Movies like Home for Christmas 1990

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Home for Christmas (1990)
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Home for Christmas (1990)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Mickey Rooney plays a weary old thief who befriends a young child. Home for Christmas is a 1990 Canadian made film about a young girl (Chantellese Kent) who wants a grandfather for Christmas. She chooses an elderly, homeless ex-con (Mickey Rooney) as her pseudo-grandfather and he teaches her - and her family - the true meaning of Christmas. Somewhat predictable.. but has a good plot twist about half way through that keeps it interesting. A solid, low-key performance by Mickey Rooney as the seemingly broken down homeless man saves this one from drowning in it's own mushiness.
Style: independent film
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, thief, santa claus, homeless, holiday, elderly, ex convict, reconciliation, child's point of view, estrangement, xmas, grandparent grandchild relationship, dog, dancing, family relations, old man, neighbor, christmas eve, parent child relationship, grandfather, happy ending, photograph, old age, girl ...

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, touching and entertaining films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, holiday, family relations, xmas, christmas season and christmas tree mostly in Drama, Family and Romance genres. Some movies like Home for Christmas: Prancer Returns (2001), Christmas with Tucker (2013), Help for the Holidays (2012), Our First Christmas (2008), The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2005). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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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 ...
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100%
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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38%
Help for the Holidays (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Although she loves Christmas, Santa’s elf Christine (Summer Glau) wonders if there could be more to life than making toys in the North Pole. When Santa receives an emergency wish from a little boy in Los Angeles, he puts Christine on a special ...
Style: entertaining, sincere, light, feel good
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas spirit, santa claus, christmas, holiday, sibling relationship, wish fulfillment, magic, brother sister relationship, north pole, xmas, christmas romance, christmas eve ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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 ⇓
37%
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Home by Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Julia Bedford is a homemaker who's left with next to nothing after a divorce. When Julia finds herself homeless, she begins her comeback and discovers what is really valuable in life.
Style: christmas special, thrilling, captivating, psychological
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday romance, xmas, love affair, christmas spirit, love interest, love and romance, adultery, divorce, life is a bitch, fall in love, love story ...
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35%
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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33%
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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32%
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My Santa (2013)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: A young, single mother, Jen, begins to lose her faith in the magic of Christmas. However, when she takes her son Eric to see the local mall Santa, Jen immediately feels an attraction and connection with Chris, the young, attractive man filling the ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, touching
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, looking for love, single mother, fall in love, holiday, secret identity, magic, couples, family relations, love and romance, love triangle, heir ...
Time: 2010s
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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Wish For Christmas (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When a high school senior finds out from her parents that she must miss the town's winter dance in order to attend church, she successfully wishes their faith away, bringing disastrous consequences to her family and community. To restore their ...
Style: christian film, humorous, entertaining, light, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, religion, atheist, church, wish come true, stereotypes, prejudice, family problems, life philosophy, lifestyle, society ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
The Horses of Mcbride (2012)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: When Nicki finds two horses stranded deep in the Rocky Mountain snow, she makes it her mission to find a way to get them to safety. With no other options, she picks up a shovel and starts to dig out the mile-long path, inspiring her father, Matt, ...
Style: uplifting, realistic, sentimental, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, obsessive quest, escapades, family relations, animal life, parents and children, girl horse relationship, snow, holiday, mountain, father daughter relationship, wolf attack ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
A Child's Christmas in Wales (1987)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Canada, UK, USA
Duration: 55 min.
Story: It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing. His grandfather gives him an old snow globe as an early Christmas present and ...
Style: mysterious
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, memory, santa claus, youth, grandparent grandchild relationship, magical, gift, flashback, food, prank, grandfather grandson relationship, christmas eve ...
Place: england
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
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 ⇓
30%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Staging Christmas (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Lori stages homes for a living and her busiest season is Christmas! Though she normally only stages homes that are for sale, she’s intrigued when a wealthy widower named Elliot asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, romantic, funny, humorous ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, widower, single father, father daughter relationship, happy ending, fall in love, new love, family values, transformation, second chance, christmas spirit ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
29%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Random Acts of Christmas (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: While uncovering who is behind the random acts of Christmas popping up around her city, investigative journalist Sydney meets a competing reporter, Cole, who ignites her Christmas spirit and captures her heart, but may not be the man he claims to be.
