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Plot Summary:
When her family goes bankrupt, privileged city girl Jen Stone travels to the country to try and fix up a struggling pumpkin farm that her father bought as an investment to get her money back. Not everyone is on board with her changes, least of all Brett, the farm's handsome manager. By working with what she knows best, she discovers the magic of pumpkin skincare and turns the struggling farm around while also falling in love.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, captivating, light, touching, feel good
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Royal New Year's Eve (2017)
Plot Summary:
An aspiring fashion designer falls in love with her socialite client's prospective fiance, Prince Jeffrey.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: touching, sentimental, uplifting, sweet
Similar in 83%
Let It Snow (2013)
Plot Summary:
A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday spirit. Will she stick with her boss’s plans to tear everything down or find a way to save what she has come to love? Stars Candace Cameron-Bure and Alan Thicke.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 82 min
Plot tags: light, romantic, touching, captivating, fable
Similar in 86%
The Road to Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way to her dream Christmas-time wedding in Aspen. Unable to get another flight or rent a car, Claire is reduced to begging for a ride. When the rugged former artist turned teacher, Tom Pullman and his 13-year old daughter Hilly kindly offer to take her, none of them realize that their journey is just beginning, and it will leave all of them in a very different place than where they began.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, captivating, feel good, entertaining, touching, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 84%
All She Wants for Christmas (2006)
Plot Summary:
Forest City depends entirely on the Aikens Christmas decoration factory. Local economics graduate Judith 'Noelle' Dunn returned there to finish her thesis by analyzing the plant. A freak near-accident matches her with adventurous drifter Justin Allen, whom she gets a menial job in the factory. Alas the late founder discretely footed systematical losses. His haughty granddaughter Ashley Aikens arrives to check if the firm can be made profitable. Noelle is jealous when Ashley keeps contacting Justin, who swears only to have eyes for her. It turns out he is key to more secrets, but will they work for good or bad?.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 767
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: humorous, atmospheric, captivating, emotional, light, sentimental, feel good, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 79%
Merry Kissmas (2015)
Plot Summary:
Unwinding her relationship from a controlling choreographer, Kayla happens to take an elevator ride with lonesome caterer “Dustin”. The lift stalls, and spontaneously, magical kisses follow. Soon the choreographer makes nice, and Dustin retreats. Kayla becomes confused as to which man to love.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: light, humorous, captivating, sincere, feel good, campy
Similar in 81%
Holiday Date (2019)
Plot Summary:
When Brooke’s boyfriend, Ethan, breaks up with her just before the holidays, she agrees to go home with Joel, an actor who will pose as her boyfriend.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: light, touching, humorous, captivating
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Christmas Belle (2013)
Plot Summary:
With her California hometown in the rearview mirror, Belle heads north on business to catalog the sale of a large mansion. While the job is a dream, the client, Hunter Lowell, is not. But, as the two spend more time together, his icy demeanor begins to melt. Although their relationship is budding, Belle’s long-time suitor, Tony, arrives, sending mixed signals to Hunter while adding chaos to the holiday season.
IMDB Rating: 5.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: light, feel good, sweet, sentimental, serious, realistic
Similar in 90%
The Christmas Parade (2014)
Plot Summary:
A popular network morning host finds herself humiliated on the air by her fiancé and disappears to a small town. While there, she helps a budding artist save a community art center for the town's kids, by helping them with their float for the annual Christmas Parade.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country:
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, funny, light, sweet, touching, realistic
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Cherished Memories: A Gift to Remember 2 (2019)
Plot Summary:
As Darcy and Aiden prepare to celebrate their second Christmas together, an unexpected guest and a fight to save the beloved community center unites everyone for an unforgettable holiday.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, captivating
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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 in the City (2013)
Plot Summary:
With the threat of having to close her father's candy store, Wendy and her six-year-old daughter Grace travel to the big city in hopes of making extra holiday cash to save the store. When she's offered a job in the toy department of Wolmans, the city's biggest department store, Wendy can't wait! Her excitement doesn't last long when the store's manager, Teanna, destroys the Christmas spirit throughout the store and replaces Santa with a hunky male underwear model surrounded by elfin "babes." What Teanna is unaware of is that she has in fact sacked the real Santa. Unaware of his real "Santa" status, Wendy reaches out to the old man but it seems even he has given up hope. With her daughter losing faith in the holiday, Wendy realizes she must bring the true meaning of Christmas back to Wolmans before it is too late.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, light, captivating, humorous, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy, campy
Similar in 80%
Christmas Lodge (2011)
Plot Summary:
Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she quickly realizes that the lodge that she loves has fallen into serious disrepair. With a lack of funds and a looming deadline, she not only restores the Christmas lodge's charm but finds love along the way.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: uplifting, sentimental, touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic, independent film
Similar in 81%
Moonlight & Mistletoe (2008)
Plot Summary:
After three years, Nick's estranged daughter Holly returns home to find the spirit of Christmas in Santaville has dwindled, taking the family business with it. What starts out as an attempt to bail out her dad, ends up rekindling Holly's belief in Christmas all over again.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: light, captivating, feel good, entertaining
Similar in 77%
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
Similar in 77%
My Dad's Christmas Date (2020)
Plot Summary:
It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16 and her Dad, David is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and their sixteen-year-old daughters. He struggles to understand her, she refuses to communicate with him. He wants to be involved in her life, she wants her own space. In one important respect, however, David and Jules share a profound bond: the death of Jules’ mum, and David’s wife, in a car crash two years before. With both struggling to cope with everyday life in the shadow of their loss, Jules, inspired by happy memories of her mum, decides to take matters into her own hands.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: sentimental, funny, light, touching, feel good, humorous, sweet, captivating, entertaining, gay cinema
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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
Similar in 81%
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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The Family Holiday (2007)
Plot Summary:
A selfish con-man must show that he can be a family man to inherit his uncle's estate. As he tries to set up his scam family, he realizes that he really wants to have a one.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 481
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, entertaining, touching, realistic, family comedy
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Baby Bootcamp (2014)
Plot Summary:
Fitness instructor Julia is down on her luck, trying to make her baby boot camp a thriving business. To make ends meet, she becomes a part-time nanny for a single widowed father. Trouble is, she knows nothing about taking care of children.
