Movies like One Christmas

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One Christmas (1994)
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One Christmas (1994)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: TV film that was to be Katherine Hepburn's last performance. Based on Truman Capote's bittersweet tale of a young boy's adventures with the father he's never known in New Orleans in the 1930s..
Style: christmas classics, sentimental, sincere, uplifting, touching, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, youth, holiday, family relations, ghost, parents and children, family life, dysfunctional family, self discovery, family problems, redemption, single parent, countryside, child as adult, homecoming, estrangement, human nature, bittersweet, buddies, dishonesty, eccentric family, hopes, unfulfillment, cons and scams, family gatherings ...
Time: 90s
Place: new orleans, alabama

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Most similar movies to One Christmas

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, serious and sentimental films with plots about family relations, parents and children, youth, family problems, hopes, christmas and family life mostly in Drama, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like One Christmas: Mr. Christmas (2004), Follow The Stars Home (2001), A Christmas Memory (1997), Saint Maybe (1998), 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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Follow The Stars Home (2001)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story: Two brothers - one virtuous, one feckless - are in love with the same woman. She falls for Brother Wrong, carrying a torch for him even after he deserts her. But Brother Right remains steadfast and available. What's unusual here is why the bad ...
Style: uplifting, sentimental, sincere, touching, erotic ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: lifestyle, dysfunctional family, love and romance, unfulfilled love, babies and infants, family problems, family life, couples, disability, parents and children, family in crisis, single parent ...
Place: san francisco
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100%
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%
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 ⇓
36%
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Saint Maybe (1998)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A lonely teen troubled by a past family tragedy is suspicious of his sister-in-law, believing she is being unfaithful. His confrontation with his brother sets off a series of tragic events.
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, tragedy, family relations, church, redemption, haunted by the past, homecoming, death in the family, adoption, family in crisis, family life, teenage life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s, 70s
Place: maryland, usa
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29%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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 ⇓
28%
The Heart of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Dax Ryan Locke, born to Julie and Austin Locke on June 26, 2007, was diagnosed with AML M7, a rare form of leukemia, when he was 13 months old. The Heart of Christmas is set in Washington, Illinois and at St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, ...
Style: touching, uplifting, emotional, sad, realistic ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: sad ending, terminal illness, sick child, christmas, child illness, parents and children, family life, dealing with death, small town, leukemia, cancer, blog ...
Time: 2000s, year 2009, 21st century
Place: usa, illinois
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28%
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Christmas at Maxwell's (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ...
Style: uplifting, touching, sincere, sentimental, independent film ...
Plot: christmas, human spirit, family life, life is a bitch, hopes, love and romance, family problems, couples, road not taken, homecoming, miraculous event, parents and children ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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
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27%
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Charlie & Me (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: When her beloved grandfather Charlie suddenly falls ill, twelve year-old Casey finds herself making some life or death decisions - and learning to live with the consequences.
Style: uplifting, feel good, serious, realistic, sentimental ...
Plot: parents and children, family relations, single parent, love and romance, self discovery, hopes, elderly, death in the family, friends, dealing with death, hospital, chess ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Taliesin Jones (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Not quite a religious film, not quite a coming-of-age story, not quite a kiddie flick, and not quite a supernatural horror movie, Taliesin Jones's identity crisis nonetheless reveals a sweet examination of one child and his thoughts on God.
Style: touching, serious, realistic, sentimental, independent film
Plot: teenage boy, miraculous event, coming of age, self discovery, family problems, parents and children, dysfunctional family, family life, hopes, redemption, child illness, secret society ...
Time: 90s
Place: wales
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27%
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Mermaid (2000)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Four year old Desi learns to accept the death of her father by sending him a letter on a balloon to which she receives a reply. Based on a true story.
Style: touching, sentimental, serious, emotional, realistic
Audience: family outing
Plot: young heroes, bittersweet, single parent, hopes, friendship, family problems, parents and children, death in the family, child's point of view, widow, mother daughter relationship, compassion ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
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26%
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Spin (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: "Spin" tells the story of a boy who loses his parents in a plane crash, is taken in by his uncle (Tucci), who then leaves him for ten years in the care of his Hispanic ranch hand (Blades) and his wife (Delany). Once in high school, Eddie ...
Style: realistic, serious, emotional, touching, sentimental ...
Plot: family relations, youth, society, self discovery, introspection, haunted by the past, teenage life, friends, family problems, orphan, hopes, eccentric family ...
Time: 50s
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
The Fitzgerald Family Christmas (2012)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story: The siblings of the Fitzgerald family must decide if the dad who abandoned them 20 years ago can come home for Christmas. Can the big Irish clan get past their grievances to be a family again?
Style: sincere, serious, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot: christmas, family gatherings, holiday, family relations, estranged father, homecoming, sibling relationship, parents and children, brother sister relationship, xmas, siblings, family reunited ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, ireland, long island
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Christmas Child (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Style: serious, emotional, captivating, sincere, feel good ...
Plot: christmas, redemption, self discovery, haunted by the past, road not taken, rehabilitation, journalism, dysfunctional family, family life, family problems, hopes, family relations ...
Place: usa, texas, chicago
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26%
