THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS MYSTERY (2022)

 

For a hundred years the small town of Pleasant Bay in Oregon has lived in peace and prosperity after a young boy discovered a strip of Santa's magical jingle bells.

However just days before Christmas, the bells that are the lifeblood of the town, are missing.

After the theft, Sheriff Pierce (Eddie Cibrian) arrests George Bottoms (Drew Powell) so it’s up to the Sheriff’s daughter Violet (Violet McGraw) to prove his innocence with the help of her older sister Maddie (Lauren Lindsey Donzis) and George’s sons Kenny and Harrison Bottoms (Santino Barnard and Leonardo Cecchi).

Together they have to solve the case, find the bells and restore the Christmas magic to Pleasant Bay and its citizens in time for Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ODDSVILLE CHRISTMAS (2016)

 

Tatu and Patu (Antti Holma and Riku Nieminen) travel to Helsinki from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville to celebrate Christmas together with their young friend Veera (Eedit Patrakka) and her family, Mirkku and Lissu (Mari Lehtonen and Pirjo Lonka).

However she is late to pick them up from the train station, and the pair wander out into the City on their own.

They have a delightful series of hilarious adventures until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TATU AND PATU (2016)

 

Tatu and Patu (Antti Holma and Riku Nieminen) travel to Helsinki from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville to celebrate Christmas together with their young friend Veera (Eedit Patrakka) and her family, Mirkku and Lissu (Mari Lehtonen and Pirjo Lonka).

However she is late to pick them up from the train station, and the pair wander out into the City on their own.

They have a delightful series of hilarious adventures until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – AN ODDSVILLE CHRISTMAS (2016)

 

Tatu and Patu (Antti Holma and Riku Nieminen) travel to Helsinki from the exceptionally strange land of Oddsville to celebrate Christmas together with their young friend Veera (Eedit Patrakka) and her family, Mirkku and Lissu (Mari Lehtonen and Pirjo Lonka).

However she is late to pick them up from the train station, and the pair wander out into the City on their own.

They have a delightful series of hilarious adventures until they find their little friend, who finally shows them the true meaning of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PLANES, TRAINS & AUTOMOBILES (1987)

 

Chicago advertising man, Neal Page (Steve Martin) is desperate to get home for Thanksgiving, but his plans are thwarted when bad weather cancels his flight, so he decides on other means of transportation, but his luck goes from bad to worse.

Then to add insult onto injury on top of the bad luck, he is cursed with another cross to bear in the form of shower-curtain-ring salesman Del Griffith (John Candy), and his loud overconfident outspokenness, incessant conversation, bad jokes and annoying company, who joins forces with him as they are going in the same direction.

And the fun comes as they bumble from one calamity to another as they make slow progress towards home.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS LIST (2016)

 

Isobel Gray (Alicia Witt) plans an idyllic storybook Christmas with her boyfriend Peter Benson (Brett Bishop), including a snow-covered cottage in the Northwest, and a carefully composed bucket list of classic holiday traditions, to tick off, traditions that she was deprived of by her neat freak mother Ellen Gray (Wanda Cannon)

But when the boyfriend goes AWOL, and she meets Jamie Houghton (Gabriel Hogan) the list proves more challenging, and the possibility of a tempting new romance turns her life upside down.

In the midst of things her mother turns up intent on staying with her which ends in upset and recriminations, but she keeps working on her list anyway.

And as time goes by the question is, will Isobel have a White Christmas, and will it end under the mistletoe?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PICKING UP AND DROPPING OFF (2003)

 

Divorced TV weatherman Will (Scott Wolf) first notices fellow divorcee, business owner Jane (Amanda Detmer), when he is dropping off his preteen son Ben (Liam Ranger) at Denver airport and she is picking up her daughter Claire (Maggie Hill).

Over time they become kindred spirits while picking up and dropping off, and although there is a mutual attraction they are both reluctant to take it further despite encouragement from his best friend, cameraman Charlie (Eddie McClintock) and Jane's sister Georgia (Rachelle Lefevre).

Even with the consent of the children it will take bold actions and courage to move their relationship to the next level.