The Best Hallmark Christmas Movies, Ranked
Start with a premise you want to spend an evening with. For family comedy, try Three Wise Men and a Baby. For a wartime Christmas story, look at Silent Night. Ghosts of Christmas Always offers a supernatural romance. These suggestions describe the stories, not reviews based on our own viewing.
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The Christmas Wishing Tree
2017 · 120 min★ 8.4 · IMDb · 814 votesExplore the movieHope Valley starts a Christmas wishing-tree tradition while Elizabeth works to grant a wish.
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My Christmas Family Tree
2021 · 84 min★ 7.6 · IMDb · 2,815 votesExplore the movieA DNA test leads Vanessa to spend Christmas with relatives she has never met.
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Home for Christmas
2019 · 90 min★ 7.6 · IMDb · 339 votesExplore the movieElizabeth prepares for her son's first Christmas while Hope Valley holds a holiday festival.
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Three Wise Men and a Baby
2022 · 84 min★ 7.5 · IMDb · 4,318 votesExplore the movieThree brothers care for an unexpected baby during the holidays and rebuild their relationship.
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November Christmas
2010 · 96 min★ 7.5 · IMDb · 2,234 votesExplore the movieA community brings its holiday celebrations forward for a child with cancer.
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Silent Night
2002 · 100 min★ 7.5 · IMDb · 2,022 votesExplore the movieA German mother tries to keep a Christmas Eve truce between opposing soldiers in 1944.
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Signed, Sealed, Delivered for Christmas
2014 · 84 min★ 7.5 · IMDb · 1,795 votesExplore the movieThe postal detectives postpone Christmas plans to help a girl whose mother is ill.
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Five More Minutes
2021 · 83 min★ 7.5 · IMDb · 1,492 votesExplore the movieClara finds her late grandfather's journal after wishing for more time with him at Christmas.
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Time for Him to Come Home for Christmas
2022 · 84 min★ 7.4 · IMDb · 2,412 votesExplore the movieA misdirected voicemail draws Elizabeth into a stranger's plea for reconciliation before Christmas.
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Ghosts of Christmas Always
2022 · 84 min★ 7.4 · IMDb · 2,270 votesExplore the movieA Ghost of Christmas Present faces an unusual assignment while helping someone recover his holiday spirit.
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A Dog Named Christmas
2009 · 95 min★ 7.4 · IMDb · 1,594 votesExplore the movieA young man persuades his community to take part in a Christmas shelter-dog adoption program.
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To All a Good Night
2023 · 90 min★ 7.4 · IMDb · 1,498 votesExplore the movieA photographer saves a stranger whose plans may affect the park that hosts her family's Christmas celebration.
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The Most Wonderful Time of the Year
2008 · 88 min★ 7.3 · IMDb · 5,271 votesExplore the movieA single mother's businesslike Christmas plans change when her uncle brings a stranger home.
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The Christmas Secret
2014 · 86 min★ 7.3 · IMDb · 4,255 votesExplore the movieA struggling single mother discovers a family heirloom during the Christmas season.
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A Reason for the Season
2024 · 84 min★ 7.3 · IMDb · 1,338 votesExplore the movieAn heiress must grant Christmas wishes for the people who helped save her life.
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A Mrs. Miracle Christmas
2021 · 84 min★ 7.3 · IMDb · 1,117 votesExplore the movieMrs. Miracle helps a family facing loneliness regain its Christmas spirit.
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The Nine Lives of Christmas
2014 · 86 min★ 7.2 · IMDb · 4,869 votesExplore the movieA stray cat brings a firefighter and an aspiring veterinarian into each other's lives at Christmas.
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On the 12th Date of Christmas
2020 · 84 min★ 7.2 · IMDb · 2,843 votesExplore the movieTwo competing game designers work together on a Christmas scavenger hunt.
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Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas
2021 · 84 min★ 7.2 · IMDb · 2,016 votesExplore the movieA woman with amnesia follows a clue to her identity during the holiday season.
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A Dickens of a Holiday!
2021 · 84 min★ 7.2 · IMDb · 1,788 votesExplore the movieAn actor returns home to join a production of A Christmas Carol at a local festival.
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Holiday Road
2023 · 84 min★ 7.2 · IMDb · 1,703 votesExplore the movieStranded strangers share a road trip to Denver before Christmas.
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Christmas with Holly
2012 · 88 min★ 7.1 · IMDb · 3,869 votesExplore the movieThree uncles care for a young girl after her mother dies, with help from a toy-shop owner.
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A Bramble House Christmas
2017 · 84 min★ 7.1 · IMDb · 2,871 votesExplore the movieA man investigates why his late father left money to a nurse spending Christmas at an inn.
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Christmas by Starlight
2020 · 84 min★ 7.1 · IMDb · 2,631 votesExplore the movieAnnie tries to save her family's café from demolition before Christmas.
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The Good Witch's Gift
2010 · 83 min★ 7.1 · IMDb · 2,448 votesExplore the movieCassie and Jake plan a Christmas Eve wedding while a former bank robber returns to town.
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Christmas with the Darlings
2020 · 84 min★ 7.1 · IMDb · 1,974 votesExplore the movieAn assistant and an uncle care for orphaned children over the holidays.
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Crashing Through the Snow
2021 · 84 min★ 7.1 · IMDb · 1,640 votesExplore the movieTwo guests team up to navigate a family's elaborate Christmas celebrations.
About this list
Eligibility requires Christmas to drive the story or define the holiday-special setting. We reviewed the existing shortlist against catalogue premises; incidental references do not qualify. We removed Love Comes Softly, Love’s Long Journey and The Color of Rain on that basis. Eligible titles need at least 250 IMDb votes. Sort order is stored IMDb rating descending, then vote count descending, then film ID. Ratings and vote counts are a June 16, 2026 snapshot, not a live IMDb feed. Selection reviewed September 12, 2026. This is a reviewed shortlist, not every Hallmark Christmas film.
The list below orders 27 reviewed Christmas films and holiday specials by the IMDb ratings stored in our catalogue. It includes When Calls the Heart specials alongside standalone movies, so it is not a like-for-like ranking of standalone romances.
Frequently asked questions
What does “best” mean here?
It means the highest stored IMDb ratings among this reviewed Christmas shortlist, with at least 250 votes per title. Ratings are audience scores, not HallmarkDB review scores, and were captured on June 16, 2026.
Why are television specials included?
This guide includes Christmas specials in established Hallmark series as well as standalone films. The Christmas Wishing Tree and Home for Christmas belong to When Calls the Heart; The Good Witch’s Gift centers on a Christmas Eve wedding.
Can an incidental Christmas scene qualify a film?
No. Christmas must drive the story or define the holiday-special setting. A Christmas reference in search text, or a bereavement that happens on Christmas Day in a year-long story, is not enough.
Where can I watch these films?
Use each film’s page to check available provider links, then confirm the title in the provider’s current catalogue for your country. This ranking does not establish current streaming availability.