If You Liked A Christmas Story, Watch These Next
Finished A Christmas Story (1983) and want more of the same? These 16 movies are what its fans watched next, ranked by how often people who liked it also liked these. Like A Christmas Story, most of them are comedy, family.
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16 titles · updated 2nd October 2026
1.A Christmas Story Christmas(2022)
6.3ComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
Follows Ralphie, now adult, who returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, and reconciling the passing of his Old Man.
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2.Elf(2003)
6.7ComedyFamilyFantasyAlso comedy and family
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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3.How the Grinch Stole Christmas(2000)
6.8FamilyComedyFantasyAlso family and comedy
The Grinch decides to rob Whoville of Christmas - but a dash of kindness from little Cindy Lou Who and her family may be enough to melt his heart...
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4.Beethoven's Christmas Adventure(2011)
6.0FamilyComedyFantasyAlso family and comedy
A Christmas elf accidentally takes off in Santa's sleigh, crash lands in a small town, and loses the magic toy bag. Beethoven must rescue the elf, recover the bag from greedy crooks, and return the sleigh to Santa in time to save Christmas.
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5.Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse(2001)
7.0AnimationFamilyComedyAlso family and comedy
When a huge snowstorm leaves everyone stranded, Mickey and all of his guests at the House of Mouse, including Pooh, Belle, Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel and many more of his old and new friends, break out the cookies and hot chocolate to help Donald mend his tattered Christmas spirit.
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6.Family Switch(2023)
6.4ComedyFantasyFamilyAlso comedy and family
When the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to normal will bring them closer together than they ever thought possible.
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7.Merry Little Batman(2023)
6.6AnimationActionFamilyAlso family and comedy
This Christmas, Damian Wayne wants to be a superhero like his dad – the one and only Batman. When Damian is left home alone while Batman takes on Gotham’s worst supervillains on Christmas Eve, he stumbles upon a villainous plot to steal Christmas and leaps at the chance to save the day.
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8.Candy Cane Lane(2023)
6.0ComedyFantasyFamilyAlso comedy and family
Determined to win the neighborhood's annual Christmas decorating contest, family man Chris makes a pact with an elf to help him out-do the competition. However, the elf casts a spell bringing the twelve days of Christmas to life, unleashing chaos on the small unsuspecting town.
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9.Jingle All the Way(1996)
6.1FamilyAdventureComedyAlso family and comedy
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,…
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10.Unaccompanied Minors(2006)
6.0FamilyComedyAlso family and comedy
Five disparate kids snowed in at the airport on Christmas Eve learn some lessons about friendship when they launch a bid to get back to their families and outsmart a disgruntled airport official who wants to keep them grounded.
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12.Dashing Through the Snow(2023)
6.0FantasyFamilyComedyAlso family and comedy
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.
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13.National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation(1989)
7.2ComedyAlso comedy
It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going, knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.
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15.The Santa Clause 2(2002)
6.0FantasyComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
Better watch out! The big guy in red is coming to town once again. This time, Scott Calvin -- also known as Santa Claus -- finds out there's an obscure clause in his contract requiring him to take on a wife. He has to leave the North Pole to fulfill his obligations, or else he'll be forced to give up his Yuletide gig.
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16.Tom and Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale(2007)
6.8AnimationComedyFamilyAlso comedy and family
Christmas is never so spirited as when Tom and Jerry lock horns for the holidays in their new original movie--Tom & Jerry: A Nutcracker Tale In an empty opera house, Jerry wishes for a chance to perform -- and magically his dream comes true. The little mouse is whisked away to an enchanted kingdom where anything is…
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