THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS PROPOSAL (2021)

 When Soldier Jason (Joshua T. Shipman) and his girlfriend Carla (Lily Nicole) were going through a rough patch he approached his commanding officer to request a posting overseas, the further the better.

A year later he finds out he has been posted to Japan for an indefinite period.

Worse than that he can only take Carla with him if they are married before he is posted, which is the New Year.

But before he can tell her she blurts out that she would never want to go to Japan, she he drops the subject while they go and spend Christmas with her family and has a battle to win them over.

But he still has to win her over, which might prove more difficult than he thinks.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA & THE MAGICIAN (1995)

 

This delightful, animated fantasy is about is a Bear Magician who is like a cross between the Grinch and Scrooge who doesn't get along with his animal neighbours who live together peacefully in the mountain village close by.

So as his neighbours are cheerfully awaiting Christmas the bear casts a sleeping spell from his magic book on Santa to ruin the holidays for everyone.

However he soon regrets his decision and desperately tries to reverse the spell, but he discovers he has lost his book of spells, so he goes on a magical adventure to find the great walrus so Christmas can be saved because he knows all the magic spells in the world off by heart.

Vocal performances by Sophie Arthuys, Catherine Cadet, Natacha Gerritsen, Edgar Givry, Janyse Jaud, Terry Klassen, Patrick Larzille, Danièle Lebrun, Brigitte Lecordier, Jean-Luc Moreau, Crystaleen O'Bray, Ward Perry, Pierre Plessis, Robert O. Smith and French Tickner.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY SANTA, MY DAD (2000)

 

Gordon Covington (D.L. Green) is a greedy workaholic used car salesman who is constantly breaking promises to his wife Carla.

(Debra Rich) and son Teddy (Harrison Myers) and he even tells Teddy that Santa doesn’t exist.

This year he lets them down again when his mean dishonest boss Mr. Ambrose (Robert Quarry) dangles the promise of a promotion under his nose and throws himself into it without a thought for his family, so Carla and Teddy.

This prompts the intervention from the North Pole in the form of an Elf named Lillith (Tina Lucarelli) who tries to persuade him to change his ways and when that failed a six-foot Elf called Randy, appears and turns him into Santa Claus.

Between the two of them they manage to teach him the true meaning of Christmas so he can make up with his family.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHEATERS (1945)

 

The eccentric wealthy Pidgeon family prepare for Christmas in their usual lavish style, but the head of the family James C. Pidgeon (Eugene Pallette) is facing bankruptcy.

In order to impress their friends and neighbours during the holiday season they adopt a Christmas Charity case Anthony Marchand (Joseph Schildkraut), a washed-up actor with a drinking problem who has attempted suicide.

But they also invited Florie Watson (Ona Munson) but only because, unbeknown to her, she is the beneficiary of the Pigeons wealthy uncle’s will, in order to prevent her from being found by the lawyers.

But when the story breaks in the newspapers they leave the city for a place the country, so will being in close proximity in a remote house make them continue the deceit or will they learn the truth gift of giving.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE MAKING OF CHRISTMAS (2025)

 

The Making of Christmas, is a gentle, warm, witty, and poignant documentary, sensitively exploring the Christmas story, reflecting on all aspects of the Greatest Story Ever Told, the birth of Jesus in a humble stable, nestling in a manger and the hearts of humanity.

Created and Directed by Jim Hanon, produced by Jim Hanon and Michael Giardina, and featuring Hazel Saint Ilme, Jacob Amber, Father Bernard Baris and Nataly Benavidez.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JUST A FRIEND (2018)

 

This is a story of Trevor (Trae Ireland) and Mia (Drew Sidora) meet at a karaoke bar but although they connect it turned out he had a girlfriend.

The next time they met he tried to pick her up again, but they drift into a friendship and then try to defy the odds and prove to everyone that men and women can be just friends.

The result is a complicated journey for the pair, through ups and downs and failed relationships, until they reach the ultimate conclusion, they were wrong.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY HEARTBREAK (2020)

 

Monica (Maryam Basir) is a hopeless romantic, but she seems cursed with relationship problems.

It turns out she actually is cursed because womanizing father 30 years earlier, Young Mike (Rob Gordon) mistreated the wrong woman Summer (B. Simone) on her 30^th birthday.

Thirty years later the penny drops for her dad Mike McCoy (Michael Colyar) when he realises he is responsible for his daughter’s heartbreak.

The only way to break the curse him must apologise to all the women he let down including Summer St. John (LisaRaye McCoy), but will he succeed before her budding relationship with Eric Chambers (Kenneth Wayne) goes the way of all the others.