Movies like Dear Santa

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Dear Santa (2011)
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Dear Santa (2011)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Crystal, a rich party girl, finds a little girl's letter to Santa asking for a new mother, and she vows to win over the father and daughter before the holidays.
Style: feel good, realistic, touching, serious, entertaining, romantic drama
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, love and romance, wish come true, couples, family relations, parents and children, single parent, unlikely couple, chef, christmas eve, winter, xmas, snow, nanny, party, volunteer, homeless man, socialite, christmas wish, little girl, win over, love triangle, stalking, bullying ...
Time: 21st century, contemporary

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Most similar movies to Dear Santa

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, touching, feel good and humorous films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, family relations, holiday, love and romance, christmas romance and christmas tree mostly in Drama, Romance and Family genres. Some movies like Dear Santa: Noel (2004), A Dad for Christmas (2006), A Christmas Visitor (2002), A Cheerful Christmas (2019), Borrowed Hearts (1997). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Noel (2004)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina ...
Style: touching, emotional, humorous, sincere, sentimental ...
Plot: christmas, love and romance, parents and children, hopes, angel, couple relations, holiday, winter, new year, jealousy, mother daughter relationship, father son relationship ...
Time: year 2004
Place: new york, usa
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95%
A Dad for Christmas (2006)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Matt, a 19-year-old student, goes to the hospital to see his newborn son. He learns his girlfriend plans to put the baby up for adoption without his consent, so he takes his son to his grandmother's house to fight for custody.
Style: realistic, touching, captivating, emotional, sincere ...
Plot: christmas, against the odds, adoption, custody, couples, family life, family relations, parents and children, hospital, single parent, holiday, love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
85%
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 ⇓
77%
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 ⇓
74%
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A Cheerful Christmas (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: While doing her job to deliver the most magical Christmas ever to a royal couple, Lauren finds herself falling for their son who soon shares her love of everything Christmas.
Style: romantic, entertaining, light, humorous, visually appealing ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, christmas eve, family values, life philosophy, love and romance, character change, transformation, holiday, family relations, lifestyle, male female relationship ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
Borrowed Hearts (1997)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: Single mom Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) and her daughter Zoey pretend to be Kathleen's boss's "family" so he can close a major business deal with the mysterious Mexican financier Javier Del Campo.
Style: touching, romantic, feel good, sentimental, semi serious ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, single parent, looking for love, parents and children, pretend relationship, new year, xmas, unlikely couple, family relations, holiday, fake relationship, snow ...
Time: 90s
Place: rome italy, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
73%
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 ⇓
70%
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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 ⇓
68%
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The Christmas Shepherd (2014)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Sally Brown, a successful children's book author and Army widow loses her late husband's German Shepherd, Buddy, only to later find him adopted by a new family - single father Mark Green and his teenage daughter Emma. Each finds a sense of ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, feel good, sweet, light ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, german shepherd, dog, holiday, single father, christmas romance, lost dog, owner dog relationship, widow, father daughter relationship, new love, unlikely couple ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
64%
Christmas in the City (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: With the threat of having to close her father's candy store, Wendy and her six-year-old daughter Grace travel to the big city in hopes of making extra holiday cash to save the store. When she's offered a job in the toy department of ...
Style: feel good, touching, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot: christmas, department store, city life, family relations, small town, store, new job, family business, fired from the job, parent child relationship, love and romance, xmas ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: los angeles
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Bramble House Christmas (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $50,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s ...
Style: disturbing, captivating, sweet, touching, romantic
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, snow, single mother, winter, christmas romance, sick child, hopes, once in a lifetime opportunity, fighting illness, love, wish come true, false identity ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
A Snow Capped Christmas (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Sport
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: An injured figure skater is sent to the mountains to recover from an injury. Once there, she meets an ex-hockey player and his young daughter and begins to realise that something is missing from her life.
Style: romantic, light, humorous, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, ice hockey, single father, skating, rehabilitation, winter, christmas romance, fall in love, character change, transformation, moral dilemma, father daughter relationship ...
Place: british columbia
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Shop owner Alice Chapman is nervous to meet her future in-laws at Christmas, especially because she is arriving ahead of her new fiance Will Mitchum. Alice’s trip becomes more stressful when her luggage is lost and her phone is damaged, leaving her ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, cute ...
Audience: girls' night, chick flick, date night
