Movies like Expecting Mary (2010)
The best movies like Expecting Mary (2010) are Finding John Christmas (2003), My One Christmas Wish (2015) and Let It Snow (2013). If Expecting Mary hooked you with its family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedLucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)8.4/10 from 384 votes
- NewestLucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)Released 2020
Finding John Christmas (2003)
When a photojournalist photographs a mysterious stranger performing an act of bravery, the act quickly becomes headline news and the town dubs the stranger John Christmas. After seeing the photo, Kathleen McAllister becomes convinced that the mysterious stranger is in fact her long-lost brother Hank. With the town's help, Kathleen and Noah set about to find the stranger's true identity with the help Max, a Christmas angel.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
My One Christmas Wish (2015)
Jackie Turner is a straight-A college student, who was abused, abandoned and starved as a child. Although she has resolutely turned her life around, the holidays are still very painful for her. Facing another lonely holiday break on campus, Jackie takes an ad on Craigslist for My ONE CHRISTMAS Wish - a family for Christmas - and even offers to pay $8 an hour. To her surprise, responses flood in. Among the numerous heartfelt invitations and letters of support, she also hears from other young people struggling with the same overwhelming emptiness that comes with spending the holidays without loved ones. Moved and inspired, Jackie decides to throw a big Christmas party - with the last-minute help of her adviser, friends and support group - to find families for all those troubled folks who emailed her, and finds one for herself as well.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
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 family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDolly Parton's Christmas of Many Colors: Circle of Love (2016)
An unexpected blizzard threatens the Parton family, while at the same time Dolly's father (and his kids) make sacrifices to raise enough money to finally buy his wife the wedding ring he could never afford to give her. Meanwhile, an important person in little Dolly's life begins to see that her amazing voice and musical gift might just be made for something bigger than rural Tennessee.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Home by Christmas (2006)
Julia Bedford is a homemaker who's left with next to nothing after a divorce. When Julia finds herself homeless, she begins her comeback and discovers what is really valuable in life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Country Christmas Story (2013)
A starry-eyed young girl journeys from the mountains of Appalachia to the stage at Dollywood, where she discovers the impact of African-Americans on the world of country music - while at the same time competing in a country music competition for kids, hosted by Dolly Parton herself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
An Accidental Christmas (2007)
Separated after 15 years of marriage, Vicki and Jason are set up by their two teenage children to spend a Christmas vacation together on the beach. But their family vacation is further complicated when Vicki's boss and Jason's gorgeous assistant show up. As Jason spends more time with Vicki, it becomes clear that this marriage is far from over, and he decides to propose to her all over again. It will take a lot of luck, plenty of love and a little dose of magic to bring this family back together again.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The Christmas Gift (1986)
A widowed New York City architect and his young daughter take a Christmas vacation and end up in a small mystical town in Colorado where everyone believes in Santa Claus.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
12 Days of Giving (2017)
A photographer uses his cash prize to anonymously give gifts, sparking a change in the community.
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Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Hope (2009)
After the recent loss of her son Sean, Patty Addison devotes herself to finding homes for needy children. The loss of their son has strained Patty's relationship with her husband Mark, but they reconnect emotionally when they take in Emily, a 9-year-old orphaned in a car accident similar to the one that killed Sean. At the same time Dr. Nathan Andrews is trying to find the parents of a boy who died in the ER, and Mark is trying to help one of his son's friends.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Heartland Christmas (2010)
Christmas comes to Heartland, along with an anonymous call about starving horses stranded by an avalanche in the Rocky Mountains, which send Amy and Ty to their rescue.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisChristmas Miracle (2012)
Due to a road closure, eight strangers must take refuge in an abandoned church during a storm. They learn how to manage through various dilemmas by working together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Beverly Hills Christmas (2015)
With help from a guardian angel, a spoiled rich, very material teenage girl learns that true value is found in assisting others and not in material things.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020)
Second chances start when a hardened criminal crosses paths with a precocious little girl who is helped by an angel to change hearts during the holiday season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Absolute CinemaMovies like thisChristmas in Canaan (2009)
Set in the 1960s, Christmas in Canaan is a drama about a black family and a white family that learn to love each other out of their Christian beliefs.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Love's Christmas Journey (2011)
While still mourning the loss of her husband and daughter, recently widowed Ellie King visits her brother Aaron Davis and his children for Christmas. Ellie does her best to enjoy the holidays, even making new friends with Mrs. Thompson, a local shop keeper, and handsome admirer Deputy Strode. Settling in nicely with her brother's family, Ellie also meets Erik, a young man abandoned by his outlaw father whom Aaron has taken in as one of his own. When Aaron travels out of town to purchase adjacent land for farming, Ellie agrees to watch his children, but the season’s festivities are threatened when Aaron goes missing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Town Without Christmas (2001)
In the small town of Seacliff, Wash., a child's letter to Santa Claus captures the nation's attention. When the little boy, Chris, writes that he wishes to leave this world so he will no longer be a burden to his divorcing parents, a race begins to find him before he harms himself.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The Christmas Candle (2013)
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lies the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every 25 years an angel visits the village candlemaker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights this candle receives a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
SnoozefestMovies like thisWhen Angels Come to Town (2004)
Max, an angel in exile, walks around the United States to help humans. In a small town in Maine, he meets a young woman without a family named Sally. As she struggles to get custody of her younger brother, Max immediately believes that his new mission is to help Sally. But Jo, a strict angel, is sent to explain to his colleague that this is not exactly what is expected of him. Indeed, Max's mission is not to help Sally, but Karl, the manager of a small factory of Christmas decorations. His business is barely surviving because its traditional products do not meet the success of yesteryear. First bored, Max notices that Karl knows Sally ...
