Movies like A Christmas Story
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A Christmas Story (1983)
180K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Style:
cult classic, christmas special, funny, period piece, hilarious, christmas classics, sweet, erotic, sentimental, touching ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
christmas, bullying, childhood, holiday, boy, school, children, coming of age, christmas season, childhood memory, bully, little boy, father son relationship, brother brother relationship, child's point of view, boy with glasses, xmas, new year, nostalgia, child, hound dog, youth, child protagonist, narration, kids and family ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1983, 20th century, 40s
Place:
indiana, columbus ohio, usa, canada
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Most similar movies to A Christmas Story
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out humorous, feel good, light and realistic films with plots about family relations, family, children, youth, boy, childhood and parents and children mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like A Christmas Story: Problem Child (1990), How to Eat Fried Worms (2006), Yours, Mine and Ours (1968), Leave It to Beaver (1997), My Girl (1991). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Ben Healy (John Ritter) and his social climbing wife Flo adopt Junior a fun-loving seven year old. But they soon discover he's a little monster as he turns a camping trip, a birthday party and even a baseball game into comic nightmares. But is ...
Style:
funny, feel good, slapstick, hilarious, light ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids, teens, teen drama
Plot:
mischievous children, adoption, dark humor, chase, spoiled brat, troublemaker, disorder, children, child hero, foster child, boy, serial killer ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 80s
Place:
texas, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
During the first day of his new school year, a fifth grade boy squares off against a bully and winds up accepting a dare that could change the balance of power within the class.
Style:
humorous, feel good, realistic, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, teens, teen drama
Plot:
boy, youth, coming of age, bullying, bully, contests and competitions, friendship, parents and children, rivalry, love and romance, friends, family relations ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
texas
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
When a widower with 10 children marries a widow with 8, can the 20 of them ever come together as one big happy family?
Style:
light, sentimental, touching, feel good, funny ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, date night, teens
Plot:
children, childhood, adoption, sisters, fall in love, family life, marriage, doctor, parenthood, unlikely friendships, stereotypes, kids and family ...
Time:
20th century, 60s, victorian era
Place:
bay area, san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, sincere, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, family life, holiday, eccentric family, youth, coming of age, christmas time, happy ending, teaching the ways of the world, love, escapades, destiny ...
Time:
year 1946, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Cleavers are an all-American family living in Ohio - wise father Ward, loving mother June, teen-age son Wally and 8-year-old "Beaver" Theodore. Beaver hopes to get a bike as a gift from his father and to please him tries out for his school ...
Style:
melancholic, semi serious, feel good, humorous, epic ...
Audience:
kids, teens, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
brother brother relationship, when the parents are away, childhood, american football, family relations, happy ending, prank, family life, parents and children, nothing goes right, mischievous children, fish out of water ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 50s
Place:
ohio, usa
Similarity:
100%
97K
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Vada Sultenfuss is obsessed with death. Her mother is dead, and her father runs a funeral parlor. She is also in love with her English teacher, and joins a poetry class over the summer just to impress him. Thomas J., her best friend, is ...
Style:
sentimental, touching, feel good, crying, sweet ...
Audience:
girls' night, teens, kids, date night, family friendly ...
Plot:
coming of age, friendship, childhood, father daughter relationship, first love, children, single father, single parent, small town, kids and family, grief, teenager ...
Time:
70s, 90s, year 1972, year 1991, 20th century ...
Place:
pennsylvania, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family life, contests and competitions, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, father son relationship, coming of age, feud ...
Time:
1940s, year 1994, 1900s
Place:
columbus ohio, indiana
Similarity:
100%
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, sweet, touching, christmas classics, sentimental ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas season, childhood, father son relationship, christmas eve, christmas time, child custody, saving christmas, thanksgiving, toys ...