IMDB Rating: 5.5
IMDB Votes: 512
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: Canada
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sincere, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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So This Is Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Eighteen-year old Ashley's life is headed in the wrong direction. She's been hanging out with a bad crowd and seeking an escape from the drama at home. Everything begins to change when a handyman working on the family's house encourages her to volunteer for a Christmas play with underprivileged children. Ashley finds purpose by helping people in need and uses that to help heal her troubled family. Together, they discover the impact one person can make through the gift of giving.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 798
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 115 min
Plot tags: humorous, touching, feel good, light, captivating, offbeat, realistic, semi serious, sexual, sexy
Similar in 87%
Surprised by Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
The story of a young businesswoman who tries to convince her uptight parents to accept her current boyfriend and instead finds herself falling for an old high school flame.
IMDB Rating: 6.7
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: semi serious, humorous, captivating, light, feel good, emotional, sentimental, realistic
Similar in 90%
The Santa Con (2014)
Plot Summary:
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 701
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, touching, realistic
Similar in 82%
A Dog Named Duke (2012)
Plot Summary:
A homeless vet leaves his dying dog and best friend, Duke, on the doorstep of a clinic. The dedicated staff nurse Duke back to health, and then launch a campaign to locate the vet and re-unite him with his best pal.
IMDB Rating: 7.0
IMDB Votes: 625
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, humorous, captivating, light, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
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For Better or For Worse (2014)
Plot Summary:
Wendy is finally settling in to single life after the death of her husband. She runs a successful wedding planning company with the help of her friend Roseanne. Wendy's business and values are challenged when Marco, a charming but irritating divorce attorney, opens shop right next door!.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: humorous, light, feel good, captivating, touching, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 75%
My Boyfriends' Dogs (2014)
Plot Summary:
The owners of a small diner are surprised one rainy evening when, just after close, a young woman wearing a wedding dress with three dogs in tow begs to come into their restaurant. What follows is the young woman's retelling of how she arrived at this curious junction in her life and how, through the search for the right man, she ended up as a runaway bride with three new dogs.
IMDB Rating: 5.8
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, touching, semi serious, light, captivating, realistic
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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
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'Tis the Season for Love (2015)
Plot Summary:
The holiday drama follows an out-of-work actress who returns to her quaint hometown, where a Christmas romance proves the life she once left behind could turn out to be even better than Broadway.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 98 min
Plot tags: feel good, captivating, light, humorous, romantic comedy
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A Christmas Wedding Tail (2011)
Plot Summary:
Jennie Garth of "90210" stars as Susan, an unemployed Los Angeles museum curator and widowed single mom temporarily living in a small California town with her three sensitive sons. Jake (Brad Rowe of "General Hospital") is a single dad of two tomboys who owns a local winery. When Susan's dog Rusty (voiced by Jay Mohr of "Ghost Whisperer") falls for Jake's poodle Cheri (voiced by Nikki Cox of "Las Vegas"), these canine matchmakers help their owners fall in love too. Now with a Christmas Day wedding to plan -- and major complications threatening to unravel it all -- can two mismatched broods find a way to make one happy family? Tom Arnold and Catherine Hicks ("Seventh Heaven") co-star in this heartwarming holiday film from the producer/director of The Dog Who Saved Christmas Vacation and Your Love Never Fails.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 717
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, touching, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 82%
Puppy Love (2012)
Plot Summary:
When single mom Megan Nolan moves to a new town, she feels guilty for uprooting her ten-year-old daughter Caitlin. Seeing that the little girl's only friend is a neighbor's dog, Megan decides to adopt a shelter pet for Caitlin. She immediately regrets her decision when Caitlin gravitates to the biggest, sloppiest dog in the pound, Jake. Megan's beautiful new home is now in shambles and, as Megan considers returning Jake to the shelter, handsome ballplayer Ben shows up claiming Jake is his dog, the regrettable outcome of his roommate leaving a gate open. Megan and Ben butt heads. Ben wants to take his dog and leave, until he sees that Caitlin loves Jake as much as he ever could. Now it is clear: the pound puppy everyone loves deserves no less than joint custody.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, light, captivating, humorous, sentimental, realistic, semi serious
Similar in 87%
The Family Stone (2005)
Plot Summary:
An uptight, conservative, businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 73000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 103 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, touching, entertaining, humorous, funny, light, romantic, sweet, romantic comedy