The Best Holiday Movies and TV Shows on Hallmark

What it's about: A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: Bride-to-be Jessie Patterson calls off her third engagement - during the ceremony! She swears off serious relationships, until she meets and is pursued by Aiden MacTiernan. Aiden, on the other hand, has bet his friends he is marriage material, and can find a fiancé in the four weeks leading up to Christmas. When Jessie and Aiden begin to fall for each other, Jessie must decide if she is ready for serious love, and Aiden must decide if his bet is worth risking his relationship with Jessie.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Peacock Premium), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Forced to take the intercontinental trip to Los Angeles by train, and determined to chronicle his adventure, disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon finds himself westbound with a variety of characters. While all passengers on the Christmas train appear to be headed for the same destination, Tom has no idea that the rugged locomotives taking him across America will instead detour straight into his heart.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Vudu).

What it's about: The Boyajian family learned of 18-year-old John's death in the Persian Gulf War on Christmas Eve eleven years earlier and have not celebrated Christmas since. They have been so consumed by his death that they have forgotten the joys of the holidays, until a mysterious visitor enters their lives and rekindles the spirit of the season.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: Mrs Merkle (or Mrs. Miracle as she is know by some) finds herself in a toy department of a department store that is having all kinds of financial problems, but leave it to this kind lady as she will get the Christmas spirit flowing very freely at this store.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Roy and Bo leave their small town the weekend after graduation for a short road trip to LA. Soon, they find themselves lashing out and leaving a trial of bodies behind them. The violence escalates throughout.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $2.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 2 others).

What it's about: When Belinda heads back to her hometown for the holidays, things get complicated when she is forced to team up with her ex at the town's annual Christmas scavenger hunt.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: This year, Santa’s daughter takes her first trip away from the North Pole during the Christmas season hoping to find adventure and love in sunny California. While Santa watches his daughter through a magic snow globe, Annie arrives in L.A. and becomes friends with the owner of Candy Cane Inn, Lucy, and her daughter, Mia. She also quickly lands a job at Wonderland Toys. Wonderland Toys’ owner, Ted is struggling to stay in business selling old-fashioned toys in a digital world. Annie soon realizes that she wants Ted’s business to thrive because she has feelings for this Christmas traditionalist.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV & Hallmark Movies Now) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program."

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Vudu).

What it's about: A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo, fuboTV & Hoopla) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker unwittingly falls for Danny Wise, the son and former producer of his mother’s popular annual Christmas special Julia Wise Lifestyle. When Maggie’s secret plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers with Julia during the live broadcast in Vermont goes awry, Maggie is reminded that above all, it is the love for family and friends that makes the merriest of Christmas.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $4.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Prime Video).

What it's about: Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, unexpectedly passes away, Lucy returns back to Nilson’s Bay, Wis., to attend the funeral and handle her estate. While Lucy dreads returning to her childhood home, she also feels real sorrow that she was too busy to take her sister’s last call. Once back in Nilson’s Bay, Lucy meets Peter, her old high school sweetheart and Alice’s former attorney, who informs her of the terms of Alice’s eccentric will that states in order for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days through the holidays.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Prime Video & 2 others).

What it's about: When her niece is cast in The Philadelphia Ballet’s production of the Nutcracker, a jaded ex-ballerina is forced to come to terms with the life and love she left behind.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Hallmark Movies Now), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Up Faith Family), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Dan Farrell, a single father and firefighter unexpectedly falls for local florist Kate just two weeks before his stations’ annual Valentine’s Day fundraising ball. But Kate’s recent ex returns to town to win her back with a marriage proposal. Will Dan suit up to fight for love, or let the flame with Kate burn out?

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a popular subscription service (Prime Video & Hallmark Movies Now), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $4.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: Professor Evan Farnsworth is a widower who works tirelessly at a prestigious boarding school in Maine, dedicating all his time to helping his students believe in themselves. Accepting a job to teach the students left behind during Christmas vacation, including talented scholarship student Juliet, nerdy outcast Albert and privileged bad boy Drew, Farnsworth quickly faces a challenge when Drew gets into trouble. Upset his wealthy parents ditched him for a Paris skiing vacation, he takes his anger out on the neighboring town’s ancient Wishing Tree, a bare tree decorated with handwritten notes containing the townspeople’s greatest holiday wishes. A much loved tradition, it doubles as a fundraiser for needy families, depending on donations from eager wish-makers. Drew's troublemaking eventually threatens Farnsworth's job, but with the help of the town and the special Wishing Tree, Farnsworth discovers that anything is possible.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $4.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Prime Video).

