Thanksgiving dinner movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant thanksgiving dinner movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, melancholic, feel good, clever, semi serious and interesting films and TV shows about / with thanksgiving dinner, thanksgiving, husband wife relationship, runaway, dialogue, destiny, mentor, father son relationship, storytelling and family relations plots mostly in Drama, Comedy and Romance genres shot in USA, UK, Canada and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as thanksgiving dinner: Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987), What's Cooking? (2000), Thanksgiving (2016), Poison Ivy II (1996), The Accidental Tourist (1988), The Tomorrow Man (2019), Fracture (2007), Miracle on 34th Street (1994), Wakefield (2016), The Oranges (2011).
Best films
New films
| Krisha (2015) | 7.1 | |
| The Comedian (2016) | 5.8 | |
| The Roommate (2011) | 4.8 | |
| Thanksgiving (2016) | 7.0 | |
| The Family Plan 2 (2025) | 5.6 |
List of thanksgiving dinner movies
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving, with an obnoxious slob of a shower ring salesman his only companion.
Style:
feel good, road movie, funny, light, hilarious ...
Audience:
date night, kids, teens
Plot:
thanksgiving, road trip, holiday, train, travel, airplane, on the road, airport, husband wife relationship, railway, buddy, traveling salesman ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
chicago, empire state building manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, illinois, new york ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
In LA's Fairfax district, where ethnic groups abound, four households celebrate Thanksgiving amidst family tensions. In the Nguyen family, the children's acculturation and immigrant parents' fears collide. In the Avila family, ...
Style:
semi serious, humorous, touching, sentimental, realistic ...
Plot:
lesbian, dysfunctional family, interracial romance, family bonds, culture clash, thanksgiving, couple relations, cooking, divorce, thanksgiving dinner, family dinner, pregnancy ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, california, usa, ireland
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
A dysfunctional family gathers together during the Thanksgiving holiday weekend.
Style:
satirical, semi serious, feel good, captivating, funny ...
Plot:
thanksgiving, family reunited, satire, dysfunctional family, holiday, family relations, family drama, relationships, eccentric family, large family, social satire, thanksgiving dinner ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A young and naive college art student becomes obsessed with assuming the identity and personality of a departed coed who used to live in her room, and in so doing causes complications that result in two men, a student and her art professor, lusting ...
Style:
sexy, sensual, erotic, sexual, suspense ...
Audience:
teens, adult
Plot:
obsession, sex scene, artist, sex, diary, attempted rape, art student, nude model, infidelity, female nudity, extramarital affair, sexual relations ...
Time:
90s
Place:
california, usa, los angeles
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
After the death of his son, Macon Leary, a travel writer, seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife, seems to be having trouble too, and thinks it would be best if the two would just split up. After the break up, Macon meets a ...
Style:
sentimental, emotional, touching, melancholic, depressing ...
Audience:
chick flick
Plot:
dog, dysfunctional marriage, depression, eccentricity, grief, travel, writers, loss of son, death of son, loneliness, dysfunctional family, breakup ...
Time:
20th century, 80s, year 1988
Place:
usa, paris france, maryland, london, baltimore ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Ed Hemsler spends his life preparing for a disaster that may never come. Ronnie Meisner spends her life shopping for things she may never use. In a small town somewhere in America, these two people will try to find love while trying not to get lost ...
Style:
romantic drama, social, romantic comedy, romantic, melancholic
Plot:
loss of child, survivalist, lovers, love, loneliness, second chance, character study, realism, intimate, midlife crisis, everyday life, slice of life ...
Place:
usa
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234K
Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
A husband is on trial for the attempted murder of his wife, in what is seemingly an open/shut case for the ambitious district attorney trying to put him away. However, there are surprises for both around every corner, and, as a suspenseful game of ...
Style:
psychological, suspense, twist ending, intellectual, suspenseful ...
Plot:
murder, twists and turns, courtroom drama, lawyer, adultery, investigation, murder mystery, manipulation, mind game, courtroom, trial, police investigation ...
Time:
year 2007, 20th century, 1900s, 21st century
Place:
los angeles, persia, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 114 min.
Story:
A little girl discovers dreams can come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the 'secret' about Santa a long time ago. But after ...
Style:
fairy tale, christmas classics, sentimental, feel good, touching ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, family friendly, teens, pre-teens ...
Plot:
christmas, holiday, santa claus, court, lawyer, department store, thanksgiving, judge, mother daughter relationship, friendship, single mother, girl ...
Time:
year 1994, 90s, 70s
Place:
manhattan new york city, new york, usa
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19K
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A man's nervous breakdown causes him to leave his wife and live in his attic for several months.
Style:
serious, psychological, suspense, depressing, sad ...
