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Plot Summary:
Heidi leaves the mountains of Switzerland for a trip to New York City.
IMDB Rating: 4.3
IMDB Votes: 151
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min
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Nunsense (1993)
Plot Summary:
An unfortunate convent cooking accident causes most of the order of the Little Sisters of Hoboken to die of botulism. Before all of the deceased sisters can be buried, Reverend Mother Superior (Rue McClanahan) buys a camcorder and VCR for the convent - resulting in not having enough money to bury the four remaining sisters (which, by the way, are temporarily being stored in the freezer). In order to raise money to bury the four dead sisters, the Little Sisters of Hoboken (well, what's left of them) put on a riotous revue packed with hilarious, show-stopping song and dance numbers.
IMDB Rating: 7.3
IMDB Votes: 184
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 111 min
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Nuncrackers (2001)
Plot Summary:
Third musical in the Nunsense series.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min
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Happy Go Lucky (2003)
Plot Summary:
Happy Go Lucky is a Hong Kong Comedy-Drama starring Kent Cheng.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 40
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Hong Kong
Duration:
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Dixie: Changing Habits TVM (1983)
Plot Summary:
Dixie is caught operating a whore house, and is sentenced to 90 days house arrest in a convent! Can Dixie bend to the ways of the convent nuns to avoid jail?.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 88
Genere: Comedy, Crime, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min
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Nunsense 3: The Jamboree (1998)
Plot Summary:
Third in the Nunsense series of musicals.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 44
Genere: Comedy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min
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Cradle Song (1961)
Plot Summary:
In a Castilian convent of the late nineteenth century, the community of cloistered nuns celebrates the onomastic of their superior with a poem. She is also visited by the doctor, Don Jose, who diagnosed a disease with poor prognosis. Shortly after a sister picks up a beautiful girl who has been abandoned at the door of the convent and the doctor, despite being single, offers to legally adopt her and assign her to the convent as a pupil.
IMDB Rating: 6.6
IMDB Votes: 27
Genere: Drama, Comedy
Country: Spain
Duration: 93 min
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Nasty Habits (1977)
Plot Summary:
In a Philadelphia convent, two nuns battle it out to be elected to the position of head abbess, and neither is about to let anything stand in the way of getting what she wants.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 395
Genere: Comedy
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 96 min
Plot tags: sex comedy, independent film, cult film
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My Southern Family Christmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
Under the guise of a journalist, Campbell has a chance to get to know her biological father for the first time – without him ever knowing who she really is. As she spends time with him and his family, as well as with the town’s record keeper, she realizes that families are messy, wonderful things. In the end, Campbell must decide if she’s going to keep her identity a secret or reveal the truth to her father – a decision that will change their family Christmas forever.
IMDB Rating: 7.1
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: gay cinema
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Christmas in Paradise (2007)
Plot Summary:
Two families disembark on a cruise to San Juan in celebration of Christmas.
IMDB Rating: 6.2
IMDB Votes: 442
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min
Plot tags: christmas comedy
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Miracles Across 125th Street (2021)
Plot Summary:
After battling drug addiction, a Harlem rapper returns to his family’s church to confront his past on Christmas Eve.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 167
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 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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Reindeer Games Homecoming (2022)
Plot Summary:
When her father dies, MacKenzie keeps his tradition of the town's fundraising "The Reindeer Games" alive, but when high school crush Chase shows up and plays against her, the spark between them is undeniable.
IMDB Rating: 6.9
IMDB Votes: 590
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags:
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Merry Swissmas (2022)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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)
Plot Summary:
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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A Royal Christmas on Ice (2022)
Plot Summary:
Looking to escape his Royal life, a dashing prince comes to the United States to start a business in a small town in upstate New York and winds up falling for a former Olympic ice skater.
IMDB Rating: 5.2
IMDB Votes: 464
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min
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Christmas Lilies of the Field (1979)
Plot Summary:
Sometime after the events in 'Lilies of the Field' (1963) Homer Smith returns to the Church he helped build to find the nuns have taken in a group of homeless children.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 107
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min
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The Mistletoe Inn (2017)
Plot Summary:
When aspiring romance novelist Kim Rossi is unceremoniously dumped by her soon-to-be-published romance novelist boyfriend, Kim takes stock and decides to take a leap. She signs up for a romance writing retreat at a quaint Vermont Inn shortly before Christmas, where a top romance novelist is scheduled to attend and read the work of one lucky writer. Shortly after arriving, she crosses paths with Zeke, whom she initially finds to be intrusive and, naturally, ends up being her assignment partner. Worse yet, her ex is also at the retreat. Despite these bumps in the road, Kim steps outside her comfort zone and plunges into the writing exercises, surprising herself. Equally unexpected is the attraction that seems to be building between her and Zeke that promises to take her down a road she never imagined traveling. Based on the book by Richard Paul Evans.
