Movies like A Christmas Carol: The Musical
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A Christmas Carol: The Musical (2004)
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Original name: A Christmas Carol
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Hungary, USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, emotional, captivating, christmas horror, uplifting, touching, semi serious
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
scrooge, christmas, ghost, christmas carol, self discovery, road not taken, human spirit, introspection, supernatural, family relations, redemption, disorder, hopes, anti hero, holiday, charles dickens, time travel, time, xmas, misfit, obnoxious boss, coldhearted, power relations, cemetery, haunted house ...
Time:
victorian era, victorian
Place:
new york, usa
Most similar movies to A Christmas Carol: The Musical
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and christmas classics films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, holiday, ghost, xmas, redemption and christmas carol mostly in Fantasy, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like A Christmas Carol: The Musical: Scrooge (1970), A Christmas Carol (1984), A Diva's Christmas Carol (2000), A Christmas Carol (1999), Scrooged (1988). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The classic Charles Dickens' Christmas ghost tale told in musical form.
Style:
christmas horror, christmas classics, hilarious, christmas special, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, scrooge, christmas carol, ghost, dancing, broadway, xmas, redemption, charles dickens, destiny, christmas season ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1800s, 1860s
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
An old bitter miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve.
Style:
touching, atmospheric, sentimental, christmas classics, christmas horror ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, scrooge, miser, holiday, christmas carol, ghost, charles dickens, happy ending, xmas, business, afterlife, christian ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, future, 1800s, 1840s
Place:
england, europe, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Fantasy, Romance, Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A remake of the Dicken's classic, "A Christmas Carol" featuring a very nasty pop singer who gets a reality check by three Christmas spirits.
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, humorous, feel good, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, teens
Plot:
christmas, ghost, christmas carol, supernatural, unlikely couple, couples, workplace situations, change of heart, introspection, lifestyle, redemption, performer's life ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
Scrooge is a miserly old businessman in 1840's London. One Christmas Eve he is visited by the ghost of Marley, his dead business partner. Marley foretells that Scrooge will be visited by three spirits, each of whom will attempt to show Scrooge ...
Style:
christmas special, christmas classics, christmas horror, gothic horror, semi serious ...
Audience:
pre-teens, kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, scrooge, ghost, miser, redemption, regret, christmas carol, holiday, clerk, benefactor, transformation, charles dickens ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, 1840s, future, 1800s
Place:
turkey, london
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In this modern take on Charles Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," Frank Cross (Bill Murray) is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life, Claire Phillips ...
Style:
light, humorous, parody, funny, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, ghost, holiday, supernatural, greed, christmas eve, redemption, christmas carol, television, christmas season, xmas, happy ending ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, future, year 1988, 70s ...
Place:
usa, new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
In Depression-era New England, a miserly businessman named Benedict Slade receives a long-overdue attitude adjustment one Christmas eve when he is visited by three ghostly figures who resemble three of the people whose possessions Slade had seized ...
Style:
christmas classics, emotional, touching, atmospheric, serious
Audience:
adult
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, scrooge, ghost, christmas season, great depression, xmas, charles dickens, winter, redemption, holiday, righting the wronged ...
Time:
1930s
Place:
new england, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 58 min.
Story:
"If I could work my will, every idiot that goes about with ‘Merry Christmas’ on his lips would be boiled with his own pudding and buried with a stake of holly in his heart" So spoke the immortal words of Christmas’ most famous miser, ...
Style:
christmas horror, spiritual, independent film
Plot:
christmas, scrooge, christmas carol, spirituality, charles dickens, redemption, ghost, holiday, compassion, christmas movie
Time:
1840s, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A retelling of the classic Dickens tale of Ebenezer Scrooge, miser extraordinaire. He is held accountable for his dastardly ways during night-time visitations by the Ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and future.
Style:
funny, christmas special, humorous, talky, christmas classics ...
Audience:
kids, family friendly, family outing, adult, preschool
Plot:
christmas, ghost, holiday, muppets, childhood, puppetry, scrooge, christmas carol, greed, time travel, christmas season, puppet ...
Time:
19th century, year 1992, 1800s, 90s, 1840s ...
Place:
england, london, europe, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
30%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by ...
Style:
touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, time travel, miser, scrooge, christmas carol, ghost, change of heart, boy, regret, xmas, urban setting, christmas spirit ...
Time:
90s
Place:
rhode island
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Western, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
No overview found.A Wild West retelling of Dickens' 'A Christmas Carol," with Scrooge as a land baron, gunfighter, and card cheat who is visited by three spirits who attempt to teach him the true meaning of Christmas.
Style:
christmas horror, semi serious, humorous, offbeat, feel good ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, scrooge, xmas, charles dickens, ghost, small town, supernatural, boss and employee, hopes, misfit, redemption ...
Time:
19th century
⇓ similarity ⇓
27%
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Genre: Family, Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
A Carol Christmas follows the basic plot of "A Christmas Carol" by Charles Dickens, but the story has been modernized. The traditional "Scrooge" character is a talk show host named Carol.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, light, sweet ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas carol, family relations, disorder, starting over, road not taken, hollywood, friends, hopes, talk show host, female protagonist ...
Time:
2000s
Place:
beverly hills
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
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 ⇓
25%
756
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
In this updated retelling of Dickens' "A Christmas Carol," ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge is taught the true spirit of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her.
