Hallmark Fake Relationship Movies

His family thinks they're still together. Emily has only come to her ex's hometown for work, but arriving at the station just as his relatives collect him creates the wrong impression. The awkwardness here comes with a shared past: these two have already tried being a real couple.

Her cousin is marrying her ex-fiancé. Layla's evening gets considerably more complicated when Seth announces that he and Layla are engaged. He helped bring the bride and groom together in the first place, and now his attempt to save face gives Layla another relationship to explain.

Molly and Jeff meet through a dating app that pairs people for holiday events, then agree to pose as each other's partner. The arrangement grows harder to keep pretend as they spend more time together.

Reporter Greta pretends to be Ben's girlfriend at his family's Christmas gathering so he can save face. The cover story becomes the setup for their holiday romance.

Elise and Nick would both rather skip Christmas. They settle on a different solution: act as a couple through the holiday season. She needs help fending off her ex-husband and business partner; he wants to impress his law firm's bosses. Their pact has obligations well beyond showing up together at one party.

Singer Adelaide's manager asks her to present a romance with fellow performer Cole as real for publicity. The act becomes one of the pressures behind Adelaide's conflict with her manager, while her true romance develops elsewhere.

After a breakup, Fiona retreats to her family's Vermont inn. Then her ex arrives with a new girlfriend. Fiona asks Derek, the inn's head chef, to play her new boyfriend and make the visitor jealous. It is hard to avoid the audience for this particular lie when everyone is staying under one roof.

Robbie and Julie answer an ad for temporary holiday dates after their Thanksgiving breakups. The idea is to satisfy their meddling families, then get on with their separate lives. But keeping everyone convinced means navigating Christmas, Hanukkah and a growing collection of stories about who they are to each other.

The cameras want a happily married couple. Unfortunately, the couple are separated. They agree to present a united front on national television for their town's Christmas festival and their business, putting a private breakup in the middle of a public performance.

An actor should be able to play Brooke's boyfriend for Christmas. The complication is that Joel must impersonate the boyfriend who just dumped her, and he has never celebrated the holiday himself. Brooke's family expects Ethan. They get a Jewish actor trying to learn the part as he goes.

Tanya and Ryan move in beside a heist suspect under cover as newlyweds. For these police partners, joining the neighborhood's Christmas celebrations is part of the job. Caroling and potlucks give them ways to get close to people while keeping the investigation hidden.

Her parents' vow renewal is an unfortunate place for Rory to run into the ex who broke her heart. She panics and claims the B&B owner is her new boyfriend.

Samantha's family Christmas at her late grandmother's home comes with an engagement announcement she regrets. Having spoken too soon, she leaves Simon to play along with the charade. She is also trying to write a Christmas novel while navigating a reunion full of family expectations.

Dani has a packed Christmas calendar and an unexpected visit from her parents. She asks lawyer Amelia to pretend they are dating, giving the family an answer before the questions start. The lie has to travel with them from one holiday event to the next.

Their grandmothers won't stop matchmaking, so two childhood sweethearts pretend to have reunited. The deal should buy them a summer's peace. Returning to a relationship they once had, though, is different from inventing one with a stranger.

Jen enters a brand-design contest as a family influencer and asks Max to play her husband. When their video makes the final, the pretend relationship starts to feel real.

Giving relationship advice for a living makes a broken engagement especially awkward. When Kate's fiancé calls off their wedding, childhood friend Lucas agrees to pose as her fiancé. She can keep her public reputation intact, provided they can make the replacement relationship convincing.

The video-store owner is called Clark Gable. He gets closer to Hollywood when a film crew arrives in town and its star recruits him for a fake romance to make her ex jealous. She also encourages his screenwriting ambitions, bringing his own hopes into an arrangement that began with hers.

Pop star Jaylen comes home for Christmas with security guard Matt. To spare her protective family the reason for his presence, she introduces him as her boyfriend. They see a holiday guest; Matt still has a security job to do.

Whitney expects a blind date, not an undercover FBI assignment. A mix-up lands the cautious librarian beside Agent Josh, posing as his girlfriend during an operation. Her cover story puts someone used to books in the middle of a real investigation.

A mix-up leads Juan's family to believe he is engaged to Lily, and the pair keep the story going to protect the holiday gathering. Their pretend engagement becomes a sustained family charade.

Separated spouses Lauren and Kevin pretend to be happily married under one roof when Lauren's mother visits. The act brings back memories and feelings as they consider their relationship.