Movies Like Beyond the Cosmos
If you liked Beyond the Cosmos (2017), a family and science fiction movie directed by James Hastings, 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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Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also familyDetermined 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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Beethoven's Christmas Adventure (2011)
★ 6/10Also familyA 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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Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas (1999)
★ 7.1/10Also familyMickey, Minnie, and their famous friends Goofy, Donald, Daisy and Pluto gather together to reminisce about the love, magic and surprises in three wonder-filled stories of Christmas past.
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Jingle All the Way (1996)
★ 6.1/10Also familyHoward 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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Family Switch (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also familyWhen the Walker family members switch bodies with each other during a rare planetary alignment, their hilarious journey to find their way back to normal will bring them closer together than they ever thought possible.
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Time Toys (2016)
★ 5.9/10Also family and science fictionA group of middle school kids stumble upon a chest full of incredible toys from the future. The discovery takes them on an adventure using their newfound toys to save their neighborhood and ultimately the world from a…
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Prep & Landing Stocking Stuffer: Operation: Secret Santa (2010)
★ 6.6/10Also familyWayne and Lanny, now partners, are called by Magee to meet with a secret contact – Mrs. Claus, who sends them on a new mission to retrieve a box from Santa’s secret workshop. Later they sneak into Santa’s office while…
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Noelle (2019)
★ 6.6/10Also familyKris Kringle's daughter, Noelle, sets off on a mission to find and bring back her brother, after he gets cold feet when it's his turn to take over as Santa.
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Dashing Through the Snow (2023)
★ 6.1/10Also familyEddie 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…
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A Christmas Story Christmas (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also familyFollows 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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Beauty and the Beast: The Enchanted Christmas (1997)
★ 6.2/10Also familyAstonished to find the Beast has a deep-seated hatred for the Christmas season, Belle endeavors to change his mind on the matter.
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Prep & Landing: The Snowball Protocol (2025)
★ 6.8/10Also familyChristmas 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.
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Mater and the Ghostlight (2006)
★ 6.3/10Also familyMater, the rusty but trusty tow truck from Cars, spends a day in Radiator Springs playing scary pranks on his fellow townsfolk. That night at Flo's V8 Café, the Sheriff tells the story of the legend of the Ghostlight…
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Love the Coopers (2015)
★ 6/10Also familyWhen four generations of the Cooper clan come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising…
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Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh (2008)
★ 7.3/10Also familyStep 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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Mickey's Magical Christmas: Snowed in at the House of Mouse (2001)
★ 7/10Also familyWhen 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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Elf (2003)
★ 6.7/10Also familyWhen 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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Prep & Landing (2009)
★ 6.9/10Also familyWayne gets a new rookie partner, Lanny, after his previous partner got the promotion he wanted. Lanny has to remind Wayne of the Spirit of Christmas and the importance of being an elf in Santa's Prep and Landing elite…
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Alien Xmas (2020)
★ 6.4/10Also family and science fictionA young elf mistakes a tiny alien for a Christmas gift, not knowing her new plaything has plans to destroy Earth's gravity — and steal all the presents.
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The Princess Switch: Switched Again (2020)
★ 6.8/10Also familyWhen Duchess Margaret unexpectedly inherits the throne & hits a rough patch with Kevin, it’s up to Stacy to save the day before a new lookalike — party girl Fiona — foils their plans.