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10 Best Movies Like A Christmas Story

If you loved A Christmas Story, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

#1
A Christmas Story 2

A Christmas Story 2

2012★ 5.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Christmas Story for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

The original traditional one-hundred-percent red-blooded two-fisted all-American Christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy, mom and the old man. This time Ralphie ha...

#2
A Christmas Story Christmas

A Christmas Story Christmas

2022★ 6.4

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Christmas Story for fans of Comedy & Family. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Follows Ralphie, now adult, who returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, a...

#3
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

1989★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Christmas Story for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

It's Christmastime, and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration. But things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen, and their two kids. Clark's continua...

#4
Frosty the Snowman

Frosty the Snowman

1969★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Christmas Story for fans of Family. It captures a similar compelling atmosphere.

A discarded silk top-hat becomes the focus of a struggle between a washed-up stage magician and a group of schoolchildren, after it magically brings a snowman to life. Realizing th...

#5
Strange Brew

Strange Brew

1983★ 6.0

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Christmas Story for fans of Comedy. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

Something is rotten at the Elsinore Brewery. Bob and Doug McKenzie (as seen on SCTV) help the orphan Pam regain the brewery founded by her recently-deceased father. But to do so, t...

#6
A Letter to Three Wives

A Letter to Three Wives

1948★ 7.2

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to A Christmas Story for fans of Romance. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

A letter is addressed to three wives from their 'best friend', announcing that she's running away with one of their husbands – but she doesn't specify which one....