Below is a list of Christmas movies that will play on It’s a Wonderful Lifetime, including the title, summary, premiere date, stars, poster, and/or pictures.
Finding all this information is an ongoing task, at least for me. So, I’ll be adding and updating as I find more data. Movie posters and summaries are from Lifetime network. To find more about the movies, go to Lifetime and to see my reviews go HERE.
Note: Please check your guide for times. I check my guide daily and set up the movies on my DVR.
It’s a Wonderful Lifetime 2019
Sweet Mountain Christmas
Premiere Date: October 25
Stars: Megan Hilty & Marcus Rosner
Country music star Laney Blu hasn’t been back to her Tennessee hometown in years. It wasn’t the kindest place to grow up, so when her career skyrocketed at seventeen she was happy to leave it behind. Though she’s set to headline a Christmas concert in NYC, Laney decides to make a quick pit-stop to see her family. When a freak snowstorm hits, she finds herself stranded in the town, and is roped into taking part in a local Christmas concert. As Laney spends more time in her hometown, it becomes less and less like she remembered it. She begins to fall in the love with the people, place and just maybe, a handsome snowplow driver named Robbie. When the storm lets up, will Laney head off to NYC or will home be where her heart is?
The Road Home for Christmas
Premiere Date: October 26
Stars: Marla Sokoloff, Rob Mayes, and Marie Osmond
Two rival musicians, Lindsay and Wes, who perform in a dueling piano show, suddenly find themselves without a gig on Christmas Eve and decide to road trip to their neighboring hometowns together. During the drive, the mismatched pair find themselves surrounded by Santa conventioneers, saving a Christmas nativity play, performing onstage in Nashville with music royalty, and braving a massive snowstorm which just may lead them to making sweet music together.
No Time Like Christmas
Premiere Date: October 27
Stars: Kyla Pratt, Ed Ruttle, Rachel McLaren and Jim O’Heir
After Emma finds her college boyfriend’s engraved watch at a vintage jewelry shop, her sister Bronwyn believes it is a sign, and decides to secretly play cupid by sending Emma to the same bed and breakfast in Vermont that Fletcher is staying at one week before Christmas. However, upon arrival, Emma is not only shocked to bump into her first love after all these years, but also his vivacious daughter. Throughout the week, the two fight their feelings for one another as they plan a Christmas Eve show in hopes of saving the local theater.
Christmas Reservations
Premiere Date: November 2
Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Ricardo Chavira, Ted McGinley, Michael Gross, and Markie Post
It’s Christmas at the Treeline Ski Resort, where Holly is the event coordinator at her family lodge. She plans every event and keeps all the guests happy. But when her college sweetheart, now widowed with two children, checks in, Holly discovers she has her own reservations about life and love.
Always and Forever Christmas
Premiere Date: November 3
Stars: Lexi Lawson, Mark Ghanimé & Beth Broderick
When marketing exec Lucy 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 and the magic of a Christmas stranger from the north.
Radio Christmas
Premiere Date: November 9
Stars: Keshia Knight Pulliam, Michael Xavier, Tim Reid, and Belinda Montgomery
When her Philadelphia radio station is closed for repairs during the holidays, DJ Kara Porter is forced to broadcast from the small town of Bethlehem. Desperate to increase her numbers and get promoted outside of Radio Christmas – a year-round Christmas station, Kara seeks to uncover the identity of the town’s Secret Santa, an anonymous benefactor that saved all of Bethlehem’s Christmas festivities. Along the way, she discovers the true meaning of family, community, love and of course, Christmas.
A Sweet Christmas Romance
Premiere Date: November 10
Stars: Adelaide Kane, Greyston Holt, and Loretta Devine
When food stylist Holly returns home for Christmas, she learns that Loretta, the elderly owner of her favorite childhood bakery, is retiring and has started a contest to give the bakery away to whoever can recreate her famous 12 Days of Christmas recipes. Holly enters, despite not being much of cook. When a local baker named Brad also enters the contest, the two adversaries end up cooking up something special together for the holidays.
Christmas A La Mode
Premiere Date: November 15
Stars: Katie Leclerc, Ryan Cooper, Jennifer Ellis, Caroline Keeler, and Kathy Harum
Since her father passed away, Emily has been running her family’s dairy farm with the help of her mother and best friend. But this Christmas, the farm has fallen on hard times so Emily’s sister, Dorothy (who is part owner with Emily) and her handsome business partner, Charlie, show up with a proposition to sell the farm. Emily comes up with an ingenious plan to buy out her sister’s shares and hold an online holiday ice cream flavor contest that goes viral with the help of a key ingredient, Charlie’s amazing apple pie. Christmas à la Mode ice cream is born! Still as the Christmas Eve deadline for the buyout approaches, Emily needs a Christmas miracle to save the farm and her father’s legacy in time for a happy Christmas.
Christmas in Louisiana
Premiere Date: November 16
Stars: Jana Kramer, Percy Daggs III, Moira Kelly, Brian McNamara
The Winter Family is Christmas royalty in New Iberia, Louisiana, and Sarah Winter, 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 and her grandparents (Wallace and Bostwick), she rediscovers the magic of the season–and a little romance– with her former Mister Christmas, Luke.
