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Plot Summary:
A bubbly bride-to-be’s Christmas plans take an unexpected turn when her holiday flight to New York is detoured and she encounters a cynical bar manager who has lost his faith in love. As she scrambles to make it back east for Christmas—and plan her upcoming wedding—she begins wondering if she’s marrying the right man, and learns a surprising lesson about love.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating
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Jingle Around the Clock (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Elle Bennet decides to reunite her college friends for a special Christmas celebration, her plans are thwarted by an opportunity at work she can’t pass up -- spearheading a Christmas campaign relaunch to prove she’s ready for a career-altering promotion. Much to her surprise, she’s forced to team up with advertising campaign 'fixer' Max, who has a completely different take on the Holidays. But as Elle and Max work together and learn more about each other’s Christmas traditions, they unexpectedly find themselves falling for each other. With the help of a little Christmas magic, will Elle pull off the perfect Christmas reunion and find the love she’s been searching for?.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, romantic comedy
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A Christmas Miracle (2019)
Plot Summary:
Single mom Emma Sanderson is looking for a Christmas miracle to write about for the lifestyle magazine where she's landed a temporary job. Along the way Emma discovers unexpected romance with a supportive colleague and brings about a Christmas miracle for a lonely street musician.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 643
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, sweet, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 81%
Christmas in Homestead (2016)
Plot Summary:
Jessica is one of the most famous actresses in the world, leading a glamorous – if tabloid worthy – life. But all that is thrown for a loop when she goes on location to shoot a holiday themed film in the Christmas-obsessed town of Homestead, Iowa. While a romance brews between her and Matt, a local inn keeper who is a single dad, she also gets a taste of small-town life and rediscovers the true meaning of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sweet
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Journey Back to Christmas (2016)
Plot Summary:
WWII has ended and Hanna is still grieving over her husband's disappearance. When the Christmas Comet appears for the first time in 70 years, Hanna is caught in a terrible storm and knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she's in 2016.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance, Sci-Fi
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, exciting, thought provoking, captivating, disturbing, gay cinema
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A Christmas for the Books (2018)
Plot Summary:
Lifestyle guru and romance expert, Joanna Moret, has developed a fool-proof strategy for ending holiday loneliness and it's all detailed in her best-selling book, The Love Audit. After appearing on a morning show, she is offered the biggest opportunity of her career—to throw the MacAllen Holiday Gala—and if all goes well she'll get her own TV show. Little do her fans, or the MacAllen's, know that she is newly single and can't seem to apply her principles to her own love life. Joanna asks the morning show producer, Ted to pretend they are a couple or risk being exposed as a fraud.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country:
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy
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A Christmas Village (2018)
Plot Summary:
Piper Jansen is a slick public relations genius and owner of her own company "Piper's Picks." After creating countless successful campaigns, she decides to use her grandmother's holiday recipes to write and launch a book of her own but, suddenly finds herself in the middle of a very public scandal that threatens the launch of the book as well as her business.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 506
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 77%
Christmas at Grand Valley (2018)
Plot Summary:
Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas. Leo, businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn’t long until Kelly and Leo’s worlds collide.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, emotional, sincere, feel good, captivating
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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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Christmas In Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019)
Plot Summary:
A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sweet, emotional, gay cinema
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The Flight Before Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Two strangers who both happen to be in marketing, share a room at a bed-and-breakfast when a snowstorm strands their flight in Montana on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, road movie, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, romantic comedy
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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
Similar in 90%
1000 Miles From Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
An auditor who completely despises Christmas is sent to a small town for work, where he meets a woman determined to change his view about the holiday.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Spain
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: romantic, buddy comedy, feel good, light, humorous, meta, happy, atmospheric, fairy tale, sweet
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My Christmas Dream (2016)
Plot Summary:
Christina Masters, the manager of McDougal’s flagship department store, is determined to land the manager position for their new Paris location. She sets out to impress Victoria, the store’s owner, by creating the best holiday display in McDougal’s history. Fresh out of inspiration despite assuring Victoria otherwise, Christina turns to a recently-fired store employee who also happens to be a talented artist and single dad to his young son. As they work side-by-side, the business relationship becomes personal and she finds herself falling in love. Will the allure of her dream be too strong or will she choose to follow her heart?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet
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The Christmas Cottage (2017)
Plot Summary:
When Lacey takes a rare break from work for her friend Ava's Christmas Eve wedding, she reconnects with her former flame, Ean. The two decorate the cottage where the newlyweds will spend their honeymoon – a cottage said to bring true love to anyone who stays there – and feel their chemistry return.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, funny, light, feel good, romantic drama
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It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a New England Christmas decorating competition searches for the town with the most Christmas spirit, the Mayors of East and West Riverton go all out to get their towns to the top of the holiday heap.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, gay cinema
