Here is an ongoing list of Christmas Movies:
Made for TV Movies:
12 Dates of Christmas (2011): Kate, a young woman who after a horrible blind date on Christmas Eve, wakes up to find she is re-living that same day and date all over again. I use 12 Dates as one of my sleepy-time movies. It is a low stress movie that is cute. The actors are a little stiff in these characters but if you can overlook that it is one I return to when I want something relaxing and enjoyable.
Christmas Magic (2011)- Carrie Blackford (Booth) lives for her successful career as an event planner in New York City, but her life changes in an instant after a nasty car accident in a snowstorm.
Fir Crazy aka “Oh Christmas Tree” (2013)-Elise MacReynolds is no fan of Christmas. Growing up on a tree farm meant every holiday was spent selling Christmas trees on a cold street corner. But when she loses her job and her dad breaks his leg, Elise agrees to run the family tree stand for one last season.
The Christmas Note (2015) Having just moved back to her hometown without her serviceman husband but with her young son, Gretchen Daniels (Sigler) finds her life in disarray as Christmas approaches. But she discovers new purpose when she helps to deliver a message to her neighbor, Melissa (Gibson), which makes her an ally in the quest to find the neighbor’s sibling she never knew she had
Snowglobe (2007) A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe.
A Snow Globe Christmas (2013) cynical TV exec looks at the perfect town inside a Christmas globe and is magically transported to it.
The Sons of Mistletoe (2001): A foster home for boys is in danger of being closed when its benefactor dies.
Tis the Season For Love (2015) : small town girl who moved to New York to pursue her dreams returns home for the holidays, only to realize that maybe her dreams aren’t miles away, but right in her hometown.
The Christmas Ornament (2013) : A widow plans to give Christmas festivities a miss, as they bring back too many memories of her late husband.
A Heavenly Christmas (2016): Upon her untimely death, a workaholic who never put much value into the joys of Christmas finds herself recruited to be a Christmas Angel — and is assigned a hard luck case that she accidentally falls in love with.
Broadcasting Christmas (2016): Two news broadcasters who previously were in love fight for a position as a morning talk show host that they both want, ultimately finding what made them like each other so much in the first place.
Charming Christmas (2015): When a young businesswoman plays Mrs Claus at her family’s department store over Christmas, her life begins to take some unexpected turns.
Christmas Under Wraps (2014): When a doctor doesn’t get the position she wanted, she ends up moving to a remote Alaskan town. She unexpectedly ends up finding love, happiness and discovers that the small town is hiding a big holiday secret.
Finding Father Christmas (2016) Raised by her mother, but orphaned at a young age at Christmas, Miranda finds a clue that will take her to the truth about her father. Along the way, she finds romance and rekindles her Christmas spirit.
Christmas In The Air (2017): Lydia, a successful professional organizer, is constantly trying to grow her business, but her ambition takes a back seat to love when she meets Robert, a frazzled widower with two young children
Comfort and Joy (2003): The life of Jane Berry was all materialist, until one Christmas Eve, she is involved in a car accident that changes her life forever.
The Sweetest Christmas (2017) : struggling pastry chef Kylie Watson learns she’s made it to the finals of the American Gingerbread Competition, she thinks her competitive spirit has finally paid off and hopes the publicity will help her jumpstart her new café.
One Christmas(1994): A young man is sent to visit his estranged father for Christmas in 1930 in New Orleans. Based on an autobiograhical short story by Truman Capote.
Mr. Miracle(2014): Mr. Miracle is a TV movie starring Kendra Anderson, Candus Churchill, and Andrew Francis. A Guardian Angel, posing as an English teacher, helps a young woman find her way before Christmas.
Mrs. Miracle (2009): Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. “Mrs. Miracle” mysteriously appears and quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend… and matchmaker.
No one celebrates the holidays like Emily Merkle – or Mrs. Miracle as she is known by some – who is back to ensure that this Christmas is the most magical and meaningful of all.
My Christmas Dream (2016): An ambitious store manager of a renowned retail flagship store must enlist the help of a struggling, single-father handyman to help her realize her dream of managing the company’s first international store.
The Christmas Card(2006): US soldier visits the town from where an inspirational Christmas card was sent to him by a church group that mails cards out to servicemen as a goodwill effort.
The Christmas Secret (2014): While her life is falling apart, single mom Christine finds a magical family heirloom that leads to love and good fortune during Christmas.
