New Hallmark Movies in 2025

Alison Sweeney and Victor Webster return for another Hannah Swensen mystery, and this one's a treat: a reality cooking show takes over the Cookie Jar, and then the producer turns up dead in the kitchen. Hannah works the case while juggling a burglary trial and her budding romance with prosecutor Chad. At 6.5 on IMDb it's a steady, satisfying cozy. The bonus weirdness is a world-famous cooking-show host who can't actually bake a thing. Easy to recommend if you like a little sleuthing with your baking.

Shenae Grimes-Beech plays a struggling New York dancer who travels to a seaside Irish village with her mother after learning her biological mother lives there, and grows close to a witty pub owner (Stephen Hagan) nursing his own grief. The film leans into Irish good-luck folklore, lucky pennies, wishing trees, coal thrown at boats for luck. A finding-home romance with Moira Kelly in support. Watch it for the coastal Ireland setting and the gentle, fate-flavored charm.

The POstables return, with Oliver, Shane, and the Dead Letter Office crew (Eric Mabius, Kristin Booth, Geoff Gustafson) chasing a lost love story tied to an old song lyric from Denver to Las Vegas, while Oliver wrestles with impending fatherhood and questions about his birth father. A gentle, faith-tinged mystery with the usual found-family warmth and a museum-gala finish. Essential for series fans; a soft landing for newcomers.

Rachael Leigh Cook plays a perfectionist executive, ousted from her own company, who decides to fix her chaotic younger sister's life by literally appointing a 'board of directors' to advise her, complete with votes and bylaws. Daniella Monet is the sister; an independent-director recruit (a psych professor) becomes the love interest. A sisterhood comedy about control versus freedom. Watch it for the absurd boardroom-runs-a-life premise and the Cook-Monet dynamic.

Emily Tennant and Jake Foy play a driven recruiter and a guarded dairy farmer who make birthday wishes at the same moment and seem to swap dreams, she inherits a farm, he gets pulled into a televised dance competition. They strike a deal to help each other chase the right wish. A wish-granted, fate-versus-coincidence romance with Pascale Hutton in the mix. Watch it for the dream-swap hook and the farm-meets-ballroom contrast.

Laci J Mailey plays an underrecognized jeweler who returns to Antwerp to save her grandfather's struggling shop and compete at the Antwerp Diamond Festival, colliding with a charming rival (David Elsendoorn) from a competing jewelry family. Their sparring turns into a secret romance amid family debt and contest drama. A Valentine's-set rivals-to-lovers story with a real diamond-district backdrop. Watch it for the European setting and the family-legacy stakes.

Julie Gonzalo plays a burned-out Boston consultant who returns to her family's Argentine ranch when a cousin considers selling, reuniting with her childhood sweetheart (Juan Pablo Di Pace), now the ranch caretaker who wants it for very different reasons. A hidden loan and a predatory buyer raise the stakes. A second-chance romance shot across the Argentine countryside, Buenos Aires, and Iguazu Falls. Watch it for the scenery and the home-versus-ambition pull.

Paul Greene plays a guarded hot-air-balloon pilot and McKenzie Westmore a business reporter on her last chance, sent to cover the Albuquerque International Balloon Fiesta, where most of the romance happens in and around the balloons. Green chile and a sky-blue necklace recur. A following-your-passion romance set against a genuinely striking real-world festival. Good for fans of a workaholic-meets-grounded-local arc with a New Mexico backdrop.

Lacey Chabert and Robert Buckley play strangers thrown together on Valentine's Day when a lost engagement ring turns up in his rideshare, sending them racing across Manhattan to find its owner before a proposal is ruined. A cooking-class interruption, a club dance break, and a rooftop fireworks finish punctuate the night. A single-day, citywide-scavenger-hunt romance. Watch it for the Chabert-Buckley chemistry and the New York energy.

Janel Parrish and Scott Michael Foster play coworkers on an alternating-desk arrangement after a tech buyout, falling for each other through anonymous notes as 'Ms. Monday' and 'Mr. Tuesday' while clashing over a rebrand and a controlling boss. A quilting class and a retirement community figure into the identity reveal, before the plot escalates into an AI-replaces-designers fight. A workplace romance about authenticity. Watch it for the secret-pen-pal hook and the Parrish-Foster pairing.

Nichole Sakura plays a theme-park princess performer who befriends a real-life eight-year-old princess and gets recruited by the girl's widowed crown prince father (William Moseley) to come prep her for a royal procession. She has to stay in character even around actual royalty. A class-difference romance about finding purpose, with horses, tiaras, and a nervous royal child at its heart. Watch it for the fish-out-of-water charm and the Moseley pairing.

