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Favorite Christmas Movies On Hallmark Channel Ranked

This list of Hallmark Christmas movies includes seasonal standards during the channel's Countdown to Christmas. Vote for your favorite.

Hallmark has switched two of its channels to its Countdown to Christmas format and is broadcasting holiday cheer through the end of the year. Now you can weigh in on which ones are your favorite as fans battle it out online. The network has 22 new movies on its lineup, plus favorites from past seasons. (See details on each new movie below.) The folks at Ranker have taken it upon themselves to go through the 40 best Hallmark holiday movies and ask you to pick favorites.

Fans on Ranker, a crowdsourced voting platform, are voting on the best holiday flicks to binge this season.

According to Ranker, the best Hallmark movies this season are:

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  1. Christmas Under Wraps: When a doctor doesn't get the position she wanted, she ends up moving to a remote Alaskan town, where she finds love. Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, David O'Donnell, Robert Pine
  2. Journey Back to Christmas: A WWII era nurse is transported in time to 2016 and meets a man who helps her discover the bonds of family. Stars Candace Cameron Bure, Oliver Hudson and Tom Skerritt.
  3. A Very Merry Mix Up: Shop owner Alice Chapman (Alicia Witt) is nervous to meet her future in-laws until she runs into her future brother-in-law, Matt Mitchum (Mark Wiebe), at baggage claim and getd a ride home with him. Mistakes and romance happen as Christmas approaches.
  4. The Christmas Cottage: Any couple who spends the night in the Christmas cottage shall have love everlasting - Lacey Quinn did not believe in happily ever after or the legend of the Christmas cottage. Then a blizzard traps here and Ean Callahan, the bride-to-be's brother, at the cottage .Stars: Merritt Patterson, Steve Lund.
  5. My Christmas Dream: The manager of a renowned retail flagship store must enlist the help of a struggling, single-father handyman to help her realize her dream of managing the company's first international store. Stars: Danica McKellar, David Haydn-Jones.

You can vote on the 40 best Hallmark Channel Christmas movies of all time on Ranker.

This year's Hallmark Channel holiday lineup includes Candace Cameron Bure, Lacey Chabert, Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Tatyana Ali, Patti LaBelle, and Danica McKellar, with network debuts by country artists LeAnn Rimes and Kellie Pickler.

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Listings are subject to change; check the network's website for updates. If you want to imbibe in some Christmas cheer at the expense of Hallmark's formula of women dropping their clearly inappropriate boyfriends when they find true love at the holiday, there's a drinking game for that; watch for small towns pulling together, kids who need a parent, women named Eve and Holly, and adorable dogs.

The Christmas extravaganza began two weeks ago. Below is a list of all the new specials; if you missed one that already aired don't worry. They'll pop up many more times on the Hallmark Channel schedule.

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SEE ALSO: Christmas Movies On Netflix, Hallmark, Cable In 2018

Hallmark Channel's 2018 "Countdown to Christmas" Schedule:

