Movies like Home by Christmas (2006)
The best movies like Home by Christmas (2006) are Mary Christmas (2002), Expecting Mary (2010) and A Perfect Christmas List (2014). If Home by Christmas hooked you with its drama and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest rated12 Gifts of Christmas (2015)6.1/10 from 248 votes
- NewestA Christmas... Present (2022)Released 2022
Mary Christmas (2002)
Californian widower Joel Wallace, a successful businessman, is a great catch in a grand mansion, but absorbed by his work. His daughter Felice writes to a TV Christmas special, hoping for a 'new mammy'.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Expecting Mary (2010)
Expecting Mary is the story of a young girl, who's had all the trappings of an upscale life, but it's only when she finds herself in a small New Mexico town, in a downtrodden trailer park, that she learns the real meaning of love, sacrifice and family.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
A Perfect Christmas List (2014)
As a last wish, a recently hospitalized grandmother, Evie, tasks her daughter and granddaughter, Sara, with a list of festive accomplishments to do together before Christmas, hoping that the adventure of the experience will repair their relationship. Along the way, Sara discovers an unlisted Christmas adventure of her own.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisOn Strike for Christmas (2010)
After years of making sure everything is perfect for her family, Joy Robertson is saying “enough,” and decides to go on strike for the Christmas season. If her husband, Stephen, and their kids want to have the perfect holiday, they will just have to organize it themselves.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Christmas with Holly (2012)
After being dumped at the altar on her wedding day, Maggie Conway moves to the island town of Friday Harbor in Washington State, where she meets Mark Nagle, the local coffee shop owner.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet 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 drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisAngels in the Snow (2015)
The affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like this12 Days of Giving (2017)
A photographer uses his cash prize to anonymously give gifts, sparking a change in the community.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisMy 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
A Veteran's Christmas (2018)
Captain Grace Garland, a decorated U.S. veteran, returns home after two tours of Search and Rescue in Afghanistan. After being separated from her beloved K9 partner, Grace must rediscover the magic of Christmas. When she finds herself stranded in the town of River’s Crossing a couple weeks before Christmas, the local judge, Joe Peterson, offers her a place to stay on his property and takes it upon himself to show Grace everything she has been missing; Christmas, family, community, and love.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas Lodge (2011)
Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she quickly realizes that the lodge that she loves has fallen into serious disrepair. With a lack of funds and a looming deadline, she not only restores the Christmas lodge's charm but finds love along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisSilver Bells (2005)
Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Heche) bonds with a young man who has run away from his father. When the father returns to New York a year later to sell his Christmas trees, he and Catherine cross paths.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Christmas Comes Home to Canaan (2011)
When Bobber undergoes experimental surgery to help him walk again, Daniel Burton falls in love with his beautiful rehabilitation doctor and invites her to spend Christmas at the farm.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Mrs. Miracle (2009)
Overwhelmed widower Seth Webster is searching for a housekeeper to help him with his unruly six year old twin sons. "Mrs. Miracle" mysteriously appears and quickly becomes an irreplaceable nanny, chef, friend... and matchmaker.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas... Present (2022)
Maggie and Eric are busy parents of teenagers who embark on a trip to the home of Maggie’s widowed brother to celebrate Christmas. Everyone has different expectations of the perfect holiday. Through a series of transformative events, Maggie learns to embrace the season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Christmas Caper (2007)
A Grinch-like thief retreats to her hometown in Connecticut after a con goes bad. There, she gets stuck baby-sitting her niece and nephew until their parents can make it home for Christmas. She spends most of her time devising ways to even the score with her old partner in crime, until the spirit of the holidays help put her priorities back on track.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
The Road to Christmas (2006)
High-powered fashion photographer Claire Jameson finds herself stranded in middle America on the way to her dream Christmas-time wedding in Aspen. Unable to get another flight or rent a car, Claire is reduced to begging for a ride. When the rugged former artist turned teacher, Tom Pullman and his 13-year old daughter Hilly kindly offer to take her, none of them realize that their journey is just beginning, and it will leave all of them in a very different place than where they began.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama
One Christmas Eve (2014)
A series of mishaps threaten a recently divorced mom's attempts to make her two kids' first Christmas "without dad" perfect.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Christmas Note (2015)