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The Christmas Bunny (2010)
The story of a lonely foster child who finds a lost, injured rabbit in the woods on Christmas Eve. The rabbit is nursed back to health by The Bunny Lady, who runs a rabbit rescue in an old barn behind her Michigan farmhouse.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Apple of My Eye (2017)
A young girl struggles after a traumatic horse riding accident causes her to lose her eyesight. CHARLES, the head trainer of Southeastern Guide Dogs, trains Apple, a miniature horse, to be her companion and surrogate eyes.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The National Tree (2009)
A teenager has his Sitka Spruce tree chosen to be planted outside the White House as the new national Christmas Tree.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Finding Normal (2013)
Dr. Lisa Leland is a brilliant surgeon with absolutely no bedside manner. She is leaving her practice at UCLA Hospital to move to the Hamptons where she will join her boyfriend as a concierge doctor, treating the rich and famous. As she drives cross-country to her new life she hits a tractor in Normal, North Carolina and her BMW is wrecked. Dr. Leland is found guilty of speeding and ordered to do community service as a doctor in Normal, population 332. In a town with no wi-fi, no lattes and no credit cards, Lisa Leland begins to find herself and discovers what a meaningful life is all about.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAnnie's Point (2005)
A recently widowed grandmother is determined to grant her husband's last wish of setting his ashes free over the idyllic bluff they called Annie's Point. The charm of this tale lies in her journey.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Casa Vita (2016)
A baseball player finds unexpected happiness with a woman who works in his favorite restaurant.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
The Long Shot (2004)
A woman moves with her husband and seven-year-old daughter from Colorado to California and then her husband abandons them. While trying to rebuild her life, she finds solace while working at a horse farm and decides to enter her beloved horse in a high-stakes riding competition.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Undercover Angel (2017)
Looking for a fresh start, Robin, a recently divorced mother moves to a small town with her daughter, Sophie where she has purchased a fixer-upper. Needing help with the renovations on her new home, she hires a handyman, Henry her meddling guardian angel, who helps her with so much more.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Wish You Well (2013)
A young girl and her brother come of age at their great grandmother's house in Virginia during the 1940s. After a family tragedy, a young girl moves from New York with your younger brother to live with their great grandmother on a Virginia farm and comes closer to understanding the land and roots that inspired her father's writings while discovering herself, the love of family, and the power of truly believing.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Love Finds You In Sugarcreek (2014)
Will a mysterious stranger's past wreak havoc on a quiet Amish community after they've opened their doors -- and hearts -- to him and his son?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Heart of Christmas (2011)
Told in flashback from the perspective of Megan, the storyline unfolds when her commitment to faith and family is renewed after reading the blog of Julie Locke, the online journal that Julie kept after her 13 months old Dax was diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML).
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Expecting Mary?
The closest matches to Expecting Mary are Finding John Christmas (2003), My One Christmas Wish (2015) and Let It Snow (2013). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Expecting Mary?
People who watched Expecting Mary most often go on to Finding John Christmas (2003), My One Christmas Wish (2015) and Let It Snow (2013).
What is the highest-rated movie like Expecting Mary?
Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020), rated 8.4/10 by 384 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Expecting Mary?
Lucy Shimmers and the Prince of Peace (2020) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Expecting Mary?
Yes: Finding John Christmas (2003), My One Christmas Wish (2015) and Let It Snow (2013).
How are movies similar to Expecting Mary chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Expecting Mary, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.