Movies like Once Upon a Main Street (2020)
The best movies like Once Upon a Main Street (2020) are Miracle in Bethlehem, PA (2023), To All a Good Night (2023) and The Christmas Doctor (2020). If Once Upon a Main Street hooked you with its drama and tv movie, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedThe Noel Diary (2022)6.3/10 from 414 votes
- Newest'Twas the Date Before Christmas (2024)Released 2024
Miracle in Bethlehem, PA (2023)
Successful Mary Ann Brubeck adopts a daughter right before Christmas. When bad weather lands her and her new baby stranded in Bethlehem, PA, their only option is to stay with the innkeeper’s brother Joe, a quintessential bachelor.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
To All a Good Night (2023)
After a small-town photographer saves a man’s life, she learns he’s in town to buy her family’s parkland, the location of the annual Christmas celebration.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Christmas Doctor (2020)
A week before Christmas, Dr. Alicia Wright is offered an assignment away from home. A mysterious man from her past journeys to find her before Christmas and brings with him a revelation that could change Alicia’s life forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Ms. Christmas Comes to Town (2023)
When Ms. Christmas, a shopping channel host, receives a terminal diagnosis, she heads on a multi-city excursion to spread Christmas cheer.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas Around the Corner (2018)
Claire (Alexandra Breckenridge), a savvy venture capitalist from New York City, escapes to a quaint town in Vermont for the holidays and becomes a guest of the Fortenbury Bookstore. Upon arrival, Claire finds Christmas celebrations have been canceled by the town after a flood and the bookstore is in a dire state of disrepair. She immediately takes on the challenge to revitalize the store, but clashes with the owner, Andrew (Jamie Spilchuk), who initially rejects all her proposed improvements. Eventually, sparks fly as the two begin a budding romance, and Claire’s infectious optimism inspires Andrew to join her in reviving the yuletide spirit. But everything comes to a screeching halt when Claire discovers that Andrew is planning to sell the bookstore in the New Year. Will the spirit of Christmas be enough to change Andrew’s mind and encourage him to follow his heart?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisToo Close for Christmas (2020)
When Hayley accepts an invitation to spend Christmas with her sister’s new in-laws, her seemingly perfect holiday takes a turn when Paul, Hayley's brother-in-law's brother, unexpectedly shows up. Still harboring a grudge against Paul for ending her last relationship, Hayley reluctantly spends time with Paul and slowly realizes she may have been too quick a judge on Paul
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Maple Valley Christmas (2022)
Erica is a rancher who has spent her whole life working the family farm with her mother and sister. When Aaron arrives and disrupts her plans, she starts to question what it is she actually wants.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Ball (2020)
Clare, a woman struggling with her dance career, accepts her Aunt Bridget’s invitation to come to England for the holidays. When Clare arrives, she meets Liam, a handsome historian who is determined to prove Aunt Bridget’s manor is a historical landmark. Realizing Clare can help Liam prove the manor’s historical value, Aunt Bridget proposes they work together to bring back the Christmas Ball from years ago. In the planning process, Clare and Liam begin to fall in love and realize their true passion in life is to be together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Christmas in Evergreen (2017)
Allie, a veterinarian in Evergreen, reluctantly will spend Christmas with her long-distance boyfriend. Bound for the airport, she has engine trouble, and Ryan, headed to Florida with his daughter Zoe, stops to help. Sure they won’t meet again, they ignore their attraction, and part ways. At the diner, Zoe wishes on a snow globe, and a storm seems to grant her wish.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSaying Yes to Christmas (2021)
A magical Christmas wish makes a career-obsessed June say yes to every invitation while she's home for the holidays. But when an old flame, Blake, joins her hectic schedule of Christmas activities, past feelings are reignited. June must choose between saying yes to her career and life in the city or to her heart in her hometown.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas with a Kiss (2023)
This Mahogany film follows a woman who returns home for her family’s Christmas Carnival, unexpectedly meeting a photo journalist.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Noel Diary (2022)
Cleaning out his childhood home at Christmas, a novelist meets a woman searching for her birth mother. Will an old diary unlock their pasts — and hearts?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas on Cherry Lane (2023)
Three couples at different parts of life navigate big turning points in their lives over the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Holiday Road (2023)
A travel writer, a tech entrepreneur, a devoted mother and more strangers are stranded at the airport for the holidays, they rent a van for an unexpected road trip.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Gift of the Magi (2010)
A newlywed couple burdened with economic hardship decides not to exchange Christmas presents to save money over the holidays. Secretly, they make sacrifices to buy the other a special gift.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Homegrown Christmas (2018)