Random Acts of Christmas
Premiere Date: November 17
Stars: Erin Cahill, Kevin McGarry, Patrick Duffy, and Jaclyn Smith
While uncovering who is behind the random acts of Christmas popping up around her city, investigative journalist, Sydney meets a competing reporter, Cole, who ignites her Christmas spirit and captures her heart, but may not be the man he claims to be.
The Magical Christmas Shoes
Premiere Date: November 22
Stars: Erin Karpluk and Damon Runyan
A pair of magical shoes step into Kayla Hummel’s holiday season, allowing her to rediscover her Christmas spirit and find love too.
Twinkle All the Way
Premiere Date: November 23
Stars: Sarah Drew, Ryan McPartlin and Lesley Ann Warren
To pull off a spectacular Christmas themed wedding at the exclusive Snowview Lodge, wedding planner, Cadence Clark joins forces with Henry Harrison, co-owner of a family-run Christmas decoration and house-lighting company. Cadence and Henry, both single parents of young daughters, grow closer as they contribute to each others’ projects – Cadence with the wedding and Henry with his high-profile client, Mrs. Sutton, and her annual VIP Christmas Eve party. However, a snow storm threatens to wreak havoc on the wedding. But with help from Henry, family, and some holiday magic, Cadence may just be able to pull off the wedding and perhaps fall in love along the way.
Christmas 9 to 5
Premiere Date: November 24
Stars: Tiya Sircar and George Wendt
Jennifer 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
Premiere Date: November 27
Stars: Tia Mowry-Hardrict, Jesse Hutch & Patricia Richardson
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, 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, 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
Premiere Date: November 28
Stars: Hilarie Burton, Tyler Hilton, Megan Park, Cristian de la Fuente, and Pam Grier
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 encourages her sister Faith 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. 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.
Staging Christmas
Premiere Date: November 29
Stars: Soleil Moon Frye, George Stults & Jaleel White
Lori 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 Elliot asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie. As Lori starts remaking Elliott’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 Elliot 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
Premiere Date: November 30
Stars: Kelly Rowland, Thomas Cadrot, Jaime M. Callica, and Jeff Gonek
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
Premiere Date: December 1
Stars: Kim Fields and Adrian Holmes
Inspired by true events, Emma 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
Premiere Date: December 6
Stars: Ali Liebert, Jake Epstein, and Habree Larratt
If event planner Celeste Everett 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, Celeste surprisingly realizes she may have also found Christmas love for herself.
Mistletoe & Menorahs
Premiere Date: December 7
Stars: Kelley Jakle, Jon McClaren and Cory Lee
When an exec needs to learn about Hanukkah in order to land an account she gets a crash course from a co-worker’s friend, who needs her help to impress his girlfriend’s Christmas-celebrating parents.
Christmas Unleashed
Premiere Date: December 7
Stars: Vanessa Lachey and Christopher Russell
When Marla’s dog runs away on Christmas Eve, she must team up with her ex-boyfriend Max 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. (previous title: A Doggone Christmas)
Grounded for Christmas
Premiere Date: December 8
Stars: Julianna Guill & Corey Sevier
When a winter storm hits Cleveland and grounds flights, the nearby hotels quickly fill up with stranded travelers. Nina (Guill), a pilot, reluctantly agrees to let her arrogant but charming fellow pilot, Brady (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
Premiere Date: December 13
Stars: Erica Durance & J.T. Hodges
When aspiring R&B artist Layla crosses paths with amateur songwriter Spence, 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
Premiere Date: December 14
Stars: Corey Sevier & Emily Rose
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
Premiere Date: December 14
Stars: Ashanti, Stan Shaw, and Sashani Nichole
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
Premiere Date: December 15
Stars: Jessica Lowndes, Jessica Walter, David Naughton, and B.J. Britt
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, she’s a little burned out on holly, sugarplums and Santas of all shapes and sizes. All she wants is a tropical beach getaway with her sister Sara. But, 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
Premiere Date: December 20
Stars: Sara Canning and Robin Dunne
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
Premiere Date: December 21
Stars: Ashley Newbrough, Tilky Jones, Chanté Bowser, and Izzy Herbert
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.
The Christmas Hotel
Premiere Date: December 21
Stars: Tatyana Ali, Sean Patrick Thomas, and Sheryl Lee Ralph
Erin grew up in the small town of Mt. Holly but always dreamt of living in a big city. Her first job – working the desk at the Mt. Holly Inn – started her on a path to New York where she now works at the prestigious Windsor Hotel. When her boss tells her she will receive a promotion if she can pull off a big project, she is thrilled – until she realizes the project is in her hometown. Erin returns home to discover that the locals don’t appreciate their precious Mt. Holly Inn being bought out by a big corporation. And heading up the charge? Erin’s ex-boyfriend Conner. But when several hotel staff members come down with the flu, Erin is forced to enlist Conner’s help with hotel’s Christmas events. As they two re-establish their relationship, Erin has to figure out if what she really wants is a promotion or to be home again.
A Date by Christmas Eve
Premiere Date: December 22
Stars: Vanessa Lengies, Evan Williams, and Katherine Bailess
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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