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Elf (2003)
 7.1
 310K
Elf (2003)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic publisher.
Style: funny, feel good, humorous, christmas special, entertaining, light, hilarious, touching, christmas classics, sweet ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, family friendly, girls' night, pre-teens, adult ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, father son relationship, santa claus, north pole, christmas season, corporate world, adoption, snow, winter, elf, christmas eve, man child, toys, parenthood, orphan, tickling, xmas, fantasy world, creativity, fish out of water, new year, baby, sarcasm ...
Time: year 2003, 2000s, 21st century, contemporary
Place: new york, empire state building manhattan new york city, usa, manhattan new york city, south pole, canada, seattle
Keyword: preschoolers, crawling, candy, challenge, buddy movie

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, entertaining and light films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, holiday, christmas season, family relations, santa claus and disorder mostly in Comedy, Family and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Elf: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000), Noelle (2019), Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992), Fred Claus (2007), Miracle on 34th Street (1994). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
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, stylized, humorous, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, santa claus, imaginary kingdom, dog, village, surrealism, holiday, silly humor, snow, xmas, transformation, loneliness ...
Time: year 2000, y2k, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.3
 27K
Noelle (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
Style: light, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: christmas, christmas eve, elf, holiday, fish out of water, family business, new year, disorder, north pole, buddies, santa claus, magic ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, ...
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, hilarious, slapstick ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, girls' night, chick flick ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, children, hotel, home alone, childhood, vacation, child, young heroes, mischievous children, snow, trap ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 1992
Place: new york, florida, manhattan new york city, chicago, miami
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 5.7
 48K
Fred Claus (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 116 min.
Story: Fred Claus and Santa Claus have been estranged brothers for many years. Now Fred must reconcile his differences with his brother whom he believes overshadows him. When an efficiency expert assesses the workings at the North Pole and threatens to ...
Style: sentimental, humorous, light, melancholic, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, santa claus, snow, toys, sibling relationship, husky dog, imaginary, happy ending, family relations, xmas, north pole ...
Time: future, year 2007, year 1993, 90s, 2000s ...
Place: chicago, nova scotia, london, paris france, illinois ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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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%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story: Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.
Style: light, atmospheric, sincere, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, family friendly
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, santa claus, reindeer, holiday, firefighter, children, loss of father, new year, winter, snow, xmas ...
Time: 2010s, future, year 2009, 90s, 20th century
Place: massachusetts, chicago, mexico city
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Are We There Yet? (2005)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: The fledgling romance between Nick, a playboy bachelor, and Suzanne, a divorced mother of two, is threatened by a particularly harrowing New Years Eve. When Suzanne's work keeps her in Vancouver for the holiday, Nick offers to bring her kids to ...
Style: funny, humorous, feel good, slapstick, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, teens, kids, girls' night, family friendly ...
Plot: children, road trip, mischievous children, on the road, family relations, nothing goes right, couple relations, parents and children, disorder, single parent, love and romance, family life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: oregon, vancouver, usa, canada, portland oregon
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
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, humorous, funny, satirical, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family friendly
Plot: holiday, christmas, christmas party, suburban life, neighbor, farce, cancer, husband wife relationship, xmas, disorder, family gatherings, nothing goes right ...
Time: 2000s
Place: chicago, latin america, peru, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
Santa Buddies (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA, UK
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Puppy Paws (the fun-loving son of Santa Paws) gets bored, he finds Budderball on Santa's naughty list and figures he's just the dog to show him how to be an ordinary pup. When the magical Christmas Icicle starts to melt however, and ...
Style: feel good, fairy tale, sweet, light, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, preschool
Plot: dog, christmas, santa claus, holiday, owner dog relationship, pets, save the day, hopes, happy ending, christmas present, xmas, stupid kid ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a ...
Style: feel good, christmas special, humorous, christmas classics, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, reindeer, christmas eve, christmas season, xmas, time travel, north pole, hidden identity, nothing goes right, disorder ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
 6.0
 82K
Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Brad and Dusty must deal with their intrusive fathers during the holidays.
Style: light, funny, feel good, humorous, sentimental ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, children, ex husband ex wife relationship, husband wife relationship, father son relationship, awkward situation, father son conflict, family relations, father and son, parents and children, relationships ...
Time: year 2017
⇓ similarity ⇓
67%
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
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: fairy tale, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, pre-teens, family outing, preschool
Plot: santa claus, christmas, holiday, reindeer, christmas season, xmas, prank, christmas party, christmas eve, children, winter, mistaken identity ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
 6.6
 50K
Spirited (2022)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story: Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself ...
Style: entertaining, humorous, captivating, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas season, ghost, boss, lost love, greed, christmas eve, snow, evil man, loneliness, misanthrope ...
Time: victorian era, 2020s, 1800s, 80s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Perfect Holiday (2007)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A young girl turns to a department store Santa in the hopes that he will help find a new husband for her divorced mother.
Style: sweet, feel good, humorous, light, black comedy ...
Audience: kids, family outing, date night
Plot: christmas, santa claus, children, single parent, happy ending, couple relations, holiday, writers, african american, christmas party, brother brother relationship, farce ...
