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A Wish for Christmas (2016)
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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 wish, but only gives her 48 hours. As the clock ticks, Sara will discover how to channel the Christmas magic and speak her mind all on her own.
Style: light, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, wish come true, winter, male female relationship, snow, self confidence, love and romance, fall in love, unlikely couple, magic, self doubt, ambition, boss and employee, relationship vs career, happy ending, new year, desire, santa claus, office party, business trip, limousine, father son conflict, business meeting ...
Time: 2010s, contemporary
Place: seattle, chicago, seattle washington

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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, light, entertaining and humorous films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, holiday, christmas romance, happy ending, christmas season and christmas spirit mostly in Romance, Drama and Family genres. Some movies like A Wish for Christmas: Wish Upon a Christmas (2015), Help for the Holidays (2012), Christmas Land (2015), Christmas at Dollywood (2019), A Gift Wrapped Christmas (2015). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Wish Upon a Christmas (2015)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: When business executive Amelia returns home to help a family-run ornament company, the employees see her as their savior who is coming in to rescue the company. They are heart-broken and shocked to learn that her plan to get the company on track ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, romantic, humorous, light
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, small town, family business, wish come true, christmas romance, second chance, old love, happy ending, male female relationship, christmas spirit, unfulfillment, character change ...
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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
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100%
Christmas Land (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Jules has just inherited a quaint magical Christmas-themed village and Christmas tree farm bequeathed her by her grandmother. She plans to sell it and use the profits to buy her dream home in New York City. But the longer Jules stays on the farm and ...
Style: romantic, entertaining, light, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, holiday, last will and testament, christmas romance, grandmother granddaughter relationship, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, happy ending, winter, family business, small town, society ...
Place: chicago, new york
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100%
Christmas at Dollywood (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min.
Story: Event planner Rachel lands her biggest job yet – Dollywood's 30th Smoky Mountain Christmas celebration, where she’s teamed with operations director Luke to plan an event as glamorous as Dolly Parton herself. Sparks fly, but it takes ...
Style: feel good, humorous, funny, entertaining, light ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, event planner, christmas romance, relationship vs career, holiday, fall in love, christmas spirit, ambition, coping, small town, family values, male female relationship ...
Place: new york
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Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa (2018)
Genre: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Lisa's trip home to Evergreen for the holidays finds her shepherding an effort to save the town's beloved general store, fulfilling the wishes of a Christmas past and finding a romance full of Christmas magic.
Style: captivating, sweet, light, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas romance, christmas spirit, small town, society, happy ending, escapades, friendship, fall in love, human spirit, childhood memory ...
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A Gift Wrapped Christmas (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Personal shopper Gwen's newest client, Charlie, is a high-rolling, workaholic, single father. When Gwen meets his 8-year-old son, Owen, during a package drop, she is saddened to see just how little time Charlie spends with him. Determined to ...
Style: feel good, light, sweet, romantic comedy
Plot: christmas, single father, holiday, workaholic, christmas romance, father son relationship, male female relationship, family values, love and romance, family relations, friendship, kids and family ...
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A Christmas in Tennessee (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Allison Bennet, along with her daughter Olivia and mother Martha, run a bakery in the small mountain town of White Pines, Tennessee. When Matthew, a charming real estate developer, tries to buy the town for a corporate ski resort, Allison and the ...
Style: sweet, humorous, entertaining, light, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, small town, mother daughter relationship, christmas romance, fall in love, happy ending, family business, snow, transformation, character change, opposites attract ...
Place: tennessee
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37%
The Christmas Chalet (2019)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min.
Story: A recently divorced mother books a chalet in a beautiful Christmas village in Vermont to try and rekindle Christmas magic for her teenaged daughter who feels like her family is ruined forever. When they arrive, they find that the house has been ...
Style: entertaining, light, humorous, funny, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, cottage, christmas romance, happy ending, xmas, new love, photographer, male female relationship, fall in love, solitude, writers ...
Place: vermont
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28%
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Love You Like Christmas (2016)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Maddie, a high-powered marketing executive, is on her way to a client’s wedding but her plans are derailed by car trouble. When a fork in the road leads her to Christmas Valley, a town in love with Christmas, an unexpected encounter and a group of ...
