Movies Like Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas

If you liked Ghosting: The Spirit of Christmas (2019), a fantasy and tv movie movie directed by Theresa Bennett, 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
The Spirit of Christmas (2015)
★ 7/10Also fantasy and tv movie
A woman falls in love with a man who is somewhat unavailable.
2
Scrooged (1988)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank is visited by a series…
3
Girl Haunts Boy (2024)
★ 6.8/10Also fantasy
Cole, a teen grieving the loss of his dad, forms an unlikely bond with Bea, a ghost. As they navigate life and death, they must break an ancient curse.
4
Kiss Me Goodbye (1982)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy
Not until three years after the death of her husband Jolly, Kay dares to move back into their former home, persuaded by her new fiancée Rupert. But soon her worst expectations come true, when not only her old memories…
5
Mostly Ghostly (2008)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy
Based on the successful book series by R.L. Stine, this spooky tale finds 11-year-old Max making a deal with the ghosts who haunt his home. If Max helps them find what was responsible for their parents' disappearance…
6
Just in Time for Christmas (2015)
★ 6.2/10Also fantasy and tv movie
Lindsay is faced with a life-altering decision as Christmas approaches: Stay in her tiny hometown and marry boyfriend Jason or accept a coveted post teaching at an Ivy League college on the other side of the country…
7
Heart and Souls (1993)
★ 7/10Also fantasy
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their deaths as his guardians…
8
Ghostbusters: Afterlife (2021)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasy
When single mom Callie and her two kids Trevor and Phoebe arrive in a small Oklahoma town, they begin to discover their connection to the original Ghostbusters and the secret legacy their grandfather left behind.
9
Kristin's Christmas Past (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movie and fantasy
Kristin, a cynical 34-year-old, drinks a mysterious champagne on Christmas Eve and wakes up seventeen years in the past, sharing a room with her 17-year-old self. Given the chance to change the worst Christmas of her…
10
Beetlejuice Beetlejuice (2024)
★ 6.9/10Also fantasy
After a family tragedy, three generations of the Deetz family return home to Winter River. Still haunted by Betelgeuse, Lydia's life is turned upside down when her teenage daughter, Astrid, accidentally opens the…
11
How Sarah Got Her Wings (2015)
★ 5.9/10Also fantasy and tv movie
Good Samaritan Sarah Fitzpatrick has a fatal accident just before Christmas, and finds herself in the lobby before the gates of Heaven. Certain that she will be let in, she is shocked to find that her name is not on…
12
The Amazing Mr. Blunden (2021)
★ 6.3/10Also fantasy and tv movie
Jamie and Lucy have an encounter with what appears to be a pair of ghost children. But these spooky kids, Sara and Georgie, aren’t actually ghosts. They’ve travelled forwards in time to seek help, believing they’re…
13
The Nine Kittens of Christmas (2021)
★ 6.9/10Also tv movie and fantasy
Cat lovers Zachary and Marilee are thrown back together at Christmas when they're tasked with finding homes for a litter of adorable kittens.
14
Candy Cane Lane (2023)
★ 6/10Also fantasy
Determined 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…
15
A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie
Multiple coincidences and a chance meeting bring together Alice and Jack, two strangers from very different family backgrounds, for an unexpected Christmastime courtship filled with personal revelations, misread…
16
12 Dates of Christmas (2011)
★ 6.1/10Also fantasy and tv movie
In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend Jack on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles, a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is magically given the chance to…
17
FX's A Christmas Carol (2019)
★ 7.2/10Also fantasy
London, 1843. Ebenezer Scrooge, a bitter old man, despises the Christmas holiday. Over the course of Christmas Eve night he is visited by three ghosts to show him his past, present and future.
18
Ghost (1990)
★ 7.3/10Also fantasy
After a young man is murdered, his spirit stays behind to warn his lover of impending danger, with the help of a reluctant psychic.
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Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)
★ 6/10Also fantasy
Celebrity photographer Connor Mead lives life in the fast lane, committed to lifelong bachelorhood and simultaneous relationships with multiple women. On the eve of his younger brother Paul's wedding, Connor's mockery…
20
Four Christmases and a Wedding (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movie
When event planner Chloe is hired to plan the local Christmas Festival, she is beyond thrilled to embrace the challenge. Professionally, everything is going great, but much to the dismay of her mother, Chloe confesses…