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Angel of Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Susan is a newspaper staffer who decides to generate some Christmas spirit by writing an article about her family’s storied 100-year-old, hand-carved, heirloom Christmas angel. This leads her to accidentally meet Brady, a cute, upbeat artist who insists that he and Susan become fast friends (at least). It turns out that this angel also has the spiritual power to bring people together – as it seems to be doing with Susan and Brady. What’s behind this enchanted ornament? As time moves on, more about this captivating artifact is revealed.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 76%
My Christmas Love (2016)
Plot Summary:
A hopeless romantic who can’t ever seem to give a guy a real chance begins receiving each of the "12 Days of Christmas” as gifts anonymously at her door. As she tries to figure out who is sending the gifts, she begins to believe that the mystery suitor could finally live up to her expectations.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, surprise ending, romantic comedy
Similar in 78%
Snowbound for Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A marketing executive is invited by her charming and handsome boss to pitch a major project to prospective clients at a posh resort and the two get snowed in together before any of the other guests can arrive. Now, with the hotel to themselves, a fairytale snowscape outside and sparks flying inside, they find that being alone together is all the Christmas magic they need.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 718
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, romantic comedy
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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
Similar in 87%
Marry Me For Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Home for Christmas, single ad agency owner Marci fakes having a fiance to deflect mounting family pressure to get married.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 376
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas in the Air (2017)
Plot Summary:
Lydia, a successful professional organizer, is constantly trying to grow her business, but even her ambition takes a back seat to love when she meets Robert, a frazzled widower with two young children. A toy inventor, Robert is asked to present his new Christmas toy line to a superstore. His challenge is he only has 12 days to get his life and his business in order. Talk about a Christmas rush! Lydia shows Robert that this task goes way deeper than messy junk drawers and encompasses every aspect of his life. While she’s intent on helping him straighten out details he had long ignored, Robert teaches the buttoned-up Lydia that messiness can be a delightful part of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining, emotional, romantic comedy
Similar in 87%
Every Christmas Has a Story (2016)
Plot Summary:
A TV personality has an on-air snafu and admits she hates Christmas. Following the debacle, she is invited to the Most Christmas-y town in America to try and repair her image. Forced to work with her ex-boyfriend Jack, the show’s producer, the magic of Christmas and this special town will change the way she views Christmas and her life.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: funny, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, emotional
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Christmas Crush (2019)
Plot Summary:
When holiday fanatic Addie (Cindy Sampson) makes a Christmas wish for her next door neighbor Sam (Robin Dunne) to fall in love with her, she’s not expecting anything to happen – and she definitely isn’t expecting the wish to go awry and cause her other neighbor, Pete (Chris Violette) to fall in love instead. When Pete’s romantic gestures grow more and more over-the-top, Addie recruits Sam to help. With Sam’s assistance, can Addie break the spell by Christmas? Or will she spend the rest of her life dealing with a love-lorn Pete?.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 773
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Grounded for Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
When a winter storm hits Cleveland and grounds flights, the nearby hotels quickly fill up with stranded travelers. Nina, a pilot, reluctantly agrees to let her arrogant but charming fellow pilot, Brady, stay at her nearby parents' home. But when they discover her family is hosting a tree trimming party that night and that her ex will be there, Brady pretends to be her boyfriend to help her out.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, romantic comedy, gay cinema
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Finding Santa (2017)
Plot Summary:
Christmas is a busy, busy time for the residents of Green River, particularly for Grace Long, the third generation of her family to steward the New England town’s signature Christmas Eve parade. This year’s audience for the parade promises to be in the millions, thanks to a national morning show that has chosen Green River as the site of its Christmas Eve day program.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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No Time Like Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A woman and her first love plan a Christmas Eve show in hopes of saving the local theater.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 422
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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A December Bride (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aspiring interior designer Layla is dreading the Christmastime wedding of her cousin who’s marrying Layla’s ex-fiancé. Although Seth is the one responsible for introducing the bride and groom, she begrudgingly accepts his offer to be her date as she’s out of options. Seth gets carried away at the reception and announces they’re engaged, forcing a mortified Layla to keep up the pretense.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 4000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional, cute, romantic comedy
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Accidental Saint (2002)
Plot Summary:
Raph and Swan, two retarded thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenseless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find the dirty trick that will save them.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 28
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy, Romance
Country: France
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags:
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Snowed Inn Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Jenna Hudson (Bethany Joy Lenz) and Kevin Jenner (Andrew Walker) are polar opposites working for the same online publication in New York City. With both having nowhere they want to be for Christmas, they volunteer for a special writing assignment. After a snowstorm forces their plane to land in none other than Santa Claus, Indiana, the two are placed in a Christmas Wonderland and the focus of their story shifts to saving the historic town inn run by Carol and Christopher Winters. As the two overcome their differences, they also rediscover the magic of Christmas. But with the inn's fate in jeopardy and the return of someone from Jenna's past, Carol and Christopher lend a helping hand to bring Jenna and Kevin together.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, disturbing, emotional, captivating
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Five Star Christmas (2020)
Plot Summary:
After moving back to her hometown, Lisa (Lenz) plots with her siblings and grandparents to help her father's bed and breakfast get a five-star review from an incognito travel critic (Webster), but ends up falling for him, not knowing he is the real critic.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sincere, romantic, captivating, satirical