Hallmark Christmas Movies in the UK: 2023 Guide

Welcome to my ultimate guide to the best Hallmark Christmas movies in the UK for 2023

This year, I’ve pulled together my biggest and best ever guide to Hallmark Christmas Movies you can watch in the UK. No matter what TV service you’re using, we have the only guide you’ll need to this season’s best Hallmark TV and films.

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How to Watch Hallmark Channel in the UK (for free)

If you’re a customer of Amazon Prime, you can add specific channels to your TV package. Hallmark TV is available as an add-on channel for £4.99 per month. The channel carries a huge range of Hallmark movies, all available to stream in the UK. I’m keeping my fingers crossed that more titles will be added before December arrives.

If you don’t have Prime, you can sign up for a 30-day free trial here. One you’ve done that, you’ll need to sign-up for this7-day free trial of Hallmark TV. So you can watch Hallmark Channel in the UK for free, for up to a week! If you have more than one Amazon account in your household, you could sign up for multiple weeks that way.

 

Where to watch Hallmark Christmas movies

Don’t worry if you are in the UK, don’t have Hallmark and don’t have Amazon Prime. Our list includes movies that are available to UK viewers on all the UK streaming and traditional TV services, including paid and free options.  Use our content guide above to skip right to your preferred section, or browse the whole list!

 

 

How to Use the UK Hallmark Christmas Movies Guide:

This year’s guide includes 101 Hallmark holiday movies available on UK TV in 2023. To help you find your preferred movies, we’ve added some key facts for each movie.

First, genre. Because sometimes you want a heartwarming city girl in small town story, but other times you want the unlikely European prince, am I right?

Second, we’ve listed the channel or platform where the movie can be found, which might be on more the one platform. All the Hallmark movies listed here are available to UK viewers. Note that some movies might not be available for all of the festive period. Channel 5, especially, takes movies off air quite early. See a movie you like the look of? Set your DVR and record it while it’s available!

Lastly, we’ve provided a rating for each movie and a synopsis.

Whichever film you choose, I promise you’ll love it. All of the movies on this list deliver a plucky heroine, an unlikely plot twist and a handsome hero who is probably a Dad, business man or local vet/carpenter/ranch hand. Oh, and more fairy lights than you can shake a stick at.

By the way, if for any reason you’re looking for non-Hallmark festive movies, then check out my ultimate Christmas movie guide.

 

100+ Hallmark Christmas Movies You’re Going to LOVE

 

If you’re looking for Hallmark Christmas movies on UK TV in 2023, here’s your comprehensive guide to the very best movies to watch:

By the way, at the time of writing (Oct 2023) the schedules for December on the Movies24 and Christmas24 channels have not been published, so bookmark this post and check back for updates! 

 

2023 – Movies on Hallmark TV UK

The easiest place to find a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies in the UK is on the Hallmark Channel. It’s available as an add-on channel to Amazon Prime, use this link to get a free trial of Prime, and this link to add on a free trial of Hallmark TV UK. Here is a selection of the best movies this Christmas:

1. A Christmas Cure

• Genre: Amnesia
• Available on: Hallmark TV
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

A Christmas Cure is the sweet story of a TV personality drives to a small-town mountain retreat. On her way, a blizzard veers her off the road and she crashes. When she awakens, she has complete amnesia, and a friendly passerby takes her in. There are a weird number of memory loss Hallmark Christmas movies, I think it’s because Hallmark thinks if we forget other things, we remember the true meaning of Christmas. Als0 – Bobby from Dallas! 

 

2. A Dream Christmas

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

A tweak on memory loss is the Hallmark movie where someone gets a magical wish. Boom! They have the life they thought they wanted and in the process remember that their original life was amazing. In this movie, an ambitious married woman gets more than she bargained for when her wish to be single again is granted. She awakens to discover she’s got everything she’s ever wanted, except her husband. She resolves to find him a second time. Cliff hanger! 

 

3. A Joyous Christmas

• Genre: Stranded at Christmas
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

One of my favourite thing about Hallmark movies is how nobody is ever an accountant, or works in a shop (unless it’s a cute coffee shop) In this film, Rachel is a motivational speaker who writes self-help books. She is returning to her home town to promote her latest book when she’s involved in the sort of not-serious car crash that happens all the time in snowy weather. Of course, she’s rescued by a handsome stranger and while stranded in town, learns the true meaning of Christmas. 

 

4. A Very Merry Mix-Up

• Genre: Hilarious mix up
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

This movie is a solid A+. City girl Alice runs her Dad’s antique store, and is engaged to a banker called Bill.

Before we start, you’re not going to feel bad for this guy. He wants the lovely Alice to sell the store to a callous developer, which is basically one step down from Satan in Hallmark-land.

Anyway, Alice flies off to meet her fiancé’s family for Christmas. But – what are the odds – she winds up knocking on the wrong door. When they answer, it turns out there’s ANOTHER family with the same surname as Bill. Even wilder, they also have a son named Bill. Just like Alice’s intended. Even more unexpectedly, THAT family has another handsome, single son who loves to build beautiful furniture. What a merry mix-up indeed!

 

5. A Veteran’s Christmas

• Genre: Stranded at Christmas
• Available on: Hallmark TV
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

Another Hallmark Christmas movie, another non-serious car crash. This time it’s Grace, a decorated Marine veteran who is driving home with her K9 partner when she crashes her car and is stranded in a strange, small town. Grace finds this small town helps her to rediscover the magic of the season, when she stays in a judge’s guest house. It’s a winner. 

