Movies like Scrooge

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Scrooge (1970)
 7.5
 13K
Scrooge (1970)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story: The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form.
Style: christmas horror, christmas classics, christmas special, hilarious, offbeat, feel good, humorous, semi serious, independent film, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, scrooge, christmas carol, ghost, dancing, broadway, xmas, redemption, charles dickens, destiny, christmas season, supernatural ability, death, childhood, magic, money, snow, vacation, fire, heaven, miser, acid, christmas spirit, generosity ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s, future, 70s
Place: london, england, tokyo
Keyword: americana, marketplace

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about christmas, family relations, hopes, disorder, christmas movie, youth and child mostly in Drama, Fantasy and Family genres. Some movies like Scrooge: A Christmas Carol (1984), The Santa Clause (1994), Scrooged (1988), Oliver! (1968), A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Style: touching, atmospheric, sentimental, christmas classics, christmas horror ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, scrooge, miser, holiday, christmas carol, ghost, charles dickens, happy ending, xmas, business, afterlife, christian ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, 1840s
Place: england, europe, london
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100%
The Santa Clause (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns ...
Style: feel good, touching, christmas classics, sweet, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, adult
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, childhood, christmas season, father son relationship, toys, divorce, child custody, thanksgiving, xmas, snow ...
Time: 90s
Place: chicago, illinois
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100%
 6.9
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Scrooged (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips ...
Style: light, humorous, parody, funny, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: christmas, ghost, holiday, supernatural, greed, christmas eve, redemption, christmas carol, television, christmas season, xmas, happy ending ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, future, year 1988, 70s ...
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.4
 41K
Oliver! (1968)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 153 min.
Story: Musical adaptation of Charles Dickens' Oliver Twist, a classic tale of an orphan who runs away from the workhouse and joins up with a group of boys headed by the Artful Dodger and trained to be pickpockets by master thief Fagin.
Style: visually appealing, sentimental, social, epic, dark ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing, teen drama, adult
Plot: orphan, street kid, broadway, dance, child, children, runaway, charles dickens, dog, dancing, happy ending, coming of age ...
Time: 19th century, year 1968, 1800s, 1900s, victorian era ...
Place: england, london, europe, britain
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge ...
Style: sentimental, feel good, emotional, captivating, christmas horror ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: scrooge, christmas, ghost, christmas carol, self discovery, road not taken, human spirit, introspection, supernatural, family relations, disorder, hopes ...
Time: victorian era
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Fiddler on the Roof (1971)
Genre: Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 181 min.
Story: This lavishly produced and critically acclaimed screen adaptation of the international stage sensation tells the life-affirming story of Tevye (Topol), a poor milkman whose love, pride and faith help him face the oppression of turn-of-the-century ...
Style: period piece, freeze frame, humorous, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing, teens, date night, kids
Plot: judaism, dance, wedding, broadway, tradition, village, dancing, jewish culture, father daughter relationship, milkman, arranged marriage, anti semitism ...
Time: 19th century, year 1971, 1900s, 20th century
Place: ukraine, russia, israel, ussr, europe ...
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100%
It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 130 min.
Story: A holiday favourite for generations... George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. ...
Style: inspirational, feel good, touching, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, date night, chick flick, adult
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, small town life, angel, friendship, depression, life philosophy, snow, life changing experience, self discovery, happy ending ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century, year 1946, year 1945, year 1919 ...
Place: america, new york, new york state, usa
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100%
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story: A little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago. But after ...
Style: fairy tale, christmas classics, sentimental, touching, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, christmas season, thanksgiving, court, lawyer, department store, children, courtroom, friendship, mother daughter relationship ...
Time: year 1994, 90s
Place: new york, manhattan new york city, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Eccentric candy man Willy Wonka prompts a worldwide frenzy when he announces that golden tickets hidden inside five of his delicious candy bars will admit their lucky holders into his top-secret confectionary. But does Wonka have an agenda hidden ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, light, surreal, visual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: chocolate, children, teacher, overweight child, mischievous children, childhood, tour guide, child protagonist, surrealism, factory, grandfather grandson relationship, inventor ...
