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Movies that feel like Just Another Christmas (2020)

If you loved Just Another Christmas, the closest films we have are A Letter to Momo (2012), The Santa Claus Gang (2010) and CJ7 (2008). All three share Just Another Christmas' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality. 3 of the 12 picks below are included with a subscription right now on Disney Plus and Brew and others, checked against today's data.

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

6.7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Roberto Santucciwittyplayfulcontemplativedreamlikewarmcozy
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If Just Another Christmas hit the spot, these will too

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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Just Another Christmas does

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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The Santa Claus Gang
2010 · dir. Paolo Genovese
5.9comedy

Common ground: christmas

The difference: Not nearly as contemplative as Just Another Christmas

On Christmas Eve, three friends dressed as Santa Claus are arrested in what looks like an attempted burglary and charged with being the infamous "Santa Claus Gang". While trying to prove their innocence to the police, the trio explains why they found themselves in such a strange situation...

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CJ7
2008 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 49%6.4comedy · drama · family

Contemplative and dreamlike in the same breath

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%6.2comedy · family · drama

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
6.1comedy · family

Comedy built on wit, twice over

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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The Grinch
2018 · dir. Yarrow Cheney
🍅 60%6.4animation · comedy · family

Both keep coming back to the same thing: christmas

The Grinch hatches a scheme to ruin Christmas when the residents of Whoville plan their annual holiday celebration. But a certain little who might change things.

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Tolo Tolo
2020 · dir. Checco Zalone
5.7comedy · drama · family

Playful drama, and it commits to that

Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.

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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 80%6.7fantasy · family · comedy

Fantasy with a pulse of dream logic, in both cases

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

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Till Luck Do Us Part
2012 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.5comedy

Both are Roberto Santucci's work, and they rhyme

Check out the hilarious story of luck and misadventures of Tino, a family man whose life is transformed after he wins the lottery. Dazzled by wealth, this boaster spends all his money on a life of luxury and ostentation. But after finding out that he is bankrupt, he faces comical situations: besides not telling his wife he is broke because she is pregnant and cannot get upset, Tino must accept help from his neighbor who is an extremely thrifty financial adviser and the only one capable of getting him out of the rut.

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English Vinglish
2012 · dir. Gauri Shinde
🍅 83%7.8comedy · drama · family

Both lean on stillness more than on family

In the United States for the first time, an Indian housewife with a limited command of English turns Manhattan into her personal language school.

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Head Over Heels
2010 · dir. Roberto Santucci
5.7comedy

The same hand behind both of them: Roberto Santucci

After being left by her husband and fired from her work, a workaholic, thirtysomething businesswoman is forced to go through a big change in her life and becomes a partner on a decadent sex shop.

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Till Luck Do Us Part 2
2013 · dir. Roberto Santucci
4.9comedy

Witty comedy in both cases

After all the trouble in the first film, Tino and Jane have more fun adventures. Still tasting bitter failure, they see a light at the end of the tunnel with uncle Olavinho’s unexpected inheritance. However, the will carries an unusual request: the rich uncle wants his ashes to be scattered throughout the Grand Canyon. The couple takes the opportunity of the trip to fulfill this wish and decides to go to Las Vegas and end up getting into comical situations. Big time spender Tino will fall into the greatest temptations and indulge in the casinos of the gambling city.

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