Movies like The Legend of the Christmas Witch

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The Legend of the Christmas Witch (2018)
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The Legend of the Christmas Witch (2018)
Original name: La befana vien di notte
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy, Spain
Duration: 98 min.
Story: During the day Paola is an ordinary primary school teacher, but at night, she turns into…The Christmas Witch, a magical creature who brings gifts to the good kids. One night, Paola disappears, kidnapped by Mr. Johnny, a cruel Toymaker who got his childhood ruined by the Witch and is now seeking revenge. A group of six brave pupils who found out their teacher's secret, will live an extraordinary adventure to rescue her. Will they be able to save Paola and Christmas?
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: christmas, witchcraft, school teacher, secret identity, magic, friendship, double life, family relations, thanksgiving, mistaken identity, disguise, witch, youth, snow, kidnapping, bully, immortality, marriage proposal, childhood trauma, metamorphosis, child in peril, toy maker, mountain village, local legend, group of children ...
Time: contemporary
Place: italy

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, captivating, humorous and entertaining films with plots about friendship, family relations, youth, friends, magic, disorder and christmas mostly in Family, Comedy and Fantasy genres. Some movies like The Legend of the Christmas Witch: A Witches' Ball (2017), Golden Winter (2012), A Halloween Puppy (2012), Santa Hunters (2014), Four Enchanted Sisters (2020). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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The Legend of the Christmas Witch 2: The Origins (2021)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 116 min.
Story: 18th century. Paola, a young, reckless street urchin inadvertently gets in the way of the plans of terrifying Baron De Michelis, a small and mean hunchback always escorted by his trusted (and abused) minion Marmotta, with an unquenchable thirst for ...
Style: captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: witch, magical creature, satire, teenage witch, magic, magician, magical, friendship, destiny
Time: 18th century
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95%
A Witches' Ball (2017)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Every year the Witching World gathers to celebrate the newly inducted witches into their world. Beatrix (12) is eager to become part of this world, but when her pending magical status is jeopardized she needs the help of her furry best friend Muggs ...
Style: captivating, funny, entertaining, feel good, spooky
Audience: family outing
Plot: witch, witchery, wizards and magicians, magic, magical girl, friendship, teenage girl, teenager, magical, teenage witch
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62%
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Golden Winter (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: A runaway boy befriends a pack of homeless puppies. Together, they stop a bank robbery and find a family to adopt them all.
Style: humorous, feel good, captivating, light, realistic ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: golden retriever, christmas, youth, dog, heist, friendship, disorder, talking dog, family relations, friends, narration, bank robbery ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
A Halloween Puppy (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: A boy accidentally turns his mom's boyfriend into a dog.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, captivating, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: human becomes animal, halloween, dog, magic, best friend, youth, curses spells and rituals, family relations, friendship, stupid kid, danger, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
58%
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Santa Hunters (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 65 min.
Story: Four children trIn Santa Hunters, Alex and his cousins Zoey (Yde) and Richard (Coronel) create an elaborate setup of traps to catch Santa on tape, but their plan backfires when they realize that seeing Santa will cause him to lose his Christmas ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, youth, escapades, friendship, xmas, christmas present, young heroes, heroes, chases and races, legends and myths, imaginary ...
Time: 21st century
Place: canada
⇓ similarity ⇓
56%
Four Enchanted Sisters (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Based on Sheridan Winn's book series "Sprite Sisters" about the magical adventures of sisters Flame, Sky, Flora and Marina.
Style: captivating, entertaining, feel good, not serious, modern fairy tale ...
Plot: witch, evil witch, eccentric family, sister sister relationship, magical power, supernatural ability, family relations, teenage girl, family secret, transformation, girl, supernatural ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
53%
Bibi Blocksberg (2002)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 102 min.
Story: In order to save some kids who are about to die in a fire, Bibi, the daughter of a prestigious witch, manages to trigger a heavy rain with her powers. The head of all witches gives her an award called "Crystal Ball", reserved for older ...
Style: exciting, humorous, captivating, semi serious, tense ...