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, scrooge, xmas, switching roles, marketing, sister, death, ghost, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Calvin Carter, a successful business executive, has it all, but neglects those closest to him. On Christmas Eve, all that changes when the sign on his office building falls on him. He awakes in a hospital bed, attended to by Angie, a nurse who soon ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, christmas classics ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, holiday, time loop, hospital, self discovery, redemption, introspection, misfit, couple relations, disorder, friendship, time ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
The story of driven, heartless, publishing executive, Carol Huffman, who on Christmas eve is visited by the ghost of her former boss, Eve. Eve tells Carol that she has lost sight of the things that are truly important in life and that she is there ...
Style:
feel good, sincere, captivating, exciting, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, ghost, christmas carol, boss and employee, supernatural, power relations, obnoxious boss, workplace, ambition, relationship vs career, miraculous event, businesswoman ...
Time:
year 1985, 2000s, 2010s, year 2000, 80s ...
Place:
usa, illinois, chicago
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
A starry-eyed young girl journeys from the mountains of Appalachia to the stage at Dollywood, where she discovers the impact of African-Americans on the world of country music - while at the same time competing in a country music competition for ...
Style:
sentimental, semi serious, realistic, captivating, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family relations, ambition, church choir, couples, love and romance, holiday, singing, small town, xmas, artists and showbiz, contests and competitions ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
24%
Genre: Animation, Adventure, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min.
Story:
One of the best-loved holiday stories of all time is back in this animated, musical version of Charles Dickens' most famous tale. An all-star voice lineup features Whoopi Goldberg, Ed Asner, Michael York and Tim Curry as Scrooge. Come share the ...
Style:
christmas horror, christmas classics, independent film, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, xmas, scrooge, charles dickens, redemption, ghost, holiday, human spirit, hopes, self discovery, boss and employee ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s, victorian era
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, touching, semi serious
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, dream, family life, snow, xmas, living together, angel, workaholic, mansion, old woman, recurring dream ...
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min.
Story:
Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, humorous, feel good, christmas classics
Plot:
christmas, ghost, haunted by the past, mission gone awry, supernatural, sent to the past, christmas carol, mission, christmas spirit, xmas, holiday, time travel ...
Time:
60s, 70s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself ...
Style:
entertaining, humorous, captivating, thought provoking, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas season, ghost, boss, lost love, greed, christmas eve, snow, evil man, loneliness, misanthrope ...
Time:
victorian era, 2020s, 1800s, 80s
Place:
new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Director Joseph Mankiewicz's first work for television, the 90-minute ABC drama was publicized as having an all-star cast (which meant that names of some supporting cast members were not officially released). In Rod Serling's update of ...
Style:
christmas horror, christmas classics, black and white, historical drama, dark fantasy
Plot:
christmas, christmas carol, charles dickens, ghost, afterlife, scrooge, xmas, industrialist, ruins, world war one, christmas eve, loss of son ...
Time:
year 1918, year 1945, 1910s, 1940s
Place:
hiroshima japan
⇓ similarity ⇓
23%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Sloan is beautiful, stylish, and on the fast track to success at her public relations firm. After her client Caitlin ends up in a coma and becomes her own personal ghost of Christmas past, present, and future; she finds out first hand that her ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, humorous, sentimental, teen ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick, kids, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, ghost, scrooge, self discovery, holiday, supernatural, love and romance, introspection, redemption, couples, road not taken, lovers reunited ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, usa, california, georgia
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
A wealthy and successful career woman gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiance to lead a business life in New York.
Style:
semi serious, touching, humorous, feel good, christmas classics ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, time travel, wish come true, self discovery, redemption, one more chance, road not taken, couples, love and romance, family life, obnoxious boss ...
Time:
year 1996
Place:
new york, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A ne'er do well father and ex-husband who always raced his way through the holidays is forced to relive Christmas Day time and again until he gets it right in this family oriented fantasy comedy starring Jay Mohr. It's Christmas time once ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, feel good, touching, offbeat
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
time loop, christmas, holiday, hopes, love and romance, couples, disorder, family relations, obnoxious boss, time, time travel, xmas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
22%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 173 min.
TV show
Story:
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
Style:
christmas horror, anthology, captivating, serious, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly, adult
Plot:
scrooge, christmas eve, employer employee relationship, miser, christmas, ghost, christmas carol, spirit, greed, poor family, introspection, christmas season ...
Time:
victorian era, 19th century, future, 1840s
Place:
london
⇓ similarity ⇓
21%
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 ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future.
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A Mother's Prayer, starring Robin Givens (Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys), Johnny Gill (legendary R&B singer), Shirley Murdock (Man of Her Dreams) and Jermaine Crawford (HBO's The Wire), tells the compelling, heartwarming ...
Style:
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Plot:
self discovery, family life, redemption, family relations, family in crisis, last wish, love and romance, hopes, estrangement, family problems, dealing with death, soul ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A week before Christmas, Paula finds herself struggling with bills and life with her blue-collar husband Gary and her two daughters. When Nick, her high school boyfriend returns to town, a wealthy art gallery owner, Paula wonders if she made the ...
Style:
feel good, humorous, sentimental, captivating, light ...
Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
20%
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