Movies like Under the Mistletoe (2006)
The best movies like Under the Mistletoe (2006) are Crazy for Christmas (2005), A Season for Miracles (1999) and A Holiday Romance (1999). If Under the Mistletoe 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
- Highest ratedNoel (2004)5.8/10 from 330 votes
- NewestA Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025)Released 2025
Crazy for Christmas (2005)
A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her limo on Christmas eve and has her drive him to various ice rinks where he gives out $100 bills to the people there. The news media catches on and starts following him.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Season for Miracles (1999)
A miracle occurs for a homeless family consisting of two wayward children and their protective aunt with the help of an angel. When a young woman's niece and nephew are threatened with foster care after her sister is hospitalized following yet another overdose, she flees with them until they land in the sleepy town of Bethlehem just before Christmas and a series of kindnesses and coincidences gives the trio a chance at happiness.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
A Holiday Romance (1999)
A superintendent, trying to save his high school's troubled finances, falls in love with a teacher whose music program he must cut.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Time for Her to Come Home for Christmas (2023)
Carly heads to a small town to lead a church choir at Christmastime, facing her first holiday season without her mother. While there, she connects with a man back in town after serving in the Army.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Tree That Saved Christmas (2014)
Twenty years after saving a frail sapling from a cutting crew, Molly Logan learns that the bank is foreclosing on her parents' Christmas tree farm. Can the tree she spared rescue the holiday?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Fallen Angel (2003)
When his father dies, Terry (Gary Sinese) returns to the house where he grew up, planning to stay only long enough to clean and settle the estate. Yet something indescribable keeps him there longer than expected. Soon, he is reunited with memories and people from his past and his life is changed forever.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Debbie Macomber's A Mrs. Miracle Christmas (2021)
When a family faces loneliness and loss of faith, Mrs. Miracle swoops in to renew their Christmas Spirit, and they experience a holiday of heavenly proportions.
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
The Christmas Card (2006)
Sergeant Cody Cullen is deeply touched by a homemade Christmas card he receives while serving in Afghanistan. Upon his discharge, he treks to the picturesque California town of Nevada City. Cody is soon welcomed into the Spelman home and unexpectedly falls in love with the woman who sent the card, Faith.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTimeless Tidings of Joy (2025)
Ally, inherits Timeless Tidings, a shop her grandmother, Joy, opened in the 1940s to sell her handmade letter-press tidings. The shop was a labor of love, service, and sacrifice throughout the decades for Joy. Ally always saw Joy’s sacrifices for the shop as a burden on Joy’s life and happiness. When Ally returns to the shop to prepare it for sale, she meets Bennett, an old soul, who wants to preserve her Grandma Joy’s legacy. As Ally and Bennett navigate the next steps, divine intervention forces them both to take a new, or rather old look at the fate of the shop and themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025)
Gentry Woods, who gave up music after her father's death decades ago, must confront her past when Nashville's Grand Ole Opry invites her to honor her late country star dad at their Christmas celebration.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Karen Kingsbury's Maggie's Christmas Miracle (2017)
Maggie, a single mom has to balance between her career and her son, Jordan. Jordan finds a tutor named Casey to help him at school, and Casey becomes like a father figure. Will the three of them find happiness and love once again?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisBack to You & Me (2005)
After befriending a patient and then losing her to cancer, Dr. Sydney Ludwick decides to take some much needed time off to attend the 20th anniversary of her high school reunion and confront some deep seated resentments from the past.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
After experiencing several stressful situations within a short time — including the failure of the family business and the loss of her mother — Janet Broderick becomes ill. Falling into a deep sleep, she dreams of returning to her hometown, taking her children with her to meet her deceased loved ones. Perhaps, during a Christmas reunion with her beloved family, she will find the answer to coping with her troubles.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Hidden Places (2006)
A drama about a young widow who finds a guardian angel in the form of a hobo who comes to her rural community looking for work.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Karen Kingsbury's The Christmas Ring (2025)
At a 'Christmas in July' sale, military widow Vanessa Mayfield crosses paths with antiques dealer Ben Miller. As Ben works in Vanessa’s hometown, their friendship begins to grow into something more. But trouble brews when Ben’s father unknowingly acquires a box of antiques containing Vanessa’s missing heirloom Christmas ring - a priceless piece of her family’s past. Planning to sell it, he has no idea of its true meaning. It will take a Christmas miracle for love, family, and the ring to come together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Christmas at Cartwright's (2014)
With Christmas approaching, a struggling single mom finds herself working as a department store Santa Claus, as a real-life angel delivers good fortune and the possibility of holiday romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Most Wonderful Time of the Year (2008)
Five-time Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Henry Winkler stars in The Most Wonderful Time of the Year, the story of what happens when you open your heart to the power of Christmas. Disenchanted single mom Jennifer Cullen (Brooke Burns) is a Scroogette when it comes to anything Christmas. In fact, even her six-year-old son, Brian, is having trouble believing in Santa Claus. But when her Uncle Ralph (Henry Winkler) visits and brings a fellow passenger from his flight named Morgan Derby (Warren Christie), Jennifer s dubious heart awakens to the possibility that perhaps Christmas really does hold miracles. It s uplifting and laugh-packed and a story that will inspire the whole family to believe.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMail Order Bride (2008)
Diana McQueen notorious con-woman has had enough. She leaves town and her boss, Tom Rourke, behind. She takes the place of her dying friend, who was to become some man's mail-order bride. Can she pull off this last con?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas Jars (2019)
Aspiring reporter Hope Jensen uncovers the remarkable secret behind a holiday phenomenon: money-filled glass jars anonymously given to people in need.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Christmas Everlasting (2018)
Christmas is fast approaching and years of long workdays employed at New York’s top corporate law firm are about to pay off now that Lucy Toomey will be made partner after the New Year. However, when Alice, her older sister with special needs, unexpectedly passes away, Lucy returns back to Nilson’s Bay, Wis., to attend the funeral and handle her estate. While Lucy dreads returning to her childhood home, she also feels real sorrow that she was too busy to take her sister’s last call. Once back in Nilson’s Bay, Lucy meets Peter, her old high school sweetheart and Alice’s former attorney, who informs her of the terms of Alice’s eccentric will that states in order for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days through the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & drama
Noel (2004)
With Christmas Eve just around the corner in bustling New York, five lonely and sad strangers find their lives inadvertently intersected.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisA Star for Christmas (2013)
The only thing that is working in Cassie's world is her small town business. Her Christmas Cupcakery is a huge success, but her love life is a mess. Cassie's whole universe is turned upside down when she falls in love with a co-worker who is revealed to be the famous and notoriously troubled actor Alex Gray. There's no denying that Alex and Cassie are in love, but can their relationship survive the pressure of Hollywood and the holidays?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisHeart of the Holidays (2020)
After her life in New York unexpectedly falls apart, powerhouse stockbroker Sam Wallace returns to her small town for the holidays and reconnects with her high school sweetheart who helps reignite her humanitarian spirit just in time to help their community on Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
A Heavenly Christmas (2016)
Upon her untimely death, a workaholic finds herself in training to be a Christmas Angel in Heaven. Despite being the worst recruit in the history of Christmas, she’s assigned a hard luck case. As she’s forced to help solve his problems, she’ll start to discover the meaning of Christmas and maybe even fall in love along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisFinding Santa (2017)
Christmas is a busy, busy time for the residents of Green River, particularly for Grace Long, the third generation of her family to steward the New England town’s signature Christmas Eve parade. This year’s audience for the parade promises to be in the millions, thanks to a national morning show that has chosen Green River as the site of its Christmas Eve day program.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisJourney Back to Christmas (2016)
WWII has ended and Hanna is still grieving over her husband's disappearance. When the Christmas Comet appears for the first time in 70 years, Hanna is caught in a terrible storm and knocked unconscious. When she wakes up, she's in 2016.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Crash (2009)
A husband, wife and their two daughters take a Christmas break at a lodge in the woods. There's evident tension between the couple. He's pulled by attention to his corporation and negotiations about a merger. Even on their vacation he's on the phone. She's feeling abandoned. He takes her on a light plane flight to a cabin across the lake, but their plane suddenly loses altitude. They crash into the lake before they can notify anyone. The husband is more seriously hurt but with his wife's assistance they navigate cross-country towards a distant highway.. While they struggle to cross a ridge, the husband's business partner moves behind the scenes to sell the company to raiders, apparently assuming Frank is dead. Attacked by rogue wolves, the husband and wife are rescued in the nick of time. The FAA begins an investigation of the plane crash while the family begins to heal the emotional and physical wounds.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Home for Christmas Day (2017)
Jane is a single mother dead set on protecting her teenage daughter Betsy from the harsh realities of life. When Betsy falls in love with an enlisted man, Jane tries her best to steer Betsy away from heartache. Little does Jane realize she and her daughter are about to learn important lessons of the heart and that taking chances can sometimes lead to the most extraordinary happy endings.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
SnoozefestMovies 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & drama
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Under the Mistletoe?
The closest matches to Under the Mistletoe are Crazy for Christmas (2005), A Season for Miracles (1999) and A Holiday Romance (1999). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Under the Mistletoe?
People who watched Under the Mistletoe most often go on to Crazy for Christmas (2005), A Season for Miracles (1999) and A Holiday Romance (1999).
What is the highest-rated movie like Under the Mistletoe?
Noel (2004), rated 5.8/10 by 330 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Under the Mistletoe?
A Grand Ole Opry Christmas (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Under the Mistletoe?
Yes: Crazy for Christmas (2005), A Season for Miracles (1999) and A Holiday Romance (1999).
How are movies similar to Under the Mistletoe chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Under the Mistletoe, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.