Movies Like Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale

If you liked Kelly Clarkson's Cautionary Christmas Music Tale (2013), a music and family movie directed by Hamish Hamilton, 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
Preacher's Kid (2010)
★ 6.4/10Also family and music
Longing to experience more of life, twentysomething preacher's daughter Angie strikes out on her own for the very first time and joins a traveling gospel show.
2
Curious George: A Very Monkey Christmas (2009)
★ 6.8/10Also family and tv movie
George and The Man In The Yellow Hat are having a merry time counting down to Christmas. But neither can decide what to give each other. Will they find the answers before Christmas morning?
3
Aaliyah: The Princess of R&B (2014)
★ 6.5/10Also music and tv movie
The story of R&B singer and actress Aaliyah; namely, the highs and lows of her career, her romantic pursuits, and the events leading up to her death in 2001 at the age of 22.
4
Sarafina! (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also music and family
A Soweto schoolgirl named Sarafina is galvanized to protest apartheid after her teacher is arrested for her activism, leading her to join the student resistance movement.
5
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé (2019)
★ 8/10Also music and tv movie
This intimate, in-depth look at Beyoncé's celebrated 2018 Coachella performance reveals the emotional road from creative concept to cultural movement.
6
Lemonade (2016)
★ 8.4/10Also music and tv movie
The second "visual album" (a collection of short films) by Beyoncé, this time around she takes a piercing look at racial issues and feminist concepts through a sexualized, satirical, and solemn tone.
7
Carmen: A Hip Hopera (2001)
★ 6.5/10Also music and tv movie
An engaged Philadelphia policeman falls in love with a beautiful woman while dealing with a corrupt superior.
8
Bessie (2015)
★ 6.4/10Also music and tv movie
The story of legendary blues performer, Bessie Smith, who rose to fame during the 1920s and '30s.
9
Steve Martin and Martin Short: An Evening You Will Forget for the Rest of Your Life (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also music and tv movie
Comedians and writers Steve Martin and Martin Short perform a live comedy set with music by The Steep Canyon Rangers and jazz pianist, Jeff Babko, at the Peace Center in Greenville, South Carolina.
10
Hairspray Live! (2016)
★ 7.4/10Also tv movie and music
A teenage girl living in Baltimore in the early 1960s dreams of appearing on a popular TV dance show.
11
Style Wars (1984)
★ 7.5/10Also music and tv movie
Tony Silver and Henry Chalfant's PBS documentary tracks the rise and fall of subway graffiti in New York in the late 1970s and early 1980s.
12
Christmas à la Carte (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie
When food correspondent, Carly, gets a shot at her own show, she is sent to Angel Heights to help Grant open his diner and film it as a Holiday special for her TV show. Will Grant and Carly open their hearts too?
13
The Black Dahlia Murder: Yule em All! (2020)
Also music
Detroit's Kings of the Underworld, The Black Dahlia Murder, present their "Yule 'Em All: A Holiday Variety Extravaganza" program hosted by Neil Hamburger (Comedian, Actor). This feel-good metal holiday special contains…
14
Home Alone 4 (2002)
★ 4.5/10Also family and tv movie
Kevin McCallister's parents have split up. Now living with his mom, he decides to spend Christmas with his dad at the mansion of his father's rich girlfriend, Natalie. Meanwhile robber Marv Merchants, one of the…
15
The Action Pack Saves Christmas (2022)
★ 4.9/10Also family
The Action Pack teams up with Santa Claus to save the day when greedy Teddy Von Taker plots to steal all of the Christmas cheer from Hope Springs.
16
The Christmas Cure (2017)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movie
A doctor returns home for Christmas to find that her father has decided to retire from his own practice. After reuniting with her high school sweetheart, she wonders if she should stay and take over her father's…
17
Baking Christmas (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also tv movie
When their mother decides to retire, her three children organize Christmas Cake Off to choose which one of them is going to take over the family bakery.
18
Look Who's Talking Now! (1993)
★ 5.4/10Also family
When high-powered executive Samantha LeBon hatches a scheme to spend a romantic Christmas with her new employee – the unsuspecting, blithesome James – his wife, their kids and their two dogs, Rocks and Daphne, must…
19
A Christmas Princess (2019)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie
A struggling chef living in a trendy New York borough, Jessica took over a small restaurant where she used to work as a waitress, but it’s growing tough to make ends meet. Prince Jack, who’s in the city for his…
20
A Very British Christmas (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie
Opera singer Jessica's flight to her concert in Vienna gets delayed and she is stuck in a remote area of England. The only place to stay is a bed-and-breakfast in an enchanting village run by a handsome widower named…