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Christmas in Canaan (2009)
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Christmas in Canaan (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.
Style: light, atmospheric, sentimental, captivating
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, childhood, racial prejudice, african american, farm, father son relationship, friendship, family relations, love, rivalry, society, holiday, youth, dog, fire, boy, bicycle, death of grandmother, interracial friendship, black american, arson, civil rights, racial issues, grandmother grandson relationship, black man ...
Time: 60s, 70s, 1960s
Place: texas, southern usa

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, touching, realistic and light films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, family relations, holiday, youth, friendship and father son relationship mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Christmas in Canaan: A Dog Named Christmas (2009), A Christmas Memory (1997), The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005), The Christmas Bunny (2010), Christmas for a Dollar (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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A Dog Named Christmas (2009)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family - and their whole rural community - to participate in a local shelter's inaugural "Adopt a Dog for Christmas ...
Style: touching, feel good, sincere, sentimental, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, adoption, boy dog relationship, animal, pets, holiday, family relations, friendship, social relations, society, social issues ...
Time: 50s
Place: vietnam
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95%
A Christmas Memory (1997)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A boy, Buddy, whose parents have split and whose mother is an actress in New York, has been dumped in the south at the small-town home of some older cousins, all of whom are unmarried.
Style: christmas classics, realistic, semi serious, uplifting, touching ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, friendship, small town, family relations, buddies, love and romance, small town life, countryside, adult virgin, family life, family gatherings ...
Time: 1930s
Place: southern usa, alabama
⇓ similarity ⇓
93%
The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: This holiday tale has all the elements of a classic heartwarmer--cuddly dogs, small town spirit, and even a full-fledged Christmas pageant. Set during the meager years of the Great Depression, 12 DOGS OF CHRISTMAS follows the story of Emma, a ...
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sentimental, touching
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: christmas, holiday, dog, animal life, lifestyle, pets, youth, school, love, adaptation, destiny, happy ending ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century, year 1931
Place: usa, pennsylvania, pittsburgh
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91%
The Christmas Bunny (2010)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The Christmas Bunny tells the story of a lonely foster child (Sophie Bolen) who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady (Florence Henderson), who runs a rabbit rescue in an ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, touching, captivating, sincere ...
Audience: family outing, kids, girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, friendship, nursing, family life, pets, coming of age, orphan, youth, farm, rabbit, holiday ...
Time: 21st century
Place: michigan, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
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Christmas for a Dollar (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story: America is in the midst of the Depression, and the Kamp family is struggling to get by, especially after Mrs. Kamp's untimely death. Now little Ruthie, with her mother gone and her father overwhelmed by doctor bills resulting from her ...
Style: sincere, feel good, touching, disturbing, christian film
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, father daughter relationship, family relations, horse, youth, father son relationship, poor family, love, siblings, poverty, teaching the ways of the world, family values ...
Time: 1930s
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The Sweetest Gift (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Two neighboring families in Florida, one black and one white, struggle with the problems of race, poverty, prejudice, and absent fathers, as their children become friends over the course of one summer and fall.
Style: realistic, serious, uplifting, emotional, touching ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, interracial relations, friendship, family relations, life is a bitch, society, discrimination, racism, friends, injustice, single mother ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: florida
⇓ similarity ⇓
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The Three Gifts (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jack Green inherited a southern Californian horse ranch and an all-natural toy factory in the barn. With his wife Cherie, he accepts taking in the three 'holy terrors' from his bossy aunt Rita's orphanage during renovations, until the ...
Style: sincere, light, feel good, sentimental, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, missing child, orphanage, adoption, horse ranch, orphan, father figure, lifestyle change, kids and family, bittersweet, family relations, responsibility ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
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Lily in Winter (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Lily Covington, a Manhattan housekeeper, embarks on a trip to the rural Alabama town of her youth. To Lily's surprise, her employer's nine-year-old son Michael stows away for the ride. Together, Lily and Michael realize just how alike and ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, emotional, touching, feel good ...