Style: feel good, romantic, light, entertaining, sweet ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, small town, holiday, single father, christmas romance, fall in love, father daughter relationship, happy ending, car breakdown, winter, opposites attract, unlikely couple ...
Place: new york, ohio
⇓ similarity ⇓
28%
Return to Christmas Creek (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min.
Story: As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes, a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend ...
Style: feel good, humorous, romantic, light, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, childhood friend, programmer, uncle niece relationship, homecoming, happy ending, ambition, character change, love and romance, small town life ...
Place: chicago, wisconsin
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Noelle (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story: Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
Style: light, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, exciting ...
Audience: kids, chick flick
Plot: christmas, christmas eve, elf, holiday, fish out of water, family business, new year, disorder, north pole, buddies, santa claus, magic ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa, phoenix arizona, arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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 ⇓
26%
'Tis the Season for Love (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: The holiday drama follows an out-of-work actress who returns to her quaint hometown, where a Christmas romance proves the life she once left behind could turn out to be even better than Broadway.
Style: feel good, captivating, light, humorous, romantic comedy
Plot: christmas, hometown, christmas romance, love interest, parent grown child relationship, mother daughter relationship, love and romance, winter, love, couples, friendship, family relations ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
I'm Not Ready for Christmas (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Holly finds her world turned upside-down when she suddenly finds herself incapable of lying. (Don’t you hate when that happens?) It’s because of a wish her niece made to Santa Claus. And now, with Christmas coming up fast, she has to come to ...
Style: feel good, humorous, entertaining, captivating, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, honesty, wish come true, winter, liar, lie, christmas romance, aunt niece relationship, happy ending, dishonesty, introspection, transformation ...
Place: denver colorado
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Christmas in Angel Falls (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Gabby Messinger, a Guardian Angel who has trouble following the rules and is known for meddling in the love live’s of others, is tasked by the Angel Michael to help the town of Angel Falls find its Christmas spirit again.
Style: entertaining, romantic, funny, light, humorous ...
Audience: date night, family outing
Plot: christmas, guardian angel, christmas romance, holiday, happy ending, winter, human nature, life philosophy, workplace, self discovery, life is a bitch, human spirit ...
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Christmas Camp (2018)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 81 min.
Story: To get a big promotion, Hayley, an advertising executive who specializes in social media and all things hip, must land a toy company that is all about traditional Christmas as an account.
Style: funny, humorous, romantic, feel good, light ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love story, fall in love, family business, father son relationship, second chance, sibling relationship, love and romance, hotel, advertising executive ...
Place: boston
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Christmas Incorporated (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Sometimes, life just seems to hand you exactly what you need – particularly at Christmastime. Riley is scraping bottom when she miraculously lands a job with a wealthy New York City entrepreneur. He’s a bad-boy socialite type who is poised to ...
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, feel good, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, mistaken identity, male female relationship, personal assistant, relationship vs career, winter, christmas spirit, unlikely couple, small town life, transformation, christmas eve ...
Time: 2010s
Place: new york
⇓ similarity ⇓
26%
Four Christmases and a Wedding (2017)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: When event planner Chloe is hired to plan the local Christmas Festival, she is beyond thrilled to embrace the challenge. Professionally, everything is going great, but much to the dismay of her mother, Chloe confesses she has given up on ever ...
Style: light, entertaining, humorous, feel good, sweet ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, holiday, wedding, true love, christmas romance, fall in love, against the odds, chance meeting, ambition, up and down relationship, opposites attract ...
Place: new york
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25%
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Christmas at Cartwright's (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Santa Claus, as a real-life angel delivers good fortune and the possibility of holiday romance.
Style: sweet, light, feel good, touching, sentimental ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, single mother, christmas season, love affair, miraculous event, new love, love and romance, male female relationship, fall in love, love, lifestyle ...
Place: chicago
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Always and Forever Christmas (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story: When marketing exec Lucy learns that she’s inherited her grandfather’s year-round Christmas store, “Forever Christmas," she makes a trip back home to support the store during its final Christmas season before she sells it to a hip ...
Style: light, romantic, humorous, sweet, entertaining ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, inheritance, small town, holiday, happy ending, transformation, family business, lifestyle change, male female relationship, fall in love, homecoming, christmas eve ...
