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A Newport Christmas (2025)
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A Newport Christmas (2025)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A charitable and spirited Newport socialite in 1905 finds out her father intends for her to become engaged to a man she’s never met at the upcoming Christmas Eve ball. When she wishes for a different life, a man appears — and she somehow time-travels to 2025.
Style: feel good, historical romance, emotional, period drama
Plot: christmas eve, travel, holiday romance, self discovery, female protagonist, nostalgia, fish out of water, paradox, second chance, culture clash, sailing, socialite, female empowerment, historian, family drama, coming of age, magic realism, gilded age, christmas, time travel, holiday, christmas movie, schooner

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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, holiday, holiday romance, christmas movie, christmas eve, second chance and small town mostly in Romance, Drama and Fantasy genres. Some movies like A Newport Christmas: Our Holiday Story (2024), Santa Tell Me (2024), Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020), Baking Spirits Bright (2021), Long Lost Christmas (2022). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
A '90s Christmas (2024)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Workaholic lawyer Lucy Miller is celebrating her promotion alone on Christmas Eve when a mysterious rideshare experience transports her back to 1999. Reliving the holiday with her mom, sister and best friend - not to mention her high school crush - ...
Style: rom com, feel good, sentimental, uplifting, light hearted ...
Plot: christmas, christmas eve, second chance, holiday romance, travel, self discovery, mother daughter relationship, nostalgia, friendship, redemption, high school crush, family reunited ...
Time: 90s, year 1999
Similarity:
95%
Our Holiday Story (2024)
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:
92%
Santa Tell Me (2024)
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:
89%
Love, Lights, Hanukkah! (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: As Christina prepares her restaurant for its busiest time of year, she gets back a DNA test revealing that she’s Jewish. The discovery leads her to a new family and an unlikely romance over eight nights.
Style: entertaining, romantic, feel good, emotional
Plot: christmas, hanukkah, christmas eve, female protagonist, christmas season, love, cynic, celebration, jewish culture, cliche, jewish woman, christmas romance ...
Similarity:
87%
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Baking Spirits Bright (2021)
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:
83%
Long Lost Christmas (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Hayley is an interior designer who plans to surprise her recently widowed mother Patricia with the perfect holiday present: the extended family she knows her mom yearns for.
Style: entertaining, feel good, uplifting, heartfelt, touching ...
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, holiday, family reunited, family relations, gift, heartwarming, relationships, parents and children, designer, christmas present, mother daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
79%
Christmas Comes Twice (2020)
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:
73%
The Christmas Checklist (2022)
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:
69%
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A Royal Montana Christmas (2025)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A princess looking to decompress before the holidays heads to a Montana ranch and meets a charming guide.
Style: feel good, uplifting, romantic comedy
Plot: christmas, holiday romance, princess, self discovery, royalty, class differences, secret identity, family bonds, fish out of water, second chance, effeminate man, holiday ...
Place: montana
Similarity:
68%
Where Are You, Christmas? (2023)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: After Addy wishes for a year without Christmas, she wakes up in a black and white world and works with the town mechanic to restore Christmas.
Style: captivating, psychological, christmas special, thrilling, light hearted ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christmas, alternate reality, holiday, christmas wish, saving christmas, christmas spirit, fantasy world, christmas season, female protagonist, lifestyle change, changing lives, community ...
Similarity:
67%
We Met in December (2025)
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:
65%
A Holiday in Harlem (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: 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.
Style: psychological, captivating, entertaining, thrilling, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, businessman, relationships, christmas spirit, getting home, couples, love affair, christmas wish, christmas season, love interest, love and romance ...
Place: harlem
Similarity:
65%
Christmas in Mississippi (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Photographer Holly Logan returns to her hometown of Gulfport, Mississippi for Christmas. The town is resurrecting their traditional holiday light show for the first time since a terrible hurricane struck five years earlier. Holly volunteers to pitch ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, light, humorous, feel good
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: true love, christmas, male female relationship, uncle nephew relationship, holiday, festival, photographer, small town, goodhearted, hopes, second chance, unfulfillment ...
Place: los angeles
Similarity:
61%
Christmas Above the Clouds (2025)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: When a workaholic CEO tries to skip Christmas by flying to Australia, she’s in for the flight of her life. Haunted by her past, present, and future, she’s forced to confront the choices that led to her success yet left her flying solo. With the ...
Style: romantic comedy, uplifting, feel good, emotional, sentimental ...
Audience: adult
Plot: spirit, ghost, airplane, christmas, holiday, heartwarming, personal growth, self discovery, redemption, second chance, supernatural, families ...
Similarity:
60%
Gingerbread Miracle (2021)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Maya and Alex, old friends from high school, work together over Christmas to sell his uncle’s Mexican bakery famous for its gingerbread cookies that the patrons believe grants wishes.
Style: feel good, uplifting, light hearted, romantic comedy
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christmas, holiday, bakery, christmas romance, family business, female protagonist, friends to lovers, second chance, homecoming, community, inheritance, tradition ...
Place: new york, colorado
Similarity:
59%
Christmas on the Coast (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Hard-hearted New York novelist Dru Cassadine...known for her holiday romance stories (even though she is antilove and anti-Christmas)...is desperate to get her mojo back after a string of flops (and a not-so-subtle threat by her publisher that ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, romantic, feel good, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, christmas eve, mother daughter relationship, holiday, male female relationship, opposites attract, love and romance, christmas spirit, inspiration, complex characters, transformation, writers ...
