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Movies that feel like The Christmas Chronicles (2018)

If you loved The Christmas Chronicles, the closest films we have are Elf (2003), Just Another Christmas (2020) and The Angry Birds Movie (2016). All three share The Christmas Chronicles' 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, Amazon Prime Video and Disney Plus and others, checked against today's data.

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.

🍅 67% Rotten Tomatoes7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Clay Kaytiswittyplayfulepicwarmcozydreamlike
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If The Christmas Chronicles hit the spot, these will too

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Elf
2003 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 85%7.1comedy · family · fantasy

The same two preoccupations: holiday, and santa claus

The difference: None of the scale The Christmas Chronicles is built on

When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve, he's transported back to the North Pole and raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. But as he grows into adulthood, he can't shake the nagging feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.

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Just Another Christmas
2020 · dir. Roberto Santucci
6.7comedy · drama · fantasy

Both are built on the same subject: christmas

The difference: Not nearly as epic as The Christmas Chronicles

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.

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The Angry Birds Movie
2016 · dir. Clay Kaytis
🍅 44%6.3animation · adventure · comedy

Both are Clay Kaytis's work, and they rhyme

The difference: Missing the dream logic of The Christmas Chronicles

An island populated entirely by happy, flightless birds or almost entirely. In this paradise, Red, a bird with a temper problem, speedy Chuck, and the volatile Bomb have always been outsiders. But when the island is visited by mysterious green piggies, it’s up to these unlikely outcasts to figure out what the pigs are up to.

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Christopher Robin
2018 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 73%7.2adventure · comedy · family

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

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The Santa Clause
1994 · dir. John Pasquin
🍅 73%6.6fantasy · drama · comedy

Both keep coming back to the same thing: holiday

The difference: Sits closer to drama than The Christmas Chronicles does

On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.

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Jingle All the Way
1996 · dir. Brian Levant
🍅 20%5.8family · adventure · comedy

The same preoccupation in both: santa claus

The difference: Critics were much harder on this one

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.

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Moana
2026 · dir. Thomas Kail
🍅 32%5.8family · fantasy · comedy

The same mix in both: scale, then warmth

Teenage Moana answers the Ocean's call and, for the first time, voyages beyond the reef of her island of Motunui with infamous demigod Maui on an unforgettable journey to restore prosperity to her people.

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

Common ground: 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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Dolittle
2020 · dir. Stephen Gaghan
🍅 15%5.6family · comedy · fantasy

Cozy and dreamlike in the same breath

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

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Mirror Mirror
2012 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 50%5.6adventure · comedy · family

Comedy with a pulse of wit, in both cases

After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil...

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Violent Night
2022 · dir. Tommy Wirkola
🍅 74%6.7action · comedy · fantasy

One thread runs through both: saving christmas

When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he’s about to show why this Nick is no saint.

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Asterix at the Olympic Games
2008 · dir. Frédéric Forestier
5.2fantasy · adventure · comedy

Adventure built on play, twice over

Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.

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