Style: feel good, light, entertaining, humorous, romantic
Plot: christmas, single mother, male female relationship, christmas spirit, christmas romance, fall in love, happy ending, mother son relationship, mistaken identity, holiday, small town, homecoming ...
Place: chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Secret Santa (2003)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler, who feels she got no fair chance to prove her worth in her thee years career, looks forward to a Hawaian holiday with her fiancé Ryan, but instead of a ring he brings her- walking orders, he found better. So she ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, disturbing, sincere
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, female reporter, job, relationship vs career, relationships, female journalist, secret identity, christmas season, uncover truth, santa claus, television crew ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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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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26%
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By God's Grace (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: In the tradition of a classic "A Christmas Carol", this film offers many lessons on the importance of giving and the cause and effect our choices have on others.
Style: psychological, semi serious, captivating, thrilling, christmas special
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, faith, holiday, christmas spirit, christmas season, problem, miraculous event, relationship problems, changing lives, religious, christmas carol, christian ...
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26%
Santa Stole Our Dog: A Merry Doggone Christmas! (2017)
Genre: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story: On a snowy and cold Christmas Eve, Santa Claus accidentally steals the family Dog. So begins an epic journey through the twelve days of Christmas as the family ventures to the North Pole to get their beloved canine back.
Style: funny, christmas special, captivating, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, dog, santa claus, journey, saving christmas, adventurer, christmas spirit, escapades, magic, kids and family, christmas wish, christmas season ...
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26%
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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25%
We Need a Little Christmas (2022)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Julie is adjusting to being a single mother to a grieving child while facing her first Christmas without her husband when she develops an unexpected friendship with her older neighbor Irene.
Style: captivating, semi serious, thrilling, psychological, satirical ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, neighbor, christmas season, christmas spirit, neighbor neighbor relationship, satire, single mother, family problems, family relations, single parent, female protagonist ...
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25%
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Bush Christmas (1983)
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: Australia
Duration: 91 min.
Story: In the Australian outback a family struggles to keep its farm from foreclosure. Their only hope is that their horse, Prince, will win money in a New Year's race. But when Prince is stolen the children embark on a dangerous and exciting ...
Style: independent film
Plot: christmas, horse race, xmas, singer, child hero, child in peril, horse thief, horse ranch, child's point of view, aborigine, jockey, ghost town ...
Time: year 1983
Place: australia
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25%
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
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25%
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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24%
A Wish for Christmas (2016)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Sara Shaw is the type of woman who prefers to sit on the sidelines at work, but when her big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she'll finally have the courage to stand up for herself. Santa grants her ...
Style: entertaining, light, feel good, humorous, sweet
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, wish come true, winter, male female relationship, snow, love and romance, fall in love, self confidence, unlikely couple, ambition ...
Time: 2010s
Place: chicago, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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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24%
The Christmas Blessing (2005)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Nathan Andrews is all grown up. As a young doctor, Nathan finds himself questioning his career choice, so he goes to his hometown to soul search and reconnect with his father. Once home, a blossoming romance with teacher Megan Sullivan and a fast ...
Style: entertaining, sincere, captivating
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, male female relationship, family relations, xmas, love affair, romantic relationship, changing lives, relationships, family life, love and romance, getting home ...
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23%
Shoelaces for Christmas (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: After an altercation with her ailing mother, Jennifer, a self-absorbed teenager inadvertently stumbles into a local homeless shelter late one evening. Upset with his daughter's selfish attitude, Jennifer's father offers an ultimatum which ...
Style: feel good, sweet, thought provoking, entertaining
Audience: family outing, teen drama
Plot: christmas, homeless shelter, holiday, christmas romance, character change, teenage girl, transformation, family values, youth, father daughter relationship, responsibility, generation gap ...
Place: utah
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23%
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