THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS LAND (2015)

 

Glinda Stanwick (Maureen McCormick) leaves her magical Christmas-themed village “Christmas Land” and the adjoining Christmas tree farm to her granddaughter Jules Cooper (Nikki Deloach) who is a successful New York businesswoman.

Although her best childhood memories were of the holiday's her family spent in Christmas Land on leaning of her bequest her first thought, heavily encouraged by fience Mitchell (Jason-Shane Scott) was to sell up and buy a condominium in New York

But Upon arriving at her beloved late Grandmother Glinda’s magical Christmas Land to claim the property she meets the handsome and charming lawyer handling the estate, Tucker Barnes (Luke Macfarlane), and being overwhelmed by the people’s enthusiasm for breathing new life into Christmas Land she begins to have doubts about selling.

However, Mitchell is set on selling and involves property tycoon Mason Richards (Richard Karn) to get the deal done and return Jules to her busy city life.

But the joyous simplicity of bringing Christmas Land back to its former glory is a great temptation so decisions about life and love will need to be made.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 48 CHRISTMAS WISHES (2017)

 

A catastrophe occurs in the North Pole mail room when an entire bagful of Santa letters are accidentally destroyed on the fire and the Christmas wishes from one small town go up in smoke.

The only way to recover the wishes is for two young Elves, Mindy and Cam (Clara Kushnir and Ethan Yang), to travel to the town via the letter delivery system and get the information directly from the children and retrieve every missing wish before Christmas Eve.

On their arrival they meet Blake (Liam MacDonald) who immediately sees through their disguises, and they have to confide in him and enlist his help by going with him to school where they instantly begin collecting wishes.

But Blakes sister Emma (Elizabeth Ellsworth) and Mother Laura (Madeline Leon) hold the key to wish number 48.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE HOLIDAY CALENDAR (2018)

 

Abby Sutton (Kat Graham), a struggling, but talented photographer who works for her unappreciative boss Mr. Singh (Ali Hassan), and her job during the Holidays is photographing kids sitting on Santa’s lap.

So, when her oldest and closest friend, Josh Barton (Quincy Brown) returns from his globetrotting travels he is immediately recruited as an elf along with his friend Fernando (Rodrigo Fernandez-Stoll).

But when her Gramps (Ron Cephas Jones) gives her the antique advent calendar that belonged to her grandmother, she discovers that when the doors open each day the gifts inside seem to predict the future.

And although she believes in the Magic, she is unsure if the future will lead her to love, or with who, the new man in her life Ty Walker (Ethan Peck) or the man who has always been in her life, Josh.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE GIFT OF CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

The Gift of Christmas is an unashamedly Christian story.

George and Denise Barnett (Jeff Prater and Jenn Gotzon) are getting ready for Christmas in their Kentucky home, but George is concerned about a friend Don Ford (J. Barrett Cooper) and reaches out to Allen (Nathan Todaro) his studio guitarist brother in Los Angeles to see if he can track down Don’s estranged daughter Celia (Marissa Ghavami), a struggling actress in Hollywood, and persuade her to come home.

When he meets up with her, she is to say the least reluctant to return to Kentucky, but after she is evicted from her apartment, she has a change of heart, so, they set off from LA in Allen’s car and stop along the way to do good deeds.

Meanwhile in Kentucky all is not well in the Barnett house as George is stressing because Denise's parents Bob and Ellen (Bruce Davison and Dee Wallace) decide to pay a visit for the holidays and Church choir director Denise is fretting over the Christmas Eve concert at their church because they’ve lost their soloist.

However, Allen and Celia continue their journey supporting good causes, following the Christian Road and somewhere along the way they fall for each other as they write a Christmas song together and when they return home, Celia, who is a lovely singer, proves to be the answer to the soloist problem.

But that’s not the end of the story because there are conflicts on Christmas Eve that can only be solved in the Christian way, by forgiveness.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A GINGERBREAD CHRISTMAS ROMANCE (2018)

 

Globetrotting architect Taylor Scott (Tia Mowry-Hardrict) has her eye on Paris as her next assignment, but with Christmas just weeks away, the firm she works for enters her in a contest in which teams will design and build life-sized gingerbread houses, but with the promise that after the contest she is likely be getting the position she has dreamed of.

Taylor ends up being teamed with a local baker and single Dad, Adam Dale (Duane Henry), he is reluctant at first but winning would give the bakery and his designs much-needed exposure which might in turn lead him to his dream of opening his own bakery.

So, both are motivated by different dreams, but spending time with Adam and his daughter Brooke (Melody Nosipho Niemann), either in their cosy home, decorating for the holidays or exploring the town at Christmas, fosters a feeling of longing for a place to call home.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHERISHED MEMORIES: A GIFT TO REMEMBER (2017)

A Gift to Remember is Based on the book by Melissa Hill, in which handsome Aiden Harris (Peter Porte) visits one of Philadelphia's last old-fashioned bookstores and has an accident after leaving which leaves him in hospital with amnesia.

Darcy Archer (Ali Liebert), enthusiastic bookshop employee, with dreams of succeeding as proprietor when the current owner retires, feels responsible for the accident, so visits him regularly, looks after his dog and helps to identify him and the life he can’t remember.

The couple soon bond over a shared interest in books, dogs and almost everything else, but she discovers a ring in his apartment which suggests he has a fiancée living in a different state.

So, will she lose the man she is falling for and will the bookstore be sold to a soulless chain. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALWAYS AND FOREVER CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Brand marketing executive Lucy Bowers (Lexi Lawson) inherited her grandfather’s year-round Christmas store, “Forever Christmas,” in the picturesque hamlet of Stowe, Vermont.

Her parents are retiring and moving to sunnier climes and she makes a trip back home to run the store during its final Christmas season while her parents are in Hawaii, then after the Holidays she is selling the store to a trendy athletic leisurewear company.

However once back in Vermont, with the help of local diner owner, Scott Jensen (Mark Ghanimé) she begins to understand why the store is so special and why it meant so much to her grandfather.

Of course, no Christmas Movie is complete without a little romance, a sprinkle of magic and a visiting seasonal stranger from the north in the shape of (Beth Broderick) who Lucy thinks is the holiday help.