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Movies like Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas (2025)

The best movies like Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas (2025) are A Question of Faith (2017), Goodbye June (2025) and Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). If Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas hooked you with its drama, these 20 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. A Question of Faith (2017)

    When Tragedy Strikes three Families, their Destiny forces them on a coverging path and mercy as the challenges of their fate could also resurrect their beliefs

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  2. Goodbye June (2025)

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  3. Bastard Out of Carolina (1996)

    A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  4. Kisses (2008)

    Two kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  5. Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)

    Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  6. The Safety of Objects (2002)

    In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  7. Fatima (2020)

    In 1917, outside the parish of Fátima, Portugal, a 10-year-old girl and her two younger cousins witness multiple visitations of the Virgin Mary, who tells them that only prayer and suffering will bring an end to World War I. As secularist government officials and Church leaders try to force the children to recant their story, word of the sighting spreads across the country, inspiring religious pilgrims to flock to the site in hopes of witnessing a miracle..

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  8. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)

    George Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas Eve the business's $8,000 is lost and George's troubles begin.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  9. Helen (2009)

    On the outside, Helen has it all – a loving family and a successful career – but when her suppressed mental illness resurfaces, the world crumbles around her. Crippled by depression, Helen finds solace through her friendship with Mathilda, a kindred spirit struggling with bipolar disorder.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  10. The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds (1972)

    Middle-aged widow Beatrice Hunsdorfer and her daughters Ruth and Matilda are struggling to survive in a society they barely understand. Beatrice dreams of opening an elegant tea room but does not have the wherewithal to achieve her lofty goal. Epileptic Ruth is a rebellious adolescent, while shy but highly intelligent and idealistic Matilda seeks solace in her pets and school projects, including one designed to show how small amounts of radium affect marigolds.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  11. The Nest (2020)

    Rory is an ambitious entrepreneur who brings his American wife and kids to his native country, England, to explore new business opportunities. After abandoning the sanctuary of their safe American suburban surroundings, the family is plunged into the despair of an archaic '80s Britain and their unaffordable new life in an English manor house threatens to destroy the family.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  12. Silent Night (2023)

    A tormented father witnesses his young son die when caught in a gang's crossfire on Christmas Eve. While recovering from a wound that costs him his voice, he makes vengeance his life's mission and embarks on a punishing training regimen in order to avenge his son's death.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  13. No One Would Tell (1996)

    Shy sixteen-year-old Stacy Collins can't believe that the most popular guy in school, an attractive athlete named Bobby Tennison, is interested in her. At first she is flattered by his constant attention, but then he becomes possessive and jealous-telling her who she can speak to and what she can wear. Threats escalate into violence when Bobby thinks Stacy has stepped out of line. Soon she is walking on egg shells and living in fear. Having seen the tell-tale bruises, Stacy's best friend convinces her to break things off with Bobby-but in a moment of weakness, Stacy goes to meet him. It will be the last time she is seen alive.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  14. Angels in the Snow (2015)

    The affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  15. The Color of Friendship (2000)

    Mahree Bok lives on a farm in South Africa. Her father is a policeman who cannot hide his joy when activist Steve Biko is caught by the South African authorities. Piper Dellums is the daughter of a US congressman from California and who lives in a nice home in Washington DC. When Mahree is chosen to spend a semester at the Dellums' house, she doesn't expect that her host family would be black. Nor do her hosts suspect that she is not a black South African.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  16. Here (2024)

    An odyssey through time and memory, centered on a place in New Jersey where—from wilderness, and then, later, from a home—love, loss, struggle, hope and legacy play out between couples and families over generations.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  17. What Maisie Knew (2013)

    In New York City, six-year-old Maisie is caught in the middle of a bitter custody battle between her self-absorbed parents—an aging rock singer mother and a distracted art dealer father. As both quickly marry new partners to strengthen their legal standing, Maisie is shuttled back and forth in an endless game of emotional point-scoring. Yet amid the chaos and upheaval, Maisie begins to find true comfort and affection in her new step-parents.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  18. Sergio (2020)

    A sweeping drama set in the chaotic aftermath of the US invasion of Iraq, where the life of top UN diplomat Brazilian Sérgio Vieira de Mello hangs in the balance during the most treacherous mission of his career.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  19. The Keys of the Kingdom (1944)

    A young priest, Father Chisholm is sent to China to establish a Catholic parish among the non-Christian Chinese. While his boyhood friend, also a priest, flourishes in his calling as a priest in a more Christian area of the world, Father Chisholm struggles. He encounters hostility, isolation, disease, poverty and a variety of set backs which humble him, but make him more determined than ever to succeed.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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  20. True to the Game (2017)

    Based on the Terri Woods best selling novel, True to the Game is the love story of Quadir Richards, a charismatic drug lord, and Gena Rollins, a young girl from the projects of Philly. Quadir was able to gain the trust and love of Gena and was on his way out of the game to start a new life with his future bride when tragedy strikes.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama

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What are the best movies like Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas?

The closest matches to Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas are A Question of Faith (2017), Goodbye June (2025) and Bastard Out of Carolina (1996). Below are 17 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas?

Start with A Question of Faith (2017), the closest match to Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas.

What is the highest-rated movie like Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas?

Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020), rated 8.4/10 by 385 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas?

Goodbye June (2025) is the most recent release on this list.

Are there English movies like Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas?

Yes: A Question of Faith (2017), Goodbye June (2025) and Bastard Out of Carolina (1996).

How are movies similar to Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas chosen?

First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Faith In The Family: The Spirit of Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.

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