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Movies that feel likeThe Christmas Chronicles (2018)

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.

If you loved The Christmas Chronicles, the closest films we have are Christopher Robin (2018), Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra (2002) and Mary Poppins Returns (2018). All three share The Christmas Chronicles' witty and playful feel, which is what we rank on before quality.

Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is Elf (2003).

🍅 67% Rotten Tomatoes★ 7 IMDb ↗TMDB ↗dir. Clay Kaytiswittyplayfulepicwarmcozydreamlike
8 of 12 streaming nowNetflix · HBO Max · Amazon Prime Video

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

Witty where it counts, playful underneath

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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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
2002 · dir. Alain Chabat
🍅 88%★ 6.7family · fantasy · comedyPrime Video

Epic and warm in the same breath

History's favorite Gauls assist Queen Cleopatra when she wagers that the Egyptian people can build a palace for Julius Caesar in just three months.

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

Both land comfort and dream logic at once

The difference: Easier on the scale than The Christmas Chronicles

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

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Elf
2003 · dir. Jon Favreau
🍅 85%★ 7.1comedy · family · fantasyRent or buy

The same two preoccupations: holiday, and santa claus

The difference: Takes it somewhere less epic than The Christmas Chronicles does

When 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 feeling that he doesn't belong. Buddy vows to visit Manhattan and find his real dad, a workaholic.

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Where Am I Going?
2016 · dir. Gennaro Nunziante
🍅 60%★ 6.7comedy · family · adventure

Witty comedy in both cases

Checco is 39 and lived his entire life with his parents. He loves his job where he does nothing the whole day, until something happens that will change his behavior and his life forever...

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

Both keep coming back to the same thing: christmas

The difference: Leans harder into drama than The Christmas Chronicles does

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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Just Another Christmas
2020 · dir. Roberto Santucci
★ 6.7comedy · drama · fantasyNetflix

Both are built on the same subject: christmas

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.

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Dolittle
2020 · dir. Stephen Gaghan
🍅 15%★ 5.6family · comedy · fantasyRent or buy

Adventure with a pulse of play, in both cases

The difference: The scrappier of the two with critics

After losing his wife seven years earlier, the eccentric Dr. John Dolittle, famed doctor and veterinarian of Queen Victoria’s England, hermits himself away behind the high walls of Dolittle Manor with only his menagerie of exotic animals for company. But when the young queen falls gravely ill, a reluctant Dolittle is forced to set sail on an epic adventure to a mythical island in search of a cure, regaining his wit and courage as he crosses old adversaries and discovers wondrous creatures.

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Mirror Mirror
2012 · dir. Tarsem Singh
🍅 50%★ 5.6adventure · comedy · family

Both lean on scale more than on family

After she spends all her money, an evil enchantress queen schemes to marry a handsome, wealthy prince. There's just one problem - he's in love with a beautiful princess, Snow White. Now, joined by seven rebellious dwarves, Snow White launches an epic battle of good vs. evil...

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A Minecraft Movie
2025 · dir. Jared Hess
★ 5.6family · fantasy · comedyMax

Warm fantasy, and it commits to that

Four misfits find themselves struggling with ordinary problems when they are suddenly pulled through a mysterious portal into the Overworld: a bizarre, cubic wonderland that thrives on imagination. To get back home, they'll have to master this world while embarking on a magical quest with an unexpected, expert crafter, Steve.

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Gulliver's Travels
2010 · dir. Rob Letterman
🍅 19%★ 4.9family · comedy · adventureDisney+

Comedy built on comfort, twice over

Travel writer Lemuel Gulliver takes an assignment in Bermuda, but ends up on the island of Liliput, where he towers over its tiny citizens.

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🍅 48%★ 6.2adventure · comedy · fantasyHuluDisney+

Dreamlike adventure in both cases

When the magic powers of The Tablet of Ahkmenrah begin to die out, Larry Daley spans the globe, uniting favorite and new characters while embarking on an epic quest to save the magic before it is gone forever.

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