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Holly Star (2018)
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
A broke puppeteer returns home for the holidays and gets caught up in a treasure hunt with her paintball-obsessed best friend, her tango-dancing grandmother and a childhood sweetheart.
Style:
funny, feel good, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious, psychotronic
Plot:
christmas, holiday, treasure hunt, lost treasure, hidden money, hidden treasure, back in hometown, treasure, money, treasure hunter, escapades, getting home, satire, christmas season, cash, money problems, christmas spirit, xmas, snow, christmas eve, childhood
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The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out captivating, satirical, feel good and semi serious films with plots about christmas, satire, christmas season, holiday, christmas spirit, christmas eve and christmas movie mostly in Comedy and Family genres. Some movies like Holly Star: A Wesley Christmas Wedding (2023), Father Christmas Is Back (2021), Hope For Christmas (2018), The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022), La sedia della felicità (2013). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Story:
Siblings Chris, Todd, Cydney and Wesley travel to their childhood home in Washington to celebrate Christmas holidays with their parents Bryan and Sylvia. Upon their arrival, all kinds of family drama, a crazy neighbor and conflicts happen.
Style:
feel good, semi serious, christmas special, satirical, entertaining ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, relationships, xmas, father son relationship, mother daughter relationship, kids and family, family relations, mother daughter reunion, father son reunion, parents and children, father daughter relationship ...
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100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 47 min.
Story:
Andy Richter is capturing the spirit of the '70s network Christmas special, and inviting you to celebrate the Holiday Season the right way with his family and all his important celebrity friends.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, christmas season, satire, celebration, christmas dinner, christmas spirit, joke, friend, comedian, friendship, guest ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Four sisters – Caroline, Joanna, Paulina, and Vicky – reunite for the Christmas Holiday in a Yorkshire mansion. However, their estranged father, James, joins in for the first time since he left the family behind decades prior. The group attempts ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, humorous, semi serious ...
Plot:
christmas, sister sister relationship, mansion, family relations, father daughter relationship, family reunited, satire, father and daughter, male female relationship, humour, sisters, holiday ...
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min.
Story:
This fun story is a reboot of the 2004 released made for TV movie "Pastor Greg's 1st Christmas". Updated making Greg a military veteran turned pastor. Still trying to win over a skeptical congregation, recovered war veteran turned ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, satirical, christmas special, entertaining ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, pastor, war veteran, christian, hopes, faith based, satire, christmas season, xmas, christmas spirit, lifestyle, second chance ...
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
When Brian Conway, a successful businessman whose family relationships have suffered, gets in a car accident on Christmas Eve, Santa gives him twelve chances to redo the day and repair the relationships in his life, including with his daughter ...
Style:
christmas classics, funny, satirical, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
christmas eve, christmas, second chance, family relations, santa claus, male protagonist, changing lives, time warp, christmas present, christmas spirit, family problems, time jump ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
100%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Dino craft practice tattoos, Bruna is a beautician; their studies are facing each other. They learn of a mysterious treasure hidden in a chair that belonged to a woman now dead.
Style:
captivating, funny, satirical, semi serious, entertaining ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, hidden treasure, treasure hunter, escapades, satire, treasure, money problems, lost treasure, kindness, unlikely friendships, small town, priest ...
Place:
italy
Similarity:
37%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 46 min.
Story:
This Christmas extravaganza is filled with sidesplitting short films and joyous comedy sketches starring Santa's favorite elf, Dorf (Tim Conway.
Style:
feel good, light hearted, family comedy, humorous, captivating ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
elf, christmas, holiday, satire, snow, sketch, santa claus, christmas spirit, christmas season, winter, xmas, chaos ...
Similarity:
34%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA, China
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they ...
Style:
buddy comedy, sexy, funny, saga, humorous ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
christmas, mother daughter relationship, female friendship, holiday, female protagonist, stepfather stepdaughter relationship, strip show, woman, single mother, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, winter, christmas eve ...
Time:
year 2017, 2010s, 21st century
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
100%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 77 min.
Story:
When a family can't be together on Christmas, they bring their dysfunctional family Christmas online.
Style:
christmas comedy, entertaining, captivating, satirical, feel good ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, saving christmas, found footage, family relations, christmas eve, xmas, celebration, problem, relationships, winter, father daughter relationship ...