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: witch, teenage life, curses spells and rituals, magic, youth, parents and children, children, eternal youth, imaginary, coming of age, small town, friendship ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany
⇓ similarity ⇓
52%
Santa's Boot Camp (2016)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: When kids become so bratty and self-centered that Santa's elves go on strike, Santa, in desperation, must bring six unscrupulous youths to his boot camp to help save Christmas.
Style: entertaining, captivating, funny, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, holiday, spoiled brat, elf, santa claus, children, teenage boy, theft, adventure hero, teenager, xmas, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
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The Claus Family (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 96 min.
Story: When his grandfather suddenly falls ill, holiday-hating Jules learns of his family's magical legacy and realizes he's the only hope to save Christmas.
Style: feel good, entertaining, sincere, captivating, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, toys, grandfather, kindness, magic, christmas season, new job, xmas, family relations, exploration ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
A Christmoose Carol (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A bullied young boy befriends a flying, talking moose that crashed through his ceiling after a test-flight with Santa went terribly awry in this holiday film for the whole family. But later, just as Mr. Moose and Beril strike up a friendship, the ...
Style: semi serious, feel good, touching, humorous, sentimental
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, family relations, heroes, friendship, escapades, youth, santa claus, children, animal life, new year, monkey, christmas carol ...
Time: 21st century
Place: europe, germany, bavaria
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Kids World (2000)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, New Zealand, USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: What would you wish for if you were eleven and could have anything in the world? Your parents don't understand you. Your teenage brother is constantly getting you in trouble...for things he did! You're in love with the twelve-year-old girl ...
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious, independent film, suspense
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, child as adult, wish come true, mischievous children, friendship, young heroes, experiment gone awry, teenage life, best friend, rescue, danger, family life ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Fuchsia the Mini-Witch (2010)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Netherlands
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Great adventures can hatch from the smallest eggs. Fucsia wants to learn to do magic just like her father, and so is pleased as punch when she is allowed to go to witches' school. There, Fucsia learns to make wind and conjures with the clouds. ...
Style: fairy tale, humorous, entertaining, captivating, feel good ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: witch, children, friendship, magic, supernatural power, magician, witchcraft, school, flying, magical, magical girl, wizards and magicians ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
The Metro Chase (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Adventure
Country: France
Duration: 83 min.
Story: This family comedy is about, Zack, an 8-year old American boy who is separated from his 18-year old sister, as they arrive in Paris for a family vacation. Seth, and friends track Zack down.
Style: semi serious, feel good, humorous, captivating, family comedy ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: chase, young heroes, mischievous children, disorder, danger, kids in trouble, youth, child in peril, silly humor, family relations, friends, amateur detective ...
Place: france, paris france, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Lilly the Witch: The Dragon and the Magic Book (2009)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany, Italy, Austria
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Lilly was a normal girl with a healthy sense of adventure. That is, until she finds a magical book, complete with a funny little dragon, "Hector". With the help of her new friend and the book, Lilly has the ability to time-travel and truly ...
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, captivating, exciting ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens, preschool
Plot: witch, dragon, youth, curses spells and rituals, imaginary, teaching the ways of the world, supernatural, wizards and magicians, good versus evil, save the day, disorder, heroic mission ...
Time: 21st century
Place: germany, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
43%
Doctor Proctor's Fart Powder (2014)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: Norway, Germany
Duration: 85 min.
Story: By helping Doctor Proctor getting recognition for his amazing invention in a world quite different from ours, two lonely children gets help to stand on their own two feet.
Style: humorous, not serious, captivating, entertaining, light
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: rivalry, friendship, inventions and discoveries, mad scientist, imaginary, youth, good versus evil, disorder, family relations, adult child friendship, identical twins, invention ...
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42%
The Secret of the Magic Gourd (2007)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: China, Hong Kong, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: The Secret of the Magic Gourd follows the wondrous adventures of a young schoolboy named Wang Bao. When Wang Bao discovers a magical gourd that can instantly grant his every wish, the awkward child suddenly becomes a hero amongst his curious ...
Style: entertaining, captivating, feel good, light, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: magical object, friends, hopes, family relations, desire, youth, friendship, escapades, rivalry, little boy, young heroes, family life ...
