Movies Like Home for the Holidays
If you liked Home for the Holidays (1995), a comedy and drama movie directed by Jodie Foster, 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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Almost Christmas (2016)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaA dysfunctional family gathers together for their first Christmas since the death of their matriarch.
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Pieces of April (2003)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaQuirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer…
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Four Christmases (2008)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and romanceBrad and Kate have made something of an art form out of avoiding their families during the holidays, but this year their foolproof plan is about go bust -- big time. Stuck at the city airport after all departing…
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Love the Coopers (2015)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaWhen 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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Father of the Bride (2022)
★ 6.3/10Also romance and comedyA father comes to grips with his daughter’s upcoming wedding through the prism of multiple relationships within a big, sprawling Cuban-American family.
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The Four Seasons (1981)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaThree middle-aged wealthy couples take vacations together in Spring, Summer, Autumn and Winter. Along the way we are treated to mid-life, marital, parental and other crises.
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Fools Rush In (1997)
★ 6.5/10Also comedy and dramaAfter a one night stand with Alex, Isabel realizes that she is pregnant and they decide to get married. However, along with the marriage comes compromise of one's own cultural traditions.
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Peace, Love & Misunderstanding (2011)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaA conservative lawyer named Diane takes her two teenage children Jake and Zoe to meet their estranged, hippie grandmother in Woodstock after her husband asks for a divorce.
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Grumpy Old Men (1993)
★ 6.7/10Also comedy and romanceFor decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of…
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The Baltimorons (2025)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaA newly sober man's Christmas Eve dental emergency leads to an unexpected romance with his older dentist as they explore Baltimore together.
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Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
★ 7.5/10Also comedy and dramaBetween two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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The Holdovers (2023)
★ 7.6/10Also drama and comedyA curmudgeonly instructor at a New England prep school is forced to remain on campus during Christmas break to babysit the handful of students with nowhere to go. Eventually, he forms an unlikely bond with one of them…
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Stepmom (1998)
★ 7.2/10Also drama and romanceJackie is a divorced mother of two. Isabel is the career minded girlfriend of Jackie’s ex-husband Luke, forced into the role of unwelcome stepmother to their children. But when Jackie discovers she is ill, both women…
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Holiday in Handcuffs (2007)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and romanceA ne’er-do-well thirty-something attempts to appease her family by kidnapping herself an attractive boyfriend for the family Christmas. Despite unlikely odds and dysfunctional family moments, the two fall in love and…
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Son in Law (1993)
★ 6/10Also comedy and dramaCountry girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a…
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The Private Lives of Pippa Lee (2009)
★ 5.9/10Also comedy and dramaAfter her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
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200 Cigarettes (1999)
★ 5.8/10Also comedy and dramaIn 1981 New York City, a collection of twentysomethings try to cope with relationships, loneliness, desire and their individual neuroses on New Years Eve.
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The Family Stone (2005)
★ 6.3/10Also comedy and dramaAn uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
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A California Christmas: City Lights (2021)
★ 6.6/10Also romance and comedyFollows Callie and Joseph one year after they fell in love, now running a dairy farm and winery, but their romance is threatened when business and family obligations call Joseph back to the city.
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Happiest Season (2020)
★ 7.1/10Also romance and comedyA young woman's plans to propose to her girlfriend while at her family's annual holiday party are upended when she discovers her partner hasn't yet come out to her conservative parents.