Plot: black, youth, family relations, interracial relations, switching roles, nanny, society, on the run, missing person, racism, kidnapping, bittersweet ...
Time: 90s
Place: alabama, new york, usa, southern usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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The Christmas Shoes (2002)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife ...
Style: serious, sentimental, sincere, hilarious, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, family relations, holiday, change of heart, self discovery, parents and children, winter, snow, xmas, miraculous event, mother son relationship, youth ...
Place: nova scotia, boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
The Christmas Tree (1996)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony, and New York's Rockefeller Center's head gardener Richard Reilly, who wants to fell a tree she's been growing for decades and move it to New York for Christmas ...
Style: christmas special
Plot: christmas, friendship, nun, holiday, inspiration, gardener, friend, tree, unlikely friendships, christmas movie, christmas tree
Place: new york, manhattan new york city
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84%
Booky & the Secret Santa (2007)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Booky does everything she can to make an enjoyable Christmas, for her family, during the depression as her father is out of work.
Style: realistic, touching, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, family life, parents and children, hopes, bittersweet, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems, friendship ...
Time: 1930s, 20th century
Place: canada, toronto ontario canada
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83%
Two Turtle Doves (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Dr. Sharon Hayes searches for a beloved family heirloom in a small Christmas town. When she unexpectedly discovers an adorable little girl and her disheartened father, she realizes that Christmas miracles really do happen.
Style: romantic, light, captivating, sincere
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas eve, christmas romance, father daughter relationship, love, tradition, friendship, christmas season, legacy, male female friendship, widower ...
Place: new york
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83%
Northpole: Open for Christmas (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it right before Christmas. Unbeknownst to Mackenzie, she receives some unexpected help from a team of ...
Style: feel good, light, humorous, sincere
Plot: christmas, holiday, female protagonist, childhood memory, love interest, inheritance, small town, snow, winter, friendship, love, society ...
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Christmas with Tucker (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: While coming to terms with his dad's recent passing in a tractor accident, 13-year-old George McCray is living with his grandparents on their Kansas farm. George misses his mom, Jill, who has moved to Minnesota to deal with her grief, but there ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, feel good
Plot: christmas, dog, golden retriever, human animal relationship, power of love, grief, death of father, grandfather, xmas, youth, faithfulness, grandmother ...
Time: 2010s
Place: minnesota, kansas
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Chilly Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, best friend, single parent ...
Time: 21st century
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82%
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Sounder (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story: The Morgans, a loving and strong family of Black sharecroppers in Louisiana in 1933, face a serious family crisis when the husband and father, Nathan Lee Morgan, is convicted of a petty crime and sent to a prison camp. After some weeks or months, ...
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, gothic ...
Audience: kids
Plot: coming of age, dog, racism, poverty, civil rights, black, african american, youth, family relations, bittersweet, farm, prison ...
Time: 1930s, year 1972, 1900s, 20th century
Place: louisiana, america, usa
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Dolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: An unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly's father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important ...
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Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)
Genre: Drama, Romance
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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: serious, touching, realistic, psychological, sentimental
Plot: christmas, hopes, rehabilitation, stepmother stepdaughter relationship, family drama, family relations, family life, parents and children, unlikely friendships, young man, friendship, bittersweet ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
82%
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Silver Bells (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
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Duration: 95 min.
Story: Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Style: psychological, captivating, disturbing
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Genre: Drama, Family
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Story: Zezé is an 8 year old boy who, although a naughty boy, has a good heart. He leads a very modest life, due to the fact that his father has been unemployed for a long time, and has the habit of having long conversations with a sweet orange tree which ...
Style: touching, sentimental, captivating, atmospheric, serious ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Cindy and Tom Baer-Neil have been married for nearly a year, each having lost their first spouse. With the holidays just around the corner, Cindy and Tom are determined to make the new family’s first Christmas perfect. But their respective ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
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Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
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Style: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, romantic ...
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
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Style: christmas classics, realistic, serious, uplifting, sincere ...
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Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
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Style: captivating, sincere, light, feel good
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