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10 Best Movies Like Rent-an-Elf

If you loved Rent-an-Elf, we've curated the perfect watchlist for you based on shared genres, themes, and directorial style.

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#1
Love Hard

Love Hard

2021★ 6.9

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rent-an-Elf for fans of Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

An LA girl, unlucky in love, falls for an East Coast guy on a dating app and decides to surprise him for Christmas, only to discover that she's been catfished. But the object of he...

#2
A Christmas Gift from Bob

A Christmas Gift from Bob

2020★ 6.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rent-an-Elf for fans of Family. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

James Bowen finds himself the target of an animal welfare investigation that threatens to take away his beloved cat, Bob, at Christmas....

#3
Love Always, Santa

Love Always, Santa

2016★ 5.7

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rent-an-Elf for fans of TV Movie & Romance. It captures a similar light-hearted atmosphere.

After losing her husband Bradley three years ago on Christmas Day, Celia Banks never thought she’d fall in love again. Now, her entire world revolves around taking care of her daug...

#4
Christmas in Paris

Christmas in Paris

2019★ 5.8

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rent-an-Elf for fans of TV Movie & Romance. It captures a similar heartwarming atmosphere.

A gorgeous, French multi-millionaire comes to Montana to do a deal and photoshoot with a major cosmetics company and meets the woman of his dreams - the beautiful Art Director on h...

#5
Joker

Joker

2019★ 8.1

Why watch this? A perfect follow-up to Rent-an-Elf for fans of Crime. It captures a similar emotionally gripping atmosphere.

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure....

#6
Call Me by Your Name

Call Me by Your Name

2017★ 8.1

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

In the summer of 1983, a 17-year-old Elio spends his days in his family's villa in Italy. One day Oliver, a graduate student, arrives to assist Elio's father, a professor of Greco-...