Ashley Newbrough plays a D.C. event planner chasing a billionaire's nonprofit gala when she runs into her high school ex (Steve Lund), now the client's consultant, forcing them to work together as old feelings resurface. Part of the Hearts Around the Table series, with its Sunday-supper found family leaned on for support. A second-chance, past-versus-future romance. Good for fans of the series and a forced-collaboration setup with real history between the leads.

Mishael Morgan plays a portrait painter who moves back to a D.C.-area artists' co-op after a failed marriage abroad and meets the building's owner-handyman (Brendan Morgan), who's hunting for his grandmother's missing painting. As they build a shared creative space, she rediscovers her confidence, until his San Francisco job offer threatens it. A Hearts Around the Table entry about starting over. Watch it for the artist-finds-her-voice arc and the found-family backdrop.

Jake Epstein and Stephanie Bennett play teachers forced to compete for a shrinking school budget, the music program against the track team, who end up collaborating on fundraising and falling for each other. Part of the Hearts Around the Table series built on Sunday-supper found family. A teamwork-and-arts-education romance with a subplot about getting a student support for an ADHD evaluation. Warm and well-meaning, with a strong ensemble.

Kathryn Davis plays a food-truck chef who takes on catering her sister's wedding to prove she can handle the pressure, leaning on chef Clay (Torrance Coombs) when a broken oven, a shifting menu, and an estranged father complicate everything. The series' Sunday-supper found family anchors it, with Kiki's tandoori chicken pizza as the signature dish. A learning-to-accept-help romance that ends at the altar. A warm closer for Hearts Around the Table fans.

Erin Cahill plays a high-achieving Boston nurse practitioner who, after missing a promotion, reluctantly walks the Camino de Santiago and meets a psychologist (Erik Valdez) and his family along the way. The pilgrimage, with its passports, hostels, and stone-leaving rituals, slows her down and forces a reckoning with grief and control. A self-discovery romance grounded in a real route through Spain. Watch it for the journey and the unhurried pace.

Ginna Claire Mason plays a gifted milliner trying to build her career in Kentucky who lands a shot designing Derby hats for a powerful family, growing close to horse trainer Christian (John Clarence Stewart) as Derby day approaches. The opening plays a hat delivery like a spy operation, code names and all, and a nervous racehorse gets calmed with nose tape and a 'play day.' A self-confidence romance with Holly Robinson Peete in support. Watch it for the Derby glamour.

Hunter King and Evan Roderick are a couple set to host their first Christmas for both families when a flood crams everyone under one roof, just as they've quietly decided to split. So they fake harmony. If forced proximity and two exes pretending nothing's wrong is your thing, this delivers, complete with a Christmas Eve obstacle course passed off as family bonding and a Jonathan Bennett cameo. Light, a little chaotic, and carried by the friction between a perfectionist and a charmer who can't quite let go.

A burst synagogue pipe and a generous church throw rival choir directors Nikki and Jake (Brooke D'Orsay and Jake Epstein) together for a joint Christmas-Hanukkah service. They have to combine choirs and write a song, lifelong competition and all. Expect a "Joy to the World" Hanukkah remix and a running gag about a "Hanukkah bush." It's a warmer, more musical, genuinely different flavor of holiday film. Watch it for the interfaith spirit and the slow second-chance spark between two people who've been competing since they were kids.

Jessy Schram plays a ghostwriter at a glossy New York hotel who lets a charming guest (Dominic Sherwood) believe she's wealthy, while he's a secretary posing as nobility around a royal jewel exhibit. Two people lying to each other over the holidays, naturally. The film runs a dual timeline with a 1969 flashback and treats the Grand Fairbanks itself almost like a character. A polished hidden-identity romance for anyone who enjoys a little class-and-mistaken-status play with their Christmas.

Lacey Chabert is a Naughty-or-Nice Inspector who falls for a grieving widower (Andrew W. Walker) and his quick-witted daughter, which puts her at odds with her firm's rigid rules. The fun is the worldbuilding: Santa's list runs like a corporation, with audits and a Delaware HQ, and the company wants to replace its human inspectors with an algorithm. One of the more inventive 2025 premises, with real heart under the gimmick. The pick if you want a Chabert lead carrying a bigger idea than usual.

Erin Cahill inherits half a cat cafe in upstate New York and plans to sell, until the other owner, a stubborn vet played by Paul Campbell, talks her into running three weeks of cat-themed holiday events first. You can guess where her priorities drift. There's a whole Christmas binder of feline events to work through, plenty of snow, and Campbell's easy comic timing keeping it afloat. Reach for it when you want cozy over dramatic.

