THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FATHER CHRISTMAS IS BACK (2021)

 

Control freak Caroline Christmas-Hope (Nathalie Cox) just wants a perfect Christmas because she was mentally scarred when her father deserted the family on Christmas Day, during her childhood.

She is hosting Christmas for the whole family at the Hope family mansion in Yorkshire where she lives with her long-suffering husband, Peter Hope (Kris Marshall) and their twelve-year-old daughter Daisey (Amelie Prescott) and seven-year-old son Henry (Oliver Smith).

The whole Christmas family arrive a few days before the holiday, child hating fashion editor Joanna (Elizabeth Hurley), who is a bit of a clothes horse and lies about her age, with her latest stock broker lover Felix (Ray Fearon), man eater Vicky (Talulah Riley), introverted music professor Paulina (Naomi Frederick), the girls mother Elizabeth (Caroline Quentin) and plain-speaking farmer uncle John (John Cleese).

Very quickly family squabbles ensue and Carolines meticulous holiday go awry and then their long-lost father James (Kelsey Grammer) arrives with his 35-year-old American girlfriend Jackie (April Bowlby).

So, with Caroline's perfect Christmas now nothing more than a forlorn hope will events at least uncover the long-buried secret that tore their family apart, so many years earlier and enable them to heal?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MONSTER AND ME (2012)

 

13-year-old rich kid Rubie (Athena Baumeister) is a mean, selfish, spoilt bully who doesn’t differentiate between students and faculty with her venom.

Her stepmom Patricia (Christine Springett) tries to warn her super rich Father, Gordon (David Neff) that he is spoiling her by pandering to her every whim, but he doesn’t heed the warning.

So it’s up to Santa Claus (Freddie De Grate) to cure her meanness, by making her as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside and she wakes up the next day with matted hair, bad teeth, poor vision, warts and a monobrow and only her stepbrother Elliot (Lucas Barker) knows why.

All her old superficial friends want no more to do with her only one of her bullying victims Olivia (Alyssa Kennedy) gives her the time of day.

Santa tells her that she must get a real present from a real friend by Christmas or stay a monster for ever.

So, over the following year she has to learn from the mistakes of her past, change her behaviour.

So, will her friendship with Olivia prove to be her redemption?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOST CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

On the first Christmas since her father died, Interior designer Hailey (Taylor Cole) wants to surprise her mother Patricia (Jacqueline Ann Steuart) with a special surprise Christmas gift.

Patricia and her brother Gordon were in foster care but due to the difference in age, Patricia got her forever home and Gordon timed out of the system and ended up in the army and she never saw him again.

However, Hailey and her best friend Sarah (Stefania Indelicato) believe they have found Uncle Gordon (Grant Vlahovic) who has a daughter, her cousin, Brianna (Stephanie Van Dyck) and almost as important Gordons business partner, Jake (Benjamin Ayres) who she falls in love with.

But will it all blow up in her face?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS WITH THE PUPS 2: PUPS ALONE (2024)

Beth (Kitty Sudbery), and her two Pomeranian, Lucy and Belle are spending Christmas with her aunt Lacey (Charlotte Jackson Coleman) and her boyfriend Bill (Stephen Staley) and her cousin Dalby (Peter DeSouza-Feighoney) at Bills house.

But Bill and Lacey have to take a trip to visit Bills estranged Uncle Chase (Mark Collier) leaving the children and dogs home alone under the watchful gaze of housekeeper Dolores (Amanda Bailey).

But the house is targeted by two inept robbers Marlon and Shawn (Dan Robins and Tyler Winchcombe) at the behest of an equally inept mastermind Henrietta (Lauren Budd).

It’s up to the children and the dogs to foil the plans to make sure they don’t ruin Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MONSTER & ME (2012)

 

13-year-old rich kid Rubie (Athena Baumeister) is a mean, selfish, spoilt bully who doesn’t differentiate between students and faculty with her venom.

Her stepmom Patricia (Christine Springett) tries to warn her super rich Father, Gordon (David Neff) that he is spoiling her by pandering to her every whim, but he doesn’t heed the warning.

So it’s up to Santa Claus (Freddie De Grate) to cure her meanness, by making her as ugly on the outside as she is on the inside and she wakes up the next day with matted hair, bad teeth, poor vision, warts and a monobrow and only her stepbrother Elliot (Lucas Barker) knows why.

All her old superficial friends want no more to do with her only one of her bullying victims Olivia (Alyssa Kennedy) gives her the time of day.

Santa tells her that she must get a real present from a real friend by Christmas or stay a monster for ever.

So, over the following year she has to learn from the mistakes of her past, change her behaviour.

So, will her friendship with Olivia prove to be her redemption?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE LAST CHRISTMAS PARTY (2020)

 

A group of college students attend a Christmas house party before they go off for winter break, some are coupled, some want to be and the rest are friends of varying degrees.

So, will relationships and friendships survive the night and will some of them be spending Christmas with broken hearts?

Starring Anna Clare Kerr, Samantha Brooks, Martin Drop, D.W. Byers, Gabe Armentano, Spencer Wawak, Rosie Dean, Kyvon Edwin, Charis Storms, Brittany Raper, D.J. Bilal, Eddie Grey and Devonn Duffin.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE VIRGIN'S CHRISTMAS WISH (2025)

 

Thistle Vale (Lottie Guidi) is a first-year student who is publicly torn apart for still being a virgin, she is humiliated and bullied for not having lost her virginity and in her frustration, she makes an ill-judged Christmas Eve wish to Santa to “lose her virginity”.

What she wasn’t expecting was for it to be answered by her soon-to-be stepbrother, mafia heir and the campus bad boy Rhett Langley (Felix Lahiff).

Their subsequent forbidden love must withstand five years of secrets, lies, and fate, with the hope of overcoming their challenges and finding happiness.