The holidays are here, and here’s every of Christmas movie coming to Netflix, Lifetime, and the Hallmark Channel. Every year, Hollywood churns out dozens of Christmas movies – whether for the big or small screen – and they all seem to perform relatively well. And this tradition seems to have only expanded in recent years thanks to the advent of streaming services. Now, instead of just studios making Christmas movies for theaters and a handful of networks making them for television, more studios and networks have gotten in on the trend.
But still, there are types of Christmas movies that never seem to – and probably don’t have to – change. For instance, Hallmark’s particular brand of Christmas movie has garnered a devoted fanbase over the years. The stories are all cut from the same cloth, the actors all kind of look alike, and they all end with a sweetly chaste kiss and a reminder of the true meaning of the festive season. Some call them cheesy but it’s that unabashed earnestness that makes them such satisfying comfort viewings.
Lifetime has their own history with this and now Netflix has gotten in on the action. You know one of these films the moment you see it and for fans, there will never be enough of them. Fortunately, there are literally dozens of Christmas movies to choose from this season, and we’ve put together a list of every upcoming holiday movie of 2019 on Hallmark, Netflix, and Lifetime.
The Knight Before Christmas – November 21 (Netflix)
After the surprise popularity of The Princess Switch, Vanessa Hudgens returns to Netflix for festive fun with The Knight Before Christmas. She plays Brooke, a high school teacher who’s grown disillusioned with love but finds a surprising route back to it when a medieval knight is transported to the present day and falls in love with her.
The Magical Christmas Shoes – November 22 (Lifetime)
Kayla Hummel’s (Erin Karpluk) holiday season is turned upside down when a pair of magical shoes step into her life and allow her to discover the true meaning of Christmas, with a little help from a handsome stranger, of course.
Twinkle All the Way – November 23 (Lifetime)
Wedding planner Cadence Clark (Sarah Drew) is planning on creating the most spectacular Christmas themed wedding at the prestigious Snowview Lodge. To make it happen, she joins forces with Henry Harrison (Ryan McPartlin), co-owner of a family-run Christmas decoration and house-lighting company. The pair find themselves growing closer, bound together by their experiences as single parents of young daughters, and when a snowstorm threatens to wreak havoc on the wedding, they join together to create a festive miracle.
Christmas at Graceland: Home for the Holidays – November 23 (Hallmark)
Kaitlin Doubleday, best known for her work on Empire and Nashville, stars as a nanny who goes to work for a wealthy widower in Memphis. Owen (Entourage‘s Adrian Grenier) is too preoccupied with work to spend time with his kids, so Harper tries to break him out of his routine as they prepare to host an event at the iconic Graceland. This Elvis-themed Hallmark movie features a cameo from Priscilla Presley herself.
Cherished Memories: A Gift to Remember 2 – November 24 (Hallmark)
A sequel to 2017’s A Gift To Remember, Cherished Memories reunites Ali Liebert and Peter Porte as Darcy and Aiden, the love-struck pair who met when she crashed into him with her bike and knocked him unconscious. Now, they’re spending Christmas together and have even more surprises for each other.
Christmas 9 to 5 – November 24 (Lifetime)
Jennifer (Tiya Sircar) is a dedicated true crime journalist who lands maybe the strangest assignment of her career: Find the true meaning of Christmas. To get to the bottom of this unconventional story, she goes undercover in a department store as a 9 to 5 sales clerk from Black Friday to Christmas Eve. To her surprise, she finds a new calling and a very special man.
A Christmas Duet – November 25 (Hallmark)
Averie and Jesse are a popular musical duo, best-known for their duet “Wouldn’t Be Christmas”. However, the pair haven’t performed together in years. Jesse has gone solo and struggled to find success while Averie gave up fame in favor of opening a lodge in the snowy mountains of Vermont. The pair are brought together for an annual Yuletide Festival and the promise of a magical Christmas reunion may be too good to resist.
Check Inn to Christmas – November 26 (Hallmark)
New York City lawyer Julia, played by Rachel Boston, returns to her quaint hometown in the Rocky Mountains to spend the holidays at her family’s cozy inn. Unfortunately, she’s found herself mired in a generations-old feud between her family and the one that owns the town’s other inn. That makes her blossoming romance with that family’s son, Roger, all the more inconvenient for both businesses.