A Christmas Visitor (2002)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A father struggles with the past. A daughter fights for the future. A mother searches for answers. The Boyajians have not celebrated Christmas in 11 years. They lost their faith when they lost their son to the Persian Gulf War. Now a stranger has ...
Style: touching, serious, emotional, christmas classics, realistic
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, grief, introspection, death of son, life is a bitch, redemption, hopes, love and romance, family problems, parents and children, family life ...
Time: 20th century, 90s
Place: iraq, iran
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
A Time to Remember (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: An artist and single mother returns to her childhood home to patch things up with her mother who has Alzheimers disease.
Style: emotional, realistic, sentimental, touching, serious ...
Plot: thanksgiving, family relations, parents and children, family problems, estrangement, unfulfillment, single parent, hopes, memory loss, alzheimer's disease, reconciliation, hospital ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, los angeles, turkey
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
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The Gathering (1977)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: When Adam Thornton learns that he only has a little time left, he decides that he wants to make peace with his family. Only problem is that most of his family are not exactly fond of him because he walked out on his wife and of his stubborn nature ...
Style: realistic, serious, sentimental, emotional, touching ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, in love, fall in love, bondage, family relations, terminal illness, family gatherings, elderly, life is a bitch, introspection, hopes ...
Time: 70s
Place: usa
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25%
A Perfect Day (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A family man is warned he has only forty days to live.
Style: emotional, captivating, sentimental, light, semi serious ...
Plot: self discovery, christmas, family relations, introspection, hopes, family life, family problems, writers, success, price of fame, ego, friendship ...
Place: usa
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24%
A Christmas Snow (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: For Kathleen, Christmas has always been an unwelcome reminder of her father’s abandonment almost 30 years ago. Although she has tried to forget her past, it has not forgotten her. In the days leading up to Christmas un unforgiving blizzard traps ...
Style: serious, sentimental, emotional, realistic, inspirational ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, starting over, dysfunctional family, hopes, love and romance, single parent, couples, road not taken, social decay, breakup, family gatherings, isolation ...
Time: 21st century
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24%
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Alpha Male (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Drama about a family torn apart after the death of its patriarch. Haunted by their father's death, Jack and Elyssa have a fraught relationship with their remarried mother even now they have come of age.
Style: emotional, contemplative, realistic, touching, psychological ...
Plot: family relations, family problems, death in the family, parents and children, dysfunctional family, estrangement, unfulfillment, family gatherings, brother brother relationship, coming of age, family business, couples ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
All Roads Lead Home (2008)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story: The story is about a 12 year old girl who loses her mother in an automobile accident. Her father struggles with the loss of his wife and trying to raise his young daughter who believes her father is partly responsible for her mother's death. ...
Style: serious, realistic, sentimental, melancholic, disturbing ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: horse, ranch, farm, family problems, family life, countryside, dysfunctional family, animal, dog, animal lover, youth, girl horse relationship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe, london
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23%
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Waterproof (2000)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Single mother Tyree Battle struggles to keep her young son Thaniel away from the gang-plagued city streets that he is mixed up in. Under severe gang pressure, Thaniel accidentally shoots Jewish shopkeeper Eli Zeal in a botched robbery attempt. ...
Style: realistic, touching, serious, emotional, independent film ...
Plot: family relations, gang, homecoming, family problems, self discovery, aging, redemption, youth, single parent, going straight, heist, family life ...
Time: 90s
Place: usa, louisiana
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23%
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 ...
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22%
A Hobo's Christmas (1987)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: A hobo played by Barnard Hughes decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. Here he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son ...
Style: serious, realistic, emotional, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, homeless, holiday, homelessness, youth, homeless man, hopes, estrangement, family problems, family relations, family gatherings, parents and children ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: utah, usa, salt lake city utah
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22%
A Christmas Romance (1994)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story: Julia Stonecypher is finding it difficult to get into the Christmas spirit. Having recently lost both her husband and her job, Brian Harding, the vice president of the local bank arrives on her doorstep amid a snowstorm, to inform Julia that her ...
Style: serious, realistic, feel good, sentimental
Audience: girls' night, family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, youth, xmas, eviction, snow, single parent, unlikely couple, life is a bitch, fall in love, couple relations, love and romance ...
Time: 90s
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
What Girls Learn (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story: Two teenage girls must come to terms with their stepfather when their mother is struck by illness.
Style: touching, sincere, sentimental, emotional, contemplative ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: teenage girl, single mother, stepfather, family relations, teenage love, teenage life, human nature, love and romance, youth, estrangement, couples, family problems ...
Time: 80s
Place: georgia, usa, new york
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22%
Dodson's Journey (2001)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A man takes his young daughter on a cross-country fly-fishing trip following the death of his father and his wife's decision to get a divorce.
Style: uplifting, serious, realistic, sentimental, touching ...
Plot: youth, single parent, bittersweet, family relations, couples, family problems, parents and children, breakup, unfulfillment, human nature, hopes, crumbling marriage ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
The Christmas Choir (2008)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Based on a true story, The Christmas Choir is the inspiring account of how one man can make a remarkable difference simply by giving of himself. Workaholic accountant Peter Andrews (Jason Gedrick) has overlooked Christmas, friends and even his ...
Style: emotional, serious, realistic, touching
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, lifestyle, womanizer, redemption, music band, family gatherings, performer's life, optimism, against the rules, road not taken, youth, teaching the ways of the world ...
Time: 21st century
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22%
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