Movies like Elmo Saves Christmas

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Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
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Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
Original name: Sesame Street: Elmo Saves Christmas
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 new friend Lightning, the reindeer, and discover for yourself why Christmas is best kept to one day a year!
Style: independent film, crying, feel good, humorous, semi serious
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, sesame street, holiday, puppet, santa claus, children, christmas eve, saving christmas, puppetry, ghost, heroes, youth, wizards and magicians, misfit, family relations, love and romance, redemption, mischievous children, hidden identity, nothing goes right, unfulfilled love, disorder, fish out of water, estrangement, obnoxious boss ...
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Most similar movies to Elmo Saves Christmas

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, semi serious, humorous and touching films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, family relations, disorder, santa claus, holiday and xmas mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like Elmo Saves Christmas: Mr. Christmas (2004), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978), Call Me Claus (2001), Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus (2004), Santa vs. Claus (2008). 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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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 ...
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61%
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, christmas special
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, muppets, holiday, xmas, puppet, sesame street, family relations, disorder, friends, social relations, skating, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
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 ⇓
54%
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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 ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nick's plan to let fate bring his wife to him must be altered because he must replace his father as Santa Claus on December 26. Ernst, the right-hand man to several generations of Santas, generates a list of potential mates. Nick dutifully sets ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, hidden identity, road not taken, looking for love, family problems, fall in love, couples, family life, love affair, parents and children ...
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50%
Santa vs. Claus (2008)
Genre: Family
Country: Spain
Duration: 78 min.
Story: Christmas is in trouble. Santa, who has been bitten by the Fame Bug, is now magically split from Claus, his conscience and Christmas Spirit. "Fun, fun, fun" seems to be Santa's new purpose in life - which Claus, of course, strongly ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, save the day, good versus evil, heroes, rivalry, split personality, chases and races, santa claus, race against time, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Ira Finkelstein's Christmas (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: All Ira Finkelstein wants for Christmas is...Christmas. Unfortunately, his parents are sending him to Florida to be with his Grandparents. Ira's spirit soars as he manages to land in Christmas Town, USA, instead.
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: christmas, youth, follow your dream, disorder, mischievous children, friends, family relations, hopes, switching roles, parents and children, holiday, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, florida, washington d.c.
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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My Adventures with Santa (2019)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story: Christmas in the Nolan household isn't what it used to be. Instead of a joyous family gathering, they are spending this holiday apart. On a last minute shopping trip with Dad, the family enters an enchanted store only to discover a dazzling ...
Style: fairy tale, feel good, light, sweet
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, parents and children, family relations, kids and family, holiday, partner, christmas eve, magic, husband wife relationship, santa claus, father son relationship, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Saving Christmas (2017)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: A young boy, Danny, tries to prove the existence of Santa by using his intelligence and gadgets. He and his trusted group go on an intense journey to find the truth of Santa.
Style: sweet, light, feel good, funny, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, journey, holiday, santa claus, small town life, miraculous event, follow your dream, christmas eve, wish come true, goodhearted, children, child protagonist ...
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47%
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Santa Switch (2013)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A struggling dad gets a new start after a strange encounter replaces his mall Santa gig with the real thing.
Style: light, feel good, sincere, not serious, christmas special
Plot: christmas, santa claus, xmas, christmas eve, fish out of water, struggle, disorder, save the day, unemployment, bittersweet, friendship, holiday ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus, to make a snow day. The machine breaks, and causes an out of control snowstorm.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, youth, best friend, mischievous children, wish come true, santa claus, holiday, disorder, supernatural, hopes, christmas season, preteen ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
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47%
Adventures of Bailey: Christmas Hero (2012)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: It's "Christmas time" at the Baker household, and Bailey is at it again. Worried that he will not get any presents from Santa because he's been a bad doggie, Bailey learns about a mysterious Native American Indian called the ...
Style: humorous, touching, semi serious, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, dog, family life, friendship, family relations, getting home, siblings relations, hopes, on the road, youth, animal, wish come true ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: While trying to avoid an obsessed girl, rocker Drake Parker meets a young girl, who makes him promise to give her family the best Christmas ever. Later, at the Premiere's first ever Christmas party, a group of teens start to make trouble. ...
Style: christmas special, semi serious, humorous, realistic, feel good ...
Audience: kids, teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, comedy of errors, mischievous children, nothing goes right, family relations, lifestyle, step siblings, disorder, friends, siblings relations, teenage life ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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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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46%
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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
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Coming Home for Christmas (2013)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Sisters Kate and Melanie haven’t spoken to each other in years since a hurtful scene at Melanie’s wedding. Their parents, Wendy and Al, have let the pain of their daughters’ absence drive a wedge between them, and their tensions have led to a ...