Time:
2020s
Similarity:
31%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Two estranged brothers try to reconnect at Christmas but there's something that one of them can't get past...the other thinks he's a time traveler.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, feel good, funny, captivating ...
Plot:
time travel, christmas, holiday, christmas season, social satire, time loop, brother brother reunion, time warp, back in time, brother brother relationship, time traveler, time jump ...
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min.
Story:
It’s Holiday Season in Reno, and Lieutenant Dangle wishes he’d never been born. With the help of a roller skating “Angel,” he learns how much better the lives of the other deputies would be if he never existed. Will he decide to live on ...
Style:
christmas special, semi serious, humorous, feel good, funny ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, police department, christmas season, changing lives, problem, alternate timeline, magic, christmas spirit, lifestyle, satire, shopping mall ...
Place:
reno nevada
Similarity:
30%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A workaholic big-city fashion journalist is sent to a Christmas-obsessed small town to dig up a story when she finds herself in the middle of cut-throat housewives, a high-stakes “Winter Ball” competition, and a sinister plot that could destroy ...
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, satirical, funny, psychological ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, saving christmas, investigative journalism, christmas season, investigative reporter, small town life, female journalist, journalism, conspiracy, female protagonist, satire ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
On Christmas Eve, the Perfect family experience a series of outrageous misadventures, pranks and criminal activity that may jeopardize their chance at The Perfect Christmas.
Style:
christmas special, semi serious, feel good, satirical, entertaining ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, christian faith, holiday, christmas eve, family relations, coping, relationships, problem, xmas, christmas spirit, saving christmas, eccentric family ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Like the original film, the sequel is set in a near future where all drinking and drugs are banned except for on one glorious day known as The Binge. This year, that day happens to miraculously land on Christmas.
Style:
semi serious, feel good, satirical, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas season, holiday, drinking problem, male female relationship, relationships, friends, satire, old friends reunited, alcoholic, best friend, reunited friends ...
Similarity:
28%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Story:
In the sequel to "A Royal Family Holiday", the children Phillip "Flip" Royal (Romeo Miller), a good-looking spiritual guru; Austin Royal (Eric Myrick III, At Sunrise), a Washington, D.C. community activist; Kelsey Royal (Chelsea ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, christmas special, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, family relations, male female relationship, relationships, brother sister relationship, family problems, christmas spirit, satire, christmas season, kids and family, brother brother relationship ...
Place:
washington d.c.
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
Maynard, a beloved local businessman is mistaken for the legendary Bigfoot during an inebriated romp through town in a makeshift gorilla costume. The sightings set off an international Bigfoot media spectacle and a windfall of tourism dollars for a ...
Style:
satirical, funny, captivating, feel good, humorous ...
Plot:
christmas, bigfoot, tourism, businessman, hunter, winter, mistaken identity, small town life, comedy of errors, satire, secret, snow ...
Similarity:
27%
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:
semi serious, captivating, feel good, humorous, satirical ...
Audience:
family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, rivalry, competition, feud, neighbor, christmas season, christmas spirit, ambition, satire, competitor, neighbor neighbor relationship ...
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 123 min.
Story:
Rashad is faced with the pressures of making a career choice and getting married all before Christmas day. His friend Faye is faced with the difficult dilemma that Lauren, Rashad's fiance, and her intentions are not what they appear to be.
Style:
satirical, entertaining, captivating, christmas special, semi serious ...
Plot:
wedding planning, wedding, christmas, christmas spirit, winter, satire, wedding preparations and rituals, christmas season, couple relations, secret, relationship problems, problem ...
Similarity:
27%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
One December day around Christmastime I am in the city of Las Vegas talking to Harry the Horse about this and that, when I hear this yarn about a citizen by the name of Murray Crown (Tom Arnold), who runs a clip joint which he prefers to call a ...
Style:
captivating, feel good, semi serious, entertaining, satirical ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
christmas, casino, satire, love affair, love interest, christmas spirit, love story, christmas season, money, money problems, hitman, gambling ...
Place:
las vegas
Similarity:
27%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 70 min.
Story:
A jilted woman and her friends end up with a 35-carat blood diamond during Diwali, but when it goes missing, they must find it before they get their eyes scooped out by a homicidal maniac.
Style:
entertaining, semi serious, feel good, satirical, funny ...
Plot:
christmas, heist, satire, diamond theft, relationships, girlfriend, female protagonist, robbery, girlfriend girlfriend relationship, male female relationship, escapades, party ...
