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A Christmas Story Live! (2017)
2K
Genre: Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
A live broadcast of the Broadway hit "A Christmas Story: The Musical" in which Ralphie wishes for nothing more than a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas.
Style:
funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, semi serious, visually appealing, family comedy, sentimental, nostalgic
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, holiday, music, christmas eve, child protagonist, family relations, family secret, road trip, secret, brother brother relationship, hidden truth, obsessive quest, riddles and clues, mother son relationship, father son relationship, adaptation, choreography, wish fulfillment, broadway, maturity, bullying, toys, imagination, coming of age, voice over narration ...
Time:
1940s
Place:
indiana
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Most similar movies to A Christmas Story Live!
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out feel good, humorous, entertaining and sentimental films with plots about christmas, holiday, christmas movie, christmas eve, family relations, family and christmas season mostly in Musical, Family and Comedy genres. Some movies like A Christmas Story Live!: The Disney Holiday Singalong (2020), Nativity Rocks! (2018), Spirited (2022), Christmas Eve on Sesame Street (1978), The Christmas Toy (1986). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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, captivating, realistic, semi serious, touching ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, church choir, family relations, ambition, couples, love and romance, holiday, small town, singing, christmas eve, xmas, artists and showbiz ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Similarity:
95%
Genre: Family, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Returning for a third iteration, “The Disney Holiday Singalong” features more music and magic just in time for the holidays. The one-hour festive musical event includes star-studded performances, animated on-screen lyrics, more favorite Disney ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, funny, captivating, christmas special ...
Audience:
family friendly, kids, family outing
Plot:
holiday, christmas, music, artists and showbiz, christmas season, christmas spirit, christmas wish, magical, variety show, nostalgia
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86%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
The staff and students at St. Bernadette's Primary School audition for a coveted place in a spectacular rock musical competition.
Style:
feel good, funny, entertaining, satirical, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly, family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, rock music, nativity, teacher, elementary school, school, satire, contests and competitions, musician, music, high school life, children ...
Similarity:
78%
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:
colorful, sentimental, humorous, feel good, fairy tale ...
Audience:
family outing, chick flick
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, christmas spirit, coldhearted, rich man, christmas season, character change, human nature, christmas time, happy ending, life changing experience ...
Similarity:
69%
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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:
feel good, uplifting, lighthearted, sentimental, humorous ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
holiday, christmas, friendship, teenager, family relations, heartwarming, teenage life, love and romance, follow your dream, christmas season, teenage love, parents and children ...
Similarity:
64%
59K
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, 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, feel good, thought provoking, captivating, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas eve, lost love, christmas season, charles dickens, ghost, boss, greed, loneliness, evil man, misanthrope ...
Time:
2020s, 80s, 1800s, victorian era
Place:
new york
Similarity:
63%
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, sesame street, xmas, holiday, puppet, skating, disorder, friends, family relations, wizards and magicians, social relations ...
Time:
70s
Similarity:
62%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 43 min.
Story:
Faced with a holiday cheer crisis, the North Pole knows there's only one person who can save the day: Santa’s great friend, Mariah Carey. Combining musical performances, dynamic dancing and groundbreaking animation, the undisputed Queen of ...
Style:
feel good, christmas special, funny, humorous, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, musician, north pole, pop music, music, christmas season, celebrity, female singer, christmas party, spectacle, glamour, variety show ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
61%
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Genre: Drama, Family, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood’s School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school’s new rules and the finer points of high society. As Mandie tries to stay out of hot water with Miss Heathwood and discover what the ...
Style:
feel good, entertaining, funny, light, humorous ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, christmas spirit, holiday, girls' school, teenage girl, riddles and clues, friendship, escapades, obsessive quest, deep south, prairie ...
Time:
edwardian era
Similarity:
60%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 50 min.
Story:
The Christmas Toy is a 1986 Emmy Award nominated television film produced by The Jim Henson Company, featuring Jim Henson's Muppets. Rugby the Tiger who remembers how he was the Christmas Toy last year, and thinks he's going to be ...
