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Movies like Family is Like Family (1970)

The best movies like Family is Like Family (1970) are Brimming with Love (2018), Last Chance for Christmas (2015) and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019). If Family is Like Family hooked you with its tv movie and family, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.

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  1. Brimming with Love (2018)

    Allie is an aspiring journalist who meets Sam, a coffee shop owner who plays matchmaker for his customers. Allie agrees to be matched but going though Sam's process causes her to see that her perfect match might just be the matchmaker himself.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  2. Last Chance for Christmas (2015)

    When Prancer injures his hoof Santa’s stable hand, John, must find a fill in to ensure Christmas deliveries go off without a hitch. His mission gets complicated when he discovers that Frankie, the perfect substitute reindeer, belongs to a precocious 8-year-old girl and her mother Annie. As he races to get Frankie up to the North Pole, he realizes that he’s actually falling in love with Annie and has to find a way to win her over and save Christmas at the same time.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

  3. A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019)

    Christmas brings the ultimate gift to Aldovia: a royal baby. But first, Queen Amber must help her family and kingdom by finding a missing peace treaty.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & family

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  4. Project Christmas Wish (2020)

    For years Lucy has played Santa to her small town’s community by making their holiday wishes come true. But when Lucy grants a little girl’s wish for a Christmas like she used to have with her mom, she unexpectedly finds her own wishes coming true in life and love.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & family

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  5. Christmas at Grand Valley (2018)

    Burned out from the hubbub of the Chicago gallery world, artist Kelly returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas. Leo, businessman and all-star dad to his children, struggles to balance his time this holiday season. When he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley for its value, he sees this as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation. It isn’t long until Kelly and Leo’s worlds collide.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  6. Twinkle All the Way (2019)

    To pull off a spectacular Christmas-themed wedding, a wedding planner joins forces with the co-owner of a family-run Christmas decoration and house-lighting company.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & family

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  7. Angel of Christmas (2015)

    Susan is a newspaper staffer who decides to generate some Christmas spirit by writing an article about her family’s storied 100-year-old, hand-carved, heirloom Christmas angel. This leads her to accidentally meet Brady, a cute, upbeat artist who insists that he and Susan become fast friends (at least). It turns out that this angel also has the spiritual power to bring people together – as it seems to be doing with Susan and Brady. What’s behind this enchanted ornament? As time moves on, more about this captivating artifact is revealed.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  8. A Royal Christmas (2014)

    A young working girl with a blue-collar background is surprised when her new fiancé announces he is actually a prince of a small sovereign country in Europe. After the couple quickly takes off to spend the holidays at his family’s sprawling, royal castle, she must work hard to win over her disapproving and unaccepting future mother-in-law—the Queen—and find out if love truly can conquer all.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & family

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  9. A Godwink Christmas (2018)

    As Christmas approaches, Paula, a St. Louis antique appraiser, reluctantly accepts a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Daniel, a career-focused attorney. When her Aunt Jane senses she has mixed emotions over the engagement, she invites Paula to her Nantucket home. Upon her arrival, Paula plans a trip to the nearby island of Martha's Vineyard where she meets a charming inn owner.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  10. A Christmas in Tennessee (2018)

    Allison Bennet, along with her daughter Olivia and mother Martha, run a bakery in the small mountain town of White Pines, Tennessee. When Matthew, a charming real estate developer, tries to buy the town for a corporate ski resort, Allison and the townspeople must work together to prevent that from happening. And just when the Bennet ladies seem out of luck, an unexpected visitor – with a well-known sweet tooth for cookies and milk – comes to the bakery and may in fact be the key to solving everything.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  11. Christmas in Evergreen: Letters to Santa (2018)

    Lisa's trip home to Evergreen for the holidays finds her shepherding an effort to save the town's beloved general store, fulfilling the wishes of a Christmas past and finding a romance full of Christmas magic.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  12. Debbie Macomber's Dashing Through The Snow (2015)

    Stranded at an airport at Christmastime, Ashley Harrison accepts a ride from Dash Sutherland, who has just rented the last car in town. As the pair heads north, their adventures include car trouble, adopting a puppy and being secretly tailed by federal agents, who believe Ashley is up to no good. With a hint of romance gradually filling the air will these two fall in love or will their journey bring about an unexpected road bump to romance?

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both family & romance

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  13. Return to Christmas Creek (2018)

    As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes, a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites with her childhood best friend Mike and her estranged uncle Harry, whose mysterious rift with Amelia’s father divided her family during the holiday season when she was a child.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance & family

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  14. Check Inn to Christmas (2019)

    Julia Crawley and Ryan Mason must unite their families during Crestridge's Centennial Christmas celebration in order to save their family inns from a chain resort.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  15. Sense, Sensibility & Snowmen (2019)

    Christmas enthusiast party planners Ella and her sister, Marianne, clash with their client, Edward, who is a not-so-jolly toy company CEO.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  16. Five Star Christmas (2020)

    After moving back to her hometown, Lisa (Lenz) plots with her siblings and grandparents to help her father's bed and breakfast get a five-star review from an incognito travel critic (Webster), but ends up falling for him, not knowing he is the real critic.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  17. Christmas Next Door (2017)

    Eric Randall, an author of bachelor lifestyle books, is left in charge of his young niece and nephew for the holidays. Eric turns to his neighbor April, a lover of all things Christmas, for help.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  18. Chateau Christmas (2020)

    Margot, a world-renowned pianist, returns to Chateau Newhaus to spend the holidays with her family and is reunited with an ex who helps her rediscover her passion for music.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  19. Finding 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: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  20. Christmas in Evergreen: Tidings of Joy (2019)

    A skeptical writer shows up in Evergreen to get the scoop on the town's famed passion for Christmas during a search for a long-lost time capsule.