 

6. Best Christmas Party Ever

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

Jennie Stanton is the best Christmas party organiser around. When her boss Petra announces that she is retiring, everyone assumes Jennie will step over until – GASP – the arrival of Petra’s handsome and charming nephew (Nick) who wants to work for the business. The two compete to be top party organiser but soon find they need to pull together to throw the greatest Christmas party ever for the local community. Will those kids learn to work together? 

 

7. Christmas at Holly Lodge

• Genre: Evil developer
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Sophie has been running her family’s Vermont B&B for years and every Christmas guests land here for the evergreen trees, views, and winter sports.

Sadly, Sophie is behind on her mortgage payments and a big city development firm is looking to snap up the land. Probably to build a car park or something. In an entirely unexpected plot twist, the developer sends a handsome architect-type to check out the lodge at Christmas. And… you can guess the rest.

 

8. Christmas in Evergreen

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

Another one of those pesky Christmas storms leads to big city vet Allie being stuck in a small town with local doctor Ryan and his adorable daughter. There’s a magical snow globe that grants wishes, and oodles of small town, twinkling charm. This warm-hearted particular Hallmark Christmas movie is SO popular there’s a book version of the story and four (count ’em) spin-off movies. Showing on Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime.

9. Christmas in the Air

• Genre: Evil developer
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

I don’t know about you, but I often consider hiring a professional organiser to take the stress out of the festive season. That’s what happens to overloaded single Dad Robert, who is super busy in his job as a (wait for it) toy inventor. Roberts brings along super-efficient Lydia to help organise Christmas for the family – will the super organised Lydia and chaotic Robert find true love?

 

10. Christmas Joy

• Genre: Festive contest
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

Personally, my favourite genre of Hallmark Christmas movie is the Christmas contest. Baking gingerbread, cupcakes and other treats just makes me feel more festive. In this case Joy returns to her small town home to help her Aunt Ruby win the local ‘cookie crawl’ baking contest. It’s all looking pretty tense but maybe Joy’s childhood friend Ben could help them win the contest AND remind Joy of the magic of the season? 

 

11. Christmas Magic

• Genre: Magical/Tearjerker
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

Hallmark does enjoy a good ghost/angel festive tale and this one is a heart warmer. Carrie is a successful event planner but is hit by a car in a snowstorm and wakes up in Central Park with a spirit guide. The guide, Henry, tells Carrie she needs to help a widowed restaurant owner and his daughter to move on in life – and then she can go to heaven. Carrie sets to work but soon finds she’s falling in love with Scott. Will she be able to gain her wings? Or does fate have something else in mind?  

 

12. Christmas Tree Lane

• Genre: Evil developer
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Meg is a music teacher and music store owner who is campaigning to save her neighbourhood on Christmas Tree Lane from an evil developer. To help save the neighbourhood in a way I don’t really understand, she plans a big concert for Christmas Eve, helped by her new friend Nate. Spoiler alert: Nate actually works for the evil developer, despite not seeming very evil at all. 

 

13. Christmas Wishes and Mistletoe Kisses

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Abbey has a top Hallmark career path, because she’s a decorator. In this movie, Abbey is hired to decorate the estate of a local businessman, Nick. She must break down the wall between the two of them while keeping the holiday spirit alive. I’m including this movie because it includes a festive baking contest – well, almost. It’s a gingerbread house decorating competition. 

 

14. Holly & Ivy

• Genre: Tearjerker
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

Ready? It’s another holiday tear jerker movie. When Melody’s neighbour, Nina, learns that her lymphoma has returned, Melody vows to keep Nina’s kids, Holly & Ivy, together. Except to be approved as their new adoptive Mommy, she needs to do up her house. Oh no! Luckily, there’s a handsome new contractor in town…

 

15. I’m not Ready for Christmas

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

This fantasy based festive movie tells the story of Holly, a busy career woman. Her niece makes a wish that Holly will be truthful and lo and behold, the wish is granted. It’s Christmas and Holly wakes up to find she has to tell the truth. As her career and love life go into disarray, she must learn to judge between the truth and what is right.

 

16. Love You Like Christmas

• Genre: City girl in small town
• Available on: Hallmark TV
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

In Christmas Valley, people really love Christmas.

An executive reconsiders her priorities and questions what she has been missing in life when car trouble leads her to Christmas Valley, a town in love with Christmas. High powered, big city executive Maddie takes a wrong turn and gets stuck in Christmas Valley where she OBVIOUSLY immediately meets a handsome single Dad (widowed, obvs) and gets caught up making adorable Christmas wreaths and attending candle-lit tree lighting ceremonies. It’s just lush, it really is. Showing on Hallmark TV.

 

17. Mingle all the Way

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

A young entrepreneur is trying to win over investors for the dating app she has developed; to help bring on investors for expansion, she promises to take part in using it in the coming weeks before Christmas to find love and track her progress. Imagine our surprise when the app tells her that her ideal mate is her business rival! 

 

18. One Winter Weekend

• Genre: Hilarious mix-up
• Available on: Hallmark Channel
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

Burned out from dating, Cara, a magazine writer, decides to go on a dating detox. She plans a ski getaway with her best friend, but the resort mistakenly double-books them with two eligible men, including Ben, an entrepreneur. I hate when that happens, don’t you? 

19. Road to Christmas

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

First things first. This movie stars Lucas from One Tree Hill. So for us 90s kids, it’s a treat. Apart from that, it’s the story of Los Angeles TV producer Maggie Baker. Maggie works on a festive Christmas special, and unwittingly falls for the son of the show’s star – played by Chad Michael Murray. 