Time: year 2007
Place: new jersey
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a ...
Style: light, humorous, surreal, melancholic, entertaining ...
Audience: teens, kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, unlikely friendships, violence, family relations, prank, mischievous children, save the day, partner, nothing goes right, goofy hero, misfit ...
Time: future, year 1988, 80s
Place: orlando florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
All I Want for Christmas (1991)
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, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot: christmas, family relations, dysfunctional family, divorced parents, holiday, xmas, santa claus, couples, young heroes, eccentric family, disorder, love and romance ...
Time: 20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place: new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
 7.7
 649K
Home Alone (1990)
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, family friendly, toddlers, chick flick ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, mischievous children, home alone, youth, children, home invasion, kids and family, child protagonist, winter, child, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s, 20th century, year 2016, 80s
Place: chicago, illinois, usa, france, paris france ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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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 ⇓
25%
Santa's Boot Camp (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When kids become so bratty and self-centered that Santa's elves go on strike, Santa, in desperation, must bring six unscrupulous youths to his boot camp to help save Christmas.
Style: entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, spoiled brat, elf, santa claus, children, teenage boy, theft, adventure hero, teenager, xmas, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, christmas special, hilarious ...
Audience: kids, teens, family friendly
Plot: christmas, holiday, parents and children, winter, christmas season, dysfunctional family, vacation, snow, family gatherings, xmas, culture clash, creativity ...
Time: 80s, year 2016, 20th century
Place: chicago, illinois, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Mr. Popper's Penguins (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Jim Carrey stars as Tom Popper, a successful businessman who’s clueless when it comes to the really important things in life...until he inherits six “adorable” penguins, each with its own unique personality. Soon Tom’s rambunctious roommates ...
Style: funny, humorous, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, teens ...
Plot: penguins, bird, pets, children, animal, kids and family, animal life, family relations, animal training, parents and children, beautiful scenery, silly humor ...
Time: 2010s, year 2011, 70s, 80s, year 1981 ...
Place: new york, madagascar, antarctic, usa, manhattan new york city ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Surviving Christmas (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Drew Latham is an executive leading an empty, shallow life with only wealth on his side. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, he revisit his old childhood home in the hope of reliving some old holiday memories – but he finds that the house in ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, christmas classics, hilarious ...
Audience: chick flick, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, dysfunctional family, christmas season, loneliness, suburbs, family relations, farce, new year, xmas, eccentric family, looking for love ...
Time: year 2004
Place: illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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 6.8
 272K
Hook (1991)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 142 min.
Story: The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. But a trip to see Granny Wendy in London, where the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps ...
Style: fairy tale, sweet, stylized, feel good, inspirational ...
Audience: family friendly, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama ...
Plot: childhood, pirate, kidnapping, magic, children, fairy, good versus evil, father son relationship, rescue, peter pan, fantasy world, destiny ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: fictional island, madagascar, california, new york, san francisco ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Fairly Odd Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 68 min.
Story: After Timmy Turner causes Santa amnesia he must become the new Santa in order to save Christmas.
Style: christmas special, feel good, humorous, captivating, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, wish come true, imaginary, friends, disorder, save the day, christmas season, youth, list, north pole, penguins ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Princess Bride (1987)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: In this enchantingly cracked fairy tale, the beautiful Princess Buttercup and the dashing Westley must overcome staggering odds to find happiness amid six-fingered swordsmen, murderous princes, Sicilians and rodents of unusual size. But even death ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, touching, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens, date night, chick flick ...
Plot: revenge, true love, love and romance, sword fight, imaginary kingdom, swashbuckler, friendship, princess, pirate, prince, save the princess, medieval ...
Time: middle ages, 20th century, victorian era, year 1987, 15th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
Style: sweet, feel good, fairy tale, light, christmas special
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas season, xmas, workaholic, kids and family, culture clash, life philosophy, vacation, christmas present, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
 7.3
 132K
Paddington (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, France, USA, China
Duration: 95 min.
Story: After a deadly earthquake destroys his home in Peruvian rainforest, a young bear makes his way to England in search of a new home. The bear, dubbed "Paddington" for the london train station, finds shelter with the family of Henry and Mary ...
Style: touching, feel good, sweet, colorful, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens, toddlers ...
Plot: kids and family, bear, children, animal, adoption, talking animal, anthropomorphic animal, goofy hero, childhood, animal life, heartwarming, friendship ...
Time: 2010s, year 2014, 21st century
Place: england, united kingdom, london, europe, peru
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
 6.4
 2K
Snow (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: Set in San Ernesto, California with only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden needs to rescue a young reindeer from a zoo.
Style: semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, fish out of water, escapades, daring rescue, fall in love, hidden identity, love and romance, dishonesty, race against time, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Call Me Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: If She's Going To Save Christmas, She's Got Some Big Shoes To Fill.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, haunted by the past, fish out of water, nothing goes right, redemption, ghost, disorder, misfit, goofy hero, family life, destiny ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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