The Best Up Faith and Family Christmas Movies of 2024

The Best Up Faith and Family Christmas Movies of 2024

By Movieguide® Contributor

We are excited to share with you our top ten Christmas movies from Up Faith and Family this year. Warm up some hot cocoa, grab yourself a bowl of popcorn, and snuggle up with the family to enjoy a sweet movie from Up Faith and Family this Christmas. A BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS will warm your heart as it includes many classic Christmas carols, and FESTIVAL OF TREES reminds viewers that the most important part of Christmas is family. Here’s a wrap of all the best movies from 2024 that your family will love for Christmas, including some bonus movies from 2023!

 

A NOVEL CHRISTMAS

Quality:
***
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
A NOVEL CHRISTMAS follows a young female book author who must decide between continuing on her familiar path, or taking a leap of faith on a new relationship and a new book. Airing on UPtv, A NOVEL CHRISTMAS is a sweet Christmas movie with a Christian, morally uplifting worldview stressing the importance of faith and family.

A BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS

Quality:
****
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
A BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS is a delightful Christmas romance on UPtv about a female vet who must convince her grandfather to return to making bluegrass music for a benefit concert to save the family’s financially struggling horse sanctuary. A BLUEGRASS CHRISTMAS is a wonderful Christmas movie with excellent performances and a positive Christian worldview stressing family, forgiveness and helping others, and featuring many beautiful covers of faith-based Christmas carols like “Silent Night.”

FESTIVAL OF TREES

Quality:
***
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
FESTIVAL OF TREES is an entertaining Christmas movie about an up-and-coming designer who learns that Christmas is more than a business opportunity and finds love along the way. The movie promotes little questionable content – aside from a woman getting drunk and two instances of the Lord's name being taken in vain – MOVIEGUIDE® ultimately advises caution for young children.

A VERY ENGLISH CHRISTMAS

Quality:
***
Content:
-1 Caution advised for older children, including teenagers, and sensitive adults.
A VERY ENGLISH CHRISTMAS is a sweet Christmas romance on UPtv about an events planner form Los Angeles who travels to England to plan her half-sister’s emergency wedding in two weeks, but the wedding planner is thrown by the handsome Best Man, who also has some ideas about planning the wedding for his friend and Emma’s sister. A VERY ENGLISH CHRISTMAS has some wonderful moments, with stunning, festive and joyful Christmas settings and meaningful messages promoting family, positive personal relationships and gratitude, but the bride-to-be is pregnant, and a main character tells her there’s no “right way” to build a family.

COUNTRY ROADS CHRISTMAS

Quality:
***
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)

COUNTRY ROADS CHRISTMAS is a 2022 Christmas family drama that’s now being run on UPtv. It follows a famous country singer who seeks forgiveness and reconciliation with his family after years of abandoning them to pursue his career. COUNTRY ROADS CHRISTMAS features an entertaining, touching plot and promotes strong Christian, biblical values such as repentance, forgiveness, reconciliation, family, and celebrating Christmas and the Birth of Christ together.

THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS DIAMOND

Quality:
**
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS DIAMOND is a twisty whodunit streaming on UPtv that fans of the genre will enjoy. Andy is excited to spend Christmas with her friend Olivia and her well-to-do family. However, things soon go sideways after a valuable necklace goes missing — and everyone points the finger at her. Overall, THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS DIAMOND has a moral worldview with redemptive elements and a focus on justice. However, many characters are greedy, rude people, so MOVIEGUIDE® advises some caution for younger viewers.

COUNTRY HEARTS CHRISTMAS

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
COUNTRY HEARTS CHRISTMAS is a family drama on UPtv about a musical, ranch owning family who run into some dramatic snags trying to come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration at church. COUNTRY HEARTS CHRISTMAS is a compelling, moving drama about putting faith and family first, with many strong Christian references including three Christmas carols, but it has light references to a romantic triangle, keeping secrets from family members and recovering from alcohol problems.

CHRISTMAS AT AN AMISH BAKERY

Quality:
***
Content:
+3 Some minor questionable elements. (Media-wisdom is suggested to discuss.)
CHRISTMAS AT AN AMISH BAKERY is a Christmas romance on UPtv about a cookbook editor desperate to keep her job in Chicago who visits her family’s Amish bakery in Kentucky to get some recipes for an Amish cookbook but finds family and love instead. CHRISTMAS AT AN AMISH BAKERY has many heartwarming, cute scenes and some funny interactions, includes two references to the divine birth of Jesus Christ, and promotes family, hope, forgiveness, faith, and love.

YULETIDE THE KNOT

Quality:
****
Content:
+1 Moderately questionable elements. (Discernment required for young children.)
YULETIDE THE KNOT is a Christmas romance on UPtv about a wedding planner who accepts a last-minute wedding of a couple who want to get married on Christmas Day, to distract herself from her mother’s recent death. YULETIDE THE KNOT is an excellent, well-written and acted, engaging and uplifting Christmas romance that strongly stresses the importance of family, but MOVIEGUIDE® advises caution for younger children because of some minor family problems and lack of religious content.

THE JINGLE BELL JUBILEE

Quality:
***
Content:
+2 Moderately questionable elements.
THE JINGLE BELL JUBILEE is a Christmas romance on UPtv about a widower who returns to his hometown in early December to become the city manager and turns to his son’s middle school teacher to help him with the city’s donation drive for needy families, which is part of the town’s annual Christmas festival. THE JINGLE BELL JUBILEE tells a well-rounded and entertaining, though sometimes low-key, story of romance, humor and heartwarming values like gratitude, kindness, compassion for the needy, and making Christmas less materialistic and more meaningful.

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