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Plot Summary:
When her best friend invites her along for a holiday themed sail, an aspiring novelist, Pam, unexpectedly finds the love of her life on board. But what will happen when the ship returns to port for Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 608
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional
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A Very Vintage Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dodie is a hopeless romantic just like the pieces in her vintage antique shop. When Dodie finds a hidden box full of romantic trinkets, she makes it her mission to deliver it to its rightful owner. Following the address, she manages to persuade the handsome but reluctant new tenant, Edward, to help her with her search.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy
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Sharing Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
A real estate developer is given the opportunity of his career to transform an old shopping complex into a prime location. Unfortunately, there is one tenant who is holding out—the Christmas shop owner he met by happenstance just days ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, humorous, sweet, captivating, emotional
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Christmas Reservations (2019)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas at the Treeline Ski Resort, where Holly is the event coordinator at her family lodge. She plans every event and keeps all the guests happy. But when her college sweetheart, now widowed with two children, checks in, Holly discovers she has her own reservations about life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 915
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas on the Coast (2017)
Plot Summary:
Hard-hearted New York novelist Dru Cassadine...known for her holiday romance stories (even though she is antilove and anti-Christmas)...is desperate to get her mojo back after a string of flops (and a not-so-subtle threat by her publisher that he'll drop her if she has another failure). She decides that a change of scenery might get her creative juices flowing and heads south for the winter, landing in a place known as Harbor Pointe. She doesn't quite get what she came for. She gets much more.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional
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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 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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Christmas Matchmakers (2019)
Plot Summary:
It’s the week after Thanksgiving when Jen, a personal assistant, and Jon, an advertising exec, happen to sit next to each other in the food court and bond over mutual problems with their bosses.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 465
Genere: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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With Love, Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Advertising execs Melanie Welsh and Donovan Goodwin disagree on a cellphone Christmas commercial they’re pitching. He says his sleek design will win over the client but she knows it lacks holiday spirit.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas Next Door (2017)
Plot Summary:
Eric Randall, an author of bachelor lifestyle books, is left in charge of his young niece and nephew for the holidays. Eric turns to his neighbor April, a lover of all things Christmas, for help.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic, emotional
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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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Christmas Bells Are Ringing (2018)
Plot Summary:
Samantha, a freelance photographer, is returning to Cape Cod for the first time since the death of her mother years earlier. She’s going to celebrate her father’s Christmas Eve wedding but is anxious to revisit past memories. On a deadline for a big Christmas spread that could ignite her career, she enlists the help of her childhood friend, Mike, to show her around. In the time she spends in Cape Cod, she realizes that Christmas is wherever your family is.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional
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Christmas Incorporated (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sometimes, life just seems to hand you exactly what you need – particularly at Christmastime. Riley is scraping bottom when she miraculously lands a job with a wealthy New York City entrepreneur. He’s a bad-boy socialite type who is poised to play Scrooge by closing one of his factories just before Christmas, which would devastate an entire town. It’s left to Riley to talk him out of it and turn him into a man of virtue rather than shame.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, cute
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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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Christmas at Dollywood (2019)
Plot Summary:
Event planner Rachel lands her biggest job yet – Dollywood's 30th Smoky Mountain Christmas celebration, where she’s teamed with operations director Luke to plan an event as glamorous as Dolly Parton herself. Sparks fly, but it takes matchmaking by Dolly to help them find their way.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas in the Smokies (2015)
Plot Summary:
Christmas in the Smokies is a modern day Christmas classic set in the beautiful Smoky Mountains. It tells the story of one family's journey to save their historic berry farm against all odds during one fateful holiday season.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Baby's First Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
When a pair of feuding colleagues, Kyle and Jenna are thrown together after their siblings, Jim and Trisha fall in love, they have to learn to get along in time for their nephew's birth on Christmas. Realizing Jim and Trisha have major money troubles, Kyle and Jenna band together to help and end up on a snowy New York adventure that will prove miracles really do happen at Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 723
Genere: Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Always and Forever Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
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 athletic leisurewear company. But once she is back in Vermont, she begins to understand why her grandfather's shop is so special with the help of local diner owner, Scott and the magic of a Christmas stranger from the north.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 539
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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You Can't Fight Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Christmas designer Leslie Major (Brely Evans) is the biggest fan of Christmas ever. She is like a tidal wave of Yuletide cheer. Her biggest job every year is decorating the lobby of the famed Chesterton Hotel. As she is on a ladder decorating the tree, she falls into the arms of Edmund James (Andra Fuller) - the grandson of the owner JJ James. Edmund is all business and thinks Christmas is superficial and frivolous.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 869
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, indie film
