There’s no getting away from it: autumn is here, the nights are drawing in, and those lovely long summer evenings are now a distant dream. If you’re anything like me, you’ve already given in, dug out the blankets, and popped them back on the bed so you’re nice and snug.
But blankets aren’t the only thing tempting me. The other thing I’m looking forward to is movies, and there’s nothing better on a Sunday afternoon curled up in a chair watching a Hallmark movie.
And even better if they’re seasonal, full of flannel shirts, pumpkin patches, and stunning fall colors. I hope you’re ready for a bit of easy watching, romance, and dreamy autumn scenery.
10 Hallmark Fall Movies To Curl Up With
If you’re planning to watch these in a run, start with the earlier ones and work your way up to Haul Out the Halloween in late October.
Autumn Dreams (2015)
Teenage sweethearts Annie and Ben elope in their small Iowa town, planning to leave for the big city together, but Annie’s parents catch them and have the marriage annulled before they get the chance.
Ben moves on to New York, while Annie stays behind in Iowa to help her family. Fifteen years later, both now engaged to other people, they discover their annulment was never actually finalized, meaning they’re still legally married.
Annie and Ben reunite to sort out the paperwork and make their divorce official, but being back together stirs up old feelings and memories of what might have been. As their romance resurfaces, they have to decide whether their past love is really their future.
Falling for Vermont (2017)
Bestselling author Angela Young needs to escape the media frenzy around her latest book, but her boyfriend and manager, Brad, is too wrapped up in deals to notice how badly she needs a break.
Angela decides to slip away on her own and drive out to see the fall foliage, but a thunderstorm sends her car off the road, and she’s found wandering with no memory of who she is and no ID.
The town doctor, Jeff, a single dad, takes her in and offers up his guest house while she waits for her memory to return. As she settles into small-town Vermont life and grows close to Jeff and his family, she has to decide whether the life she left behind in the city is really the one she wants back.
Love, Fall & Order (2019)
Claire Hart is an ambitious New York attorney who returns to her small Vermont hometown to help save her father’s pumpkin farm and its annual Fall Fest from a legal dispute with a neighbor.
Once there, she runs straight into Patrick, her old high school rival, only to discover he’s the local lawyer representing the other side of the case against her father.
As they face off in court, Claire and Patrick find themselves increasingly drawn to each other, and an autumn romance starts to bloom even as they remain on opposite sides of the dispute.
Sweet Autumn 2020
Maggie, a successful entrepreneur, returns home for the reading of her Aunt Dee’s will and discovers she’s inherited half of her aunt’s beloved maple candy business. What she doesn’t understand is why Dex, her aunt’s local maple supplier, was left the other half.
With the town’s Sweet Autumn Festival approaching, Maggie and Dex clash over how to run the shop as they work through a series of letters Aunt Dee left behind, trying to piece together the reasoning behind her final wishes.
As they dig through the letters together, Maggie and Dex grow closer, and Maggie is left questioning whether the life she built for herself is really the one she wants.
Pumpkin Everything 2022
Taylor Cole plays Amy, an up-and-coming novelist who heads back to her hometown of Autumnboro to help her stubborn grandfather, Tom (Michael Ironside), keep his pumpkin-themed store running through its busiest season of the year.
Almost as soon as she’s back, she runs straight into Kit (Corey Sevier), an old flame she left behind. What follows is exactly what you’d hope for from a fall romance: second chances, a stubborn grandfather who won’t admit he needs help, and enough pumpkin spice atmosphere to make you want to redecorate your porch on the spot.
Autumn in the City 2022
Piper Grant moves to New York City for a fresh start, giving herself two months to figure out her career passion. She bounces between a string of temp jobs that take her all over the city and, along the way, meets her neighbor Austin, an aspiring writer whose jaded outlook is the opposite of her sunny optimism.
As autumn works its charm, the two grow closer, and once Piper realizes illustration is her true calling, they team up on a children’s book project. In the process, they both start to realize what they’re really looking for might be each other.
Notes of Autumn 2023
Leo, a novelist living in rural British Columbia, is stuck with a bad case of writer’s block and under pressure to finish the next book in his popular series. He decides to swap homes with his best friend Ellie, a classically trained pianist living in the city, hoping a change of scenery will help them both recharge.
During his stay at Ellie’s place, Leo meets Matt, who helps pull him out of his creative slump, and the two grow closer than either expected. Meanwhile, back at Leo’s place in the country, Ellie strikes up a similar connection with his neighbor Sam.
As they settle into each other’s lives, they find much more than they were looking for.
3 Bed, 2 Bath, 1 Ghost 2023
Anna, a new real estate agent, lands her first listing and is confident the long-vacant house will sell in no time, until she runs into resistance from Ruby, a lively flapper ghost who’s been haunting the place since the 1920s.
Ruby wants her home to stay empty, while Anna desperately needs it to sell, but the two soon discover they have more in common than either expected: they’ve both left a fiancé at the altar.
Ruby had called off her engagement out of love for her driver, Charlie, only for her feelings to go unresolved after her untimely death, while Anna’s own broken engagement to her ex, Elliot, came after their renovation business fell apart.
Ruby becomes convinced she can’t move on until she gets Anna back together with Elliot, so Anna asks him to help restore the listing, and the two of them, with a meddling ghost pushing things along, start finding their way back to each other.
Autumn at Apple Hill 2024
Elise, newly divorced and looking for a fresh start, quits her job and moves back to her hometown of Landover, Maine, where she sets her sights on reviving her late grandmother’s inn, tucked into the rolling hills of an apple orchard.
She starts the renovations over the summer, determined to have the place back to its former glory by fall. Things get complicated when Luke, the wealthy CFO of a major hotel chain, checks in as a guest, and Elise isn’t sure whether he’s there to enjoy the season or angling to take the inn off her hands.
She initially tries to scare him off, but as they spend more time working on the inn together, Elise realizes Luke might be exactly the person she needs to help bring Apple Hill back to life, and their guarded feelings for each other start to give way, too.
Haul Out the Halloween 2025
Emily and Jared are longtime residents of Evergreen Lane, a neighborhood that’s never made much fuss over Halloween. That changes when new neighbors Luna and Marvin move in, bringing their infectious enthusiasm for the holiday with them and inspiring Emily, Jared, and the rest of the HOA to go all out.
Together they launch EverSCREAM Lane, a spooky-themed street fundraiser for charity, complete with creepy contests, elaborate decorations, and plenty of neighborhood chaos along the way.
As the whole block pitches in, Emily reconnects with childhood memories of Halloweens spent with her late grandmother, and as decorations go up and friendships deepen, romance starts to rekindle under the glow of the jack-o’-lanterns.
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Kylie Lang is a nationally syndicated travel journalist with bylines on the Associated Press Wire & more, a lifestyle writer, and the founder and editor of Your Lifestyle Library (yourlifestylelibrary.com). She holds a BA (Honours) in History from the University of Kent and is a member of the British Guild of Travel Writers.