 

20. Rocky Mountain Christmas

• Genre: City Girl in Small Town / Celebrity
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

Sarah, a city girl nursing a broken heart, returns to her uncle’s ranch for Christmas. It turns out that a handsome actor is at the ranch learning all about life as a rancher for a movie role.

Don’t bother asking, “What are the odds?” We’re still in the early stages of this list; we can’t afford to be worrying about probability at this stage.

Reasons to love this movie: Kristoffer Poloha from Life Unexpected plays the romantic lead. Treat Williams (I *love* Treat Williams) plays the gruff uncle. And there’s a lot of festive baking. I can’t bake, so I very much enjoy living through fictional depictions of baking.

For my money this is one of the best Hallmark Christmas movies on Amazon this year, and it’s showing on Christmas 24 from Oct 28! Perfection 🙂

 

21. Royal New Year’s Eve

• Genre: Royal Romance
• Available on: Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

If you want to seriously binge on the Royal-themed Hallmark Christmas movies, start with Crown for Christmas, then move on to A Royal Christmas and finish with this masterpiece. Yes, it’s a bold word but I think aptly used here.

Royal New Year’s Eve is the story of Caitlyn, a fashion designer in training, who is hired to design a dress for Lady Isabelle, who is about to marry her beau, Prince Jeffrey. JEFFREY. Lol.

Anyway, Caitlyn works alongside Prince Jeffrey to organise a ball (you’d think he’d have staff for that…) and they begin to fall in love.  Everything about this film is amazeballs.

 

Hallmark Christmas Movies on Amazon Prime UK 

After you’ve used up your Hallmark Channel free trial, there are a lot of Hallmark Christmas movies available on Amazon Prime, without paying for an additional channel. Remember, if you don’t currently have Amazon Prime, you can also sign up for a completely free trial using this link.

 

22. 12 Gifts of Christmas

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

I think this is the second movie in this list about a personal shopper. Who knew it was such a popular job option? Anna is hired as the Christmas personal shopper for Marc. Lest you think this movie is materialistic, it isn’t. As they work together, Anna helps Marc learn that Christmas giving should be about the importance of the gift, and Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in an unexpected way.

 

23. A Christmas Melody

• Genre: Single Parent / MARIAH CAREY
• Available on: Free with Prime and Sky Great! Xmas
• Festive Rating: 12/10 

Friends, I have found my all-time favourite Christmas movie. This movie is about a young single Mum who moves back to her home town and helps her daughter settle into a new school by joining the Christmas show. But what you really need to know is that this movie stars MARIAH CAREY as a COMPETITIVE MOM trying to take over the concert. Words cannot do justice to the JOY that is this movie.

• Wonder as Mariah appears to be filmed under entirely different lighting to the rest of the cast!
• Marvel at the number of close-up shots for a certain coffee brand that have no relevance to the plot but probably funded the movie!
• Be amazed by Mariah Carey’s commitment to stealing every scene she stars in.
• Disappoint yourself by still tearing up at the finale song because it’s Christmas and you’re an emotional wreck.

24. A Christmas Proposal

• Genre: Pretend Boyfriend
• Available on: Rent or Buy on Amazon
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

I love the idea of a fake boyfriend/girlfriend movie. This one is about a hotshot Seattle attorney. He asks a down-on-her-luck chef to pose as his girlfriend to impress his family on a Christmas visit. Their business arrangement soon gets complicated as real sparks begin to fly during the holiday season.

 

25. A Match Made at Christmas 

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Free with Prime 
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

Holly, an ambitious woman, does not get along with Chris as they seem to be poles apart in many ways. However, Holly is unable to disregard the connection revealed by her aunt between Holly and Chris.

 

26. A Prince for Christmas

• Genre: Royal Romance
• Available on: Free with Prime 
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

This one has to win the prize for the best Princely name. Duncan. Prince Duncan. How brilliant is that? Anyway, this Hallmark Christmas classic tale is the story of how a prince from Europe meets a charming diner waitress when he travels to America during the Christmas holiday to escape an arranged marriage. It’s a lovely, undemanding watch and my only disappointment is it’s set in a diner, not a lovely castle. 

 

27. A Song for Christmas

• Genre: Stranded at Christmas
• Available on: Free with Prime / Sky GREAT Xmas
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

I love a good country music x Hallmark Christmas movie crossover and this one is amazing. Imagine the scene: you’re busy working on your family’s dairy farm when a famous pop star has a car accident and becomes stranded for Christmas. Luckily you have a spare room and a wholesome family and you can also play the guitar. Phew! 

 

28. Catch a Christmas Star

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Well, you wait all year for a movie about a pop star meeting an ordinary person and then you get two in a row. In this festive rom-com, a widower reconnects with his high school sweetheart. There are adorable children, there’s a revelation that the ex has become a world-famous pop star and more fairy lights than you can shake a stick at. Perfection.

 

29. Charming in Christmas

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

If you’re a Gilmore Girls fan, you’ll love the realisation that the male lead in Charming in Christmas is none other than Christopher! For me, personally, this is a bonus because I very much Team Chris. Anyway, in this movie the plucky heroine, Meredith, is the heir to the famous Rossmans department store. When she is persuaded to play Mrs Claus for the store’s young visitors, she has to team up with Nick/Chris, who is playing Santa Claus. I’m going to be honest and say these both feel like odd casting choices. But holiday magic ensues. 

 

30. Christmas Catch

• Genre: Mystery
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

Every year, I find one Hallmark Christmas movie that is just a little bit left field. And this is that film. Christmas Catch is the story of plucky female detective Mackenzie Bennet. This Christmas, Mackenzie is hot on the heels of Carson, a suspected diamond thief. Mackenzie goes undercover to catch her man except she ends up catching feelings. Not only that, but could she actually help Carson to clear his name when it turns out he’s innocent? It’s bonkers, but brilliant.

