Movies like A Very Murray Christmas (2015)
The best movies like A Very Murray Christmas (2015) are Christmas Hotel (2019), A Christmas Story Live! (2017) and Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023). If A Very Murray Christmas hooked you with its comedy and music, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLast Holiday (2006)7.3/10 from 916 votes
- NewestA Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)Released 2025
Christmas Hotel (2019)
A big city hotelier's boss informs her that she will receive a promotion if she can pull off a major project.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
A Christmas Story Live! (2017)
A live broadcast of the Broadway hit "A Christmas Story: The Musical" in which Ralphie wishes for nothing more than a Red Rider BB Gun for Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023)
Ring in the holidays with Emmy-winning star Hannah Waddingham as she welcomes special guests for a musical extravaganza at the London Coliseum.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Christmas 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
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 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
SnoozefestMovies like this12 Days of Christmas Eve (2004)
Calvin Carter, a successful business executive, has it all, but neglects those closest to him. On Christmas Eve, all that changes when the sign on his office building falls on him. He awakes in a hospital bed, attended to by Angie, a nurse who soon lets him know he has 12 days (12 chances) to get his act together and achieve the "perfect" Christmas Eve. If he doesn't, there will be dire consequences.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025)
Kevin, Nick, and Joe Jonas face a series of escalating obstacles as they struggle to make it from London to New York in time to spend Christmas with their families.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAll 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
John Denver and the Muppets: A Christmas Together (1979)
In this beloved holiday classic, Kermit the Frog, Miss Piggy and all the Muppets join the singer for a heart-warming Christmas celebration, with traditional carols as well as lesser-known holiday songs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music & comedy
Spirited (2022)
Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Carol (2004)
Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
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
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJingle Jangle: A Christmas Journey (2020)
An imaginary world comes to life in a holiday tale of an eccentric toymaker, his adventurous granddaughter, and a magical invention that has the power to change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Movie Christmas (2019)
Eve is a Christmas movie fanatic and dreams of having a movie-perfect Christmas with a movie-perfect boyfriend. On Christmas Eve, when Eve and her cynical sister Lacy make wishes to Santa, they wake up in Christmas Town and find themselves trapped inside a Christmas movie where they are the stars. But when things start to go wrong, and Eve's knowledge of all things Christmas movie fails to fix things, Eve and Lacy try to find a way out of the picture-perfect Christmas and back to reality.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Muppets Christmas: Letters to Santa (2008)
When Gonzo forgets to mail three letters to Santa, he convinces Kermit and the gang to help him deliver the notes to the North Pole. Along the way, they discover that Christmas is the time to be with those you care about most, as they dash home to make a friends Christmas wish come true.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDisney Parks Frozen Christmas Celebration (2014)
Disney puts a “Frozen” twist on its 31st annual Christmas Day television special. More than a parade, the joyous occasion includes festive musical performances, and the reunion of three groups of families and friends who have been apart or separated for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Mixed Nuts (1994)
The events of a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas in the City (2013)
With the threat of having to close her father's candy store, Wendy and her six-year-old daughter Grace travel to the big city in hopes of making extra holiday cash to save the store. When she's offered a job in the toy department of Wolmans, the city's biggest department store, Wendy can't wait! Her excitement doesn't last long when the store's manager, Teanna, destroys the Christmas spirit throughout the store and replaces Santa with a hunky male underwear model surrounded by elfin "babes." What Teanna is unaware of is that she has in fact sacked the real Santa. Unaware of his real "Santa" status, Wendy reaches out to the old man but it seems even he has given up hope. With her daughter losing faith in the holiday, Wendy realizes she must bring the true meaning of Christmas back to Wolmans before it is too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisLast Holiday (2006)
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Williams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Night Before (2015)
In New York City for their annual tradition of Christmas Eve debauchery, three lifelong best friends set out to find the Holy Grail of Christmas parties since their yearly reunion might be coming to an end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas with the Kranks (2004)
When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever!
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 comedy
Just Like a Christmas Movie (2023)
On the verge of a massive deadline, a cynical workaholic is zapped by faulty Christmas lights while stranded in a small Colorado town and finds herself cast as the lead in an over-the-top Hallmark-style holiday movie. Now she must wrap, bake, and carol herself into some Christmas cheer to break the curse and make her way back ho-ho-home.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A Muppet Family Christmas (1987)
Fozzie Bear surprises his mother on Christmas Eve by bringing the entire Muppet gang to her farm to celebrate the holidays. Doc and his dog Sprocket, who had planned a quiet Christmas, end up joining the Muppets in their holiday activities and preparations. The Sesame Street and Fraggle Rock regulars join the festivities, but to Kermit's dismay, the only one missing is Miss Piggy, who has been caught in a snowstorm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & music
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWho Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery (2022)
A holiday-hating detective is forced to solve a murder — and save Christmas — with help from famous trainees who must improv their way through the case.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOffice Christmas Party (2016)
When Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his co-workers organize a Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and save their jobs. But the party gets out of control…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies 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
SnoozefestMovies like thisSaturday Night Live: Christmas (1999)
Join the epic "Not Ready for Prime Time Players" cast of Saturday Night Live regulars in a hilarious compilation of the best holiday moments from the show's Christmas specials. Some of the highlights include "Martha Stewart's Topless Christmas Special," "The Lost Ending to It's a Wonderful Life," "The Night Hannukah Harry Saved Christmas," "Mr. Robinson's Neighborhood on Christmas" and, of course, the Church Lady's drum solo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Very Murray Christmas?
The closest matches to A Very Murray Christmas are Christmas Hotel (2019), A Christmas Story Live! (2017) and Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Very Murray Christmas?
People who watched A Very Murray Christmas most often go on to Christmas Hotel (2019), A Christmas Story Live! (2017) and Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like A Very Murray Christmas?
Last Holiday (2006), rated 7.3/10 by 916 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like A Very Murray Christmas?
A Very Jonas Christmas Movie (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Very Murray Christmas?
Yes: Christmas Hotel (2019), A Christmas Story Live! (2017) and Hannah Waddingham: Home for Christmas (2023).
How are movies similar to A Very Murray Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside A Very Murray Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.