Lifetime is celebrating Christmas with 30 new holiday movies in 2019.
Here’s the complete list of Lifetime’s 2019 Christmas movies, as well as when they are debuting.
We will be adding links to our reviews of the new Lifetime Christmas movies as we write them.
Last updated: November 23, 2019
Sweet Mountain Christmas
Friday, October 25 at 8 p.m.
Country music star Laney Blu visits Baxter Mountain, the small town where she grew up. She plans to stay only for a night to visit her mom before heading to New York for a big concert. But a snowstorm hits and she’s stuck. She finds herself reunited with her ex-boyfriend, her ex-best friend, and more of the town’s residents she hasn’t seen in years. And she ends up trying to put together a concert to save her father’s theater.
Our review of Sweet Mountain Christmas
The Road Home for Christmas
Saturday, October 26 at 8 p.m.
Lindsey and Wes are dueling piano partners. After they lose a gig at the governor’s party due to the ox flu, they decide to hit the road together, driving from New Orleans up to Ohio to celebrate Christmas with their families. Along the way, the pair end up having some unexpected adventures, fun, and even find themselves in a little bit of peril.
Our review of The Road Home for Christmas
No Time Like Christmas
Sunday, October 27 at 8 p.m.
Emma goes home to Vermont and finds herself at the same bed-and-breakfast as her first love, Fletcher, who now has a child. They find themselves working together to put on a play and save the local theater. Meanwhile, Emma has an important deadline that she must meet for work – an ad campaign for a watch brand. Will Emma and Fletcher get a second chance at love, or will they run out of time?
Our review of No Time Like Christmas
Christmas Reservations
Saturday, November 2 at 8 p.m.
Love is in the air at Treeline Ski Resort at Christmastime, but all of the guests also seem to have some serious reservations. Holly, the events manager (and daughter of Tom, who owns the lodge), finds herself reunited with Kevin, “the one who got away.” Meanwhile several other lodge guests find new love. And that’s only the beginning…
Our review of Christmas Reservations
Always and Forever Christmas
Sunday, November 3 at 8 p.m.
When marketing exec Lucy (Lexi Lawson) learns that she’s inherited her grandfather’s year-round Christmas store, “Forever Christmas,” she makes a trip back home to support the store during its final Christmas season before she sells it to a hip athletic leisurewear company. But once she is back in Vermont, she begins to understand why her grandfather’s shop is so special with the help of local diner owner, Scott (Mark Ghanimé) and the magic of a Christmas stranger from the north (Beth Broderick).
Radio Christmas
Saturday, November 9 at 8 p.m.
Kara is the DJ of a 24/7/365 Christmas radio station based in Philadelphia. But when the station’s transmitter gets fried, she is forced to broadcast from the town of Bethlehem. There, she meets Scott, whose daughter, Andie, loves her station and has even written her letters. And Kara also starts trying to uncover the identity of the town’s Secret Santa.
A Sweet Christmas Romance
Sunday, November 10 at 8 p.m.
Holly returns to her hometown for Christmas and discovers that Mrs. Rose, the owner of her favorite bakery, is retiring. But that’s not all – Mrs. Rose is also holding a contest where whoever can duplicate her recipes the closest will become the new owner. Holly is in – and so is Brad, a pastry chef who works at the local inn. Who will find the recipe for success – and love?
Our review of A Sweet Christmas Romance
Christmas A La Mode
Friday, November 15 at 8 p.m.
Emily’s family farm is in trouble – and her sister, Dorothy, is eager to sell it. Dorothy shows up with Charlie, who represents an investment group interested in property. To avoid losing the farm, she’ll have to raise $400,000 by Christmas Eve. Will she get her Christmas miracle?
Our review of Christmas a la Mode
Christmas in Louisiana
Saturday, November 16 at 8 p.m.
The Winter Family is Christmas royalty in New Iberia, Louisiana, and Sarah Winter (Jana Kramer), a successful lawyer and former Miss Christmas, is no exception. When she returns home to celebrate the anniversary of the town’s Sugarcane Christmas Festival with her mother (Moira Kelly) and her grandparents (Dee Wallace and Barry Bostwick), she rediscovers the magic of the season–and a little romance– with her former Mister Christmas, Luke (Percy Daggs III).
Random Acts of Christmas
Sunday, November 17 at 8 p.m.
Sydney wants to find out the secret identity of a Secret Santa who is doing random acts of kindness all over the city. During her investigation, she crosses paths with Cole, another journalist chasing the story. The two agree to team up and quickly grow close, as Sydney realizes that the identify of the secret Santa isn’t the real story.
Our review of Random Acts of Christmas
The Magical Christmas Shoes
Friday, November 22 at 8 p.m.