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, mistaken identity, holiday, fall in love, destiny, parents and children, in-laws, misunderstanding, love and romance, hopes, marriage proposal ...
Time: future, 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, brooklyn new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
Gift of the Magi (2010)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
Style: realistic, captivating, sentimental, light, humorous ...
Plot: christmas, couples, love and romance, hopes, unfulfillment, wish come true, christmas present, christmas eve, family relations, holiday, optimism, ghost ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
57%
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 ⇓
57%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
Reunited at Christmas (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Frazzled and struggling with writer’s block, novelist Samantha, along with her boyfriend, heads home to her late grandmother’s home to spend Christmas. While at home with family, her grandmother’s wise words reveal the true meaning of ...
Style: feel good, funny, romantic, light, humorous ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, true love, marriage proposal, family relations, male female relationship, inspiration, family values, life philosophy, christmas spirit, doubt, lifestyle ...
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
55%
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Paper Angels (2014)
Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: An abused wife leaves her alcoholic husband and moves with her children to another town. There their lives become entwined with another family in trouble.
Style: disturbing, sincere, captivating, psychological, inspirational
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, bullying, single mother, christian, family problems, relationship problems, family relations, family life, social problems, mother son relationship, parents and children, inspiration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Christmas Ever After (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Popular romance novelist Izzi Simmons spends every Christmas at her favorite snowy bed & breakfast, but this year, she's faced with an impending deadline and a severe case of writer's block. Luckily, inspiration strikes in the unlikely ...
Style: touching, feel good, sentimental, romantic, fairy tale
Audience: date night
Plot: christmas, disability, holiday, writer's block, christmas season, wish come true, single woman, true love, love and romance, hopes, family relations, love affair ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Hitched for the Holidays (2012)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
Style: realistic, captivating, emotional, touching, humorous ...
Audience: date night, chick flick, girls' night
Plot: christmas, pretend relationship, holiday, family relations, couples, fall in love, family gatherings, fake relationship, relationships, xmas, christmas romance, hanukkah ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, manhattan new york city, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A wedding planner looks to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief period of time, until an unexpected development forces her to re-examine her feelings.
Style: humorous, light, feel good, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, wedding, event planner, couples, family relations, fall in love, parents and children, christmas romance, ritual, party, love, winter ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
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Northpole (2014)
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: Northpole, the magical city where Santa and his elves live and work is in trouble. Families around the globe have gotten too busy to enjoy the season together, and Northpole depends on their holiday happiness to keep running. In the hopes of turning ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, captivating, humorous, serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, youth, parents and children, imaginary, north pole, save the day, single parent, escapades, winter, snow, christmas eve, christmas season ...
Time: 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
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Finding Christmas (2013)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps ...
Style: feel good, sentimental, captivating, sincere, christmas special ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, love and romance, fall in love, couples, single parent, family relations, christmas romance, xmas, love, holiday, christmas season, looking for love ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, new york, north carolina, manhattan new york city
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
49%
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 ⇓
46%
Radio Christmas (2019)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When her Philadelphia radio station is closed for repairs during the holidays, DJ Kara Porter is forced to broadcast from the small town of Bethlehem.
Style: light, feel good, entertaining, captivating
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, radio, festival, small town, adaptation, unlikely couple, society, christmas spirit, radio announcer, christmas eve, new life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
45%
Mingle All the Way (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story: Molly is determined to prove to her family that her new networking app—designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance—is a success. When Molly joins Mingle All the Way and is matched with Jeff, they ...
Style: emotional, captivating, realistic, light, romantic drama
Plot: christmas, holiday, friendship, christmas romance, love, invention, couples, snow, christmas eve, cell phone, internet, family relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, seattle
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
A Song for Christmas (2017)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Pop superstar Adelaide Kay is so fed up with her controlling manager that she sneaks off the tour bus after their latest squabble. Though exhilarated to be free, she finds herself stranded in the freezing cold of a Pennsylvania winter, with no money ...
Style: funny, light, feel good, entertaining, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, winter, christmas romance, fame, unlikely couple, happy ending, adaptation, family business, character change, singer, farm ...
Place: pennsylvania
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
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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41%
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