Movies like The Naughty Nine (2023)
The best movies like The Naughty Nine (2023) are The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday (2023), The Claus Family 3 (2022) and The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000). If The Naughty Nine hooked you with its family and adventure, these 30 similar films are what to watch next, and every pick says why it matches.
Quick picks
- Highest ratedHome Alone (1990)7.5/10 from 13,059 votes
- NewestThe Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2 (2025)Released 2025
The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday (2023)
To keep their annual Holiday Heist-tacular afloat, Mr. Wolf and his crew of animal outlaws will have to restore the whole city's Christmas spirit — fast!
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Claus Family 3 (2022)
When the delivery of presents goes wrong and Grandpa Noël gets in trouble, siblings Jules and Noor must work together to save Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisThe Ultimate Christmas Present (2000)
When 13-year-old Allie Thompson and her best friend Sam happen upon a weather-making machine discarded by none other than Santa Claus, they use it to cause a snow day in Los Angeles. But when the machine gets out of hand, it threatens to ruin Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisAll I Want For Christmas (1991)
Siblings Ethan and Hallie O'Fallon plot to get their divorced parents back together in time for Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisDashing Through the Snow (2023)
Eddie Garrick is a good-hearted man who has lost his belief in the wonder of Christmas. While spending time with his nine-year-old daughter Charlotte on Christmas Eve, he befriends a mysterious man in a red suit named Nick.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisDear Santa (2024)
Likeable 6th grader Liam writes to Santa asking him to prove that he's real. But Liam is dyslexic and accidentally sends his letter to Satan instead, who shows up at Liam's house, excited to have his first fanboy letter and wanting a little of Liam's soul.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisA Christmas Mystery (2022)
When her best friend's father is falsely accused of stealing the town's prized jingle bells, a young amateur sleuth and her friends must find the real thief before Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNoelle (2019)
Kris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisTo Grandmother's House We Go (1992)
When precocious twins Sarah and Julie feel like Mom is tired of them, they take off on an exciting adventure to their grandmother's house and encounter a pair of villains along the way.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisSnow (2004)
Nick Snowden is reluctantly taking over the family business and with only three days before the big night, one of Nick's younger reindeer is stolen from the North Pole and taken to a zoo.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Elf Me (2023)
A bumbling Christmas elf whose Santa's helper job is jeopardized by a complete inability in building toys teams up with a kid harassed by bullies.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisI'll Be Home for Christmas (1998)
Estranged from his father, college student Jake is lured home to New York for Christmas with the promise of receiving a classic Porsche as a gift. When the bullying football team dumps him in the desert in a Santa suit, Jake is left without identification or money to help him make the journey. Meanwhile, his girlfriend, Allie, does not know where he is, and accepts a cross-country ride from Jake's rival, Eddie.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause (2006)
Now that Santa and Mrs. Claus have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisHome Alone (1990)
Eight-year-old Kevin McCallister makes the most of the situation after his family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on Christmas vacation. When thieves try to break into his home, he puts up a fight like no other.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisHome Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Instead of flying to Florida with his folks, Kevin ends up alone in New York, where he gets a hotel room with his dad's credit card—despite problems from a clerk and meddling bellboy. But when Kevin runs into his old nemeses, the Wet Bandits, he's determined to foil their plans to rob a toy store on Christmas Eve.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNativity 2: Danger in the Manger! (2012)
This sequel to the popular British comedy sees a new teacher (David Tennant) take over. When he enters his school in the National 'Song for Christmas' Competition, he and his pregnant wife, and the schoolchildren, embark on an epic road trip that ends up with a birth and a donkey, where he must embrace his fears and become a hero.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisTiny Christmas (2017)
It is Christmas Eve, and a clumsy elf accidentally shrinks down two cousins into miniature sizes! The kids are then scooped up into Santa's sack and dropped off across the street at their neighbour's house. In order to make it home for Christmas (just one house away!), the tiny kids must comically work together and overcome holiday hazards to set themselves right and make Christmas magic happen! But, will the tiny kids get home on time?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & adventure
Christmas Break-In (2018)
