Movies like 5 Star Christmas (2018)
The best movies like 5 Star Christmas (2018) are I Am Santa Claus (2021), Chandler Christmas Getaway (2018) and A Gert Lush Christmas (2015). If 5 Star Christmas hooked you with its comedy, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedFun Is Beautiful (1980)7.1/10 from 429 votes
- NewestBad Tidings (2024)Released 2024
- In ItalianI Am Santa Claus (2021)Also in Italian
I Am Santa Claus (2021)
Ettore has spent the last five years in jail for a robbery. Once out of prison, he has nowhere to go, his wife broke up with him and doesn’t want him to meet their little daughter who was born right before he was arrested. Alone and desperate, Ettore roams the streets of Rome and meets a strange old man, Nicola. He decides to take advantage of him and rob him. But after breaking into his house, Ettore realizes Nicola doesn’t have anything worth stealing and furthermore, the old man tells him a rather stranger thing: he affirms to be Santa Claus…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChandler Christmas Getaway (2018)
The Chandlers pack up and head to a cabin for maximum holiday fun. With old feuds, new feuds, and a heap of holiday stress, the Chandler family must pull together to make this the best Christmas ever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A 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
Christmas Holidays (1983)
Christmas holidays on the snow of Cortina D'Ampezzo. Mario, a guy from Rome who has not much money, falls in love with the American Samantha, the girlfriend of hypochondriac Roberto. Billo, a singer and a playboy, meets Ivana: she's married with a rich man, Donatone, but in the past she had a flirt with Billo, who wants to reignite the flame.
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 You Need Is Love (2018)
When popular TV show host Dr. Love goes missing ahead of the annual Christmas special, a zany search for his replacement and holiday romance ensues.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Christmas Party Crashers (2022)
When two grifters meet after crashing the same millionaire’s Christmas party, they agree to work together to achieve each other’s “mission,” not knowing that they would find something more than money or fame – true love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Gift from the Heart (2014)
Brothers Tom and Niek are running the family's costume rental store. Former soap star Tom doesn't take his job and his relationships very seriously. Niek on the other hand, is a workaholic, which recently led to a separation from his wife Karin. When the brothers are preparing for the busy holiday season, attractive Julia walks through the door with an offer they can't refuse: participating in a bold ad campaign that will rock Dutch holiday traditions to their core. Soon enough, Tom and Niek find themselves in a whirlwind of family issues, national cultural matters and love, after which neither of them will ever be the same.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
A Christmas in Vermont (2016)
Riley Thomas is sent by her profit-obsessed boss to shut down one of the company’s holdings, a small outerwear company in Vermont, for missing profit targets. Riley finds that the company is the lifeblood of a town and, instead of closing down the iconic firm, she unexpectedly falls in love and learns valuable lessons beyond the bottom line.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
Amy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn’t hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
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
Coins for Christmas (2018)
Single mom Madison finds herself scraping pennies together two weeks before Christmas after the IRS freezes her bank account, her ex fails to come through with any help and her boss fires her. Desperate to pay bills and buy gifts for her teenage children, Madison jumps into the ever-popular "gig economy." That's when she meets and eventually gets hired by obnoxious, sidelined former pro football player Alec Darby, also secretly on the verge of going broke. This odd couple butts heads time and time again, but they eventually forge a friendship. And, to their surprise, they learn a lot about themselves and teach one another how to be better people.
