Cuddle up by the fire with your spouse and check out these romantic Christmas movies – one for each day of Christmas!
More than any other time of the year, Christmas is the time for laughter, warmth and romance. It’s the perfect time to grab a cup of steaming hot chocolate, cuddle up with your loved one, and indulge in any or all of these romantic Christmas movies.
These movies guarantee all the feels with their tried and tested combos of cute meetings, seemingly insurmountable barriers, and then satisfying happy ever afters.
Just what most of us need at this time of year.
Here you’ll find 25 romantic Christmas movies – one for each day of Christmas.
Why not make watching one every night one of your new Christmas traditions for couples?
They’re also perfect to watch if you’re having a Christmas in July).
After experiencing the world's worst blind date on Christmas Eve, imagine Kate's horror when she is forced to relive the day over and over and over again.
It's a classic tale - teacher of some kind spots talented youth, and tries to nurture that talent despite opposition from his or her family. In A Christmas Love story, Katherine (Kristen Chenoweth) is a choir director who discovers a boy with the voice of angels - only his dad isn't too thrilled about it. It's a formula, but it works.
After her boss steals her idea for the magazine's cover story, single mom Emma goes in search of a Christmas miracle to write about with the help of her son and her handsome coworker. Hallmark does what Hallmark does best in this romantic Christmas movie.
When Alice goes to meet her fiancé's family at Christmas, lost luggage and a broken phone sees her end up at the wrong house. But there she discovers that her bond with the wrong family is stronger than her connection with the right one.
A strangely large number of romantic Christmas movies seem to feature decrepit lodges and dysfunctional families. Coming home for Christmas follows this pattern, with estate manager Lizzie having to bring the estranged Marley family together one last time before the Ashford Estate is sold.
Unhappily married couple, Brad and Kate, tend to spend Christmas taking an exotic vacation - where they can escape everything and everyone including each other. However this Christmas, fog sees them stuck at home and forced to attend the relative-choked festivities of their four divorced parents.
Committed bachelor Connor is visited by the ghosts of his past girlfriends in an effort to find out why their relationships never worked.
Back in high school, overweight nerd Chris was totally in love with his best friend Jamie. Banished to the friend zone, he left town. Now 10 years later, he's hot, successful, and back in town.
Last Christmas (can you even read those words without hearing George Michael crooning in your ear?) features lonely and depressed Kate, a failed singer turned Christmas elf who starts to turn her life around after meeting a mysterious man called Tom.
Self proclaimed Christmas Grinch, Stephanie seems immune to the charms of Christmas as she starts a revamp of a snow lodge business. But that's before the magic of the season - and the lodge's guide Josh - starts to have an effect on her.
This 2003 Christmas movie classic covers 10 different plots, many of which are interlinked. Starting five weeks before Christmas, the film counts down the weeks until the holiday, showing many different aspects of love along the way. There's no doubt there's some cringe worthy moments in here (who tells their best friend's new bride they're in love with them?), but overall, it's a Christmas staple.
Jacquie is successful but single tech entrepreneur who buys her dream home just in time for her dysfunctional family to descend upon it for Christmas. Somehow she has to hold it together, while also dealing with her hot new neighbor.
Although 10 years have passed since Jonathan and Sara met over a pair of black cashmere gloves in Bloomingdales, they've never forgotten each other. Now they decide to reconnect - with a little bit of serendipity to help along the way.
Almost 15 years after the events in The Best Man, the crew come back together to spend Christmas at Chestnut's palatial home. With everyone suffering from emotional or financial distress, rivalries and romances are reignited in this R rated romantic comedy.
Wealthy businessman Jack Campbell has given his life to the job. That's until he wakes up on Christmas day to find that not only has he been married for 13 years, he's a dad.
Beautiful but uptight city girl Meredith heads to her liberal boyfriend Everett's family home for Christmas for a vacation filled with family dysfuction.
This 2006 classic features two women on the opposite sides of the world who swap houses for the Christmas season. Their desire to leave their lives behind leads to them finding love.
12 days before Christmas, big city attorney Kate must head to Hollygrove Inn to get it appraised and sold before the year's end. However once there she meets Daniel - the ghost of a man murdered on Christmas Eve, 95 years ago.
Train token collector Lucy saves the man she's had a secret crush on from certain death. Pretending to be his fiancée so that she can visit him in hospital, her lie spins out of control - and is made even worse when she falls in love with his brother.
This Christmas classic stars Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye who go to Vermont for a white Christmas. After they stop at an inn, they discover its run by their old Army General who's broke and struggling to keep the place open. They put on a Christmas show to help him out - but gain more than they expected when they meet two show-biz sisters.
Willa Davis has never forgotten Keane Winters - and how he stood her up in high school. When their paths cross again, she's determined not to fall for him... if it wasn't for that mistletoe.
Cassie, Santa Claus' only daughter, must go out and see the world before settling down to marry Jack Frost and take over the family business.
A wealthy young woman falls in love with a soup kitchen owner after she finds a "Dear Santa" letter written by his 7 year old daughter.
After spending her whole life living on a tight budget so she can save for a rainy day, New Orlean's cookware salesclerk Georgia discovers that day is here when she is given a terminal cancer diagnosis. What's a girl to do but go on a once in a lifetime vacation?
Life – like love – is full of surprises and unexpected gifts. In the holiday romance Something From Tiffany’s, one woman’s life is forever changed by an engagement ring meant for someone else.
At the Christmasquerade Ball hardworking Angie charms Nikolaus but departs suddenly, leaving him only one clue to find her in this holiday fairytale.
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Get ready for some heart-warming, smile-inducing romantic Christmas movies this holiday season.
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