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Plot Summary:
When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to rekindle a childhood romance and convince her to move back home, Katherine is torn between the bright lights of the big city and the quiet, gentler rhythms of her Southern roots. Only a Christmas miracle orchestrated by Papa Noel can steer her heart to her true home.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: realistic, touching, sincere, captivating, emotional, humorous, semi serious
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Christmas Everlasting (2018)
Plot Summary:
Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, unexpectedly passes away, Lucy returns back to Nilson’s Bay, Wis., to attend the funeral and handle her estate. While Lucy dreads returning to her childhood home, she also feels real sorrow that she was too busy to take her sister’s last call. Once back in Nilson’s Bay, Lucy meets Peter, her old high school sweetheart and Alice’s former attorney, who informs her of the terms of Alice’s eccentric will that states in order for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days through the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, atmospheric, captivating
Similar in 77%
The Christmas Edition (2020)
Plot Summary:
It’s Christmas time and Jackie, an up-and- coming journalist, finds that her life is at a crossroads until she finds an unexpected opportunity – to run a small-town newspaper in Alaska. Jackie decides to give it a try and relocates to the small picture-perfect small town. Using a series of Christmas articles, she’s able to quickly return the newspaper to profitability, and soon falls in love… both with her new home and the handsome son of the paper’s former owner. However, when her old boss announces plans to take over the paper for herself, Jackie will need a Christmas miracle to save it.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 698
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, emotional, melancholic, talky
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The Perfect Christmas Present (2017)
Plot Summary:
Tom Jacobs is Mr Christmas! He's built an entire business around helping clients find the perfect gift. But what happens when he falls for one lucky recipient?.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: sincere, sweet, captivating, disturbing
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The Mistletoe Secret (2019)
Plot Summary:
Aria Eubank convinces a famous travel writer to do a feature story on her beloved hometown, however, when the travel guru and his ghostwriter both show up, Aria finds her heart torn between Sterling Masters and Alex Barlett, the man who has genuinely fallen for her.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sincere, touching, sweet, captivating, emotional, folk tale
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Christmas in Rome (2019)
Plot Summary:
An independent-minded American tour guide is fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver, who wants to buy a high-end Italian ceramics company. Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, as the owner of the ceramics company won’t sell it to him until he learns “the heart and soul of Rome.” But is there another heart and soul that he may win?.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sentimental, melancholic, sweet, emotional
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Nostalgic Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Anne helps her father close the family's toy store, what she finds will help inspire an entire town that is need of some Christmas cheer.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: christian film, romantic, sweet, sincere
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Gift of the Magi (2010)
Plot Summary:
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 546
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: realistic, sentimental, captivating, light, humorous, serious
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The Christmas Contract (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run the town’s annual Christmas Market together, but when she discovers Foster is bringing home a new girlfriend, Jolie cannot bear the thought of going home alone and seeing them together. Her best friend Naomi suggests that Jolie bring her flaky brother, Jack, home for Christmas as he has no plans this year. Jolie, a professional web designer, is hesitant; so, Naomi, a lawyer, creates a Christmas contract to give them both something they want—a buffer for those awkward moments around Jolie’s ex and a website to help sell Jack’s upcoming novel. Unbeknownst to them, the Christmas contract proves to be so much more than what they signed up for.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, sincere, captivating, feel good
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One Royal Holiday (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Anna offers a stranded mother and son shelter in a blizzard, she learns that they are the Royal Family of Galwick. Anna shows the Prince how they do Christmas in her hometown, encouraging him to open his heart and be true to himself.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: psychological, romantic, touching, humorous, melancholic, talky, semi serious
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Forever Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
When workaholic reality TV producer Sophie starts working on a holiday-season show about Will, a wildly sexy guy who celebrates Christmas every day of the year, she finds herself falling for her mysterious, unlikely new star, renewing her long-lost faith in Xmas in the process.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, captivating, realistic