Plot:
loneliness, jealousy, missing person, marriage, nervous breakdown, street life, attic, midlife crisis, mental disorder, hiding, neighbor, absent father ...
Place:
grand central station manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
A man's (Hugh Laurie) affair with his friend's much-younger daughter (Leighton Meester) throws two neighboring families into turmoil.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, humorous, independent film, melancholic ...
Plot:
older man younger woman relationship, infidelity, dysfunctional family, fall in love, love and romance, family problems, friends, life turned upside down, family life, disorder, age difference, age-gap relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
As a fan of Albert Camus and Jean-Luc Godard, teenage Nick Twisp is definitely out of his element when his mother and her boyfriend move the family to a trailer park. When a pretty neighbor named Sheeni plays records by French crooners, it's ...
Style:
teen, witty, surreal, black comedy, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, chick flick, date night
Plot:
teenager, coming of age, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, loss of virginity, teenage love, longing, adolescence, teen angst, high school, virginity, shyness, teenage life ...
Time:
year 2009, future, y2k, 2000s, 21st century
Place:
california, bay area, usa, oakland california, france ...
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
When a man ends a regretful love affair that occurred during his wife's illness, his mistress plots revenge by targeting his family's most treasured possessions, a priceless painting and his son.
Style:
noir, tense, serious, realistic, rough ...
Plot:
affair, unfaithful husband, erotica, love, infidelity, power relations, couples, love affair, terminal illness, couple relations, dishonesty, rivalry ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 156 min.
Story:
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant ...
Style:
inspirational, sentimental, touching, dramatic, realistic ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
friendship, blindness, mentor, blind character, tango, human spirit, human nature, life philosophy, coming of age, thanksgiving, loneliness, preparatory school ...
Time:
20th century, 90s
Place:
new york, new england, new hampshire, usa, seattle
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her ...
Style:
realistic, emotional, independent film, intense, talky ...
Audience:
teens, girls' night
Plot:
holiday, road trip, food, dysfunctional family, family drama, cancer, eccentric family, dialogue, reconciliation, parents and children, family feud, nothing goes right ...
Time:
year 2003, 21st century
Place:
new york, usa, lower east side manhattan new york city, manhattan new york city, tokyo ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
A pregnant New York social worker begins to develop romantic feelings for her gay best friend, and decides she'd rather raise her child with him, much to the dismay of her overbearing boyfriend.
Style:
sentimental, sweet, touching, cute, light ...
Audience:
chick flick, date night, girls' night
Plot:
friendship, gay, gay interest, gay man straight woman relationship, pregnancy, gender, gay lead character, glbt, lgbtq, unrequited love, lgbt, women ...
Time:
year 1998, 90s
Place:
new york, usa, brooklyn new york city, new york state
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
A Midwestern husband and father announces his plan to have a sex change operation.
Style:
sexy, realistic, psychological, emotional, serious ...
Plot:
transsexual, gender, lgbtq, gender bending, transgender, family drama, sexuality, depression, society, family problems, parents and children, unfulfillment ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
illinois, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A nebbish of a morgue attendant gets shunted back to the night shift where he is shackled with an obnoxious neophyte partner who dreams of the "one great idea" for success. His life takes a bizarre turn when a prostitute neighbour ...
Style:
funny, humorous, light, talky, intense ...
Plot:
pimp, friendship, prostitution, sex club, elevator, thanksgiving, christmas, extortion, fiance fiancee relationship, anger, neighbor, argument ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1982
Place:
new york, manhattan new york city, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Music From Another Room is a romantic comedy that follows the exploits of Danny, a young man who grew up believing he was destined to marry the girl he helped deliver as a five year old boy when his neighbor went into emergency labor. Twenty-five ...
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, light, semi serious ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, girls' night
Plot:
destiny, american football, single father, family relations, parents and children, love and romance, father daughter relationship, husband wife relationship, family drama, life philosophy, blindness, love ...
Time:
90s
Place:
los angeles, russia, london, england, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
A recently-widowed, science fiction writer considers whether to adopt a hyper-imaginative 6-year-old abandoned and socially-rejected boy who says he's really from Mars.
Style:
sweet, touching, sentimental, feel good, humorous ...
Audience:
kids, family outing
Plot:
adoption, father son relationship, orphan, childhood trauma, imagination, writers, friendship, parenthood, youth, alien, children, single father ...
Time:
year 2007, 21st century
Place:
california
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
Chris is a once promising high school athlete whose life is turned upside down following a tragic accident. As he tries to maintain a normal life, he takes a job as a janitor at a bank, where he ultimately finds himself caught up in a planned heist.
