Movies like The Christmas Star
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The Christmas Star (1986)
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, holiday, suburbs, prison, escape, misfit, family relations, parents and children, vengeance, store, redemption, mischievous children, on the run, suburban life, hidden identity, nothing goes right, forgery, mistaken identity, disorder, fish out of water, child in peril, dishonesty, eccentric family, cons and scams ...
Time:
80s
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about family relations, christmas, christmas movie, youth, disorder, holiday and parents and children mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Christmas Star: Mr. Christmas (2004), Booky & the Secret Santa (2007), Christmas Angel (2012), Once Upon a Christmas (2000), Our First Christmas (2008). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
95%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
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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:
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family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, youth, unemployment, family relations, parents and children, family life, hopes, bittersweet, friendship, family gatherings, wish come true, family problems ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young girl tries to prove that the mysterious old lady next door is really an angel, when some of the neighborhood kids’ Christmas wishes. Olivia is not like most fifth graders. She is being raised by Melinda, a single mother who works at a ...
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realistic, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Plot:
youth, single parent, christmas, wish come true, holiday, parents and children, friendship, family relations, friends, christmas eve, faith, christian ...
Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
84%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Can Santa's daughter turn naughty to nice and save Christmas?
Style:
touching, uplifting, semi serious, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, family life, heroic mission, eccentric family, save the day, mischievous children, one last chance, disorder, family problems, parents and children, family gatherings, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
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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 ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, feel good, funny, light
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, conflict, holiday, brother brother relationship, party, life philosophy, parenthood, mischievous children, family relations, family tradition, husband wife relationship, adaptation ...
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81%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
81%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife ...
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feel good, touching, semi serious, realistic
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
80%
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
79%
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:
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Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
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, touching, sentimental
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
78%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
Oscar the Grouch is visited by three ghosts in an attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
Style:
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77%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be like if every day were Christmas! You'll enjoy lots of songs and holiday cheer with Elmo and his ...
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christmas, puppet, puppetry, family relations, estrangement, wizards and magicians, disorder, unfulfilled love, road not taken, family gatherings, fish out of water, hidden identity ...
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
76%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience:
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Plot:
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Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Story:
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Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
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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:
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Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Genre: Family, Drama, Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
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Style:
semi serious, touching, feel good, humorous
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
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74%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
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Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
72%
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
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Time:
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69%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
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69%
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Country: Canada, USA
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Story:
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69%
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Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 48 min.
Story:
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