Place: new york, south carolina
Similarity:
58%
Miss Christmas (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Holly Khun, known to Chicago as “Miss Christmas,” always finds a beautiful tree for the plaza, but this year’s was damaged, and the lighting ceremony is in 10 days. Hoping for a miracle, she combs through fan mail, and finds Joey McNary of ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, romantic, captivating ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas romance, snow, winter, life philosophy, family values, unlikely couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, tree, fall in love, adaptation ...
Place: chicago, wisconsin
Similarity:
56%
Unwrapping Christmas: Lily's Destiny (2024)
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:
53%
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A Song for Christmas (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Pop superstar Adelaide Kay is so fed up with her controlling manager that she sneaks off the tour bus after their latest squabble. Though exhilarated to be free, she finds herself stranded in the freezing cold of a Pennsylvania winter, with no money ...
Style: entertaining, funny, humorous, romantic, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas eve, winter, christmas romance, small town, adaptation, happy ending, transformation, unlikely couple, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, fame ...
Place: pennsylvania
Similarity:
52%
Designing Christmas (2022)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Follows Stella, who has worked for the past six years with Pablo as co-hosts of a house renovation show, but as they work together more closely than ever before, she gets complicated and unexplored feelings that may jeopardize everything.
Style: feel good, romantic, entertaining, sincere, light ...
Audience: family friendly, adult
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, couples, holiday romance, love, love affair, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love and romance, couple relations, male female relationship, relationships, holiday ...
Similarity:
52%
Christmas in Rockwell (2022)
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:
51%
Memories of Christmas (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Noelle was raised by the queen of Christmas. When she inherits her late mother’s house, she finds out that her mother had been hiring someone to decorate it — Dave. The deal is off, but Dave convinces Noelle to let him carry on the tradition. As ...
Style: feel good, romantic, humorous, entertaining, funny ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, transformation, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, happy ending, tradition, loss of mother, opposites attract, homecoming, character change, family drama, christmas spirit ...
Place: michigan
Similarity:
50%
Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Follows Jacquie Liddle as she and Tyler try to plan their perfect destination Christmas wedding. Naturally, Jacquie’s plans go awry when her boisterous family intervenes in her planning and her snooty wedding planner quits in protest. While ...
Style: feel good, entertaining, sweet, light, romantic ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, wedding, christmas eve, holiday romance, love and romance, family gatherings, christmas spirit, happy ending, lifestyle change, christmas season, boyfriend girlfriend relationship ...
Similarity:
50%
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A Biltmore Christmas (2023)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lucy is hired to write the script for a remake of a holiday movie. She joins a tour of the grounds and when she knocks an hourglass over, she finds herself transported back in time to 1946.
Style: feel good, psychological, captivating, thrilling, uplifting ...
Plot: christmas, time travel, screenwriter, holiday, male female relationship, female protagonist, travel, heartwarming, time jump, sent to the past, back in time, relationships ...
Time: 1940s, 20th century
Place: north carolina
Similarity:
46%
Holiday Hotline (2023)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Upon leaving London and working at a cooking hotline, Abby connects with an anonymous caller — a single dad who Abby unknowingly is also smitten with in real life.
Style: lighthearted, romantic comedy, uplifting, feel good, culinary ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: christmas, single father, holiday romance, heartwarming, meet cute, female protagonist, chemistry, workplace romance, secret admirer, urban, serendipity, personal growth ...
Place: turkey, london, chicago
Similarity:
46%
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If You Believe (1999)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Bah! Humbug! Susan Stone is definitely what you'd call a modern-day scrooge. She is a young, jaded book editor who is consumed with self-doubt and has lost the passion and drive that defined her childhood persona. On the verge of losing her job ...
Style: feel good, inspirational, uplifting, sentimental, therapeutic ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, female protagonist, self discovery, heartwarming, second chance, redemption, identity, childhood memory, book editor, imagination, female empowerment ...
Similarity:
44%
Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
Style: sentimental, serious, touching, realistic, psychological ...
Plot: christmas, rehabilitation, family drama, bittersweet, hopes, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, family relations, holiday, family life, parents and children, human nature, surgical operation ...
Time: 21st century
Similarity:
44%
Deck the Walls (2024)
Genre: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Rose, a Chicago-based interior designer, returns to her Ohio hometown to save her brother's Christmas charity house flip, only to face her past, rekindle an old rivalry with her brother's best friend, and unexpectedly find love and purpose.
Style: feel good, rom com, romantic comedy, lighthearted, inspirational
Plot: holiday romance, christmas, heartwarming, sibling relationship, family reunited, home renovation, getting home, personal growth, small town, female protagonist, second chance, nostalgia ...
Place: ohio, chicago
Similarity:
43%
The Christmas Doctor (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A week before Christmas, Dr. Alicia Wright is offered an assignment away from home. A mysterious man from her past journeys to find her before Christmas and brings with him a revelation that could change Alicia’s life forever.
Style: entertaining, sentimental, feel good, sweet, light
Audience: date night
Plot: holiday, christmas, christmas eve, father daughter relationship, doctor, christmas spirit, friendship, christmas season, clinic, african american, small town, christmas romance ...
Place: new york
Similarity:
42%
The Thanksgiving House (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Boston lawyer Mary Ross inherits a house in Plymouth, Mass., from her great-aunt and plans to sell it. But soon has a change of heart, which is complicated by local historian, Everett Mather who's research indicates that the houses location ...
Style: emotional, romantic, touching, realistic, semi serious ...
Plot: thanksgiving, holiday, christmas, autumn, historian, legacy, house, love and romance, family relations, family life, suburban life, holiday romance ...
Place: massachusetts
Similarity:
42%