Movies like Christmas Oranges (2012)
The best movies like Christmas Oranges (2012) are Mary Christmas (2002), Christmas Spirit (2011) and Angels in the Snow (2015). If Christmas Oranges hooked you with its family and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- NewestA Doggone Christmas (2016)Released 2016
Mary Christmas (2002)
Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Christmas Spirit (2011)
A cynical youth whose mother is about to lose her job right before the holidays is visited by a magical Christmas spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Angels in the Snow (2015)
The affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Shoes (2002)
Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSilver Bells (2005)
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
The Christmas Gift (2015)
Ten-year-old Megan, who upon receiving a Secret Santa gift, is touched by its contents which end up having a huge impact on her life. Now a driven young journalist, Megan can’t shake her desire to thank the person who sent her that heartfelt gift over a decade ago. Determined to prove herself to her editor, she goes on the search for the perfect Christmas story, and in doing so, she finally discovers who her Secret Santa is. Inspired by a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
The Christmas Blessing (2005)
Nathan Andrews is all grown up. As a young doctor, Nathan finds himself questioning his career choice, so he goes to his hometown to soul search and reconnect with his father. Once home, a blossoming romance with teacher Megan Sullivan and a fast friendship with student Charlie Bennett teach Nathan to live life in the moment and embrace the time he has with friends and family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
A Perfect Christmas List (2014)
As a last wish, a recently hospitalized grandmother, Evie, tasks her daughter and granddaughter, Sara, with a list of festive accomplishments to do together before Christmas, hoping that the adventure of the experience will repair their relationship. Along the way, Sara discovers an unlisted Christmas adventure of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Christmas Gift (1986)
A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
One Christmas Eve (2014)
A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Christmas Star (1986)
A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Last Chance for Christmas (2015)
When Prancer injures his hoof Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets complicated when he discovers that Frankie, the perfect substitute reindeer, belongs to a precocious 8-year-old girl and her mother Annie. As he races to get Frankie up to the North Pole, he realizes that he’s actually falling in love with Annie and has to find a way to win her over and save Christmas at the same time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas Cottage (2008)
Inspired by the picturesque paintings of Thomas Kinkade, The Christmas Cottage tells the semi-autobiographical tale of how a young boy is propelled to launch a career as an artist after he learns that his mother is in danger of losing the family home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinding John Christmas (2003)
When a photojournalist photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger John Christmas. After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank. With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help Max, a Christmas angel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The Christmas Miracle of Jonathan Toomey (2007)
When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Child (2004)
A life-sized nativity leads a man to learn about his past and lost family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Christmas Lodge (2011)
Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she quickly realizes that the lodge that she loves has fallen into serious disrepair. With a lack of funds and a looming deadline, she not only restores the Christmas lodge's charm but finds love along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Santa Con (2014)
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Christmas Caper (2007)
A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown in Connecticut after a con goes bad. There, she gets stuck baby-sitting her niece and nephew until their parents can make it home for Christmas. She spends most of her time devising ways to even the score with her old partner in crime, until the spirit of the holidays help put her priorities back on track.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Christmas with Holly (2012)
After being dumped at the altar on her wedding day, Maggie Conway moves to the island town of Friday Harbor in Washington State, where she meets Mark Nagle, the local coffee shop owner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet It Snow (2013)
A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday spirit. Will she stick with her boss’s plans to tear everything down or find a way to save what she has come to love? Stars Candace Cameron-Bure and Alan Thicke.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008)
Five-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Henry Winkler stars in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, the story of what happens when you open your heart to the power of Christmas. Disenchanted single mom Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) is a Scroogette when it comes to anything Christmas. In fact, even her six-year-old son, Brian, is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. But when her Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) visits and brings a fellow passenger from his flight named Morgan Derby (Warren Christie), Jennifer s dubious heart awakens to the possibility that perhaps Christmas really does hold miracles. It s uplifting and laugh-packed and a story that will inspire the whole family to believe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Country Christmas (2013)
When Santa Claus loses his magical powers and becomes stranded in their barn, two children from a small farming community help him save Christmas before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The Family Holiday (2007)
A selfish con-man must show that he can be a family man to inherit his uncle's estate. As he tries to set up his scam family, he realizes that he really wants to have a one.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
12 Dogs of Christmas: Great Puppy Rescue (2012)
The dogs of Doverville are in trouble again... but Emma O'Conner is back to save them in a song-filled, seasonal extravaganza. Mean-spirited mogul Finneas James plots to shut down the local puppy orphanage, unless Emma can come up with the money to save it. With the help of some friends, she races against time to put together a musical holiday event that just might save the day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Doggone Christmas (2016)
When the CIA discovers a cute orphan puppy with amazing telepathic abilities, the powers-that-be in Washington immediately lock him down and plan on forcing the poor dog to become a covert secret weapon. But fate steps in and frees the pint-sized Jack Russel Terrier from government clutches
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
My Dog's Christmas Miracle (2011)
University professor Madeline Walters isn’t doing too well in the dating game. Good men are hard to find, so she’s happy spending time with her Maltese puppy Cinnamon, and her precocious teenage daughter Chloe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Holiday Spin (2012)
A former dance champion sidelined years by an injury enlists the help of his estranged son to prepare for the Holiday Spin, a ballroom dance contest held every Christmas Eve. Meanwhile, his son takes an interest in a dance prodigy.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Ms. Scrooge (1997)
Television movie updating Charles Dickens' story, "A Christmas Carol." Businesswoman Ebenita Scrooge treats her employees and customers poorly. She has no time for Christmas or the holiday spirit. On Christmas Eve, she is visited by the ghost of her dead partner Maude Marley and then by other spirits who remind her of her happy past and chronicle the bitterness and greed that have taken over her life. At last, she is shown her own death and funeral. No one is there to mourn her. This revelation shocks her into opening her heart and her checkbook.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Mr. Miracle (2014)
Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after the death of her father. With a deadline of Christmas day, he attempts to help her heal in order to embrace a new future, and an unexpected love, just in time to celebrate the miracle of the holiday season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Christmas Oranges?
The closest matches to Christmas Oranges are Mary Christmas (2002), Christmas Spirit (2011) and Angels in the Snow (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Christmas Oranges?
People who watched Christmas Oranges most often go on to Mary Christmas (2002), Christmas Spirit (2011) and Angels in the Snow (2015).
What is the newest movie like Christmas Oranges?
A Doggone Christmas (2016) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Christmas Oranges?
Yes: Mary Christmas (2002), Christmas Spirit (2011) and Angels in the Snow (2015).
How are movies similar to Christmas Oranges chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Christmas Oranges, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.