Time:
90s
Place:
illinois, chicago, north america
Similarity:
75%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story:
Spanky, Alfalfa, Buckwheat, and the other characters made famous in the Our Gang shorts of the 1920s and 1930s are brought back to life in this nostalgic children's comedy. When Alfalfa starts to question his devotion to the club's ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, sweet, not serious, inspirational ...
Audience:
girls' night, kids, teens, family friendly, family outing ...
Plot:
childhood, children, bully, child, gang, dog, child romance, mischievous children, rivalry, parents and children, friendship, rich kid ...
Time:
90s, year 1994, 20th century, 1930s
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Meet Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company is constantly busy at his job, and he also constantly disappoints his son, after he misses his son's karate exposition, his son tells Howard that he wants for Christmas is an action figure ...
Style:
humorous, hilarious, slapstick, melancholic, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, father son relationship, holiday, christmas time, chase, santa claus, postman, shopping, toys, motorcycle, neighbor, xmas ...
Time:
90s, year 2016, 20th century
Place:
minnesota, usa, minneapolis minnesota, canada
Similarity:
67%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole to ...
Style:
feel good, fairy tale, humorous, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, chick flick ...
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, reindeer, christmas eve, christmas time, winter, christmas season, xmas, prank, christmas party, children ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Ten-year-old Gabe was just a normal kid growing up in Manhattan until Rosemary Telesco walked into his life, actually into his karate class. But before Gabe can tell Rosemary how he feels, she tells him she will not be going to public school any ...
Style:
romantic, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, teens, chick flick, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
first love, children, coming of age, childhood love, couples, child romance, child, school, love, boy, friendship, love story ...
Time:
year 2005, 21st century
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
This is a made for tv adaptation of Barbara Robinson's novel The Best Christmas Pageant Ever. Loretta Swit of M*A*S*H stars as Grace Bradley who inherits the job of running her church's Christmas pageant when the woman who usually does it ...
Style:
christmas classics, christmas special
Plot:
christmas, naughty child, firefighter, fire, bully, change of heart, holiday, christmas season, dysfunctional family, child neglect, juvenile delinquent, petty theft ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Junior and his father, Ben, move from Cold River to Mortville. Junior becomes threatened by Ben's desire to date again and find a new mother for Junior, and sabotages each of his dates.
Style:
slapstick, humorous, disgusting, epic, dark comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens, teen drama
Plot:
child, children, childhood, school, prank, single parent, fall in love, parents and children, mischievous children, balloon, boy, girl ...
Time:
90s, 20th century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Mr. Wilson's ever-present annoyance comes in the form of one mischievous kid named Dennis. But he'll need Dennis's tricks to uncover a collection of gold coins that go missing when a shady drifter named Switchblade Sam comes to town.
Style:
feel good, funny, humorous, not serious, sweet ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, family friendly, toddlers ...
Plot:
mischievous children, children, prank, problem child, when the parents are away, happy ending, nothing goes right, childhood, kids and family, neighbor, boy, troublemaker ...
Time:
90s, year 1993, 20th century, future, 80s
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
193K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
An extraordinarily intelligent young girl from a cruel and uncaring family discovers she possesses telekinetic powers and is sent off to a school headed by a tyrannical principal.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, sweet, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
dysfunctional family, children, elementary school, supernatural ability, school, parents and children, mischievous children, teachers and students, disorder, childhood, child prodigy, adoption ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, 70s
Place:
america
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, family friendly, kids ...
Plot:
christmas, parents and children, family relations, family life, on the road, teenager, youth, christmas time, holiday, santa claus, children, christmas season ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, utah
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Steve Martin and Bonnie Hunt return as heads of the Baker family who, while on vacation, find themselves in competition with a rival family of eight children, headed by Eugene Levy,
Style:
feel good, hilarious, humorous, touching, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot:
large family, mischievous children, family vacation, childhood, children, family holiday, holiday, parents and children, family relations, teenage life, parenthood, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
chicago, new york, wisconsin
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Poland, USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Christmas is drawing near, but it’s not a happy time for David. After moving to a big city, his parents have been bogged down with work and forgotten the meaning of Christmas. David decides to change that. Together with Albert the Elf, who escaped ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boy, christmas, holiday, friendship, santa claus, love, parents, grandparents, winter, snow, boyhood, christmas eve ...
