Movies Like Santa’s Shortlist

If you liked Santa’s Shortlist (2025), a fantasy and comedy movie directed by Ada Skalonja and Yas Rboub, 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 and fantasy
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
Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and fantasy
Christmas elves Lanny and Wayne panic when their holiday missions go awry, leaving Wayne thinking he's in BIG trouble with Santa and accidentally revealing other merry mishaps.
3
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.
4
The Smurfs: A Christmas Carol (2011)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasy
When Grouchy Smurf behaves badly to everyone and refuses to celebrate Christmas, the Smurfs of Christmas Past, Present and Future teach him to appreciate Christmas.
5
Dashing Through the Snow (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy 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…
6
The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
★ 6/10Also fantasy and 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…
7
Shrek the Halls (2007)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and fantasy
The Christmas tree isn't the only thing green in this new holiday classic. Shrek is back and trying to get into the spirit of the season. After promising Fiona and the kids a Christmas they'll remember, he is forced to…
8
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.
9
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.
10
Caprice (1986)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and comedy
A girl finds herself inside a fashion magazine – Joanna Hogg's graduation piece at the National Film and Television School starring a then unknown Tilda Swinton.
11
Once Upon a Snowman (2020)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and fantasy
The previously untold origins of Olaf, the innocent and insightful, summer-loving snowman are revealed as we follow Olaf’s first steps as he comes to life and searches for his identity in the snowy mountains outside…
12
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…
13
Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
★ 6/10Also comedy and fantasy
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…
14
That Christmas (2024)
★ 7.1/10Also comedy and fantasy
It's an unforgettable Christmas for the townsfolk of Wellington-on-Sea when the worst snowstorm in history alters everyone's plans — including Santa's.
15
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022)
★ 6/10Also comedy and fantasy
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…
16
Elf (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and fantasy
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…
17
Trolls Holiday in Harmony (2021)
★ 7.1/10Also fantasy and comedy
Queen Poppy plans the first annual Trolls Kingdom Secret Holiday Gift Swap, but things don't go quite as expected.
18
Olaf's Frozen Adventure (2017)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and fantasy
Olaf is on a mission to harness the best holiday traditions for Anna, Elsa, and Kristoff.
19
In Your Dreams (2025)
★ 6.9/10Also comedy and fantasy
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.
20
Jingle All the Way (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also 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…