Place: asia, china
⇓ similarity ⇓
42%
The Town That Banned Christmas (2006)
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, ambition, small town, uninhibited rivalry, contests and competitions, small town life, disorder ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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I Heart Shakey (2012)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Shakey is a family film about a 35-year-old widower named J.T. O'Neil, his precocious 10-year-old daughter and their devoted mutt Shakey. After moving from a small town to Chicago and missing the fine print in their rental contract, J.T. is ...
Style: feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, light ...
Audience: family outing, kids
Plot: dog, father daughter relationship, family relations, widower, friends, parents and children, pets, disorder, family life, single parent, mischievous children, youth ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa, chicago, illinois
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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A Loud House Christmas (2021)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 64 min.
Story: Lincoln Loud gears up for the ultimate Christmas, until he finds out that most of his sisters have plans to be elsewhere for the big day. Determined to remind his family that they all need to be together, Lincoln and his best friend Clyde McBride ...
Style: feel good, sincere, captivating, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing
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Monkey Up (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A talking monkey seeks to gain fame and fortune as a movie star, but instead finds what's most important, a family.
Style: captivating, entertaining, humorous, feel good
Audience: family outing
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40%
The Magic Kids: Three Unlikely Heroes (2020)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Germany
Duration: 97 min.
Story: Vlad has just moved and joined one of the most famous magical schools in the world, where he meets fairies, witches, trolls and dwarfs. Him and his father are the first vampires in town, but he soon meets other special kids.
Style: light, feel good, fairy tale, funny, entertaining
Audience: family outing, kids
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The Family Holiday (2007)
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: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining ...
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, family relations, cons and scams, suburbs, frame up, disorder, inheritance, con artists, caper, friendship, debt, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: Germany
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Style: feel good, entertaining, humorous, captivating, educational ...
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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min.
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Style: feel good, christmas special, humorous, christmas classics, semi serious ...
Audience: kids, girls' night, pre-teens, family outing
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, reindeer, christmas eve, christmas season, xmas, time travel, north pole, hidden identity, nothing goes right, disorder ...
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⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Tiny Christmas (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 66 min.
Story: It is Christmas Eve, and a clumsy elf accidentally shrinks down two cousins into miniature sizes! The kids are then scooped up into Santa's sack and dropped off across the street at their neighbour's house. In order to make it home for ...
Style: light, humorous, exciting, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing
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Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Luxembourg
Duration: 97 min.
Story: The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
Style: humorous, entertaining, captivating, light, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, pre-teens, kids
Plot: youth, soldier, disorder, boy, save the day, prank, escapades, friendship, friends, rivalry, supernatural, danger ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Halloweentown High (2004)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Marnie Piper prepares to begin a new school year, she asks the Halloweentown Hot Witches' Council to work toward openness between Halloweentown and the mortal world. She proposes to bring a group of Halloweentown students to her own high school ...
Style: semi serious, stylized, humorous, feel good, teen ...
Audience: teens, kids, family outing, family friendly, pre-teens ...
Plot: halloween, witch, magic, supernatural, witchcraft, holiday, friends, hereditary gift of witchcraft, monster, friendship, vengeance, escapades ...
Time: 90s, 2000s
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
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Cop Dog (2008)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Crime, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Ever since Robby's father was killed while on police duty, Robby has been angry and alone. His father's old partner, a police dog named Marlowe, suffers the same fate. So when Robby sees Marlowe alone and locked up in a cage he begs his ...
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Audience: family outing
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Time: 21st century
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
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Gooby (2009)
Genre: Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 95 min.
Story: Imagine if you'd had a six-foot tall monster to help you through the rough times when you were 11! Willy is terrified about moving into the family's new house. He's convinced it's filled with evil space aliens out to get him. In ...
Style: sincere, feel good, entertaining, captivating, light ...
Audience: kids, family outing, pre-teens
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Place: canada, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
35%
Christmas, Inc. (2008)
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min.
Story: With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.
Style: entertaining, sincere, humorous, captivating, feel good
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, global warming, santa claus, saving christmas, magic, christmas spirit, north pole, wizard, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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