Movies like Too Close for Christmas (2020)
The best movies like Too Close for Christmas (2020) are To All a Good Night (2023), The Christmas Doctor (2020) and We Need a Little Christmas (2022). If Too Close for Christmas hooked you with its romance and drama, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- NewestSealed with a List (2023)Released 2023
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
We Need a Little Christmas (2022)
Julie is adjusting to being a single mother to a grieving child while facing her first Christmas without her husband when she develops an unexpected friendship with her older neighbor Irene.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
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
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
Time for Us to Come Home for Christmas (2020)
Five guests are mysteriously invited to an inn to celebrate Christmas. With the help of the owner Ben, Sarah discovers that an event from the past may connect them and change their lives forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
Under the Christmas Sky (2023)
Esteemed astrophysicist Kat, scheduled for her first trip into space but sidelined due to an accident, meets a new man at the local planetarium. Together, they must work hard to open a new exhibit by Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Never Been Chris'd (2023)
Best friends Naomi and Liz return home for the holidays and simultaneously enter a love triangle when they both reconnect with their high school crush Chris Silver.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Time for Them to Come Home for Christmas (2021)
During the holidays, a woman with amnesia catches a ride with her handsome nurse to investigate the only clue to her identity: a newspaper clipping for a Christmas Festival with a cryptic invitation.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
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
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 thisSealed with a List (2023)
Carley is determined to get through her list of abandoned resolutions from last year and enlists the help of coworker Wyatt.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Christmas Waltz (2020)
After Avery’s storybook Christmas wedding is canceled unexpectedly, dance instructor Roman helps her rebuild her dreams.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOnce Upon a Main Street (2020)
Amelia Lewis is super excited when she buys an available storefront, planning to open a year-round Christmas shop. But her celebration comes to a screeching halt when she discovers that Vic Manning has also bid on the property. After continually bickering and trying to one-up each other, the two combatants learn to work together and even get the merchants on Main Street to put aside their differences for the greater good.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Christmas Together With You (2021)
During the Christmas season, Megan and her father-figure Frank head out on a road trip to find his long-lost love. Along the way, Megan finds the love of her own life.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Once Upon a Christmas Miracle (2018)
Told she would have less than a few months to live without a liver transplant, Heather Krueger’s time was running out when a kind stranger, Chris Dempsey, heard of her plight and discovered he was a perfect match. The two met and before long a friendship developed into romance. The movie follows Heather and Chris’ journey over three Christmases as his selfless gesture leads to a Christmas miracle for everyone involved. Based on a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Ring (2020)
A reporter searches for the love story behind an antique engagement ring. With the help of the ring’s owner’s grandson, they learn the legacy his grandparent’s left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHometown Holiday (2018)
Krista is starting this New Year with a new business and a resolution to be more selective with who she dates. When Krista meets Ryan Rourke, an entertainment lawyer from LA, the two really hit it off. Ryan is in her hometown to sign a local rancher turned viral signing sensation as his new client. Now with Krista also in Rust Creek, maybe there is more of a reason to stick around. Both are holding onto things from their past and are forced to make some decisions if they truly want to be together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
My Grown-Up Christmas List (2022)
Taylor, a journalist, and Luke, in the military, share a special bond that grows between them over the course of several Christmases that they spend together and apart.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Undercover Holiday (2022)
When returning home for the holidays, newly minted pop star Jaylen tells her protective family that Matt is her new beau, when in reality, he’s her overzealous security guard.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas on Honeysuckle Lane (2018)
Emma Reynolds returns to Oliver's Well to celebrate Christmas for the last time with her siblings in the home they grew up in. After their parents recently passed, the siblings reluctantly agree to sell the family home on Honeysuckle Lane after the New Year, leaving Emma in charge of its belongings. While antiques expert Morgan Shelby appraises Emma's mother's collection, they find a hidden surprise in an antique desk that takes them on a journey to discover the power of love and family during the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
SnoozefestMovies 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
Destined at Christmas (2022)
Kim and Theo meet in the midst of Black Friday shopping madness but there's a definite spark between them. When a power outage causes some panic at a store, the couple gets separated. With Christmas coming, there should be plenty of distractions but neither Kim nor Theo can forget the other. Both yearn to find each other but how with so little information to go on?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both 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
Christmas Pen Pals (2018)
Following an unexpected breakup weeks before Christmas, Hannah, tech wiz and creator of the dating app, Perfect One, heads home for the holidays, challenged to save her failing business by re-conceiving a new romantic dating model. Upon her return she runs into her high school boyfriend, Sam, who she has carefully avoided for years and reluctantly makes a deal with her dad to sign up for the town’s Christmas Cupid, an anonymous holiday pen pal service. As the season progresses, Hannah is smitten by each beautifully written letter she receives and starts to believe that her Christmas pen pal could be her soul mate.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisUnlocking Christmas (2020)
When a mysterious key and a holiday riddle arrive on their doorsteps, Kate and Kevin embark on a Christmas romance adventure they’ll never forget.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMaking Spirits Bright (2021)
Grace and Tony are from two separate families who are in the business of decorating homes for Christmas. Unfortunately they have also been in feud for as long as anyone can remember. But this holiday season they must try to find a way to get everyone to work together in order to win a town competition that could save their livelihoods.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Let's Meet Again on Christmas Eve (2020)
Two college sweethearts reconnect while coordinating a wedding just in time for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Too Close for Christmas?
The closest matches to Too Close for Christmas are To All a Good Night (2023), The Christmas Doctor (2020) and We Need a Little Christmas (2022). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Too Close for Christmas?
People who watched Too Close for Christmas most often go on to To All a Good Night (2023), The Christmas Doctor (2020) and We Need a Little Christmas (2022).
What is the newest movie like Too Close for Christmas?
Sealed with a List (2023) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Too Close for Christmas?
Yes: To All a Good Night (2023), The Christmas Doctor (2020) and We Need a Little Christmas (2022).
How are movies similar to Too Close for Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Too Close for Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.