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Christmas Under the Lights (2024)
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Emily goes home to organize the Christmas carnival and meets a handsome artist. Starring Heather Hemmens and Marco Grazzini.
Style:
uplifting, feel good, sentimental, romantic comedy, lighthearted, romantic drama
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, holiday romance, winter, family reunited, small town, homecoming, heartwarming, second chance, carnival, meet cute, attraction, snow, intimate, wooing, ranch, animal rescue, christmas movie, christmas lights, holiday season
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, uplifting, sentimental and romantic comedy films with plots about christmas, second chance, small town, holiday romance, holiday, christmas movie and snow mostly in Drama, Romance and Comedy genres. Some movies like Christmas Under the Lights: She's Making a List (2025), A Christmas Love (2020), Our Holiday Story (2024), The Secret Gift of Christmas (2023), A Christmas Stray (2021). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Naughty or Nice inspector Isabel Haynes doesn’t anticipate anything out of the ordinary when she’s assigned to evaluate 11-year-old Charlie Duncan. However, soon, Isabel falls for Charlie’s widowed father Jason, which makes her question the ...
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, romantic comedy, uplifting, sentimental
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, heartwarming, single father, family drama, families, meet cute, mischievous children, widower, small town, ethical dilemma, snow ...
Similarity:
95%
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:
holiday, christmas, holiday romance, female protagonist, love triangle, winter, small business owner, chemistry, small town, fate, meet cute, self discovery ...
Similarity:
79%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story:
A couple struggling to make ends meet are given a new chance by the arrival of a mysterious letter that grants them one special wish during the holiday season.
Style:
light, romantic, captivating, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
couples, miraculous event, christmas, holiday, heartwarming, love and romance, holiday romance, second chance, wish come true, male female relationship, making a wish, love affair ...
Similarity:
78%
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 ...
Similarity:
77%
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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.
Style:
sweet, feel good, lighthearted, romantic comedy, uplifting ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, love story, small town, meet cute, nostalgia, family drama, snow, second chance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, boyfriend, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
75%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Erin joins her dad Doug for a Christmas in the family’s former hometown of Aurora on a mission that is part business – selling the family home – and major bucket list item for Erin to see the Aurora Borealis light up the Northern sky. Realtor ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, inspirational, sentimental, sweet
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
holiday romance, northern lights, father daughter relationship, small town, winter, hopes, faith, faith based, personal growth, community, bucket list, second chance ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Bonnie is a personal shopper who helps her new, widowed client Patrick reconnect with his young daughter. Though Bonnie and Patrick's ideas of shopping couldn't be more different, she is determined to get Patrick and his daughter ...
Style:
thrilling, romantic, captivating, christmas special, psychological ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
holiday, christmas, heartwarming, daughter, shopping, parent child relationship, love interest, christmas present, love affair, christmas spirit, christmas season, love and romance ...
Similarity:
68%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A man finds himself hopelessly stranded in a small town on Christmas Eve, unable to shake the stray dog who ran him off the road, and irresistibly drawn to the free-spirited, local veterinarian.
Style:
disturbing, captivating, sincere, romantic comedy, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, dog, pets, human animal relationship, holiday romance, holiday, veterinarian, owner dog relationship, small town, christmas season, christmas spirit ...
Similarity:
67%
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Taylor, a journalist, and Luke, in the military, share a special bond that grows between them over the course of several Christmases that they spend together and apart.
Style:
romantic drama, disturbing, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
christmas, christmas spirit, holiday romance, couple relations, relationships, romantic relationship, love story, love affair, male female relationship, satire, love interest, long distance relationship ...
Similarity:
63%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a scandal upends a famous TV mother’s life ahead of the holidays, she heads to a luxury Vermont resort for Christmas. Upon arriving, a booking error leads her to a quaint B&B owned by an astronomy teacher.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, sentimental, lighthearted, romantic comedy
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, hopes, heartwarming, second chance, personal growth, healing, small town, community, redemption, female protagonist, winter ...
Place:
vermont
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Joy, a successful designer, seeks a proposal at Christmas. In Wyoming's mountains, she finds what she truly needs when the man she loves sees her as just a friend.
Style:
uplifting, romantic, feel good, heartfelt, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, female protagonist, self discovery, personal growth, fashion designer, transformation, chance meeting, friendship, snowstorm, women, stranded ...
Place:
wyoming, new york, colorado
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
The former dancer Christine Sims when she temporarily returns to her hometown for the Fall Festival and learns that her family's General Store is struggling. In order to help save the business, Christine will need to dust off her dancing shoes ...
Style:
uplifting, feel good, lighthearted, sentimental, romantic comedy
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, dance, family business, homecoming, second chance, heartwarming, community, comeback, department store, personal growth, rebirth, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
59%
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:
feel good, entertaining, sincere, exciting, light ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, female protagonist, relationships, couples, hometown, love, fall in love, love and romance, family relations, male female relationship, small town ...
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When two strangers mistakenly pick up the wrong piece of luggage at the airport, each must use the intriguing contents within to track down the other's whereabouts in time for Christmas.
Style:
captivating, semi serious, thrilling, psychological, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly, teens
Plot:
christmas, holiday, holiday romance, escapades, relationships, love story, love affair, chance meeting, christmas spirit, christmas season, race against time, heartwarming ...
Similarity:
55%
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 ...
Similarity:
54%
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:
52%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When Cheryl visits the Christmas carnival in her hometown, she gets a second chance in life when she is transported to Christmas five years in the past.