The Christmas Club – November 27 (Hallmark)
Hallmark Channel favorite actors Cameron Mathison and Elizabeth Mitchell star in this adaptation a novel by Barbara Hinske. The pair play two busy strangers who team up to help an elderly woman find her lost Christmas savings.
A Very Vintage Christmas – November 27 (Lifetime)
One half of Sister Sister, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, plays antique store owner Dodie, a hopeless romantic who discovers a strange box full of passionate mementos chronicling an unknown romantic reunion. She sets out to deliver the box to its rightful owner, persuading Edward, the man living at the address listed on the item, to help her in her intrepid journey.
Christmas at the Plaza – November 28 (Hallmark)
Elizabeth Henstridge (a.k.a. Agent Simmons from Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) stars as Jessica, an archival historian working on an exhibition to celebrate the history of Christmas at the city’s iconic Plaza Hotel. While her own romantic relationship is on the decline, she meets Nick, a handsome decorator commissioned to deck the halls of the Plaza, and the chemistry between them becomes undeniable. However, she must confront the love triangle forming and figure out who she wants to be with for Christmas and forever.
A Christmas Wish – November 28 (Lifetime)
Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana, a peculiar Christmas tradition takes place: A wooden wishing box is placed in the local park and people are invited to write down their true heart’s desire to place inside it. Faith (played by Hilarie Burton) is encouraged to put a wish in the box by her sister and she dreams of the chance to experience true love for the first time. Nobody is more surprised than Faith when, the next day, she meets the very handsome and eligible Andrew (Cristian de la Fuente). However, as time passes, she begins to wonder if the wish is leading her to Andrew or her best friend Wyatt (Tyler Hilton).
Holiday Rush – November 28 (Netflix)
New York radio DJ Rush Williams (Romany Malco) has been trying to keep his head above water since the death of his wife, leaving him a widower with four children. After he is fired, just before Christmas, his producer Roxy Richardson (Sonequa Martin-Green) and his Aunt Jo (Darlene Love) plan to help him buy another station and return to the airwaves. The catch? They’ll need to downsize fast to make the money, but there are lessons to be learned along the way.
Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy – November 29 (Hallmark)
The third in the Christmas in Evergreen series brings the story back to the festive small town and its ensemble, which includes Maggie Lawson, Ashley Williams, and Holly Robinson Peete. The first film followed a lovelorn veterinarian who wished for the perfect Christmas and ended up crossing paths with a handsome single father at an airport shut down in a snowstorm. Now, the story follows the town of Evergreen’s search for a rumored long-lost Christmas time capsule and the skeptical writer who arrives in town to find out what all the fuss is about.
Staging Christmas – November 29 (Lifetime)
Soleil Moon Frye, a Lifetime movie regular, plays Lori, a woman who stages homes for a living. Christmas is always a busy season for the real estate market, but she’s never taken on a job like the one handsome widower Everett (George Stults) is offering. He wants Lori to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter Maddie. Lori only intended to bring the festive spirit to a home in desperate need of it but finds herself yearning for the dream too.
Christmas in Rome – November 30 (Hallmark)
She may be best known to some for Mean Girls but Lacey Chabert has become just as popular in recent years for her many roles in Hallmark movies, which she stars in all year round. Her Christmas appearance comes in the form of Christmas in Rome, where she plays an American tour guide named Angela who is fired from her job in Italy’s scenic capital just before the holiday season. She bumps into Oliver, a fellow American looking to acquire a high-end ceramics company. He hires Angela to be his tour guide around Rome to show him the true heart and soul of the city.
Merry Liddle Christmas – November 30 (Lifetime)
Kelly Rowland of Destiny’s Child fame joins forces with Lifetime for her first foray into producing for television. Inspired by her own Christmas experience, Rowland plays Jacquie, a tech guru whose messy family arrives at her pristine home for the holidays and proceeds to cause chaos as she tries to produce a glossy photoshoot of “the perfect Christmas.”
