Movies Like A Home for Christmas: A Foster Care Story
If you liked A Home for Christmas: A Foster Care Story (2023), a family movie directed by Kevin Ruiz, 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.
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Angela's Christmas (2017)
★ 6.8/10Also familyA trip to church with her family on Christmas Eve gives young Angela an extraordinary idea. A heartwarming tale based on a story by Frank McCourt.
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PAW Patrol: Jet to the Rescue (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also familyA royal relative steals a gem with the power to make things fly, the Paw Patrol takes to the skies to stop him and save Barkingburg.
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Tin Toy (1988)
★ 6.1/10Also familyBabies are hardly monster-like, unless you're a toy. After escaping a drooling baby, Tinny realizes that he wants to be played with after all. But in the amount of time it takes him to discover this, the baby's…
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Tangled Ever After (2012)
★ 7.1/10Also familyThe kingdom is in a festive mood as everyone gathers for the royal wedding of Rapunzel and Flynn. However, when Pascal and Maximus, as flower chameleon and ring bearer, respectively, lose the gold bands, a frenzied…
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Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also familyMater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight…
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Little Lord Fauntleroy (1980)
★ 7.3/10Also familyYoung Cedric Errol and his widowed mother live in genteel poverty in 1880s Brooklyn after the death of his father. Cedric's grandfather, the Earl of Dorincourt, has long ago disowned his son for marrying an American…
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Far from the Tree (2021)
★ 8.1/10Also familyOn an idyllic beach in the Pacific Northwest, curiosity gets the better of a young raccoon whose frustrated parent attempts to keep them both safe.
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Paperman (2012)
★ 8/10Also familyAn urban office worker finds that paper airplanes are instrumental in meeting a girl in ways he never expected.
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The Nutcracker Prince (1990)
★ 6.5/10Also familyAfter young Clara receives a wooden nutcracker as a Christmas gift, she dreams about a fantastical battle between her Nutcracker Prince and the evil Mouse King. At stake is the Nutcracker's freedom - and Clara's future…
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Mike's New Car (2002)
★ 6.9/10Also familyMike discovers that being the top-ranking laugh collector at Monsters, Inc. has its benefits – in particular, earning enough money to buy a six-wheel-drive car that's loaded with gadgets. That new-car smell doesn't…
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Ferdinand the Bull (1938)
★ 6.7/10Also familyThis Oscar-winning short tells of a bull who preferred to sit under trees and smell flowers to clashing horns with his fellow animals. As luck would have it, an untimely bee reveals Ferdinand's ferocious side via…
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Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas (2011)
★ 6.5/10Also familyWhen Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to…
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Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also familyDetermined 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…
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Lorenzo (2004)
★ 6.4/10Also familyA cat named Lorenzo is dismayed to discover that his tail has developed a personality of its own.
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Day & Night (2010)
★ 7.7/10Also familyWhen Day, a sunny fellow, encounters Night, a stranger of distinctly darker moods, sparks fly! Day and Night are frightened and suspicious of each other at first, and quickly get off on the wrong foot. But as they…
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Sketch (2025)
★ 7/10Also familyWhen a young girl’s sketchbook falls into a strange pond, her drawings come to life—chaotic, real, and on the loose. As the town descends into chaos, her family must reunite and stop the monsters they never meant to…
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Party Central (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also familyMike and Sulley are back at Monsters University for a fun-filled weekend with their Oozma Kappa fraternity brothers. The gang is throwing their first party, but no one’s showing up. Luckily for them, Mike and Sulley…
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Snoopy Presents: It's the Small Things, Charlie Brown (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also familyCharlie Brown is determined to win the big baseball game. But things turn into a fiasco right before the matchup, when Sally bonds with a little flower on the pitcher's mound and vows to protect it at all costs.
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Groot Takes a Bath (2022)
★ 7.1/10Also familyEverybody needs some alone time to relax and wash up, but things go quite differently when you’re a Flora Colossi toddler.