Time: year 1971, 20th century, 1900s, 90s, 70s
Place: germany, west germany, paraguay, europe, arizona ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Santa Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the multi-cultural neighbourhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side of the early 1900s.
Style: christmas classics, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, santa claus, xmas, youth, mischievous children, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, disorder, righting the wronged, couples ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
 6.6
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Annie (1982)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story: An orphan in a facility run by the mean Miss Hannigan, Annie believes that her parents left her there by mistake. When a rich man named Oliver "Daddy" Warbucks decides to let an orphan live at his home to promote his image, Annie is ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, period piece, inspirational, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: orphan, little girl, broadway, redhead girl, dancing, adoption, child, dance, childhood, orphanage, coming of age, love ...
Time: year 1982, 90s, 1930s, 20th century
Place: new jersey, new york, usa, manhattan new york city, washington d.c. ...
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100%
The Secret Garden (1993)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A young British girl born and reared in India loses her neglectful parents in an earthquake. She is returned to England to live at her uncle's castle. Her uncle is very distant due to the loss of his wife ten years before. Neglected once again, ...
Style: costume drama, touching, feel good, atmospheric, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, chick flick, pre-teens ...
Plot: childhood, countryside, orphan, girl, garden, beautiful scenery, friendship, little girl, children, secret, mansion, old mansion ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 90s ...
Place: india, england, britain, eastern europe, africa ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style: funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: christmas, ghost, holiday, muppets, childhood, puppetry, scrooge, christmas carol, greed, time travel, christmas season, puppet ...
Time: 19th century, year 1992, 1800s, 90s, 1840s ...
Place: england, london, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Prancer (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, entertaining, sad, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, single father, reindeer, santa claus, farm, father daughter relationship, snow, widower, animal, xmas ...
Time: year 1989
Place: michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.5
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Ebenezer (1998)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: No overview found.A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
Style: christmas horror, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, christmas carol, scrooge, xmas, charles dickens, ghost, small town, supernatural, boss and employee, hopes, misfit, redemption ...
Time: 19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Christmas Carol (1977)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story: "If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, ...
Style: christmas horror, spiritual, independent film
Plot: christmas, scrooge, christmas carol, spirituality, charles dickens, redemption, ghost, holiday, compassion, christmas movie
Time: 1840s, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Search for Santa Paws (2010)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: In the tradition of disney's classic holiday tales comes a heartwarming movie about the power of giving and the true meaning of christmas. Discover how the legendary friendship of Santa Claus and Santa Paws began in the inspiring original film, ...
Style: feel good, touching, humorous, semi serious, christmas classics
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, santa claus, christmas, pets, friendship, youth, animal life, orphan, save the day, young heroes, disorder, memory loss ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Prancer Returns (2001)
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer in the forest he is sure is Santa's beloved Prancer. Determined to return the creature to ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, youth, mischievous children, reindeer, young heroes, child as adult, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, danger, orphan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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An American Christmas Carol (1979)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized ...
Style: christmas classics, emotional, touching, atmospheric, serious
Audience: adult
Plot: christmas, christmas carol, scrooge, ghost, christmas season, great depression, xmas, charles dickens, winter, redemption, holiday, righting the wronged ...
Time: 1930s
Place: new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Babes in Toyland (1986)
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, West Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: 11-year-old Lisa has no time for toys; she's too busy taking care of her siblings and cooking for her mother. During the Christmas Eve blizzard, Lisa travels to Toyland in Wizard of Oz-like fashion and arrives just in time for a wedding. Young ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, christmas special, cute, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, child, christmas spirit, magical, christmas season, youth, rescue, danger, heroes, kidnapping, escapades ...
Time: 20th century
Place: ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.4
 41K
Jack Frost (1998)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: A father, who can't keep his promises, dies in a car accident. One year later, he returns as a snowman, who has the final chance to put things right with his son before he is gone forever.
Style: christmas special, sad, christmas classics, tear jerker, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, snowman, holiday, winter, magic, snow, boy, childhood, christmas season, xmas, reincarnation, loss of father ...
Time: 90s
Place: colorado, antarctic, denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A remake of the Dicken's classic, "A Christmas Carol" featuring a very nasty pop singer who gets a reality check by three Christmas spirits.
Style: sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good, christmas classics ...
Audience: family outing, teens
Plot: christmas, ghost, christmas carol, supernatural, unlikely couple, couples, workplace situations, change of heart, introspection, lifestyle, redemption, performer's life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
A Christmas Carol (1999)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, christmas horror, gothic horror, semi serious ...
Audience: pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, scrooge, ghost, miser, redemption, regret, christmas carol, holiday, clerk, benefactor, transformation, charles dickens ...
Time: 19th century, victorian era, 1840s, future, 1800s
Place: turkey, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
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The Little Vampire (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Netherlands, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Based on the popular books, the story tells of Tony who wants a friend to add some adventure to his life. What he gets is Rudolph, a vampire kid with a good appetite. The two end up inseparable, but their fun is cut short when all the hopes of the ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, melancholic, gothic ...
Audience: family outing, kids, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot: vampire, supernatural, child protagonist, transformation, boy, halloween, siblings relations, imaginary, school, heroes, friends, friendship ...
Time: year 2000, y2k
Place: scotland, europe
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100%
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Pollyanna (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 99 min.
Story: Pollyanna Whittier goes to live with her wealthy but bitter aunt after the tragic death of her father. Pollyanna shares a game her father taught her -- the 'Glad Game' -- in which everyone can find a silver lining in even the darkest ...
Style: touching, feel good, uplifting, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: friendship, optimism, teaching the ways of the world, small town life, countryside, young heroes, small town, hopes, orphan, friends, change of heart, family relations ...
Time: 20th century, victorian era, edwardian era, 1900s, 1910s
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.9
 189K
Cinderella (2015)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: UK, USA, Denmark, Canada, Italy
Duration: 105 min.
Story: When her father unexpectedly passes away, young Ella finds herself at the mercy of her cruel stepmother and her daughters. Never one to give up hope, Ella's fortunes begin to change after meeting a dashing stranger in the woods.
Style: fairy tale, romantic, sweet, feel good, cute ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot: cinderella, happy ending, princess, love, cinderella story, magic, prince, imaginary kingdom, kindness, love and romance, royalty, fall in love ...
Time: 19th century, 17th century, year 2015, victorian era
Place: europe, france
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Sound of Music (1965)
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 172 min.
Story: Film adaptation of a classic Rodgers and Hammerstein musical based on a nun who becomes a governess for an Austrian family.
Style: feel good, sentimental, christian film, touching, romantic ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night, teens, toddlers, kids ...
Plot: world war two, nanny, love, love story, love and romance, convent, mischievous children, beautiful scenery, nazi, nun, children, single father ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1938, 50s, 1900s ...
Place: austria, europe, alps
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Indian in the Cupboard (1995)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A nine-year-old boy gets a plastic Indian and a cupboard for his birthday and finds himself involved in adventure when the Indian comes to life and befriends him.
Style: touching, clever, light, epic, grindhouse ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, teen drama
Plot: native american, friendship, toys, coming of age, toy comes to life, magic, boy, child protagonist, toy soldier, cowboy, childhood, escapades ...
Time: 90s
Place: brooklyn new york city, new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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100%
 7.5
 127K
Field of Dreams (1989)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: Ray Kinsella is an Iowa farmer who hears a mysterious voice telling him to turn his cornfield into a baseball diamond. He does, but the voice's directions don't stop -- even after the spirits of deceased ballplayers turn up to play.
Style: inspirational, feel good, sweet, sad, uplifting ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: baseball, ghost, hearing voices, regret, farmer, farm, small town, father son relationship, time travel, supernatural, magic realism, childhood ...
Time: 80s, 20th century, year 1989, 70s
Place: iowa, minnesota, usa, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 7.8
 185K
Mary Poppins (1964)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 139 min.
Story: A magical nanny employs music and adventure to help two neglected children become closer to their father.
Style: feel good, touching, uplifting, sweet, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot: magic, nanny, female protagonist, imagination, mischievous children, kite, child, dancing, child's point of view, dog, childhood, children ...
Time: edwardian era, 20th century, 1910s
Place: london, england, united kingdom, europe, madagascar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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