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The Santa Con (2014)
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?
Style:
sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, parents and children, moral dilemma, wish come true, family relations, store, introspection, santa claus, love, friendship, new year, xmas, family problems, siblings relations, estrangement, hopes, angel, holiday, holiday romance, christmas wish, christmas movie, family, christmas tree, christmas decorations, christmas decoration
Time:
21st century, contemporary
Place:
usa
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Most similar movies to The Santa Con
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, semi serious and captivating films with plots about family relations, christmas, christmas movie, holiday, parents and children, christmas eve and family mostly in Comedy, Family and Drama genres. Some movies like The Santa Con: Puppy Love (2012), Call Me Mrs. Miracle (2010), Christmas Mail (2010), One Christmas Eve (2014), All I Want for Christmas (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She ...
Style:
feel good, touching, captivating, light, humorous ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
dog, parents and children, fall in love, family relations, hopes, single parent, pets, friendship, couples, animal, holiday, love ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, winter, department store, miraculous event, parents and children, family relations, hopes, xmas, friendship, supernatural, couples ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In this holiday romantic comedy, a mysterious woman who works at the post office answering Santa's mail captures the heart of a disillusioned postal carrier
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, independent film ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, christmas romance, christmas spirit, holiday, workplace romance, workplace, fall in love, workplace situations, wish come true, office, xmas, christmas time ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.
Style:
feel good, sentimental, semi serious, humorous, emotional ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, nothing goes right, disorder, family relations, single parent, parents and children, dog, life turned upside down, fall in love, puppy, new year, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
After being told by her boss that the company needs to attract more clients, Elizabeth, a skilled executive, meets one of Santa’s helpers, who blesses her with an extraordinary gift allowing Elizabeth to hear everyone’s unspoken thoughts. While ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, captivating, sincere, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
christmas, christmas wish, holiday, desire, female protagonist, holiday romance, heartwarming, christmas spirit, wish come true, miraculous event, chance meeting, santa claus ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Ireland
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
During a ride on his sleigh Santa is mistaken for an alien in a UFO. After an attack, he ends up seriously injured in a small town. Two children must help him, so Christmas is not jeopardized.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sincere, captivating, light ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, hidden identity, parents and children, government agent, surveillance, santa claus, save the day, xmas, friendship, couples, society, youth ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
ireland
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A distant, slightly dysfunctional family is brought closer together when the father's long-estranged Uncle Nino comes from Italy to Chicago for a surprise visit.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, indie film ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
family life, family gatherings, family relations, fish out of water, parents and children, optimism, couples, society, uncle, youth, family reunited, friendship ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Hayley is an interior designer who plans to surprise her recently widowed mother Patricia with the perfect holiday present: the extended family she knows her mom yearns for.
Style:
entertaining, feel good, uplifting, heartfelt, touching ...
Plot:
christmas, female protagonist, holiday, family reunited, family relations, gift, heartwarming, relationships, parents and children, designer, christmas present, mother daughter relationship ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Style:
humorous, captivating, light, feel good, touching
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family life, family relations, youth, parents and children, unemployment, supernatural, friendship, miraculous event, dog, stupid kid, christmas season ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
It is literally in her DNA that Becca Wasserman feels comfortable and happy in her own skin, that trait and the associated chutzpah passed down to her from her supportive mother, Amanda Wasserman, and Becca's maternal Nana. In turn, Becca tries ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience:
girls' night, chick flick, teens
Plot:
contests and competitions, follow your dream, couple relations, family relations, lifestyle, against the odds, rivalry, ambition, parents and children, hopes, small town, beauty pageant ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
After three years, Nick's estranged daughter Holly returns home to find the spirit of Christmas in Santaville has dwindled, taking the family business with it. What starts out as an attempt to bail out her dad, ends up rekindling Holly's ...
Style:
captivating, light, entertaining, feel good
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, business, holiday, christmas time, father daughter relationship, small town, gift, race against time, save the day, love, christmas romance ...
Time:
2000s, 21st century
Place:
usa, boston
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: France
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Romain is 23 years old. He would like to be a writer, but for now, it is night porter in a hotel. His father is 62 years old. He retires and pretends to fuck. His roommate is 24 years old. He thinks only one thing: to seduce a girl, any and all ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sentimental, sincere, captivating ...
Plot:
parents and children, family relations, introspection, aging, past, night watchman, love, homecoming, death of grandmother, hopes, elderly, retirement ...
Time:
year 2014, 21st century
Place:
france, paris france
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA, UK, Canada
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Sixth-grader Peter is pretty much your average kid—he likes gaming, hanging with his friends and his beloved pair of Air Jordans. But when his recently widowed grandfather Ed moves in with Peter’s family, the boy is forced to give up his most ...
Style:
funny, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
boy, bullying, elderly, family conflict, christmas, friendship, resentment, grandfather grandson relationship, love, brother sister relationship, father daughter relationship, family feud ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
Rebecca, Mrs. Claus (Tedde Moore) is worried that her exhausted, workaholic husband (Mairtin O’Carrigan) has lost his holiday spirit. She believes she can help him recapture his bliss and secretly heads to the one place she knows the spirit of ...