Christmas Town – December 1 (Hallmark)
Another Hallmark Channel favorite actor, Candace Cameron Bure, joins the festive slate with Christmas Town. Bure plays Lauren, a woman ready to leave everything she knows in Boston behind to embark on a new life. An unexpected detour leads her to Grandon Falls, a charming small town with a big love for Christmas, and it is here where Lauren finds a new chapter in her life through the magic of the season.
You Light Up My Christmas – December 1 (Lifetime)
Inspired by true events, Emma (Kim Fields) returns to her hometown built around her family’s pioneer Christmas Light Factory two weeks before Christmas. Her return is less than glowing as she discovers that the lights have gone dim in this previously festive town and is in desperate need of a new spark to bring life back to the world.
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby – December 5 (Netflix)
Netflix struck unexpected gold with A Christmas Prince, their obvious attempt to capture the magic of Hallmark and Lifetime festive movies. Nobody expected them to turn this into a full-blown saga, but with The Royal Baby, the rulers of Aldovia must prepare for the arrival of their new prince or princess just as a priceless centuries-old treaty disappears and the peace of their kingdom is put in jeopardy.
A Storybook Christmas – December 6 (Lifetime)
Event planner Celeste Everett (Ali Liebert) has a lot on her plate this Christmas. On top of trying to plan the perfect holiday celebration for her niece, she needs to figure out a way to save the family business. To help with the workload, she hires a nanny, who turns out to be a man (Jake Epstein), and it does not take long for love to bloom.
A Christmas Love Story – December 7 (Hallmark)
The Tony and Emmy Award-winning actress Kristin Chenoweth makes her Hallmark Channel debut in a story with a suitably musical twist. She plays a youth choir director who is tasked with writing a big show-stopping song for their Christmas performance but finds herself distracted when a young boy with an astounding voice joins her choir and his own widowed father seems stunned by the discovery.
Mistletoe and Menorahs – December 7 (Lifetime)
Christy, a workaholic toy executive, is tasked with learning more about Hanukkah in order to land a big account for the company. She tasks Jonathan, a friend of her co-worker, with helping her on this journey as long as Christy assists him in turning his bachelor pad into a Christmas Wonderland to impress his girlfriend’s father.
Christmas Unleashed – December 7 (Lifetime)
Vanessa Lachey stars as Becca, a woman whose dog runs away on Christmas Eve, forcing her to team up with her ex-boyfriend Max (Christopher Russell) to find him. The seemingly endless trail leads them on a journey through their past and all the things that remind them of better days and possibly a brighter future.
Christmas at Dollywood – December 8 (Hallmark)
The iconic country singer, Dolly Parton, welcomes you to Dollywood for the 20th anniversary of the Smoky Mountain Christmas Festival at Dollywood, and Rachel, played by Danica McKellar, is along for the ride. Rachel is a single mother and Broadway producer whose festive show has been forced to close before it even opens thanks to financial mismanagement. Instead, she’s invited to take the show to Dollywood, but she’ll have to work with Luke, the smug entertainment director of the park who isn’t keen to make compromises for an outsider. Of course, this frostiness soon thaws in favor of something more romantic.
Grounded for Christmas – December 8 (Lifetime)
When a winter storm hits Cleveland and grounds flights, pilot Nina (Julianna Guill) fortunately has a place to stay but not everyone is so lucky, so she reluctantly lets her arrogant but handsome fellow pilot Brady (Corey Sevier) bunk up at her parents’ house. When she discovers her ex will be there, Nina gets Brady to pretend to be her boyfriend to help thaw some of the awkwardness.
Christmas Stars – December 13 (Lifetime)
Layla (Erica Durance) is an aspiring R&B singer who crosses paths with amateur songwriter Spence (J.T. Hodges). Together, they may finally break into the big leagues and land a record deal with their combined talents. However, as Christmas approaches, the overwhelming world of the music industry and its bureaucratic demands threaten to change not only Layla and Spence’s music but their burgeoning relationship.
Holiday Date – December 14 (Hallmark)
Brittany Bristow plays Brooke, a woman whose boyfriend has just broken up with her before the holidays. To get over him, she finds Joel, an actor, and gets him to pose as her ex. The only problem? Brooke has built up her ex Ethan to be the perfect guy and a huge fan of Christmas and Joel is Jewish. When his heritage is revealed to Brooke’s unsuspecting family, they are keen to blend his holiday traditions with theirs.
