Movies like Christmas in Paradise (2007)
The best movies like Christmas in Paradise (2007) are Nothing Like the Holidays (2008), This Christmas (2007) and A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013). If Christmas in Paradise hooked you with its comedy and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLove the Coopers (2015)6.0/10 from 884 votes
- NewestA Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026)Released 2026
Nothing Like the Holidays (2008)
It’s Christmastime and the far-flung members of the Rodriguez family are converging at their parents’ home in Chicago to celebrate the season and rejoice in their youngest brother’s safe return from combat overseas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThis Christmas (2007)
This year Christmas with the Whitfields promises to be one they will never forget. All the siblings have come home for the first time in years and they've brought plenty of baggage with them. As the Christmas tree is trimmed and the lights are hung, secrets are revealed and family bonds are tested. As their lives converge, they join together and help each other discover the true meaning of family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Very Merry Mix-Up (2013)
Shop owner Alice Chapman is nervous to meet her future in-laws at Christmas, especially because she is arriving ahead of her new fiance Will Mitchum. Alice's trip becomes more stressful when her luggage is lost and her phone is damaged, leaving her no way to find Will's family!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHaul Out the Holly (2022)
Emily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of their own. As she stays at their house for the holidays, their HOA is determined to get Emily to participate in the neighborhood’s many Christmas festivities.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Flight Before Christmas (2015)
Two strangers who both happen to be in marketing, share a room at a bed-and-breakfast when a snowstorm strands their flight in Montana on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisFamily Plan (2005)
Charlie MacKenzie is an ambitious young career woman who stretches the truth in a job interview by professing to be married with a family. But her little white lie leads to a great big problem when her new boss moves next door. Desperate to maintain her ruse, Charlie “borrows” her best friend’s daughter and scrambles to find a husband-for-hire. When a charming actor accepts the role, Charlie’s charade just may lead her to true love!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
The Nine Lives of Christmas (2014)
With Christmas approaching, a handsome fireman afraid of commitment adopts a stray cat and meets a beautiful veterinary student who challenges his decision to remain a confirmed bachelor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHoliday in Santa Fe (2021)
Sparks fly when a greeting card executive arrives in Santa Fe to acquire a tight-knit family company that creates ornaments inspired by Mexican Christmas traditions.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The March Sisters at Christmas (2012)
To keep the family home from being sold, four very modern March sisters tackle home improvement on their own. But their romantic entanglements involving the boy next door, an old flame and a new acquaintance become a distraction.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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 comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas on the Bayou (2013)
When successful New York marketing executive Katherine discovers her workaholic ways are taking a toll on her eight-year-old son, Zac, she decides to spend Christmas with him and her mother, Lilly in her home town on the bayou. When Caleb tries to rekindle a childhood romance and convince her to move back home, Katherine is torn between the bright lights of the big city and the quiet, gentler rhythms of her Southern roots. Only a Christmas miracle orchestrated by Papa Noel can steer her heart to her true home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Melody (2015)
Kristin has just had to close her small Manhattan clothing boutique to return to her Ohio home town and live in her parents' former home. It's an adjustment for Kristin and her young daughter— especially when she runs into her former high school rival. Kristen and Emily struggle to find their new normal with the help of the hunky local music teacher.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas in Paradise (2022)
Joanna’s plans for a quiet, cozy holiday season are shattered when her sisters call with the news that their dad has been dumped by his fiancée and has disappeared to Nevis, a tiny Caribbean island, and is not responding to any calls. The sisters decide to go to the island to save their father and bring him home for Christmas. Can the newly reconnected Christmas family survive a crazy Christmas?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
The Mistletoe Promise (2016)
A chance meeting between two strangers who share a disdain for Christmas results in The Mistletoe Promise, a pact to help them navigate their holiday complications - together. But as they spend more time with each other and experience the magic of Christmas the phony couple discovers there may be more to their contract than business.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Country Christmas Story (2013)
A starry-eyed young girl journeys from the mountains of Appalachia to the stage at Dollywood, where she discovers the impact of African-Americans on the world of country music - while at the same time competing in a country music competition for kids, hosted by Dolly Parton herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
