Movies like How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
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How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 26 min.
Story: Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.
Style: christmas special, colorful, atmospheric, christmas classics, feel good, semi serious, sweet, cult classic, humorous, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, family outing, toddlers, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, dog, winter, obsession, snow, christmas eve, social misfits, imaginary, fish out of water, xmas, change of heart, christmas season, materialism, new year, saving christmas, grinch, swing, happiness, vacation, heart, child, surrealism, hobo, compassion ...
Time: year 1966, 60s, 1960s
Keyword: preschoolers, strawberry, challenge

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Most similar movies to How the Grinch Stole Christmas!

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, christmas special and semi serious films with plots about christmas, holiday, xmas, christmas movie, christmas tree, disorder and christmas season mostly in Family, Animation and Comedy genres. Some movies like How the Grinch Stole Christmas!: The Grinch (2018), The Polar Express (2004), Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970), The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974), Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Grinch (2018)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: France, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration.
Style: light, 3d animation, touching, entertaining, fairy tale ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing, teens, adult
Plot: christmas, snow, holiday, regret, dog, thief, winter, best friend, christmas season, optimism, small town, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Polar Express (2004)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 100 min.
Story: When a doubting young boy takes an extraordinary train ride to the North Pole, he embarks on a journey of self-discovery that shows him that the wonder of life never fades for those who believe.
Style: feel good, computer animated, fairy tale, motion capture, christmas classics ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, girls' night, toddlers ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, magic, train, railway, dream, santa claus, snow, winter, xmas, good versus evil, boy ...
Time: year 2004, 20th century, 50s, 1950s
Place: michigan
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town (1970)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 48 min.
Story: A postman, S.D. Kluger, decides to answer some of the most common questions about Santa Claus, and tells us about a small baby named Kris who is raised by a family of elf toymakers named Kringle. When Kris grew up, he wanted to deliver toys to the ...
Style: christmas classics, feel good, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, mischievous children, stop motion, family relations, escapades, danger, good versus evil, imaginary, rescue, friendship ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Japan
Duration: 47 min.
Story: Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his glowing nose, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into ...
Style: christmas classics, sweet, touching, claymation, christmas special ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: stop motion, christmas, holiday, reindeer, imaginary kingdom, winter, toys, xmas, christmas season, island, snow, misfit ...
Time: 60s
Place: fictional island
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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'Twas the Night Before Christmas (1974)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
Story: When a town learns that Santa Claus has struck it off his delivery schedule due to an insulting letter, a way must be found to change his mind.
Style: christmas classics, feel good, humorous, semi serious, intellectual ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas season, talking mouse, new year's eve, christmas spirit, christmas wish, xmas, santa claus, small town, delivery, fish out of water ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa, new york state, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 51 min.
Story: Feeling forgotten by the children of the world, old St. Nick decides to skip his gift-giving journey and take a vacation. Mrs. Claus and two spunky little elves, Jingle and Jangle, set out to see to where all the season's cheer has disappeared. ...
Style: christmas classics, claymation, humorous, feel good, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, stop motion, xmas, christmas season, winter, mischievous children, christmas wish, christmas spirit, puppet, happiness, cat ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, South Korea
Duration: 66 min.
Story: Mickey, Minnie, and their famous friends Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto gather together to reminisce about the love, magic and surprises in three wonder-filled stories of Christmas past.
Style: anthology, christmas classics, light hearted, light, christmas special ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: mickey mouse, christmas, santa claus, xmas, winter, time travel, holiday, christmas spirit, christmas season, snow, sibling relationship, cigar ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Arthur Christmas (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in one night. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ...
Style: humorous, stylized, touching, exciting, entertaining ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, girls' night ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, redemption, race against time, snow, escapades, christmas season, magic, runaway, good versus evil, magical ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: tanzania, idaho, cuba, toronto ontario canada, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge ...
Style: feel good, christmas special, 3d animation, colorful, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, family friendly, toddlers, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, ghost, scrooge, redemption, snow, christmas spirit, greed, christmas eve, regret, victorian england, life changing experience ...
Time: 1840s, victorian era, future, 1800s, year 2009 ...
