Movies like Mixed Nuts (1994)
The best movies like Mixed Nuts (1994) are A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014), Home for the Holidays (1995) and Christmas Carole (2022). If Mixed Nuts 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 Actually (2003)7.1/10 from 7,665 votes
- NewestThe Christmas Baby (2025)Released 2025
A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014)
Boyd Mitchler and his family must spend Christmas with his estranged family of misfits. Upon realizing that he left all his son's gifts at home, he hits the road with his dad in an attempt to make the 8-hour round trip before sunrise.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisHome for the Holidays (1995)
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Carole (2022)
Carole Mackay is an unashamedly outspoken and wealthy entrepreneur. Her online business selling all things festive has earned her a fortune, as well as the nickname 'Christmas Carole'. But her success hasn't made her a better human being. In fact, it's made her worse. The truth is that Carole is a monumentally mean person. Positively Scrooge-like. And, just like Ebeneezer, she doesn't love Christmas at all. But this Christmas Eve, Carole's past, present and future are about to collide. Will some rather familiar Christmas spirits help her discover the true spirit of Christmas?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
A Different Kind of Christmas (1996)
When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
The Christmas List (1997)
Perfume saleslady Melody Parris feels like her life is in neutral. Her stick-in-the mud boyfriend won't commit and she gets passed over for a promotion at the store where she works. She decides to make a Christmas list. After it's deposited in Santa's mailbox at the store, she starts getting everything she wanted, but it doesn't always turn out as she expected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Surviving Christmas (2004)
Wealthy executive Drew Latham has no close relationships and becomes nostalgic for his childhood home as Christmas approaches. When he visits the house and finds another family living there, he offers the residents a large sum of money to pretend they are his parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMom's Christmas Boyfriend (2023)
Single mom Emma always puts others first, particularly her ten-year-old daughter Lily, who she adopted on her own. But when the precocious Lily wins a contest to have her Christmas wish granted, Emma’s life gets turned upside down…because Lily’s Christmas wish is for Emma to finally find true love!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Holiday Sitter (2022)
Sam is a workaholic bachelor who babysits his niece and nephew before the holidays when his sister and her husband have to go out of town. Completely out of his element, he recruits help from their handsome neighbor Jason and finds himself in an unexpected romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Sitters (2020)
Facing holiday flight delays on a return trip from Europe, two parents double-book incompatible babysitters: the mother’s BFF lawyer friend, Nora, and the dad's guitarist half-brother, Max, to look after their two kids and dog. After a rather stormy start, an attraction grows.
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 & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThree Wiser Men and a Boy (2024)
Five years after the events of the first film, Christmas is once again just around the corner. In a crazy turn of events, possibly brought on accidently by the brothers themselves, the director of Luke’s son Thomas’ school holiday musical steps down. Luke, desperate to make his son’s stage dreams come true, enlists the help of his brothers Taylor and Stephan. The trio also find themselves meeting their mother's new boyfriend and the brothers grapple with their own feelings about this relationship. In true Brenner brother fashion, they are all in for a Christmas they will never forget.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
All Is Bright (2013)
Two ne’er-do-wells from Quebec travel to New York City with a scheme to get rich quick selling Christmas trees.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Gert Lush Christmas (2015)
Dan is about to introduce the woman of his dreams to his family, but as they are so quirky, will everything go to plan?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
All I Didn't Want for Christmas (2022)
Emily Harris is not doing great. In a desperate attempt to improve her life and make this Christmas not totally suck, Emily writes a letter to Santa. Fortunately, and unfortunately, her wine-soaked wishes start coming true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Oh. What. Fun. (2025)
Claire Clauster is the glue that holds her chaotic, lovable family together at the holidays. But this year, after planning a special outing for them, they make a crucial mistake and leave her home alone. Fed up and feeling under appreciated, she sets off on an impromptu adventure of her own. As her family scrambles to find her, Claire discovers the unexpected magic of a Christmas gone off-script.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
Follows Ralphie, now adult, who returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, and reconciling the passing of his Old Man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSurviving Christmas with the Relatives (2018)
Two sisters come together to spend Christmas with their families in their recently deceased parents’ falling down country house, with hilariously chaotic consequences, as ancient sibling rivalries flare up again to sabotage the hoped for season of good will.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
All American Christmas Carol (2013)
A white-trash mom is visited by three ghosts intent on showing her a path to a brighter future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Take Me Back for Christmas (2023)
A Christmas wish gives Renee the successful life she’d always dreamed of. This new reality is perfect, except for one thing… she is no longer married to her husband Aaron. Now, Renee must race against the clock to win him back before Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Love 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 thisThe Christmas Baby (2025)
When a baby boy shows up on their doorstep days before Christmas with a note written specially for them, Erin and Kelly must learn how to navigate their new relationship and career dynamics while unexpectedly caring for a newborn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Click & Collect (2018)
To save his daughter's Christmas, Andrew goes on a road trip with Dev, his neighbour from hell, to buy an elusive Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
All's Well, Ends Well (1992)
Three brothers living with their father fib and play pranks to win parental approval for themselves and their romances.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisTrapped in Paradise (1994)
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisErnest Saves Christmas (1988)
When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new Saint Nick, he enlists the aid of a hilarious assortment of characters. A perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kiddie-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas with the Tuches (2021)
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end of the year holidays approach, Cathy asks for a unique gift: to reconnect with her sister Maguy, and her husband Jean-Yves, with whom Jeff has been angry for 10 years. The reconciliation could have gone smoothly, except that during a lunch, Jeff and Jean-Yves, will once again find a subject of contention: Christmas. This family feud, which should never have left Bouzolles, will turn into a standoff between Jeff and a giant of Internet distribution.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisBad Santa (2003)
You'd better watch out - Willie T. Soke is coming to town, and he doesn't care if you've been naughty or nice. Willie's favorite holiday tradition is to fill his sacks with loot lifted from shopping malls across the country. But this year his plot gets derailed by a wisecracking store detective, a sexy bartender, and a kid who's convinced Willie is the real Santa Claus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisScrooged (1988)
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series of ghosts who give him a chance to re-evaluate his actions and right the wrongs of his past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Ref (1994)
A cat burglar is forced to take a bickering, dysfunctional family hostage on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Mixed Nuts?
The closest matches to Mixed Nuts are A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014), Home for the Holidays (1995) and Christmas Carole (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Mixed Nuts?
People who watched Mixed Nuts most often go on to A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014), Home for the Holidays (1995) and Christmas Carole (2022).
What is the highest-rated movie like Mixed Nuts?
Love Actually (2003), rated 7.1/10 by 7,665 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Mixed Nuts?
The Christmas Baby (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Mixed Nuts?
Yes: A Merry Friggin' Christmas (2014), Home for the Holidays (1995) and Christmas Carole (2022).
How are movies similar to Mixed Nuts chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Mixed Nuts, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.