Movies like Rent-an-Elf (2018)
The best movies like Rent-an-Elf (2018) are A Royal Christmas Engagement (2020), The Santa Con (2014) and Christmas at the Chateau (2019). If Rent-an-Elf hooked you with its family and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Holiday Calendar (2018)6.6/10 from 1,057 votes
- NewestSanta Tell Me (2024)Released 2024
A Royal Christmas Engagement (2020)
A Manhattan ad agency boss, John Holiday, entrusts Lauren to deliver the big pre-holiday client pitch, but only winds up annoying her when she’s teamed up with a European consultant. To Lauren's surprise, this consultant turns out to be the handsome Prince Edward of Candashire, masquerading as his consultant pal to escape his royal duties for an incognito American Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
The Santa Con (2014)
Small-time con man Nick DeMarco is ordered by his parole officer to take a minimum-wage job as a department store Santa during the holidays...and he hates it. Near the end of his first shift, he hastily promises a young boy, Billy, that Santa will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick decides to make good on his promise to the child, somehow. But after meeting the boy's mother Carol, will Nick ultimately choose to put the happiness of others ahead of his own?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
Christmas at the Chateau (2019)
Three sisters try to save the Shakespeare Chateau, a historic mansion and beloved family home, from a corrupt bank that threatens to foreclose on Christmas Day. But things get complicated when one of them falls in love with one of the bankers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & family
Last Chance for Christmas (2015)
When Prancer injures his hoof Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets complicated when he discovers that Frankie, the perfect substitute reindeer, belongs to a precocious 8-year-old girl and her mother Annie. As he races to get Frankie up to the North Pole, he realizes that he’s actually falling in love with Annie and has to find a way to win her over and save Christmas at the same time.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThree Wise Women (2010)
After a young girl witnesses her father having an affair, she declares she will never love anybody ever again. As a result, her guardian angel is forced to abandon her. Later, when she grows to be a miserable woman, her angel is given a second chance to save her from a life of sadness. To accomplish his goal, he travels through time to recruit the woman's past and future selves to help her reconcile with her father and change her direction in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
Project Christmas Wish (2020)
For years Lucy has played Santa to her small town’s community by making their holiday wishes come true. But when Lucy grants a little girl’s wish for a Christmas like she used to have with her mom, she unexpectedly finds her own wishes coming true in life and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSleigh Bells Ring (2016)
Recently divorced, Laurel struggles to get into the holiday spirit while heading up her hometown Christmas parade. With the help of a Christmas sleigh and a handsome woodworker, Laurel is destined to turn her luck around, rekindle her holiday spirit and even find time for love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisFinding Christmas (2013)
Single mother Ryan has just about given up on dating after her divorce, happily accepting her young son as the most important man in her life. That all changes when Ryan's brother Owen, also feeling unlucky in love after a bad breakup, swaps his home in their small North Carolina town with New York City adman Sean.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFeliz NaviDAD (2020)
David Morales, an Arizona high school principal and single dad, has lost the holiday spirit after also losing his wife a few years ago during the Christmas season. Now, David will do anything to avoid Christmas so he moonlights as a delivery driver during the holidays. But this year David’s 14-year-old daughter, Noel, and his live-in sister, Marissa, are determined to bring the yuletide spirit back to the family and, with a little luck, also help David find love again via online dating. So when Sophie, a witty musician and customer on David’s delivery route, swipes right on him, something magical happens between them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Matchmaker Santa (2012)
As a little girl, Melanie Hogan wished to find her own prince charming just like her parents found true love. Now an adult, Melanie is running her own bakery and dating a handsome CEO, Justin. Although things seem perfect when Justin asks Melanie to spend the holidays together at his beautiful lake house upstate—and meet his mother. Melanie finds herself spending more time with Justin’s best friend and loyal assistant, Dean, who just might be harboring a secret crush on her. When complications arise that throw Melanie and Dean together over the holiday, will the two realize they're meant to be?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisSanta's Boots (2018)
When Holly returns home for Christmas expecting the same as any other year, she’s blindsided to learn her family’s department store is on the brink of foreclosure. To keep the business going, Holly fills in as Santa’s Helper and meets the surprisingly young and handsome Nick, who has been hired to play Santa at the store this year. Their undeniable chemistry and charisma draw in big crowds, until suddenly, Nick disappears. As Christmas day inches closer, Holly scrambles to find Nick with only one clue – his misplaced black boot.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
The Holiday Calendar (2018)
A talented photographer stuck in a dead-end job inherits an antique Advent calendar that may be predicting the future -- and pointing her toward love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSecret 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 & romance
An Ice Wine Christmas (2021)
