Movies like Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square

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Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (2020)
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Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story: A rich and nasty woman returns to her hometown to evict everyone but discovers the true meaning of Christmas thanks to the local townsfolk – and an actual angel. Features 14 original songs with music and lyrics by Dolly Parton!
Style: fairy tale, sentimental, feel good, humorous, colorful, gay cinema, colourful
Audience: family outing, chick flick
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, rich man, coldhearted, christmas season, human nature, character change, rich and poor, human spirit, christmas eve, happy ending, ghost story, self discovery, greed, redemption, employer employee relationship, selfishness, regret, change of heart, life changing experience, new year, christmas carol, dancing, angel ...
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Most similar movies to Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square

The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, light and entertaining films with plots about christmas, christmas movie, holiday, christmas season, family relations, xmas and santa claus mostly in Family, Comedy and Musical genres. Some movies like Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square: Spirited (2022), Christmas with the Andersons (2016), Call Me Claus (2001), A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015), Noelle (2019). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Spirited (2022)
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 ⇓
95%
Christmas with the Andersons (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story: Drowning in tinsel and lights every Christmas, Michael and Caroline Anderson throw the year’s biggest party at their house. But this year, with Michael jobless and Caroline’s store struggling, that tradition may end. The Andersons decide to host ...
Style: humorous, feel good, funny, light, sweet ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, parents and children, family values, aunt, holiday, christmas present, happy ending, stereotypes, goodhearted, prejudice, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
86%
Call Me Claus (2001)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: If She's Going To Save Christmas, She's Got Some Big Shoes To Fill.
Style: feel good, semi serious, humorous, entertaining
Audience: family outing, kids, pre-teens
Plot: christmas, santa claus, haunted by the past, fish out of water, nothing goes right, redemption, ghost, disorder, misfit, goofy hero, family life, destiny ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
74%
A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story: Sharron Holden is a loving mother, wife, and workaholic. She's on the verge of a huge promotion at work, but her husband feels as if she has given up on her family. While on vacation, she imagines that life would have been better if she ...
Style: entertaining, thought provoking, inspirational, feel good, light ...
Audience: family outing, girls' night
Plot: christmas, holiday, christmas eve, parents and children, second chance, wish come true, family relations, transformation, working mom, workaholic, character change, lifestyle ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
71%
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 6.3
 27K
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 ⇓
67%
Battle of the Bulbs (2010)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story: Bob and Stu are former best friends who still hold a grudge from an argument they had when they were teenagers. Now, they hope to settle the score with a different kind of competition: who can out-bulb the other in their town’s annual Christmas ...
Style: humorous, satirical, entertaining, funny, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, competition, rivalry, neighbor, feud, ambition, christmas spirit, neighbor neighbor relationship, christmas season, competitor, satire ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
66%
Santa's Little Helper (2015)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: After getting fired from his job, a slick, fast-talking businessman is thrown into an elf competition to become Santa¹s next second-in-command. Put through a series of rigorous training exercises to prepare for the contest, The Miz and another ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, light, sweet, fairy tale ...
Plot: christmas, santa claus, magic, north pole, holiday, christmas eve, toys, wrestling, wrestler, christmas movie, world wrestling entertainment
⇓ similarity ⇓
60%
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
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 ⇓
60%
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A Carol Christmas (2003)
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 ⇓
59%
A Country Christmas Story (2013)
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 ⇓
59%
Meet The Santas (2005)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story: Because she is marrying the man who assumed the mantle of Santa Claus last December 26, Beth's postponed wedding has to be rescheduled for Xmas eve. Overwhelmed by selling the house she and her son share and the prospect of the duties of Mrs. ...
Style: fairy tale, sentimental, light, feel good, sincere
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, family relations, parents and children, kids and family, couple relations, love and romance, christmas eve, fight, magic, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special (2020)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story: The cast of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” delivers an abundance of feel-good holiday cheer as they perform their favorite Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s songs and share their fondest holiday memories.
Style: humorous, romantic, feel good, sentimental
Plot: christmas, teenager, holiday, family relations, love and romance, follow your dream, teenage life, parents and children, singing, music, sport team, dancing ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
54%
Puppy Star Christmas (2018)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 91 min.
Story: The Pup Star family just got bigger! And the new pups: Cindy, Rosie, Charlie, and Brody will have to learn the true meaning of Christmas. When Pup Star’s mean team, scheme to ruin Christmas, the pups end up in the North Pole to save Santa and the ...
Style: entertaining, feel good, humorous, sweet, light
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, dog, talking dog, happy ending, santa claus, escapades, impostor, breaking the fourth wall, good versus evil, animal, puppy, chase ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
51%
The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
Style: sweet, feel good, fairy tale, light, christmas special
Audience: kids
Plot: christmas, santa claus, holiday, christmas season, xmas, workaholic, kids and family, culture clash, life philosophy, vacation, christmas present, self discovery ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
48%
Merry Christmas, Baby (2015)
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min.