Style:
mysterious, feel good, stylized, humorous, semi serious ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, preschool
Plot:
christmas, muppets, toy comes to life, puppet, objects come to life, magical, xmas, best friend, paralysis, holiday, puppetry, toys ...
Time:
80s
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
Third musical in the Nunsense series.
Style:
lighthearted, feel good, family comedy, sentimental, parody
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, nun, variety show, singing, holiday, religious, heartwarming, satire, camp, catholic schoolgirl, nutcracker, monk ...
Similarity:
59%
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Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A prim and proper schoolgirl goes against her mother's wishes when she dates a motorcycle-riding juvenile delinquent.
Style:
humorous, sentimental, satirical, light, parody ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night, teen drama
Plot:
rock and roll, gang, forbidden love, youth, satire, music, couples, juvenile delinquency, teenage love, biker, juvenile delinquent, dysfunctional family ...
Time:
50s, 1950s, year 1954, 90s, 20th century ...
Place:
maryland, baltimore, usa
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.
Style:
feel good, funny, sincere, entertaining, captivating
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, lgbt, female protagonist, music, supernatural power, magic, supernatural ability, healing, redheaded woman, snow, girl power ...
Place:
san francisco
Similarity:
59%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Style:
cult classic, christmas special, funny, period piece, hilarious ...
Audience:
teens, pre-teens, kids, family outing, teen drama
Plot:
christmas, bullying, childhood, holiday, boy, school, coming of age, children, christmas season, childhood memory, bully, little boy ...
Time:
1940s, year 1940, year 1983, 20th century
Place:
indiana, columbus ohio, usa, canada
Similarity:
57%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
A teenage girl who halfheartedly tries to be part of the "in crowd" meets a dashing rebel who teaches her a more sinister way to play social politics.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, funny, satirical, humorous ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
closeted homosexual, teenage rebellion, teen social issues, male homosexuality, adolescence, teenage life, satire, schoolgirl, teenager, music, teenage girl, lifestyle ...
Time:
80s
Place:
west end london, ohio
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Adventure, Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
Story:
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be like if every day were Christmas! You'll enjoy lots of songs and holiday cheer with Elmo and his ...
Style:
crying, independent film, semi serious, humorous, feel good
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
christmas, sesame street, holiday, puppet, christmas eve, santa claus, children, saving christmas, puppetry, family relations, wizards and magicians, estrangement ...
Time:
future
Similarity:
56%
Genre: Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
Style:
visually appealing, fairy tale, costume drama, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
girls' night, family outing, teens, chick flick, kids ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, children, meaning of life, rise to the top, christmas time, grandfather granddaughter relationship, fight for justice, inventions and discoveries, magic, friends in love, lie ...
Time:
victorian era, 2020s, 19th century
Similarity:
55%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives. Ralphie is searching for the perfect top to use to beat the school bully with, the Old Man is in battle with their hillbilly ...
Style:
humorous, semi serious, feel good, melancholic, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids, teen drama
Plot:
youth, family life, contests and competitions, disorder, love and romance, nothing goes right, family relations, eccentric family, parents and children, father son relationship, coming of age, feud ...
Time:
1940s, year 1994, 1900s
Place:
columbus ohio, indiana
Similarity:
53%
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, light hearted, sentimental
Plot:
children, child protagonist, innocence, culture clash, optimism, family values, adaptation, friendship, fish out of water, christmas, homesickness, family drama ...
Time:
70s
Place:
new york, swiss alps, alps, switzerland
Similarity:
49%
Genre: Comedy, Music, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 56 min.
Story:
Bill Murray worries no one will show up to his TV show due to a massive snowstorm in New York City. Through luck and perseverance, guests arrive at Gotham’s Carlyle Hotel to help him — dancing and singing in holiday spirit.
Style:
satirical, parody, christmas special, humorous, talky ...
Plot:
christmas, hotel, destiny, loneliness, music, sarcasm, dancing, holiday, nothing goes right, christmas time, snow, love ...
Place:
new york
Similarity:
48%
Genre: Family, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Broadway style songs are used to tell this interesting story of an ingenious orphan who gets involved in matchmaking and striving for inter-racial understanding in 1956 Alabama.