Place: vermont
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Sleigh Bells Ring (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Recently divorced, Laurel struggles to get into the holiday spirit while heading up her hometown Christmas parade. With the help of a Christmas sleigh and a handsome woodworker, Laurel is destined to turn her luck around, rekindle her holiday spirit ...
Style: romantic, light, entertaining, sweet, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, single mother, mother daughter relationship, holiday, hometown, christmas romance, old love, male female relationship, santa claus, winter, christmas spirit, homecoming ...
Place: vermont
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24%
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
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Christmas Bells Are Ringing (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Samantha, a freelance photographer, is returning to Cape Cod for the first time since the death of her mother years earlier. She’s going to celebrate her father’s Christmas Eve wedding but is anxious to revisit past memories. On a deadline for a ...
Style: funny, feel good, light, romantic, entertaining ...
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, wedding, christmas romance, happy ending, photographer, father daughter relationship, relationship vs career, love story, moral dilemma, unfulfillment, old love ...
Place: boston
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23%
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Snowbound for Christmas (2019)
Genre: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min.
Story: A marketing executive is invited by her charming and handsome boss to pitch a major project to prospective clients at a posh resort and the two get snowed in together before any of the other guests can arrive. Now, with the hotel to themselves, a ...
Style: feel good, light, romantic, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, happy ending, male female relationship, love triangle, unlikely couple, doubt, love story, christmas eve, love and romance, fall in love, opposites attract ...
Place: boston
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23%
Baby's First Christmas (2012)
Genre: Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min.
Story: When a pair of feuding colleagues, Kyle and Jenna are thrown together after their siblings, Jim and Trisha fall in love, they have to learn to get along in time for their nephew's birth on Christmas. Realizing Jim and Trisha have major money ...
Style: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, funny ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, family problems, opposites attract, family feud, love and romance, character change, nephew, relationship vs career, transformation, unlikely couple, fall in love, coworker ...
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Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding (2020)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story: Follows Jacquie Liddle as she and Tyler try to plan their perfect destination Christmas wedding. Naturally, Jacquie’s plans go awry when her boisterous family intervenes in her planning and her snooty wedding planner quits in protest. While ...
Style: light, sweet, romantic, feel good, entertaining
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, love and romance, wedding, family gatherings, happy ending, christmas eve, christmas party, lifestyle change, unlikely couple, christmas season ...
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A Christmas for the Books (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Lifestyle guru and romance expert, Joanna Moret, has developed a fool-proof strategy for ending holiday loneliness and it's all detailed in her best-selling book, The Love Audit. After appearing on a morning show, she is offered the biggest ...
Style: entertaining, light, romantic, humorous, feel good ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, holiday, female writer, christmas romance, unlikely couple, love and romance, opposites attract, life philosophy, lifestyle, relationship vs career, fall in love, christmas spirit ...
Place: chicago
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23%
A Veteran's Christmas (2018)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Captain Grace Garland, a decorated U.S. veteran, returns home after two tours of Search and Rescue in Afghanistan. After being separated from her beloved K9 partner, Grace must rediscover the magic of Christmas. When she finds herself stranded in ...
Style: entertaining, sweet, feel good, romantic, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night, date night
Plot: christmas, veteran, holiday, christmas romance, car accident, christmas season, small town, transformation, new life, self discovery, starting over, fall in love ...
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Christmas in the Smokies (2015)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story: Christmas in the Smokies is a modern day Christmas classic set in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. It tells the story of one family's journey to save their historic berry farm against all odds during one fateful holiday season.
Style: romantic, humorous, light, feel good, entertaining
Audience: date night, girls' night
Plot: christmas, homecoming, old love, help, father daughter relationship, happy ending, farm, resentment, love and romance, holiday, family home, social relations ...
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A Joyous Christmas (2017)
Genre: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Just before Christmas, bestselling author Rachel Kennedy returns to her hometown to host an event for her upcoming book. Though being home is difficult since losing her parents and losing touch with her brother, David, she finds strength from ...
Style: feel good, sweet, entertaining, humorous, thought provoking ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, christmas romance, happy ending, holiday, homecoming, winter, writers, male female relationship, character change, christmas spirit, fund raising, saving a life ...
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