All premieres are at 8 p.m. ET

  • Saturday, October 27: "Christmas at Pemberley Manor," Stars Jessica Lowndes and Michael Rady. As Christmas approaches, Elizabeth Bennett (Lowndes), a New York event planner, is sent to a small town to organize their holiday festival. When she arrives, she finds William Darcy (Rady), a billionaire lacking in holiday spirit, in the process of selling the estate she hoped to use as a venue. Elizabeth persuades Darcy to let her hold the festival on the historical estate, and the unlikely pair begins falling for each other, but when complications arise the couple parts ways. On the night before Christmas, a wistful Elizabeth hopes for a Christmas miracle to revive the festival, save the estate, and rekindle her holiday romance.
  • Saturday, November 3: "Christmas Joy," Stars: Danielle Panabaker and Matt Long: Joy Holbrook (Panabaker) is a market researcher with an eye on a promotion who must return home to Crystal Falls, NC, to help care for her ailing aunt Ruby. Joy is reunited with former crush, now hospital administrator, Ben Andrews (Long). Joy fills in for Ruby as organizers of the town's Cookie Crawl, a walking home tour where owners display holiday decorations and treat each other to Christmas cookies. Joy eventually lets Ben help,while remembering that there truly is no place like home for the holidays. Based on the best-selling novel by Nancy Naigle.
  • Sunday, November 4: "Road to Christmas," Stars: Jessy Schram, Chad Michael Murray, and Teryl Rothery. Los Angeles television producer Maggie Baker (Schram) unwittingly falls for Danny Wise (Murray), the son and former producer of his mother's (Rothery) popular annual Christmas special. When Maggie's plan to reunite Danny and his two brothers with Julia during the live broadcast in Vermont goes awry, Maggie is reminded that the love for family and friends makes the merriest of Christmas.
  • Saturday, November 10: "It's Christmas, Eve," Stars: LeAnn Rimes and Tyler Hines. As interim school superintendent, Eve (Rimes) trims budgets and now she's in her hometown where it's personal. Her handsome neighbor Liam (Hines) is a music teacher and Eve feels his program must be cut. A website for donations to save the arts program is launched during the tree-lighting ceremony where Liam's students perform.
  • Sunday, November 11: "Christmas in Love," Stars: Brooke D'Orsay, Daniel Lissing, Mary-Margaret Humes. Ellie Hartman (D'Orsay) is an aspiring crafter working in her a bakery making famous Christmas Kringles. When the new CEO Nick Carlingson (Lissing) visits the bakery, he arrives filled with modernization ideas destined to lay off many employees. Nick meets the employees and townspeople, visits the food bank and begins to see all the kindness that is shared. Ellie begins to fall for Nick but feels betrayed when she sees his laptop filled with automation plans. In the end Ellie must decide if she should trust him, and whether to take a leap of faith in making her own dreams come true.
  • Saturday, November 17: "Christmas at Graceland," Stars: Kellie Pickler and Wes Brown. Laurel (Pickler), a Chicago-based business executive travels to Memphis to secure one of the city's oldest family-owned banks. While in Memphis, Laurel reunites with old flame Clay (Brown), a local music promoter with loftier aspirations. Clay reminds Laurel of the days when they were a performing duo on the brink of stardom. Now Laurel's focus turns to the home of the blues and dreams of making music again.
  • Sunday, November 18: "Mingle All the Way," Stars: Jill Wagner, Mark Deklin, Holly Robinson-Peete, Barbara Niven, Andrew Francis and Ashley Williams. When Lisa (Wagner) takes a Christmas trip to her hometown of Evergreen, she finds that the historic general store has been closed. Using her skills as a retail designer, Lisa decides to help bring the store back to life. She charms a local contractor named Kevin (Deklin) into working with her. As old traditions are made new again, Lisa finds herself falling for Kevin, the traditions, and the town of Evergreen.
  • Wednesday, November 21: "Christmas at Grand Valley," Stars: Danica McKellar and Brennan Elliott. Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly (McKellar) returns home to Grand Valley for Christmas. Leo (Elliott), businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn't long until Kelly and Leo's worlds collide.
  • Thursday, November 22: "Christmas at the Palace," Stars: Merritt Patterson and Brittany Bristow. Katie, a former professional ice skater (Patterson), is hired by the king of San Senova, Alexander, to help his daughter in a Christmas ice skating performance. As Katie spends time in the castle and with the king, she and Alex begin to develop feelings for each other and ultimately fall in love. But will the tradition-loving people of San Senova allow their king to make a foreigner their queen?
  • Friday, November 23: "Pride, Prejudice, and Mistletoe," Stars: Lacey Chabert and Brendan Penny. Darcy (Chabert) has always worked hard to prove herself, even choosing to start her own company, rather than work with her father. Returning to her hometown for Christmas, Darcy reconnects with an old rival, restaurant owner Luke (Penny), and they are forced to plan a charity event together. As Darcy spends time with her family and Luke, she starts to realize what matters most in life and sets out to mend her relationship with her father. Based on the book of the same title by Melissa de la Cruz.
  • Saturday, November 24: "Christmas Everlasting," Stars: Tatyana Ali, Dondre T. Whitfield, Patti LaBelle, and Dennis Haysbert. Christmas is fast approaching and years of long hours at New York's top law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey (Ali) will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, unexpectedly passes away, Lucy returns to Wisconsin, to attend the funeral and handle her estate. Once back home, Lucy meets Peter (Whitfield), her high school sweetheart and Alice's former attorney, who informs her the will states in order for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days through the holidays.
  • Sunday, November 25: "A Shoe Addict's Christmas," Stars: Candace Cameron Bure, Luke Macfarlane, Jean Smart. Noelle (Bure) is at a crossroads in her life when she stays late at her job in a department store on Christmas Eve and gets locked in after closing. She isn't too concerned until a quirky woman appears out of nowhere in the shoe department and tells Noelle that she's her guardian angel. Soon, Noelle revisits Christmases past, present, and future as she must work with her new neighbor, a handsome, Christmas-loving firefighter, to plan the annual Christmas Charity Gala.
