Movies like Christmas Is Canceled (2021)
The best movies like Christmas Is Canceled (2021) are How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023), Single All the Way (2021) and Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023). If Christmas Is Canceled hooked you with its comedy and romance, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedAbout Fate (2022)7.5/10 from 563 votes
- NewestA Make or Break Holiday (2025)Released 2025
How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023)
Bennie's daughter is on her way home for the holidays. However she surprises him by arriving with her brand new boyfriend - an uninvited gringo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Single All the Way (2021)
Desperate to avoid his family’s judgment about his perpetual single status, Peter convinces his best friend Nick to join him for the holidays and pretend that they’re now in a relationship. But when Peter’s mother sets him up on a blind date with her handsome trainer James, the plan goes awry.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisYour Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHolidate (2020)
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other's platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisEXmas (2023)
When Graham decides to surprise his family by traveling home for Christmas, he is shocked to discover them already celebrating with an unexpected guest of honor, his ex-fiancée, Ali. The two exes battle it out to see who the family will pick to stay through Christmas Day and who must go.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLove Hard (2021)
An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been catfished. But the object of her affection actually lives in the same town, and the guy who duped her offers to set them up if she pretends to be his own girlfriend for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Merry Little Ex-Mas (2025)
Recently separated, Kate hopes to celebrate one last perfect family Christmas with her soon-to-be ex-husband Everett and their kids before their divorce is final and the house is sold. But her holiday plans are hilariously derailed when Everett unexpectedly brings his younger, successful new girlfriend.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisOffice Christmas Party (2016)
When Carol Vanstone, CEO of the technology company Zenotek, expresses her intention to close the Chicago branch, run by her brother Clay, he and his co-workers organize a Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and save their jobs. But the party gets out of control…
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Holiday (2006)
Two women, one American and one British, swap homes at Christmastime following bad breakups. Each woman finds romance with a local man but realizes that the imminent return home may end the relationship.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Christmas Break (2023)
A married couple travel from Chicago to spend Christmas with the wife's family in a small town in Ireland. This is a holiday which will test their patience—and their marriage.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Love Actually (2003)
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThis Is Christmas (2022)
Follow Adam and Emma on their daily commute from the village of Langton to London, where they meet the same passengers every day. One morning, Adam breaks the unspoken taboo of talking to strangers on a train and invites the entire carriage to hold their own Christmas party together.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisThe Holiday Sitter (2022)
Sam is a workaholic bachelor who babysits his niece and nephew before the holidays when his sister and her husband have to go out of town. Completely out of his element, he recruits help from their handsome neighbor Jason and finds himself in an unexpected romance.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLet It Snow (2019)
In a small town on Christmas Eve, a snowstorm brings together a group of young people. They soon find their friendships and love lives colliding, and come Christmas morning, nothing will be the same.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisLast Christmas (2019)
Kate is a young woman who has a habit of making bad decisions, and her last date with disaster occurs after she accepts work as Santa's elf for a department store. However, after she meets Tom there, her life takes a new turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Worth the HypeMovies like thisYour Christmas or Mine? (2022)
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each other in the station, they are completely unaware that they have just swapped Christmases.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Make or Break Holiday (2025)
Despite recently going on a break, couple Liv and Daniel had planned to host their families together for Christmas. So, they decide to keep their original plans and pretend to still be together for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance
Boxing Day (2021)
Melvin, a British author living in America, returns home to London for Christmas to introduce his American fiancée Lisa to his eccentric British-Caribbean family. Their relationship is put to the test as she discovers the world her fiancé has left behind.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
'Twas the Text Before Christmas (2023)
Addie is a New York City chiropractor mistakenly receives a text from “Nana.” The accidental text turns into a loving friendship between the matronly Nana and Addie who now communicate regularly. Nana invites Addie to spend the holiday in Vermont. It is picture-postcard perfect and exactly as Nana described except for one surprise. Nana’s single son, James, a traveling doctor is also home for the holidays. Over three consecutive years, James and Addie are together during the holidays, though it isn’t until they are both single that they begin to see each other in a different light.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisChristmas with the Campbells (2022)
When Jesse is dumped right before the holidays by her boyfriend, Shawn, his parents convince her to still spend Christmas with them, and Shawn's handsome cousin, while Shawn is away.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisMom's Christmas Boyfriend (2023)
Single mom Emma always puts others first, particularly her ten-year-old daughter Lily, who she adopted on her own. But when the precocious Lily wins a contest to have her Christmas wish granted, Emma’s life gets turned upside down…because Lily’s Christmas wish is for Emma to finally find true love!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Happiest Season (2020)
A young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisA Fiancé for Christmas (2021)
Perpetually single Sawyer makes a fake wedding registry, hoping a shopping spree with a scan gun will be the ultimate retail therapy. But when the registry is discovered and the whole town throws her a surprise bridal shower, she's too embarrassed to tell the truth.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
Merry Textmas (2022)
Gaby Diaz, an app developer from Austin, Texas, and the last unmarried sibling in her family, heads to her abuela’s house in Oaxaca, Mexico, for the holidays. When she accidentally adds Alex Alvarada, a graphic designer who’s lost touch with his own Mexican roots, to the family group chat, her family invites him to come along for the holidays.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
The Holiday Dating Guide (2022)
Dating coach and aspiring book author Abigale Slater is tasked by her publisher Jack to prove that her dating advice really works. With that, she decides to make a man fall for her by Christmas Eve in 12 days. When she Michael Ryan, her single-minded mission takes an unexpected turn.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
I Hate New Year's (2020)
Rising music star Layne heads home to Nashville for New Year's Eve to break her writer's block, but sometimes you find inspiration - and love - where you least expect it.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
About Fate (2022)
Two strangers believe in love but never seem to be able to find its true meaning. In a wild twist of events, fate puts each in the other's path on one stormy New Year's Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both romance & comedy
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHappy Christmas (2014)
After a breakup with her boyfriend, a young woman moves in with her older brother, his wife, and their 2-year-old son.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMILF (2018)
Three childhood friends - Elise, Sonia and Cecile - leave for a summer in the South of France to help clear Cecile’s holiday house before it is put up for sale. There, they soon become the prime targets of three horny young men, for whom these single forty-year-old women are much more attractive than girls their age.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & romance
SnoozefestMovies like thisTwo Can Play That Game (2001)
Corporate overachiever and all-around fly chick Shanté Smith thinks she's got the goods to keep her slickster boyfriend Keith, from straying—until he discovers a greener pasture, Shanté's archrival, Conny. Scorned, she plans to get her man back by any means necessary.
Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both comedy & romance
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Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like Christmas Is Canceled?
The closest matches to Christmas Is Canceled are How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023), Single All the Way (2021) and Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after Christmas Is Canceled?
People who watched Christmas Is Canceled most often go on to How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023), Single All the Way (2021) and Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023).
What is the highest-rated movie like Christmas Is Canceled?
About Fate (2022), rated 7.5/10 by 563 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like Christmas Is Canceled?
A Make or Break Holiday (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like Christmas Is Canceled?
Yes: How the Gringo Stole Christmas (2023), Single All the Way (2021) and Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023).
How are movies similar to Christmas Is Canceled chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside Christmas Is Canceled, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.