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.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOLIDAY JUNKIE (2024)

 

Andie (Jennifer Love Hewitt) runs a Christmas decoration business that was started by her mum, Mimi (Kristin Chenoweth)

and Andi hopes to take it to the next level, but this Christmas is hard for her as it’s the first one after her mother's passing.

The Holiday Junkie is helping her through her first Christmas alone as she landed a major assignment with an investment brokers family to decorate their Villa and plan all their Christmas activities.

However the family unexpectedly went away on a short trip, but still wants the full “Kringle” on the Villa.

When Andie arrives to decorate she discovers that the house is not empty because there is also a handyman on site, Mason (Brian Hallisay).

So Andie must prepare everything while Mason carries out repairs and to make matters worse he hates Christmas.

She also volunteers her services to the Holly Hill Holiday Hop which Mason helps her with despite his grumpy attitude to Christmas.

Both of them are struggling with personal issues of their own but working together through the ups and downs, triumphs and setbacks, helps them to heal.

But when Christmas is over will they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MAPS AND MISTLETOE (2021)

 

Emilia Martin (Humberly González) is a cartographer specialising in maps for schools and is expecting to spend a quiet Christmas at home in Crescent Cove as her parents are in New Zealand visiting her sister for the holidays.

However her quiet Christmas goes out the window when her boss, Horace Latimer (Michael Gordin Shore) gives her a last-minute project for her, designing a novelty treasure map of the North Pole.

But worse than that she has to work with celebrity photographic explorer Drew Campbell (Ronnie Rowe) who is visiting Crescent Cove, because he has firsthand experience of the North Pole, however they are chalk and cheese, she is disciplined and structured and he is a free spirit.

Emelia is iron willed and after she's planned an agenda and forces him to follow it they start to work better together and they see each other in a different light.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EXPLORER (2021)

 

Emilia Martin (Humberly González) is a cartographer specialising in maps for schools and is expecting to spend a quiet Christmas at home in Crescent Cove as her parents are in New Zealand visiting her sister for the holidays.

However her quiet Christmas goes out the window when her boss, Horace Latimer (Michael Gordin Shore) gives her a last-minute project for her, designing a novelty treasure map of the North Pole.

But worse than that she has to work with celebrity photographic explorer Drew Campbell (Ronnie Rowe) who is visiting Crescent Cove, because he has firsthand experience of the North Pole, however they are chalk and cheese, she is disciplined and structured and he is a free spirit.

Emelia is iron willed and after she's planned an agenda and forces him to follow it they start to work better together, and they see each other in a different light.