What it's about: Corrine's holiday season gets an unexpected dose of romance when she meets the mysterious Harold, who is on a deadline from a higher power to help Corrine find her true love by Christmas Eve. As the clock ticks down to Harold's deadline, Corrine must decide if she will open up to Christmas love.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: Susan is a newspaper staffer who decides to generate some Christmas spirit by writing an article about her family’s storied 100-year-old, hand-carved, heirloom Christmas angel. This leads her to accidentally meet Brady, a cute, upbeat artist who insists that he and Susan become fast friends (at least). It turns out that this angel also has the spiritual power to bring people together – as it seems to be doing with Susan and Brady. What’s behind this enchanted ornament? As time moves on, more about this captivating artifact is revealed.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 4 services (iTunes, Google Play & 2 others).

What it's about: A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's practice.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 2 services (iTunes & Vudu).

What it's about: While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas farm. George misses his mom, Jill, who has moved to Minnesota to deal with her grief, but there is the promise of their reunion at Christmas. George feels needed on the farm as he helps his grateful grandfather Bo with daily chores and comforts his grandmother Cora. He has also made friends with Mary Ann and became attached to Tucker, the smart and friendly dog the McCrays take in when his troubled owner Frank Thorne lands in jail.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $7.99 on 5 services (iTunes, Google Play & 3 others).

What it's about: Tis the season for making dreams true. If everything goes according to plan for one young boy, he just may be sharing this Christmas with a new dad. Ever since her husband died, Sarah Armstrong has divided her time between working at a community center and caring for her nine-year-old son, Jesse. When Jesse wins the All I Want for Christmas contest sponsored by a toy company, his wish comes as no surprise to find a new dad. Just in time for the holidays, All I Want for Christmas is a surprise romantic treat for anyone who believes in the magic of love, friendship, and family.

Where to Watch: Available to watch free online (Tubi), stream on a subscription service (Philo), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 3 services (Google Play, Prime Video & YouTube).

What it's about: When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: The story of driven, heartless, publishing executive, Carol Huffman, who on Christmas eve is visited by the ghost of her former boss, Eve. Eve tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and that she is there to show her the errors of her ways. Eve explains that normally there would be three ghosts for the job but due to budget cut backs she is in charge of Carol's journey through her past, present and future.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo, fuboTV & Hallmark Movies Now), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $8.99 on 1 service (Vudu).

What it's about: Santa's first born daughter, Rudolfa, is secretly selling pieces of the North Pole, and eventually take over where she attempts to ruin Christmas, and replace Santa's workshop with a brand new casino. But Santa's lost daughter Kristin returns to the North Pole with her two children who are desperate to save Christmas, and rebuild the shattered village.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: An up-and-coming attorney risks it all to help defend Santa when Christmas is in jeopardy of cancellation.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $4.99 on 3 services (iTunes, Google Play & Prime Video).

What it's about: A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: As Christmas approaches, a single mother (played by Reba McEntire) struggles to raise her son and keep up the payments on her Oregon ranch, which is difficult since she's heavily in debt. But she's a tough cookie, and proves that a steadfast attitude and an open heart go a long way in surviving the cold hearts and greed of the Scrooges around her.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo & fuboTV) & stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark).

What it's about: Starring Michelle Trachtenberg and Rick Fox, “The Christmas Gift” is about ten-year-old Megan, who upon receiving a Secret Santa gift, is touched by its contents which end up having a huge impact on her life. Now a driven young journalist, Megan can’t shake her desire to thank the person who sent her that heartfelt gift over a decade ago. Determined to prove herself to her editor, she goes on the search for the perfect Christmas story, and in doing so, she finally discovers who her Secret Santa is. Inspired by a true story.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (fuboTV & Lifetime Movie Club), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $3.99 on 2 services (Prime Video & Vudu).

What it's about: A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.

Where to Watch: Available to stream on a subscription service (Philo, fuboTV & Hoopla), stream on a TV everywhere service (Hallmark) & rent or buy from $1.99 on 1 service (Google Play).