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Plot Summary:
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on the reservation list. However, she is granted the chance to return to Earth as an "angel in training" with the requirement to help a soul in need. Sarah has the 12 days before Christmas to secure her place on the list leaving her in the race for her after-life.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, touching, feel good
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A Christmas Hero (2020)
Plot Summary:
When a young war vet returns home from Afghanistan, he struggles to find joy in the life he once knew. As he comes close to giving up all hope, his guardian angel pays a visit to show him there’s more meaning to his life than he’s ever known.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 329
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, entertaining
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Angel in the Family (2004)
Plot Summary:
Sarah Bishop and her estranged sister Beth are reunited after their father Buddy suffers a mild stroke. Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine, wants only one thing-to return home for Christmas. With sweet memories of a life gone by, Sarah makes an impossible wish that her mother could be there, too. By morning, it is as if a winter prayer has been answered. Bearing a message of hope, healing, and everlasting love, a miracle has arrived.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, sweet, emotional
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Christmas Comes Twice (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Cheryl visits the Christmas carnival in her hometown, she gets a second chance in life when she is transported to Christmas five years in the past.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 755
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Christmas Tree Lane (2020)
Plot Summary:
Music store owner Meg spearheads the community effort to save the Christmas Tree Lane shopping district from demolition. As she finds herself falling for Nate, a recent acquaintance, she’s thrown when she learns his surprising tie to the developer.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, entertaining, gay cinema
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Christmas in Evergreen: Bells Are Ringing (2020)
Plot Summary:
As Michelle’s wedding approaches, Hannah steps up to help finish the launch of the new Evergreen museum while questioning her relationship and future with Elliot.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 947
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, feel good, sweet
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The Christmas Pact (2018)
Plot Summary:
Can best friends fall in love? That’s the question next door neighbors Sadie and Ben will answer as they keep the spirit of Christmas and the magic of their childhood pact alive! When they were eight years old, they planted a scrawny 3-foot tall Christmas tree behind their church and the Christmas Pact began. But as life gets in the way the pact is threatened to be broken. Ben and Sadie need some Christmas Magic to recommit to each other and promise to keep their special holiday traditions. With each Christmas that passes by, Ben and Sadie’s Christmas tree grows taller and stronger; and so does their love. The pact bearing fruit to the magic of Christmas and the undeniable answer. Yes, friends can fall in love!.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 613
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, realistic
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A Merry Christmas Match (2019)
Plot Summary:
Corey Calvin lives in a ski village where she works at her late father's local antique shop, having sidelined her her big city dreams of becoming a theater director. When Los Angeles hunk Ryder Donnelly comes into her shop, sparks fly and she starts to wonder what could be.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, light, touching, sweet, feel good, witty, semi serious, romantic comedy
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A Dogwalker's Christmas Tale (2015)
Plot Summary:
Spoiled 21-year-old Luce Lockhart faces a tough decision when a handsome new friend asks her to help protect a dog park from her wealthy employer.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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A Song for Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
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 and no plan. A local family, the Lapps, take her in. They know the true meaning of the season, even if they’re close to losing their dairy farm. No one in the family recognizes Adelaide except Dillon, the oldest son. He figures she’s the ticket to fast cash and plots to snap photos of Adelaide around the farm and sell them to the tabs. What he doesn’t plan, however, is their mutual attraction.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Merry Liddle Christmas Wedding (2020)
Plot Summary:
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 nothing goes as initially planned, Jacquie and Tyler get a Christmas wedding more memorable than they could have ever dreamed.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 447
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, entertaining
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A Perfect Christmas List (2014)
Plot Summary:
As a last wish, a recently hospitalized grandmother, Evie, tasks her daughter and granddaughter, Sara, with a list of festive accomplishments to do together before Christmas, hoping that the adventure of the experience will repair their relationship. Along the way, Sara discovers an unlisted Christmas adventure of her own.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet
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A Heavenly Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she’s assigned a hard luck case. As she’s forced to help solve his problems, she’ll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min
Plot tags: sentimental, sincere, romantic, sweet
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Mr. Miracle (2014)
Plot Summary:
Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after the death of her father. With a deadline of Christmas day, he attempts to help her heal in order to embrace a new future, and an unexpected love, just in time to celebrate the miracle of the holiday season.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 599
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Plot Summary:
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 446
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, captivating, thought provoking, sad
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When Angels Come to Town (2004)
Plot Summary:
Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. As she struggles to get custody of her younger brother, Max immediately believes that his new mission is to help Sally. But Jo, a strict angel, is sent to explain to his colleague that this is not exactly what is expected of him. Indeed, Max's mission is not to help Sally, but Karl, the manager of a small factory of Christmas decorations. His business is barely surviving because its traditional products do not meet the success of yesteryear. First bored, Max notices that Karl knows Sally.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, touching, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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The Christmas Box (1995)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious
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Northpole: Open for Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
A successful businesswoman, Mackenzie, inherits her beloved aunt's inn, and chooses to restore the hotel to its original grandeur only to sell it right before Christmas. Unbeknownst to Mackenzie, she receives some unexpected help from a team of elves headed by the cheerful Clementine, who helps Mackenzie rediscover the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, humorous
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Snowmance (2017)
Plot Summary:
No man is perfect enough for Sarah Groves, except perhaps the impressive snowmen she sculpts annually with her childhood pal, Nick. In mid-December, her snowman disappears, and in his place, materializes Cole, who seems too perfect for Sarah to be true.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, sentimental, light, touching, sweet, semi serious
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Christmas at Cartwright's (2014)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, touching, feel good, sweet, sitcom, romantic comedy, situational comedy
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Christmas in Angel Falls (2017)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Coming Home for Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lizzie Richfield is at a crossroads when she lands a job as house manager for the exquisite Ashford Estate in the Virginia countryside. While planning one final Christmas Eve gala for the Marley family, Lizzie finds herself drawn to Robert—even as Kip pursues her.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet
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The Holiday Calendar (2018)
Plot Summary:
A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future -- and pointing her toward love.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 11000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 95 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, sincere, romantic, captivating, disturbing
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Three Days (2001)
Plot Summary:
Ten years ago, Andrew married his childhood sweetheart, Beth. Now Andrew's a high-powered literary agent, but his relationship with his wife has not fared as well. When Beth is tragically killed just days before Christmas, an angel gives Andrew the chance to relive the last three days his wife was alive. But he can't change fate and Beth will still lose her life. However, Andrew can still discover the gift Beth needs most from him.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: sincere, sentimental, touching, captivating
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Wish Upon a Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 involves massive layoffs. As Amelia prepares for the holiday ‘trimmings’, she finds herself rekindling an old romance with her high school boyfriend Jesse, who is also the company’s owner. She also soon begins to see the charm of the local business – but will she be able to save it in time?.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 780
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa (2018)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, gay cinema
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Christmas Spirit (2011)
Plot Summary:
A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
IMDB Rating: 3.8
IMDB Votes: 154
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, touching
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A Snow Globe Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
While clasping her favorite Christmas snow globe, a cynical, overworked TV executive rants about how the movies she produces lie, making you think dreams come can come true. Upset, she tries to smash the globe, but instead it bonks her on the head, knocking her out. She wakes up in a perfect snow-covered town like the one in her globe.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, touching, feel good, humorous, realistic, semi serious, romantic comedy
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Naughty or Nice (2011)
Plot Summary:
Krissy Kringle receives a delivery intended for Santa Claus. A magical book that shows if a person has been naughty or nice. She uses the book's power to find out about those around her, which leads to some very unusual and unintended results. Krissy realizes that everyone has some good and some not so good in them.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, christmas comedy
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Northpole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Northpole, the magical city where Santa and his elves live and work is in trouble. Families around the globe have gotten too busy to enjoy the season together, and Northpole depends on their holiday happiness to keep running. In the hopes of turning things around, a determined young elf befriends a little boy with a lot of spirit. His skeptical journalist mom doesn’t have room in her heart for anything but the facts, so it’s going to take a little nudge from his charming teacher to create an unbeatable Christmas team to turn around this town and share the importance of the season with the whole world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, captivating, humorous, serious
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My Santa (2013)
Plot Summary:
A young, single mother, Jen, begins to lose her faith in the magic of Christmas. However, when she takes her son Eric to see the local mall Santa, Jen immediately feels an attraction and connection with Chris, the young, attractive man filling the suit. As they begin spending time together, she begins to rediscover her belief in Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, touching