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Plot Summary:
A curse is placed on grinchy Chuy, who wakes up to find he's lived a full year, but is doomed to remember only Christmas Day. Every year. From now on.
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 967
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 100 min
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Santa Bootcamp (2022)
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Hired by shopping mall magnate Ed Mancini to host a Christmas gala for his biggest investors, Emily heads to Santa Bootcamp - to find the perfect Santa and the inspiration she'll need to make the evening a success.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 421
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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Christmas Carole (2022)
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Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human being. In fact, it's made her worse. The truth is that Carole is a monumentally mean person. Positively Scrooge-like. And, just like Ebeneezer, she doesn't love Christmas at all. But this Christmas Eve, Carole's past, present and future are about to collide. Will some rather familiar Christmas spirits help her discover the true spirit of Christmas?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 620
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
Country: UK
Duration: 66 min
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A Wonderful Christmas Time (2014)
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A young man and young woman, both who have recently gone through break-ups, become friends over the festive season though don't wish to be each other's respective rebound. To get over this, the man goes on a series of disastrous dates so he can get together with the girl he really likes.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 130
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 85 min
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Christmas Lovers Anonymous (2021)
Plot Summary:
A best-selling author hides her love for Christmas after an ugly break up, finding love again when she joins a website for people who are crazy about Christmas: "Christmas Lovers Anonymous".
IMDB Rating: 4.7
IMDB Votes: 343
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
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Mistletoe Mixup (2021)
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Holly is a young workaholic with no time for romance, or the holidays. She ends up meeting two great guys on the same day, but unbeknownst to her, they turn out to be brothers. While on a holiday ski trip, a sibling rivalry ensues for her affection. Will she find true love this Christmas, or spend another holiday alone?.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
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A Christmas Karen (2022)
Plot Summary:
A reworking of A Christmas Carol where the protagonist is a typical Karen.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 619
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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Love at the Christmas Contest (2022)
Plot Summary:
A young woman enters a Christmas tree decorating contest to honor the memory of her mother, only to discover that the competition includes her recently-widowed high school sweetheart, and his adorable 10-year-old daughter.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 460
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Holly Star (2018)
Plot Summary:
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.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 686
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: psychotronic
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Click & Collect (2018)
Plot Summary:
To save his daughter's Christmas, Andrew goes on a road trip with Dev, his neighbour from hell, to buy an elusive Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK
Duration: 53 min
Plot tags: christmas special
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Destined at Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
Kim and Theo meet in the midst of Black Friday shopping madness but there's a definite spark between them. When a power outage causes some panic at a store, the couple gets separated. With Christmas coming, there should be plenty of distractions but neither Kim nor Theo can forget the other. Both yearn to find each other but how with so little information to go on?.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 857
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
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Christmas Plus One (2022)
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When sisters Cara and Amy make a pact to find their soulmates by next Christmas, they’re not expecting to be so successful! One year later, Amy’s winter wedding approaches and Cara finally finds her own perfect man, inviting him as her plus one. But after immediately losing his number, all hope is lost. Will she find him in time to make her Christmas wish come true? Or does love have other plans for Cara?.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 451
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 92 min
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When Christmas Was Young (2022)
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The story follows a headstrong music manager in desperate need of a hit song for his last remaining client, who finds himself falling for a gifted singer-songwriter with abandoned dreams of making it big, as he attempts to secure the rights to a Christmas song she wrote years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 384
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
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My Favorite Christmas Melody (2021)
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Once a promising singer-songwriter, Abby now finds herself writing uninspired jingles for commercials. As she heads home for the holidays, she's enlisted by the local high school music teacher to help save the school arts program. In the process, Abby rediscovers her voice and regains the confidence to go after her dreams and lets the possibility of love in too.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 271
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
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The Christmas Retreat (2022)
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When Kim's boyfriend breaks up with her instead of proposing, Kim's mom takes her away to a Christmas Retreat to reconnect with the spirit of the holiday. There she meets newly unemployed Mark.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 534
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
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Merry Swissmas (2022)
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Alex is an ambitious architect who is looking forward to celebrating Christmas at her mother’s beautiful Swiss Inn, until she finds out that her former best friend Beth who married Alex’s ex-boyfriend Jesse will also be there. Could a new romance with the Inn’s handsome manager and single-father Liam be the key to show Alex the magic of Christmas and open her up to forgiveness this holiday season?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 691
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
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A Tale of Two Christmases (2022)
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Thanks to some Christmas magic, Emma gets to experience two different Christmases – one where she stays in the city and celebrates with a new crush and his friends, and one where she returns home for all the traditions with her family…and Drew, a longtime friend who may have feelings for her. Emma’s double holiday ultimately helps her discover what will truly make her happy in life as well as in love.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 758