IMDB Rating: 6.4
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: funny, light, romantic, feel good, humorous, entertaining, emotional
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Joanna (1968)
Plot Summary:
When 17 year old Joanna comes to Swinging London, she meets a host of colourful characters, discovers the pleasures of casual sex and falls in love. That's when things get complicated.
IMDB Rating: 5.7
IMDB Votes: 485
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: UK
Duration: 108 min
Plot tags: cult film
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The Abduction of Saint Anne (1975)
Plot Summary:
A cynical detective and a Roman Catholic bishop team up to investigate the reported miraculous powers of a 17-year-old girl being held captive in the home of her father, an ailing syndicate kingpin.
IMDB Rating: 6.1
IMDB Votes: 75
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 72 min
Plot tags: detective
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Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas (2021)
Plot Summary:
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min
Plot tags: funny, sincere, feel good, captivating, entertaining
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29th Street (1991)
Plot Summary:
Based on the life of Frank Pesce (Danny Aiello), an actor who won $6 million in the first New York State Lottery in 1976, this comedy focuses on the tight-knit Italian-American neighborhood in Brooklyn where Pesce grew up. It's also the story of how those gigantic winnings ended up becoming a curse of sorts (a case of "be careful what you wish for").
IMDB Rating: 7.2
IMDB Votes: 3000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: Japan, USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: hilarious, offbeat, humorous, realistic, semi serious, detective, cult film
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In This House of Brede (1975)
Plot Summary:
A well-to-do London businesswoman gives up her comfortable life, including the man who loves her, to become a cloistered Benedictine nun.
IMDB Rating: 7.9
IMDB Votes: 301
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 105 min
Plot tags:
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Mariette in Ecstasy (1996)
Plot Summary:
In this forceful study of religious passion an extraordinary spiritual experience is placed in the center of a deftly evoked natural world, namely, rural upstate New York just after the turn of the century. At summer's end, when she is 17, Mariette Baptiste, educated daughter of the local doctor, enters the cloistered convent of Our Lady of the Afflictions as a postulant. Her religious fervor, understated but determined, makes an impact on the small community of nuns whose days and nights are measured in a round of prayer and farm work changing only with the seasons. Their ordered life is disrupted, however, as Mariette begins to fall into a series of trances from which she awakens with stigmata, which heal as spontaneously as they appear. The feelings of skepticism, jealousy and adoration evoked in the nuns, Mariette's own response and that of the Mother Superior are delicately, indelibly presented.
IMDB Rating: 7.4
IMDB Votes: 72
Genere: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 101 min
Plot tags: psychological, captivating, suspense, disturbing, independent film
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A Different Kind of Christmas (1995)
Plot Summary:
When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.
IMDB Rating: 5.4
IMDB Votes: 443
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min
Plot tags: christmas comedy
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High School Musical: The Musical: The Holiday Special (2020)
Plot Summary:
The cast of “High School Musical: The Musical: The Series” delivers an abundance of feel-good holiday cheer as they perform their favorite Christmas, Hanukkah and New Year’s songs and share their fondest holiday memories.
IMDB Rating: 5.6
IMDB Votes: 459
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Musical
Country: USA
Duration: 45 min
Plot tags: sentimental, romantic, feel good, humorous
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Marry Us for Christmas (2014)
Plot Summary:
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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A Grandpa for Christmas (2007)
Plot Summary:
An old-time movie-star singer/ hoofer rebonds with his estranged daughter and 9-year-old granddaughter.
IMDB Rating: 6.8
IMDB Votes: 1000
Genere: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 84 min
Plot tags: sentimental, touching, humorous, semi serious, sincere, realistic
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Wishin' and Hopin' (2014)
Plot Summary:
Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by award winning author Wally Lamb. A vivid slice of 1960s life, Wishin' and Hopin' is a wise-and-witty holiday tale that celebrates where we've been-and how far we've come. In the small town of Three Rivers, Connecticut, we go straight into the halls of St. Aloysius Gonzaga Parochial School with Felix Funicello, a Catholic school fifth-grader in 1964, whose claim to fame is his cousin Annette Funicello, the famous Mouseketeer and teen movie queen. But grammar and arithmetic move to the back burner this holiday season with the sudden arrivals of substitute teacher Madame Frechette and feisty Russian student Zhenya Kabakova. While Felix learns the meaning of French kissing, cultural misunderstanding, and tableaux vivants, Wishin' and Hopin' barrels toward one outrageous Christmas!.
IMDB Rating: 6.5
IMDB Votes: 794
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: humorous, semi serious, light, sincere, captivating, entertaining, sentimental, touching, realistic
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Angels Sing (2013)
Plot Summary:
As a child, Michael Walker wished every day could be Christmas. That is, until a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit. Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any joy for the holidays, despite encouragement from his playful wife and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son faces a tragedy, Michael needs to make amends with his past. A mysterious man named Nick gives Michael a gift and instills in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.
IMDB Rating: 5.9
IMDB Votes: 2000
Genere: Comedy, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 87 min
Plot tags: touching, feel good, semi serious, realistic