    Why it matches: Recommended by TMDB viewers · both romance

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  21. The Habitation of Dragons (1992)

    Two brothers of totally different natures live in a small town in Texas. Since the death of their father they confront one another all the time for all kind of major and minor problems.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style

  22. Ballerina (1966)

    Story of a young ballet student in Denmark who succeeds despite her mother’s objections.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family

  23. The Way of Osaka Financing 1 (1996)

    A special drama starring Masahiro Nakai of SMAP, which was aired on Fuji TV six times from 1996 to 2005. The original is a comic of the same name by Yuji Aoki. The script was written by Ryoichi Kimizuka of "Bayside Shakedown", and it is a comical and fast-paced work. Tatsuyuki Haibara (Masahiro Nakai), a young man who joined Naniwa's financial company, Imperial Finance, is "the best financial company in Osaka" while witnessing the sadness, thickness, and warmth of human beings who are at the mercy of money. It is impressive to follow the figure of aiming for. By arranging attractive female guests, themes that tend to be raw, such as debt and debt collection, can be made to look friendly and gorgeous. His senior who leads Haibara, Kuwata (Kaoru Kobayashi), and other astringent men are also a must-see.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style

  24. Madicken of June Hill (1980)

    A second movie based on Astrid Lindgren's novel "Madicken och Junibackens pims", which is about two sisters and their adventures in 1910s Sweden.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family

  25. Bugsy Malone (1976)

    New York, 1929, a war rages between two rival gangsters, Fat Sam and Dandy Dan. Dan is in possession of a new and deadly weapon, the dreaded "splurge gun". As the custard pies fly, Bugsy Malone, an all-round nice guy, falls for Blousey Brown, a singer at Fat Sam's speakeasy. His designs on her are disrupted by the seductive songstress Tallulah who wants Bugsy for herself.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family

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  26. Angels and Insects (1995)

    In Victorian England, wealthy patriarch Sir Harald Alabaster invites an impoverished biologist, William Adamson, into his home. There, William tries to continue his work, but is distracted by Alabaster's seductive daughter, Eugenia. William and Eugenia begin a torrid romance, but as the couple become closer, the young scientist begins to realize that dark, disturbing things are happening behind the closed doors of the Alabaster manor.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance

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  27. Fanaa (2006)

    Zooni Ali Beg is a blind Kashmiri girl who travels without her parents for the first time with a dance troupe to Delhi to perform in a ceremony for independence day. On her journey, she meets Rehan Khan, a casanova and tour guide who flirts with her. Although her friends warn Zooni about him, she cannot resist falling in love with him and he takes her on a private tour of New Delhi. But there is more to Rehan than meets the eye and Zooni will have to make a heartbreaking decision.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance

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  28. Far North (2008)

    In the arctic, as Saiva is being born, a shaman declares that she is evil and will bring harm to all who become involved with her. Saiva is cast out of her tribe of herders and grows up to live a nomadic existence with Anja, a young woman she adopts as an infant. Then Loki, an injured and starving soldier, stumbles into their isolated lives. The women nurse him back to health, but treachery, violence and doom await them all.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both romance

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  29. The Skin of Sorrow (2010)

    It's 1832, 22-year-old Raphaël's gambling has driven him to the brink of suicide. As he is about to throw himself in the Seine, a shopkeeper offers him something: a mysterious "skin of sorrow", which will grant all his wishes, but in doing so will shrink his remaining time on earth.

    Why it matches: Similar story and style

  30. VeggieTales: Esther, The Girl Who Became Queen (2000)

    The king needs a new queen, and Esther has been chosen! But she's about to find out that being queen is going to take more courage than she ever imagined! When a small town girl wakes up with the weight of the world on her shoulders and the fate of her people in her hands, can she find the courage to do what's right?

    Why it matches: Similar story and style · both family

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What are the best movies like Family is Like Family?

The closest matches to Family is Like Family are Brimming with Love (2018), Last Chance for Christmas (2015) and A Christmas Prince: The Royal Baby (2019). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.

What should I watch after Family is Like Family?

Start with Brimming with Love (2018), the closest match to Family is Like Family.

What is the highest-rated movie like Family is Like Family?

A Royal Christmas (2014), rated 6.7/10 by 252 TMDB users.

What is the newest movie like Family is Like Family?

Project Christmas Wish (2020) is the most recent release on this list.

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