Place: england, europe, united kingdom, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
50%
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 ⇓
14%
Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: After mis-hearing a radio broadcast about Santa canceling his Christmas trip due to an injured reindeer, Olive the dog decides to travel to the North Pole and volunteer to be a replacement. Unfortunately, Olive must deal with an evil postman ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, christmas special, computer animated
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, santa claus, winter, furry, north pole, surrealism, holiday, partner, child in peril, friends, disorder, buddies ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Frosty the Snowman (1969)
Genre: Animation, Short, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
Story: A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing that newly-living Frosty will melt in spring unless he takes refuge in ...
Style: christmas classics, sweet, christmas special, anime, crying ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, xmas, magic, friendship, christmas season, snow, good versus evil, snowman, winter, school, christmas wish ...
Time: 60s
Place: antarctic
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
Winnie the Pooh: A Very Merry Pooh Year (2002)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, France, Taiwan, South Korea
Duration: 65 min.
Story: It's Christmastime in the Hundred Acre Wood and all of the gang is getting ready with presents and decorations. The gang makes a list of what they want for Christmas and send it to Santa Claus - except that Pooh forgot to ask for something. So ...
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, christmas special, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, winnie the pooh, friendship, tiger, rabbit, goofy hero, mischievous children, kangaroo, escapades, young heroes, best friend, partner ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
An All Dogs Christmas Carol (1998)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 73 min.
Story: Charlie B. Barker and Itchy Ford are back with Sasha and the gang having a Dicken's of a time as they try to save Christmas from Carface and an evil spirit that wishes to use dogs all over the world to ruin Christmas forever.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, exciting, semi serious, feel good ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, dog, christmas carol, xmas, holiday, scrooge, furry, cartoon dog, partner, friends, disorder, family relations ...
Place: san francisco
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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Saving Santa (2013)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA, India
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A lowly stable elf finds that he is the only one who can stop an invasion of the North Pole by using the secret of Santa's Sleigh, a TimeGlobe, to travel back in time to Save Santa - twice.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, fairy tale, exciting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, reindeer, santa claus, save the day, fish out of water, danger, escapades, disorder, time travel, xmas, when the parents are away, christmas spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 25 min.
Story: When Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during the Christmas season, Lucy suggests that he become director of the school Christmas pageant. Charlie Brown accepts, but is a frustrating struggle. ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, sweet, feel good, touching ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, peanuts, christmas season, snow, xmas, winter, dog, tree, melancholy, best friend, children ...
Time: year 1965
Place: minnesota
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July (1979)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Long ago the Lady Borealis placed the evil Winterbolt under a magic spell, and put the last of her magic into the nose of a newborn reindeer: Rudolph. But now Winterbolt's awake. He gives Frosty's family magic amulets to keep them from ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: holiday, stop motion, christmas, xmas, christmas season, reindeer, winter, christmas wish, christmas spirit, circus, curses spells and rituals, disorder ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 76 min.
Story: Tired of scaring humans every October 31 with the same old bag of tricks, Jack Skellington, the spindly king of Halloween Town, kidnaps Santa Claus and plans to deliver shrunken heads and other ghoulish gifts to children on Christmas morning. But as ...
Style: gothic, dark fantasy, dark, cult classic, atmospheric ...
Audience: kids, family friendly, toddlers, family outing, horror for children ...
Plot: holiday, christmas, halloween, stop motion, imaginary, goth, music, imagination, good versus evil, objects come to life, imaginary kingdom, fantasy world ...
Time: 90s, year 1993
⇓ similarity ⇓
33%
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Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer & the Island of Misfit Toys (2001)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada, Hong Kong
Duration: 74 min.
Story: When the mysterious Toy Taker grabs all of Santa's toys, it looks like the children will miss out on Christmas. But everyone's favorite reindeer, Rudolph, comes to the rescue with his lovable friends: Hermey the elf, Yukon Cornelius the ...
Style: christmas special, feel good, semi serious, humorous, stylized ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, reindeer, friends, disorder, misfit, escapades, obnoxious boss, imaginary, imaginary kingdom, partner, contests and competitions, friendship ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 53 min.
Story: An animated, magical, musical version of Dickens' timeless classic "A Christmas Carol." The nearsighted Mr. Magoo doesn't have a ghost of a chance as Ebenezer Scrooge, unless he learns the true meaning of Christmas from the three ...