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 thisChristmas Eve (2015)
Hilarity, romance, and transcendence prevail after a power outage traps six different groups of New Yorkers inside elevators on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Christmas Kiss II (2014)
At a Christmastime event, Jenna shares an impromptu, unforgettable kiss with the dashing billionaire, Cooper Montgomery. Unaware of his intentions and fearful of getting hurt in another relationship, Jenna vows to resist his charms, but begins to realize his affection is real as the two spend more time together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Perfect Family (2012)
Leone is a rich and powerful man whose loneliness drives him to hire a cast of actors to play the family he never had. On Christmas Eve, reality and make-believe start to get blurred.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisWhen Mom Is Away... With the Family (2020)
Carlo and Giulia are grappling with new problems regarding the division of their respective tasks within the family. Since Giulia has started working again, it is Carlo who takes care of the children and the household chores. However, he starts to find the role of “Mr. Mom” a bit tight-fitting. Just when he decides to get back into the game and look for a job, Giulia reveals to him that she is up for a promotion that would lead her to move to Sweden. As if that weren’t enough, she will have to take the interview on December 24 in Stockholm. Everything seems to threaten the family unity. What should they do? Carlo comes up with a "brilliant" idea… To recover the old camper and drag the family into an adventure that will lead them on a journey to the North to spend Christmas all together lovingly. Unexpected events along the way and a hilarious encounter/confrontation with a self-styled Santa Claus will make the trip unforgettable.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBad Tidings (2024)
Grumpy home-security expert Neil feuds with his neighbour Scott, who insists on keeping his Christmas lights illuminated all year round. Their tit-for-tat argument culminates in Neil triggering a power cut across the entire street on Christmas Eve. But when the local crime family decide to rob every house on the street that night, the pair must set aside their differences to defeat them.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Ogni maledetto Natale (2014)
Massimo Marinelli Lops and Giulia Colardo meet by chance in Rome and fall in love. Giulia asks Massimo to spend Christmas Eve with her family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDifferent from Whom? (2009)
Political strategists in a northern Italian city push gay-rights campaigner Piero into the mayoral race, pairing him with uptight conservative toughie Adele. Piero and his partner, Remo, are the stable ones, while buttoned-up divorcee Adele nurses her bitterness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThem Who? (2015)
David loses his white collar job, his fiancée and his house after one night with con man Marcello. He tracks him down to exact revenge, but ends up becoming his disciple in order to win back everything.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Storming (2011)
Set in the heart of Christmas, the film tells the story of Sergio, a boy who could not finish the year in worse shape. It is New Year's Eve, the heaviest snowfall in thirty years is falling, all flights are canceled and he has to take the grapes (a tradition in Spain for New Year's Eve) with the other passengers in a roadside hotel. But that's not all, because he will have to manage to get on a night what he has failed in several months: to win back her ex girlfriend Bea before she goes to work in Germany. All with the help of a group of travelers who are the worst team in the world
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Sotto una buona stella (2014)
A wealthy broker, Federico Picchioni, within two days forfeits his partner and work, finishing well to living with two children and granddaughter (abandoned by her father). He is, at this point, in the face of many difficulties of adjustment but finds comfort in the help of his neighbor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisIo sono Tempesta (2018)
To avoid jail, a tax-dodging businessman is sentenced to a year of community service in a homeless shelter.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Santa Claus Gang (2010)
On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFun Is Beautiful (1980)
Three characters' misadventures in semi-deserted, summertime Rome: a dim-witted mama's boy falls for a tourist; a would-be womanizer struggles to find company for his sex tourism trip to Kraków; a hippie is drawn into his father's schemes to bring him back into polite society.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Yellow Panther (1982)
Pasquale Bellachioma, the unfortunate Police Commissioner, creates a "master stroke" that can finally put it to light before their superiors, but the results is continuous failure.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThunderstruck (2012)
After NBA star Kevin Durant switches talent with 16 year old Brian, the teenager becomes the star of his high school team, but Durant starts struggling and eventually learns an important lesson.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDoctor on Call (2021)
65 year old doctor Pierfrancesco works as a night-shift medical guard. He’s a grumpy man, full of aches and pains and is very rough with his patients. One night, he’s involved in a road collision with 30 year old delivery man Mario. While uninjured, Mario's bicycle is destroyed, and Pierfrancesco's sciatica flares up, making it impossible for him to drive. With both of their jobs in jeopardy, the doctor has an idea that could help them both: “remotely guided” by Pierfrancesco via wireless headset, Mario will visit his patients, and they’ll also carry out Mario’s delivery in Pierfrancesco’s car. After a range of daring (mis)adventures, they will learn to support each other, and the night will end with their lives both changed for the better.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisPuerto Escondido (1992)
Targeted by a dirty cop after witnessing a murder, bank clerk Mario flees to Puerto Escondido, Mexico, where a couple of oddball Italian expats drags him into a journey of self-discovery and bad decisions.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like 5 Star Christmas?
The closest matches to 5 Star Christmas are I Am Santa Claus (2021), Chandler Christmas Getaway (2018) and A Gert Lush Christmas (2015). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after 5 Star Christmas?
People who watched 5 Star Christmas most often go on to I Am Santa Claus (2021), Chandler Christmas Getaway (2018) and A Gert Lush Christmas (2015).
What is the highest-rated movie like 5 Star Christmas?
Fun Is Beautiful (1980), rated 7.1/10 by 429 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like 5 Star Christmas?
Bad Tidings (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there Italian movies like 5 Star Christmas?
Yes: I Am Santa Claus (2021), Christmas Holidays (1983) and A Perfect Family (2012).
How are movies similar to 5 Star Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside 5 Star Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.