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Browse 31 movies from Basset Hound Distribution
Business executive Jazmin Carter is known for two things: turning fledgling businesses into profit producers and avoiding Christmas in Harlem, the neighborhood where she grew up.
Nov 2021
Three generations of Delaney women explore the highs and lows of modern-day dating, learning that love and romance can be found at any age…and sometimes where you least expect it.
Aug 2022
Audrey, a creative board game designer and Matthew, a research-driven marketing consultant, are tasked with creating a new game to help players find romance. Given just weeks to deliver the project, the pair find that they have very different approaches. However, as they try to work together, they discover something they have in common: they each have a lot to learn about love.
Mar 2023
When pro soccer player Emily finds herself no longer in the game, she teams up with Ian, a laid-back small-town coach, to lead her niece’s team to the playoffs.
Set in the halls of Austen Middle School, a newly single middle-school teacher is covertly set up with a divorced dad after his daughter – one of her students – begins a matchmaking business for a school project she assigned her class.
Feb 2021
Newly engaged Asha Singh and Jake O'Brien are excited to spend Christmas together, but their relationship is tested when their families' cultural and holiday traditions clash.
Nov 2024
Kate North reluctantly takes over her father’s struggling Santa School, where she and a colleague discover an amnesiac Santa Claus and must help him regain his memories through their training program to save both the school and Christmas.
Dec 2024
Prince Edmond, to ingratiate himself with his mother, gives him "Mistletoe", which after several disasters turns to Cecily, an expert in dogs. They will discover that love can grow in unexpected places, questioning what they really want.
Nov 2022
Vivi, an optimistic woman with a substandard romantic history, works at a data-driven matchmaking app. Once she discovers that the success rate for matches at her company is low, she hires Raina, an Indian matchmaker, to provide advice on how to improve their numbers. As they embark on this matchmaking journey, Vivi meets Raina’s spontaneous son, Bhumesh, and questions whether finding love is something one must take control of or let naturally come to them.
Jun 2023
Carley is determined to get through her list of abandoned resolutions from last year and enlists the help of coworker Wyatt.
Dec 2023
Emily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of their own. As she stays at their house for the holidays, their HOA is determined to get Emily to participate in the neighborhood’s many Christmas festivities.
Goldy is a spirited single mom who’s thrust into the role of town sleuth to help solve a friend’s mysterious death. With the clock ticking to find the culprit, Goldy strikes up an unlikely partnership with Detective Tom Schultz, who leans into Goldy’s local knowledge. As their relationship shows signs of becoming something more, the suspect list rises. Will Goldy narrow in on the killer before the killer narrows in on her?
Apr 2022
A travel writer, a tech entrepreneur, a devoted mother and more strangers are stranded at the airport for the holidays, they rent a van for an unexpected road trip.
Nov 2023
Aspiring writer Athena Carter has spent years working as a dating consultant with a less than successful dating history of her own. When her college ex suddenly reemerges, romantic complications ensue as Athena has to figure out who she really is and what she really wants.
Jul 2023
As the holidays approach, Emily and Jared are looking forward to celebrating the holidays together again, this time as a couple. Emily, now embracing Evergreen Lane’s uniquely festive spirit, is ready to work with Jared, Ned, Mary Louise and Pamela to make this year’s Christmas celebrations the best yet – even if being the HOA president’s girlfriend doesn’t stop those dreaded decorating citations. When a house on the block goes up for sale, it causes quite a stir with residents.
Holly, a jewelry designer finds a lost charm bracelet and teams up with investigative reporter Greg in hopes of finding the owner and returning it by Christmas Eve.
Dec 2020
Liara goes to Italy and impulsively buys the villa where her parents met. She soon learns she is in way over her head and must ask a lawyer-turned-handyman to help her renovate.
Jun 2025
When Lindsey travels to Ireland to acquire land that is perfect for a resort, she decides to enter the town's matchmaking festival to prove her investment—and win over a handsome local.
Apr 2021
After she inherits an Italian restaurant in Brooklyn, manager Amy teams up with a blacklisted master chef looking for a second chance. They discover that the most important ingredient for any recipe is always love.
Feb 2022
Professional caterer and amateur detective Goldy Berry is hired to cater for a big wedding. The bride, Jessamyn Cole is the ex-wife of Goldy's current romantic interest, detective Tom Schultz. The town is shocked when they find the groom, Sterling Clearwater dead and Jessamyn missing. To complicate matters, a new detective with a vendetta against Tom is hired to oversee the case. Forced to take matters into their own hands, Goldy and Tom must find Jessamyn before she meets Sterling's fate.
Oct 2023