31. Christmas Confessions

• Genre: City girl in small town
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

If you love a good Christmas show but don’t want to leave the house to see an actual Christmas show, this might be the Hallmark festive favourite for you. Struggling actress Beth is stuck in New York at Christmas without her friends, so she decides to go back to her small hometown for the holidays.

While at home, she meets up with her old flame Barry (bad name) and a holiday romance ensues – but when Broadway comes calling, what will Beth choose? Is the life she left behind better than the bright lights?

 

32. Christmas Festival of Ice

• Genre: Christmas contest
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

One of my favourite Hallmark tropes is the small town festive contest, especially if it involves baking. This one is half way there. What could be more typical than an ice sculpting contest? In this town the contest is under threat, but our heroine Emma is determined to keep her hometown’s Christmas ice-sculpting contest going. She enlists sponsors and artists, but Nick, the town’s ace artisan, isn’t interested in competing until he sees what Emma has accomplished. 

 

33. Crown for Christmas

• Genre: Royal Romance
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Sometimes the world of Hallmark Christmas movies is happy to look beyond Montana and Vermont for lush settings. And in those cases we head off to – imaginary European countries with bizarre names!

In this case, city girl Allie (played by Winnie from the Wonder Years), gets fired and moves to the tiny European country of Winshire. There she becomes governess to the King’s young daughter, who has gone all kids-from-Hell since the untimely death of her mother. Do you think there’s someone whose job is to make up country names in Europe?

Back to the story. The handsome young King is due to marry, because tradition, ancient law, blah blah. But I think we all know that’s not the way these movies go…

 

34. Merry & Bright

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Free with Prime / Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

I love how in the Hallmark universe, people work in manufacturing but only festive related products. This movie is about the busy Christmas period for the Merry and Bright Candy Cane company. Cate owns the company, and has a meddling mother who is always fixing her up on dates. When Cate meets handsome stranger Gabe a week before Christmas she assumes he’s a set-up and lots of cute baking happens. Except it turns out Gabe is a banker who is looking to buy the company and strip it of assets. Awkward. 

 

35. The Christmas Pageant

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Vera is an overbearing Broadway director who is fired from her job just before Christmas. For complex reasons that aren’t important she is forced to go to a small town and direct a community Christmas pageant. To her surprise (if not ours) she loves the experience, especially after reconnecting with an old flame.

When a temperamental Broadway director is fired, she is forced to direct a community Christmas pageant. To her surprise, the warmth and charm of the small town grows on her and she even enjoys the experience, reconnecting with an old flame and his daughter.

 

36. The Holiday Tree

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Depending on where you are in the world, this movie is EITHER called “The Tree that Saved Christmas” or “The Holiday Tree”. Whichever title you see, this firm features Hallmark fave Lacey Chabert as Molly, who works at a publishing house in New York. At Christmas, Molly travels to her hometown in Vermont in a bid to save her parents’ Christmas tree farm from foreclosure after they fail to repay the mortgage. Cue handsome old flame and evil developer. 

 

37. Hearts of Christmas

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

This sweet movie is about Jenny, an administrator who works in the neonatal unit of her local hospital. Jenny wants to throw a big retirement bash for a beloved colleague but her plans are challenged by the hospital’s new CFO. Matt (played by the very dashing Kris Poloha) is all about the numbers, but could the magic of the season help lead to a change of heart? (see what I did there?)

 

38. Small Town Christmas

• Genre: City girl in small town/Old Flame
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

I promise I’m not only including this movie because Kris Poloha is one of my favourite Hallmark actors, but it doesn’t hurt. This movie sees plucky author Nell take a book tour to promote her latest book. The final stop on her nationwide tour is a small town where she meets Emmett, a young man who she worked with in the distant past when they were both junior copy editors in the Big City. Will their old spark still be there? 

 

39. One Starry Christmas

• Genre: City girl in small town/Old Flame
• Available on: Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

This movie features a plucky young astronomy professor (lol) who takes a bus ride home for Christmas. While on the bus she meets a charming cowboy (as you do) and has to choose between the cowboy she met on a bus, or her predictable, safe boyfriend. I mean… we’ve all been there, right? 

Hallmark Christmas Movies on iPlayer 

40. A Christmas to Savour

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: iPlayer
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

I might have mentioned before how much I love a baking-themed holiday movie and this one’s great AND you can watch it for free in the UK via iPlayer. This is the story of restaurant owner Scarlett, who receives a voucher from a friend to attend a cooking getaway break at Christmas. When she arrives, she is reunited with James, a rival chef from her past. Is it just me or is it getting hot in the kitchen? 

 

41. Christmas a la Carte

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: iPlayer
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Picture the scene. You’re a local news reporter, specialising in the local food scene when there’s a chance to host your very own show! All you have to do is go and help a small town diner deliver a big opening shindig. What could be simpler? Carly arrives at Angel Heights and meets Grant, the diner owner. He’s shy, she’s bossy, can they save the family business together? 

 

42. Dancing Through Christmas

• Genre: Single Parent
• Available on: iPlayer
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Single Dad Michael has been feeling lonely since losing his wife, but sparks fly when he meets Olivia, who happens to be his daughter’s dance teacher. Olivia casts Michael’s daughter in the Nutcracker, but could Michael be the real star of this Christmas? 

43. Falling in Love at Christmas

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: iPlayer
• Festive Rating: 7/10

I do find there are a surprising number of Hallmark Christmas movies that are based on the idea that someone has made an app.  Anyway, business mogul Miranda has developed an app to help Christmas shoppers select the perfect gift, because apparently nobody has heard of Google. To launch the app, Miranda has to work with Paul, her rival. But unexpected feelings start to develop. 

