THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STAGING CHRISTMAS (2019)

Christmas is the busiest season for Lori (Soleil Moon Frye) as she stages homes for a living, and the one thing all the homes she dresses have in common is that they are for sale.

So, she is naturally intrigued when Everett (George Stults), a wealthy widower, hires her to stage his home for the holidays, not to sell, but to cheer up his daughter, Maddie (Mia Clark).

However, it soon becomes apparent as she begins to dress the house for the holidays that Maddie isn't the only one who needs to feel the benefit of Christmas spirit.

Although she was originally hired just to stage the perfect Christmas in their house, she starts to feel like part of the family as she spends more and more time with Everett and Maddie, and she really likes it. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A LITTLE CHRISTMAS CHARM (2020)

 

In Greenwich Village, jewellery designer Holly Hayes (Ashley Greene) works in the Vintage Clothing Shop run by her best friend Megan Snyder (Britt Irvin) and designs jewellery in her spare time.

One day Holly finds a valuable charm bracelet in the pocket of a donated coat, and she naturally reaches the conclusion that the bracelet, with many bespoke Christmas themed charms, was donated in error.

Holly makes it her mission to discover the owner and return the bracelet before Christmas.

Reluctantly she teams up with a magazine reporter Greg Matthews (Brendan Penny), who wants to assist her as he wants to write about her his "Christmas Hero" story.

The combination of her Jewellery expertise, keen instincts and his investigative reporter experience soon unearth the bracelets origins and the love story it represents.

But by the time they track down the owner they have written a love story of their own.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SECRETLY SANTA (2021)

 

Miranda (Alicia Dea Josipovic) and Paul (Travis Nelson) both meet at a Secret Santa party where they have both disguised their identities and they click instantly and are clearly on the same wavelength.

They agree to keep their disguises on and their anonymity until after the party, but they are separated before they can exchange numbers and have no way of finding each other.

Miranda is a talented tech guru who has developed an app to help Christmas shoppers select the perfect gift for their recipients, but is upset to find that her app has been sold to another company which in turn merges with a rival and she has to work jointly with one of the enemy on the holiday gift-giving app.

Her rival turns out to be her mystery man Paul from the Secret Santa but neither of them know so sparks fly between them but as they work together, they develop unexpected feelings for one another even before they discover their previous interactions.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS A LA CARTE (2021)

Carly Hayes (Erin Agostino) is a food correspondent who finally gets a shot at her own show, but to secure her dream she is sent on assignment to Angel Heights to assist renowned Chef Grant Quinn (Dillon Casey) with the opening of his new diner and film it as a Holiday special for her TV show.

Unfortunately, he is grouchy, camera shy and opposed to all things Christmas, so she has her work cut out.

Her only ally is his young daughter Tess (Maya Misaljevic).

When she finds out why he is apprehensive about publicity and has a major downer on Christmas she sees him in a different light, and she finds it difficult to do the kind of expose that the network wants her to do after she has let him into her heart. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES 2 (2020)

Two years have passed since Kate Pierce (Darby Camp) and her brother Teddy (Judah Lewis) helped Santa save Christmas.

However, she is now a cynical 13-year-old who is unhappily spending Christmas with her family in Cancún, Mexico, with her mom Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley), her brother, her mom's new boyfriend Bob Booker (Tyrese Gibson), and his son Jack (Jahzir Bruno), when she would rather be back home, where there is snow and it feels more like a real Christmas.

So, Kate decides to run away and uses her mom’s credit card to book an early flight back home to Boston.

When she is sneaking out of the Hotel and is unaware, she is being followed by Jack, she is tricked by an evil Christmas Elf Belsnickel (Julian Dennison), posing as a driver, to get onto a shuttle, which Jack sneaks on to as well.

But they aren’t going to the airport, instead they are transported to the North Pole where they are rescued by Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) who takes them back to his house where Mrs. Claus (Goldie Hawn) is waiting.

Of course, Belsnickel transported the kids in order to use them as bait to attract Santa so he could sneak into the Village.

Once inside he put his plan to take over Christmas for his own evil ends into action.

So not for the first time Kate has to help Santa save Christmas, this time he has Jack and Mrs Claus to help. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CHRONICLES (2018)

Brother and sister Teddy and Kate Pierce (Judah Lewis and Darby Camp) are home alone on Christmas Eve while their widowed mother Claire (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) is working, when Kate blackmails her delinquent brother into helping her set a trap to catch Santa Claus (Kurt Russell) on camera.

But things don’t go according to plan, and they end up jumping into Santa’s sleigh.

However, they cause Santa to lose control of the sleigh, his hat to fall to earth, the reindeer break free and the sleigh to crash, and worst of all, the sack of presents is lost.

That’s when the adventure begins to track down the reindeer, the presents and Santa’s magic hat.

So, with Christmas morning fast approaching, it is up to the children and Santa to save Christmas by delivering all of the presents.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN VIENNA (2019)

 

Amy Michaels (Elisabeth Harnois) had planned a perfect Christmas in Chicago with her boyfriend, but those plans are ruined when he unexpectedly breaks up with her after telling her he has another girlfriend.

Not wanting to spend Christmas alone she decides to visit her half-brother Daniel (Samuel Hunt) who is in Vienna trying to track down relatives on his dad's side of the family.

Looking for new experiences she decides to take a ballroom dancing lesson and is paired with a very handsome European man named Lukas (Christian Oliver).

To use terpsichorean parlance, they get off on the wrong foot, but after initially clashing, their partnership becomes more harmonious and they end up spending the day together and an attraction forms between them but will this new found magnetism lead to love or another broken heart.