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They're back: the 8 new Christmas films to watch under your blanket this winter

2022-11-18T14:47:52.086Z


Like every year, Christmas returns, and with it its more or less kitsch films. Here a non-exhaustive selection, to be savored with, if possible, a good cup of hot chocolate and a lot of ironic distance.


Christmas falls on time

This may well be the most anticipated Netflix Christmas movie of this year.

Because it announces the return of former Disney child star Lindsay Lohan.

She plays Sierra, a capricious and slightly scatterbrained heiress of a hotel group, who becomes amnesiac after a skiing accident.

Taken in a few days before Christmas by Jake (Chord Overstreet), a young and charming widower who owns a chalet, she sets out to find herself and healthier values ​​for her life.

Drama, romances and Christmas magic are on the menu of this romcom.

Jack Wagner, George Young and Olivia Perez are also in the cast.

Released November 10.

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The Christmas Challenge

Ashley Leroy is 32 years old, she is a professional footballer, the first French woman to have won the Ballon d'Or.

At the end of the course, she decides to end her career at Guingamp, a league 1 club. If her beginnings are promising, she nevertheless becomes unable to score any goal for several months.

She thinks she's finished.

But on the wise advice of her coach, she is going to make a trip and an encounter that she did not expect.

With Aurore Planas, Florian Hessique, Corin Nemec.

Released in theaters from November 16.

Christmas With You

Angelina, a pop star in full burn-out, flees her too crazy life and isolates herself in a small town without history to grant the wish of a young fan.

On the spot, she will of course find the inspiration to give a new impetus to her career but will also have the chance to know the great love.

A sweet and festive getaway in the vein of

Hannah Montana: The Movie

, worn by Aimee Garcia and Freddie Prinze Jr. Release scheduled for November 17, 2022 on Netflix.

Spirited

In this musical comedy directed by Sean Anders, Clint, a businessman, finds himself under the yoke of a Christmas ghost on the night of December 24th.

But faced with this eternal optimist, it is the poltergeist who will have to face his past, and also his present and his future.

It is the modern and comic adaptation of

A Christmas Carol

, the famous short story by Charles Dickens.

With Will Ferrell, Ryan Reynolds and Octavia Spencer.

Available from November 18, 2022 on Apple TV+.

The Christmas Diary

Jake Turner, a successful writer, is back in his hometown to settle the estate of his mother, with whom he had a strained relationship.

There he discovers a diary which sheds light on his story and also meets Rachel, a mysterious girl also in search of answers.

Both then discover a possibility of a future that they did not suspect until now.

With Justin Hartley and Barrett Doss in the cast.

Directed by Charles Shyer, (

Irresistible Alfie

), the film is expected on November 24 on Netflix.

Violent Night

Directed by Tommy Wirkola,

Violent Night

features a funny version of Santa Claus who distributes blows galore.

The plot takes place on the night of December 24, where a group of thugs attacks a rich family, without suspecting that they were going to fall on a Santa Claus who intends to correct them for this bad action.

Camped by David Harbor (

Stranger Things

), this uninhibited action film with comic overtones promises to be crazy.

John Leguizame, Beverly D'Angelo, Alex Hassel, Alexis Louder, Edi Patterson, Cam Gigandet and André Eriksen are also in the cast.

Released November 30 in theaters.

A Kiss Before Christmas

Ten years after the end of the cult

Desperate Housewives

, Susan and Mike return to service.

Rather Teri Hatcher and James Denton, their interpreters.

In

A Kiss Before Christmas

, a romantic comedy released last winter in the United States and broadcast this November on TF1, the two actors agree to a kind of happy ending after the tragic end of

Desperate Housewives

.

The film tells the story of Ethan Holt, a family man who misses the promotion he covets on Christmas Eve.

He questions himself personally, and thinks that this failure is linked to his "nice boy" side.

He then sees his wish come true, thanks to the magic of Christmas: that of seeing his life take another turn.

For better and for worse.

Best.

Christmas.

Ever.

Charlotte receives a card from her college best friend, Jackie, in which she recounts her perfect life.

When they decide to spend the holidays together, with their respective spouses, both realize that behind the veneer of appearances, life is not as idyllic as it seems.

For lovers of stories of friendship undermined but fortunately saved by the magic of Christmas, of course.

With Heather Graham, Jason Biggs and Brandy Norwood.

Streaming on Netflix, release date not specified.

Source: lefigaro

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