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Plot Summary:
Christmas for Miranda (Krakow) is a painful reminder of the family she never had. Her mother died when she was young, never revealing the identity of her father. But, three days before Christmas, she unexpectedly receives a clue as to the whereabouts that takes her to a beautiful New England town where she meets Ian (Matter), a young man who helps with her search. As the clues lead to her father’s identity and Miranda discovers the possibility of love in Ian, and she learns that her father lived in the small town and now she knows his family (her brother and her biological father’s wife). She faces a terrible decision… Should she share the truth and risk losing the family she has just found, or leave and keep the secret forever? This Christmas promises to be life-changing for Miranda with a new chance at life and love.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Marrying Father Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
When Miranda Chester sets off to find information on her biological father two Christmases ago, she never imagined her investigation would lead her to both the love of her life, Ian McAndrick, and the family she had always longed for, including Margaret Whitcomb and half-brother Peter Whitcomb. After her romantic engagement last Christmas, Miranda prepares for a Christmas wedding surrounded by this new family. While Miranda finalizes the details of her big day, Margaret forges a surprising romance with a friend from the past. Miranda’s wedding plans are quickly complicated when a mysterious visitor who claims to have ties to her late parents reaches out to her just days before her wedding. As Miranda’s wedding approaches, she must decide if she wants to spend one of the most momentous days of her life with this new family connection, and must carefully navigate the first steps into the next chapter of her life with Ian.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining
Similar in 76%
The Christmas Yule Blog (2020)
Plot Summary:
Caroline Williams, a well-known social media travel writer, is given the assignment to cover a hundred-year-old Christmas parade in the small town of Carte De Amor, New Mexico. Not excited about the assignment, Caroline goes anyway and meets a high school music teacher, Oscar Ortiz, who introduces her to a side of Christmas that she has never seen, with different traditions and meanings. In the twelve days before Christmas, Caroline falls in love with Christmas all over again and finds true love for herself.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 461
Genere: Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Similar in 89%
Frozen in Love (2018)
Plot Summary:
When struggling bookstore owner Mary and the bad boy of professional hockey, Adam, are teamed together to help facilitate an image makeover for the other, they soon realize that opposites attract and they find themselves unexpectedly frozen in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, sweet, captivating, emotional
Similar in 78%
Double Holiday (2019)
Plot Summary:
Rebecca must throw the company holiday party with office rival, Chris. It coincides with Hanukkah, so she must juggle her work, family traditions, and nemesis to make the party a success.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Good Morning Christmas! (2020)
Plot Summary:
Two competing TV hosts are sent to a festive small town over Christmas. While pretending to get along for the sake of appearances, they discover that there’s more to each other than they thought.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love (2019)
Plot Summary:
Multiple coincidences and a chance meeting bring together Alice and Jack, two strangers from very different family backgrounds, for an unexpected Christmastime courtship filled with personal revelations, misread signals, and a very real health scare that will either destroy or strengthen the budding romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, emotional
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A Bramble House Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $50,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s money, going undercover to investigate the bed and breakfast the nurse has recently taken over. When Finn meets Willa, he discovers she’s not a conniving gold digger at all, but a woman in need who put the money to good use. When she discovers his true identity, will it keep Willa from ever trusting him again?.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, touching, sweet, captivating, disturbing
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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 Christmas Listing (2020)
Plot Summary:
Julia Rogers is an uptight, hardworking realty owner who has lost her Christmas spirit. She will have to spend five days at a Christmas Inn with her business competitor, Chad Everest, in order to win over the badly needed listing of the Erickson Farmstead. While competing to win the listing, Julia and Chad discover that they have more in common than they thought.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, sweet, captivating, entertaining
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Charming Christmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Meredith Rossman has made Rossman's Department store her entire life, not leaving any time for Christmas or romance. But when she is roped into donning the store's antique Mrs. Claus outfit to play Mrs. Claus at Rossman's famous Santaville, her life takes some unexpected turns. Through the help of the suit and the charming store Santa, Nick, Meredith rekindles her love of Christmas, the store, their employees and possibly even begins a new love with Nick.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, entertaining
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Christmas a la Mode (2019)
Plot Summary:
The dairy farm Emily has been running since her father passed away has fallen on hard times. When Emily’s sister, Dorothy, and her handsome business partner, Charlie, show up with a proposition to sell the farm, Emily comes up with an ingenious plan to buy out her sister's shares. She holds an online holiday ice cream flavor contest that goes viral with the help of a key ingredient, Charlie's amazing apple pie. Still, as the Christmas Eve deadline for the buyout approaches, Emily needs a Christmas miracle to save the family farm and her father's legacy.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sweet
Similar in 84%
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
Similar in 88%
If I Only Had Christmas (2020)
Plot Summary:
At Christmas, a cheerful publicist teams up with a cynical business owner and his team to help a charity in need.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating, emotional
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Rediscovering Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
