Movies like A Mom for Christmas (1990)
The best movies like A Mom for Christmas (1990) are Once Upon A Christmas (2000), Meet The Santas (2005) and Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011). If A Mom for Christmas hooked you with its comedy and fantasy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
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- NewestAll I Want for Christmas (2013)Released 2013
Once Upon A Christmas (2000)
The daughter of Santa Claus vows to transform a single father and his spoiled children to prove that the spirit of Christmas exists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Meet The Santas (2005)
Because she is marrying the man who assumed the mantle of Santa Claus last December 26, Beth's postponed wedding has to be rescheduled for Xmas eve. Overwhelmed by selling the house she and her son share and the prospect of the duties of Mrs. Claus, she has to call on her estranged socialite Grinch of a mother to arrange the wedding. Of course her mom has never met the fiancé nor his family and has no inkling of his secret. This is a sequel to 2004's Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
A Christmas elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in time to save Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTwice Upon a Christmas (2001)
Santa's first born daughter, Rudolfa, is secretly selling pieces of the North Pole, and eventually take over where she attempts to ruin Christmas, and replace Santa's workshop with a brand new casino. But Santa's lost daughter Kristin returns to the North Pole with her two children who are desperate to save Christmas, and rebuild the shattered village.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy & family
I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus (2002)
A boy witnesses his mother kissing what he believes to be is the real Santa Clause and retaliates with mischief.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
All I Want for Christmas (2013)
After being told by her boss that the company needs to attract more clients, Elizabeth, a skilled executive, meets one of Santa’s helpers, who blesses her with an extraordinary gift allowing Elizabeth to hear everyone’s unspoken thoughts. While first using her new-found power to get ahead at work, she soon learns to become a better person, turning an office rivalry into romance while learning the true meaning of Christmas along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & fantasy
12 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 family & fantasy
Christmas Magic (2011)
Carrie Bishop, a successful event planner in New York City, is left unconscious after a car accident. In order to "pass over" to Heaven, she must help Scott Walker and his daughter Abby save their restaurant and find their Christmas spirit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Star (1986)
A counterfeiter finds the true meaning of the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Secret Santa (2003)
Newspaper reporter Rebecca Chandler, who feels she got no fair chance to prove her worth in her thee years career, looks forward to a Hawaian holiday with her fiancé Ryan, but instead of a ring he brings her- walking orders, he found better. So she accepts again to be the bachelor on duty in the Christmas season, and write the annual romantic non-news feel good-story, once more about the elusive Secret Santa in small-town Hamden, where the Christmas spirit it said to last all year. Bad luck follows her from Indianapolis: her car breaks down, she can only get lodgings in a home for the elderly without Internet, and nobody wants to help her unmask the secret Santa. Soon she guesses it must be the only rich philanthropist, but the popular Mr. John Martin Carter doesn't grant her an interview and isn't tricked either, in fact meets her at the worst repeatedly without her knowing him...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Christmas Mail (2010)
In this holiday romantic comedy, a mysterious woman who works at the post office answering Santa's mail captures the heart of a disillusioned postal carrier.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Boyfriend for Christmas (2004)
Holly Grant has learned a long time ago not to rely on Santa Claus leaving Mr. Right in her Christmas stocking. But Holly is in for a surprise when a handsome man arrives on her doorstep with a twinkle in his eye and Yuletide tree in tow.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisA 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
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
Mrs. Miracle (2009)
Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. "Mrs. Miracle" mysteriously appears and quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend... and matchmaker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLife with Mikey (1993)
Michael Chapman, a former child TV star, runs a struggling talent agency specilizing in child acts. When a young girl off the street puts on a real performance after he catches her picking his pocket, he may have just found the next big thing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisMary 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 family
Snowglobe (2007)
A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe. Angela loves Christmas more than anything. However, her family does not share her love for the holiday at all. When she is about to breakdown because of her family, she receives a snowglobe in the mail. When she opens up the snowglobe, she is transported into the world inside, where Christmas is the heart and soul for everyone who lives there. She discovers she can return to her world by going down a small path in the small forest at the edge of the village, and can return whenever she winds up the snowglobe. After a long set of visits to the globe, she accidentally gets trapped inside.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & fantasy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisIt Came Upon the Midnight Clear (1984)
Retired cop Mike Halligan decides to show his grandson, who has never seen snow before, what a real white Christmas in New York is like. But a sudden fatal heart attack derails those plans, and Halligan makes a deal with the Archangel of Heaven to return to Earth for a week until Christmas in order to give his grandson the seasonal glories of New York City.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
It Happened One Christmas (1977)
It's Christmas Eve 1944 in the small town of Bedford Falls, New York. A despondent and suicidal Mary Bailey Hatch is praying for guidance on what to do about an incident no fault of her own which threatens her name and the community standing of her longtime family business, the Bailey Building and Loan, which she took over after the passing of her father. What Mary does not know is that most in town, including her husband George Hatch and their children, are also praying for her. All the prayers are heard by Joseph, God's gatekeeper of prayers. As there are no other angels available on such a busy day, Joseph assigns Clara Oddbody, angel second class (i.e. she has yet to receive her wings), to Mary's case, which he reluctantly does as Clara has never been assigned a case on her own in the two hundred years she's been in heaven for good reason.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A Christmas Romance (1994)
A widowed mother with financial woes comes to the aid of a bill collector who crashes his car in a snowstorm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Mistletoe Over Manhattan (2011)
Rebecca, Mrs. Claus (Tedde Moore) is worried that her exhausted, workaholic husband (Mairtin O’Carrigan) has lost his holiday spirit. She believes she can help him recapture his bliss and secretly heads to the one place she knows the spirit of Christmas must still exist: New York City, where she first fell in love with Nick. In a crowded New York diner, Rebecca befriends Joe (Greg Bryk), a caring cop who is worried about this kindly grandmother, who’s alone and low on funds. Joe reveals he and his wife Lucy (Tricia Helfer) are in the middle of a divorce. Sensing that Joe is still very much in love with his wife, Rebecca agrees to work temporarily as the family’s nanny until Christmas. To Rebecca’s delight, by healing Joe and Lucy’s family, she shows Santa that Christmas miracles are still possible and his job’s more important than ever!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Snow Globe Christmas (2013)
In a temper, Meg, a cynical, overworked TV executive, rants about how the movies she produces lie, making you think dreams can come true, and tries to smash her favorite snow globe. Instead, it hits her on the head and knocks her out. When she comes to, she finds herself magically transported to a perfect snow-covered town like the one in her globe, married to a handsome woodworker and mother to two young children.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Town Christmas Forgot (2010)
An urban family that can’t seem to get along gets stranded in a remote, impoverished lumber town two days before Christmas. When they become involved in the town’s home-grown Christmas pageant, they not only help solve the town’s problems but learn to connect with each other just in time for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus (1991)
While newspaper writer Church struggles with the death of his wife, he receives a "special" assignment. He must answer a little girl's question about whether Santa Claus really exists.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & fantasy
A Smoky Mountain Christmas (1986)
A country-western singer on a trip through the Tennessee mountains runs into a reclusive backwoodsman — and a witch.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both fantasy
A Carol Christmas (2003)
Carol Cartman, a tempestuous talk show host, is a high-heeled, high-maintenance Scrooge. This insensitive, self-centered and stingy woman is about to experience a holiday she'll never forget.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & fantasy
One Magic Christmas (1985)
Ginny Grainger, a young mother, rediscovers the joy and beauty of Christmas, thanks to the unshakable faith of her six-year-old daughter Abbie and Gideon, Ginny's very own guardian angel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSanta Baby (2006)
Mary Class is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she left behind to take over for her dad and implement her innovative ideas for running Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & fantasy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007)
A Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis' spirit. An Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future steps in to help save Christmas for the Mitchells, the Wilsons, and everyone else.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like A Mom for Christmas?
The closest matches to A Mom for Christmas are Once Upon A Christmas (2000), Meet The Santas (2005) and Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after A Mom for Christmas?
People who watched A Mom for Christmas most often go on to Once Upon A Christmas (2000), Meet The Santas (2005) and Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011).
What is the newest movie like A Mom for Christmas?
All I Want for Christmas (2013) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like A Mom for Christmas?
Yes: Once Upon A Christmas (2000), Meet The Santas (2005) and Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011).
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