After stepping down as CEO of her dream job, Maddie heads home for the holidays to gain perspective. She finds herself running into her old high school sweetheart Carter, and tensions quickly arise. When forced to put together a Christmas dance for the local high school, Carter and Maddie find themselves putting their differences aside and rediscover what made them fall in love all those years ago.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Season for Family (2023)
While Maddie’s adopted son wants to meet his brother Cody, who was adopted into another family, Cody’s father, isn’t ready.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Godwink Christmas: Second Chance, First Love (2020)
After 15 years, Pat moves home from Hawaii with his two sons and through a series of coincidences, or Godwinks, ends up stuck in traffic next to his high school sweetheart, Margie, at Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMiss Christmas (2017)
Holly Khun, known to Chicago as “Miss Christmas,” always finds a beautiful tree for the plaza, but this year’s was damaged, and the lighting ceremony is in 10 days. Hoping for a miracle, she combs through fan mail, and finds Joey McNary of Klaus, Wisconsin, has the perfect tree. Off she goes to Klaus, where she meets Joey’s handsome dad Sam.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMagic in Mistletoe (2023)
Successful yet recluse author Harrington returns to his hometown for an annual Christmas festival, where he must face his publicist there for damage control.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Lights, Camera, Christmas! (2022)
When a holiday rom-com movie shooting in her town needs a costume designer, Kerry, a local shop owner, steps into the role. While working on the movie, she rediscovers her passion for costume design and finds herself falling for Brad, the film’s famous leading man.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Checkin' It Twice (2023)
A journeyman hockey player falls for a real estate agent in a career crisis when he's traded to her hometown and moves into the cottage in her hockey-loving family's backyard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
'Twas the Night Before Christmas (2022)
A former actress trying to break into directing tests her skills with a town’s annual Christmas Eve courtroom production in which the true authorship of the famous poem “A Visit from St. Nick” is debated.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Holiday in Harlem (2021)
Business executive Jazmin Carter is known for two things: turning fledgling businesses into profit producers and avoiding Christmas in Harlem, the neighborhood where she grew up.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
The Santa Squad (2020)
Allie, an out of work art teacher, has to accept a job with the Santa Squad to help wealthy widower Gordon and his two precious daughters rediscover the magic of Christmas. As Allie is lifting the holiday spirits of the family with Christmas decorations, cookies and shopping, her kindness is rewarded with the most unexpected of gifts: love!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Perfect Christmas Carol (2023)
When a fiercely independent pastry chef cautiously agrees to the big step of accompanying her hunky dream man home for the holidays, things quickly devolve as he reverts into a momma’s boy and she finds herself caught in a tug-of-war with his smothering mother.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
'Twas the Date Before Christmas (2024)
To prevent her family from canceling the "Chamberlain Family Christmas Olympics," Jessie lies and says she's inviting a date to the long-standing holiday tradition. She meets Bryan on a dating app, and he agrees to spend the holiday with her and her family. As Jessie and Bryan engage in eccentric activities like the search for the Christmas tree star, gift wrapping contest and snowball fight, they start to develop real feelings for each other. Soon her family begins to catch on to their secret and Bryan suspects she may be hiding the real reason for her unusual Christmas date request. As the celebrations continue, Jessie must work to keep all her stories straight and save her date with Bryan.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
A Christmas Break (2020)
Middle school principal Addison Tate wants this Christmas to be special for her kids especially since the School Board has decided that it will be the last as the school will be closing. When Addison invites Hollywood actor Dylan Davidson, a former alumni and old flame, home to reconnect with his roots, sparks fly, uniting the two to save the school from closing right before Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas Harmony (2018)
A young woman returns to her small hometown to rediscover music, family bonds, and the magic of the Christmas season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas (2021)
On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Once Upon a Main Street?
The closest matches to Once Upon a Main Street are Miracle in Bethlehem, PA (2023), To All a Good Night (2023) and The Christmas Doctor (2020). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Once Upon a Main Street?
People who watched Once Upon a Main Street most often go on to Miracle in Bethlehem, PA (2023), To All a Good Night (2023) and The Christmas Doctor (2020).
What is the highest-rated movie like Once Upon a Main Street?
The Noel Diary (2022), rated 6.3/10 by 414 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Once Upon a Main Street?
'Twas the Date Before Christmas (2024) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Once Upon a Main Street?
Yes: Miracle in Bethlehem, PA (2023), To All a Good Night (2023) and The Christmas Doctor (2020).
How are movies similar to Once Upon a Main Street chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Once Upon a Main Street, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.