50 Best Hallmark Christmas Movies That Are So Damn Festive

Don't you hate it when you go to visit your parents and discover that they went on vacation without you? It's not a Home Alone situation, because Lacey Chabert's character is an adult... and she meets a handsome man from her past.

This faith-based movie from the creator of Touched By An Angel is about four postal detectives (...what) who find a letter written to God by a little girl with a sick mother and spring into action. I'm all for a heart-warming story but seriously what is a postal detective?

The pun in the title is not my favorite if I'm being honest. It's not even a pun really. However, I am always here for a riff on The Wedding Planner and this movie is exactly that with a Christmas bow on top. Our heroine falls for a local while planning a destination wedding in a tiny Alaska town. Let's hope he knows how to stay warm and cozy!

This enemies-to-lovers one about rival television producers has me hooked with the cast alone. Not Chad Michael Murray in a Hallmark Christmas movie! (He's actually in a couple TBH.) And Jessy Schram, who I loved as Cinderella in Once Upon A Time. Eeeee!!

This movie has a tinge of sadness. The career gal who returns to her hometown isn't just returning for the holidays. She's back because her sister died. But it's a Hallmark movie, so it can't be too sad... right?

Don't even think about swearing off Christmas. It doesn't matter what you're going through. The holidays (and a handsome hottie) will get you in the end.

Netflix doesn't have a lock on Christmas movies about royal families. There are plenty in Hallmark's canon as well. This one has two certifiable Broadway stars, Aaron Tveit and Laura Osnes, as well! And you know they're singing. (Okay, sure, The Princess Switch's Vanessa Hudgens has been on Broadway... still.)

Speaking of Broadway stars, stage's Jeremy Jordan also took a turn as the lead in a rare Hallmark Hanukkah movie. It's about competing deli owners, and of course they fall in love! What's more Hallmark than that?

Candace Cameron Bure, star of many many, many Hallmark Christmas movies, plays a woman who's stranded en route to meet her fiance's parents and asks the handsome bartender on her flight to give her a ride. If you like this one, may I recommend the similar (but not holiday-themed) Love at First Sight on Netflix or the classic screwball comedy It Happened One Night as well.

Not to be dramatic, but this is one of the best Hallmark Christmas movies ever made, period. It weaves together three stories: a famous TV star reconnecting with his high school sweetheart, a gay couple waiting to hear if the adoption for their first child goes through, and a group trying to keep cherished Christmas memories alive. It’s sweet, sentimental, and laugh-out-loud funny—especially if you like magic tricks and dad jokes.

Of course there's going to be a sequel for a slam-dunk Christmas movie! It just makes sense! In the follow-up to The Christmas House, the Mitchell brothers return and immediately get involved in a reality TV show all about Christmas house decorating.

If you, too, plan to spend the entirety of the Christmas holiday cuddling by the fireside with your pup, then do I have the movie for you. Based on the novel by Greg Kincaid, this Hallmark movie follows a young man who meets a dog named Christmas, and together they try to convince their rural town to adopt shelter dogs in time for New Year’s.

A guy gets his new GF a gift card for Christmas (again, lol, I love these premises so much) and attracts the attention of a personal shopper. She, correctly, calls him out on his less-than-ideal gift, and he decides to hire her. See where this is headed?

Kylie breaks up with her boss/boyfriend in order to go after her dream of being a baker. She enters a baking contest, but her oven breaks (!), so the only other option is apparently to bake in her high school sweetheart Nick’s kitchen (movies, amirite?). The oven won’t be the only thing heating up in that kitchen this Christmas. 😉

Janel Parrish stars in this movie from Hallmark’s Movies & Mysteries series, in which she plays a woman named Melody who learns her neighbor’s cancer has returned. She promises that neighbor she’ll keep her daughters together if she passes away. It's a touching movie that does have a romantic subplot (this is Hallmark, after all), fair warning.

If you liked Luke Macfarlane in the (very good) 2022 movie Bros, you will soon learn he is amazing in basically every rom-com he touches. If you love Hallmark movies, you already know who Luke Macfarlane is and you already love him (and he's on this list a bunch). Here he is in the latest cheesy-adorable holiday flick—something about a mini-Christmas village that grants wishes!

Tia Mowry-Hardrict plays architect Taylor Scott, who enters a life-size gingerbread-house-building contest only to discover her teammate is the ~worst~. So she enlists the help of local baker (and conveniently single dad) Adam and—shocker—falls in lurve.

Is the "irritable Grinch" next door (lol) really just a misunderstood sweetie? You already know the answer here, but the single mom (Natalie Hall) who fights and then gets to know him probably didn't realize she was in a Hallmark movie. Will the crotchety neighbor steal her heart??