A big-city sommelier, Camila returns to her hometown and family-run business for the annual ice wine harvest that coincides with the holidays. But the visit is upended when the owner of the vineyard—her beloved godfather—announces they’ve hired a consultant named Declan Monroe to oversee the switch from old world methods to modern technology.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Let It Snow (2013)
A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday spirit. Will she stick with her boss’s plans to tear everything down or find a way to save what she has come to love? Stars Candace Cameron-Bure and Alan Thicke.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Inheritance (2017)
To inherit her father's company, socialite Ellen must first visit his small hometown, where she learns the value of hard work and helping others.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
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 romance & family
Much Ado About Christmas (2021)
Haley is a wealthy heiress known for her acts of kindness. Haley meets hopeless romantic Claud, and she keeps her wealthy family a secret. When Claud pitches an ad campaign to Haley's mom and Haley's secrets are revealed, things get...complicated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Christmas with Holly (2012)
After being dumped at the altar on her wedding day, Maggie Conway moves to the island town of Friday Harbor in Washington State, where she meets Mark Nagle, the local coffee shop owner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies 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 · both family & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Christmas Thief (2021)
Lana Lawton, a fledgling private eye home for the holidays, realizes the only way to save her career is by solving a string of local burglaries where the main suspect is Santa Claus. With little evidence and having to contend with a local detective with an investigative style that clashes with hers, the season may prove to be anything but holly and jolly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Christmas Land (2015)
Jules has just inherited a quaint magical Christmas-themed village and Christmas tree farm bequeathed her by her grandmother. She plans to sell it and use the profits to buy her dream home in New York City. But the longer Jules stays on the farm and the more she learns how important Christmas Land has been to so many families, the more Jules starts to question her motives to sell.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas in Rome (2019)
An independent-minded American tour guide is fired from her job in Rome just before Christmas. She crosses paths with an American executive named Oliver, who wants to buy a high-end Italian ceramics company. Oliver hires Angela to be his tour guide around the Eternal City, as the owner of the ceramics company won’t sell it to him until he learns “the heart and soul of Rome.” But is there another heart and soul that he may win?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMr. 365 (2018)
When workaholic reality TV producer Sophie starts working on a holiday-season show about Will, a wildly sexy guy who celebrates Christmas every day of the year, she finds herself falling for her mysterious, unlikely new star, renewing her long-lost faith in Xmas in the process.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSanta Tell Me (2024)
When Olivia, a successful interior designer, finds an old letter from Santa promising she’ll meet the love of her life by Christmas Eve — and that his name will be Nick — she’s stunned to meet not one, but three guys named Nick.” In addition to navigating three holiday romances, she finds herself drawn to a co-worker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
2nd Chance for Christmas (2019)
In a modern-day adaptation of Charles Dickens' classic A Christmas Carol, spoiled pop star, Chance Love, is forced to confront who she is, who she once was and the dismal fate that awaits her after trading love for fame and fortune long ago. These fateful glimpses into her life are guided by modern twists on the spirits of Christmas past, present, and future. Brian, Chance Love's faithful assistant, may just be his bosses saving grace.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019)
Christmas brings the ultimate gift to Aldovia: a royal baby. But first, Queen Amber must help her family and kingdom by finding a missing peace treaty.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas at Grand Valley (2018)
Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas. Leo, businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn’t long until Kelly and Leo’s worlds collide.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa (2018)
Lisa's trip home to Evergreen for the holidays finds her shepherding an effort to save the town's beloved general store, fulfilling the wishes of a Christmas past and finding a romance full of Christmas magic.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDebbie Macomber's Dashing Through The Snow (2015)
Stranded at an airport at Christmastime, Ashley Harrison accepts a ride from Dash Sutherland, who has just rented the last car in town. As the pair heads north, their adventures include car trouble, adopting a puppy and being secretly tailed by federal agents, who believe Ashley is up to no good. With a hint of romance gradually filling the air will these two fall in love or will their journey bring about an unexpected road bump to romance?
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Rent-an-Elf?
The closest matches to Rent-an-Elf are A Royal Christmas Engagement (2020), The Santa Con (2014) and Christmas at the Chateau (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Rent-an-Elf?
People who watched Rent-an-Elf most often go on to A Royal Christmas Engagement (2020), The Santa Con (2014) and Christmas at the Chateau (2019).
What is the highest-rated movie like Rent-an-Elf?
The Holiday Calendar (2018), rated 6.6/10 by 1,057 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Rent-an-Elf?
Santa Tell Me (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Rent-an-Elf?
Yes: A Royal Christmas Engagement (2020), The Santa Con (2014) and Christmas at the Chateau (2019).
How are movies similar to Rent-an-Elf chosen?
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