Noelle learns that the candy store where her parents fell in love is going to close. So she shares some of her sweet ideas with John, who works for the company. Will both of these struggling artists, aided by some “magical shoes,” find the right recipe for success – and love?
Our review of The Magical Christmas Shoes
Twinkle All the Way
Saturday, November 23 at 8 p.m.
Two single parents – one organized, and one creative – team up on a Christmas play. Cadence, the organized one, is working on giving her client the wedding of her dreams while Henry, the creative one, is trying to take his Christmas decoration company to the next level. After their children become close friends, Cadence and Henry start feeling some sparks for the first time in a while.
Our review of Twinkle All the Way
Christmas 9 to 5
Sunday, November 24 at 8 p.m.
Jennifer (Tiya Sircar) is a tough crime beat reporter who gets the assignment of her life: to find the true meaning of Christmas. When she goes undercover in a department store as a 9 to 5 sales clerk from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, she finds her true calling and meets the man of her dreams. It’s a Christmas she will never forget.
A Very Vintage Christmas
Wednesday, November 27 at 8 p.m.
The Christmas lights are up and shoppers are flooding the quaint town of Mountain View, including one special store, Very Vintage Antiques. The shop’s owner, Dodie (Tia Mowry-Hardrict), is a hopeless romantic and absolutely one of a kind, similar to the pieces in her shop. When Dodie finds a hidden box containing an eclectic collection of mementos chronicling a timeless romantic union, she makes it her mission to deliver it to its rightful owner. Dodie manages to persuade the handsome new tenant, Edward (Jesse Hutch), at the listed address to help her with her search. Will they find the true owner and true love on their adventure?
A Christmas Wish
Thursday, November 28 at 8 p.m.
Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana a wooden wishing box is placed in the park as a Christmas tradition. People write down their true heart’s desire on a slip of paper and place it in the box in hopes that their wish will be granted. After a night out together, Maddie (Megan Park) encourages her sister Faith (Hilarie Burton) to put a wish in the box – a wish to experience true love for the first time. Faith and Maddie are surprised the next day when she meets the very handsome and eligible Andrew (Cristian de la Fuente). At first, Faith thinks that her Christmas wish has come true. But as Christmas nears, Faith begins to wonder if Andrew is really perfect for her, or if the wish is leading her to her best friend, Wyatt (Tyler Hilton). Also starring Lee Norris, Antwon Tanner, Bruce MacVittie, Madeleine McGraw, Aidan McGraw, Willie Garson, Colin Fickes, Rhoda Griffis, Barbara Alyn Woods, and Ryan Cabrera.
Staging Christmas
Friday, November 29 at 8 p.m.
Lori (Soleil Moon Frye) stages homes for a living and her busiest season is Christmas! Though she normally only stages homes that are for sale, she’s intrigued when a wealthy widower named Everett (George Stults) asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie. As Lori starts remaking Everett’s home, she finds that Maddie isn’t the only one in desperate need of the Christmas spirit. As Lori spends more and more time with Everett and Maddie, she starts to feel like part of the family. While she was initially hired to simply stage the perfect Christmas in their house, she ends up creating it for the father and daughter in every way imaginable.
Merry Liddle Christmas
Saturday, November 30 at 8 p.m.
Marking her first foray into producing for television, Kelly Rowland partners with Kronicle Media for Merry Liddle Christmas. Inspired by her own recent Christmas catastrophe, Kelly Rowland plays Jacquie– a successful, super-together single tech entrepreneur whose messy family descends on her gleaming new dream home for the holidays. Christmas traditions collide and family drama ensues as she struggles to keep her house together in time for a glossy video shoot of “the perfect Christmas.” On top of that, the possibility of romance with a new neighbor has Jacquie questioning all her dating rules, so even though this isn’t the Christmas she envisioned, it might just be the most magical one yet.
You Light Up My Christmas
Sunday, December 1 at 8 p.m.
Inspired by true events, Emma (Kim Fields) returns to her hometown built around her family’s pioneer Christmas Light Factory two weeks before Christmas. However upon Emma’s return, she discovers the lights have gone dim in the once festive town, prompting her to reconnect with an old flame to set their hearts and the town ablaze with light again.
A Storybook Christmas
Friday, December 6 at 8 p.m.
If event planner Celeste Everett (Ali Liebert) is going to save her business and give her niece a happy Christmas season, she is going to need help. When the nanny she hires turns out to be a man (Jake Epstein), Celeste surprisingly realizes she may have also found Christmas love for herself.
Mistletoe & Menorahs
Saturday, December 7 at 6 p.m.
When a determined toy company executive, Christy, must learn about Hanukkah in a hurry in order to land a big account, she enlists the help of her co-worker’s friend Jonathan, who happens to also be in desperate need of turning his bachelor pad into a Christmas Wonderland to impress his girlfriend’s father.