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A Majestic Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Christmas in the charming town of Briar Falls will be bittersweet this year when architect Nell goes back to her hometown having been given the job of turning the historic Majestic Playhouse into a modern multiplex, much to the town’s objections. The Playhouse has been home to their annual Christmas tableaux, which will now have to end after a long and historic tradition to the town. This job is Nell’s first promotion, and one she wishes she hadn’t been chosen for, especially when she meets the new owner of the theater, Connor, whose vision and ideas clash with Nell’s. Since Connor hasn’t had much experience celebrating Christmas, Nell hopes that if she can give him a crash course in Christmas during the town’s Twelve Day Festival, that he might just change his mind about modernizing the Majestic.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 716
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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A Husband for Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
Brooke and Roger, two graphic designers in a soon-to-be-merged company, help one another by agreeing to a loveless marriage of convenience, suggested by their new boss. In the process, Brooke gets to upstage the sister who just announced her engagement to Brooke's ex-boyfriend during the holidays. But, with their “marriage” in question, will Brooke and Roger find a spark they didn’t know existed?.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 663
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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A Christmas in Vermont (2016)
Plot Summary:
Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit targets. Riley finds that the company is the lifeblood of a town and, instead of closing down the iconic firm, she unexpectedly falls in love and learns valuable lessons beyond the bottom line.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, christmas comedy
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Four Christmases and a Wedding (2017)
Plot Summary:
When event planner Chloe is hired to plan the local Christmas Festival, she is beyond thrilled to embrace the challenge. Professionally, everything is going great, but much to the dismay of her mother, Chloe confesses she has given up on ever finding Mr. Right. That all changes the night of the opening of the festival when she meets Evan. The two begin a whirlwind romance, but as Christmas Day nears, Chloe learns that Evan is being transferred overseas for work. What follows is three more Christmases where Chloe and Evan cross paths at the annual festival, but each year something - or someone - stands in the way of true love. Will a touch of Santa's magic on their fourth Christmas Eve finally bring them together?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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Christmas Around the Corner (2018)
Plot Summary:
Claire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a quaint town in Vermont for the holidays and becomes a guest of the Fortenbury Bookstore. Upon arrival, Claire finds Christmas celebrations have been canceled by the town after a flood and the bookstore is in a dire state of disrepair. She immediately takes on the challenge to revitalize the store, but clashes with the owner, Andrew (Jamie Spilchuk), who initially rejects all her proposed improvements. Eventually, sparks fly as the two begin a budding romance, and Claire’s infectious optimism inspires Andrew to join her in reviving the yuletide spirit. But everything comes to a screeching halt when Claire discovers that Andrew is planning to sell the bookstore in the New Year. Will the spirit of Christmas be enough to change Andrew’s mind and encourage him to follow his heart?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional
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My Christmas Inn (2018)
Plot Summary:
With the holiday season in full swing, Jen Taylor is about to score a big promotion at the San Francisco ad agency where she works. But her life is unexpectedly turned upside down when she inherits a cozy inn in Alaska from her aunt. When she goes to inspect the property and meets handsome town attorney Steve Anderson, she's surprised to find that nothing is what she expected. The small town community is full of fun and festive Christmas traditions and soon, Jen starts wondering if the inn might just be the place she belongs, and if Steve could be the Mr. Right she has been waiting for.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Wrapped Up In Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
With Christmas just around the corner, 8-year-old Molly asks the mall Santa to find a boyfriend for her beloved aunt.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 901
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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Looks Like Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
When two type-A single parents battle it out for control of the Christmas holiday at their kid’s middle school, they get more than they bargained for when they learn a little something about the true meaning of Christmas, while opening themselves up for the possibility of a new romance.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, captivating, entertaining
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Christmas Land (2015)
Plot Summary:
Jules has just inherited a quaint magical Christmas-themed village and Christmas tree farm bequeathed her by her grandmother. She plans to sell it and use the profits to buy her dream home in New York City. But the longer Jules stays on the farm and the more she learns how important Christmas Land has been to so many families, the more Jules starts to question her motives to sell.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, emotional, romantic comedy
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A Christmas in Tennessee (2018)
Plot Summary:
Allison Bennet, along with her daughter Olivia and mother Martha, run a bakery in the small mountain town of White Pines, Tennessee. When Matthew, a charming real estate developer, tries to buy the town for a corporate ski resort, Allison and the townspeople must work together to prevent that from happening. And just when the Bennet ladies seem out of luck, an unexpected visitor – with a well-known sweet tooth for cookies and milk – comes to the bakery and may in fact be the key to solving everything.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, emotional, romantic comedy
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Staging Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Lori stages homes for a living and her busiest season is Christmas! Though she normally only stages homes that are for sale, she’s intrigued when a wealthy widower named Elliot asks her to stage his home for the holidays to cheer up his daughter, Maddie. As Lori spends more and more time with Elliot and Maddie, she starts to feel like part of the family.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 562
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional
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Sleigh Bells Ring (2016)
Plot Summary:
Recently divorced, Laurel struggles to get into the holiday spirit while heading up her hometown Christmas parade. With the help of a Christmas sleigh and a handsome woodworker, Laurel is destined to turn her luck around, rekindle her holiday spirit and even find time for love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy