Movies like Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane (2024)
The best movies like Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane (2024) are Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane (2024), Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane (2024) and Serendipity (2001). If Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane hooked you with its tv movie and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLast Christmas (2019)7.2/10 from 2,715 votes
- NewestSingle on the 25th (2025)Released 2025
- Same seriesDeck the Halls on Cherry Lane (2024)Christmas on Cherry Lane
Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane (2024)
In 1966, single guy David’s plans for a simple Christmas are dashed when his neighbor Stephanie arrives with news that she won a contest to have Tommy Saunders’ Christmas Eve TV special broadcast live from her house – but used his address. In 1981, John and Lizzie learn that this will be their last Christmas on Cherry Lane after John receives a job offer in Michigan and Lizzie finds out she’s pregnant. In 2000, best friends Matt and Rebecca find unexpected feelings developing as they try to find out who is behind a series of Christmas-themed random acts of kindness.
Why it matches: Same series: Christmas on Cherry Lane · both comedy & romance
Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane (2024)
In 1951, a doctor wants to make the holiday special for his worried wife before he is shipped out to serve in Korea, but when she suffers a minor fracture to her arm his carefully planned out Christmas Eve plans are upended. In 2003, a newly married couple who are always in agreement about everything hosts two sets of in-laws for Christmas Eve for the first time and find that they may not have had as much in common as they thought they did. And in 2024, a couple tries to arrange special Christmas surprises for each other but keeping them a secret may be harder than they thought.
Why it matches: Same series: Christmas on Cherry Lane · both comedy & romance
Serendipity (2001)
Although already in relationships, two strangers realize they have genuine chemistry after a chance encounter – but part company soon after. Years later, they each yearn to reunite, despite being destined for the altar. But to give true love a chance, they have to find one another again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Holiday (2006)
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWhile You Were Sleeping (1995)
A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYou've Got Mail (1998)
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet—both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOur Holiday Story (2024)
Dave and Nell recount the Christmas where they unknowingly fell in love while working as rivals on a town festival, as their daughter’s boyfriend struggles to navigate his own relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The 5-Year Christmas Party (2024)
Over five years, Alice and her old theater school rival, Max, reunite each holiday season to work at a Chicago catering company's Christmas parties. While their undeniable chemistry grows, the timing is never right for romance - until the company's final season pushes them to confront their true feelings.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Sleepless in Seattle (1993)
After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA '90s Christmas (2024)
Workaholic lawyer Lucy Clark is celebrating her promotion alone on Christmas Eve when a mysterious rideshare experience transports her back to 1999. Reliving the holiday with her mom, sister and best friend - not to mention her high school crush - Lucy gets a second chance to understand where her relationships went wrong. Will this magical journey help her rewrite her future or leave her destined to be alone?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
A Vintage Christmas (2024)
Tessa is a dedicated historian and preservationist in her hometown of Oak Creek, an old-fashioned and passionate protector of the nostalgic. Sparks fly when a business developer, Noah arrives in Oak Creek with plans to tear down an abandoned Post Office and replace it with a sleek, modern office complex. There are internal and external struggles among many in the community to arrive at a solution that serves the greater good for all concerned. As the clock ticks toward Christmas, the race to settle the dispute through concessions and compromise is on.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
'Twas the Text Before Christmas (2023)
Addie is a New York City chiropractor mistakenly receives a text from “Nana.” The accidental text turns into a loving friendship between the matronly Nana and Addie who now communicate regularly. Nana invites Addie to spend the holiday in Vermont. It is picture-postcard perfect and exactly as Nana described except for one surprise. Nana’s single son, James, a traveling doctor is also home for the holidays. Over three consecutive years, James and Addie are together during the holidays, though it isn’t until they are both single that they begin to see each other in a different light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMerry Christmas, Ted Cooper! (2025)
A Christmas-loving weatherman has had a tough year; upon returning to his hometown, he bumps into a former teacher who always cheered him on, and his former crush — and things start to look up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Last Christmas (2019)
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisLove Actually (2003)
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisDebbie Macomber’s Joyful Mrs. Miracle (2024)
Three siblings return home at Christmas to honor their late grandmother's wishes, and with the help of Mrs. Miracle's magic, they work through family conflicts while one rekindles a past romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Love Under the Stars (2015)
Young at heart graduate student Becca strikes up an unlikely friendship with Emily, a quiet girl who recently lost her mother. With every passing play date chaperoned by Emily's father, Becca helps Emily come out of her shell and cope with her loss, and Emily teaches Becca to take on adult responsibilities. When a romance develops between Becca and Nate, though, the two must learn to balance their new relationship with Nate's responsibility to Emily, and with Becca's responsibility to finish her education.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas in Boston (2005)
Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and now will let their friends meet. True love is found in the end for all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisHappy Howlidays (2024)
A webpage editor spending the holidays alone is drawn into an unusual encounter when she encounters a stray dog.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
So Fly Christmas (2023)
After being stood up at the altar on Christmas Eve, Wyvetta loses her love on her favorite holiday. To show solidarity, Wyvetta's best friend, Dione suggests that the two of them renounce love. Things become complicated when Dione falls for a mild-mannered record store owner and tries to keep it under wraps.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Meet Me at the Christmas Train Parade (2024)
When Charlotte's son Benny learns about the old tradition of the Christmas train parade, he persuades her to try and reignite the Christmas magic that brought together their community and the neighboring towns. They enlist the help of Benny’s teacher, but just as Charlotte thinks she might be falling for him, she finds out that he’s been harboring secrets related to why the parade ended in the first place.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Fabric of Christmas (2023)
Liam, a fireman, and Amy, a quilting teacher, team up to make a Christmas quilt for Liam’s sister’s wedding, but their burgeoning romance is threatened by Liam’s intention to travel to South America after the wedding. As they navigate their feelings for each other and their aspirations, they must decide what is truly important in time for the holiday season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Deck the Walls (2024)
Rose, a Chicago-based interior designer, returns to her Ohio hometown to save her brother's Christmas charity house flip, only to face her past, rekindle an old rivalry with her brother's best friend, and unexpectedly find love and purpose.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Family Stone (2005)
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.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll About Christmas Eve (2012)
'Tis the Season for Evelyn Wright...literally, she is a party planner in NYC. At the last minute Eve finds out that one of her agency's top clients is throwing a HUGE Christmas event, in LA, on Christmas Eve! Eve must decide whether to take on the event or risk her career to go on a romantic vacation with her boyfriend Darren. Unbeknownst to Eve, her future all depends on whether or not she makes a plane. We see it both ways, in parallel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSingle on the 25th (2025)
After Nell’s family cancels holiday plans at the last minute, she decides to spend the week of Christmas having fun on her own — and crosses paths with her neighbor, who is “happily unattached.”
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
The Enchanted Christmas Cake (2021)
Gwen recently lose her grandmother and she is struggling to run their bakery and regain the Christmas spirit, and figure out her grandmother's magical recipe for the town's legendary Enchanted Christmas Cake.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Merry Christmas Wish (2022)
Janie, a rising marketing executive living in The Big Apple, returns to her hometown of Woodland Falls when her Great-Uncle Randall passes away. Randall has even arranged for his farmhand, Dylan to help at the event, which is being held in the farm’s sprawling barn. Aware that her Manhattan boyfriend is anxious for her to return to the city so the pair can jet off to a previously planned holiday on the beach, Janie begins to feel an unexpected emotional tug about living life in a more authentic, meaningful way.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Cookie Cutter Christmas (2014)
Two longtime rivals and elementary school teachers duke it out during the holidays in a Christmas cookie bake-off, but their real feud ignites over a shared interest in a handsome single dad. With both determined to win the prize and the romance, their competitiveness could jeopardize what matters most this Christmas season.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCatering Christmas (2022)
A fledgling caterer, Molly Frost, is hired by Jean Harrison, the perfectionistic director of the renowned Harrison Foundation, to cater this year’s annual Christmas Gala dinner. Things get complicated when Molly falls for Jean’s nephew, Carson, 30s, a travel photographer with no desire to take over the family’s foundation… until his aunt assigns him to the task of making sure the catered dinner goes perfectly.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane?
The closest matches to Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane are Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane (2024), Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane (2024) and Serendipity (2001). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane?
People who watched Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane most often go on to Serendipity (2001), The Holiday (2006) and While You Were Sleeping (1995).
What is the highest-rated movie like Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane?
Last Christmas (2019), rated 7.2/10 by 2,715 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane?
Single on the 25th (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Is Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane part of a series?
Yes. It belongs to Christmas on Cherry Lane, which includes Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane (2024) and Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane (2024).
Are there English movies like Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane?
Yes: Deck the Halls on Cherry Lane (2024), Season's Greetings from Cherry Lane (2024) and Serendipity (2001).
How are movies similar to Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Happy Holidays from Cherry Lane, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.