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Movies that feel like Home for the Holidays (1995)

If you loved Home for the Holidays, the closest films we have are Let the Sunshine In (2017), Late Marriage (2001) and Love Is All You Need (2012). All three share Home for the Holidays' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 6 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Netflix, HBO Max and Amazon Prime Video and others, checked against today's data.

After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.

🍅 63% Rotten Tomatoes6.6 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Jodie Fosterwittyplayfulcontemplativeromantictender

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Let the Sunshine In
2017 · dir. Claire Denis
🍅 87%6comedy · drama · romance

Witty and playful in the same breath

The difference: Made in the 2010s, in a different era of the craft

Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.

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Late Marriage
2001 · dir. Dover Koshashvili
🍅 88%7.1comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative where it counts, romantic underneath

The difference: Reviewed even better

Zaza is a 31-year old Israeli bachelor, handsome and intelligent, and his family wants to see him married. But tradition dictates that Zaza has to choose a young virgin. She must be beautiful and from a good family, preferably rich. Zaza's parents, Yasha and Lily drag Zaza to meet potential brides and their families. Zaza has no choice. He plays along with his family, advocates of the suffocating traditions of their Georgian Jewish heritage. But Zaza always manages to somehow get out of being engaged. What his parents don't know is that Zaza is already in love. Judith is sensuous, strong and intriguing. She's also a divorcée with a 6-year-old daughter. So Zaza has kept Judith a secret from his family. He will have to choose between respect of the strict confines of family and tradition, or the love of his life.

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Love Is All You Need
2012 · dir. Susanne Bier
🍅 75%6.5comedy · romance · drama

Tender comedy, and it commits to that

Ida, a Danish hairdresser who has lost her hair to cancer, returns home from the hospital one day to find her husband is cheating on her. She decides to travel to Italy on her own for her daughter's wedding, but discovers on arriving that the wedding gathering will present its own challenges.

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The Girl on the Bridge
1999 · dir. Patrice Leconte
🍅 88%7.5drama · comedy · romance

Drama with a pulse of wit, in both cases

It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.

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The Family Stone
2005 · dir. Thomas Bezucha
🍅 52%6.3comedy · drama · romance

Common ground in both: holiday and christmas

An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.

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Cold Comfort Farm
1995 · dir. John Schlesinger
🍅 82%7.2comedy · romance

Both lean on play more than on romance

The difference: None of the stillness Home for the Holidays is built on

In this adaptation of the satirical British novel, Flora Poste, a plucky London society girl orphaned at age 19, finds a new home with some rough relatives, the Starkadders of Cold Comfort Farm. With a take-charge attitude and some encouragement from her mischievous friend, Mary, Flora changes the Starkadders' lives forever when she settles into their rustic estate, bringing the backward clan up to date and finding inspiration for her novel in the process.

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Strictly Ballroom
1992 · dir. Baz Luhrmann
7.2comedy · drama · romance

Contemplative comedy in both cases

Brave new steps put Scott's career in jeopardy. With a new partner and determination, can he still succeed?

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Same Time, Next Year
1978 · dir. Robert Mulligan
🍅 40%7.2comedy · drama · romance

Drama built on romance, twice over

A man and woman meet by chance at a romantic inn over dinner and, although both are happily married to others, they find themselves in the same bed the next morning questioning how this could have happened. They agree to meet on the same weekend each year—in the same hotel room—and the years pass each has some personal crisis that the other helps them through, often without both of them understanding what is going on.

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A Summer's Tale
1996 · dir. Éric Rohmer
🍅 98%7.6romance · drama · comedy

Common ground: holiday

Awaiting his girlfriend Léna’s arrival at the Breton seaside resort of Dinard, Gaspard befriends — and flirts heavily with — two other women, the companionable ethnology student Margot and the sensual townie Solène, making for a rather complicated situation when Léna finally arrives.

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Rab Ne Bana Di Jodi
2008 · dir. Aditya Chopra
🍅 78%7.2comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on tenderness more than on romance

A boring, reserved husband secretly becomes a lively, confident stranger to woo his own unaware wife only to make her fall head over heels for his dashing alter ego.

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Italian for Beginners
2000 · dir. Lone Scherfig
🍅 87%7comedy · drama · romance

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

Several lonely hearts in a semi-provincial suburb of a town in Denmark use a beginner's course in Italian as the platform to meet the romance of their lives. The film, which unspools the connections and family drama shared between the students, complies with several aesthetic principles of Dogme 95 movement.

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Jab We Met
2007 · dir. Imtiaz Ali
🍅 100%7.9drama · comedy · romance

Playful drama, and it commits to that

A depressed wealthy businessman and a spunky carefree young woman embark on an unexpected journey that changes their lives.

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