On Strike for Christmas (2010)
After years of making sure everything is perfect for her family, Joy Robertson is saying “enough,” and decides to go on strike for the Christmas season. If her husband, Stephen, and their kids want to have the perfect holiday, they will just have to organize it themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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 comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Christmas Contract (2018)
It’s Jolie’s first time going back home to Louisiana since her devastating break-up with Foster Burke. Seeing him is inevitable as their parents run the town’s annual Christmas Market together, but when she discovers Foster is bringing home a new girlfriend, Jolie cannot bear the thought of going home alone and seeing them together. Her best friend Naomi suggests that Jolie bring her flaky brother, Jack, home for Christmas as he has no plans this year. Jolie, a professional web designer, is hesitant; so, Naomi, a lawyer, creates a Christmas contract to give them both something they want—a buffer for those awkward moments around Jolie’s ex and a website to help sell Jack’s upcoming novel. Unbeknownst to them, the Christmas contract proves to be so much more than what they signed up for.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisStranded in Paradise (2014)
When a driven HR exec loses her high-powered job, she travels to Puerto Rico in an attempt to save her career at a business conference. But as the trip quickly becomes a disaster and a hurricane shuts down the whole island, she meets a handsome world traveler who gives her a new perspective on finding passion in life and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Rooftop Christmas Tree (2016)
A legal team must work together to figure out the mystery behind a rooftop Christmas tree to keep the owner from going to jail for Christmas -- again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Our First Christmas (2008)
Cindy and Tom Baer-Neil have been married for nearly a year, each having lost their first spouse. With the holidays just around the corner, Cindy and Tom are determined to make the new family’s first Christmas perfect. But their respective children have different plans...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Hearts of Christmas (2016)
When Alice, a beloved neonatal intensive care unit supervisor, is forced to take early retirement, her young colleague Jenny decides to turn the upcoming staff Christmas party into a surprise celebration for her. The plan is complicated by Matt, the hospital’s new CFO, who’s been tasked to cut costs. Initially at loggerheads, Jenny and Matt get to know and understand each other —a sweet Christmas gift neither saw coming.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisCrazy for Christmas (2005)
A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her limo on Christmas eve and has her drive him to various ice rinks where he gives out $100 bills to the people there. The news media catches on and starts following him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Journey to Christmas (2023)
While on a charity press tour, a model ends up stranded by the weather at the family home of the driver she hired to assist her for the week.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Love the Coopers (2015)
When four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like this$5 a Day (2008)
After being released from jail, the son of a con man joins his father on the road.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Cabin (2011)
A pair of single parents, who have each brought their children to a remote Scottish resort for an annual family-and-games event, are accidentally booked into the same cabin. Naturally, they can't stand each other...at first.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Kristin's Christmas Past (2013)
Kristin, a cynical 34-year-old, drinks a mysterious champagne on Christmas Eve and wakes up seventeen years in the past, sharing a room with her 17-year-old self. Given the chance to change the worst Christmas of her life, she attempts to fix past mistakes, only to discover surprising truths about her family that may help her mend her present-day relationships.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026)
When a medical emergency pulls the Goss family apart, determined dog Winstead will do all he can to bring his humans back together before Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHomeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story (2003)
Based on a true story. Liz Murray is a young girl who is taken care of by her loving, but drug-addicted parents. Liz becomes homeless at 15 and after a tragedy comes upon her, she begins her work to finish high school.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Christmas in Paradise?
The closest matches to Christmas in Paradise are Nothing Like the Holidays (2008), This Christmas (2007) and A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Christmas in Paradise?
People who watched Christmas in Paradise most often go on to Nothing Like the Holidays (2008), This Christmas (2007) and A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Christmas in Paradise?
Love the Coopers (2015), rated 6.0/10 by 884 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Christmas in Paradise?
A Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Christmas in Paradise?
Yes: Nothing Like the Holidays (2008), This Christmas (2007) and A Very Merry Mix-Up (2013).
How are movies similar to Christmas in Paradise chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Christmas in Paradise, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.