Having just moved back to her hometown without her serviceman husband but with her young son, Gretchen Daniels finds her life in disarray as Christmas approaches. But she discovers new purpose when she helps to deliver a message to her neighbor, Melissa, which makes her an ally in the quest to find the neighbor's sibling she never knew she had. The women become bonded not only by the search, but by the understanding that being there for each other means they're no longer alone. This friendship becomes the greatest Christmas gift of their lives. Based on a bestselling novel by Donna VanLiere.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Christmas Gift (2015)
Ten-year-old Megan, who upon receiving a Secret Santa gift, is touched by its contents which end up having a huge impact on her life. Now a driven young journalist, Megan can’t shake her desire to thank the person who sent her that heartfelt gift over a decade ago. Determined to prove herself to her editor, she goes on the search for the perfect Christmas story, and in doing so, she finally discovers who her Secret Santa is. Inspired by a true story.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
Christmas Lost and Found (2018)
After years of missing family gatherings, New York City event planner Whitney Kennison (Tiya Sircar) is off to Chicago to spend Christmas with Grandma Frances (Diane Ladd). Excited that her granddaughter is finally home for the holidays, Frances decides to bestow Whitney with the precious Kennison family Christmas ornaments. But when Whitney mistakenly throws out the box of ornaments, Grandma Frances must stealthily devise a fun Christmas scavenger hunt to remind Whitney what the holiday is all about. It’s a race against time as Whitney reclaims the family ornaments, finds romance and learns the lesson Grandma Frances imparts.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
12 Gifts of Christmas (2015)
When Anna Parisi, an unemployed fine arts painter, is unable to make ends meet, she is hired to become a personal Christmas shopper for Marc, an uptight corporate exec. As they begin working together, Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, while Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in a way she never expected. The best gift of all of course is the love they discover with one another.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLucky Christmas (2011)
Lucky Christmas is the story of Holly Ceroni, a single mom trying to get back on her feet, but who is crushed to learn her winning lottery ticket is in the glove compartment of her recently stolen car. Mike Ronowski, the construction worker behind Holly's missing property, goes along with a master plan to befriend Holly and coerce her into giving him half of her winnings. Mike unexpectedly falls in love with Holly and learns there are more important things in life than quick money in time for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & drama
SnoozefestMovies like thisAngels and Ornaments (2014)
Corrine's holiday season gets an unexpected dose of romance when she meets the mysterious Harold, who is on a deadline from a higher power to help Corrine find her true love by Christmas Eve. As the clock ticks down to Harold's deadline, Corrine must decide if she will open up to Christmas love.
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 & drama
Mr. Miracle (2014)
Heavenly angel Harry Mills is sent to Earth on a trial assignment to intervene in the life of a woman who needs help getting her life on track after the death of her father. With a deadline of Christmas day, he attempts to help her heal in order to embrace a new future, and an unexpected love, just in time to celebrate the miracle of the holiday season.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
Call Me Mrs. Miracle (2010)
Mrs Merkle (or Mrs. Miracle as she is know by some) finds herself in a toy department of a department store that is having all kinds of financial problems, but leave it to this kind lady as she will get the Christmas spirit flowing very freely at this store.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisBeverly 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 & drama
The Sons of Mistletoe (2001)
A foster home for boys is in danger of being closed when its benefactor dies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
A Holiday for Love (1996)
A man is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local factory that supplies the town with jobs should get the boot when the downsizing begins. He gets sidetracked when he falls in love with a local, a cute single mom.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both drama & family
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Home by Christmas?
The closest matches to Home by Christmas are Mary Christmas (2002), Expecting Mary (2010) and A Perfect Christmas List (2014). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Home by Christmas?
People who watched Home by Christmas most often go on to Mary Christmas (2002), Expecting Mary (2010) and A Perfect Christmas List (2014).
What is the highest-rated movie like Home by Christmas?
12 Gifts of Christmas (2015), rated 6.1/10 by 248 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Home by Christmas?
A Christmas... Present (2022) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Home by Christmas?
Yes: Mary Christmas (2002), Expecting Mary (2010) and A Perfect Christmas List (2014).
How are movies similar to Home by Christmas chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Home by Christmas, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.