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Movies Like For next Christmas

If you liked For next Christmas (2025), a movie directed by Alvaro Arista, 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. 1Herself

    Herself (2020)

    ★ 6.7/10

    Struggling to provide her daughters with a safe, happy home, Sandra decides to build one - from scratch. Using all her ingenuity to make her ambitious dream a reality, Sandra draws together a community to lend a…

  2. 2Bad Christmas

    Bad Christmas (2021)

    ★ 7.5/10

    A peaceful Christmas Eve is interrupted when a thief breaks into a villa. When the family’s little daughter mistakes him for Santa Claus and asks him to fulfill her Christmas wish, he will be forced to perform a…

  3. 3Angela's Christmas Wish

    Angela's Christmas Wish (2020)

    ★ 6.4/10

    A determined Angela makes a wish to reunite her family in time for Christmas, then launches a plan to find her way from Ireland to Australia.

  4. 4Exchanged

    Exchanged (2024)

    ★ 8.1/10

    One enchanted night, during a meteor shower, young Sebastián made a heartfelt wish: for his loving nanny, Lupe, to become his mother, for her warmth and care were what he longed for, unlike his busy mother, Paola. The…

  5. 5Irish Wish

    Irish Wish (2024)

    ★ 6.1/10

    Maddie's dream guy is days away from marrying her best friend when a wish for true love made on an ancient stone in Ireland magically alters her fate.

  6. 6Tótem

    Tótem (2023)

    ★ 6.8/10

    In a bustling Mexican household, seven-year-old Sol is swept up in a whirlwind of preparations for the birthday party for her father, Tona, led by her mother, aunts, and other relatives. As the day goes on, building to…

  7. 7Goodbye June

    Goodbye June (2025)

    ★ 6.5/10

    Four siblings' lives change drastically when their ailing mother takes a turn for the worse over the holiday season.

  8. 8Padre no hay más que uno 5: Nido repleto

    Padre no hay más que uno 5: Nido repleto (2025)

    ★ 7.1/10

    Some parents experience the anguish of the "empty nest" when their children leave home. Javier, on the other hand, suffers the trauma of the "full nest": no one wants to leave home.

  9. 9A Royal Christmas

    A Royal Christmas (2014)

    ★ 6.7/10

    A young working girl with a blue-collar background is surprised when her new fiancé announces he is actually a prince of a small sovereign country in Europe. After the couple quickly takes off to spend the holidays at…

  10. 10The Miracle of Marcelino

    The Miracle of Marcelino (1955)

    ★ 7.4/10

    Left on the doorstep of a monastery as an infant, Marcelino was raised by the monks. He was well-cared for but lonely and missed having a mother. One day he found a special friend in the forbidden attic, hanging on a…

  11. 11Duplex

    Duplex (2003)

    ★ 6.1/10

    When a young couple buys their dream home, they have no idea what the sweet little old lady upstairs is going to put them through!

  12. 12Elf

    Elf (2003)

    ★ 6.7/10

    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…

  13. 13Beethoven's Christmas Adventure

    Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)

    ★ 6/10

    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. 14Calle Malaga

    Calle Malaga (2025)

    ★ 7.5/10

    An aging Spanish woman in Tangier resists her daughter's plan to sell her home. She fights to keep her home, reclaims belongings and rediscovers love and desire.

  15. 15Hider in the House

    Hider in the House (1989)

    ★ 6.2/10

    A deranged man hides in the attic of a new house and becomes obsessed with the unsuspecting family that moves in.

  16. 16Love at First Kiss

    Love at First Kiss (2023)

    ★ 6.2/10

    The story of Javier who, at the age of 16, while kissing a girl for the first time, realized that he had a gift of romantic clairvoyance. Javier can see the future... and he finally knows who the love of his life is.

  17. 17Encanto

    Encanto (2021)

    ★ 7.6/10

    The tale of an extraordinary family, the Madrigals, who live hidden in the mountains of Colombia, in a magical house, in a vibrant town, in a wondrous, charmed place called an Encanto. The magic of the Encanto has…

  18. 18A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song

    A Cinderella Story: Once Upon a Song (2011)

    ★ 6.4/10

    In this modern telling of the classic tale, aspiring singer Katie Gibbs falls for the new boy at her performing arts high school. But Katie's wicked stepmother and stepsister are scheming to crush her dream before she…

  19. 19The Nutcracker

    The Nutcracker (1993)

    ★ 5.8/10

    On Christmas Eve, a little girl named Marie falls asleep and dreams herself into a fantastic world in which her toys become larger than life. She meets up with the Nutcracker Prince who takes her on a journey to his…

  20. 20Simon Birch

    Simon Birch (1998)

    ★ 6.9/10

    Simon Birch and Joe Wenteworth are boys who have a reputation for being oddballs. Joe never knew his father, and his mother, Rebecca, is keeping her lips sealed no matter how much he protests. Simon, meanwhile, is an…

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