7 best modern movies to feel the cozy vibe of winter holidays

The most popular activity for the winter holidays is to get together with family or friends and organize a "marathon" of New Year and Christmas movies. These can be both old (Home Alone, The Irony of Fate) and modern films (A Couple for the Holidays, Christmas for Two). Thus, check out our list of the latter ones.

1. Love Hard (2021, USA)

Natalie lives in Los Angeles and works as a columnist for a fashion magazine. She takes ideas for her texts from her own life: she communicates with guys on a dating app and has "embarassing" dates. Although her negative experience brings her money, she still hopes to find true love.

Later, the protagonist meets the man she seems to have been looking for all her life, so she decides to visit him on the other side of the country for the Christmas holidays. All in order to surprise him. However, she is in for an equally big surprise - the guy was pretending to be someone else.

2. The Nutcracker and the Four Realms (2018, USA)

At Christmas, the main character of this film receives a gift that will take her to a magical land. This mysterious place is divided into four kingdoms. In three of them, the sun always shines, everything is covered with flowers, and the atmosphere is pleasant. The fourth is the home of shadows, where everything is gloomy.

The girl's task is to go through each of the kingdoms and make sure that harmony reigns in them. To do this, she will have to compete with the king and the evil ruler of the rat armies.

3. Holidate (2020, USA)

This is a story about a lonely Sloane, whose family loves to discuss her personal life when they gather for the holidays. This annoys her. However, similar situations often happen to men as well - the friends of the on-screen character named Jackson joke about his bachelor life too. The two meet and decide to see each other only on holidays, pretending to be a couple so that they don't get bothered by family and friends.

4. Last Christmas (2019, UK)

Kate works in a Christmas shop in an elf costume. She is lonely, has a difficult relationship with her family and abuses alcohol. Her life changes after she meets a guy named Tom by chance. As she learns more about him, she begins to see him as the perfect man: he is attractive not only in appearance but also as a person.

5. A Boy Called Christmas (2021, UK, France)

Nikolas lives with his father Joel and sister Carlotta in a forest in Lapland. One day, the king gathers brave men to find an object that can give people hope. His father becomes one of those who wanted to fulfill this task. He sets off in search of a mystical elf village but never returns.

Nikolas decides to find his father, but to do so, he has to go on a dangerous journey. The boy takes a talking mouse and a reindeer with him.

6. A Timeless Christmas (2020, USA)

Charles, who lives in 1903, accidentally finds himself in 2020. It is difficult for the man to explain how this miracle could have happened. In the future, he meets a woman named Megan, who gradually helps her new friend adapt to the world. The protagonist decides to win the beauty's heart at any cost because he wants to live the rest of his life with her.

7. Operation Christmas Drop (2020, USA)

The movie tells the story of Erica, a US Congresswoman, and Andrew, an officer in the US Air Force. During the Christmas holidays, she has to go to a military base to close the Operation Christmas Drop. There she meets the officer who demonstrates the value of this program in practice.