Nikki DeLoach is a waitress and aspiring songwriter invited to honor her late country-star father at the Opry's Christmas celebration, until the historic stage pews fling her and Kristoffer Polaha back to 1995. Part holiday romance, part time-travel reunion, with Brad Paisley and Megan Moroney appearing as themselves. At 95 minutes it earns the extra runtime. For fans of Nashville, country music, and a Christmas concept happy to swing for the fences.

Estranged sisters Faith and Kelly (Ashley Williams and Laci J Mailey) are sent by their grandmother's will to retrace an old engagement journey through the French Alps. Real Chamonix and Mont Blanc scenery, a guide named Frederic, a storm-stranded cabin stocked with notes from Grandma. At two hours it has room to breathe, and it uses it. Watch for the snowy travelogue and a sisterhood story that comes with romance attached.

A real Buffalo Bills crossover, and it leans all the way in. Holland Roden and Matthew Daddario play neighbors hunting down a mystery benefactor who's sent one family Christmas gifts for more than 50 years, tracing it through old receipts and Bills memorabilia. Actual Bills players appear, the family lives in the stadium's shadow, and Santa keeps surfacing like a relationship coach. Joe Pantoliano and Steve Schirripa fill out the cast. Warm and specific, ideal for football fans or anyone who likes a community-and-legacy story.

Three reluctant adult siblings get dragged on a Danube cruise through Germany and Austria with their parents. Jonathan Bennett and Brandon Routh anchor a big cast, with Emory, a data analyst hiding a job loss, falling for the cruise director. Plenty of gluhwein, real scenery, and the usual everyone-has-a-secret tension. An easygoing ensemble travel romance, good for when you want scenery and family warmth more than a tight two-hander.

A Christmas Carol on a plane, and it fully commits. Erin Krakow is a ruthless travel exec who hates Christmas and boards a Christmas Eve flight to Sydney, only for a haunted safety video and her ex-fiance (Tyler Hynes) to walk her through past, present, and future. The whole redemption arc unfolds mid-flight, Santa emcee included, before the plane diverts to Utah on Christmas Day. The year's boldest swing, and the Krakow-Hynes pairing is a draw on its own.

Ginna Claire Mason is an 1905 Newport heiress who'd rather start a charity than marry a stranger, until a Christmas comet flings her into 2025 and a museum historian (Wes Brown) helps her cope. The wrinkle: her own portrait and biography start vanishing as history shifts around her. A period-meets-present time-travel romance shot in the real Newport mansions, lovely-looking and ambitious. Watch for the fish-out-of-water charm and a concept punching above its 84 minutes.

Janel Parrish and Parker Young are rival Marine captains stuck on Christmas duty at Quantico when a snowstorm cancels gift deliveries to the base. They take a decommissioned military truck and race to recover every present by morning, an old grudge between their fathers simmering between them. There's even a stunt they call "Operation Old St. Nick." A capable enemies-to-allies plot with a service-and-community backbone, at a full two hours.

Laura Vandervoort plays a glassblower who bluffs her way into a famous Christmas market by posing as her idol's assistant, all while secretly selling her own work online under the name Verre. Stephen Huszar is the fair director in her way. The live glassblowing and an ornament-hung tree make a pretty backdrop, and the double-identity angle keeps it moving. A warm workplace romance for fans of a creative-passion storyline with a secret at its core.

Robert Buckley is a weatherman with legendary Christmas bad luck who heads home and reconnects with his high school crush, a doctor played by Kimberley Sustad. The town runs an actual betting pool on which disaster he'll suffer next, and the two get trapped overnight in a Santa-themed escape room. Buckley and Sustad have done this dance before, and the easy chemistry shows. A light, funny pick for a low-pressure evening.

Fiona Gubelmann is Princess Victoria of Zelarnia, who ducks her royal calendar for a Montana dude ranch and falls for a local (Warren Christie) while reviving a holiday dance for the volunteer firefighters. Royal-meets-rancher comfort food at a relaxed two-hour pace, with horses, snow, and a tiara-versus-cowboy-hat look. If the princess-on-vacation premise is your comfort food, this is a generous serving of it.

Tamera Mowry-Housley returns as music teacher Gethsemane Brown, who solves crimes with help from Eamon, her ghostly composer friend. Set in an Irish harbor town during the McCarthy Days festival, the case turns on a murder and a stolen violin with a Titanic connection. Yes, the heroine can see and talk to the dead, which is the whole charm of the series. A cozy paranormal mystery that teases the sleuthing without ever tipping who did it.

