Hallmark Movies and Mysteries: Most Wonderful Movies of Christmas

7. A Joyous Christmas (Premieres Sunday, November 26, 9/8c)

With Christmas approaching, bestselling author Rachel (Natalie Knepp) returns to her hometown to promote her upcoming book.

Though being back home is difficult for Rachel she finds solace with two unexpected people — her local producer Jack (Michael Rady) and Joy (Bonnie Bedelia), a woman who saves her from a terrible accident. As the event and Christmas approach secrets are revealed, hearts are healed and families are reunited.

8. Christmas in Angel Falls (Premieres Saturday, December 2, 9/8c)

Angel Gabriel (Rachel Boston) — Gabby — is dispatched to the town of Angel Falls to help the town’s residents to recapture the spirit of Christmas.

While working on her assignment she forms a relationship with Jack (Paul Greene), a Volunteer Fire Chief, who is at first skeptical about Gabby’s plans revive some of Angel Falls’s beloved Christmas traditions. As Gabby works on her assignment surprising revelations about herself and her dream take her down an unexpected path.

9. The Magical Christmas Ornaments (Premieres Sunday, December 3, 9/8c)

As a result of a bad breakup Marie (Jessica Lowndes) has lost her Christmas spirit. Once her mother, determined to make her daughter see the magic of Christmas, starts sending her Christmas ornaments from her childhood Marie starts to notice positive changes in her life.

One of the changes comes in the form of Nate (Brendan Penny), Marie’s handsome neighbor. When Marie is assigned to work with the man who broke her heart she is forced to re-evaluate her professional and romantic decisions.

10. The Christmas Cottage (Premieres Saturday, December 9, 9/8

Lacey (Merritt Patterson) takes a break from work to attend her friend Ava’s Christmas wedding. Before the wedding, Lacey is reunited with her former flame Ean (Steve Lund) and the two end up decorating the cottage where Ava and her husband-to-be will spend their honeymoon.

The cottage is said to bring love to anyone who spends time there and unexpectedly Lacey and Ean feel their previous attraction returning. When Lacey’s workaholic boyfriend Roger arrives to the wedding Lacey starts to question her decisions, both romantic and professional.

11. Karen Kingbury’s Maggie’s Christmas Miracle (Premieres Saturday, December 10, 9/8c)

As a teenager, Maggie spent one unforgettable Christmas at Lake Tahoe with a boy named Kade and never forgot his commitment to love and faith. Years later, Maggie is a high-powered attorney raising her young son Jordan on her own. In order to help Jordan with the problems he is having in math, Maggie hires Casey (Luke MacFarlane), a local café owner to tutor Jordan.

Though Maggie herself also starts to enjoy Casey’s company her past disappointments make her wary of forming a deep connection with him until. Then an unexpected connection to Kade and a letter by Jordan written to God make Maggie realize that the Christmas season is full of miracles.

12. Unbridled Love (Premieres Sunday, December 16, 9/8c)

After her aunt passes away interior designer Sarah (Lindy Booth) returns home to her uncle’s farm for the holidays. Sarah’s dreams of a traditional Christmas are complicated when she realizes that her uncle would rather just skip the whole holiday altogether.

When a handsome Hollywood star Graham (Kristoffer Polaha) arrives at the farm things are complicated further and Sarah quickly finds herself living through Christmas she won’t forget.

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Do you plan to watch any of these films in preparation for Christmas? Do you have Christmas favorites from Hallmark Channel’s or Hallmark Movies & Mysteries’s line-ups from past years? Let us know in the comments below!

Milka Väinämö

Milka is a Master of Arts with degrees in Film, Theatre, and Media Studies. She is obsessed with American sitcoms, ice hockey, pizza, coffee, and all things true crime. Her favorite shows include Parks and Recreation, The Office, Community, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, and The Gilmore Girls.