Movies Like A Christmas Carol
If you liked A Christmas Carol (1984), a drama and fantasy movie directed by Pierre Boutron, 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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A Christmas Carol (1999)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasyMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…
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Nine Days (2021)
★ 6.8/10Also drama and fantasyA bureaucrat interviews five souls to decide which of them will be given a life on Earth. But he soon faces an existential challenge of his own.
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FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and fantasyLondon, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
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The Shepherd (2023)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasyOn Christmas Eve, a fighter pilot on his way home becomes lost while flying over water and needs a miracle to land safely.
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A Christmas Carol (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and fantasyMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…
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Scrooge (1951)
★ 7.4/10Also fantasy and dramaEbenezer Scrooge malcontentedly shuffles through life as a cruel, miserly businessman, until he is visited by three spirits on Christmas Eve who show him how his unhappy childhood and adult behavior has left him a…
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Mood Indigo (2013)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and fantasyA woman suffers from an unusual illness caused by a flower growing in her lungs.
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Kisses (2008)
★ 7.1/10Also dramaTwo kids, Dylan and Kylie, run away from home on Christmas Day and spend a night of magic and terror on the streets of inner-city Dublin.
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The Canterville Ghost (1996)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and dramaWhen a teenaged girl moves to England, with her brothers and parents into the ancient Canterville Hall, she's not at all happy. Especially as there's a ghost and a mysterious re-appearing bloodstain on the hearth. She…
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Three Days and a Life (2019)
★ 6.5/10Also dramaChristmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
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Repeat Performance (1947)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and fantasyOn New Year's Eve 1946, Sheila Page kills her husband Barney. She wishes that she could relive 1946 and avoid the mistakes that she made throughout the year. Her wish comes true but cheating fate proves more difficult…
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The Good Witch's Gift (2010)
★ 7.5/10Also drama and fantasyAlmost as soon as Jake and Cassie decide to get married on Christmas Eve, complications arise.
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A Christmas Carol (1938)
★ 7/10Also drama and fantasyMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…
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Hereafter (2010)
★ 6.1/10Also drama and fantasyThree people — a blue-collar American, a French journalist and a London school boy — are touched by death in different ways.
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24 Days (2014)
★ 6.6/10Also dramaWhen Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
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SAS: Red Notice (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also dramaAn off-duty SAS soldier, Tom Buckingham, must thwart a terror attack on a train running through the Channel Tunnel. As the action escalates on the train, events transpire in the corridors of power that may make the…
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A Christmas Carol (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasy and dramaMiser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he…
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Girl in the Box (2016)
★ 6.7/10Also dramaThe true story of 20-year-old Colleen Stan, a hitchhiking woman abducted by a young couple and held captive for seven years, during which time she's tortured and forced to live as a slave to her captors.
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Petite Maman (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also drama and fantasyAfter the death of her beloved grandmother, eight-year-old Nelly meets a strangely familiar girl her own age in the woods. Instantly forming a connection with this mysterious new friend, Nelly embarks on a fantastical…
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
★ 8.3/10Also drama and fantasyGeorge Bailey has spent his entire life giving to the people of Bedford Falls. All that prevents rich skinflint Mr. Potter from taking over the entire town is George's modest building and loan company. But on Christmas…