Movies like When I Think of Christmas (2022)
The best movies like When I Think of Christmas (2022) are A Fabled Holiday (2022), In Merry Measure (2022) and Get Him Back for Christmas (2024). If When I Think of 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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- NewestGet Him Back for Christmas (2024)Released 2024
A Fabled Holiday (2022)
Talia and her childhood best friend Anderson unexpectedly reunite in a curiously familiar looking town full of Christmas spirit that restores its visitors when they need it most.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
In Merry Measure (2022)
When pop star Darcy returns home to spend Christmas with her sister and niece, she unexpectedly finds herself coaching the high school choir with her onetime rival, Adam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Get Him Back for Christmas (2024)
Up-and-coming singer songwriter Bella Harlan comes home for Christmas and enlists her high-school songwriting partner Jack Grayton to craft a song to win back her rockstar boyfriend by Christmas. As the two reunite for the first time in a decade, they embark on a Christmas journey down memory lane, and soon realize true love may be closer than they thought.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Time 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
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
Five More Minutes: Moments Like These (2022)
The second holiday story inspired by Scotty McCreery’s song “Five More Minutes,” a young widow’s Christmas wish for her son is answered in unexpected ways when she returns to their old home for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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
The Gift of Peace (2022)
Artist Traci is a once-devout Christian who has stopped believing in God after her husband tragically died despite her prayers. As her second Christmas without him approaches, she tries going to a support group for inspiration and comfort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Tale of Two Christmases (2022)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Nantucket Noel (2021)
During the Seaside Noel celebrations, Christin learns of a developer who is planning to tear down the wharf that is home to her toy store. Tensions rise as she falls for the developer's son, Andy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Christmas 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
Coyote Creek Christmas (2021)
While throwing a "Christmas Around the World" party at her family's inn, an event planner discovers Christmas magic with a charming father-son duo whose presence brings about tension and joy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Most Colorful Time of the Year (2022)
Ryan is an elementary school teacher, who learns that he is colorblind. Michelle, an optometrist, and mother of one of his students, helps bring color into his life in time for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Kiss Before Christmas (2021)
Ethan, always the nice guy, wakes up in a new reality at Christmas. Initially, he is enthralled with his new life but soon realizes that it's not what he thought it would be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas 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
Christmas at Castle Hart (2021)
Brooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she’s hired to host his castle’s epic Christmas party.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Nine Kittens of Christmas (2021)
Cat lovers Zachary and Marilee are thrown back together at Christmas when they're tasked with finding homes for a litter of adorable kittens.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Wish in Hudson (2021)
Lori really needs a break for Christmas. When she sees Patrick Jacobs, a widowed firefighter from Hudson, Wisconsin on a reality cooking show, she feels a strong attraction and decides to take a shot at love, but she's not the only one.
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
The Holiday Fix Up (2021)
When Sam, the designer behind a popular home renovation show, returns to her hometown during the holidays to help renovate the Bell Harbor Inn, she gets paired with Coop as her lead contractor. The only problem — he's the guy who broke her heart and she's the one who got away. Sparks fly as they work closely to get the renovations done in time for the inn's annual Christmas Eve Harborfest.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Christmas in Rockwell (2022)
A famous Hollywood actress returns to her hometown where she is enlisted to participate in a Christmas play which threatens her small peaceful village with the chaos of Hollywood.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
You, Me and the Christmas Trees (2021)
An arborist helps a fourth generation Christmas tree farmer whose evergreens are dying just before the holiday. As she tries to get to the root of the problem before the town tree lighting, they begin to fall in love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Christmas in Tahoe (2021)
To save her family hotel's Christmas show, talent booker Claire must ask for help from her ex-boyfriend Ryan, the lead guitarist of a now-famous band that fired her as their manager years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
A Big Fat Family Christmas (2022)
Liv is a photojournalist eager to make it on her own. To get a dream assignment – shooting the Chang family’s annual holiday party for a cover story – she doesn’t reveal that they are in fact, her family. When she finds herself growing close to Henry, the coworker covering the story with her, she wants to confide in him but doesn’t want to jeopardize her big break.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Christmas Together With You (2021)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Holiday Hotline (2023)
Upon leaving London and working at a cooking hotline, Abby connects with an anonymous caller — a single dad who Abby unknowingly is also smitten with in real life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Christmas Cookie Catastrophe (2022)
Annie Cooper has big shoes to fill when she takes over as CEO of her late grandmother’s small-town cookie company and is doing her best to help their struggling business get back on track. That task gets more daunting when her grandmother’s secret recipe is stolen during the Christmas party. As Annie tries to crack the case and uncover the culprit she works with Sam, the owner of a local bakery, to recreate the recipe in the hope of saving the company and her job. As Annie and Sam bake batch after batch in pursuit of the perfect one, they begin to learn that their lives go together like milk and cookies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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
My Southern Family Christmas (2022)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Christmas for Keeps (2021)
At Christmastime, a close-knit group of childhood friends returns home after 10 years to take part in the celebration of life of their beloved high school teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like When I Think of Christmas?
The closest matches to When I Think of Christmas are A Fabled Holiday (2022), In Merry Measure (2022) and Get Him Back for Christmas (2024). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after When I Think of Christmas?
People who watched When I Think of Christmas most often go on to A Fabled Holiday (2022), In Merry Measure (2022) and Get Him Back for Christmas (2024).
What is the newest movie like When I Think of Christmas?
Get Him Back for Christmas (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like When I Think of Christmas?
Yes: A Fabled Holiday (2022), In Merry Measure (2022) and Get Him Back for Christmas (2024).
How are movies similar to When I Think of Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside When I Think of Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.