Movies Like World's First Christmas

If you liked World's First Christmas (2023), a comedy and drama movie directed by Susana Garcia and Gigi Soares, here are 20 movies with a similar feel, based on TMDB's recommendations. Each one links to its cast, trailer and where it's streaming.

1
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also comedy
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…
2
Disenchanted (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
Disillusioned with life in the city, feeling out of place in suburbia, and frustrated that her happily ever after hasn’t been so easy to find, Giselle turns to the magic of Andalasia for help. Accidentally transforming…
3
Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas (2021)
★ 7/10Also comedy
After a series of mishaps, Mickey, Minnie and the gang are separated all over the world and must try to get back to Hot Dog Hills by Christmas Eve. A mysterious and jolly stranger shows up to tell them about The…
4
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also comedy
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.
5
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
★ 6/10Also 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…
6
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also comedy
When Brian Conway, a successful businessman whose family relationships have suffered, gets in a car accident on Christmas Eve, Santa gives him twelve chances to redo the day and repair the relationships in his life…
7
A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy
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…
8
Three Wise Men and a Baby (2022)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and drama
Three brothers get the surprise of their lives when they are forced to work together to care for a baby over the holidays. As they slowly get the hang of things, they find themselves on unexpected journeys of…
9
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
★ 6/10Also comedy
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…
10
Elf (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
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…
11
Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
★ 6.8/10Also drama
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced…
12
Dashing Through the Snow (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also 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…
13
Genie (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy
Flora, a genie trapped for more than 2,000 years inside an antique jewelry box, is accidentally called to service by Bernard, whose life is unraveling around him.
14
Once Upon a Deadpool (2018)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy
A kidnapped Fred Savage is forced to endure Deadpool's PG-13 rendition of Deadpool 2, as a Princess Bride-esque story full of magic, wonder, and zero Fs.
15
Click & Collect (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy
To save his daughter's Christmas, Andrew goes on a road trip with Dev, his neighbour from hell, to buy an elusive Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess.
16
Godmothered (2020)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy
A young and unskilled fairy godmother that ventures out on her own to prove her worth by tracking down a young girl whose request for help was ignored. What she discovers is that the girl has now become a grown woman…
17
In Your Dreams (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy
Stevie and her little brother Elliot journey into the wildly absurd landscape of their own dreams to ask the Sandman to grant them the perfect family.
18
It Runs in the Family (2003)
★ 6/10Also comedy and drama
This is the story of a dysfunctional New York family, and their attempts to reconcile
19
Confessions of an Invisible Girl (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and drama
When the clever but socially-awkward Tetê joins a new school, she'll do anything to fit in. But the queen bee among her classmates has other ideas.
20
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and drama
The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant…