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Hanukkah on Rye (2022)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A matchmaker connects Molly and Jacob, but their new romance is put to the test when they realize that they are competing deli owners. Will a Hanukkah miracle keep them together?
Style:
feel good, romantic comedy, lighthearted, humorous, sitcom, situational comedy, sentimental, romantic drama
Plot:
matchmaker, christmas, hanukkah, holiday romance, jewish culture, celebration, romantic rivalry, meet cute, miraculous event, reconciliation, competitiveness, wooing, family business, family drama, grandmother, doorman, second chance, family relations, delicatessen, christmas movie, chinese food, ends with a kiss
Time:
contemporary
Place:
lower east side manhattan new york city, new york, los angeles
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, romantic comedy, sentimental and lighthearted films with plots about christmas, holiday romance, second chance, christmas movie, holiday, small town and family drama mostly in Romance, Comedy and Drama genres. Some movies like Hanukkah on Rye: She's Making a List (2025), Undercover Holiday (2022), Christmas on Candy Cane Lane (2022), Under the Christmas Sky (2023), The Picture of Christmas (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance, Sport
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Alana Higman, a die-hard Kansas City Chiefs fan, and her family are competing to win the team's Fan of the Year contest, in a process judged by the director of fan engagement Derrick. As the pair spends time together, it's clear ...
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family friendly
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When returning home for the holidays, newly minted pop star Jaylen tells her protective family that Matt is her new beau, when in reality, he’s her overzealous security guard.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, captivating, dramatic, funny ...
Audience:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ivy Donaldson struggles with her mom's shadow, Muriel, the Christmas darling of Icicle Falls. She is now separated from her husband Rob and tries her best with her daughter, but after a series of strange but comical events everybody gets ...
Style:
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Plot:
christmas, holiday, heartwarming, large family, daughter, family life, divorce, celebration, mother and daughter, family reunited, family holiday, family relations ...
Similarity:
54%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Esteemed astrophysicist Kat, scheduled for her first trip into space but sidelined due to an accident, meets a new man at the local planetarium. Together, they must work hard to open a new exhibit by Christmas.
Style:
romantic comedy, feel good, uplifting, rom com, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, astrophysicist, meet cute, second chance, personal growth, astronomy, workplace romance, opposites attract, small town, resilience, recovery ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ryan is an elementary school teacher, who learns that he is colorblind. Michelle, an optometrist, and mother of one of his students, helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, romantic comedy, lighthearted, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, winter, school, self discovery, personal growth, single parent, children, small town, second chance, community, intimate ...
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52%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Ember Morley, a graphic designer and aspiring storybook illustrator in Manhattan is surprised when she learns she has inherited her Grandmother’s Christmas tree farm. She heads back to her hometown of Willow Hill in order to sell it before ...
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Ellie decides to go back home for Christmas, and help her dad with the candle-making business. Little does she know, however, that her father has charming, writer Logan staying with him, looking for inspiration for his writings.
Style:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Alex is an ambitious architect who is looking forward to celebrating Christmas at her mother’s beautiful Swiss Inn, until she finds out that her former best friend Beth who married Alex’s ex-boyfriend Jesse will also be there. Could a new ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, funny, entertaining, light ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, holiday romance, snow, heartwarming, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, love and romance, couple relations, love affair, love ...
Time:
2020s
Place:
switzerland, swiss alps
Similarity:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
Lily, the marketing guru of All Wrapped Up, believes the universe guides us to our destiny and it appears that it’s guiding her toward a celebrity realtor. However, when she feels an unexpected spark with journalist Sean Whitlock during an ...
Style:
romantic comedy, feel good, lighthearted, uplifting, sentimental ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Dave and Nell recount the Christmas where they unknowingly fell in love while working as rivals on a town festival, as their daughter’s boyfriend struggles to navigate his own relationship.
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Alice, a New York cooking show YouTuber journeys to an English castle to lay the remains of a WWII nurse in the gardens, and finds herself in the midst of the holiday charm of its proprietor.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, romantic comedy, lighthearted
Audience:
family friendly
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 112 min.
Story:
Kara and Jessie are two teenage girls from very different worlds, but with a little Christmas magic, they find they have much more in common than they ever imagined.
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Audience:
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Plot:
christmas, holiday, switching places, heartwarming, grandparents, parents and children, female protagonist, family relations, grandfather, grandmother, grandfather granddaughter relationship, grandmother granddaughter relationship ...
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ella returns to her hometown to mend fences with her fractured family. With the help of Griffin, her ex-boyfriend, she encourages her family to celebrate Christmas and Kwanzaa and to heal their past wounds before it’s too late.
Style:
feel good, thrilling, captivating, satirical, semi serious ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Place:
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Duration: 82 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Place:
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Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 94 min.
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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family friendly
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Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
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40%
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Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Audience:
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Country: Canada, USA
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Story:
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Audience:
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Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Lori really needs a break for Christmas. When she sees Patrick Jacobs, a widowed firefighter from Hudson, Wisconsin on a reality cooking show, she feels a strong attraction and decides to take a shot at love, but she's not the only one.
Style:
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Audience:
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Place:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Similarity:
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Maggie and Eric are busy parents of teenagers who embark on a trip to the home of Maggie’s widowed brother to celebrate Christmas. Everyone has different expectations of the perfect holiday. Through a series of transformative events, Maggie learns ...
Style:
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Plot:
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