Dynamic Watchlist Hub: Jan 13, 2026

10 Best Movies Like A Christmas Tale

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

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#1
Love Is the Perfect Crime

Love Is the Perfect Crime

2013★ 5.6

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

Marc, in his 40s, is a professor of literature at the University of Lausanne. Still a bachelor — and still living with his sister Marianne in a huge, isolated chalet that they inhe...

#2
Kings of the Road

Kings of the Road

1976★ 7.4

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

Itinerant projection-equipment repairman Bruno Winter and depressed hitchhiker Robert Lander - a doctor who has just been through a break-up with his wife and a half-hearted suicid...

#3
Hidden Agenda

Hidden Agenda

1990★ 7.0

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

In Ireland, American lawyer Ingrid Jessner and her activist partner, Paul Sullivan, struggle to uncover atrocities committed by the British government against the Northern Irish du...

#4
Paris 36

Paris 36

2008★ 6.1

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

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of u...

#5
Bauhaus

Bauhaus

2019★ 5.7

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

Weimar, 1921. The life of 20-year-old Lotte Brendel seems to be predetermined. Her father sees her as a future wife and mother on the side of a man who is to take over the parental...

#6
Kings & Queen

Kings & Queen

2004★ 7.0

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

Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, r...