Story: Marci throws herself into preparing for Christmas and building her new event-planning business. But when the business gets off to a rocky start and members of her family face their own hardships, Marci steps up to help everyone have a good holiday.
Style: captivating, feel good, entertaining, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, baby, planning, christmas spirit, family relations, parents and children, christmas season, business, urban, christmas movie
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
A Christmas Story 2 (2012)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-american christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy mom and the old man. This time Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Style: feel good, humorous, light, sincere, semi serious ...
Audience: family outing, kids, teens
Plot: christmas, family life, holiday, youth, eccentric family, coming of age, society, love, adaptation, destiny, escapades, happy ending ...
Time: 2010s, year 1946, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%
Saving Christmas (2014)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story: Kirk is enjoying the annual Christmas party extravaganza thrown by his sister until he realizes he needs to help out Christian, his brother-in-law who has a bad case of the bah-humbugs.
Style: feel good, humorous, semi serious, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, tradition, brother in law, christmas party, family relations, siblings relations, christian, xmas, faith, holiday, religious, meme ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story: In this one-hour Christmas special, Fozzie Bear surprises his mother Emily on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the ...
Style: christmas special, not serious, humorous, feel good
Audience: kids, family outing, preschool
Plot: christmas, puppet, muppets, holiday, xmas, new year, christmas season, weirdo, blizzard, sesame street, puppetry, guest ...
Time: 20th century, 80s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
46%
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Nativity! (2009)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story: Martin Freeman is lovelorn teacher Mr Maddens, a former am-dram star whose girlfriend (Ashley Jensen) dumped him over Christmas five years ago and upped sticks, inexplicably, to La-La Land. Yuletide cheer is not his forte, but he's forced to ...
Style: humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, captivating ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, holiday, youth, school, ambition, desire for fame, disorder, mischievous children, artists and showbiz, nativity, christmas season, rivalry ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, europe
⇓ similarity ⇓
44%
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story: Big Bird worries when Oscar tells him that if Santa Claus can't fit down the chimney on Christmas Eve, nobody would get presents.
Style: realistic, semi serious, humorous, feel good, christmas special
Audience: kids, family outing
Plot: christmas, muppets, holiday, xmas, puppet, sesame street, family relations, disorder, friends, social relations, skating, wizards and magicians ...
Time: 70s
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
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Deck the Halls (2006)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story: Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Style: feel good, funny, humorous, light, christmas classics ...
Plot: christmas, holiday, neighbor, feud, small town, parents and children, unlikely friendships, suburbs, xmas, rivalry, couple relations, social relations ...
Time: future, 2000s
Place: europe, england, massachusetts
⇓ similarity ⇓
41%
It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie (2002)
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 100 min.
Story: The owner of a bank (Miss Bitterman) wants to own the Muppet Theatre so she can build a nightclub over it. After she tricks Pepe into giving her the only copy of the contract between her father and the Muppets, she changes it so the Muppets have ...
Style: humorous, christmas special, witty, stylized, not serious ...
Audience: family outing, chick flick, kids, preschool
Plot: muppets, christmas, puppetry, holiday, goofy hero, friendship, puppet, xmas, christmas season, alternate reality, god, parents ...
Time: year 2016, 90s
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story: A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus, to make a snow day. The machine breaks, and causes an out of control snowstorm.
Style: humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience: family outing, kids, preschool
Plot: christmas, youth, best friend, mischievous children, wish come true, santa claus, holiday, disorder, supernatural, hopes, christmas season, preteen ...
Time: year 2000, 20th century, 90s
Place: los angeles, california, usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
40%
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All I Want for Christmas (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 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, captivating, entertaining, sincere, semi serious
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, female protagonist, wish come true, santa claus, miraculous event, magic, desire, chance meeting, christmas wish, new year, christmas season, xmas ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
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
⇓ similarity ⇓
39%
12 Dates of Christmas (2011)
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: 12 Dates of Christmas is a romantic comedy that follows Kate (Amy Smart), a young woman who re-lives the same first date on Christmas Eve over and over again. In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her ...
Style: semi serious, humorous, feel good, sentimental, romantic ...
Audience: girls' night, date night, chick flick
Plot: christmas, time loop, fall in love, true love, love, time travel, holiday, christmas eve, blind date, love and romance, dating, couple relations ...
Time: 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
38%
Christmas Mail (2010)
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, humorous, touching, independent film ...
Audience: family outing
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, workplace romance, holiday, workplace, fall in love, wish come true, workplace situations, office, xmas, letter, christmas romance ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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 ⇓
36%
A Christmas Carol (1984)
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 ⇓
35%
The Christmas Spirit (2013)
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story: Charlotte Hart, a distinguished journalist, is spending time with her family over the holidays when a real estate developer approaches their small town with quite an offer. Skeptical and looking for the real scoop, Charlotte drives to see the real ...
Style: entertaining, romantic, feel good, light, humorous ...
Audience: girls' night
Plot: christmas, christmas spirit, out of body experience, small town, winter, land developer, hopes, accident, adaptation, christmas eve, journalism, transformation ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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