Matchmaker Christmas – December 14 (Lifetime)
As the Christmas party for a book publishing company approaches, editor Maggie offers her services in finding her boss Amanda a date for the occasion. However, trouble brews when Jaxon, a former flame and a newly signed author to the company, walks in and both Amanda and Maggie have their eye on him.
A Christmas Winter Song – December 14 (Lifetime)
In A Christmas Winter Song, Clio befriends Fred, a homeless former jazz singer down on his luck, and the pair bond over their shared love of music and a need for someone to fill the familiar bond left empty in their hearts.
A Cheerful Christmas – December 15 (Hallmark)
Lauren and her best friend Colleen think they have landed their dream job: being festive coaches to people in need of some Christmas advice and all-round good cheer. Business gets even more dramatic when they land a royal client who has arrived in America fresh from England. James, the family’s eldest son, has no desire to be involved with this Christmas planning and prefers to focus on negotiating a big acquisition for his father’s company. Of course, Lauren just sees that as a challenge, but she faces a major roadblock in the form of an old childhood friend and colleague of James.
Rediscovering Christmas – December 15 (Lifetime)
Mia is a window dresser in a big city department store, living and breathing Christmas for months to get the store ready for the holidays, which means she’s not exactly in the mood for festivities when Christmas actually approaches. All she wants is a beach vacation with no snow, tinsel, or sleigh-bells in sight. However, her perfectly laid plans are scuppered when she’s put in charge of her hometown’s annual snowflake festival.
The Christmas Temp – December 20 (Lifetime)
An artist in desperate need of work finds herself at a special Christmas temp agency that matches her with a handful of festive jobs. It seems like the perfect gig for the season but she soon finds herself in a creative rut as she tries to manage holiday prep and her growing feelings for the temp agency’s HR manager.
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas – December 21 (Hallmark)
A New England Christmas decorating competition is searching for the town with the most Christmas spirit, which leads the Mayors of East and West Riverton, including Eric Mabius, to go all out in their battle to win the top prize in It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Christmas.
Christmas Love Letter – December 21 (Lifetime)
Amalie Hess is a relationship advice columnist who provides tough love and a guiding hand to those who need help with their personal lives. When she receives an unsigned love letter in a Christmas card, she returns to her hometown to solve the mystery of the anonymous sender, and along the way, she may find a happy ending to her own romance woes.
Christmas Hotel – December 21 (Lifetime)
Erin Roberts (Tatyana Ali) works at the high-end Windsor Hotel in New York City and hopes to soon be promoted to the position of manager at the company’s upcoming hotel in Rome. However, things don’t go to plan after her boss decides to make her the manager of the new branch in Erin’s hometown of Garland Grove, where everyone loves Christmas all the time. The town isn’t wild about the new chain hotel on their doorstep and it’s up to Erin to get everyone on board, although the arrival of her childhood friend Connor adds further complications.
A Date By Christmas Eve – December 22 (Lifetime)
Chelsea Simms is the brand strategist for a popular dating app, The Nice List. However, only she has been bestowed with the app’s magical powers which allow her to make all of the ‘naughty’ people in her life learn how to be good again. Her good intentions quickly go awry after her kindly neighbor Fisher, for whom she has always had a crush, is accidentally added to the naughty list and she must fix it before Christmas Eve.
Double Holiday – December 22 (Hallmark)
Another Hannukah movie from Hallmark (still something of a rarity for the channel), Double Holiday sees career-minded Rachel forced to help organize her work’s company Christmas party alongside her annoying office mate Chris, which proves inconvenient since both of them are also fighting over the same promotion.
When Calls the Heart: Home for Christmas – December 25 (Hallmark)
One of Hallmark’s most popular continuing series, When Calls the Heart is a frontier drama set in the town of Hope Valley. The series follows single mother Elizabeth Thornton (Erin Krakow), Hope Valley’s beloved schoolteacher dealing with life alone after the death of her husband. Lori Loughlin played Abigail Statton, the town’s mayor, but she was written out of the show after the college admissions scandal. The show returns for a Christmas special.