Style:
tense, neo noir, realistic, suspenseful, intense ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
bank robbery, amnesia, robbery, female nudity, sex, seduction, casual sex, heist, violence, young man, chess, brain damage ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
usa, kansas, missouri, kansas city, california
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Genre: Action, Drama, War
Country: USA, Morocco
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
The day after they get the word they'll go home in two weeks, a group of soldiers from Spokane are ambushed in an Iraqi city. Back stateside we follow four of them - a surgeon who saw too much, a teacher who's a single mom and who lost a ...
Style:
psychological, realistic, disturbing, serious, rough ...
Plot:
post traumatic stress disorder, military, politics, coping, amputee, insomnia, hostage, life is a bitch, buddies, anti war, homecoming, single parent ...
Time:
year 2006
Place:
iraq, afghanistan, middle east
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Genre: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
A combination of unfortunate circumstances force Darren into the situation where he has to sell off the eponymous stash of drugs in a limited time frame.
Style:
humorous, semi serious, realistic, disturbing
Audience:
teens, date night
Plot:
college life, young lovers, college, teenage life, high school life, dark humor, drug dealing, nothing goes right, partner, student life, disorder, youth ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
usa, new york, manhattan new york city
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Paul Fein is a veteran police detective whose son Eddie is also a cop. Paul is assigned to investigate the murder of a prominent businessman, and he soon learns that the field of suspects has been narrowed down to two—the victim's sexually ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cop, police, buddy cop, murder, police officer, blood, bullet wound, nypd, guy, good guy, bad guy, interrogation ...
Time:
90s
Place:
milwaukee wisconsin, usa, wisconsin
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min.
Story:
A down-on-his-luck divorced father struggles to get his life and family back together before it's too late.
Style:
emotional, realistic, humorous, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
family relations, redemption, couples, family problems, addiction, parents and children, down on your luck, hopes, unfulfillment, breakup, divorce, husband wife relationship ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
new jersey, atlantic city new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman are very rich but not happy Dave is a hard working business man, his wife is only interested in yoga, aerobics and other meditation classes, and he sleeps with the house maid. Their teenage son is ...
Style:
entertaining, funny, laugh out loud, clever, realistic ...
Plot:
homeless, dog, satire, dysfunctional family, swimming, closeted gay, wealth, hobo, thanksgiving, homeless man, homelessness, suicide attempt ...
Time:
80s
Place:
los angeles, beverly hills, california, usa
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
A ski-shop owner reluctantly moves himself, his wife, and his daughter in to an estate as live-in help for an elderly widow. While struggling to balance his career and family life, he has recurring dreams about an angel.
Style:
sentimental, feel good, touching, semi serious
Audience:
girls' night, family outing
Plot:
christmas, holiday, family life, old woman, dream, workaholic, angel, mansion, living together, recurring dream, xmas, christmas eve ...
Place:
utah, salt lake city utah
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Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Musical
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A young boy wins a tour through the most magnificent chocolate factory in the world, led by the world's most unusual candy maker.
Style:
fairy tale, feel good, stylized, offbeat, colorful ...
Audience:
kids, family outing, pre-teens, family friendly, chick flick ...
Plot:
childhood, children, fantasy world, chocolate, contests and competitions, imaginary, magic, social differences, child protagonist, imagination, poverty, food ...
Time:
year 2005, 1920s, 20th century, 2000s
Place:
bavaria, new delhi, japan, europe, georgia ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Starting from childhood attempts at illustration, the protagonist pursues his true obsession to art school. But as he learns how the art world really works, he finds that he must adapt his vision to the reality that confronts him.
Style:
dark comedy, semi serious, cynical, humorous, independent film ...
Plot:
teenage girl, artist, art school, painting, dark humor, murder, art class, art, sex, coming of age, nude model, painter ...
Place:
new york, usa
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Genre: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
After a mysterious blackout, a son goes out to investigate and captures footage of actual aliens. When the aliens follow he and his brothers back to their home all hell breaks lose.
Style:
mockumentary, christmas horror, weird, fake documentary
Plot:
alien abduction, found footage, ufo, thanksgiving, holiday horror, alien invasion, abduction, lake, alien, flying saucer, terror, monster ...
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Genre: Drama, Fantasy, History, Music, Musical, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 133 min.
Story:
When young dockworker Jude leaves Liverpool to find his estranged father in America, he is swept up by the waves of change that are re-shaping the nation. Jude falls in love with Lucy, a rich but sheltered American girl who joins the growing ...
Style:
surreal, psychedelic, sexy, stylized, period piece ...
Audience:
chick flick, teens, date night, family outing, adult
Plot:
anti war, hippie, freedom, music, vietnam war, artist, dancing, love story, fall in love, political unrest, young lovers, passion ...
Time:
60s, year 2007, y2k, 20th century, year 1968
Place:
new york, usa, greenwich village manhattan new york city, california, manhattan new york city ...
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