My Top Lifetime & Hallmark Christmas Movies

If you know me, you know I'm obsessed with Lifetime and Hallmark Christmas movies. Are they cheesy and predictable? Absolutely. Are they still magical and heartwarming? Oh yes. They are a gingerbread latte for your soul. Even my dad watches them. He used to do it secretly until finally he just admitted that he's addicted. We often even compare notes and he's informed me that Lacey Chabert is favorite, Candace Cameron Bure is too goody goody for him. That is a direct quote. Many of these are recycled from actual movies (Groundhog's Day, Runaway Bride, The Family Man), but I'm OK with that. And I should note that none of my favorites star Lacey Chaber (sorry dad) or Candace Cameron Bure (you're welcome Dad).

Not going to lie, some are pretty horrible and they are churning them out like butter. I'll always find a few new gems, but below are my all time favorites, which I watch every single year. Along with my mainstream classics like While You Were Sleeping, Love Actually and The Holiday.

Dear Santa 

A young woman who comes from a life of privilege falls for the owner of a soup kitchen after discovering a Dear Santa letter written by his seven year old daughter.

Love At the Christmas Table

A man realizes that his best friend since childhood is the woman that he loves. It also stars Danica McKellar, Leah Thompson and Luke from Gilmore Girls!

A Christmas Kiss

After a spontaneous kiss, a struggling designer ends up falling in love with her demanding boss's boyfriend as she decorates his home for a Christmas party.

A Bride for Christmas

A single man tries to win a bet by getting a woman recovering from a broken engagement to marry him by Christmas. Arielle Kebbel and Andrew Walker have such amazing chemistry.

12 Dates of Christmas 

A story that follows 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. Mark Paul Gosselar is so hot in this movie.

Holiday in Handcuffs

A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas.  Mario Lopez is so hot in this movie. Can ya tell I love Saved by the Bell?

Eve's Christmas

A wealthy and successful career woman gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiance to lead a business life in New York.

Kristin's Christmas Past 

Shiri Appleby stars as a woman who gets a do-over when she falls asleep alone on Christmas Eve and wakes up on Christmas morning 17 years in the past. It's a Christmas miracle that lets her fix the mistakes of her past, correct her fashion faux pas, and, you know, find love and the true meaning of Christmas

A Snow Globe Christmas

Alicia Witt plays a jaded TV executive who gets sucked into an antique snow globe. She's okay with that, though, because inside the globe it's always Christmas, she's married to Scrubs star Donald Faison, and she has two cute kids—plus a guardian angel in the form of Christina Milian.

Snowed Inn Christmas 

Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City. With both having nowhere they want to be for Christmas, they volunteer for a special writing assignment. After a snowstorm forces their plane to land in none other than Santa Claus, Indiana, the two are placed in a Christmas Wonderland and the focus of their story shifts to saving the historic town inn run by Carol and Christopher Winters. As the two overcome their differences, they also rediscover the magic of Christmas. But with the inn's fate in jeopardy and the return of someone from Jenna's past, Carol and Christopher lend a helping hand to bring Jenna and Kevin together.


What are your faves? Seriously, I want to know because I be binging.