Style:
feel good, light, romantic, humorous, lighthearted ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, time travel, holiday, holiday romance, second chance, one more chance, adulthood, christmas present, disorder, hopes, nothing goes right, couples ...
Similarity:
52%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
A Little Women’s Christmas is a contemporary retelling of the beloved classic novel, following the lives and loves of the March sisters in a small Tennessee town at Christmas.
Style:
heartfelt, sentimental, uplifting, feel good, romantic drama ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, small town, holiday, adaptation, family reunited, family drama, sisterhood, homecoming, personal growth, female empowerment, intimate, sisters ...
Place:
tennessee
Similarity:
50%
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Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Every year, Isabelle (Tatyana Ali) and her high school sweetheart Mike (Cornelius Smith Jr.), rocked their small town’s annual Christmas Eve Pageant with a sweet Christmas duet. But after graduation, Isabelle left to study at Juillard in New York ...
Style:
feel good, sincere, semi serious, captivating, romantic comedy ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, small town, christmas eve, love interest, ex boyfriend ex girlfriend relationship, writer's block, music teacher, holiday romance, second chance, high school sweetheart, reconciliation ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Two strangers meet on a layover and fall for one another — but forget to exchange numbers. The next day, they fly to Chicago separately, just miss each other, and “embark on separate quests to find one another."
Style:
romantic comedy, romantic drama, feel good, lighthearted, wistful
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holiday, christmas, meet cute, self discovery, serendipity, personal growth, urban, second chance, bittersweet, holiday romance, cross country, fall in love ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Mira Varma takes pride in her family's business of making fruitcakes, despite the decline in its popularity of once being America's most-gifted holiday confection. When Mira's parents decide to hire Brady Phillips and his high-powered ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting, feel good ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, family business, holiday, heartwarming, christmas spirit, coping, male female relationship, family relations, relationships, husband wife relationship, love affair, life ...
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Can theater director Lila rise to the challenge of putting on the perfect Christmas ballet, while also discovering her office Secret Santa in the process?
Style:
feel good, psychological, christmas special, captivating, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, xmas, theater, christmas spirit, celebration, marketing, winter, snow, christmas season, christmas present, female protagonist ...
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
When Olivia, a successful interior designer, finds an old letter from Santa promising she’ll meet the love of her life by Christmas Eve — and that his name will be Nick — she’s stunned to meet not one, but three guys named Nick.” In ...
Style:
romantic comedy, lighthearted, feel good, sentimental, uplifting ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, female protagonist, love triangle, career woman, workplace romance, self discovery, mistaken identity, snow, women, magic realism, couples ...
Similarity:
47%
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
A crotchety landlord (Syd Caesar) threatens to shutdown a candy shop operated by a widow (Katherine Helmond) operates a candy shop at Christmas time.
Style:
uplifting, sentimental, feel good, period piece
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, eviction, redemption, second chance, heartwarming, holiday, kindness, winter, forgiveness, generosity, compassion, landlord ...
Time:
80s, 1950s, 50s
Similarity:
47%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Lucy Mortimer, a successful attorney who returns with her mum to their old Christmas getaway - the Winterleigh Resort - which is on the brink of closing down for good. Much to her surprise, Lucy is reunited with her childhood Christmas dance partner ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, romantic, disturbing, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, love story, holiday, holiday romance, reunited friends, romantic triangle, lovers reunited, couples, hotel, dancing, love interest, dancer ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
When a marketing executive learns she’s short on the down payment for her dream condo, she’s informed that her great aunt left her half of a cat café in upstate New York. Hoping to sell it before the holidays, she then meets Dr. Ben Kane, the ...
Style:
light hearted, uplifting, romantic comedy, feel good
Audience:
adult
Plot:
holiday romance, christmas, small town, community, animal rescue, second chance, meet cute, fund raising, small business, opposites attract, personal growth, estate ...
Place:
bay area
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Jennifer is a tough crime beat reporter who gets the assignment of her life: to find the true meaning of Christmas. When she goes undercover in a department store as a 9 to 5 sales clerk from Black Friday to Christmas Eve, she finds her true calling ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, psychological, feel good, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, journalism, reporter, christmas eve, love, holiday romance, heartwarming, investigative journalism, investigative reporter, female reporter, christmas season, journalist ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A grieving daughter discovers a red envelope from her mom that contains a final request: for her to complete a Christmas Checklist of twelve activities before Christmas, the last one being “Find Love”.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, semi serious, satirical, captivating ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
christmas, bucket list, holiday, relationships, love affair, christmas spirit, satire, couples, christmas season, desire, heartwarming, hopes ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story:
A famous Hollywood actress returns to her hometown where she is enlisted to participate in a Christmas play which threatens her small peaceful village with the chaos of Hollywood.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday romance, small town, love affair, love, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, couples, love and romance, female protagonist, relationships, male female relationship ...
Similarity:
45%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Ashley Seever returns home for the holidays hoping to reconnect with her high school sweetheart Grant, she soon meets his new girlfriend. In an attempt to escape the embarrassment, she and her best friend Liam fake their own holiday ...
Style:
romantic comedy, sweet, entertaining, disturbing, feel good ...
Audience:
date night, family friendly
Plot:
christmas, love affair, holiday, escapades, holiday romance, fake dating, fake relationship, love and romance, male female relationship, fall in love, couples, opposites attract ...
Similarity:
45%
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