A Halloween entry, which is rare for Hallmark, with Lacey Chabert and Wes Brown as newlyweds who come home from their honeymoon and decide to revive their cul-de-sac's long-dormant Halloween with a neighborhood fundraiser called Ever Scream Lane. Cue HOA politics, a self-styled "Triumvirate of Truth," and characters trading Shakespeare quotes and spooky puns. Stephen Tobolowsky and Melissa Peterman pile on. A bright, goofy change of pace from the usual Christmas fare.

Nikki DeLoach plays a brand-new college president fighting to save the arts program when a budget crisis and a flooded dorm force her to share her own house with the football team, coach (Warren Christie) included. They clash, then they click. There's a moment where the team literally picks up and moves a car out of the driveway, and a pop-up concerto once the house calms down. A fall-set, opposites-attract campus romance with a found-family streak. Good for anyone who likes a leadership-under-pressure setup with real chemistry.

Elizabeth Henstridge and Charlie Weber are back on Mystery Island, where a friendly murder-game competition against a rival team curdles when the staged killings start looking real. A holographic emcee delivers the riddles, the island gets cut off, and the deception runs deep. At two hours, it's a twisty locked-setting whodunit with a slow-building romance underneath. We'll tease the hook and leave the solution well alone, watch to see how far down the rabbit hole it goes.

Emilie Ullerup plays a rising New York chef on the verge of running her own kitchen who heads home to Montauk to rescue her family's struggling seafood spot for the Fourth of July rush, reconnecting with childhood friend Cam (Michael Rady). New recipes, an investor dinner, and an executive-chef offer in Vegas all pull at her. A coastal save-the-restaurant romance over the holiday weekend. Good for fans of a food-and-hometown setup with real warmth.

The second Mystery Island of the year sends Emilia and Jason (Elizabeth Henstridge and Charlie Weber) into a corporate-retreat murder game that turns real, complicated by the arrival of Emilia's ex-fiance. Blackmail, cheating, and old romantic baggage tangle through a two-hour whodunit. We'll tease the setup, a billionaire, a weekend on the island, a body that shouldn't be there, and leave the culprit alone. Watch it for the second-chance friction and the layered mystery.

Taylor Cole and Ryan McPartlin play former ad-agency colleagues now locked in a frosty competition for the same sweet account: a Wisconsin dairy farm's famous ice cream. Stuck at the same B&B on the property, professional rivalry warms into something else. There's a calf-and-goat mascot friendship and a long list of arbitrary 'fair competition' rules. A summery workplace-rivals romance with plenty of cow puns. Light and likeable.

Rhiannon Fish plays a meticulous home-ec teacher who travels to Peru to help her twin brother engineer the perfect Machu Picchu proposal, and keeps colliding with Luciana's charismatic chef friend Carlos (Alec Santos). The trip becomes an improvised food-and-sightseeing adventure across Cusco, the Sacred Valley, and Rainbow Mountain. A planning-versus-spontaneity romance with gorgeous real locations. Watch it for the scenery and the food, alpaca milk and edible cactus bugs included.

Alison Sweeney's Hannah Swensen is back, juggling the Cookie Jar, a family reunion, and her romance with prosecutor Chad when a local theater star turns up murdered after ordering pies from the bakery, and the trail points uncomfortably close to her mother. A summer-set cozy with theater rivalries, a greedy nephew, and a missing designer purse. Reliable comfort sleuthing. Great for series fans, and the killer stays under wraps.

Lyndsy Fonseca plays a woman whose Christmas plans collapse one by one until she's spending it alone in Chicago, where she keeps running into a guarded finance neighbor (Daniel Lissing). The two bond over being single and trying to prove they can thrive solo. A quieter holiday romance about loneliness, self-acceptance, and letting someone in. Good for anyone who wants a less frantic Christmas film with a found-family undertow.

Rachel Boston plays an ER doctor working Christmas Eve at a snowbound small-town hospital, sparring with a stranded cardiologist (Brendan Penny) over patient care while a storm traps everyone inside. Several babies arrive over one long night, turning the ER into a makeshift nursery, Santa with a knee injury included. At two hours, a warm community-and-second-chances holiday entry. Watch it for the festive-hospital chaos and the slow softening between two pros.

Corey Cott plays a struggling Broadway performer who returns to his upstate hometown after a flop and gets roped into saving the high school's Christmas show, working closely with a guidance counselor (Heather Hemmens). A one-man musical about political reindeer and a barely-working snow machine supply the laughs. A finding-home, creative-reinvention romance about choosing community over the big break. Watch it for the theater-kid heart.