Best movies like My Adventures with Santa
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Plot Summary:
Christmas in the Nolan household isn't what it used to be. Instead of a joyous family gathering, they are spending this holiday apart. On a last minute shopping trip with Dad, the family enters an enchanted store only to discover a dazzling snow globe with magical powers. Suddenly the Nolan family is transported through the globe to the North Pole where they are asked to help Santa save Christmas! As they come together to support Santa and the elves, their family love grows stronger and the true meaning of Christmas comes alive.
IMDB Rating: 4.2
IMDB Votes: 260
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, feel good, sweet
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Angels in the Snow (2015)
Plot Summary:
In Angels in the Snow, the affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: sentimental, feel good, sweet, semi serious
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3 Bears Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
Baby Bear sneaks out on Christmas morning to find the perfect gift for his parents Mama and Papa Bear only to cross paths with a wicked witch who transforms him into a human.
IMDB Rating: 5.0
IMDB Votes: 62
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, touching, feel good, entertaining, exciting
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Silver Bells (2013)
Plot Summary:
An overly win-driven sportscaster goes too far and must perform community service during December as a bell-ringer for the Salvation Army.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 409
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining, semi serious
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A Lesson in Romance (2014)
Plot Summary:
A successful career Mom gets a case of empty nest syndrome when her children go off to college, and her husband decides to join them and follow his own dreams. Fearing she might be losing her family for good, she enrolls determined to save her family. Will she win her family back, or drive them farther away?.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 362
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration:
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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A Horse Tale (2015)
Plot Summary:
Uptight city accountant Michael Thompson is hired to help a family save their stable before the bank shuts them down. Michael reluctantly agrees, but as he searches for ways to save a family's legacy, he finds something he never expected.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 309
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: sincere, captivating, entertaining, disturbing
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Elmo Saves Christmas (1996)
Plot Summary:
Can there be such a thing as too much Christmas? Find out... when a magical Christmas wish is granted and Elmo gets to see what the world would be like if every day were Christmas! You'll enjoy lots of songs and holiday cheer with Elmo and his new friend Lightning, the reindeer, and discover for yourself why Christmas is best kept to one day a year!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 420
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min
Plot tags: independent film, crying, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Christmas Break-In (2018)
Plot Summary:
Izzy is an energetic 9-year-old. Overscheduled and running late, Izzy's parents can't pick her up on-time the last day of school before Christmas break. A blizzard complicates the matter, but not as much as a pair of bad guys who are freezing in an ice cream truck. The school's janitor is kidnapped by the intruders, and it's up to Izzy to save the day.
IMDB Rating: 4.5
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: exciting, funny, light, humorous, entertaining, not serious
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The Three Dogateers (2014)
Plot Summary:
When a couple of burglars make off with their family's presents and decorations, the Three Dogateers set off on a journey to sniff out the bad guys and save Christmas!.
IMDB Rating: 2.9
IMDB Votes: 319
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, semi serious, captivating, entertaining, light, touching
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Our First Christmas (2008)
Plot Summary:
Cindy and Tom Baer-Neil have been married for nearly a year, each having lost their first spouse. With the holidays just around the corner, Cindy and Tom are determined to make the new family’s first Christmas perfect. But their respective children have different plans.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 597
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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Poinsettias for Christmas (2018)
Plot Summary:
It’s just weeks before Christmas when Ellie gets a call to return home to help her father on the family’s poinsettia farm. The family business is on the line to deliver tens of thousands of plants for the town’s annual parade. The problem is — the poinsettias have yet to turn red! As Ellie searches for the solution, she is reminded of where her heart truly lies as she falls in love with both her roots and a local botanist.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 86 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining
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Santa Switch (2013)
Plot Summary:
A struggling dad gets a new start after a strange encounter replaces his mall Santa gig with the real thing.
IMDB Rating: 5.3
IMDB Votes: 489
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: light, sincere, feel good, not serious, christmas special
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Christmas Town (2008)
Plot Summary:
A week before Christmas Liza McCann visit her estranged father who strangely lives in a town decked out for the holidays and is full of Christmas spirit. Strange events immediately occur when they arrive challenging everything Liza had once believed in.
IMDB Rating: 4.9
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy, Romance
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 83 min
Plot tags: light, sweet, sentimental, feel good, humorous, semi serious
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Feliz NaviDAD (2020)
Plot Summary:
David Morales, an Arizona high school principal and single dad, has lost the holiday spirit after also losing his wife a few years ago during the Christmas season. Now, David will do anything to avoid Christmas so he moonlights as a delivery driver during the holidays. But this year David’s 14-year-old daughter, Noel, and his live-in sister, Marissa, are determined to bring the yuletide spirit back to the family and, with a little luck, also help David find love again via online dating. So when Sophie, a witty musician and customer on David’s delivery route, swipes right on him, something magical happens between them.
IMDB Rating: 6.0
IMDB Votes: 784
Genere: Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: romantic, light, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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Christmas with the Andersons (2016)
Plot Summary:
Drowning in tinsel and lights every Christmas, Michael and Caroline Anderson throw the year’s biggest party at their house. But this year, with Michael jobless and Caroline’s store struggling, that tradition may end. The Andersons decide to host a very different kind of party and, in the process, rediscover what’s most important about the holiday.