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Christmas She Wrote (2020)
Plot Summary:
When Kayleigh, a romance writer, has her column cancelled right before Christmas, she heads home to reconnect with her family. Kayleigh gets an unexpected visit from the man who cancelled her column who fights not only to bring her back to the publisher but also for her heart.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Hats Off to Christmas! (2013)
Plot Summary:
Mia (Duff), the loyal and hard-working manager of her small town's Christmas hat shop, is blindsided when her boss of over ten years asks her to train his son, Nick (Cupo), for a vacant upper-management position that Mia had been coveting. Although Nick is a handsome, successful New York City business consultant, Mia finds training him frustrating until Nick takes an interest in Mia's son Scotty, helping Scotty with a pumpkin carving contest. However, Mia's faith in Nick quickly diminishes when Nick fails to show up at the contest. To protect her son from further disappointment, Mia tries to keep Nick out of her and Scotty's fragile life, and Nick must decide if staying in the small town of Wilsonville is worth giving up the big-city perks he once had in New York. As Mia struggles to find a way to convince Scotty to return to physical therapy so he can walk again, she soon realizes that Nick may be the Christmas miracle she has been waiting for.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, feel good, captivating, emotional, christmas special
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Mingle All the Way (2018)
Plot Summary:
Molly is determined to prove to her family that her new networking app—designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without long-term romance—is a success. When Molly joins Mingle All the Way and is matched with Jeff, they are both horrified to realize they’ve already had not one, but two disastrous previous encounters.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: emotional, light, captivating, realistic, romantic drama
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Reunited at Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
Frazzled and struggling with writer’s block, novelist Samantha, along with her boyfriend, heads home to her late grandmother’s home to spend Christmas. While at home with family, her grandmother’s wise words reveal the true meaning of Christmas with Samantha at a time when she most needs encouragement.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Christmas at the Plaza (2019)
Plot Summary:
With Christmas approaching in New York City, historian Jessica is hired to create an exhibition honoring the history of Christmas at The Plaza Hotel. When she is paired with Nick, a handsome decorator, they wind up enjoying a host of holiday traditions together and find themselves falling for each other.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: melancholic, semi serious, sincere, touching, humorous, captivating, emotional
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Matchmaker Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
As the Christmas party for a book publishing company approaches, editor Maggie volunteers to help her boss Amanda find a date. Matchmaking is a bit of a hobby for Maggie, but she is thrown off her game when Jaxson, her old boyfriend from her college years, shows up at her work — as a newly signed, successful author. Maggie would love to deny she feels anything for him still, but Jaxson isn’t making it easy. She’ll have to face her decisions of the past, along with Amanda eyeing Jaxson, to bring together the perfect matches at Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 651
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, thought provoking, light, feel good, captivating, realistic, emotional
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Hitched for the Holidays (2012)
Plot Summary:
A couple of single adults agree to pose as each others significant other throughout the holidays to keep their meddling families from harassing them, only to find that their feelings for each other are real.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: realistic, captivating, touching, emotional, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, romantic comedy
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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 Christmas Wish (2019)
Plot Summary:
Every December in the small town of Ponchatoula, Louisiana a wooden wishing box is placed in the park as a Christmas tradition. After a night out together, Maddie encourages her sister Faith to put a wish in the box - a wish to experience true love for the first time. Faith and Maddie are surprised the next day when she meets the very handsome and eligible Andrew. As Christmas nears, Faith begins to wonder if Andrew is really perfect for her, or if the wish is leading her to her best friend, Wyatt.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, emotional
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Two Turtle Doves (2019)
Plot Summary:
Dr. Sharon Hayes searches for a beloved family heirloom in a small Christmas town. When she unexpectedly discovers an adorable little girl and her disheartened father, she realizes that Christmas miracles really do happen.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, captivating
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Christmas Ever After (2020)
Plot Summary:
Popular romance novelist Izzi Simmons spends every Christmas at her favorite snowy bed & breakfast, but this year, she's faced with an impending deadline and a severe case of writer's block. Luckily, inspiration strikes in the unlikely form of the B&B's new owner Matt, who bears an uncanny resemblance to the handsome hero from Izzi's novels. As both partake in the lodge's annual itinerary of Christmas activities, Izzi's writer's block is cured and the first pages of her and Matt's own love story may just be beginning.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, touching, feel good, fairy tale
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Write Before Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A recently single Jessica sends Christmas cards to people who have impacted her life—the aunt who raised her, her younger brother in the military, a popstar who was part of the soundtrack of her life, the music teacher who inspired her, and the best friend who always tells the truth.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sincere, captivating, not serious, emotional
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Finding Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps his home in their small North Carolina town with New York City adman Sean.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, sincere, captivating, christmas special, cute, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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One Starry Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring astronomy professor finds unexpected Christmas romance when she meets a charming cowboy during her holiday travel. As she decides between this new cowboy and her practical boyfriend, she must decide whether it's better to play it safe in love, or let an adventurous cowboy steal her heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, romantic, captivating, emotional, feel good
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Noel (2004)
Plot Summary:
Christmas Eve in New York, and the lonely divorced publisher, Rose Collins, needs a miracle to improve the health of her mother, interned in a hospital with Alzheimers. She feels sorry for another patient and meets his visitor. Meanwhile, Nina Vasquez breaks her engagement with her beloved fiancé Mike due to his suffocating jealousy, but misses him. Mike is stalked by a stranger, bartender Artie Venzuela. The poor Jules arranges to spend Christmas Eve in the hospital, where he spent the best Christmas of his life when he was a teenager. The lives of some of these characters cross with others along the night.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 10000
Genere: Drama
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: touching, humorous, emotional, sentimental, sincere, realistic, semi serious, independent film, gloomy, iconic
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A Christmas Proposal (2008)
Plot Summary:
Two lawyers dueling over a proposal to turn a quaint mountain town into a ski resort discover they are former childhood sweethearts. Lisa is fighting to protect the hamlet, big city attorney Rick represents the developer who wants to plow it under. But when a car accident forces Rick to stick around, the small town, and his former beloved, begin to work their magic on him.
IMDB Rating: 4.6
IMDB Votes: 605
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, emotional, feel good, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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Christmas Angel (2009)
Plot Summary:
Ashley has been on her own all her life. She feels even more alone this Christmas as she searches fruitlessly for a job. The seasonal cheer around her only rubs salt in her wounds as she scrapes by to support herself and her dog, Dash. But her neighbor, Nick, knows exactly what to do. He offers her a job, to be his assistant in the best work-helping others. There's one catch that Ashley must honor though-she can't tell anyone that her new boss is a sort of Secret Santa, helping others anonymously. Through her new job, Ashley meets Will, a writer for a business magazine who uncovers what Ashley is doing, and more importantly, Nick's involvement. As Ashley and Nick help people in need, Ashley tries to protect Nick's secret, and her own heart, while Will must weigh the consequences of what he does.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, humorous, christian film, christmas special, realistic, semi serious, independent film
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A Very Merry Daughter of the Bride (2008)
Plot Summary:
A wedding planner looks to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief period of time, until an unexpected development forces her to re-examine her feelings.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 828
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, entertaining, emotional, sentimental, touching, realistic, semi serious
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Seasons Of Love (2014)
Plot Summary:
Set in the picturesque backdrop of New York, "Seasons of Love" is a romantic, soulful holiday drama about two people who struggle to find love against the odds, while reconciling with the past and learning the true value of family.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 153
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: uplifting, humorous, semi serious, sincere, romantic, captivating, touching, realistic, independent film
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Call Me Mrs. Miracle (2010)
Plot Summary:
Mrs Merkle (or Mrs. Miracle as she is know by some) finds herself in a toy department of a department store that is having all kinds of financial problems, but leave it to this kind lady as she will get the Christmas spirit flowing very freely at this store.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, captivating, christmas comedy, touching