The Christmas Cottage (2017) : Any couple who spends the night in the Christmas cottage shall have love everlasting – Lacey Quinn did not believe in happily ever after or the legend of the Christmas cottage.
The Christmas Melody (2015): A gift of music transports people back to another time and place where they find their truest feelings.
A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013): Shop owner Alice Chapman is nervous about meeting her future in-laws at Christmas, especially because she is arriving ahead of her new fiancé, Will Mitchum.
Ice Sculpture Christmas (2015): Callie, an aspiring chef, with her childhood friend David, enters Callie into a club’s annual Christmas ice sculpting competition against her boss. Callie’s passions for cooking and ice sculpting are met with romance and Christmas spirit.
A Cookie Cutter Christmas(2014): Two schoolteachers take their rivalry to a new level, while they scramble to win a holiday baking contest and the affections of a handsome single father.
Every Christmas has a Story (2016): While on air, a TV personality accidentally admits she hates Christmas. When she goes to a small town to film a special to repair her image, the Christmas spirit begins to change her life.
A Wish for Christmas (2016): Sara Thomas is the type of woman who prefers to sit on the sidelines at work, but when her big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she’ll finally have the courage to stand up for herself.
Journey Back to Christmas (2016): A WWII era nurse is transported in time to 2016 and meets a man who helps her discover the bonds of family and that the true meaning of Christmas is timeless.
Angel of Christmas (2015): Susan gets a chance at her first real article, writing about the family angel, which were handcrafted by her great-grandfather. It is said to have a history of bringing people together.
Magic Stocking (2015): A young widow’s daughter was given a tattered old Christmas stocking at a holiday craft sale, but her mother is skeptical of its magic when it seems to create small trinkets on its own.
Christmas Lodge (2011): Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she quickly realizes that the lodge that she loves has fallen into serious disrepair.
Thomas Kinkade a Christmas Cottage (2008): A look at the inspiration behind Thomas Kinkade’s painting The Christmas Cottage, and how the artist was motivated to begin his career after discovering his mother was in danger of losing their family home.
Angel in the Family (2004): An ailing widowed father and his two estranged daughters experience a miracle when their late matriarch returns to spend Christmas with them.
What I did for Love (2006) : Call him a city slicker. Call him a tenderfoot. But don’t call him a member of the family–yet. Rising L.A. lawyer James White is going home for the holidays with his fiancée, Sadie Ryder, to finally meet her family in rural Pine Gap.
A Christmas Visitor (2002): A father struggles with the past. A daughter fights for the future. A mother searches for answers. The Boyajians have not celebrated Christmas in 11 years. They lost their faith when they lost their son to the Persian Gulf War.
Silent Night (2002) : Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, 1944, finds a German Mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front.
Christmas Story (2007): The touching story of how Santa Claus came to be Santa.
Christmas Shoes (2002): A young boy tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for his dying mother, while a lawyer tries to deal with the break-up of his marriage.
Christmas Blessing (2005): A young doctor encounters romance and deals with his past when he returns to his hometown during the holidays.
Christmas Hope (2009): When lives intertwine during Christmas, hope is the only unifying gift. After suffering a personal tragedy, a social worker throws herself into finding homes for children in need.
The Road to Christmas (2006): It’s a few days before Christmas. As they have always done, widowed schoolteacher Tom Pullman, his 13-year-old daughter Hilly, and their dog Toby are driving from their Chicago home to Vail, Colorado to spend Christmas with Tom’s mother Rheudel. Hilly loves her grandmother, but she wishes for a more exciting Christmas, and she would rather fly than drive in Tom’s aged pickup truck, which may not last this trip. But her father finds taking the back roads and enjoying the countryside to be part of the adventure
Films
Elf (2003): After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. Some of my favorite movie quotes come from this movie! It is funny and endearing.
Fred Claus (2007): Fred Claus, Santa’s bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole to help Santa and the elves prepare for Christmas in exchange for cash.
The Santa Clause (1994): When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
The Santa Clause 2 (2002): Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he doesn’t find a Mrs. Claus.
The Santa Clause 3 (2006): Santa, aka Scott Calvin, is faced with double-duty: how to keep his new family happy, and how to stop Jack Frost from taking over Christmas.
The Man who invented Christmas (2017): The journey that led to Charles Dickens’ creation of “A Christmas Carol,” a timeless tale that would redefine Christmas.