Movies like We Need a Little Christmas (2022)
The best movies like We Need a Little Christmas (2022) are Christmas on Cherry Lane (2023), A Maple Valley Christmas (2022) and Our Christmas Mural (2023). If We Need a Little Christmas hooked you with its tv movie and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- NewestSealed with a List (2023)Released 2023
Christmas on Cherry Lane (2023)
Three couples at different parts of life navigate big turning points in their lives over the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
A Maple Valley Christmas (2022)
Erica is a rancher who has spent her whole life working the family farm with her mother and sister. When Aaron arrives and disrupts her plans, she starts to question what it is she actually wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Christmas Mural (2023)
When single mom Olivia is secretly entered into a mural contest by her mom, she partners with the teacher, Will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Long Lost Christmas (2022)
Hayley is an interior designer who plans to surprise her recently widowed mother Patricia with the perfect holiday present: the extended family she knows her mom yearns for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Christmas Bedtime Stories (2022)
When Danielle’s husband goes missing in action during his deployment, she is left to raise her daughter on her own. Three years later, as she acclimates to life without him, she begins to tell her daughter bedtime stories of her father.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
To All a Good Night (2023)
After a small-town photographer saves a man’s life, she learns he’s in town to buy her family’s parkland, the location of the annual Christmas celebration.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Everything Christmas (2023)
Christmas lover Lori Jo and her roommate head to Yuletide Springs for a longtime tradition to honor her late grandmother — and meet two men, Carl and Jason, along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Too Close for Christmas (2020)
When Hayley accepts an invitation to spend Christmas with her sister’s new in-laws, her seemingly perfect holiday takes a turn when Paul, Hayley's brother-in-law's brother, unexpectedly shows up. Still harboring a grudge against Paul for ending her last relationship, Hayley reluctantly spends time with Paul and slowly realizes she may have been too quick a judge on Paul
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCheckin' It Twice (2023)
A journeyman hockey player falls for a real estate agent in a career crisis when he's traded to her hometown and moves into the cottage in her hockey-loving family's backyard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Magic in Mistletoe (2023)
Successful yet recluse author Harrington returns to his hometown for an annual Christmas festival, where he must face his publicist there for damage control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Home for Christmas Day (2017)
Jane is a single mother dead set on protecting her teenage daughter Betsy from the harsh realities of life. When Betsy falls in love with an enlisted man, Jane tries her best to steer Betsy away from heartache. Little does Jane realize she and her daughter are about to learn important lessons of the heart and that taking chances can sometimes lead to the most extraordinary happy endings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisNoel Next Door (2022)
A hard-working, single mom gets into a war of words with a neighbor who she feels is ruining Christmas, only to find that this misunderstood grouch just may steal her heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Every Time a Bell Rings (2021)
Three reunited sisters discover their late father planned one last scavenger hunt - an annual holiday tradition when they were young. As their sisterly bond gets rekindled, they soon learn important lessons about what they want in life and in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
We Wish You a Married Christmas (2022)
Becca and Robby are a married couple having a hard time connecting with each other as the holidays approach. Just before Christmas, they head to a cozy Vermont inn at the advice of their marriage coach so they can recharge. Their weekend away gets unexpectedly extended when a mishap puts their car out of commission and just may put them on the road to a very happily married Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Sealed with a List (2023)
Carley is determined to get through her list of abandoned resolutions from last year and enlists the help of coworker Wyatt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
#Xmas (2022)
When Jen gets the chance to enter a brand’s design contest, she poses as a family influencer, enlisting the help of her best friend, Max, and her baby nephew. When her video is selected as a finalist, Jen is torn on whether to go on with her perfect “family” or reveal the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisYuletide the Knot (2023)
Small town wedding planner Rachel is planning her biggest Christmas wedding for an influencer couple, is thrown a surprise when the bride's manager turns out to be Logan, her first love and high school sweetheart - her one that got away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Undercover Holiday (2022)
When returning home for the holidays, newly minted pop star Jaylen tells her protective family that Matt is her new beau, when in reality, he’s her overzealous security guard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Season for Family (2023)
While Maddie’s adopted son wants to meet his brother Cody, who was adopted into another family, Cody’s father, isn’t ready.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2022)
When a holiday rom-com movie shooting in her town needs a costume designer, Kerry, a local shop owner, steps into the role. While working on the movie, she rediscovers her passion for costume design and finds herself falling for Brad, the film’s famous leading man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Santa Summit (2023)
Amidst a sea of Santas at their town's annual Christmas celebration, three friends all find what they’re looking for: Christmas spirit, potential romance, and a strengthened bond of friendship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Christmas in Evergreen (2017)
Allie, a veterinarian in Evergreen, reluctantly will spend Christmas with her long-distance boyfriend. Bound for the airport, she has engine trouble, and Ryan, headed to Florida with his daughter Zoe, stops to help. Sure they won’t meet again, they ignore their attraction, and part ways. At the diner, Zoe wishes on a snow globe, and a storm seems to grant her wish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTime for Them to Come Home for Christmas (2021)
During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity: a newspaper clipping for a Christmas Festival with a cryptic invitation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Holiday Stocking (2022)
RJ is a new angel, who is given the chance to address his one regret, that he didn’t help his sisters reconcile while he was still alive. Returning to earth as a stranger, he gets each of them to revive The Holiday Stocking, their parent’s old tradition to encourage charity at Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
My Grown-Up Christmas List (2022)
Taylor, a journalist, and Luke, in the military, share a special bond that grows between them over the course of several Christmases that they spend together and apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Ms. Christmas Comes to Town (2023)
When Ms. Christmas, a shopping channel host, receives a terminal diagnosis, she heads on a multi-city excursion to spread Christmas cheer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas with a Kiss (2023)
This Mahogany film follows a woman who returns home for her family’s Christmas Carnival, unexpectedly meeting a photo journalist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Destined at Christmas (2022)
Kim and Theo meet in the midst of Black Friday shopping madness but there's a definite spark between them. When a power outage causes some panic at a store, the couple gets separated. With Christmas coming, there should be plenty of distractions but neither Kim nor Theo can forget the other. Both yearn to find each other but how with so little information to go on?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love (2020)
After 15 years, Pat moves home from Hawaii with his two sons and through a series of coincidences, or Godwinks, ends up stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart, Margie, at Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Sail (2021)
When Liz returns home to take care of her estranged father, she is determined to give her daughter a perfect Christmas and reconnects with her best friend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like We Need a Little Christmas?
The closest matches to We Need a Little Christmas are Christmas on Cherry Lane (2023), A Maple Valley Christmas (2022) and Our Christmas Mural (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after We Need a Little Christmas?
People who watched We Need a Little Christmas most often go on to Christmas on Cherry Lane (2023), A Maple Valley Christmas (2022) and Our Christmas Mural (2023).
What is the newest movie like We Need a Little Christmas?
Sealed with a List (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like We Need a Little Christmas?
Yes: Christmas on Cherry Lane (2023), A Maple Valley Christmas (2022) and Our Christmas Mural (2023).
How are movies similar to We Need a Little Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside We Need a Little Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.