Place:
chicago
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
On the verge of a massive deadline, a cynical workaholic is zapped by faulty Christmas lights while stranded in a small Colorado town and finds herself cast as the lead in an over-the-top Hallmark-style holiday movie. Now she must wrap, bake, and ...
Style:
feel good, semi serious, christmas special, captivating, entertaining ...
Plot:
misunderstanding, chore, christmas, holiday, xmas, satire, christmas season, small town, career, father son relationship, party, dinner ...
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Despite being successful in their careers, two 30-something BFFs never stop hearing that they both need a man before it's too late. When a handsome pastor arrives just in time to kick off the Christmas season, both ladies try to make a move-but ...
Style:
semi serious, christmas special, feel good, entertaining, satirical ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, black woman, rivalry, single woman, friendship, xmas, relationships, male female relationship, love and romance, women, love interest ...
Place:
louisiana, new orleans
Similarity:
26%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Argentina
Duration: 18 min.
Story:
Chueco is thrilled: it's finally Christmas, his favorite time of the year! But his excitement is shattered when Juan informs him that they don't celebrate Christmas, and even Santa Claus knows he doesn't need to visit their house. ...
Style:
feel good, christmas special, semi serious, christmas comedy, captivating ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas spirit, hopes, heartwarming, christmas season, saving christmas, problem, xmas, christmas present, christmas wish, sadness, satire ...
Similarity:
25%
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
In order to lighten up her uptight family, the free-spirited daughter of a conservative politician brings weed-infused salad dressing to their Christmas Eve dinner. Chaos ensues when everyone gets unknowingly high, revealing the family's ...
Style:
satirical, feel good, semi serious, captivating, situational comedy ...
Plot:
christmas, family dinner, christmas eve, satire, family secret, christmas dinner, family relations, relationships, christmas season, eccentric family, family problems, christmas spirit ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 59 min.
Story:
One-off period comedy, peeping into the lives of a south Wales family's Christmases across the 1980s, written by comedian Mark Watson and inspired by a Dylan Thomas short story. Christmas in this household may be a less than poetic affair, but ...
Style:
captivating, satirical, entertaining, feel good, psychological ...
Plot:
christmas, christmas spirit, christmas eve, family relations, family life, kids and family, christmas season, eccentric family, satire, xmas, relationships, gift ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1983, year 1989, 80s
Place:
england, wales
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
The Davenport sisters have drifted apart over the years but when their Dad wins the lottery all he wants is having his girls home for Christmas. Getting over years of resentment proves a big task but it's pushed aside when their mother ...
Style:
satirical, captivating, psychological, queer cinema
Plot:
christmas, lottery winner, lottery, sister sister relationship, lottery ticket, money problems, relationships, money falling through the air, family relations, money, satire, christmas season ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Story:
Holiday special including brand-new material with Alec Baldwin, Steve Martin, the infamous troublemaker "Gilly," and others. The special also features favorite holiday-themed sketches from SNL's 35-year history.
Style:
sketch comedy, funny, humorous, captivating, skit ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
christmas, satire, holiday, humour, sketch, variety show, troublemaker, pop culture, nostalgia, irreverent, christmas party, winter ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Armed with history, humor and his trademark ranting, comedian Lewis Black takes a hilarious look at how to survive the "month-long festival of consumption" without losing your mind.
Style:
feel good, humorous, funny, captivating, satirical ...
Plot:
satire, christmas, comedian, consumerism, holiday, stand up comedy, joke, public speaking, christmas season, humour, stand up comedian, frustration ...
Similarity:
25%
Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
In the sequel to the popular UP Original Movie Marry Me For Christmas, it's a year after Marci and Blair declared their love for each other and decided to tie the knot. But as the big day approaches, Marci is so consumed with work that she ...
Style:
feel good, romantic comedy, semi serious, captivating, satirical ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
christmas, wedding, christmas romance, holiday, family relations, love story, relationships, male female relationship, love and romance, relationship problems, couple relations, couples ...
Similarity:
24%
Genre: Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
When the kooky tenants of an apartment block experience a sudden and shocking situation, they let their private lives, past secrets and crazy passions intervene as the confessions and absurd twists come thick and fast. Previous lovers, wild ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, light, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
apartment building, christmas, neighbor neighbor relationship, christmas eve, satire, neighbor, humour, christmas spirit, girl next door, new year, escapades, holiday ...
Similarity:
23%
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