Movies like The Christmas Star

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The Christmas Star (1986)
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The Christmas Star (1986)
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: christmas classics, touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, vintage
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, youth, xmas, suburbs, prison, escape, misfit, family relations, parents and children, chases and races, vengeance, store, danger, redemption, mischievous children, on the run, suburban life, hidden identity, nothing goes right, forgery, mistaken identity, disorder, fish out of water, child in peril ...
Time: 80s

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Most similar movies to The Christmas Star

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about christmas, family relations, christmas movie, holiday, youth, disorder and xmas mostly in Family, Drama and Comedy genres. Some movies like The Christmas Star: Mr. Christmas (2004), Santa Buddies (2009), The Santa Trap (2002), Christmas Angel (2012), Booky & the Secret Santa (2007). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Mr. Christmas (2004)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story: A young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary can't afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. The surprise, uplifting ending is guaranteed to put even the ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, realistic, touching
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, road not taken, boss and employee, hopes, redemption, obnoxious boss, ghost, disorder, family relations, family life, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
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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
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100%
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A boy witnesses his mother kissing what he believes to be is the real Santa Clause and retaliates with mischief.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, exciting, melancholic ...
Audience: date night, family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, single parent, family gatherings, fish out of water, family relations, disorder, couple relations, mischievous children, couples, nothing goes right ...
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47%
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The Santa Trap (2002)
Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve and Judy Emerson is told there's no such thing as Santa. Determined to prove her family wrong, she sets an elaborate trap and successfully captures Santa Claus himself. But her parents think the jolly old elf is a ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, captivating, feel good
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: christmas, mischievous children, comedy of errors, disorder, family life, misfit, fish out of water, mistaken identity, save the day, hidden identity, nothing goes right, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: california, new england, connecticut
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44%
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Christmas Angel (2012)
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 ...
Style: realistic, feel good, touching, semi serious, christian film
Audience: family outing, girls' night, pre-teens, kids
Plot: holiday, single parent, youth, christmas, wish come true, friendship, parents and children, family relations, friends, christmas eve, faith, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
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44%
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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43%
Once Upon a Christmas (2000)
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, family problems, disorder, parents and children, one last chance, dysfunctional family, family gatherings ...
Time: 90s, 20th century
Place: canada
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42%
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Prancer (1989)
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 ...
Style: touching, christmas classics, entertaining, sad, mysterious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, single father, reindeer, santa claus, farm, father daughter relationship, snow, widower, animal, xmas ...
Time: year 1989
Place: michigan
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42%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
Our First Christmas (2008)
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: feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, conflict, party, brother brother relationship, family tradition, husband wife relationship, parents and children, parenthood, life philosophy, mischievous children, adaptation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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 ...
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41%
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about whether Santa Claus really exists.
Plot: christmas, holiday, santa claus, xmas, youth, little girl, cemetery, shopping cart, family relations, 8 year old girl, girl, newspaper ...
Time: 19th century, 1800s, 1890s
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41%
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Mary Christmas (2002)
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'.
Style: feel good, touching, captivating, light, uplifting ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family relations, nanny, single parent, hopes, family life, fall in love, wish come true, parents and children, birth mother, television reporter, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, california, los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Angels Sing (2013)
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 ...
Style: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, haunted by the past, family relations, family life, parents and children, friendship, coming of age, holiday, mysterious character, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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41%
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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41%
The Night They Saved Christmas (1984)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: An oil company is exploring two Arctic sites for oil. The needed blasting at the first site rocks Santa Claus' North Pole village. He realizes that any blasting at the second site will destroy his home. He enlists the aid of a woman and her ...
Style: independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, xmas, oil, youth, new year, brother brother relationship, arctic, father son relationship, north pole, santa claus, saving christmas ...
Time: 80s, 20th century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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
Place: california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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
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39%
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Blizzard (2003)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl's aunt tells her the tale of a young ice skater and an enchanted reindeer.
Style: touching, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: christmas, reindeer, youth, santa claus, self discovery, young heroes, teaching the ways of the world, friendship, mischievous children, fish out of water, hopes, parents and children ...
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39%
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
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39%
Winky's Horse (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Netherlands, Belgium
Duration: 95 min.
Story: There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride. But horses are expensive. Fortunately it is the season of Sinterklaas; Winky just asks Sinterklaas for a horse. Than everything will work out alright. Or will it?
Style: semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: horse, santa claus, shopping mall, family life, fish out of water, family relations, disorder, friends, youth, hopes, young heroes, misfit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, holland, netherlands
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
A Sesame Street Christmas Carol (2006)
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: humorous, feel good, semi serious, christmas horror, exciting
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, ghost, christmas carol, disorder, eccentric family, fish out of water, hopes, androids and robots, family gatherings, nothing goes right, obnoxious boss, misfit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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 ⇓
39%
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Call Me Mrs. Miracle (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Mrs Merkle (or Mrs. Miracle as she is know by some) finds herself in a toy department of a department store that is having all kinds of financial problems, but leave it to this kind lady as she will get the Christmas spirit flowing very freely at ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, light, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, department store, winter, parents and children, miraculous event, family relations, hopes, xmas, society, couples, supernatural ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The House Without a Christmas Tree (1972)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 75 min.
Story: A young girl named Addie, living in Nebraska in 1946 wants nothing more for the holidays than a Christmas tree, but her widowed father, is bitter and refuses due to events from the family's past.
Style: christmas classics, christmas special, semi serious, realistic, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, bondage, family relations, family problems, youth, crumbling marriage, mischievous children, young heroes, single parent, small town, eccentric family ...
Time: 70s
Place: nebraska, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a ...
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, looking for love, family relations, wedding, pets, fall in love, couples, disorder, family life, xmas, dog ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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38%
Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las ...
Style: semi serious, sentimental, realistic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night, teens, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: christmas, parents and children, family relations, family life, on the road, teenager, youth, holiday, christmas season, children, santa claus, full moon ...
Time: 21st century
Place: las vegas, utah, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
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 ...
Style: independent film, crying, humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, sesame street, holiday, puppet, christmas eve, santa claus, children, saving christmas, puppetry, wizards and magicians, disorder, estrangement ...
Time: future
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
The Christmas Secret (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: While her life is falling apart, single mother Christine finds a magical family heirloom that leads to love and good fortune during Christmas.
Style: touching, semi serious, humorous, romantic, emotional ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, love and romance, true love, single parent, life turned upside down, downfall, family problems, couples, down on your luck, parents and children, custody ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
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38%
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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 ⇓
38%
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