Movies Like Joy for Christmas

If you liked Joy for Christmas (2021), a tv movie and comedy movie directed by Pat Williams, 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 Mistle-Tones (2012)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie and comedy
Holly, blessed with an amazing singing voice, is all set to audition for the newly vacated spot in a legendary local Christmas group which was founded by her late mother years ago. Shocked and upset when the slot goes…
2
Your Christmas or Mine? (2022)
★ 6.4/10Also comedy and romance
Students Hayley and James are young and in love. After saying goodbye for Christmas at a London train station, they both make the same mad split-second decision to swap trains and surprise each other. Passing each…
3
Kristin's Christmas Past (2013)
★ 5.9/10Also tv movie and comedy
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…
4
Four Christmases and a Wedding (2017)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movie and romance
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…
5
A Godwink Christmas: Meant For Love (2019)
★ 7.1/10Also tv movie and romance
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…
6
Prom Pact (2023)
★ 7.2/10Also comedy and romance
It's prom season, and high school senior Mandy and her best friend and fellow outsider Ben are surrounded by over-the-top "promposals." Mandy is only focused on getting into her dream school Harvard, but as she starts…
7
Jingle Bell Heist (2025)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedy
Two down-on-their-luck hourly workers team up to rob a posh London department store on Christmas Eve. Will they steal each other's hearts along the way?
8
Holiday Harmony (2022)
★ 6.7/10Also romance and comedy
A likeable and talented underdog gets momentarily sidelined from chasing her musical dreams when her van breaks down in a welcoming small town just before Christmas.
9
The Enchanted Christmas Cake (2021)
★ 5.8/10Also tv movie and comedy
Gwen recently lose her grandmother and she is struggling to run their bakery and regain the Christmas spirit, and figure out her grandmother's magical recipe for the town's legendary Enchanted Christmas Cake.
10
Your Christmas or Mine 2 (2023)
★ 6.2/10Also comedy and romance
They've swapped Christmas – again. Can Hayley and James' relationship survive another turbulent family Christmas or has their future together gone off-piste?!
11
EXmas (2023)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and comedy
When Graham decides to surprise his family by traveling home for Christmas, he is shocked to discover them already celebrating with an unexpected guest of honor, his ex-fiancée, Ali. The two exes battle it out to see…
12
Click & Collect (2018)
★ 6.6/10Also comedy and tv movie
To 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.
13
Return to Christmas Creek (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and tv movie
As Christmas approaches, Amelia Hughes, a career-focused Chicago app developer lacking in holiday spirit, returns to her small hometown of Christmas Creek to rediscover the meaning of Christmas. There, she reunites…
14
Poinsettias for Christmas (2018)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and tv movie
It’s just weeks before Christmas when Ellie gets a call to return home to help her father on the family’s poinsettia farm. The family business is on the line to deliver tens of thousands of plants for the town’s annual…
15
Marrying Mr. Darcy (2018)
★ 6.1/10Also tv movie and comedy
Schoolteacher Elizabeth Scott and businessman/philanthropist Donovan Darcy are blissfully in love and newly engaged. As the weeks fly by and the arrangements for their small autumn wedding grow more elaborate and…
16
The Seven Year Hitch (2012)
★ 6/10Also romance and comedy
Jennifer and Kevin are childhood best friends who have lived together, platonically, as adults for many years. When Jennifer decides to marry her cheating, manipulative boyfriend, Bryce Kevin has to stop the wedding to…
17
Grounded for Christmas (2019)
★ 6.4/10Also romance and tv movie
When a winter storm hits Cleveland and grounds flights, the nearby hotels quickly fill up with stranded travelers. Nina, a pilot, reluctantly agrees to let her arrogant but charming fellow pilot, Brady, stay at her…
18
The Christmas Calendar (2017)
★ 6.2/10Also tv movie and comedy
When Emily, a struggling baker in a small town, receives a handmade Christmas Calendar from a secret admirer, the local residents become obsessed with finding out the identity of the sender.
19
No Sleep 'Til Christmas (2018)
★ 6.8/10Also comedy and romance
Lizzie, a high-end event planner, lies awake nightly while her devoted fiancé Josh rests peacefully. When a sleep-deprived incident causes her to run into Billy, a low-key bartender who is just as sleepless and…
20
Annie Claus Is Coming to Town (2011)
★ 6.3/10Also tv movie and comedy
This year, Santa’s daughter takes her first trip away from the North Pole during the Christmas season hoping to find adventure and love in sunny California. While Santa watches his daughter through a magic snow globe…