Style:
feel good, uplifting, period piece, sentimental
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
heartwarming, broadway, empathy, optimism, small town, community, social change, matchmaking, black, social commentary, coming of age, adaptation ...
Time:
1950s
Place:
alabama, southern usa
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Cindy and Tom Baer-Neil have been married for nearly a year, each having lost their first spouse. With the holidays just around the corner, Cindy and Tom are determined to make the new family’s first Christmas perfect. But their respective ...
Style:
humorous, feel good, light, funny, entertaining
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, conflict, holiday, party, brother brother relationship, adaptation, family tradition, mischievous children, parenthood, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Similarity:
46%
Genre: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Neglected by her husband during the pre-Christmas rush, Mrs. Santa Claus takes the reindeer and sleigh out for a drive, only to end up stranded in the multi-cultural neighbourhood of Manhattan's Lower East Side of the early 1900s.
Style:
christmas classics, humorous, feel good, semi serious
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens
Plot:
christmas, santa claus, xmas, christmas eve, fish out of water, mistaken identity, family life, dishonesty, couple relations, mischievous children, youth, love and romance ...
Place:
new york, usa, manhattan new york city
Similarity:
45%
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Genre: Drama, Musical
Country: Sweden
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
The story of two brothers and their musical family, forced to confront their secrets over an intense Christmas break.
Style:
christmas special, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot:
christmas, secret, christmas eve, singing, xmas, relationships, brothers, christmas season, christmas spirit, family conflict, kids and family, eccentric family ...
Place:
eastern europe
Similarity:
44%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
A young boy, Danny, tries to prove the existence of Santa by using his intelligence and gadgets. He and his trusted group go on an intense journey to find the truth of Santa.
Style:
feel good, humorous, sweet, funny, light ...
Audience:
family outing, kids
Plot:
christmas, holiday, santa claus, children, christmas eve, journey, families, small town life, child protagonist, faith, christmas spirit, miraculous event ...
Similarity:
43%
Genre: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Ten year-old Abigail has written to the North Pole and asked for something very special this year something she has kept secret from her Mother. On Christmas Eve while her Mother sleeps, Abigail hides in her living room waiting to make sure that ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, family comedy, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas spirit, wish fulfillment, christmas eve, santa claus, desire, christmas season, child, magic, wish come true, family relations ...
Time:
2010s
Similarity:
42%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
"A Christmas Carol" turns into "A Christmas Corral" as the animals of Woodsley's Farm help Oliver and his little sister June stage the classic tale to shock their Dad into embracing the spirit of the holidays.
Style:
funny, sincere, captivating, feel good, light ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas eve, parents and children, family relations, father daughter relationship, mother daughter relationship, children, humour, father son relationship, christmas spirit, kids and family, christmas carol ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A failed Broadway singer who now works as a production manager must save opening night on his new production by wrangling his eccentric cast and crew.
Style:
satirical, captivating, entertaining, feel good, light ...
Plot:
satire, backstage, relationship problems, record producer, family problems, silly humor, workplace situations, producer, money problems, singer, gay, lgbt ...
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The third film version of 'State Fair' (and the second musical version).Margy Frake this time round is played by newcomer Pamela Tiffin, who has her voice dubbed as Jeanne Crain did 17 years earlier. Her squire at the fair this time round ...
Style:
realistic, semi serious, feel good, sentimental, humorous
Plot:
singing, generation, auto racing, coming of age, revolutionary war, family relations, love and romance, family life, fall in love, chorus girl, siblings relations, looking for love ...
Time:
60s, 20th century
Place:
oklahoma city, austin texas, texas, dallas texas
Similarity:
41%
Genre: Comedy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story:
After enjoying a holiday romance, high school students Danny and Sandy are unexpectedly reunited when she transfers to Rydell High, where she must contend with cynical Rizzo and the Pink Ladies.
Style:
lyrical, captivating, semi serious, feel good, sentimental ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
dancing, live performance, high school life, friends, teenage love, youth, coming of age, broadway, teen romance, twins, theater, opposites attract ...
Time:
1950s, 20th century, 50s, year 1959
Place:
usa
Similarity:
40%
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