Place:
poland
Similarity:
100%
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, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, santa claus, court, lawyer, department store, thanksgiving, judge, mother daughter relationship, friendship, single mother, girl ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
737K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. But when a pair of bungling burglars set their sights on Kevin's house, the plucky kid stands ...
Style:
funny, light, humorous, not serious, slapstick comedy ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, home alone, mischievous children, child, children, youth, home invasion, child protagonist, kids and family, childhood, when the parents are away ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, year 1990, year 2016, 80s
Place:
chicago, illinois, north america, usa, france ...
Similarity:
15%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Ralphie is now all grown up and must deal with Christmas and all that comes with it…as a dad.
Style:
christmas special, entertaining, captivating, humorous, light ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, snow, new year, friends, family relations, children, parents and children, childhood, friendship, friend, christmas eve ...
Time:
year 1973, 70s
Place:
india, hungary, mexico, turkey, chicago
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.
Style:
feel good, satirical, humorous, christmas classics, funny ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, girls' night, teens
Plot:
holiday, christmas, christmas party, christmas time, suburban life, neighbor, cancer, farce, husband wife relationship, police, vacation, neighborhood ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
latin america, chicago, peru, usa, canada
Similarity:
29%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two New York City children who launch a hilarious scheme to get what they most want this holiday season.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, divorced parents, family relations, dysfunctional family, xmas, couples, young heroes, eccentric family, disorder, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
27%
15K
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced to ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, youth, school, ambition, desire for fame, disorder, mischievous children, artists and showbiz, nativity, christmas season, rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
england, europe
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A shy boy is unable to make friends in Yazoo City, Mississippi in 1942, until his parents give him a terrier puppy for his ninth birthday. The dog, which he names Skip, becomes well known and loved throughout the community and enriches the life of ...
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, sad, uplifting ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
dog, coming of age, childhood, small town, child's point of view, childhood memory, friendship, animal, boy, american football, children, world war two ...
Time:
1940s, 20th century
Place:
mississippi, usa, southern usa, oxford university
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of Munchkin-like people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty ...
Style:
fairy tale, funny, sweet, stylized, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
christmas, redemption, xmas, imaginary kingdom, dog, village, burglary, santa claus, little girl, fantasy world, surrealism, christmas time ...
Time:
year 2000, y2k, 2000s
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without ...
Style:
teen, light, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, teens, pre-teens, date night, family outing ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, youth, comedy of errors, on the road, disorder, getting home, nothing goes right, teenage life, fish out of water, friendship, self discovery ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, new york, usa, nebraska, iowa ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Artie and Diane agree to look after their three grandkids when their type-A helicopter parents need to leave town for work. Problems arise when the kids' 21st-century behavior collides with Artie and Diane's old-school methods.
Style:
humorous, feel good, sentimental, funny, touching ...
Audience:
family outing, teens, kids, adult
Plot:
family bonds, kids and family, punishment, youth, children, life philosophy, family relations, bully, boy, adoption, technology, eccentric family ...
Time:
year 2012, 50s, 1950s, 21st century
Place:
usa, atlanta georgia, san francisco
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
School is out and Greg is ready for the days of summer, when all his plans go wrong. What on earth is he going to do all summer?
Style:
humorous, touching, entertaining, feel good, sincere ...
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing, kids, teens, family friendly ...
Plot:
childhood, best friend, kids and family, mischievous children, child, friendship between boys, schoolboy, parents and children, lifestyle, dog, coming of age, amusement park ...
Time:
20th century, 21st century
Place:
usa, north america
Similarity:
26%
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