Style:
feel good, serious, sentimental, realistic
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, divorce, love and romance, couple relations, couples, miraculous event, xmas, bad mother, santa claus, christmas eve, christmas romance, nanny ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A broken family finds their relationships to one another changed by a new arrival in the household.
Style:
touching, emotional, realistic, independent film, captivating ...
Audience:
chick flick, girls' night
Plot:
family relations, love, male virgin, infidelity, family problems, parents and children, family in crisis, parents separation, friendship, siblings relations, sex scene, free spirit ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
100%
637
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:
humorous, feel good, 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:
25%
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:
touching, feel good, captivating, light, uplifting ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, birth mother, family relations, nanny, single parent, hopes, family life, parents and children, wish come true, fall in love, television reporter, christmas time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, los angeles, california
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
Style:
touching, feel good, humorous, semi serious, sentimental ...
Plot:
christmas, winter, family problems, family gatherings, parents and children, homecoming, couple relations, family in crisis, couples, siblings relations, christmas time, holiday ...
Time:
year 2008, 21st century
Place:
usa, chicago
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, sincere, romantic, captivating ...
Audience:
date night
Plot:
christmas, hopes, looking for love, against the odds, haunted by the past, family relations, redemption, couples, self discovery, friendship, holiday, christmas time ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, new york
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, wedding, looking for love, family relations, couples, fall in love, pets, disorder, family life, xmas, dog ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
Eighteen-year old Ashley's life is headed in the wrong direction. She's been hanging out with a bad crowd and seeking an escape from the drama at home. Everything begins to change when a handyman working on the family's house ...
Style:
humorous, touching, feel good, sexual, captivating ...
Plot:
teenage girl, christmas, holiday, parents and children, rich and poor, family in crisis, friendship, couples, society, christmas eve, pregnant teenager, teenage pregnancy ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las ...
Style:
semi serious, sentimental, realistic, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night, teens, family friendly, kids ...
Plot:
christmas, parents and children, family relations, family life, on the road, teenager, youth, christmas time, holiday, santa claus, children, christmas season ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
las vegas, usa, utah
Similarity:
23%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
The competition heats up at the annual Greenlawn Christmas Decorating Contest when Norbert Bridges moves to town and stirs up trouble with the reigning champion Donnie Manning. But when the town outlaws Christmas after things get out of control it s ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, light, captivating, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family relations, social relations, friendship, family life, rivalry, small town, ambition, christmas eve, contests and competitions, disorder, uninhibited rivalry ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
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Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min.
Story:
Two New York City children who launch a hilarious scheme to get what they most want this holiday season.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, realistic, humorous, touching ...
Audience:
kids, pre-teens, date night, girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, divorced parents, family relations, dysfunctional family, xmas, couples, young heroes, eccentric family, disorder, hopes ...
Time:
20th century, year 1991, 90s
Place:
new york, usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A selfish con-man must show that he can be a family man to inherit his uncle's estate. As he tries to set up his scam family, he realizes that he really wants to have a one.
Style:
humorous, feel good, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, family relations, disorder, frame up, cons and scams, suburbs, inheritance, caper, rivalry, debt, friendship, holiday ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
22%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Madea dispenses her unique form of holiday spirit on rural town when she's coaxed into helping a friend pay her daughter a surprise visit in the country for Christmas.
Style:
christmas special, light, feel good, captivating, sincere ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, family relations, madea, parents and children, family life, medea, black, xmas, christmas season, friendship, society ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
alabama, georgia, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Eleven-year-old Bobby Cole and his dog Chilly are best friends, living happily in their Southern California beach house. But when Bobby's father Patrick (C. Thomas Howell), a single parent and police detective, accepts a job in New York City, ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, captivating, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot:
christmas, dog, youth, pets, family relations, disorder, parents and children, father son relationship, holiday, save the day, christmas eve, single parent ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
california, usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, family relations, elderly, chess, holiday, youth, mother daughter relationship, father daughter estrangement, grandfather granddaughter relationship, xmas, christmas eve, estrangement ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Santa's first born daughter, Rudolfa, is secretly selling pieces of the North Pole, and eventually take over where she attempts to ruin Christmas, and replace Santa's workshop with a brand new casino. But Santa's lost daughter Kristin ...
Style:
light, feel good, entertaining, humorous, romantic ...
Audience:
family outing, girls' night
Plot:
christmas, wedding, santa claus, wedding planning, sister sister relationship, xmas, parents and children, male female relationship, family relations, escapades, fall in love, family problems ...
Similarity:
21%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
While clasping her favorite Christmas snow globe, a cynical, overworked TV executive rants about how the movies she produces lie, making you think dreams come can come true. Upset, she tries to smash the globe, but instead it bonks her on the head, ...
Style:
light, sweet, realistic, semi serious, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing, date night
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, holiday, alternate reality, family problems, road not taken, love and romance, husband wife relationship, winter, male female relationship, opposites attract, love affair ...
Time:
21st century
Similarity:
20%
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