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Inventing the Christmas Prince (2022)
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Shelby is about to quit her job as a rocket engineer when her daughter becomes convinced that her Scrooge-like boss, Evan, is the Christmas Prince from a story Shelby invented years ago.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 704
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Catering Christmas (2022)
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A fledgling caterer, Molly Frost, is hired by Jean Harrison, the perfectionistic director of the renowned Harrison Foundation, to cater this year’s annual Christmas Gala dinner. Things get complicated when Molly falls for Jean’s nephew, Carson, 30s, a travel photographer with no desire to take over the family’s foundation… until his aunt assigns him to the task of making sure the catered dinner goes perfectly.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
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Our Italian Christmas Memories (2022)
Plot Summary:
The Colucci siblings, in an effort to jog the memory of their grandfather who is struggling with dementia, set out to recreate their late grandmother’s legendary pasta sauce.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 768
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
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Christmas Carol (1978)
Plot Summary:
In this one-man show starring Rich Little, Ebeneezer Scrooge (played by Rich as W.C. Fields) hates Christmas, and it's up to the Ghosts of Christmas Past (played by Rich as Humphrey Bogart), Present (played by Rich as Columbo) and Future (played by Rich as Inspector Clouseau) to convince him otherwise.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 403
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Canada
Duration: 50 min
Plot tags: christmas horror, spoof, parody, one man show
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The Three Kings (2001)
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The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: France
Duration: 102 min
Plot tags: thought provoking, humorous, captivating, entertaining, funny
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We Wish You a Married Christmas (2022)
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Becca and Robby are a married couple having a hard time connecting with each other as the holidays approach. Just before Christmas, they head to a cozy Vermont inn at the advice of their marriage coach so they can recharge. Their weekend away gets unexpectedly extended when a mishap puts their car out of commission and just may put them on the road to a very happily married Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
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Chasing Christmas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Jack Cameron is a single dad that decides not to observe Christmas because his wife left him around that time. The ghosts of Christmas past and present try and get Jack to relent, but they screw up their jobs and send themselves on a wild ride through time showing up at various times in Jack's past. As they try and rectify the timeline and get back to the real present, some things are not what they used to be.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 891
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: sentimental, humorous, semi serious, feel good
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A Royal Family Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
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 Tavares, Fright Night), a fashion designer's gopher; and Pamela Royal (Taquilla Whitfield, Magic Mike XXL), a hair and nail salon owner; join forces to reunite their parents in time for Christmas. They try every trick in the book - including "playing nice" and setting aside old sibling rivalries - only to learn their mom and dad are enjoying "the single life." Their plan also goes awry as getting their parents back together ends up taking a back seat to their own personal and professional drama.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 84
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration:
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Marry Us for Christmas (2014)
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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 hasn't had time to plan her wedding. To make matters worse, she may have to team up with former assistant/fake fiancé Adam to win a project she's been vying for - a little tidbit she hasn't shared with Blair. But Blair, as it turns out, has a secret of his own. Thanks to years of doing pro bono work for financially-strapped clients, he quickly is running out of cash and might have to accept an offer to work for his longtime nemesis, Marci's manipulative cousin Preston. Meanwhile, Marci's mother Stephanie is making some rather bold moves of her own with her sexy salsa teacher, Antonio, who's more than a little smitten with her - and about 20 years her junior. Will there be a wedding for Christmas? Better yet - whose wedding will it be?.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 188
Genere: Comedy
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
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Five More Minutes: Moments Like These (2022)
Plot Summary:
The second holiday story inspired by Scotty McCreery’s song “Five More Minutes,” a young widow’s Christmas wish for her son is answered in unexpected ways when she returns to their old home for the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 675
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
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Undercover Holiday (2022)
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When returning home for the holidays, newly minted pop star Jaylen tells her protective family that Matt is her new beau, when in reality, he’s her overzealous security guard.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 764
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
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The Good Witch of Christmas (2022)
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In this adorable sequel to "Christmas Thieves," Frank and Tony are babysitting for Liam and Olivia, while their parents Emma and Peter are out shopping for last-minute Christmas presents. Emma and Peter get into an accident with Santa Claus, and have scared off all of his reindeer. Santa needs to call for back-up and the only person left to save the day is the Christmas Witch. Unbeknownst to Santa, the Christmas Witch has accidentally landed in front of Olivia and Liam's house, and she has completely lost her memory. Liam, Olivia, Frank and Tony try to find answers for the Witch in the book "Puffins". Will the Puffins help the Witch remember that she needs to go help Santa in enough time to save Christmas? This heartwarming live-action and animated Christmas film is filled with lots of holiday magic, and is something the whole family will enjoy together.
IMDB Rating: 3.6
IMDB Votes: 212
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Italy
Duration: 77 min
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Christmas, Inc. (2008)
Plot Summary:
With Christmas approaching, Santa Claus has to contend with the fact that the North Pole is melting and find a way to rid the holiday of its capitalist nature.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 136
Genere: Comedy, Fantasy
Country: Mexico
Duration: 110 min
Plot tags: sincere, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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The Claus Family 2 (2021)
Plot Summary:
Jules Claus has embraced Christmas again and is getting ready for the busiest time of the year together with grandpa Noël. Everything seems to go according to plan, until Jules receives a very special letter with an intriguing question.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 837
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: Belgium
Duration: 97 min
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