Style: feel good, light, sweet, realistic, humorous ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, family life, parents and children, family gatherings, dysfunctional family, eccentric family, siblings relations, family problems, family relations, male female relationship, friendship, xmas ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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 ...
Style: christmas classics, semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, youth, xmas, suburbs, store, eccentric family, fish out of water, parents and children, mistaken identity, when the parents are away, cons and scams ...
Time: 80s
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46%
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The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (2010)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, sincere, light, funny ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, santa claus, memory loss, save the day, family relations, parents and children, family life, xmas, wish come true, saving christmas, youth, amnesia ...
Time: 2000s, 21st century
Place: wisconsin
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days (2009)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 330 min.
Story: A look back at 40 years of Seasame Street.
Style: feel good, satirical, humorous, semi serious, captivating ...
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: sesame street, puppet, life, lifestyle, doll, satire
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Prancer Returns (2001)
Genre: Family, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: This holiday-themed children's film offers a unique take on the legend of Santa Claus and his tiny reindeer. In this movie, a young boy finds a deer in the forest he is sure is Santa's beloved Prancer. Determined to return the creature to ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, youth, mischievous children, reindeer, young heroes, child as adult, mistaken identity, fish out of water, disorder, danger, orphan ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
The Three Dogateers (2014)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When a couple of burglars make off with their family's presents and decorations, the Three Dogateers set off on a journey to sniff out the bad guys and save Christmas!
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: dog, santa claus, christmas, save the day, escapades, pets, obsessive quest, friendship, xmas, disorder, musketeer, christmas movie
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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45%
A Christmas Tree Miracle (2013)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story: “A Christmas Tree Miracle” is a warm-hearted tale that reminds us that in the holiday season, the best gifts in life are the simple ones, and that miracles do happen, if you believe.
Style: humorous, uplifting, semi serious, touching, spiritual ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, miraculous event, family relations, family life, hopes, family problems, life turned upside down, disorder, xmas, holiday, christian, christmas spirit ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
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The Christmas Clause (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A stressed out lawyer and mother of three gets her yuletide wish when she wishes to see what her life would be like if she had chosen to pursue her career in Law rather than marrying and becoming a working mother.
Style: light, humorous, feel good, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, family friendly
Plot: christmas, wish come true, road not taken, dull life, starting over, unfulfillment, hopes, teaching the ways of the world, destiny, heroes, happy ending, holiday ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Sesame Street: 20 and Still Counting (1989)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 48 min.
Story: Bill Cosby takes us on the tour to Sesame Street as the show goes on it's 20th Anniversary. It had interviews of the cast and crews of the show and memories of the show. It also features a multi-language version of some classic Sesame Street ...
Style: educational, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: sesame street, muppets, puppet, friendship, showbiz, personal safety, friends, artists and showbiz, youth, lifestyle, best friend, memories ...
Time: 80s, year 1989, 60s, 70s, 20th century ...
Place: new york, usa
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45%
The Munsters' Scary Little Christmas (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The made for television movie Munster's Scary Little Christmas, created three decades after the demise of the original series, concerns son Eddie missing his home in Transylvania. Soon the entire family bands together to teach the young boy ...
Style: christmas horror, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, psychotronic ...
Audience: family friendly, family outing
Plot: christmas, vampire, haunted, family relations, eccentric family, wizards and magicians, couples, disorder, family gatherings, road not taken, human becomes animal, when the parents are away ...
Time: 90s
Place: europe
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45%
Mrs. Santa Claus (1996)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Santa Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the multi-cultural neighbourhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side of the early 1900s.
Style: christmas classics, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: pre-teens, family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, santa claus, xmas, youth, mischievous children, love and romance, dishonesty, couple relations, family relations, disorder, righting the wronged, couples ...
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: It's three days before Christmas, and Nick Snowden forgets about spending early Christmas with his wife, Sandy due to pressure at work. After a fight, Nick walks through a magical mirror and ends up with amnesia. Now it's up to Sandy to ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, holiday, family relations, uninhibited rivalry, save the day, escapades, danger, supportive spouse, good versus evil, rivalry, disorder, santa claus ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Monkey in the Middle (2014)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Chris has just moved to the East Coast, and already his workaholic father is encouraging him to make new friends. Luckily football (soccer) practice is starting up, and Chris meets a few kids on the team-including his cute neighbor Mara. When Mara ...
Style: realistic, humorous, semi serious, feel good
Audience: family outing, pre-teens
Plot: youth, mischievous children, friendship, family relations, disorder, single parent, friends, coming of age, animal life
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
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44%
Merry Christmas, Baby (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Marci throws herself into preparing for Christmas and building her new event-planning business. But when the business gets off to a rocky start and members of her family face their own hardships, Marci steps up to help everyone have a good holiday.
Style: captivating, feel good, entertaining, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, baby, planning, christmas spirit, family relations, parents and children, christmas season, business, urban, christmas movie
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44%
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