IMDB Rating: 4.1
IMDB Votes: 537
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA, Germany
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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A Christmas Eve Miracle (2015)
Plot Summary:
Sharron Holden is a loving mother, wife, and workaholic. She's on the verge of a huge promotion at work, but her husband feels as if she has given up on her family. While on vacation, she imagines that life would have been better if she didn't have kids so young. But when a man claiming to be Kris Kringle arrives, he shows her how empty life truly would have been without the love of her family.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 349
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min
Plot tags: light, inspirational, thought provoking, feel good, humorous, entertaining
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When Mom Is Away... With the Family (2020)
Plot Summary:
Carlo (Fabio De Luigi), Giulia (Valentina Lodovini) and their three children go to Lapland to meet Santa Claus (Diego Abatantuono). Things will not go as planned.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 983
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Italy
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: funny, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical
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A Family Reunion Christmas (2019)
Plot Summary:
M'Dear and her sisters struggle to keep their singing act together before a church Christmas pageant while Grandpa teaches the kids a valuable lesson.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 28 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, captivating, entertaining, satirical, semi serious
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A Wonderful Christmas: Feliz Navidad (2005)
Plot Summary:
The true meaning of Christmas comes home to the Rivera household in a very unexpected way. With Mom expecting a new baby and Dad facing work challenges, young Josie takes it upon herself to make sure the family has a Christmas they'll never forget.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 42
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 79 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, captivating
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Coming Home for Christmas (2013)
Plot Summary:
Sisters Kate and Melanie haven’t spoken to each other in years since a hurtful scene at Melanie’s wedding. Their parents, Wendy and Al, have let the pain of their daughters’ absence drive a wedge between them, and their tensions have led to a separation. Kate is determined to reunite the entire family for Christmas, and has the perfect spot… their old family home. The only problem is there’s someone else living there now.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 847
Genere: Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: feel good, light, sweet, touching, humorous, realistic, semi serious
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Northpole (2014)
Plot Summary:
Northpole, the magical city where Santa and his elves live and work is in trouble. Families around the globe have gotten too busy to enjoy the season together, and Northpole depends on their holiday happiness to keep running. In the hopes of turning things around, a determined young elf befriends a little boy with a lot of spirit. His skeptical journalist mom doesn’t have room in her heart for anything but the facts, so it’s going to take a little nudge from his charming teacher to create an unbeatable Christmas team to turn around this town and share the importance of the season with the whole world.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 81 min
Plot tags: feel good, sentimental, captivating, humorous, serious
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Saving Christmas (2017)
Plot Summary:
A young boy, Danny, tries to prove the existence of Santa by using his intelligence and gadgets. He and his trusted group go on an intense journey to find the truth of Santa.
IMDB Rating: 3.3
IMDB Votes: 282
Genere: Family
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: funny, light, feel good, humorous, sweet, entertaining
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Ira Finkelstein's Christmas (2012)
Plot Summary:
All Ira Finkelstein wants for Christmas is...Christmas. Unfortunately, his parents are sending him to Florida to be with his Grandparents. Ira's spirit soars as he manages to land in Christmas Town, USA, instead.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 591
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: feel good, humorous, captivating, light, realistic, semi serious
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The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)
Plot Summary:
Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.
IMDB Rating: 3.7
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, light, feel good, sweet, christmas special
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Santa's Little Helper (2015)
Plot Summary:
After getting fired from his job, a slick, fast-talking businessman is thrown into an elf competition to become Santa¹s next second-in-command. Put through a series of rigorous training exercises to prepare for the contest, The Miz and another aspiring elf go head-to-head in the hopes of becoming Santa¹s Little Helper.
IMDB Rating: 4.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family
Country: Canada
Duration: 91 min
Plot tags: entertaining, light, feel good, sweet, fairy tale, sentimental, touching, humorous
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The Night Before the Night Before Christmas (2010)
Plot Summary:
When Santa sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, crashes into the Fox family's house, ends up with amnesia and loses his magic sack of presents, he needs help! But the Fox family are a modern and broken family. Can they help him? The parents are preoccupied with work and the kids aren't very festive. But it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and the clock is ticking or Christmas will be ruined. Forced to set their own problems aside and work together the Fox family rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives. The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 725
Genere: Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 88 min
Plot tags: feel good, semi serious, sincere, funny, light, touching
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Meet The Santas (2005)
Plot Summary:
Because she is marrying the man who assumed the mantle of Santa Claus last December 26, Beth's postponed wedding has to be rescheduled for Xmas eve. Overwhelmed by selling the house she and her son share and the prospect of the duties of Mrs. Claus, she has to call on her estranged socialite Grinch of a mother to arrange the wedding. Of course her mom has never met the fiancé nor his family and has no inkling of his secret. This is a sequel to 2004's Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, sentimental, light, sincere, feel good
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Noelle (2019)
Plot Summary:
Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 26000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
Plot tags: light, fairy tale, feel good, humorous, exciting, captivating, entertaining, naughty, gay cinema
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The Santa Clause (1994)
Plot Summary:
Scott Calvin is an ordinary man, who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve and is knocked unconscious. When he and his young son finish Santa's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole, where Scott learns he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed, Father Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 130000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 97 min
Plot tags: feel good, touching, sentimental, light, sweet, entertaining, fairy tale, semi serious, funny, hilarious
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Christmas & Co. (2017)
Plot Summary:
Christmas is on its way and with it disaster. The 92,000 responsible for manufacturing children's toys all become sick at the same time! It's a tough moment for Santa, better known as Father Christmas. He's left no choice: he must make an emergency trip to Earth with his reindeer to search for a remedy. When he arrives, he must find some allies to save the magic of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.3
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: France, Belgium
Duration: 92 min
Plot tags: light, semi serious, feel good, funny, exciting, humorous, fairy tale
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The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
Plot Summary:
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole to fulfill his obligations, or else he'll be forced to give up his Yuletide gig.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 63000
Genere: Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 104 min
Plot tags: fairy tale, humorous, feel good, light, entertaining, touching, christmas special, semi serious, funny, exciting