Style: christmas horror, christmas classics, semi serious, touching, humorous ...
Audience: teens, family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, scrooge, christmas carol, xmas, christmas spirit, charles dickens, supernatural, redemption, christmas season, miser, gold ...
Time: 20th century, future
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
A Miser Brothers' Christmas (2008)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 45 min.
Story: A Miser Brothers' Christmas is a sequel to the classic 1974 television special The Year Without a Santa Claus. The stop-motion animated special, produced by Warner Brothers Television Animation (owners of the post-1973 Rankin/Bass animated ...
Style: humorous, christmas special, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, save the day, family relations, good versus evil, miser, escapades, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry, brother brother relationship, magic ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Pinocchio's Christmas (1980)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 49 min.
Story: Geppetto prepare for Christmas, Pinocchio joins a puppet show to earn money for a present. There he meets and elopes with the beautiful girl puppet Julietta, leaving Geppetto alone and worried.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, stop motion, pinocchio, christmas wish, xmas, holiday, woods, family relations, friends, disorder, danger, imaginary ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 26 min.
Story: When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his ...
Style: feel good, not serious, humorous, 3d animation, christmas special ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, ice age, holiday, father daughter relationship, north pole, partner, animal life, friendship, legends and myths, spoiled brat, silly humor, escapades ...
Time: prehistory, 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Jack Frost (1979)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story: In this delightful animated tale, Pardon-me Pete (Buddy Hackett), the official groundhog of Groundhog Day, tells the story of Jack Frost, who falls in love with a beautiful young woman and begs Father Winter to make him human so that she can see ...
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, semi serious, exciting ...
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, stop motion, xmas, winter, christmas season, christmas wish, christmas spirit, name calling, fall in love, ventriloquist dummy, groundhog day ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
Genre: Animation, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story: Belle prepares the castle for Christmas against Beast's wishes, trying to bring him happiness for the season...
Style: christmas special, fairy tale, christmas classics, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, beauty and the beast, holiday, disney princess, beast, beauty, princess, xmas, imaginary kingdom, love, storytelling, snow ...
Time: 90s, 18th century
Place: france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Yogi's First Christmas (1980)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: Yogi, Boo Boo and Cindy are awakened from hibernation and join their friends' Christmas activities while interfering with 2 villians' efforts to ruin the holiday.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, yogi bear, xmas, unhappiness, christmas spirit, spoiled brat, ice fishing, recluse, disorder, friends, animal life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Rudolph's Shiny New Year (1976)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Japan
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Rudolph must find Happy, the baby new year, before the midnight of New Year's Eve.
Style: christmas special, christmas classics, claymation, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience: kids, toddlers, family outing
Plot: holiday, christmas, stop motion, time travel, new year's eve, new year, winter, christmas season, xmas, time, runaway, reindeer ...
Time: 20th century, prehistory, 18th century, 70s, 11th century ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Shrek the Halls (2007)
Genre: Animation, Short, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 21 min.
Story: The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to take a crash course ...
Style: christmas special, humorous, witty, fairy tale, not serious ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, teens
Plot: holiday, christmas, shrek, friendship, fish out of water, escapades, family gatherings, family life, odd couple, christmas season, xmas, cat ...
Time: 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Mickey's Twice Upon a Christmas (2004)
Genre: Animation, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 68 min.
Story: Santa Claus, Mickey Mouse and all his Disney pals star in an original movie about the importance of opening your heart to the true spirit of Christmas. Stubborn old Donald tries in vain to resist the joys of the season, and Mickey and Pluto learn a ...
Style: light, anthology, 3d animation, computer animated, light hearted ...
Audience: kids, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, anthropomorphism, cartoon mouse, family relations, friendship, self discovery, mickey mouse, friends, imaginary, uncle nephew relationship, snow ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Merry Madagascar (2009)
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min.
Story: The Zoosters are back in an all-new holiday adventure. When Santa and his reindeer crash onto the island of Madagascar it's up to Alex, Marty, Gloria, Melman and those wacky penguins to save Christmas. Get ready for a sleigh full of laughs in ...
Style: christmas special, funny, melancholic, entertaining, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, teens, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, amnesia, friendship, escapades, christmas present, disorder, imaginary, hypochondriac, save the day, animal life, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: madagascar, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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