44. Fixing up Christmas

• Genre: British
• Available on: iPlayer
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Holly is one of the best party planners in town, so her boss asks her to help architect Josh plan a super Christmas party that will wow the mayor and save his business. Of course, Josh doesn’t think this plan will work because how does hosting a party save a business, but that’s stupid because of COURSE it will work, and Josh and Holly will find they have more in common than they imagined.

 

45. Heart of the Holidays

• Genre: City girl in small town
• Available on: BBC iPlayer
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

City stockbroker Sam has her life all planned out, but when a job transfer falls through just before Christmas, she returns home to upstate New York, where she finds out that the meaning of life is more than just a great career.

 

Hallmark Movies on Channel 5 this Christmas

Channel 5 has some great Hallmark Christmas Movies showing in the UK this season, but beware – not all will be shown more than once, and some are available just for a week or two. If you find a movie you like, set your DVR to record to make sure you’re not missing out!

 

46. Finding Santa

• Genre: British
• Available on: Channel 5
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Jessica is thrilled to be taking over the running of her New England town’s Christmas parade. But when the man playing St. Nick falls ill she needs to scramble to find a replacement, even if the replacement is unwilling. Available on C5 until December 7, then via Hallmark TV. 

 

47. A Very Yorkshire Christmas

• Genre: British
• Available on: Channel 5
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

This is not technically a Hallmark movie but who cares? It’s Yorkshire, it’s Christmas and it has all the feels. Opera singer Jessica Bailey’s flight to her concert in Vienna gets delayed and she is stuck in a remote area of England. The only place to stay is a bed-and-breakfast in an enchanting village run by a handsome widower named Andrew. Be quick, this one is scheduled to leave Channel 5 in November 2022. 

 

48. Meet Me at Christmas

• Genre: Christmas event/wedding
• Available on: Channel 5
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

I don’t know what sort of lunatic plans a Christmas wedding but in this movie Joan is excited for her son’s Christmas Eve wedding. When the wedding planner unexpectedly quits, Joan finds herself stepping in to coordinate the wedding, with the help of Beau, the bride’s uncle. It’s super lush and romantic, so don’t overthink it. Due to be removed 14 November. 

 

49. Miss Christmas

• Genre: Christmas event/wedding
• Available on: Channel 5
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Holly is known as “Miss Christmas” in Chicago, and is responsible for finding a great tree for the plaza. This year the tree has been damaged and with 10 days to go, Holly gets a letter from a small boy, who says he has the perfect tree in his small home town of Klaus. Of course, Holly goes to Klaus, where she meets handsome single dad Sam, who is not feeling the holiday spirit. Did Holly come for the perfect tree but find the perfect man, instead? 

 

50. A Christmas Wish

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Channel 5
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, locals place a wooden wishing box in the park. People write down their true heart’s desire on a slip of paper and place it in the box. Due to be removed November 30. Also stars Halie from One Tree Hill.

 

51. A Nutcracker Christmas

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Channel 5  
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

A rising ballet star is ready to take the stage in her dream role when she receives the shocking news that her sister has died. Years later, she has vowed never to dance again, but a chance encounter with an old flame may change her mind.

52. A Christmas Ring

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Channel 5  
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Reporter Kendra Adams searches for the love story behind an antique engagement ring with the help of the grandson of the ring’s owner. No prizes for guessing what happens next! 

 

53. A Timeless Christmas

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Channel 5  
• Festive Rating: 6/10

This is a rather lovely time travel love story. In this Hallmark Christmas classic, a man travels from 1903 to 2020, where he meets a tour guide at his historic mansion and gets to experience a 21st century Christmas. Charles and Megan realise that Christmas might just be timeless after all.

 

Holiday Movies on Disney+ this Christmas

 

54. 12 Dates of Christmas

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Disney+ 
• Festive Rating: 6/10

OK, so first of all, Amy Smart stars in one of my all time favourite Christmas movies, Just Friends, as well as once starring in the amazing YA TV show Felicity, way back in the day. So I love her. Apart from that, this movie is a lovely way to spend an afternoon. When our feisty heroine Kate wakes up one morning, it’s Christmas Eve. Again. She’s stuck reliving a terrible blind date on Christmas Eve, and the movie follows as she attempts to find a way to break away from the loop. It’s Groundhog Day meets Hallmark Holidays. 

 

55. I’ll be Home for Christmas

• Genre: Family Movie
• Available on: Disney+
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Estranged from his father (Gary Cole), college student Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without identification or money to help him make the journey. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Allie (Jessica Biel), does not know where he is, and accepts a cross-country ride from Jake’s rival, Eddie (Adam LaVorgna).

 

Holiday Movies on FreeVee this Christmas

FreeVee is a UK free channel (with ads) that can be accessed via any web browser, or through apps on Android/Google Play, through an Amazon Fire Stick and finally via Amazon Prime as a free add-on channel. Here are a few Hallmark Christmas movies they’re showing in 2022:

 

56. A Castle for Christmas

• Genre: Royal Romance (trilogy)
• Available on: Netflix
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

It’s Cary Elwes from Princess Bride! And the woman who used to be Nate’s Mum in Gossip Girl. Anyway, our plucky heroine has been living through the characters in her romance books. He’s been living behind the walls of his Scottish Castle. Do you believe in happy endings? 

