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Movies that feel likeJust Another Christmas (2020)

After taking a very nasty fall on Christmas Eve, grinchy Jorge blacks out and wakes up one year later, with no memory of the year that has passed. He soon realizes that he’s doomed to keep waking up on Christmas Eve after Christmas Eve, having to deal with the aftermath of what his other self has done the other 364 days of the year.

If you loved Just Another Christmas, the closest films we have are The Christmas Chronicles (2018), The Santa Clause (1994) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). All three share Just Another Christmas' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Paper Planes (2014).

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The Christmas Chronicles
2018 · dir. Clay Kaytis
🍅 67%★ 7comedy · adventure · familyNetflix

Common ground: christmas

The difference: Easier on the stillness than Just Another Christmas

Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

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The Santa Clause
1994 · dir. John Pasquin
🍅 73%★ 6.6fantasy · drama · comedyDisney+

Both are built on the same subject: christmas

The difference: 26 years apart, and the 1990s show

On Christmas Eve, divorced dad Scott Calvin and his son discover Santa Claus has fallen off their roof. When Scott takes the reins of the magical sleigh, he finds he is now the new Santa, and must convince a world of disbelievers, including himself.

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Mary Poppins Returns
2018 · dir. Rob Marshall
🍅 80%★ 6.6fantasy · family · comedyDisney+

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

The difference: Trades the stillness of Just Another Christmas for an angle of its own

Mary Poppins returns to the Banks family and helps them evade grave dangers by taking them on magical, musical adventures.

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A Letter to Momo
2012 · dir. Hiroyuki Okiura
🍅 80%★ 7.2comedy · fantasy · animation

Contemplative and dreamlike in the same breath

The difference: Leans harder into animation than Just Another Christmas does

A shy 11-year-old's life takes a strange turn when she discovers three hungry goblins living in the attic of her new house. She misses her old life. She misses her father so very much. Until she makes some new ghoulish friends.

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Paper Planes
2014 · dir. Robert Connolly
🍅 85%★ 6.2comedy · family · dramaStarz

The same mix in both: warmth, then comfort

Dylan discovers he has a talent for making paper planes. He has a chance to compete in a world championship, but he'll have to face bullies and self-doubt to do so.

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Pinocchio
2019 · dir. Matteo Garrone
🍅 84%★ 6.3drama · family · fantasy

Contemplative drama, and it commits to that

Old woodcarver Geppetto fashions a wooden puppet, Pinocchio, who magically comes to life. Pinocchio longs for adventure and is easily led astray, encountering magical beasts, fantastical spectacles, while making friends and foes along his journey. However, his dream is to become a real boy, which can only come true if he finally changes his ways.

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CJ7
2008 · dir. Stephen Chow
🍅 49%★ 6.4comedy · drama · family

Both lean on wit more than on comedy

A poor construction worker, who struggles to keep his son in private school, mistakes an orb he finds in a junkjard for a toy which proves to be much, much more once the young boy starts to play with it.

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Fala Sério, Mãe!
2017 · dir. Pedro Vasconcelos
★ 6.1comedy · family

Family built on play, twice over

Ângela Cristina, mother of teenager Maria de Lourdes, has to deal with the difficulties and delights of guiding her daughter during one of the most complicated stages of life.

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Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020 · dir. Robert Zemeckis
★ 5.4comedy · fantasy · familyRent or buy

Dreamlike fantasy in both cases

In late 1967, a young orphaned boy goes to live with his loving grandma in the rural Alabama town of Demopolis. As the boy and his grandmother encounter some deceptively glamorous but thoroughly diabolical witches, she wisely whisks him away to a seaside resort. Regrettably, they arrive at precisely the same time that the world's Grand High Witch has gathered.

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Nanny McPhee
2005 · dir. Kirk Jones
🍅 74%★ 6.6fantasy · comedy · family

Comedy with a pulse of warmth, in both cases

Widower Cedric Brown hires Nanny McPhee to care for his seven rambunctious children, who have chased away all previous nannies. Taunted by Simon and his siblings, Nanny McPhee uses mystical powers to instill discipline. And when the children's great-aunt and benefactor, Lady Adelaide Stitch, threatens to separate the kids, the family pulls together under the guidance of Nanny McPhee.

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Tolo Tolo
2020 · dir. Checco Zalone
★ 5.7comedy · drama · family

Cozy drama, and it commits to that

Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.

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Christopher Robin
2018 · dir. Marc Forster
🍅 73%★ 7.2adventure · comedy · familyDisney+

Both lean on wit more than on fantasy

Christopher Robin, the boy who had countless adventures in the Hundred Acre Wood, has grown up and lost his way. Now it’s up to his spirited and loveable stuffed animals, Winnie The Pooh, Tigger, Piglet, and the rest of the gang, to rekindle their friendship and remind him of endless days of childlike wonder and make-believe, when doing nothing was the very best something.

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