A talented department store window designer helps her sister design the decor for the annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve dance and clashes with the stubborn grandson of the founders of the festival.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 471
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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A Beauty & The Beast Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Ginger Holiday, a peppy Christmas influencer, is convinced by her agent to fake a holiday romance with viral bad boy Beau Bradley to gain more followers. Ginger and Beau initially can't stand each other, but as they spend more time together they realize the feelings they had to fake at first might just be turning into something heartfelt.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 379
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Similar in 77%
Christmas Hotel (2019)
Plot Summary:
A big city hotelier's boss informs her that she will receive a promotion if she can pull off a major project.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 510
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy
Similar in 81%
Engaging Father Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
It's Christmas and Miranda leaves Seattle with a suitcase full of presents to join her long- lost family in Carlton Heath, where she will experience the joyful traditions she missed as a child. Last Christmas, Miranda fell in love with Ian, a local man who helped her as she searched for her father, James Whitcomb, a famous theatre actor she believed had a connection to the town. At his widow Margaret’s request, Miranda agrees to keep it a secret to protect the family from scandal.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, feel good, sweet, captivating
Similar in 80%
The Christmas Train (2017)
Plot Summary:
Forced to take the intercontinental trip to Los Angeles by train, and determined to chronicle his adventure, disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon finds himself westbound with a variety of characters. While all passengers on the Christmas train appear to be headed for the same destination, Tom has no idea that the rugged locomotives taking him across America will instead detour straight into his heart.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, disturbing, road movie
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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 Cookies (2016)
Plot Summary:
Aunt Sally's Christmas Cookie Company is sold to a large conglomerate and executive Hannah must seal the deal and shut down the factory, which is the small town of Cookie Jar's lifeblood. What was supposed to be a simple assignment for Hannah becomes complicated when she meets Jake, the factory owner who's determined to keep the factory in town. Despite not being a fan of the holiday, the Christmas spirit in this small town is infectious and she gets swept up in the joy of the season while also falling in love with Jake.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, light, romantic, feel good, sweet
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Merry Liddle Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
The messy family of a successful, super-together single tech entrepreneur descends on her gleaming new dream home for the holidays. Christmas traditions collide and family drama ensues as she struggles to keep her house together in time for a glossy video shoot of "the perfect Christmas.".
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 667
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
Similar in 88%
12 Pups of Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Recently single and starting a new job in a different city, Erin, a canine therapist, is getting a fresh start. But just when she thought her new life would be the reset she needed, her self-centered boss, Martin, tasks Erin with finding homes for 12 puppies who were left behind after a photo shoot for his struggling GPS locator company - and all before Christmas. As they work together, Erin realizes Martin may not be so bad after all, and her take-charge attitude not only helps Martin save his company, but also reveals a calmer, better self that opens them both up to the idea of love.
IMDB Rating: 3.9
IMDB Votes: 907
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic, scenic
Similar in 79%
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
Plot Summary:
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: emotional, sentimental, light, captivating
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The Sweetest Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
After breaking up with her long-term boyfriend just before the holidays, passionate baker Kylie reconnects with her high school sweetheart, Nick. Thanks to their newly rekindled friendship, Kylie uses Nick’s restaurant to prepare for a gingerbread baking competition with a large cash prize that would help her open her own bakery.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, disturbing, romantic comedy
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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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Switched for Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
Identical twins Kate and Chris Lockhart plot to be the other sister -- at Kate’s office and Chris’ school – and take on planning their sister’s Christmas events. One rule, though: no romance.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: sweet, captivating, entertaining, romantic comedy, christmas comedy
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My Best Friend's Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Ashley Seever returns home for the holidays hoping to reconnect with her high school sweetheart Grant, she soon meets his new girlfriend. In an attempt to escape the embarrassment, she and her best friend Liam fake their own holiday romance…but when her fake feelings for Liam start to turn real, Ashley will have to choose what her heart really wants this Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 578
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sweet, entertaining, disturbing
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A Christmas Together With You (2021)
Plot Summary:
During the Christmas season, Megan and her father-figure Frank head out on a road trip to find his long-lost love. Along the way, Megan finds the love of her own life.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: psychological, sincere, romantic, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Romance at Reindeer Lodge (2017)
Plot Summary:
Molly and Jared have both sworn off holiday events. When they find themselves stuck at a Christmas-themed ranch, they have no choice but to allow their cynical hearts to melt.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: romantic, feel good, touching, sweet, romantic drama
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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