 

57. A Christmas Kiss

• Genre: Hilarious mix-up
• Available on: FreeVee
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Wendy gets stuck in an elevator with a dashing stranger. They share a spontaneous kiss and later she realises that he is her boss’s long-distance boyfriend.

 

58. A Family for the Holidays

• Genre: City girl in small town
• Available on: FreeVee
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

This heartwarming tale is about why we need to adopt cute old people at Christmas. Miranda has relocated to the Northeast, where she has established her business. She splits her time between Boston and Carlton Heath, a Vermont town where her fiancé, Ian, lives, and the two of them plan to tie the knot at their Christmas wedding. At Christmas, they meet a lonely grandmother, and make her a part of the family for the holidays. 

 

Holiday Movies on Netflix this Christmas

This year, Netflix has rather a slim selection of Hallmark Christmas movies for UK viewers, but there are some classic Netflix original Christmas titles that are worth a watch. In general, these aren’t quite so schmaltzy as the Hallmark alternatives but they are a lot of fun.

 

59-61 A Christmas Prince/A Royal Wedding/Royal Baby

• Genre: Royal Romance (trilogy)
• Available on: Netflix
• Festive Rating: 5/10 

This trilogy starts with the unlikely scenario of a young reporter who gets a job as a nanny for a playboy prince. Because security screening isn’t a thing. Anyway, it turns out the playboy isn’t such a playboy, and our plucky heroine gets tangled in some royal intrigue and ends up finding love … follow this up with not one but TWO sequels, the royal wedding and the royal baby! 

 

62. A Christmas Inheritance

• Genre: Unlikely inheritance
• Available on: Netflix
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

Oh, I love this movie. Big city rich girl Elle is set to inherit her father’s gift business, but she’s a brat! So her father insists that she takes an annual Christmas message to the family’s home town of Snow Falls.

In a bold storytelling move, there’s a snowstorm that traps Elle at the lodge for Christmas. Elle has to work at the Inn alongside the common folk, and comes to realise the true meaning of Christmas. This one is actually a Netflix movie, but it’s almost more Hallmark than Hallmark.

 

63. Christmas Under Wraps

• Genre: Hilarious mix-up/Magical
• Available on: Netflix also Free with Prime
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Candace Cameron Burr stars in this tale of a doctor who wants to take a fellowship at the same small hospital where her dad trained. Except she makes a mistake and ends up in the small Alaskan town of Garland, which is filled with Christmas spirit, friendship and romance. The formerly ambitious doctor starts a new romance and learns that her small town is hiding a holiday secret. 

 

64. The Noel Diary

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Netflix
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist (also the hot guy from Bad Moms) meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?

 

65-67. The Princess Switch

• Genre: Royal romance
• Available on: Netflix
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

A new arrival to Netflix in 2018, this royal holiday romance starred Vanessa Hudgens of High School Musical fame. It’s a sort of cross between Monte Carlo and A Christmas Prince (and if you haven’t watched those gems, shame on you). There are now two sequels which are not amazing, but worth a lazy Sunday watch.

Vanessa is a waitress who finds herself in the tiny European kingdom of Belgravia, or some other equally unlikely name, for a gingerbread baking competition.  Anyway, Vanessa goes off to Europe where she meets her doppelganger who is about to become a Princess. Cue role-swapping hilarity, snowballs and a weird sub-plot about baking sabotage. It’s spectacularly unrealistic but harmless fun.

 

68. Holidate

• Genre: Pretend Boyfriend
• Available on: Netflix
• Festive Rating: 9/10 

This brand new Christmas movie is launching on Netflix, from Oct 28. It’s not an official Hallmark Christmas movie but it is based on my favourite Christmas movie trope – THE PRETEND BOYFRIEND. That’s right. Sloane and Jackson agree to be friends with benefits but without the benefits, just until New Year’s Eve. It’s the perfect way to avoid interfering families (look out for Kristen Chenoweth as Sloane’s aunt) and have fun in the process. I’m prepared to bet my right foot that they fall in love before midnight on New Years Eve.

 

Holiday Movies on Sky TV this Christmas

Got Sky TV and want to watch Hallmark Christmas movies in the UK? Your best bet this Christmas is to access movies via two dedicated channels – Christmas 24 and Sky GREAT Xmas. Don’t forget with Sky TV you can also access the movies on Channel 5 and iPlayer for free.

 

69. A Cheerful Christmas

• Genre: Royal romance
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 8/10

Lauren becomes a Christmas coach for James, an English royal who hates Christmas. Can she help him find the Christmas spirit? What is a Christmas coach? How do I get this job? Do I need to wear a uniform? So many questions. 

 

70. A Christmas Duet

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 8/10

Music duo Averie and Jesse haven’t played together for years. When fate reunites them, the magic of Christmas might just be able to help draw them close again.

 

71. A Christmas Love Story

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 8/10

There’s a lot to love about this movie. First, Kristen Chenowith. Always a dream to watch on screen. Second, it’s a celebrity Hallmark Christmas movie and I also love those. Let’s get to the details: A working Chicago mum brings her kids with her on a business trip to Memphis so they can all visit Graceland during the week before Christmas; but she is thrown for a loop when she bumps into an old flame from her days as a singer in college.

 

72. A Holiday in Harlem

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

This movie has gorgeous music, twinkly lights galore, a love story AND an acknowledgement that people of colour can also play leads in romantic movies. Oh, and it’s a parallel lives story, which I love because don’t we all find ourselves wondering ‘what if’ at this time of year? More of this, please Hallmark! Angie wonders what life would be like if she had married an ex who became famous. When she finds herself magically transported into the past, Angie has the chance to relive that Christmas and learn what (and who) is truly important to her.

