Movies like Home for Christmas (2010)
The best movies like Home for Christmas (2010) are Christmas Lights (2004), That Time of Year (2018) and Silent Night (2017). If Home for Christmas hooked you with its drama and comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedElling (2001)7.1/10 from 208 votes
- NewestA Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026)Released 2026
Christmas Lights (2004)
Robson Green and Mark Benton co-star in Christmas Lights, a one-off comedy drama for ITV1 centred on two lifelong friends who have always competed with each other. The festive season brings on new challenges and takes their rivalry to extremes resulting in the two friends forgetting what Christmas is really about. Can anything bring them to their senses?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
That Time of Year (2018)
From Danish director and actor Paprika Steen comes a caustic comedy about the deep-rooted grievances that can rip families apart -- and the ties that bind them together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
Silent Night (2017)
Adam unexpectedly visits his family house at Christmas after a few years of working abroad. No family member knows about his secret plans and the real reasons of his visit.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & 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
Christmas As Usual (2023)
To celebrate their engagement, Thea takes Jashan home — but his Indian roots and her family's Norwegian traditions clash in a chaotic Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas in Boston (2005)
Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and now will let their friends meet. True love is found in the end for all.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisCasper and Emma's Wonderful Christmas (2014)
Casper and Emma are looking forward to Christmas! Will Santa Claus visit Petra this year, or will he leave the presents outside her door, like he usually does?
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Angel in the Family (2004)
Sisters separated by a lifetime of misunderstanding and their family desperately in need of healing old wounds, find themselves brought back together on one amazing Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
A Child's Christmas in Wales (1987)
It's Christmas Eve in Wales. A young boy named Thomas is excited about the holiday, but he's also disappointed because it's raining instead of snowing. His grandfather gives him an old snow globe as an early Christmas present and starts telling colorful, amusing stories about his childhood Christmases that are shown in flashback. Thomas keeps asking his grandfather more questions because he likes the stories and because he doesn't want to go to bed. His parents finally insist that he go to bed, and his grandfather tells him one last story about going to bed on Christmas night while listening to his family singing carols downstairs. After Thomas falls asleep at last, his grandfather opens the bedroom window and sees falling snowflakes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Forgotten Christmas (2019)
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus are back and this time they have to help little Elise save christmas before it's too late.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Christmas on Windmill Way (2023)
Mia Meijer gets ready for the Christmas Market Dutch Bake-Off and suspects that her grandmother, Ann, will walk away with the cherished Golden Rolling Pin thanks to her Kerststol, a traditional Dutch fruited Christmas bread. But Mia's world is rocked when she learns that Ann was having financial troubles and had to sell the land deed to the Windmill Way property in her family for generations. Making matters worse, the buyer is Mia's former boyfriend, property developer Brady Schaltz, who must let Mia and Ann know the Meijer family-owned heritage Dutch sawmill, renowned for the past 90 years for its fine millwork and beautiful wooden furniture, will be torn down to put up a luxurious resort.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisTeddy's Christmas (2022)
While visiting a Christmas market in her Norwegian town, eight year old Mariann spots a talking teddy bear at a carnival game booth. However, when someone else wins it, she embarks on a quest to find the adorable bear that captured her heart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe 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
A Christmas Dance Reunion (2021)
Lucy Mortimer, a successful attorney who returns with her mum to their old Christmas getaway - the Winterleigh Resort - which is on the brink of closing down for good. Much to her surprise, Lucy is reunited with her childhood Christmas dance partner Barrett Brewster and the pair give the resort a new lease of life as the passion between them heats up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
The Christmas Heart (2012)
The tight-knit neighbors on Arthur Avenue have proudly lit Christmas luminaries for 40 years, but that long-standing tradition is cancelled this year when Matt Norman, a teenage boy in the neighborhood, is hospitalized in desperate need of a heart transplant. As his parents Ann and Mike anxiously pray by his bedside, a donor is found, while in Detroit, a mother is in anguish at her own son’s bedside. When Matt's neighbors decide to honor him in the best way they know how, they just might help save his life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Christmas List (2016)
Isobel Gray plans a storybook Christmas with her boyfriend, including a snow-covered cottage in the Northwest, and a carefully composed bucket list of classic holiday traditions. But when the boyfriend goes AWOL, the list proves challenging and a tempting new romance turns her life upside down. Will Isobel have a White Christmas ending under the mistletoe?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Golden Christmas 3 (2012)