Izzy is an energetic 9-year-old. Overscheduled and running late, Izzy's parents can't pick her up on-time the last day of school before Christmas break. A blizzard complicates the matter, but not as much as a pair of bad guys who are freezing in an ice cream truck. The school's janitor is kidnapped by the intruders, and it's up to Izzy to save the day.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family
SnoozefestMovies like thisChristmas...Again?! (2021)
Rowena "Ro" is a high-spirited 11-year-old hoping to add more spunk to her Christmas celebrations when her parents’ divorce is going anything but smoothly.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisNativity! (2009)
Paul, charged with directing his school's Nativity play, falsely boasts that his ex-girlfriend plans to turn the production into a film.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisThe Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2 (2025)
When Santa vanishes during a chaotic Christmas, a quirky actor tries to replace him. A father, his teen son and special friends must rescue Santa to save Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
The Christmas Chronicles (2018)
Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & adventure
Worth the HypeMovies like thisGrumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever (2014)
A lonely cat living in a mall pet shop has a sour outlook on life until, in the midst of the holiday rush, she’s swept up into a robbery and a friendship with a human girl.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisI'll Be Next Door for Christmas (2018)
A comedy about a family that's crazy for Christmas. Except for the 16-year-old daughter -- her family's over-the-top Christmas celebrations have made her life miserable. When her long distance boyfriend decides to visit for the holidays, she's determined to spare him her family's Christmas obsession, so she hires actors to play her parents and stages a fake Christmas dinner in the empty house next door. What could go wrong?
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Home Alone 3 (1997)
9-year-old Alex Pruitt is home alone with the chicken pox. Turns out, due to a mix-up among nefarious spies, Alex was given a toy car concealing a top-secret microchip. Now Alex must fend off the spies as they try to break into his house to get it back.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisBigger Fatter Liar (2017)
Kevin Shepard is a tech-savvy young genius who uses his intelligence to slack off. When greedy video game executive Larry Wolf gets a hold of his ideas for a video game, Kevin and his best friend Becca set off for San Francisco to make Wolf's life miserable through a series of pranks.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & comedy
SnoozefestMovies like thisMerry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
Step brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Worth the HypeMovies like thisJingle All the Way (1996)
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both family & adventure
Popcorn FlickMovies like thisHome Alone: The Holiday Heist (2012)
10-year-old Finn is terrified to learn his family is relocating from sunny California to Maine in the scariest house he has ever seen! Convinced that his new house is haunted, Finn sets up a series of elaborate traps to catch the “ghost” in action. Left home alone with his sister while their parents are stranded across town, Finn’s traps catch a new target – a group of thieves who have targeted Finn’s house.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
SnoozefestMovies like thisGood Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! (2011)
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las Vegas with a seemingly normal older couple in a station wagon from Roswell, New Mexico. It turns out that the couple believes they are the victims of alien abduction. The Duncan's must resort to purchasing a clunker Yugo to get to Utah, have their luggage stolen in Las Vegas, and survive a zany Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma Blankenhooper.
Why it matches: Fans watch both · both comedy & family
Popcorn FlickMovies like this
Like The Naughty Nine and something else?
Blend two favourites and we’ll find the films in between.
Frequently asked questions
What are the best movies like The Naughty Nine?
The closest matches to The Naughty Nine are The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday (2023), The Claus Family 3 (2022) and The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000). Below are 27 more, each with the reason it matches.
What should I watch after The Naughty Nine?
People who watched The Naughty Nine most often go on to The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday (2023), The Claus Family 3 (2022) and The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000).
What is the highest-rated movie like The Naughty Nine?
Home Alone (1990), rated 7.5/10 by 13,059 TMDB users.
What is the newest movie like The Naughty Nine?
The Night My Dad Saved Christmas 2 (2025) is the most recent release on this list.
Are there English movies like The Naughty Nine?
Yes: The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday (2023), The Ultimate Christmas Present (2000) and All I Want For Christmas (1991).
How are movies similar to The Naughty Nine chosen?
First come films that Trakt’s viewers watch alongside The Naughty Nine, then TMDB’s recommendations and films it rates as similar in story and genre. Each pick says which signal put it there.