Christmas Unleashed
Saturday, December 7 at 8 p.m.
When Becca’s (Vanessa Lachey) dog runs away on Christmas Eve, she must team up with her ex-boyfriend Max (Christopher Russell) to find him. As the pup leads the exes on an all-day-and-night search through their North Carolina hometown, they revisit people, places and things that remind them of the Christmas pasts they spent together.
Grounded for Christmas
Sunday, December 8 at 8 p.m.
When a winter storm hits Cleveland and grounds flights, the nearby hotels quickly fill up with stranded travelers. Nina (Julianna Guill), a pilot, reluctantly agrees to let her arrogant but charming fellow pilot, Brady (Corey Sevier), stay at her nearby parents’ home. But when they discover her family is hosting a tree trimming party that night and that her ex will be there, Brady pretends to be her boyfriend to help her out. When the snowstorm continues, their ruse snowballs as Nina and Brady are stuck attending holiday events together. But as Christmas nears, these two opposites begin to realize the best gift they could ever receive, is perhaps, each other.
Christmas Stars
Friday, December 13 at 8 p.m.
When aspiring R&B artist Layla (Erica Durance) crosses paths with amateur songwriter Spence (J.T. Hodges), she thinks she’s found her shot at finally getting a record deal. But as the holidays approach, the fast-paced, high stakes music business threatens to change their sound and relationship – especially when the label executives begin to see Spence as the real star.
Matchmaker Christmas
Saturday, December 14 at 6 p.m.
As the Christmas party for a book publishing company approaches, editor Maggie volunteers to help her boss Amanda find a date. Matchmaking is a bit of a hobby for Maggie, but she is thrown off her game when Jaxson, her old boyfriend from her college years, shows up at her work—as a newly signed, successful author. Maggie would love to deny she feels anything for him still, but Jaxson isn’t making it easy. She’ll have to face her decisions of the past, along with Amanda eyeing Jaxson, to bring together the perfect matches at Christmas.
A Christmas Winter Song
Saturday, December 14 at 8 p.m.
Clio befriends Fred, a homeless former jazz singer down on his luck. They form a special bond over music, and Clio, having just lost her own father, helps Fred reconnect with his own daughter, just in time for Christmas.
Rediscovering Christmas
Sunday, December 15 at 8 p.m.
Mia is a window dresser in a big city department store, living and breathing Christmas for months to get the store ready for the holidays. But now that the season is actually near, all she wants is a tropical beach getaway with her sister Sara. However, plans change when Sara begs for Mia’s help putting on the annual Snowflake festival in their home town in Vermont. Just when she thought she was out – Santa pulls her back in!
The Christmas Temp
Friday, December 20 at 8 p.m.
An out of work artist discovers a special Christmas temp agency that matches her with a handful of festive jobs, but falls into a creative rut while juggling holiday preparations and feelings for the agency’s HR manager.
Christmas Love Letter
Saturday, December 21 at 6 p.m.
When relationship advice columnist Amalie Hess receives an unsigned love letter in a Christmas card, she returns to her hometown to solve the mystery of who sent it and maybe find true love. Christmas Love Letter is produced by Sunshine Films.
Christmas Hotel
Saturday, December 21 at 8 p.m.
Go getter, Erin Roberts (Tatyana Ali), works at the high end Windsor Hotel in New York City hoping to soon be promoted to manager of the luxury chain’s upcoming hotel in Rome. But things take an unexpected turn when her boss instead puts her in charge of opening up a brand new Windsor Hotel in Erin’s hometown of Garland Grove, a small mountain town that that loves all things Christmas, all year round. Upon returning to Garland Grove Erin learns she has her work cut out for her as the town isn’t pleased with the new chain hotel and it’s up to her to find a way to get everyone on board and please the Windsor investors. To make things more complicated the man spearheading the movement against the new hotel is Connor, Erin’s childhood friend who she had a secret crush on in her youth. When Erin decides to make the new Windsor Hotel a year round “Christmas Hotel” to win over the town’s approval she turns to Connor for his knowledge in all things Christmas and the two work together to make Christmas Hotel a a magical wonderland. Soon Erin’s love for both Garland Grove and Christmas is reignited as her connection with Connor grows to new levels making her question everything she thought she wanted.
A Date By Christmas Eve
Sunday, December 22 at 8 p.m.
When Chelsea Simms, the good-hearted brand strategist for the popular dating app The Nice List, discovers the app has granted her magical powers, she uses her newfound ability to make all of the ‘naughty’ people in her life learn how to be good again. But when her plans go awry and Fisher, the kindly neighbor who has always carried a torch for Chelsea, is magically added to the naughty list by mistake, Chelsea must race against time to set things right before Christmas Eve.
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