Movies Like There Ain't No Santa Claus
If you liked There Ain't No Santa Claus (1926), a comedy movie directed by James Parrott, 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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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also comedyStep brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong.
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Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also comedyDetermined 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…
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The Bad Guys: A Very Bad Holiday (2023)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyTo keep their annual Holiday Heist-tacular afloat, Mr. Wolf and his crew of animal outlaws will have to restore the whole city's Christmas spirit — fast!
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyHoward 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…
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Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001)
★ 7/10Also comedyWhen a huge snowstorm leaves everyone stranded, Mickey and all of his guests at the House of Mouse, including Pooh, Belle, Snow White, Cinderella, Ariel and many more of his old and new friends, break out the cookies…
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A Bad Moms Christmas (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyAmy, Kiki and Carla – three under-appreciated and over-burdened women – rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for mothers: Christmas. And if creating a more perfect holiday for their families…
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyIt's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his…
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The Best Man Holiday (2013)
★ 6.5/10Also comedyWhen college friends reunite after 15 years over the Christmas holidays, they discover just how easy it is for long-forgotten rivalries and romances to be reignited.
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A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyFollows Ralphie, now adult, who returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, and reconciling the passing of his Old…
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Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special (1988)
★ 7.2/10Also comedyPee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1.5 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with…
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Daddy's Home 2 (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also comedyFather and stepfather Dusty and Brad join forces to make Christmastime perfect for the children. Their newfound partnership soon gets put to the test when Dusty's old-school, macho dad and Brad's gentle father arrive…
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A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
★ 7.7/10Also comedyWhen Charlie Brown complains about the overwhelming materialism that he sees amongst everyone during the Christmas season, Lucy suggests that he become director of the school Christmas pageant. Charlie Brown accepts…
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The 12 Days of Christmas Eve (2022)
★ 6.1/10Also comedyWhen 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…
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Spirited (2022)
★ 6.8/10Also comedyEach Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host…
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It's Christmastime Again, Charlie Brown (1992)
★ 6.2/10Also comedyAs the holiday season rolls around and all the Peanuts gang are getting ready for it. Whether it be Charlie Brown struggling to raise money for his girlfriend or Sally and Peppermint Patty struggling to rehearse and…
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Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
★ 6/10Also comedyA 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…
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A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas (2011)
★ 6/10Also comedySix years have elapsed since Guantanamo Bay, leaving Harold and Kumar estranged from one another with very different families, friends and lives. But when Kumar arrives on Harold's doorstep during the holiday season…
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Prep & Landing: Naughty vs. Nice (2011)
★ 7/10Also comedyLanny and Wayne are at it again! With the Big 2-5 fast approaching, Wayne and Lanny must race to recover classified North Pole technology which has fallen into the hands of a computer-hacking Naughty Kid! Desperate to…
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Elf (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also comedyWhen 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…
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Click & Collect (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedyTo 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.