 

73. All About Christmas Eve

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Hold on to your party hats, kids, it’s another Hallmark movie about a party planner. This time, Eve is a party planner who learns that her most important client wants to throw a party on Christmas Eve. But Eve has planned to be on holiday for the holidays (as you do, as a party planner) with her boyfriend. This movie asks what if she stays? But also what if she goes? Which parallel life leads to happiness and true love? 

 

74. Christmas in the Highlands

• Genre: British
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

I am very excited for this movie, which is packed with weirdness. It’s not a Hallmark Movie but it sounds just like one. In this film, big city sales whizz Blair is packed off to the Highlands to try and persuade a Scottish guy to sell the big firm a perfume. If you think this seems unlikely, just wait.

Blair meets Alistair who is the most English sounding Highlander you’ve ever seen. He also turns out to be an Earl (of course). He and his equally English family don’t want to sell the perfume so Blair pretends to be a documentary film maker.

It mean, it sounds bonkers. But also brilliant.

 

75. Christmas at Graceland

• Genre: British
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24 and Hallmark TV
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Honestly, country music and Hallmark Christmas movies go together like mince pies and hot chocolate. Christmas at Graceland comes hot on the heels of such classic country-themed Hallmark classics as A Country Christmas, Sweet Mountain Christmas, and the Road Home for Christmas.

Luckily, I’m a country music fan (I might have squealed a bit when Blake Shelton produced his own Hallmark Christmas movie (Time for you to Come Home for Christmas), AND then announced the sequel.

Anyway, Christmas at Graceland is about business-woman Laurel, who is in Graceland at Christmas. While there, she connects with her old boyfriend, Clay, who is a local music promoter. Cue lots of romantic guitar strumming and gazes over the piano… this was popular enough that there’s also going to be a Christmas at Graceland 2, although it’s unlikely to hit the UK for a year or two. Showing on Hallmark TV via Amazon Prime.

 

76. Christmas around the Corner

• Genre: City Girl in a Small Town
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Christmas Around the Corner is one of those movies about a city girl going to a small town to find the true meaning of Christmas. This time it’s Claire, a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, who escapes to a quaint town in Vermont. She meets the owner of the charming Fortenbury Bookstore.

 

77. Christmas at Dollywood

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

Friends, nothing says Christmas to me like Dolly Parton says Christmas to me. When a NYC event planner returns to Tennessee to organise the Christmas celebration at Dollywood, she’s paired with the head of operations who thinks he can handle the party just fine on his own. Will those crazy kids work it out? Probably. Will Dolly Parton make a cameo and sing a song? Absolutely! Also on Channel 5 until Nov 22 

 

78. Christmas at the Plaza

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24 and Hallmark TV
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Get your NYC fix with this Hallmark Christmas movie that was filmed at the real life Plaza in New York. Jessica is creating an exhibition about the history of Christmas at The Plaza Hotel. There, she meets Nick, who is decking out the iconic landmark and bringing the display to life.

 

79. Christmas in Harmony

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Harmony is a music executive who heads home to North Carolina to win her job back. She is tricked into auditioning for her church holiday choir, without realising it’s directed by her ex-boyfriend. But maybe that’s not such a bad thing? By Christmas Eve, they could be harmonising in the key of love. Yep. I said it. 

 

80. Christmas on my Mind

• Genre: Amnesia
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Love a good Christmas amnesia romance. I bet amnesia isn’t this cute in real life. No matter. Our plucky heroine Lucy – played by Alice from Twilight – wakes up with a wedding dress in hand. She thinks she’s late to her wedding with her ex-boyfriend Zach. However, in a hilarious mix-up, she and Zach broke up and she’s now engaged to another man. LOL. 

 

81. Crafty Christmas Romance

• Genre: Heartwarming
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

In this Lifetime movie, Mandy is the owner of a craft and hobby store. She finds a 70-year-old letter to Santa and a valuable coin in a copy of “A Christmas Carol.” Along with Jonah, the ruggedly handsome contractor who donated the book, Mandy sets out to find the author in time for Christmas.

 

82. Jolly Good Christmas

• Genre: Amnesia
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

On the basis that there is no such thing as too many films about professional shoppers, here comes Jolly Good Christmas. This movie is about an American architect in London, who meets a professional shopper and enlists her help to find the perfect gift for his girlfriend. Except the real gift might be his new London friend.

 

83. Last Christmas at Home

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Not to be confused with the Wham-themed Last Christmas (music or song) this is a family Christmas movie from Hallmark. Megan and her two sisters reunite every Christmas in their childhood home. This year, though, their parents have put the house up for sale, and the buyer is Megan’s former childhood sweetheart, Nash. This could end badly, but it probably won’t. 

 

84. Northern Lights at Christmas

• Genre: Unlikely inheritance
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

I love an unexpected inheritance story, and what’s more festive than inheriting a reindeer farm? Zoey has been working towards her lifelong goal of being a pilot for years, but everything is thrown off-course when she unexpectedly inherits a reindeer farm, along with the dangerously handsome ranch hand Alec. It’s a solid 10/10. 

 

85. Nostalgic Christmas

• Genre: City girl in small town
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

When Anne’s father retires, signalling the closing of the town toy store, it brings the city girl back to her small town roots When Anne helps her father close the family’s toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.

 

86. Radio Christmas

• Genre: Stranded at Christmas
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

When her Philadelphia radio station is closed for repairs during the holidays, DJ Kara Porter is forced to broadcast from the small town of Bethlehem. Why do these towns all have such convenient names? I know I shouldn’t wonder about this, but I do. 

 

87-88 Sister Swap

• Genre: Magical
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Two sisters, Meg and Jennifer, find a new sense of purpose and discover what they both truly need in life during the holidays. this is actually a pair of movies, one called “Christmas in the City” and the other “Hometown Holiday”. As you might expect, one sister is a career obsessed city girl, the other a hometown family girl.

 

89. Tis the Season to be Merry

• Genre: Amnesia
• Available on: Sky Christmas 24
• Festive Rating: 6/10 

Looking for a fresh angle for her book on relationships, Merry heads to snow-covered Vermont. She soon finds a new perspective and Christmas cheer when she meets a charismatic aid worker named Chris.

 

Hallmark Movies to rent or buy this Christmas

If you don’t have Netflix, Sky or Amazon, you do have some options to get your Hallmark Christmas Movie fix in the UK this year. Below are a few of the very best movies to rent, stream or buy this Christmas. Be aware many of the DVDs are Region 1 (US format) so you’ll need a multi-region DVD player to play them.

 

90. A Royal Christmas

• Genre: Royal romance
• Available on: DVD
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Contain your excitement, readers. For not only is this ANOTHER great Hallmark Royal Holiday movie, it’s also another Lacey Chabert gem.

In this gritty, realistic tale, Emily’s boyfriend, Leo announces that he’s actually a Prince, from the European country of Cordinia. Honestly, the country names are sometimes my favourite part of these films.

Anyway, Leo and Emily head off to Cordinia where they meet his icy mother, Queen Isadora. The Queen is played to perfection by Jane Seymour. Can true love overcome the Prince’s family? Who can guess?

Tragically, this one is not currently available on Netflix UK but if you have access to US Netflix you’re in luck. Otherwise, it’s another DVD purchase required, current price £4.94.

This is not an exhaustive list of Hallmark Christmas movies by any means, but hopefully this will inspire you to indulge your Hallmark Movie obsession along with me this Christmas. Sky On Demand, Sky Cinema and Christmas24 should be your best friends this festive season, and with the addition of Netflix to the mix, there’s no excuse for not indulging ALL your fantasies about moving to a small town with fairy lights and a Christmas parade…

 

91. Christmas Encore

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: Rent or Buy (Amazon)
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

When a struggling actress lands the lead role in an off-Broadway show, she falls in love with the director. Meanwhile, the cast and crew must save the show when the theatre loses its lease.

 

92. Homegrown Christmas

• Genre: Christmas contest
• Available on: Rent or Buy (Amazon)
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Maddie heads back to her hometown for the holidays and runs into her high school sweetheart Carter. Tensions rise as they are forced to organise a Christmas dance for their local high school.

 

93. Pride, Prejudice and Mistletoe

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: Rent or Buy (Amazon)
• Festive Rating: 10/10 

When Darcy returns to her hometown for Christmas, and she reconnects with Luke, a former rival, they must plan a charity event together. As she spends time with her family and Luke, she starts to realise what matters most in life. Darcy returns home for the holidays, and meets up with high school enemy Luke. But what’s this? They need to organise the Christmas gala together? How’s THAT going to pan out? A classic in the Hallmark Christmas Movies genre. 

 

94. The Mistletoe Inn

• Genre: Old Flame
• Available on: DVD
• Festive Rating: 7/10 

I know, I know. You are probably thinking, “Can’t you have too many movies set in festive-themed inns?” If you think the answer is yes, then sorry, you’re reading the wrong post.

In this Hallmark classic, an aspiring romantic novelist goes to a festive writing retreat. Once there she realises not only is her annoying ex-boyfriend in attendance, but she’s partnered with arrogant Zeke. This movie’s okay, but I give it some extra points because Alicia Witt is always fun to watch in a Hallmark movie. This fabulous Christmas movie is available on DVD at Amazon. 

 

95. The Mistletoe Promise

• Genre: Fake girlfriend
• Available on: Rent or buy on Prime
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Two strangers with a disdain for Christmas make a holiday pact to pretend to be a couple to ease their holiday complications. As they spend more time together, the phony couple begin to experience the magic of Christmas. It’s not the best of the Hallmark Christmas Movies, but it’s a diverting afternoon. 

 

96. Matchmaker Santa

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: DVD
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

Matchmaker Santa is the story of Melanie, who is dating her boss, Justin. When Justin invites her to spend the holidays with his family, Melanie starts to think maybe she has more in common with Justin’s best friend Dean. In any other movie this woman would be a harlot, but this is Hallmark so we know that Justin is a bad corporate person, and Dean is the real hero of the story. 

 

97. My Christmas Dreams

• Genre: On the Job
• Available on: DVD
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

When I tried to look up the synopsis for this title in Hallmark Christmas Movies, it turns out there are about five films with the same title, so I’m going to call this one a pot luck selection. In this particular version of My Christmas Dreams, a department store manager sets out to create an amazing holiday display window to impress the owner. She asks a recently-fired employee to help her make the display, and as they work together, they start to fall in love. Let me know what you think if you see it! 

 

98. Christmas in Conway

• Genre: Tearjerker
• Available on: Rent or Buy on Amazon
• Festive Rating: 8/10 

If you’re in the mood for a sentimental love story, there’s honestly no better holiday movie than this one. Christmas in Conway tells the story of a doting husband who faces the objections of his neighbours, when he decides to gift his terminally ill wife a Ferris wheel. It’s to remind her of the day when he proposed her while riding on a Ferris wheel. Tears guaranteed. 

So there you have it! My Hallmark Christmas Movies List 2022 includes 100+ Hallmark Christmas Movies to watch in the UK this Christmas, including many free options, as well as movies for all major TV services. I hope you enjoy planning your festive viewing!

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