup truck.

While getting the truck ready for sale she discovers an audio cassette tape on which her father has left a message and instructions for her to embark on a road trip to pleasure bluff and making some stops along the way.

A seemingly chance meeting outside her diner, when she is about to set off, with a handsome stranger called Greyson (Eric Johnson), who asks to join her because he has business at her destination.

It soon turns into an intriguing journey for Desi as she learns things about her late parents, especially her father and she also discovers who Greyson really is.

So when she reaches Treasure Bluff will she find the courage to embrace the future and will Greyson be in it.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TIMELESS TIDINGS OF JOY (2025)

 

Businesswoman Ally (Candace Cameron Bure) returns to her old hometown because she has finally found a buyer for the greeting-card shop her Grandma Joy (Cheryl Swan) left her to arrange the sale.

When she gets to the shop in Indiana, she meets Bennett (Paul Greene) who runs the shop for her.

Ally wishes her grandmother had sold it back when she had the chance in 1945, but he doesn't want her to sell, and as they argue about it, thunderclaps and lightning strikes, and when they look around, they're still in the shop, but its 1945, and young grandma Joy (Natasha Bure) is there.

Ally sees it as an opportunity to persuade her grandmother to take the offer to sell, so will she succeed and what will happen if she does?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WE MET IN DECEMBER (2025)

 

Annie Lane (Autumn Reeser) and Dave Weeks (Niall Matter) meet during an enforced layover at a Luxury Hotel after their flights are cancelled, and they fall in love after they spend a pleasant evening together.

After kissing goodnight they parted company and planned to continue to get to know each other on the plane the next day as they are both booked on the morning flight to Chicago, so they didn’t exchange contact details.

Unfortunately Dave slept in and missed the flight, so the pair have to embark on separate quests to find each other, using snippets of their conversations from their night at the hotel, as the only they know about each other is their first names and that they live in the same city.

So it turns into a labour on both sides, as they grasp at one lead after another, so will they ever meet again?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE (1972)

 

Its 1946 and in Clear River Nebraska, a young 10-year-old girl named Addie Mills (Lisa Lucas) lives with her father (Jason Robards) and Grandma (Mildred Natwick).

Addie desperately wants a Christmas Tree at home, but her father won’t allow it because he is a bitter widower and doesn’t want to be reminded of the

 desperately craves a Christmas tree, but her bitter father refuses because of events from the family's past.

Things come to a head when she wins the class Christmas Tree and brings it home and sets it up and her father is really angry, and things are said which should never be said out loud.

That night Addie takes the tree and leaves it outside the house of the only other child in her class that didn’t have a tree.

After her father discovers what she had done his heart softens.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ROYAL CHRISTMAS BALL (2024)

 

Chicago dance instructor Chelsea Jones (Danica McKellar) was adopted when she was 5 years old after the death of her mother.

Then when she’s in her mid-thirties, she finds a photograph of her mother in a wedding dress and written on the back was the date and the location. 

Which was why she travels to the small European kingdom of Havenshire in search of her mysterious father, her roots and her heritage.

When she arrives, she finds a large area around the castle is closed to the public while preparations were ongoing for the upcoming royal ball which means she can’t reach the library until after Christmas.

While watching a group of children practising a dance, she stops to offer some advice and is spotted by someone from the royal household who is desperately looking for a dance instructor.

So she is offered a temporary job to teach Prince Phillip (Oliver Rice) how to dance a crucial waltz he must perform at the ball with the woman he will choose to marry.

She accepts as it’s the perfect way for her to access the library and uncover her roots, but while they dance together, she discovers more than just her heritage.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS BALL (2024)

 

Chicago dance instructor Chelsea Jones (Danica McKellar) was adopted when she was 5 years old after the death of her mother.

Then when she’s in her mid-thirties, she finds a photograph of her mother in a wedding dress and written on the back was the date and the location. 

Which was why she travels to the small European kingdom of Havenshire in search of her mysterious father, her roots and her heritage.

When she arrives, she finds a large area around the castle is closed to the public while preparations were ongoing for the upcoming royal ball which means she can’t reach the library until after Christmas.

While watching a group of children practising a dance, she stops to offer some advice and is spotted by someone from the royal household who is desperately looking for a dance instructor.

So she is offered a temporary job to teach Prince Phillip (Oliver Rice) how to dance a crucial waltz he must perform at the ball with the woman he will choose to marry.

She accepts as it’s the perfect way for her to access the library and uncover her roots, but while they dance together, she discovers more than just her heritage.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE WINTER PALACE (2022)

 

A Boulder based novelist Emily Miller (Danica McKellar) with a severe case of writer's block is in danger of breach of contract if she misses her deadline. 

As it turns out her best friend her best friend Becca (Zarrin Darnell-Martin) works for a property management company and suggests that she should fill a caretaker position  at an empty winter chateau where she can peacefully complete her book.

However on her first morning the owner, Prince Henry (Neal Bledsoe) arrives unexpectedly with two members of his entourage, Ms. Tilson (Jennifer Wigmore) and Fritz (Luke Marty).

Then she learns that part of her job as the house caretaker includes performing tasks for the royal group.

He is there to sell the chateau in preparation of taking the throne the following week and although there first exchanges were a little frosty they eventually help each other come to terms with their particular problems.

However while doing so they create a whole different problem which will be more difficult to solve.