Heather is a charming free spirit whose self-absorbed fiancé Roger never seems to hear a word that comes out of her mouth. Bobby is a naval officer who comes home from serving overseas, looking to start a new chapter in his life. Both Heather and Bobby long to meet someone who makes them feel like they are at home in this world, but they are starting to doubt that person exists. Thanks to two Golden Retrievers, Bobby's spirited eleven-year-old niece Myra, and a fun-filled theatre production of 'A Christmas Carol,' these two unlucky and unlikely people end up falling in love at Christmas. But can they overcome the issues of their past and present in order to build a future together?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisSanta Swap: Merry Christmas Mr. Andersen (2016)
Carpenter Andersen and Santa Claus makes a deal which saves Christmas for them both.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Mongoland (2001)
Pia is coming home for Christmas after traveling in England for about 6 months. She wants to catch up with her boyfriend, Kristoffer, who was supposed to have joined her on the trip, but backed out at the last minute. Finding him, however, is turning out to be quite a task. While searching, she meets several more or less disgruntled and dissatisfied people. And when Santa turns up things start happening...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMixed 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 & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisElling (2001)
40-year-old Elling, sensitive, would-be poet, is sent to live in a state institution when his mother, who has sheltered him his entire life, dies. There he meets Kjell Bjarne, a gentle giant and female-obsessed virgin, also in his 40s.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChristmas Story (2007)
Hundreds of years ago in Lapland, a little boy named Nikolas loses his family in an accident. The villagers decide to look after the orphaned boy together. Once a year - at Christmas - Nikolas moves to a new home. To show his gratitude, Nikolas decides to make toys for the children of the families as good-bye presents. Over the years, Nikolas's former adoptive families become many, and soon almost every house has presents on its doorstep on Christmas morning. At thirteen, Nikolas is sent to live and work with Iisakki, a grumpy old carpenter, who forbids Nikolas to continue making presents for Christmas. Gradually, however, Nikolas wins Iisakki's trust. Together they begin to look after the Christmas traditional that Nikolas has begun. When the aged Iisakki has to leave Nikolas and move away, the tradition of Christmas presents is once again at risk. Thankfully, Nikolas comes up with a solution that brings children joy every Christmas, even continuing to today.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
Worth the HypeMovies like thisWelcome to Norway! (2016)
A couple decide to open a home for refugees in the remote cold mountains of Norway.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & comedy
My Dad's Christmas Date (2020)
It’s Christmas and the charming city of York, home to Jules, 16, and her dad, David, is decked out ready for the festive season. In many ways, David and Jules’ relationship is no different from that of most fathers and their sixteen-year-old daughters. He struggles to understand her, she refuses to communicate with him. He wants to be involved in her life, she wants her own space. In one important respect, however, David and Jules share a profound bond: the death of Jules’ mum, and David’s wife, in a car crash two years before. With both struggling to cope with everyday life in the shadow of their loss, Jules, inspired by happy memories of her mum, decides to take matters into her own hands.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 thisChloe and Theo (2015)
A young woman, Chloe, living by her wits on the streets of New York City, has a chance meeting with a wise Inuit Eskimo, Theo, who was sent to New York by his elders to provide a message to the people of the world – We either change our destructive was or be destroyed by them. Chloe, who has been searching for something to believe in, becomes inspired by Theo and , with the help of a kind lawyer, Monica, the three of them present Theo’s story to the United Nations in hopes of creating a better future for all of us.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisHousekeeping (1987)
In the Pacific Northwest during the 1950s, two young sisters whose mother has abandoned them wind up living with their Aunt Sylvie, whose views of the world and its conventions don't quite live up to most people's expectations.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOn Becoming a Guinea Fowl (2024)
On an empty road in the middle of the night, Shula stumbles across the body of her uncle. As funeral proceedings begin around them, she and her cousins bring to light the buried secrets of their middle-class Zambian family.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & drama
Worth the HypeMovies like thisCandy Cane Lane (2023)
Determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, unleashing chaos on the small unsuspecting town.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Home for Christmas?
The closest matches to Home for Christmas are Christmas Lights (2004), That Time of Year (2018) and Silent Night (2017). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Home for Christmas?
People who watched Home for Christmas most often go on to Christmas Lights (2004), That Time of Year (2018) and Silent Night (2017).
What is the highest-rated movie like Home for Christmas?
Elling (2001), rated 7.1/10 by 208 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Home for Christmas?
A Dog's Perfect Christmas (2026) is the most recent release on this list.
How are movies similar to Home for Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Home for Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.