Movies Like The Land of Smiles
If you liked The Land of Smiles (1961), a tv movie movie directed by Kurt Wilhelm, 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 Royal Runaway Romance (2022)
★ 7.3/10Also tv moviePrincess Amelia of Bundbury travels across America to explore a budding romance with an artist, only to fall in love with her bodyguard, Grady.
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'Tis the Season to be Merry (2021)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movieLooking for a fresh angle to her book on relationships, Merry heads to snow-covered Vermont. She finds a new perspective and Christmas cheer with charismatic aid worker Chris.
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The Little Mermaid Live! (2019)
★ 6.7/10Also tv movieLive musical performances by a star-studded cast will be interwoven into the broadcast of the animated classic.
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Haul Out the Holly (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movieEmily arrives home, hoping to visit her parents, only to discover that they are leaving on a trip of their own. As she stays at their house for the holidays, their HOA is determined to get Emily to participate in the…
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Picture a Perfect Christmas (2019)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieAn extreme-sports photographer returns home for the holiday to take care of her grandmother, only to have a neighbor grab her attention as he needs assistance watching his young nephew.
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A Christmas Kiss (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movieWendy Walton is the best designer in Boston... but no one knows it yet. Hoping to kick-start her career, Wendy has left work with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, the most prestigious…
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My Christmas Prince (2017)
★ 5.8/10Also tv movieSamantha, a dedicated teacher in Manhattan, returns to her home town of Maple Falls, Wyoming every year for Christmas. This year, she’s delighted when her boyfriend Alex, a European diplomat from the tiny country of…
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A Bramble House Christmas (2017)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movieWhile settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim…
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Love, Classified (2022)
★ 6.6/10Also tv movieRomance novelist Emilia is a whirlwind who blows back into the lives of her adult children, Taylor and Zach, under the pretense of a book signing arranged by her hometown's local book shop. As Emilia tries to…
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A Kiss Before Christmas (2021)
★ 6/10Also tv movieEthan, always the nice guy, wakes up in a new reality at Christmas. Initially, he is enthralled with his new life but soon realizes that it's not what he thought it would be.
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Christmas at Castle Hart (2021)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieBrooke Bennett goes to Ireland for Christmas to search for her Irish roots. While there, she meets Aiden Hart, Earl of Glaslough. Mistaken for an elite event planner, she’s hired to host his castle’s epic Christmas…
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Sound of Christmas (2016)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieLizzie is a young piano teacher working at a music school while trying to save enough money for a Steinway piano. The school is gearing up for their major Christmas fundraiser and she has committed much of her time to…
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The Hunchback (1997)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movieBased on Victor Hugo's famed novel, the story of Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer of Notre Dame, and his unrequited love for the gypsy girl, Esmeralda.
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Next Stop, Christmas (2021)
★ 6.4/10Also tv movieAngie wonders what her life would be like if she had married a former boyfriend who became a famous sportscaster. She takes the train home to spend Christmas with her family and inexplicably finds herself 10 years in…
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Drumline: A New Beat (2014)
★ 6.8/10Also tv movieA girl from New York attends a college in Atlanta to join their once-famous marching band.
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Disappearing Acts (2000)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movieA struggling construction worker and an aspiring musician find themselves falling in love.
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My Dinner with Hervé (2018)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieAn unlikely friendship evolves over one wild night in LA between a struggling journalist and actor Hervé Villechaize, the world's most famous gun-toting dwarf, resulting in life-changing consequences for both.
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Catering Christmas (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movieA fledgling caterer, Molly Frost, is hired by Jean Harrison, the perfectionistic director of the renowned Harrison Foundation, to cater this year’s annual Christmas Gala dinner. Things get complicated when Molly falls…
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A Merry Christmas Wish (2022)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movieJanie, a rising marketing executive living in The Big Apple, returns to her hometown of Woodland Falls when her Great-Uncle Randall passes away. Randall has even arranged for his farmhand, Dylan to help at the event…
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The Magic of Ordinary Days (2005)
★ 7.5/10Also tv moviePregnant out of wedlock, an educated young woman is pressured by her father into an arranged marriage with a lonely farmer in this drama set during WWII.