  • Saturday, December 1: "Mingle All the Way," Stars: Jen Lilley, Brant Daugherty, and Lindsay Wagner. Mingle All the Way is a new networking app designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance. Molly (Lilley), founder of the app, is determined to prove it is a success, so she joins the app and meets Jeff (Daugherty). They are both horrified to realize they've already had not one, but two disastrous previous encounters. Nevertheless, they agree to stay matched for all their respective upcoming holiday engagements.
  • Sunday, December 2: "A Majestic Christmas," Stars: Jerrika Hinton and Christian Vincent. Christmas in Briar Falls will be bittersweet this year when architect Nell (Hinton) goes back to her hometown having been given the job of turning the historic Majestic Playhouse into a modern multiplex, much to the town's objections. The Playhouse has been home to their annual Christmas tableaux, which will now have to end after a long and historic tradition to the town. Nell and the new owner of the theater, Connor (Vincent), clash over vision and ideas.
  • Saturday, December 8: "Homegrown Christmas," Stars: Lori Loughlin and Victor Webster. After stepping down as CEO of her dream job, Maddie (Loughlin) heads home for the holidays to gain perspective. She runs into her old high school sweetheart Carter (Webster), and tensions quickly arise. When forced to put together a Christmas dance for the local high school, Carter and Maddie find themselves putting their differences aside and rediscover what made them fall in love all those years ago.
  • Sunday, December 9: "Welcome to Christmas," Stars: Jennifer Finnigan and Eric Mabius. Resort developer Madison Lane (Finnigan) is tasked with finding a location for a new ski resort. While she's prepared to recommend the resort be placed in Mountain Park, her boss tells her to take a trip to Christmas, Colo., to consider the location. On her way into town, Madison has a minor fender-bender with the town's welcome sign. Town Sheriff Gage McBride (Mabius) gives Madison a ride into town and soon learns residents want to convince her that Christmas is the best place for the new ski resort. Is a resort really the right move for Christmas? Or would the town be better off keeping its charm and traditions intact?
  • Saturday, December 15: "A Gingerbread Romance," Stars: Tia Mowry-Hardrict and Duane Henry. With Christmas just weeks away, the architecture firm Taylor works for enters her in a contest in which the teams will design and build life sized gingerbread houses. She convinces Adam, a baker and single dad, to partner with her for the contest, arguing that winning would give the bakery and his designs much needed exposure. The time she spends with Adam and his daughter Brook in their cozy home, decorating for Christmas, and exploring Philadelphia at Christmas, fills her with a longing for a place to call home.
  • Sunday, December 16: "Entertaining Christmas," Stars: Jodie Sweetin. Claire is a cookbook author, crafting expert, and television personality whose name is synonymous with perfection. As she contemplates retirement, her daughter Kara (Sweetin) is poised to become the new face of the Livingston brand. The only trouble is, Kara can't cook, sew, or do any of the things her mother is known for. When a young girl posts a video online requesting Claire help welcome her deployed father home for Christmas, Kara is sent in her place.
  • Saturday, December 22: "Jingle Around the Clock," Stars: Brooke Nevin and Michael Cassidy. When Elle Bennet (Nevin) decides to reunite her college friends for a Christmas celebration, her plans are thwarted by an opportunity at work she can't pass up -- spearheading a Christmas campaign relaunch to prove she's ready for a career-altering promotion. Much to her surprise, she's forced to team up with advertising campaign 'fixer' Max (Cassidy), who has a completely different take on the holidays. But as Elle and Max work together and learn more about each other's Christmas traditions, they unexpectedly find themselves falling for each other.
  • Sunday, December 23: "Christmas Made to Order," Stars: Alexa PenaVega and Jonathan Bennett. When architect and Christmas amateur Steven finds himself hosting his family for Christmas, he recruits holiday coordinator Gretchen to bring holiday joy to his home. Gretchen's expert Christmas spirit brings Steven's family together, but neither expected it to bring them closer to each other. After a great opportunity presents itself to Gretchen, she and Steven must decide what's really important in life.
  • Tuesday, December 25: "When Calls the Heart" Christmas Two-Hour Special Event, Stars: Erin Krakow, Lori Loughlin, Jack Wagner, Pascale Hutton, Kavan Smith, Paul Greene. When a group of orphans become stranded in Hope Valley for Christmas, their caretakers — sisters who have a mysterious backstory — lead Bill (Wagner) to investigate the circumstances of their arrival. He discovers the sisters and their orphanage are in jeopardy, so Abigail (Loughlin) and the other residents rally to make it a Christmas to remember for the orphans. Elizabeth (Krakow), who is preparing for the birth of her child, organizes her students to engage in selfless gift-giving.
  • Saturday, December 29: "A Midnight Kiss," Stars: Carlos PenaVega and Adelaide Kane. With only one week to prepare, Lisa Patterson and her family of party planners are given the biggest job in their company's history: a New Year's Eve party for tech entrepreneur Megan Clark. But when her brother breaks his leg and her parents head off on a planned vacation, Lisa must reluctantly enlist the help of her brother's visiting college buddy, David Campos, to help her pull off the event which just so happens to fall on her favorite day of the year.

There's also a new 24/7 holiday music channel, Hallmark Channel Radio, which is scheduled to launch on Nov. 1 in conjunction with the "Countdown to Christmas" programs. Christmas carols and music will be introduced by top network talent including LeAnn Rimes, Holly Robinson Peete, Lacey Chabert, Danica McKellar, Kellie Pickler, and more. Hallmark Channel stars will also share their personal yuletide traditions, and their favorite songs from the season.

Hallmark Channel Radio will be accessible through Dec. 29 via satellite on channel 70, through the SiriusXM app on smartphones and other connected devices, as well as online at siriusxm.com.

PHOTO: Actors Faith Ford and Tom Cavanagh speak during the 'Debbie Macomber's Trading Christmas' panel. (Photo by Frederick M. Brown/Getty Images)


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